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With Ron Paul’s bill H.R. 459, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act, headed for a floor vote in the House in the next two weeks (and likely success at passage with 263 sponsors), he and his son Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) are now focusing on the Internet.
His Campaign for Liberty (C4L), started in 2008 with some four million dollars of campaign funds from his unsuccessful run for the White House that year, has issued its manifesto to continue the fight: “The Technology Revolution: A Campaign for Liberty Manifesto.”
Starting with his first term as a member of the House of Representatives from Texas in 1976, Paul has led the fight to expose the secret machinations of the Federal Reserve, making that his primary theme in the freedom fight. That theme can be traced to the publication of his The Revolution: A Manifesto in 2008 to his End the Fed in 2009, and finally to his latest book, Liberty Defined, published in January this year.
But with his campaign for the presidency likely to fail at the Republican Party’s convention next month and his decision not seek reelection to his House seat, Paul is passing the torch to his son. As explained on the C4L website:
Click here to read the entire article.
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A growing number of children in Lafayette Parish are receiving some kind of education before they enter kindergarten, and new efforts by the school system and other entities are designed to make sure all children are prepared to learn before age 5.
This year, the district is offering 52 pre-kindergarten classes serving 948 students, according to the Lafayette Parish School System. Both of those numbers have increased over the past two years. But some students are still not receiving education before they go to kindergarten.
The district identified 332 children classified as at-risk kindergarten students who did not receive pre-K education and who stayed at home before entering school, said Christine Duay, the district's director of early childhood education.
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Academic or career achievements never emerged during our conversation about the legacy cultivated by Krishnamurti-founded Brockwood Park School in Britain. Rather, former students pointed to the values of self-knowledge, symbiotic relationship, and the spirit of inquiry and cooperation that helped them make sense of the world.
When the weather permits, pupils go out on the south lawn to play, study or relax under the sun.
Prach Boondiskulchok, a former Thai student there, said the school helped him discover the energy within himself. After Brockwood Park, Prach went to Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London; and after graduation he set off on a career in music and is currently on tour in England and America.
Added Lucy Smith, 26, a British entrepreneur: "Before I came to Brockwood, I could only see one route to success. But the education here showed me that if you find out what is really important to you, there are many directions to move in life towards adulthood and a career. This is more fulfilling once you find what excites you and motivates you."
To this day, Smith said, she still wonders what Krishnamurti means when he says "be a light to yourself."
Indeed, to meet life as a whole is what spiritual teacher and philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986), pointed as the spirit of education which, sadly, mainstream schooling fail to fulfill.
Throughout his lifetime, Krishnamurti criticised traditional education for, in his own words, being concerned with the cultivation, not of intelligence, but of intellect, of memory and skills. This mode of education brought about a superficial and mechanical way of life. Students are streamlined, like factory-line production, to fill up career channels; and disregard the meaning of living.
To propagate his vision, in 1969, he founded Brockwood Park in a tranquil landscape of Hampshire, 96.5km southwest of London, Britain. The school of around 70 students attracts young enthusiasts, 14 years and over, from more than 20 countries.
Unique to this boarding school is a lifestyle of inquiry and deep reflection. One of the school's routine every morning is 10 minutes of sitting in silence for self-reflection. Discussions and dialogues among teachers and students are common in their every day interaction.
"Some of the things I benefitted most of having studied here are questioning mind definitely, an ability to question people, ideas, beliefs, and to pose serious questions on complicated issues, be it social or otherwise, perhaps because we had the chance to do that in school," said Pongsit Karnkriangkrai, 26, a freelance violinist.
Aside from general classes, students are encouraged to attend Krishnamurti Class.
"Interested students would sit in a circle and read out certain parts of his teachings from a book that they find interesting and relevant to their lives. There was no one to interpret the teachings, not even the teacher, we just discussed and reflected on the ideas with one another," said Soonya Vanichkorn, 26, a Thai news reporter.
According to Krishnamurti's teachings, discussions or dialogues are never meant for an exchange of thoughts to saturate one's intellect. Rather, the process requires deep self-reflection and inquiry; and in so doing, one will learn and thus a profound change in consciousness can come about.
"K encouraged us to find out why our minds, or ourselves are attached to things, to people, to your lovers, to our parents, to our beliefs, and so on. He didn't say get rid of attachment, but be aware of it and understand its root causes," said Soonya.
The awareness and inquiry to understand attachment, she said, has helped her deal with the blues she had when having to part from her mother, when breaking up with her boyfriend, and when facing deadline pressure at work.
"I began to see the underlying motives of why I was feeling that way, because I was insecure and fearful of something or the other. But when I began to be conscious of these emotions and began to uncover how they came about, surprising the attachment eased."
For over 40 years since its establishment, the school maintains a low student to staff ratio in classes; according to Krishnamurti, human relationship is essential in learning and cultivation of intelligence.
"The whole school was the size of one class here in Thailand. I had a lot of personal contact with teachers, who were very welcome to help me with whatever problem I had," said Pongsit.
Classes are not streamed according to age, but rather by ability and emotional maturity. Students take part in the process of creating their individual learning programmes; be they on languages, humanities, math, science, arts and performing arts.
Students also have a tutor, a member of staff who provides additional guidance and pastoral care. Tutor group outings are fun experiences when students spend time with other students who share the same tutor and all have a meal together or take part in an activity, said Smith.
In a non-competitive and home-style environment, students and staff learn to co-operate and share responsibility. Every school day morning, for half-hour of their morning-jobs routine, all share the responsibility of cleaning the premise.
"I never felt there was hierarchy between students and teachers. We were literally like family, you can be very open with the teachers, they come say goodnight before going to bed, cook dinners together on the weekend, or go for trips to other parts of England," said Soonya.
There is definitely a lot of freedom, not freedom to break rules or to do exactly what one wanted to, but the positive freedom to initiate new things, to speak up ones mind, to be truly open with ones feelings with fellow students as well as teachers, she added.
While the school maintains a low number of students, it opens to high ethnic and cultural diversity.
"The school is so international. You can end up learning two to three European languages easily if you really want to, informally outside the classrooms. The school is literally multilingual; French, German, English, Spanish and what have you," said Soonya.
Altogether, the population of teachers and students come from over 20 different countries, Thais are usually among them.
"There is a real sense of belonging to a community. It is very interesting to meet people from around the world and learn about different perspectives," said Pongsit.
"In this environment, you learned to be considerate to other people's feelings and needs. This was very helpful when I went to university and work. At work, you need to work with others and as a team. Cooperation, therefore, is needed and cooperation can only come about when there is empathy, understanding and the desire to succeed shared amongst members," he added.
Through all the learning and living process at the school, students learn, gradually and subtly, to understand the function of one's education.
In his letters to K-schools, Krishnamurti wrote; "This is the function of all education. We need to bring about a good society in which all human beings can live happily in peace, without violence, with security. As a student you are responsible for this."
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Article first published as Is Obama’s War in Libya Constitutional? on Blogcritics.
President Barack Obama’s intervention in Libya with American military forces creates an interesting dilemma, though mainly for ideologues, partisans and talking heads. The drama ensues from the duplicitous back and forth between Democrats and Republicans on this issue of executive war powers.
Should Barack Obama have sought and obtained the approval of Congress before exercising any use of force in Libya? While there appears to be ample consensus that congressional approval was not required (for now), there are plenty raising their voice in opposition.
Congressmen Rand Paul and Dennis Kucinich are among the vocally discontent. It would appear that the anti-war left and the strict constructionists are aligned on the issue. Everyone else inbetween are saying little beyond simple rhetoric. There are some rumblings and many are taking the opportunity to exploit the perceived hypocrisy of the president, based on previous comments he has made directed at the Bush Administration.
Thomas McAffee, a U.S. Constitution and executive war powers expert (University of Nevada, Las Vegas: Boyd School of Law) acknowledged that Obama’s own words in the past are hard to reconcile with his current actions, though there are reasons his statements made more sense at the time because of the context.
Professor McAffee said the United States has certainly moved away from the original understanding of the war declaration clause and executive war making powers.
“An interesting footnote in all of this: We’ve been doing this stuff since Korea. Presidents have since engaged in wars without official declarations or even congressional consent.”
He explained that presidents have normally gone back and sought the approval of Congress after the fact. Nonetheless, these presidents never claimed a need for such approval. They claim the actions they have engaged in are not war, but rather police actions.
The claims that the Korea and Vietnam wars were anything but wars are highly suspect. Still, Professor McAffee explained that there are circumstances in which the use of force is not what most would consider war:
“America’s involvement in Kosovo, Somalia and the no-fly zone in Iraq aren’t what you think about as war. Yes, it is war in a sense, but really what you are talking about is humanitarian efforts.”He warns, however, that this does not give presidents carte blanche war powers.
“Decisions made about committing troops into a battle we are hoping to win or lose must be made by congress. But entering into intervention mode where we are hoping to prevent massacres (a whole bunch of people getting killed) is perhaps a matter of executive powers of foreign policy.”
Professor McAffee is not the only person who is willing to draw such distinctions. The National Review conducted a symposium about the constitutionality of Obama’s actions in Libya. Certainly some shots are taken at the President, but the general consensus among the conservative commentators is that the President has authority to use a limited amount of force without the approval of congress.
The War Powers Resolution, passed in the early 70s, requires the president to get approval for the use of force within 60 days of committing troops. The law has never been enforced, and previous challenges using the law have been thrown out by the Supreme Court. It would appear that the legal reality is crystal clear in this circumstance, regardless of what the pundits might say.
At the end of the day, it is hard to reconcile any criticism of President Obama’s actions with the overwhelming conservative consensus and agreement with Jon Yoo’s treatises about presidential war powers.
If the criticism is simply that Obama is acting duplicitous, that is another matter entirely. Even there, one must really analyze what he has said in the past in context. If we draw a distinction between humanitarian interventions and actual wars, the difference between what Obama is doing now in Libya and what he said about war powers as a Senator both make sense.
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The celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of Malayalam weekly Prabodhanam, the mouthpiece of Jamaat-e-Islami, Kerala, were kick-started with an emotive note at a significant function at Edayur (Malappuram Dist), the birthplace of the magazine on October 2. The function was attended by a galaxy of cultural and political leaders in Kerala as well the remaining members of the first generation of Jamaat-e-Islami leaders in Kerala. The reminiscences of the elderly leaders about the obstacles they had to overcome to take the magazine to its present position of prestige were quite evocative and raised many an eyebrow among the young generations.
Many people had travelled all the way not only at remote places in Kerala but even in neighbouring states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to make it to the makeshift pandal at Edayur, braving frailties of old age and intermittent heavy rains. Many however found their journey immensely rewarded when the speakers at the function took a trip down the memory lane and told the tale of trials and tribulations that had to be experienced before Prabodhanam became what is today, a respectable Islamic magazine that has thousands of readers cutting across religious affiliations.
Delivering the inaugural address, former Minister of Education (Kerala State), Mr E T Muhammed Basheer recalled his long association with the magazine as an avid reader and praised the magazine’s moderate and non-confrontational approach to issues and ideas that the magazine disagrees with. “I am not a Jamaat-e-Islami activist but belong to a political party that has an altogether different take on various issues. The unique feature of Prabodhanam is that it remains a publication that can be read and kept by me, a person belonging to another party.” He also reiterated that Prabodhanam had succeeded in presenting Islam as a complete code of life.
Mr T Arifali, Amir, Jamaat-e-Islami Kerala, in his presidential address, observed that Prabodhanam is the only Islamic weekly magazine that completed 60 years of publication in Kerala. He reminded the people that while basking in the past glory, one should not forget the heavy tasks ahead. As in the past, the magazine should continue to carry out its duty of taking the message of Allah to the Malayalees around the world in the present times of new challenges and possibilities of postmodernism as well.
Ejaz Ahmed Aslam, Editor Radiance Viewsweekly and member Central Advisory Council (CAC) Jamaat-e-Islami Hind was guest of honour at the function. Talking about the formation of Jamaat-e-Islami in India, he dwelt at length on the social unrest and political uncertainty of Muslims all over the world and India in particular, caused by the fall of the Khilafat and foreign invasion of Muslim countries, before the birth of Jamaat-e-Islami. In those times of awful crises, it was the pen of Syed Abul A’la Maudoodi that bought the Muslim community out of the doldrums and brought fresh air to Islam and Muslims in India. Prabodhanam, the brainchild of Haji V P Muhammed started in 1948 at Edayur and later shifted to Calicut, carried out the stupendous task of spreading the thoughts of Maudoodi and the message of Jamaat-e-Islami in Kerala.
Mr M Ali, an MLA of the neighbouring constituency, offering felicitations, suggested that it was high time Jamaat-e-Islami stepped into the burgeoning arena of the visual media, a suggestion was later endorsed by Halqa Amir T Arifali. “Insha Allah, there will be a visual medium in Kerala that can carry out the work the daily newspaper Madhyamam is doing with an enviable number of readers cutting across the lines of politics and religion, managed and run by Jamaat-e-Islami,” he said.
Delivering the keynote address, T K Abdullah, former editor of Prabodhanam and member of Jamaat’s CAC, speaking with his characteristic witticisms recalled the initial woes experienced by Prabodhanam and said that at a time when all Islamic publications had Arabic words as their names, the very Malayalam name Prabodhanam (propagation) was a revolution of sorts, a factor that contributed to the popularity of the magazine with the secular intellectuals in Kerala.
Recalling his initial association with the magazine, T K Abdullah said his leaving his education at Aliya Arabic College in Kasargod to join Prabodhanam, at the behest of Haji V P Muhammed Ali, was ‘like a baby having been plucked away while feeding at his mother’s breast’. While dwelling on the tremendous impact of the magazine among the public, he recalled how he had been invited by a Communist activist, E J Mammu for a debate on Islam and Marxism. While preparing for the debate, the Communist activist had read the back issues of Prabodhanam. When T K went to him for the debate, it was astonishing to hear the Marxist’s apologist talks about floating a Jamaat unit in his place. His reading of Prabodhanam issues had made him think on those lines.
Mr T K Abdullah reminisced about the constructive and healthy debates, conducted in a very cordial atmosphere and decorous manner – how the magazine used to be engaged in with the secularist apologists and Communist thinkers.
T Muhammed, while rendering his services as Editor of Prabodhanam, wrote ‘The Undercurrents of The Indian Civilization’, first serialised in Prabodhanam and later published as a book under the same title which went on to bag the prestigious Kerala Sahitya Academi award. It showed that the Islamic magazine had tremendous appeal among all kinds of readers and people. He also recalled many erstwhile leaders of the movement who walked miles to distribute Prabodhanam in the remote villages of Kerala. Such was the interest the common people, including the unlettered, evinced in the magazine that a group of bidi (local cigars) makers used to employ one among them to read out Prabodhanam to the rest of the group and the reader was paid from the wages of the listeners. He hoped and prayed that Prabodhanam would continue to fulfil the duty it has been carrying out for 60 years, in the coming years as well.
Offering felicitations, Mr K P Ramanunni, an illustrious litterateur in Malayalam, said that the message of Prabodhanam was that the pen was to be used for guiding people to the right path shown by Allah. He lashed out at the attitude that excluded religion from public sphere and said that such an attitude would be tantamount to rendering politics and public life devoid of any values and ethics.
Citing the words of Gandiji, he said death would be preferable to politics without religion. Islam, he said, was not the exclusive property of Muslims but was for all humankind and contained some inherent antipathy to materialistic outlook and Capitalist worldview now rampant in society. He also suggested that, as Islam is not for Muslims alone, Prabodhanam should also not be for them alone and should address the people and doctrines of other religions too.
K T Jaleel, MLA of the area, maintained that Prabodhanam showed the Keralites how Islam must be presented in the modern world. The role played by the weekly in spreading the message of Islam among the educated members of society was praiseworthy. The very fact that Prabodhanam was banned from publication for two years during the Emergency was a testimony to the refusal of the magazine to be pigeonholed as a religious magazine with limited appeal, he said. He also highlighted the big responsibility of the magazine at this juncture of disinformation and misinformation campaigns against Islam. Prabodhanam should continue to dispel the misconceptions about Islam and show to the world its true face of peace, justice and tolerance, he added.
Among those who offered felicitations included V K Ali, Director Al Jamia Al Islamia Shatapuram, Prof. Ismail, P Abdurahman and K K Raheena. The logo of the 60th anniversary, designed by K A Sajid from Aluva, was unveiled and the designer given a cash award at the function.
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The pilgrimage to Santiago has a special meaning to León’s province, for more than 200 km of the Jubilee go through the Leonese ground.
The different stages information is addressed to all those who do the pilgrimage on foot, with the aim of knowing the route and the different services available for the pilgrim. Besides, another aim is to show the valuable National Heritage that the pilgrimage hides during its Leonese route.
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Moscow Metro Memo
Although plans for its construction were drafted in 1902 and once more in 1912, years of delay were incurred due to the outbreak of WWI, then the revolution.
Eventually, construction started in 1931 and only lasted four years, despite the challenges of tunneling under the city and its rivers, as well as working with a limited supply of trained labor. The first line, the Sokolnicheskaya Line, with its mere 13 stations, was ceremoniously inaugurated on May 15, 1935.
Since then, the metro has become an ever-expanding network of 11 lines and over 160 stations, transporting over eight million commuters every day.
Often referred to as ‘the people’s palaces’, many of the stations are works of art with their stylish designs and sumptuous use of marble, statues, mosaics and illuminated with imposing chandeliers.
Built during Stalin’s rule, these metro stations were supposed to display the best of Soviet architecture and design and show how privileged the lifestyle of the Soviet people was.
Remarkably, these luxuriant spaces were designed to double-up as bomb shelters and came in use during WWII not only as such, but also for important political and tactical meetings.
The Chistiye Prudy station, for instance, was used as the hub for Supreme Command HQ and the Soviet Army General Staff.
The Moscow metro has won the «Golden Transmission Tower» federal contest as «2009 Most Energy-Efficient Enterprise».
Some must-visit stations….
- Mayakovskaya Station, with a ceiling of Socialist Realist mosaics
- Ploshchad Revolyutsii, with bronze sculptures of Red Army soldiers
- Komsomolskaya, a more recent addition with a Russian history lesson in mosaics near the Circle Line platforms.
- Metro Museum at the Sportivnaya Metro station, which displays interesting exhibits such as a driver’s cab and photographs from the 1930s showing cheerful members of the Komsomol (the youth wing of the Communist Party).
Some interesting facts and figures…
- The Metro system used to be named after Lazar Kaganovich, one of Stalin’s most trusted advisors and an instrumental figure in the construction of the metro until 1955, when it was renamed the V. I. Lenin Moscow Metropolitan Railway.
- The direction of the train can be determined by the gender of the announcer. On the ring line, a male voice indicates clockwise travel and a female voice counter-clockwise whereas on the radial lines, a male voice will announce stations heading toward the center of Moscow and a female-voiced when heading the other way.
- The deepest station of the Moscow underground is ‘Park Pobedy’ which lies 84 meters (275ft) below ground and has the longest escalator, measuring 126 m (413ft).
- The longest and shortest journeys are respectively between ‘Krylatskoe’ – ‘Strogino’ (6625m/4.1miles) and ‘Delovoy Centre’ – ‘Mezhdunarodnaya’ (497m/0.3mile).
- The Moscow Metro train is identical to those used in Budapest, Prague, Sofia and Warsaw as well as in St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Minsk, Kiev and Kharkov.
- The Moscow underground has 4 510 train cars.
- Ploschad Revolutsii (Revolution Square) is remarkable for its 76 bronze sculptures of workers, peasants, sailors, soldiers and other proletarians who had a role in Russian history. There is a legend that by rubbing the nose of the bronze dog of the Frontier Guard, you are guaranteed luck in passing an exam. This leads to a regular influx of students around the statue during the exams periods throughout the year.
- The Volokolamskaya station on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line as well as the Delovoy Center and Park Pobedy stations, both on the Solntsevskaya line, are abandoned and no longer in service.
- It costs an average of $77.1million to build 1 km (0.62miles) of Moscow Metro.
- Throughout its use as a bomb shelter in WW2, 213 babies were born in the various stations.
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Alternate interior angles are formed by a transversal intersecting two parallel lines . They are located between the two parallel lines but on opposite sides of the transversal, creating two pairs (four total angles) of alternate interior angles. Alternate interior angles are congruent, meaning they have equal measure.
When we have two parallel lines that are intersected by a transversal, and again my parallel lines are identified by using the same number of arrows, then two special angles are congruent and that is alternate interior angles. So let's examine these two words, alternate means on opposite sides, interior means within or in between. So here we have our two parallel lines, our alternate interior angles are going to be the angles that are inside and on opposite sides of the transversal. So angle 4 is inside and its opposite side would be 6 so those two angles will be congruent. There's only one other pair of alternate interior angles and that's angle 3 and its opposite side in between the parallel lines which is 5.
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Most moms will agree that preschoolers and violent TV viewing don't go together. A new study from the Seattle Children's Research Institute goes one step further and claims that switching preschool-aged children (three- to five-years old) from violent television programs to more age-appropriate shows can positively affect sleep patterns.
Although my son is far from preschool age — he's about to start middle school — I can with all certainty say that any violent TV viewing during his early years (and sometimes even now) had a profound effect on his ability to fall asleep.
I am not a big fan of violent or scary movies and television shows, but my husband is quite the opposite. That's not to say that he will sit our child down in front of the TV and subject him to whatever channel plays horror movies 24-7. But on rare occasions (usually when I was out of the house), he did turn on a somewhat scary show. How do know this? At bedtime my son would do just about anything to keep from sleeping in his own room by himself. As it turns out, even a few moments of a "classic" scary movie watched at noon can keep a kid up until all hours of the night.
This is consistent with what researchers have found. Even violent or inappropriate viewing earlier in the day can impact a child's ability to sleep well at night. According to Reuters, researchers evaluated 565 families with preschoolers over the course of 12 months. Half of the participants were given suggestions for better programs for their children to watch (i.e., more family friendly than violent); the other half were not. The number of preschoolers who watched the better programming and who had problems sleeping dropped from 42 percent to 30 percent after six months.
Does your tot have problems sleeping after viewing scary movies? Tell us below in the comments section!
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Introduction: Vexilla regis prodeunt
Station 01: Jesus is condemned to death
Station 02: Jesus takes up the Cross
Station 03: Jesus falls the first time
Station 04: Jesus meets his Blessed Mother
Station 05: Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus carry the Cross
Station 06: Veronica wipes the face of Jesus
Station 07: Jesus falls the second time
Station 08: The women of Jerusalem weep for Jesus
Station 09: Jesus falls the third time
Station 10: Jesus is stripped of his clothes
Station 11: Jesus is nailed to the Cross
Station 12: Jesus dies on the Cross
Station 13: Jesus is taken down from the Cross
Station 14: Jesus is laid in the tomb
‘The Way of the Cross’ is a devotion which describes the journey of Christ carrying the Cross, divided into fourteen stages or ‘stations’. Most Catholic churches have pictures or statuettes of these scenes along the walls of the nave, usually seven on each side. The devotion consists of meditations on each scene, usually in the form of prayers and singing. If the number of participants is not too large, they move around the church in a group, stopping at each station. This was what Liszt visualized when he composed the music.
The devotion originated with the Franciscans, who as guardians of the holy places in Jerusalem began to erect models in their churches, which acted as a substitute for an actual visit to Jerusalem. In the eighteenth century the order was allowed to grant permission for stations to be erected in other churches. The devotion is a form of Passion, and is particularly associated with Lent. The number of stations has not always been fourteen; sometimes as few as eleven were used. Today it is common to add a fifteenth in order to end with the Resurrection rather than with the tomb. Although Liszt set only the fourteen stations, he adds a short epilogue in keeping with the positive ending favoured today.
Liszt wrote a foreword to the work in which he refers to The Way of the Cross as ‘a service for the souls of the dead’. He also describes a Service of the Stations he once attended on Good Friday in the open air at the Colosseum, and suggests that perhaps on another occasion a harmonium could be used to support the music. ‘I should be indeed happy if some day my music could be sounded there, however, even so it would be insufficient to express my innermost emotion which overwhelmed me when once there, amidst a pious procession, I knelt and several times repeated the words: O! Crux Ave! Spes unica!’
It is clear that Via Crucis belongs among the most personal works of Liszt. In particular its theme of the Cross relates it to other works. Liszt in fact used a three-note musical symbol of the Cross (consisting of a rising tone plus minor third, soh-lah-doh, an intonation from plainsong) in several works, including the male-voice Mass, the Gran Mass, the symphonic poem The Battle of the Huns and the ‘Dante’ Symphony. It can also be found in the two oratorios, The Legend of St Elisabeth and Christus, as well as the Faust-Symphonie, the First Piano Concerto and the B minor Piano Sonata. Here Liszt uses the motif, quite logically, to set the words quoted in his preface: ‘O crux, ave’, sung immediately before Station I.
Via Crucis belongs to the large group of works by Liszt based on pictures or statues. The list is too long to give here, but pianists will think straightaway of Sposalizio, Il Penseroso, and the two St Francis Legends. Among the orchestral works are Orpheus, The Battle of the Huns and From the Cradle to the Grave. As programme music, the interest of these works lies partly in how Liszt added the time element to an art form that does not contain it—a picture is static and unchanging. In many cases Liszt chose the picture for what it symbolized—usually something with a religious content. Although he is credited with formal innovations, his real genius lay in creating musical character—an originality amounting to new coinage, both thematic and harmonic. Liszt renewed the musical language, which is why he was so influential. It is the immediacy of his message which is arresting, and this may explain the visionary nature of some of his early and late music. Liszt does not present a musical argument; he gives statements. This literal cast of mind works well in the religious works. In Christus the storm is a storm (a terrific orchestral noise), the miracle a miracle (the orchestra falls silent at the voice of Christ); the nativity is child-like, the three kings are splendid, the Crucifixion is terrible. In Via Crucis, the same mentality operates, but as if through a magnifying glass, creating intense miniatures. The nailing to the Cross is conveyed in hideous grinding staccato discords. The compassion of Veronica lies in the curve of an unadorned melodic line. The carrying of the Cross produces a heavy mind-numbing trudge. The meeting with Mary is a mixture of anguish and heart-ease in music of great harmonic originality. Liszt is direct, uncompromising—and extremely modern. His method is expressionistic. He says to us: ‘This is real.’ In Via Crucis we meet the man who believed.
As a programmatic composer, Liszt was able to provide the musical equivalent of a meditative commentary, along the lines of the texts printed in books of the Stations. An example is his use of the Stabat Mater at the three stations where Jesus stumbles (Nos III, VII, IX). Here we see Mary with Jesus in the picture at these points. Another striking comment is perhaps theological: when the women of Jerusalem meet Jesus, he tells them not to weep for him, but for their children. Liszt at this point adds a vivid passage for the organ redolent of martial trumpets, but unresolved in its tonality, indeed including fortissimo whole-tone chords. It may be that Liszt is referring to the ‘tuba mirum’ of the Day of Judgment.
Again, tonality here is also a comment. The key of the work is D minor, and this reflects Liszt’s ‘service for the souls of the dead’ comment, as nearly all Liszt’s D minor works have this association (for example De Profundis of 1834 for piano and orchestra, the ‘Dante’ Sonata, Totentanz, and Mazeppa—who ‘dies’, then rises). The ending in D major restates the music for Mary.
Liszt used two Latin hymns and two German chorales. The Latin hymns are Vexilla regis and Stabat Mater. Both melodies are found in the Liber Usualis, and were used by Liszt in other works. Vexilla regis occurs at Vespers on Passion Sunday, and was used as the basis of an extensive piano piece in E minor in Rome. The Stabat Mater melody is found at Vespers on the Feast of the Sorrows of the Virgin, and was used as the basis of the huge Stabat Mater in Christus, as well as in a piano solo version of the melody in A flat. In Via Crucis only verse 1 is sung, but three times in different keys. The German melodies are O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden, and O Traurigkeit, O Herzeleid, both found in a collection of chorales arranged by Liszt for the piano. Both are known in harmonisations by Bach, but here the harmony is Liszt’s own.
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It is all about Personal Responsibility
“Who’s responsible? Whose fault is it? Maybe it’s his – or, wait, I bet it’s probably her fault. No, hold on a minute – it’s got to be their fault. There must be somebody out there for me to blame because I know I’m certainly not responsible. … OK, forget whose fault it is; who’s going to fix it? I can’t do it. Who’s going to fix it for me? What we need is a new law. Yeah, a new law would do it. And then when the same problem still exists we can blame those responsible for enforcing the new law. It’ll be their fault, at any rate it’s certainly not mine!”
This is what appears to be the attitude, or better still the mantra of the current Obama administration. How many times have we written about attribution – the ability to accept blame when it may, or may not be your fault; most importantly, the ability to take personal responsibility for something gone array?
In the opening paragraph everyone ostensibly is to blame. Maybe it’s his, maybe it’s hers, no maybe it’s theirs; then again the clincher, somebody must be to blame out there.
What comes next is what we believe is one of the primary shortcomings within the leadership and decision-makers in the United States of America. “I’m certainly not responsible…okay then; let’s forget about who’s responsible, so let’s focus on fault. And after getting the same results as previously stated, what the hay, who is going to fix this mess? Our hope beyond all hope is that we can each see some rather overwhelming examples — such as “Let’s blame Bush or ”We inherited these problems… or how about the attorney general not obeying a Court ordered subpoena regarding weaponry sales, and some deceased US Border Patrol Agents, “Don’t blame me…”
Well it certainly can’t be those who are refusing to accept blame insofar as those aren’t the type that would have a vested interest in the mess. Therefore, living in the USA the remedy seems to be in the law. And just between you and us, the U.S. Constitution is not written on two pages of elongated parchment paper; no, the Constitution is volumes upon volumes of specific laws.
Personal responsibility is central to the idea of a free society and to the concept of self-government. Because each individual is morally responsible for his acts, citizens in a free society have an obligation to educate themselves to further the common good through the political process: this is the proper and necessary function of self-government.
Our opinion, for whatever it’s worth is divided precisely down the middle as it relates to the way we are becoming and to a large degree have become a state of dependent individuals. To an ever-growing extent it certainly appears that many in our great nation are becoming more and more content with relying on anyone but themselves. “Where is the government to help me? Why hasn’t a law been put in place to make that decision for me; so I have no choice but to behave responsibly?” (Or is it irresponsibly?)
We’re sure we don’t need to point out the obvious, but I need to anyway. We have not become the greatest nation this world has ever known on the backs of dependency-minded people. We will, however, become the greatest nation the world has ever seen collapse unless we as a nation, a nation of unique individuals, can once again begin to depend on one single person, and that person is you.
For generations now the American individual has been the sharpest mind, the hardest working body, and the most resilient spirit to walk this planet. We as a people and a nation filled with those kind of people have survived flood, famine, disaster, disease, economic hardship and violent attack only to rise time and time again. It seems, however, that as the recent years have ticked by, our minds are becoming blunt, our bodies are becoming somewhat weary, and to a moderate degree our resilience is waning. American mantras that have spawned from our national pride, such as “Don’t tread on me” or “I’m the man for the job,” are beginning to be overshadowed by a mindset that seems to say, “Do it for me” or “Will someone please help?”
It is a grotesque understatement to simply say that you have some monumental problems, issues, and significant challenges in your country today. You have more than your fair share of conflict and strife as it relates to immigration, foreign policy, racial divides, energy needs and enormous fiscal challenges.
You as an American have these issues, and you as a unique American individual looking to yourself while depending and expecting your fellow American to do the same, that is to have the ability to ultimately solve these issues in your individual capacity.
We’ve had that ability for generations, and it is my firm belief that we will continue to have for many generations to come the aptitude as individuals to form the many mighty links in an unbreakable chain and sustain the United States of America as the sole name on the list of greatest nations to ever grace this planet. This will only happen, however, if we as a nation of individuals begin to re-accept the fact that at the end of the day the only person responsible for us – is us. | <urn:uuid:84f9d3de-b3e3-4212-b178-3a8df62a961d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://onemorecup.wordpress.com/2012/07/04/it-is-all-about-personal-responsibility/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967278 | 1,174 | 1.921875 | 2 |
The Imperial Government of Japan and the Government of France, in consideration of the current international situation, hereby recognize that in case the security of French Indo-China is threatened, Japan has proper cause to believe that the general peace in East Asia and her own security are exposed to danger. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Japan reaffirms her previous promise that she will respect the rights and interests of France in East Asia, especially the territorial integrity of French Indo-China and the sovereignty of France over the entire Union of French Indo-China while France on her part reaffirms her previous proviso that she will not make any agreement or understanding with any third party nations regarding French Indo-China whereby she will be obliged to offer political, economic, or military cooperation which will affect Japan directly or indirectly. Thus the following provisions are agreed upon by the two nations:
1. Both Governments agree to engage in Military cooperation for the common defense of French Indo-China.
2. Measures to be taken for implementing the above mentioned cooperation will be the subject of special arrangements.
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The week of ski school is not just a break in the snow sports. We may add to the proposal numerous recreational, environmental and culture in addition, each studied and planned by the Education Center.
We pay attention to each of the activities to be performed, such as cultural visits, environmental or artistic which students seek and involve extraordinary experiences, both in sports and cultural. An exceptional learning scenario: sports, cultural and personal enrichment, autonomy and individual responsibility.
A great week to live with colleagues, learn or perfect for snow sports, the culture of the mountain and other communities, enjoying an enriching environment.
Ski resorts like Navacerrada, Astún, Candanchu, Panticosa, Formigal, Granpallars, Boí Taüll, Baqueira Beret, and GrandValira. For younger ages than we have in our list of stations with characteristics better suited to the age of the students. We propose other places with improving technique and skill in snow sports.
The selected hotels and apartments for accommodation have all the comforts and facilities for rest and recreation.
-Dinner at the hotel.
-Lunch on the slopes.
Optional, but their recruitment is mandatory in the case of not having private insurance that includes coverage of rescue runs. Covers illness, travel assistance and accident. He recommends pairing a photocopy of Health Card.
Optional. We have excellent conditions and rates. Our carrier has quality certificate in 2008 and has received the distinction of Best Transport Company of the year.
-Develop basic knowledge and skills to function independently.
"Educating for the student to take responsibility for their own actions.
-Promote the development of behaviors for coexistence, cooperation and solidarity with others.
-Promoting a sense of health, personal care and safety in the practice of sports and leisure activities. "Respect, understand and enjoy nature and the environment.
-Learn, develop and practice (as levels), various forms of winter sports.
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China's Baidu and Qihoo 360 sign pact meant to resolve dispute
- — 02 November, 2012 06:21
Chinese Internet giant Baidu and its rival Qihoo 360 signed an agreement on Thursday to compete fairly in China's search engine market, following a dispute between the two companies over search indexing.
The two companies, along with ten other Internet search providers, signed a "self-regulation pact" sponsored by the Internet Society of China, an industry trade group, which received support from Chinese government regulators for drafting the pact.
Qihoo 360's new search engine was launched in August and is now competing with Baidu's search services, which have long dominated the market with over 70 percent share.
A key section of the pact requires the Chinese Internet firms to abide by a robot exclusion protocol, a convention widely used by companies to prevent others from accessing certain parts or the entirety of a website.
Baidu alleges Qihoo 360's search engine has violated its robot exclusion protocol by indexing its Web pages, such as its encyclopedia and question-and-answer sites, without its permission.
To fight back, Baidu filed a lawsuit against Qihoo 360 last month, claiming that the company is illegally using and reproducing its content, and asking for 100 million yuan (US$15.9 million) in compensation. In its defense, Qihoo 360 has said it should be given access to Baidu's product pages, equating them to a public resource.
The pact signed by the two companies, however, is limited in scope and power. If a company is found in violation, the Internet Society of China will issue a warning and make a public condemnation in the media.
The agreement is more of a symbolic effort to tone down Baidu's dispute with Qihoo 360, which risked escalating, said Zhao Zhanling, an expert on China's information technology law.
The language in the pact does not side with Baidu or Qihoo 360 in their dispute, Zhao said. It states the Internet firms must observe the robot exclusion protocol, but also aims to ensure that the protocol is used to fairly promote the free flow of information.
"I think the pact is trying to find a balance," Zhao said. "The pact has no power backed by law, it's more about trying to get everyone on the same page."
Both Baidu and Qihoo 360 said they support the self-regulation pact.
"(It) has for the first time highlighted the critical role that the Robots protocol plays in regulating the Internet search industry, and its significance to the healthy development of the search sector," Baidu said in a statement.
Qihoo 360 said in an email, "We believe the agreement is positive for China's search market. The move will create a more open and fair competitive landscape, which will benefit the smaller guys over time."
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Armageddon 2419 A.D. is Philip Francis Nowlan's novella which first appeared in the August 1928 issue of the pulp magazine Amazing Stories. Later, in the 1960s, the novella and its sequel, The Airlords of Han, were combined by editor Donald A. Wollheim into one paperback novel, titled Armageddon 2419 A.D. The characters and setting eventually evolved into Buck Rogers.
Living in cooperative gangs and hiding in the forests from the Hans, Americans secretly rebuild their civilization and develop the new technologies "ultron" and "inertron". Inertron is a substance with "reverse weight" (anti-gravitational properties), so that a person with an amount of inertron equal to most of their weight (in the form of a “jumper” – "rocket motors encased in inertron blocks and strapped to the back") can travel rapidly across country in long leaps. Ultron, in turn, is an "absolutely invisible and non-reflective solid of great molecular density and moderate elasticity, which has the property of being 100 percent conductive to those pulsations known as light, electricity and heat." They use these technologies, as well as explosive rockets and radio frequencies the enemy can’t detect, in their struggle with the Hans.
He awakes in 2419 and, thinking that he has been asleep for just several hours, wanders for a few days in unfamiliar forests (what was Pennsylvania almost five centuries before). He finally notices a wounded boy-like-figure, clad in strange clothes and moving in giant leaps, who appears to be under attack by others. He defends the person, killing one of the attackers and scaring off the rest. It turns out that he is helping a girl, Wilma Deering, who, on “air patrol”, was attacked by an enemy gang, the "Bad Bloods", which is presumed to have allied themselves with the Hans.
Wilma takes Rogers to her camp, where he is to meet the bosses of her gang. He is invited to stay with their gang or leave and visit other gangs. They hope that Rogers’ experience and knowledge he gained fighting in the First World War may be useful in their struggle with the Hans.
Tony stays with the gang for several days, learns about the community life of Americans in the 25th century and makes friends with the people, especially with Wilma, with whom he spends a lot of time. He also experiences a Han air raid, during which he manages to destroy one of the enemy ships. Rogers and his friends hurry to the bosses to report the incident and explain the method he has used when shooting the aircraft. As the raid has caused much destruction, there is suspicion that the location of the gang’s industrial plants may have been revealed to the Hans by rival gangs. They await a fight with the Hans who will likely wish to take revenge for the destruction of their airship.
The bosses direct Wilma and Rogers investigate the wreck. While there, a Han party arrives to investigate as well. Thanks to Tony’s quick and wise instructions, he and Wilma manage to escape and also manage to shoot down some more of the Han’s ships. The day after, Wilma and Anthony get married and Tony becomes a member of the gang. Meantime, knowing Rogers’ technique, the other gangs start the hunt for Han ships. The Hans better secure their ships and the Americans need to take up some further steps to have any chances in the fight and to find the traitors quickly.
Anthony develops a plan to get the records of the traitorous transaction, which are kept somewhere in the Han city of Nu-Yok. With the help of other gangs, he creates a team that will go with him. They learn that the traitors are the Sinsings, the gang located not far from Nu-Yok.
The Americans appreciate Rogers’ courage and brave deeds and, grateful to him, make him the new boss. He instantly reorganizes the governing structures of the gang by creating new offices and makes plans for the battle with the Sinsings, again using the knowledge he gained in the First World War. The raid on Sinsings turns out to be a great success and gives the Americans the confidence in their ability to overcome the Hans.
Buck Rogers was a huge success, spawning many imitators such as Flash Gordon.
Nowlan’s novella and script introduced the public to science fiction and prepared them for a future that involved space exploration and space/arms race, that later, indeed, was going on between the USA and the Soviet Union. They also introduced many science fictions ideas, like, for instance, that of “personal flight” with the use of devices attached to one’s body. | <urn:uuid:98cab905-24a6-42a8-b921-0e8ef5cffeda> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.reference.com/browse/travel+rapidly | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96806 | 990 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Petra and the Bible
Dr. Philip C. Hammond,
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology
University of Utah
Adjunct Professor of Anthropology
Arizona State University
A few years ago, Harrison Ford, as "Indiana Jones," galloped through the gigantic geological cleft called the Siq, at the entrance of ancient Petra in Jordan, in search of the Holy Grail.
He did not find it, but he came face-to-face with that magnificent royal tomb called the "Treasury of the Pharaoh" and inadvertently participated in one of the many folkloric biblical relationships at Petra.
He had already bumped into another one when he entered the nearby town of Wadi Musa, whose ancient name was El Ji but now renamed for the tourist trade, and he went past the famed "Spring of Moses," which local folklore tells us was a result of Moses striking the rock to bring forth water for the wandering Hebrews in their Exodus from Egypt.
Strangely enough, the cleft through which Indiana Jones passed is also attributed to that same blow by the staff of Moses. "The Treasury of the Pharaoh," which was used in the motion picture, is so-called locally because Bedouin tradition says that the Pharaoh, encumbered by his treasures, was pursuing Moses all the way to Petra. As a result, he magically created a repository on top of that great carved monument into which he placed his gold for safekeeping. Bedouin bullets have attempted to shatter that urn for some generations, as the pockmarks show.
Another biblically related monument is the "Palace of the Pharaoh’s Daughter," also attributed to the hand of the Pharaoh. He had discovered that, along with the encumbrance of his treasure, he had brought his daughter. As a result, the local Bedouin tell us, he again magically created a palace for her and left her there.
Local tradition associates the mountain known as "Jebel Haroun" with the burial of Aaron, the brother of Moses, where a pilgrimage site has long been established. It apparently was also accepted as such by early Christians at Petra and, later, by Muslims as well.
The wadi, or stream bed, which bisects the ancient city of Petra is also referred to as "Wadi Musa," confusing it with the town outside the site.
Petra, long touted as a "lost city," was accurately located by the early Christian geographer, Eusebius. It was also well known as "The Valley of Moses" by the Crusaders in the 12th century, who established a major fortress just outside and a mini guard post inside the basin. The name "Valley of Moses" was learned from the local Bedouin and was simply another supposed connection to Moses’ visit to Petra.
When these attributions were made, cannot, at the moment, be definitely ascertained.
There is actually only one specific biblical reference to Petra in either the Old Testament or the New Testament. That one reference pertains to the war of King Amaziah with the Edomites and relates to his a victory over them and the casting down of 10,000 of the vanquished from a "Rock." That location is known in the Bible as "the Rock of Edom" and is probably the mountain today called "Umm Il-Biyarah ("The Mother of Cisterns") because of the many cisterns on its peak.
Indiana Jones made his way through the entrance to Petra, but did St. Paul? Here again is one of the great enigmas. We are told in the New Testament by Paul that he sojourned for a while in the "desert." At that point in time, the "desert" could well have included the major city of Petra. The Romans had not yet occupied it, and it was still a capital city of the people called the Nabataeans.
The only real connection we can make to Paul’s visit there was his later visit to Damascus in Syria. In the pagan world of his day, Paul was generally considered as something of a rabble-rouser, and he may have chosen Petra as a major city in which to preach the new faith. Although Petra was cosmopolitan, the local religion, which may have been a royal cult as well, could hardly have been pleased at the appearance of someone trying to proselytize Christianity, and Paul’s visit would hardly have been particularly welcome.
This seems to be illustrated by the story of his difficulties in Damascus. Although Damascus was not under Nabataean rule, there was probably a Nabataean community left over from early temporary dominion continuing trade relationships there. This may explain why the "ethnarch of the Nabataeans," the person in charge of the local ethnic community, may well have been instructed by the king of the Nabataeans to arrest Paul and send him back to Petra for trial. Acting on some kind of local intelligence, we are told that Paul escaped over the wall of the city in a basket!
Other biblically related information about Petra only appears in the intertestimental volumes of the Bible, most particularly in the book of II Maccabees. There, occasional references to the Nabataeans, but no specific reference to Petra, appear. The Jewish historian Josephus also devotes a fair amount of time to various aspects of the relationship between the Nabataeans and the Jewish state. He likewise relates military and other events concerning the Nabataeans and the Jewish authorities, as well as the diplomatic visit of a Nabataean representative called Syllaeus to the court of Herod the Great. This resulted in a disruption of Nabataean–Jewish relations because of the latter’s wooing of Salome. Ultimately, during the invasion of Egypt by Octavius Caesar, Herod was told to wage war against the Nabataeans in 31 B.C. A later event, also recorded by Josephus, had to do with Nabataean troops assisting Trajan in the siege of Jerusalem.
Herod is also an oblique "reference" to the Nabataeans and to their capital city. Herod’s mother was a Nabataean and his father an Idumean. He spent some ten years of his childhood at Petra and had close political and commercial relations with the Nabataean city. His "Idumean" ancestry also linked him to the Nabataeans since the "Idumeans" were really Edomites, dissatisfied with the arrival of the Bedouin tribes to Petra, who departed to the southern part of ancient Palestine. The Greek word for "Edomite" is "Idumean."
None of this later history provides any biblical connections with Petra, but it does, of course reflect the biblical influence, both Hebrew and Christian, upon the folklore and actual history of the region.
Nowhere in my over two dozen excavations and surveys at Petra have I encountered any specific biblical ties to the site at all. In recent times however, in a electronic survey which preceded the last 20 seasons of work there, the outlines of an apparent church structure were noted, which have been excavated by another archaeological group. That excavation unearthed the mosaic floor of a Christian church from later in the 6th century A.D. In addition, a hoard of burned manuscripts was also found. Subsequently, that organization has recovered other Christian churches.
It is known that Christians during the early Byzantine period around the 4th century A.D. existed at Petra as a couple of inscriptions indicate. Later, during the early 11th century, the Crusaders, under Baldwin I, were beseeched by a group of Christians, calling themselves the "Monks of St. Aaron," to succor them from the inroads of the "Saracens." This was caused by the incoming of the Muslims into the Petra area and was speedily taken care of by the Franks, only to be repeated later on during the period of the Latin Kingdom’s control of the southern area of Jordan.
The author wishes to thank Lin Hammond for editorial assistance in the preparation of this article.
See other articles by Philip Hammond, Petra
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NYC in Orb, a photo installation by Conceição Praun
Opening: Tuesday, September 18 @ 7pm
When coming to New York for the first time last April, Conceição Praun, a photographer and filmmaker passionate about environmental issues, decided to focus her attention on NYC’s environment and document her observations through a series of original black and white photographs.
Ms. Praun is recognized internationally for her persistence in travelling the world to document the environment. Those trips and meetings have opened her eyes to various environmental issues and has contributed greatly towards Praun’s attitude of questioning the human’s values on the 21st century.
“I would like to express just how difficult it has been for me to encourage people here in New York City to recognize the importance of their awareness to our environment. Often I have felt frustrated by the seeming lack of interest displayed by many. I have found myself to be a pioneer, touching lives with these very real issues that are crucial for our survival. I have come to recognize that the senses of the masses appear dulled and have nurtured extreme passive attitudes towards our social dilemmas that we should responsibly address. We are all part of a great family called the human race living on planet Earth. Take care of the environment — it’s not only our collective responsibility, but is also our right to do so without obstruction. To this, I remain committed.” - Conceição Praun
About the Artist
Conceição Praun was born in Olinda, Pernambuco in the north east of Brazil. Ms. Praun developed an interest in the “camera obscura” and learned the principles of this optical device while living in London where she had her first showcase. Ms. Praun then moved to Paris where she met George Fèvre (1930-2007), a master of photo development who was an apprentice to Henri Cartier-Bresson. This relationship encouraged Ms Praun’s deep appreciation on his theory of “l’instant décisif”. Fèvre became Ms. Praun’s mentor and exercised a great influence on her career, she promised him that she would focus on the metaphysical contrasts of black and white. Her photographs favor spontaneity over prose and composition. Praun travels the world seeking to highlight the conditions of social and environmental circumstances in order to create awareness on society’s behaviors. “Take care of our environment — it’s a duty which transcends cultural, socioeconomic and all kind of boundaries.” – Conceição | <urn:uuid:76994099-8119-4cff-a226-f6dd8254bb1d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://fbgallery.tumblr.com/tagged/photography | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957127 | 543 | 1.804688 | 2 |
4 May 2009
The crucial battle affecting the BNP's Euro-election dreams will be the one for fourth place behind the three main parties, says today's Independent newspaper (1) - and the man best placed to defeat BNP leader Nick Griffin is the Green Party's Peter Cranie.
The big three parties each claim that the D'Hondt regional list voting system used in UK Euro-elections is such a "lottery" that supporting them is the best way to beat the BNP (2). But the Greens are pointing to the fact that statistically the big three usually take most of the seats, and the final seat in a region almost always goes to the highest-polling of the smaller parties (3).
In North West England - where the BNP leader hopes to force an entry to the European Parliament - the battle for fourth place, and for the crucial eighth and final seat, is between the Greens and the BNP.
Recession - "BNP stokes resentment, Greens offer solution"
While the BNP seeks to make political capital out of the economic insecurities heightened by the recession, says the Green Party, the Greens are offering the antidote to both poverty and extremism - by pushing for massive investment in new green industries, and showing how Britain can afford to pay for it.
The North West Green Party's election manifesto will offer policies that between them could create well over 100,000 jobs in the region that was the birthplace of the world's first industrial revolution.
Peter Cranie told the Independent: "A Green vote is a vote for jobs."
And he warned:
"In an environment of economic fear and insecurity, the seeds are being sown – racism and intolerance – by a party that in its constitution bars any person because of the colour of their skin and the home of their ancestors."
Racism is "blot on the face of our society" and BNP "a disgrace to Britain"
Peter, a 36-year-old father of a baby boy, who works for a parenting support charity on Merseyside and is the Green Party's national spokesperson on children, schools and families, added today:
"British society is stronger for its diversity.
"British cities like Liverpool and Manchester owe part of their greatness to the migrations that have occurred over the centuries.
"People who come to live here from other countries are our colleagues and neighbours and business partners - they're part of our communities, part of what we mean when we say 'us.'
"Racism is a blot on the face of our civilised, enlightened society and the BNP are a disgrace to Britain.
"Elected Greens have a track record of defending and creating jobs and supporting their community. The BNP, when they've got councillors elected, have done nothing for local people."
"The 4th of June 2009 will be a historic day for Britain. The politics of hope must triumph over the politics of hate."
1. "'Best way to beat the BNP is to vote Green': Respect candidate urges public to back rival at European elections," Andrew Grice, Political Editor, Independent 4.5.09, http://www.independent.co.uk:80/news/uk/politics/best-way-to-beat-the-bnp-is-to-vote-green-1678539.html.
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NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN CHILDREN & WHAT THEY READ:
Some of Their Magazines
Over 350 periodicals for children were founded in the U. S. before 1873. Learn more about them at "American Children's Periodicals, 1789-1872," an ever-growing descriptive bibliography.
Works on pre-1873 American children's periodicals are listed or transcribed in a separate bibliography.
Puzzles appeared in most nineteenth-century American magazines for children. The Puzzle Drawer is a selection of puzzles printed in Woodworth's Youth's Cabinet and Robert Merry's Museum. They range from the easy to one designed to be impossible. Try your wits! (And your patience!)
Samuel Goodrich created Peter Parley to help him teach children about the world; the old man with the gouty foot loved to tell stories wrapped around facts and explored every subject from natural history to metaphysics. Parley originally appeared in 1827, in Tales of Peter Parley About America, and young readers responded immediately to the old storyteller's warmth and simple explanations. Parley's Magazine, edited at first by Goodrich, kept up the mixture of fact and entertainment -- with varying degrees of success.
The 1841 Parley's cover is featured in a wallpaper for your desktop.
"Prospectus" (16 March 1833) lets the reader in on the editor's intentions, which were to make the magazine so loved that children would feel punished if not allowed to read it.
"The Terrified Sailors" (March 16, 1833) is a brief piece about duty and ghosts.
"Silent Companion" (30 March 1833) is a humorous tale about a surprise for a 19th-century traveler.
"Caspar Hauser" (30 March 1833) is a contemporary account of the young man reared in solitude; readers were to reflect on the wonders they took for granted. Caspar died of a knife wound nine months after this piece was published. By the time the Museum printed a story about him 17 years later, attitudes had changed considerably.
"Narrow Escape from a Bear" (27 April 1833) is a story where young man meets bear with unexpected results.
"The Little Wood-Cutter" (April 13, 1833) is a miniature example of the way Samuel Goodrich combined adventure and geography -- in this case, a description of the wonders of Boston, Massachusetts, as seen by a country boy from Maine.
"I'd be a Butterfly" (28 May 1833) has a young boy learning what life is like without school. It also shows how illustrations were sometimes edited when they were reprinted.
"For My Youngest Readers" (14 September 1833), is an invitation to a bird, in the form of a poem which originally appeared in the Rose Bud; reprinting works from other periodicals was a common practice among early 19th-century American magazines.
"Mr. Durant" (14 September 1833), by James, describes a balloon ascent by Charles Ferson Durant in Albany, New York, from the viewpoint of a child.
"Art of Pen Making" (13 September 1834), reprinted from The Young Lady's Book, details the process of making a quill pen, complete with a diagram.
"Story of Peter Brown" and About Edwin Finley" (20 June 1835) served as contrasting examples of behavior for boys. Unusually, the bad example isn't completely villainous, and the good example isn't completely angelic; and neither comes to an extreme end. The pieces do, however, emphasize education over financial cleverness.
"Walks About Boston: The Indians" (January 1836) describes the Penobscot then living in Boston.
"To Our Young Female Readers" (February 1836) briefly provides a model of female industry.
This "Joke" appeared in the June 1836 issue, p. 167:
A couple of jolly sailors just landed in New York, saw a couple of men employed in pumping the water out of a cellar. Halloo, Tom, says one of them. What is't, says Tom. Why, said he, New York has sprung a leak, and they are pumping her out.
"Confectioners" (July 1836), by the Editor, warns young readers against the hidden dangers of sweets, which could lead to addictions both bestial and vile -- seriously!
"Juvenile Celebration of Independence" (August 1836) describes a quiet celebration by some students, contrasting it with the rowdier celebration of their friends.
Two pieces about fireworks (September & October 1836) describe what went into "artificial fire works" in 1836 and how children could make a safer version.
The New Year's address for 1838 (January 1838) discussed European Christmas and Twelfth Day celebrations, and offered readers perhaps the best possible wishes for the new year.
"Gleanings and Recollections: The New York Fire" (January 1838), by Eliza Leslie, describes the destruction of New York City's business district by fire, on December 16-17, 1835. Cold weather hampered firemen already exhausted from fires the night before. At least 500-700 businesses were lost, and the insurance industry was bankrupted, as losses mounted to over $15 million.
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" (December 1838) is a reprinting of a poem already familiar to young readers.
"The Dying Boy" (January 1839), by "Mrs. Larned of Providence," is a sentimental warning against alcohol, apparently based on the true story of a family's death. It's also one of the most morbid poems in American literature.
"The Fireside" (March 1839), apparently reprinted from a British work, explores the nature and use of coal which is, the author assures us, the remains of forests uprooted by the Deluge; the biblical Flood was often used as an explanation for the Earth's changes, in works on fossils in early American works for children.
"Who Filled the Coal Hole?" (February 1843), reprinted from a British work, drops the Deluge as an explanation for how coal was formed and stretches the age of the Earth from 6000 to over 60,000 years, as works on fossils in early American works for children began to acknowledge that the biblical creation story was not to be taken literally.
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New Dutch Masters: Clusone Trio
Han Bennink, from New Dutch Swing by Kevin Whitehead (1998). Billboard Books, NY.
Photographer- Francesca Patella, book and cover design by Jay Arning, Thumb Print.
by Dave Kaufman (May 1998)Since the 1920's, European audiences have accorded jazz music and musicians with an appreciation and admiration that they are not typically afforded in the United States. It's not that there is an especially large jazz public in these countries, but rather that music is treated as an art form, typically reserved for the likes of ballet or classical music. Europe has attracted its share of American ex-patriot musicians for the last 70 years who have been drawn by both the less restrictive social and racial barriers, as well as the respect they are accorded as musical artists. These countries have also produced many great jazz artists from Django Reinhardt to Evan Parker.
Over the course of the last 35 years, Europe has produced some of the most distinctive, original, and cutting edge sounds in jazz and creative improvised music. These different artists and groups have been loosely categorized under the banner of European Free Improvisation. Many of these musicians have developed a deep appreciation for various periods in the evolution of the African American art form of jazz, with particular emphasis on the advances brought about Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, John Coltrane, and Albert Ayler as well as Thelonius Monk and Herbie Nichols. These influences are fused with elements drawn from modern and traditional classical music as well as indigenous folk forms. Perhaps the key ingredient in this "European" music is reflected in the coalescence of composed music with uninhibited improvisation.
Holland is a rather small country that has a remarkably vital and a unique jazz scene centered in Amsterdam. This scene is chronicled in a fascinating new book, NEW DUTCH SWING, by Kevin Whitehead. The book provides an interesting portrait of contemporary figures such as Willem Breuker and Misha Mengeleberg interwoven with a historical narrative of the evolving Dutch music scene. Whitehead effectively captures the distinctive Dutch jazz esthetic in the following quote:"There are a number of traits peculiar to Dutch improvised music, not all of them on this list: an ability to abstract from the music of American jazz masters; an impulse toward theater, role play, humor and ironic distance form one's own creations; killer chops that makes all the horsing possible, and the virtuosity that assures any fuck-up is deliberate." (New Dutch Swing, Kevin Whitehead, 1998 P 4-5).Virtuosity, irony, and humor certainly characterize the Clusone Trio, one of the most interesting and exciting groups working in improvised music. The group consists of multi-instrumentalist Michael Moore, originally from Northern California, Ernst Reijseger on cello and madcap genius drummer and percussionist Han Bennink. Bennink, born in 1942, is some 12 years older than the other two members. He has been a significant presence on the European stage for more than 30 years and is one of the most singularly unique musicians in the world of jazz.
Bennink gained some renown at a very young age backing up Eric Dolphy in a broadcasted performance that would be released as Last Date (recorded one month prior to the death of the jazz giant). Bennink has played on several seminal recordings, including Machine Gun, German saxophonist Peter Brotzman's free jazz aural assault. He has also played with many of the giants of the avant garde such as Steve Lacy, Cecil Taylor, and Anthony Braxton as well as, many mainstream jazz luminaries such as Ben Webster, Dexter Gordon, and Sonny Rollins. Bennink coaxes a range of timbres, colors, and accents from various percussive devices. He is quite masterful in his use of brushes and can really swing the band when the mood strikes him. He can also play really loud and fast. For those who have seen him live, Bennink is a wonderful entertainer and a first rate clown. He uses a range of real and found objects as percussive devices for musical as well as humorous effect. He is also famous for his outrageous antics. Whitehead reports on an incident where Bennink set fire to strips of newspapers stuffed into his hi-hat. He then continued to play furiously, opening and closing his hi-hat thereby creating large circles of smoke that hovered over the stage.
Reijseger and Moore are equally distinctive musicians, if somewhat less flamboyant. Reijseger is one of perhaps a dozen known jazz musicians who have devoted themselves exclusively to the cello. He is a supremely skilled and versatile player whether playing in a chamber music or free jazz style. He has also expanded the form and function of the cello and can convincingly make the instrument sound like an upright bass or an acoustic guitar. Reijseger has worked in many different contexts, including as a member of Trilok Gurtu's Crazy Saints. The jointly led recording, Saturn Cycle with drummer Gerry Hemingway and pianist George Grawe is highly recommended. Michael Moore originally hails from the northern most part of California and has lived in Amsterdam for more than 15 years. Moore is an exceptionally gifted alto sax and clarinet player. He also plays assorted other instruments such as penny whistle and melodica. As an alto player, he has been compared with Paul Desmond and Lee Konitz among others. He is a lyrical player whose playing is sometimes reminiscent of pre-bop era players, though he is equally versed in the language of free jazz. He has worked with many of Europe's leading jazz players and has recorded as a leader on his own label Ramboy.
The Clusone Trio (aka Clusone 3) first played together as a trio around 1980 and coalesced into a group in 1988. Clusone is a town in Italy that has a music festival for which Reijseger had to assemble a group. To date, this group have released four recordings. The three I have heard, I am an Indian, Soft Lights Sweet Music, and Love Henry are all highly recommended. I am an Indian and Love Henry are somewhat similar live dates issued on Grammavision. I am an Indian is probably the more adventurous of the two, though my preference is for Love Henry. Both albums contain a mix of compositions penned by group members as well as a very interesting mix of songs by Ellington, Herbie Nichols, Misha Mengelberg, Lee Konitz and others. Soft Lights Sweet Music, on the Hat Hut label, is largely devoted to the music of Irving Berlin. It's their most accessible record with some fairly straight forward readings of pop standards and show tunes like There is No Business Like Show Business and Anything I Can Do, I Can Do Better. There are elements of surprise and contrast in Clusone Trio's music. They could play a very faithful, almost corny reading of a standard and then turn it way outside. The group can also seem as if they are in total control and then moments later anarchy reigns. The Clusone Trio is without a doubt one of the most fascinating groups working in improvised and creative music.
Clusone Trio in BerkeleyThe Clusone Trio has just completed a tour of North America (some 20 odd dates). I was very fortunate to see them perform at Beanbenders in Berkeley. The Beanbenders' Series offers up some of the most renowned artists in creative and improvised music. Beanbenders is housed in the Berkeley Gallery Store Annex, a rather bland, generic and charmless room. They are in the process of looking for a new venue. The room seats about 150 people and on this night, there were close to twice that many attendees. Fortunately, we came relatively early and had fairly choice seats.
Dan Plonsey, one of the producers of the Beanbenders' program, came on to introduce the band and announce some of the upcoming shows. As he began to do that, Han Bennink came on stage, carrying this big 2 x 4 piece of lumber and drops it in front of the stage. He sits down and proceeds to pound out a beat on the piece of wood, occasionally (gently) mocking Plonsey as he continues to mention future attractions. He's joined by Moore, alternating between pennywhistle, melodica and clarinet, who then leads the group into a free piece of sorts with Reijseger playing some harsh dissonant figures on cello. This segued into a quiet and pretty ballad with a something of a Latin flavor. The music of the Clusone Trio covers the gamut from faithful or even corny rendition of standards or show business tunes to free jazz polar explorations. Moore and Reijseger often have a very serious appearance on stage and play rather intricate parts. Some of the songs are highly structured, whereas others are freely improvised.
Bennink, a generation older than the other 2 musicians, often marches to his own tune. His is a striking looking figure; tall, sporting an unseemly crewcut with a ruddy complexion that turns bright red when he pounds his drum kit. He is among the most entertaining performers I have ever seen in any context. He is at once, a great drummer and a world class clown. He brings with him a range of percussive tools, some of which are found on site (e.g., blocks of wood). Indeed, any object in the vicinity is a candidate percussive device, including a wooden chair that served as both an object and instrument for his drumming.
Bennink is typically not bound by any convention known to other musicians. For example, he would occasionally engage in a loud and violent drum solo in the midst of a quiet meditative piece. He frequently called attention to himself, even in the midst of another musician's solo. He would raise his foot on his floor toms and pound away, put a drumstick in his mouth, whoop and holler an Indian war cry or even get up and do a little tap dance. During the first set, the audience broke up laughing about a dozen times as a result of one of his gags. On one occasion, he left the stage for a minute or so. And then from offstage (on the other side of a curtain), we see this long metal pole emerge and hit the crash cymbal (a properly timed accent). During a quiet introspective number, Bennink tied a rope to his high hat and walked into the audience holding the rope. From the front row, he would tug on the rope, jiggling and in effect playing the high hat, creating a unique percussive sound. It was absolutely hilarious, but also surprisingly musical. In fact, for all of his extracurricular hijinx, much of his activity was done in support of the music. Bennink is a very impressive and flexible drummer. Given his considerable noise generating proclivities, the most impressive part of his playing maybe his magnificent brush work.
For the first 15 or so minutes, I was more or less transfixed by Bennink's performance and unfortunately paid less attention to the other 2/3 of the Clusone Trio. Reijseger is really an exceptionally versatile cellist. He can demonstrate a kind of mundane virtuosity (playing the cello as it was meant to be played) whether playing classical motifs or exploring freer terrain. He can also perfectly mimic a walking line on an upright bass. Even more surprising, he would re-position the cello in a horizontal plane and then reproduce a sound exemplary of either a fat funky electric bass or strum the cello as if it was an acoustic guitar. He can play a Bossa Nova like Charlie Byrd or convincingly play the blues.
Moore is equally adept at clarinet or alto sax. He is a very lyrical and fluid player who seems to be steeped in the history of jazz from Dixieland to Contemporary Free Improv. As I mentioned previously, he has the tone of a player from an earlier era. Moore has a distinctively alto-like sound, unlike many young alto players who seem to emulate tenor players. Though, he did quote Trane on a couple of occasions. Moore and Reijseger would often engage in interesting musical dialogues, while Bennink would do, well... whatever he feels like doing. The contrast between the Bennink's free-for-all approach with Reijseger and Moore's more deliberate one is an integral part of the group's identity.
The first set was played largely without any pauses (Bennink would fill any interlude between songs). The songs appeared to segue one into another. At points, they seem to consist of a set of miniature suites or medleys (similar to Love Henry). According to Reijseger, whom I spoke with briefly after the performance, the tunes were taken from various recordings, including 2 as of yet unreleased CD's.
The second set was perhaps even better than the first, although it was decidedly more conventional. For the most part, Bennink was very well behaved throughout the set, seemingly content to play drums. The music also had a more discernible song structure and Moore actually introduced several of the tunes (when Bennink would let him). Several of the songs explored the theme of birds. This began with an unusual original composition called "Secretary Bird." They subsequently performed a beautiful and lengthy rendition of "the Buzzard Song" from PORGY AND BESS featuring some stellar work by Moore on both alto and clarinet. They also did a version of the Jobim composition "O' Pato (The Duck)". On this number, Bennink brought his snare drum to the front of the stage and contributed some exquisite brush work. The Clusone Trio performed Saint-Saen's "The Swan," which was something of a vehicle for Reijseger (if memory serves me well). For an encore, they performed a faithful and magnificent interpretation of Hoagy Carmichael's "Baltimore Oriole" with Moore's lyrical alto taking the lead and the other 2 providing rhythmic accompaniment. This served as an excellent finale to a magnificent evening of music.
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Hagerstown Community College opened its new Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, or STEM, building to students and faculty Monday, less than two years after construction began.
The five-story, 65,000-square-foot structure will house the science programs that were in the science building, as well as the alternative energy technology, information systems technology, engineering and math programs.
The original science building will be renovated and will be home to all developmental programs and tutoring services, according to the school’s website.
Construction costs for the Arts & Sciences Complex — which consists of the STEM building; the Learning Center, which the science building will become; and the classroom building — were $24.8 million.
“It’s definitely a change to the college,” HCC student Paige Goebelbecker said. “I can come here and chill after class, and just hang out in the lounge here.”
Goebelbecker, 23, of Waynesboro, Pa., is studying special education and history. She has a science class in the new building, which she said offers a better learning environment than the science building.
“There’s a lot more room,” she said. “I’m so used to being on one story, not two, three or four floors.”
Lori Collins, 34, of Inwood, W.Va., is studying pharmacy at HCC. She spoke of the advantages of the new building.
“The labs are more technologically advanced,” she said. “All the technology seems to help. The computers seem to run faster and are more updated.
“It seems to be very environmentally friendly,” she added. “The setup of it is very nice.”
The STEM building is a green building, which means it is sustainable and energy-efficient, according to HCC Construction Manager Gerard Rath.
“This building is really going to take the campus forward, regarding advances in science and technology,” he said. “It’s going to bring programs that we weren’t able to offer before.”
The building has many environmental features, Rath said. They include sun shades on the outside to diffuse light entering the building; a system on the third, fourth and fifth floors to catch rainwater and use it as water in toilets; and better indoor air quality.
“We are eventually going to have solar panels and green roofs,” he said. “We’ll have five solar panels on top of this building. That should be scheduled to start in the next couple of months.”
Despite the new environmental features, Rath said his favorite thing about the building is how it was built to fit in with the campus.
“I like how the architect built this building into the landscape,” he said. “It’s built right into the side of the hill, and it kind of matched the natural surroundings.”
Elaine Ashby, a biology professor at HCC, teaches classes in the new building. She said the extra space and technology are good for students and professors.
“We have new resources and space for the bio-tech and high-tech areas,” she said. “Our students deserve nice laboratories, and they’re getting them this semester.”
Ashby, who has been a professor at HCC for 27 years, said the aesthetics of the building are nice.
“Everything is so nice, and fresh and new,” she said. “I love that I have an office with windows.”
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You probably wouldn’t expect folks who fork out upwards of $400,000 for a car to care about whether their vehicle is environmentally responsible, but that’s not the case, according to Ian Robertson, CEO of Rolls-Royce. “Our buyers are very worldly people; they are affected by global trends and global thinking,” he says. Never mind the fact that the Phantom sedan has an EPA rating of 11 mpg city and 18 mpg highway. Robertson contends his brand is one of the most environmentally conscious due to the fact that 70% of the cars produced since 1904 remain on the road: “A Rolls-Royce will be here for 30 or 40 years from now and therefore it has a far greener credential than the average product,” he claims.
Still, the brand is looking to gain even more green credentials when it introduces a new smaller car based loosely on the BMW 7-Series (codenamed MGS) in 2010. “We will bring out a completely new engine and that will move the technical boundary another step further,” Robertson says, adding Rolls-Royce would consider adding a hybrid powertrain to its line-up, pointing specifically to the possible addition of start-stop and brake regeneration capabilities. “I think if you look at what our parent BMW has been doing with engine dynamics…those will come in with us as well,” he says. While Rolls-Royce will share major components with BMW, don’t expect to see the two share complete platforms or suspensions. “The way in which the car handles, the materials are developed and the way in which we manufacture the car will remain unique to Rolls-Royce and I think that’s important.”
In terms of vehicle aesthetics, Robertson says to expect the new MGS to display the next step in the brand’s “evolving” design language, a look that breaks with more than a century of tradition. “Up until the launch of the Drophead [convertible], the grille on a Rolls-Royce has always stood proud of the body; it has been a separate entity. The grille on the Drophead is integrated into the body so the language has subtly changed, but the face of the company is still very noticeable. You will continue to see that with our cars going forward,” Robertson says. While the MGS will help to boost Rolls-Royce production beyond the current 1,000-unit level, Robertson does not envision the brand selling more than 2,500 cars annually. That’s because the goal is keep Rolls-Royce exclusive by limiting the number of vehicles within select markets.—KMK | <urn:uuid:ecc48f37-3c42-457a-8216-bfcd8ce90e81> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.autofieldguide.com/articles/rolls-royce-thinks-green | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955175 | 559 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Mother Arlene Meara Makes it Her Mission to Fight Dating Violence
Meara started foundation in her daughter Shannon's memory; fundraiser is Saturday. 'Doing this keeps her with me and keeps me alive,' said Meara.
“My daughter, my heart.”
Arlene Meara wears a heart-shaped silver pendant on a chain around her neck. On the front: a picture of her daughter, Shannon Lee. On the back: the words, “My daughter, my heart.”
Pictures of Shannon cascade down one side of Arlene’s fridge. One is of Shannon and Arlene, captioned, by Shannon, “My beautiful mother n me.”
Three years ago, Arlene’s daughter was “shot in the head with a 350 magnum by an ex-boyfriend,” Arlene recounted. Shannon was 24 when she died.
Now Arlene has made it her mission to raise awareness about dating and domestic violence and help prevent it.
In the wake of her daughter’s death, Arlene founded the Shannon Lee Meara Educational Foundation.
The organization is funding a series of projects:
- a special program at the high school, Shannon’s alma mater, to promote healthy dating relationships:
- a support group for girls there;
- a handbook for teens on how to recognize dating violence and abuse, talk about it and where to get help; and
- a scholarship for a Woburn Memorial High School student who has made a difference in her or his life or the life of someone else in connection with dating violence.
The foundation also funded a protective suit for the police Rape Aggression Defense program.
"(Shannon) loved to help people,” Arlene said. “I wanted to keep her spirit alive.”
“Doing this keeps her with me and keeps me alive,” the mother added.
This coming Saturday night, the foundation will hold its third annual fundraiser in Shannon’s memory.
After Shannon died, Arlene, an operating room nurse at Mass General Hospital, made some phone calls to see where she could pour her energy.
"I knew we had to do something to stop this,” Arlene said. “Together we will make a difference.”
She hopes to break the silence and “take away the stigma” around the subject of dating and domestic violence. People need to talk about these things, she said firmly.
Arlene approached the high school principal. She did research, found an organization that offered programs for students.
Through Jane Doe, Inc., a statewide coalition against sexual assault and domestic violence, Arlene found the REACH Beyond Domestic Violence group.
REACH stands for refuge, education, advocacy and change, youth education specialist Colleen Armstrong explained Monday at the high school. REACH also offers shelter and advocates in court and certain police departments, she said.
This is the second year REACH has offered classes in high school students’ health classes and child development classes, twice a school year, courtesy of Shannon’s foundation. REACH offers a program in schools in Burlington and Stoneham, according to Armstrong. The program aims to empower, not blame, she said.
The program reaches more than 500 Woburn Memorial High School students each school year, according to high school adjustment counselor Loren Baccari. She coordinates the Dating Violence Task Team that was formed at the high school in 2009. The group includes six members of the high school wellness department, eight student peer leaders and Woburn Memorial High School Resource Officer Det. Edward Fumicello.
Last month, REACH began a six-week support group for high school girls. Next year, that group will meet for between 12 and 14 weeks, Baccari said Monday.
REACH also held training sessions for all high school staff and counseling staff, Baccari noted, and peer leaders.
Even before the programs started at the high school, Arlene held a special run in her daughter’s memory. Arlene rides a motorcycle, a Harley Davidson. That had embarrassed her daughter, she recalled.
“She was very strict with me,” Arlene said.
Nevertheless, members of Mass. Moose on Bikes held its first annual run, in June 2008, to help the foundation raise money to help stop dating and domestic violence. Arlene wears a purple ribbon decal with her daughter’s name on it on her helmet when she rides. This coming June 4, the bikers will hold their fourth run in Shannon’s memory.
Saturday’s fundraiser at the Sons of Italy will include food, music and raffles. Tickets are $20 each. For more information, contact Arlene at email@example.com or Jennifer at firstname.lastname@example.org. Checks may be made out to the foundation and mailed to P.O. Box 136, Woburn, MA, 01801.
Arlene’s house is full of items for the fundraiser: baskets of raffle items, tablecloths in pink—light pink was Shannon’s favorite color—and purple, the color of anti-dating and domestic violence efforts, Arlene said.
In her kitchen, Arlene pointed to hummingbirds—Shannon loved to buy hummingbird feeders, her mother said—that people have given her since Shannon died. A hummingbird is a sign of peace, Arlene explained, a symbol to “embrace all that life has to offer and to celebrate the joy of every day.” Shannon had one tattooed on her back, according to her mother. It has become the foundation’s symbol.
“Anything that reminds me of her is good,” Arlene said.
Sitting at her kitchen table Friday afternoon, Arlene recounted how, after work on a Friday afternoon in January of 2008, she tried to call Shannon and failed to reach her. She went to Shannon’s ex-boyfriend’s apartment, she said. Shannon’s car was there. Arlene said she called the police. By the time they arrived, Arlene said, the apartment was dark.
She went online and tracked Shannon’s cell phone calls. She wasn’t using her phone, Arlene said. That was very unusual.
By Sunday, still unable to reach her daughter, Arlene said she was “a wreck.” Then the police called her, she said, and asked if Shannon had a tattoo. To Arlene, that meant that Shannon probably was not at a hospital.
“I fell on the floor, fell apart,” Arlene said. “I screamed, ‘No! No!' (then) I shut down.”
Listening to the graphic descriptions of what happened to Shannon in court was “unbelievable,” she said.
And Shannon is gone.
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Junior Achievement Estonia has been engaged in the projects delivered by the Nordic Council of Ministers for years. The current project under the Nordplus Horizontal programme is called “Creative and entrepreneurship education in schools” and in the 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 academic years we have focused on relationship marketing as a tool for entrepreneurship and business but also for teaching entrepreneurship at school. The project involves 5 countries: Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland.
These past years have been very successful - we have had 4 meetings per year for discussions and to learn from one another. Whenever possible we try to schedule our meetings to take place at a time when there is an entrepreneurship event taking place in the hosting country, so that the participants can see the real effect of their every day work.
During these meetings we have discovered new and effective learning programmes in the other countries and learned new tips for teaching more effectively in the classroom. The Innovation Camp, as a European programme, started to spread after our meeting when the Norwegian representative spoke about their attempts to organise a new learning-by- doing programme in Norway. JA-YE Finland joined the programme shortly thereafter and Estonia followed quickly.
Dealing with Relationship Marketing as a subject has helped participants focus very precisely on their main target group: students, but also teachers, parents and the local community. We have shared methods for teaching at school so that all those involved can get the most out of entrepreneurship education in our region. Finding resources for getting information about Relationship Marketing enables us to enrich the lessons carried out at school. Our meetings are also attended by people who train teachers, so that new methodologies are spread into classrooms quickly. The list of materials is published on our webpage www.rm.ja.ee, as well.
All knowledge, new skills, methodologies, teaching tips that we have obtained are extremely valuable but what count even more are the relationships among people participating in the process. Educators have become friends with one another and started to communicate even outside the meetings. Various things are discussed and problems of everyday school life are solved in the meetings. Finnish and Estonian youth organisations (JA-YE alumni) have started to help each other in organising national events. Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania are writing proposals together for solving their common problems in the Baltic States. Schools are cooperating by sending students to visit schools of partner countries.
We are absolutely sure that relationships we have established by learning Relationship Marketing together will last. We are confident that our goals, vision and attitudes toward educating the young generation are very similar. We really enjoy our Nordic-Baltic team working together in the framework of the Nordplus Horizontal programme and we are very grateful to the Nordic Council for supporting these initiatives.
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Many of us now buy goods and services online for the convenience and savings. The experts at ESET put together this guide to safer online shopping so you get the goods you want, and no nasty surprises.
Tune your shopping machine
Like the tune-up your car gets before a long drive, your laptop may need attention before going online for some power shopping. Give it some love, and improved protection, by updating and patching your browser, operating system, and anti-malware suite. Patching will help you avoid malware infections and scams, and keep you running smoothly and it’s free. You can run a free antivirus scan of your Windows PC.
Stick with familiar faces
Buy from websites that have established a reputation for doing what they say, providing accurate descriptions of merchandise, and delivering it in good shape and on time. When you’re getting down to the wire with shipping deadlines during holiday shopping, the last thing you need is friends and relatives getting the wrong gifts, which could be worse than no gifts at all.
Be wary of “amazing” deals
If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is, particularly if it’s an amazing offer on one of the season’s hottest products. Such deals can be very tempting, but it really is safer to avoid following links that offer goods, services, or gift cards at impossibly cheap prices, they are just too risky. Not all discount vendors are scammers, but ask yourself if the promised savings are worth the gamble (or Google the offer and/or vendor to see what others are saying).
Insist on secure transactions
When you are in the ordering process on a website check to make sure it is using SSL, the standard in secure transactions that shows up in several ways. You should be able to see https in front of the web address instead of http. There may also be a lock or key symbol in the browser window as well. Using SSL encrypts the exchange of information, such as your credit card, so eavesdroppers cannot read it. When in doubt, a quick search in Google for the word “scam” or “fraud” along with the site name should tell you if that site has a history of problems.
Think before you act
Watch out for “urgent” deals that arrive in unsolicited email or purport to be from friends on social networking sites. Exercise extra caution if the message uses broken English (or whatever your native language might be) or if it doesn’t seem quite right for some reason (like an unexpected email from a delivery service with an attachment). If you think the deal is real, open a browser and type the name of the website directly into the address bar. This will keep you from getting swept away by scam links to fake websites built by cyber crooks that harvest your information and spirit it off to the underworld (there is a thriving black market in stolen identity data which crooks purchase to commit credit card fraught, tax fraud, and other crimes).
Don’t shop at a leaky hotspot
If you need to do any shopping over Wi-Fi, at home or at a hotspot, make sure it is secure (look for the lock symbol in the Wi-Fi connection dialog). The last thing you want is someone snatching your personal and financial details out of thin air as you transmit them from your laptop (or smartphone or tablet). When using Wi-Fi outside your home consider using a VPN or virtual private network such as PrivateTunnel or Private WiFi (bear in mind that there are bandwidth limits on most free VPNs so you may need to pay for heavy use).
Use credit instead of debit
If you get scammed and try to get your money back you may have better luck with credit card transactions versus debit cards. While some vendors, whether at the mall or online, prefer debit cards because the transaction is cheaper for them, avoid this when shopping. Credit cards can put an extra layer of protection in between you and the bad guys.
Question detailed info requests
Some malware is able to add questions to forms you use online, so if a shopping website is asking for Too Much Information relative to your purchase, like wanting your Social Security Number to complete a simple order for flowers, abandon the transaction and run an anti-malware scan right away.
Don’t expect money for answering questions
There are many legitimate website satisfaction surveys, but when a window pops up promising you cash or gift cards just for answering a simple survey like “Do you use the Internet?” close it and move on. And do NOT enter your cell phone number to claim the $1,000 gift card that a website is promising you, unless you are prepared to pay for premium services you never ordered.
Lock up your devices
Password protect your laptop, tablet, and smartphone so that, if lost or stolen, your data will be harder for strangers to access. Each of these devices should have a settings menu from which the security options should be readily accessible. Choose a password or code that is easy for you to remember but hard for other people to guess. Set the timing so that the device locks after a short period of inactivity. You are now better protected against multiple scary holiday scenarios, such as leaving your device in a taxi or on the plane, someone stealing your device, or a friend “borrowing” your device and then using it inappropriately.
Backup your data
If you have to face a worst-case scenario this holiday season, like a laptop going missing or a smartphone being stolen, the situation will be a lot less upsetting if you have your device backed up, that is, copies of your files safely stored somewhere else. Your smartphone is probably backed up to your computer already–now is the time to check–and your computer can be backed up to an external hard drive, or online backup such as BackBlaze, but preferably both. | <urn:uuid:8dacd340-806a-4f98-9ff9-79bd6dc914ea> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.welivesecurity.com/2012/12/17/eset-guide-to-safer-online-shopping/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932052 | 1,228 | 2.203125 | 2 |
There are many benefits that you will get from using online survey method as a means of collecting information from your customers. In most cases, it gives you results within the shortest time and immediately upon completion of the survey process. The speed depends on the duration of the survey. However you will know what the results are the instant the survey is completed. You can use customer service survey to know what the customers think of your business enterprise or company.And to make sure you get the most out of your survey, give your customers a chance to invite their friends and family to participate in the survey, but of course,depend of the demographic in which the survey is created for.
This is a very useful information you gather from your customer can be use as a stepping stone in improving your customer service delivery so that the mindset the customers have about your business changes. You know how customer service is important to any business. It is like a reputation for if it sours then you are also at a risky point of losing to your competitors. Therefore, using the information received from customer satisfaction survey for the best is highly advised. It is a positive way of ensuring that you do not only learn more from your customers, but also that you benefit from what they think you should be doing. With online survey you will be able to get that result reliably.
Knowing how the customers think of your business is highly important to the life of your business itself, because it is the customer that will define your business,depends how they find it useful in a day to day basis. It is also a good start to have a good business relationship with them by asking them what they want and providing it. | <urn:uuid:73d83a98-2c61-475b-9ee9-f20403bb8d94> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://the-bloggers-exchange.org/why-use-online-survey/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970563 | 337 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Government Urged To Act 'Urgently' To Help Troops By Commons Defence Committee
A powerful committee has raised concerns over the future care of troops returning from service with severe injuries and mental health problems.
MPs said there was a "question mark" over whether the Government had fully understood the scale of the demands on services in the coming years.
In a report on military casualties following the introduction in May of the Armed Forces Covenant, which sets out the "moral obligation" to support service personnel, the Commons Defence Committee praised "the first-class medical treatment" available but questioned whether it was sustainable.
MPs also called on the Government to act "urgently" to exclude Armed Forces compensation - paid to injured personnel - from consideration when means-tested benefits are assessed.
Ministers have indicated the practice could be reformed next year but the committee warned that "there is a risk that in the short-term some members of the Armed Forces might be disadvantaged" without swift reforms.
The committee said that while the Ministry of Defence provided "outstanding care" in many areas "this cannot always be said for the support it gives to families". It criticised the lack of support for children following the death or severe injury of a relative and urged the department to "look again" at its support services.
MPs also raised fears that the Government's reforms of the NHS - the largest shake-up in its history - will hit the future care of troops.
"We are concerned that the arrangements put in place by the MoD for the transition of personnel may be disrupted by the future re-organisation of the health service in England," the report states.
Committee chairman James Arbuthnot said: "We, as a committee, have seen how determined our injured servicemen and women are to achieve the fullest possible recovery from their injuries. They see it as duty to get better and to return to their units if at all possible.
"We have been impressed by the brave and skilful personnel, both military and civilian, who are providing the medical care that our Armed Forces need. But we need to have the confidence that such specific treatment, for injuries hardly ever seen in the general NHS experience, will continue long after an individual's retirement and into old age." | <urn:uuid:602d5389-d2f4-42fb-9b40-8e0e435e0a9b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/12/15/government-urged-to-act-urgently_n_1150261.html?ref=uk-parliament | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967236 | 463 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) should be used to give doctors a more
accurate understanding of the internal brain chemistry of a person suffering
with anxiety problems.
This is according to the head of strategy at the mental health charity SANE
Margaret Edwards. She believes MRI scans could pioneer exciting breakthroughs
in the treatment of mental health conditions.
She explained that any method that can help medication become tailored to a
patient's specific biochemistry should be encouraged.
MRI scans could give doctors a clearer picture of the chemical processes in
the brain of a depression sufferer and therefore could lead to the development
of more effective drugs for those people who do not respond well to existing
therapies, Ms Edwards added.
The diagnostic imaging technique is currently
used in the treatment of numerous mental illnesses. Epilepsy Action states that
MRI is the most common form of scan used for patients suffering with seizures.
© Adfero Ltd
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In many tobacco growing countries, evidence indicates irreparable environmental damage from tobacco agriculture, particularly when associated with the deforestation necessary to increase farmland for tobacco growth and cure tobacco plants. The June 1995 Bellagio statement on tobacco and sustainable development concluded that, in the developing world, "tobacco poses a major challenge, not just to health, but also to environmental sustainability".
In many developing countries, wood is used to cure tobacco leaves and to construct curing barns. An estimated 200,000 hectares of forests and woodlands are cut down each year because of tobacco farming. In Southern Africa alone, an estimated 140,000 hectares of woodlands disappear annually into the fires necessary to cure tobacco, accounting for approximately 12% of deforestation in the region. A 1999 study assessing the amount of forest and woodland consumed annually for curing tobacco concluded that nearly 5% of deforestation in developing countries where tobacco was grown was due to tobacco cultivation.
Environmental degradation also results from the tobacco plant leaching nutrients from the soil, as well as pollution from pesticides and fertilizers. Indeed, large and frequent applications of pesticides are required to protect the plant from insects and disease. This not only causes severe health problems to the farmers, as they are not properly equipped and trained to use these chemicals, but it also decreases the long term fertility of the soil and pollutes the groundwater and waterways often used by populations downstream.
The manufacturing of tobacco products also produces an immense amount of waste. In 1995, the global tobacco industry produced an estimated 2.3 billion kilograms of manufacturing waste and 209 million kilograms of chemical waste. This does not include the enormous amount of litter caused by cigarette butts, which are not bio-degradable. According to one estimate, 954 million kilograms worth of filters were produced in 1998, with many of them eventually littering countries' streets, waterways and parklands. Compounding the extent of this problem is the waste created by cigarette packaging, lighters, matches and other polluting by-products of tobacco use. | <urn:uuid:ff8d4e0b-9d16-4c83-975a-cb839dea14f8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.who.int/tobacco/research/economics/rationale/environment/en/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954968 | 405 | 3.875 | 4 |
You can do a lot to prevent or delay getting type 2 diabetes (“dy-ah-BEE-teez”), including:
- Watching your weight
- Eating healthy
- Staying active
Diabetes is one of the leading causes of disability and death in the United States. If it’s not controlled, diabetes can cause blindness, nerve damage, kidney disease, and other health problems.
The good news is that the small steps you take to prevent diabetes can lead to big rewards. Make a plan to prevent type 2 diabetes.
What is diabetes?
Diabetes is a disease. When you have diabetes, there is too much glucose (sugar) in your blood. Over time, if it’s not controlled, diabetes can cause serious health problems like heart disease, stroke, and blindness.
To learn more about how diabetes affects the body, visit:
Diabetes can’t be cured, but it can be controlled.
What is type 2 diabetes?
There is more than one type of diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes. People who are overweight are more likely to get type 2 diabetes.
The food you eat turns into glucose. Your blood carries glucose to other parts of the body. Your body depends on glucose for energy.
When you have diabetes, your body has trouble turning glucose into energy. Instead of being used by your body, the glucose builds up in your blood. The rest of your body is starved of energy.
What is pre-diabetes?
Pre-diabetes means the amount of glucose in your blood is higher than normal. If you have pre-diabetes, you are at risk for serious health problems, like type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. Find out more about pre-diabetes.
Am I at risk for diabetes?
You may be at risk for type 2 diabetes if you:
- Are age 45 or older
- Are overweight
- Have a parent, brother, or sister with diabetes
- Are African American, Hispanic or Latino American, American Indian, Asian American, or Pacific Islander
- Have had diabetes during pregnancy (gestational diabetes)
- Have had a baby with a birth weight of more than 9 pounds
- Have high blood pressure or cholesterol
- Exercise less than 3 times a week
What are the signs of diabetes?
Many people with diabetes don’t know they have the disease. Some signs of diabetes include:
- Being very thirsty or very hungry
- Feeling tired for no reason
- Urinating (going to the bathroom) more than usual
- Losing weight for no reason
- Having cuts or bruises that are slow to heal
- Having trouble seeing (blurry vision)
- Losing feeling or having tingling in your hands or feet
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Though there is no dictum that prohibits men from staying at home and managing the house, this "unusual" set-up is seemingly still unaccepted in the Filipino psyche. Husbands receive flaks from in-laws, friends, co-workers and, miserably, from themselves.
It was in the mid-nineties when this set-up was seen to be a growing trend in the Americas, and Uncle Sam wasn’t bothered at all. Will the Filipino bite the bullet? Is Juan dela Cruz ready to accept? Are there exceptions to the rule? Is there confusion somewhere?
Picture this. A wife leaves the house early in the morning to catch her service vehicle or drive her car that will take her to her white-collar job in the financial district. Meanwhile, the husband starts the day preparing the breakfast and lunchboxes of kids. While the wife is immersed with her 9 to 5 jobs –juggling tons and pounds of paper works, attending various meetings and conferences of whatever kind–dear husband tends the garden, dusts curtains, minds the spinning of the laundry, attends to playing children inside the house!
A reversal of roles of sorts? Maybe. But a momentary peek into their life reveals practicality and wisdom.
This unorthodox set-up may be unbearable with the common notion that man is the breadwinner and the wife is only a support system. Though numbers are not criterion of truth, statistics bare that there are more female than male. And women have proven otherwise that they can also take the front seat and give the men a run of their own money. History will document the achievements of Eve through the passage of time. There are female heads of states, top honchos of big corporations, tycoons and magnates and other leaders of various kinds. Cleopatra showed that she had something between her ears more than just an icon of beauty. Ditto with Margaret Thatcher, Marie Curie, and Mother Teresa.
Our culture, though we dismiss and deny, has been more patriarchal than utilitarian since time immemorial. The male domination has always been the norm. That explains the reason why, in middle of the past century, only a handful of women shared the limelight and were allowed to pursue careers of their own. And if they did shine, they were either single, widowed, divorcees, or separated souls –not your next-door domesticated wives.
Filipino society is traditionally a man’s world. The family is governed by the father or any male member of the family.
But like any system, it can also succumb to changes and some modifications to keep up with the times. So, the tradition is slowly being eroded by the pragmatic and practical approach. At first, resistance will take place because a new set-up is being adopted. But in the end, pragmatism will rule.
If the concept of househusbands is already being accepted, self-admission is another matter. Even wives will not admit to their circle of friends of having a stay-at-home husband.
Why is this so? Filipino men still have a high regard for self. Household chores are dismissed as menial (read: uninteresting, too light). If not called for by necessity, men will not take the initiative to do domestic chores.
And more likely, working mothers or wives will not entirely give up the management of the house. The moment she sets foot inside the house, she will readily go to the kitchen and start cooking or sweep a floor full of mess. It may be in remote cases, where working moms shun the idea of giving her share in household management.
Basically, household jobs big or small are all done to achieve one simple objective: to build a home inside a house. This translates to making sure your family: eats the right food at the right time; grows up in a good and clean environment; wears clean and pleasant clothes; and experiences a normal life.
In fact, housekeeping can be simply summarized as follows:
Cleaning and Fixing. This refers to the over-all maintenance of the house, together with the repairs that go with it. Laundry and pressing of the clothes fall under this category. Same thing with making beds, sewing and mending clothes, as well as gardening.
Cooking. Meal preparations and budget allocations get a big part of the housekeeping time and effort. This task includes going to the nearby market or grocery to buy other food needs and requirements.
Care-Giving. This is a major task when children are part of the household. Changing diapers, buying school needs, going to parent-teacher associations, putting them to sleep and assisting them in their home works are examples of care-giving activities.
Household management is not really a big job to reckon with. But for a male, especially a male doing it for the first time, the task at hand may look Herculean. It would take a caring parent to do all these chores without complaints or misgivings; and given the time to adjust, anyone can perform these jobs excellently.
* Arnold O. Aldaba teaches Journalism and Literature as an assistant professor at the University of Santo Tomas, where he finished his AB Literature degree "cum laude". He has an MA in Communication Management from the Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication. He also works as a corporate communications and public relations officer of the Land Bank of the Philippines. | <urn:uuid:3c2cd8e9-7494-49e1-ae8d-d1b5dd956648> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.uominicasalinghi.it/index.asp?pg=890 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963523 | 1,117 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Malaysian lawmakers green light Lynas rare earths plant
Author: Anuradha Raghu and Niluksi Koswanage
Australia's Lynas Corp is set to clear the final hurdle for its delayed $800 million rare earths plant after Malaysian lawmakers asked the government to issue the miner a temporary operating license despite community safety concerns.
The recommendations of the six-member lawmaker committee are expected to be rubber stamped by parliament later on Tuesday, clearing the way for Lynas to start operating the plant that is key to breaking China's grip on rare earths used in products ranging from Apple Inc's smartphones to Honda Motors' hybrid cars.
"It's another in a long line of affirmations for the safety of the Lynas plant," said a Lynas spokesman in Australia.
Lynas shares added nearly 9 percent, while analysts said the plant, set to be the biggest in the world outside China, could start operating within four months of the issuance of a temporary operating license.
The Lynas plant on Malaysia's east coast has been standing ready to fire up since early May, but the company has been embroiled since construction began two years ago in lengthy environmental and safety disputes with local residents.
Widespread protests over concerns at possible radioactive residue have drawn thousands of people at a time, and the project has become a hot topic ahead of an election likely to be held this year.
The decision by the committee, which was dominated by MPs from the ruling Barisan National coalition, came after Malaysia dismissed an appeal by residents to scrap the plant on radiation concerns.
RARE EARTH SUPPLY
Prized for their magnetism, luminescence and strength, world consumption of rare earths is estimated to rise to around 185,000 metric tonnes (204,000 tons) a year by 2015, from 136,000 tonnes in 2010.
China imposed export quotas in 2009 to fight pollution caused by illegal mining and processing, turning up the pressure to find alternative sources.
The Lynas plant would supply about 11,000 metric tonnes in its first year, eventually rising to 22,000 metric tonnes. The company says demand is so strong that it has locked in customers for all the rare-earths it can process in the first 10 years of operations.
Malaysia's opposition lawmakers boycotted the committee set up three months earlier, accusing the government of planning a whitewash over the plant in Prime Minister Najib Razak's home state of Pahang. Opposition lawmakers on Tuesday called the latest report "propaganda from Lynas".
Najib is seeking a strong mandate based on a track record of drawing in investments and boosting growth at a time when the euro zone debt crisis hobbles the global economy.
"The parliamentary committee's findings will blow up the Lynas issue for many voters who were against the plant," said James Chin, political science professor at Malaysia's Monash campus. "There will be some form of a backlash."
Lynas, which last year said refined rare earth exports from Malaysia could hit 8 billion ringgit ($2.5 billion) from 2013 -- equivalent to 1 percent of the country's gross domestic product, is expected to figure prominently in Najib's plans.
The committee on Tuesday said awarding the license would help the factory start processing rare earths in stages and recommended a committee of NGOs and experts keep track of the plant.
"Among all the rare earths factories in operation, they (Lynas) are the most advanced, we were told by international experts," select committee chairmanet Mohamed Khaled Nordin told reporters outside the parliament hall.
Deutsche Bank said it expected Lynas to submit its plan to meet earlier government conditions on neutralizing radioactive elements in plant waste and an emergency response plan on dust control this week, looking for a sign-off by end-July.
Once the license was issued, it would take another four months for Lynas to generate cash from the plant - one month for shipping the concentrate from its Australian mine to Malaysia and three months to commission the plant.
The 100-page report said while Lynas had met safety, health and environmental standards, an additional 31 recommendations would be tabled in what appeared to be concessions to public concerns over the plant's safety aspects.
Key among them was a recommendation Lynas has to ship out factory waste from Malaysia if it is unable to find an approved storage and recycling site -- a condition the panel says Lynas is already committed to although opposition lawmakers said the report was scant on the terms of such a deal.
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Oct. 29, 2009 A new report from an American Cancer Society (ACS) scientific advisory subcommittee on cancer and the environment says exposure to carcinogens should be minimized or eliminated whenever feasible, and calls for new strategies to more effectively and efficiently screen the large number of chemicals to which the public is exposed. The report was created as part of an initiative to address ongoing and emerging issues related to environmental pollutants and cancer, and to articulate the American Cancer Society's principles, objectives, and potential roles regarding environmental pollution and cancer prevention.
"The issue of environmental pollutants in air, water, food, and consumer products is one that generates significant public concern and uncertainty," said Jonathan Samet, M.D., chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California, and co-chair of the committee that authored the report. "With this report, we felt it was important to put environmental pollutants into the broader context of cancer prevention, which includes efforts to reduce tobacco use, improve nutrition, increase physical activity, maintain a healthy body weight, and provide vaccinations against the infections that cause cancer."
"Exposure levels to environmental pollution to the general public are typically far lower than the levels associated with the proven cancer risks shown in occupational or other settings," said Elizabeth "Terry" T.H. Fontham, M.P.H., Dr.P.H., national volunteer president of the American Cancer Society and co-chair of the committee. "Nevertheless, these low-level exposures do cause us concern because of the multiplicity of substances, the fact that many exposures are out of the public's control, and the potential that even low-level exposures contribute to the cancer burden when large numbers of people are exposed."
The committee's report notes that the scientific issues regarding environmental exposure are quite complex, as is the growing landscape of technologies used to evaluate chemical carcinogenicity. Despite the value of the current systems for identifying and classifying evidence for carcinogenicity, the report says there are major constraints in implementing them due to both the limited resources allocated to operate these systems and the scientific complexity of the issues themselves.
The position statement on cancer prevention also says:
- New strategies for toxicity testing, including the assessment of carcinogenicity, should be implemented that will more effectively and efficiently screen the large number of chemicals to which people are exposed.
- Occupational and community exposures should meet regulatory standards, and research to identify and reduce carcinogenic hazards should be supported.
- The agencies that set and enforce environmental standards need to be appropriately funded and science-based to keep pace with scientific developments and to update their standards accordingly.
- Although certain exposures are unavoidable, exposure to carcinogens should be minimized or eliminated whenever feasible.
- The public should be provided with information so that they can make informed choices.
- Communications should acknowledge and not trivialize public concerns, but at the same time should not exaggerate the potential magnitude or level of certainty of the potential risk.
"In developing this new initiative to increase understanding of how exposures to environmental pollutants may affect the risk of various cancers, the ACS will build on its long-term commitment to scientifically based prevention," says the report, adding that "the ACS is committed to exploring these issues further to identify ways in which it can contribute most effectively."
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- Elizabeth T. H. Fontham, DrPH; Michael J. Thun, MD; Elizabeth Ward, PhD; Alan J. Balch, PhD; John Oliver L. Delancey, MPH; Jonathan M. Samet, MD, on behalf of the ACS Cancer and the Environment Subcommittee. American Cancer Society Perspectives on Environmental Factors and Cancer. CA Cancer J Clin, Published Online: October 28, 2009; Print Issue Date: November/December 2009 DOI: 10.3322/caac.20041
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Senator John Hoeven’s press release explaining fiscal cliff vote
WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven today announced that the U.S. Senate passed the American Taxpayer Relief Act, a measure to permanently extend lower tax rates and avoid the fiscal cliff. The legislation:
· Maintains tax cuts for more than 99 percent of the American people and permanently extends current rates for most taxpayers
· Extends unemployment insurance for more than 1 million jobless individuals
· Averts a steep decrease in the Medicare reimbursement rate for doctors to ensure seniors continue to receive quality healthcare
· Maintains the current top tax rate on capital gains and dividends up to $450,000 for couples.
· Preserves the current inheritance tax exemption limit of $5.1 million
· Fixes permanently the Alternative Minimum Tax for 30 million Americans
· Extends the current Farm Bill for one year at no cost to the American people, ensuring a safety net for producers, and a quality, affordable food supply for the American people.
· Turns off the Sequester for two months, and offsets the costs with a reduction in the discretionary spending cap for 2013 and 2014.
“By making these lower tax rates permanent, we create certainty for American families and businesses. That certainty will stimulate business investment to create more jobs and economic growth, which will produce more revenues to reduce our deficit and debt, without raising taxes.
“While I would have preferred, and worked hard toward, a more comprehensive fiscal cliff agreement that includes pro-growth tax reform, bipartisan entitlement reform and finding real savings to address the deficit and debt, what we passed today was an important first step that will spare the vast majority of the American people from an onerous income tax increase.
“Now, we need to work in a bipartisan way to achieve real savings to reduce our deficit and debt, as well as enact bipartisan entitlement reforms to preserve those programs for the long-term.” | <urn:uuid:84f5e653-8fed-42be-a07d-571f27fbb391> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/headlines/senator-john-hoevens-press-release-explaining-fiscal-cliff-vote/ | 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 | 0.911226 | 396 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Whether you're running back and forth to get all aspects of the meal made in the kitchen or are visiting friends and family for an evening of tasty treats and gifts, parents have to be on high alert for dangers or risks that could turn a jolly occasion into a melancholy event.
Thanks to Safety 1st and Consumer Safety Expert Julie Vallese, they are ready to help you prepare for the holidays to have a fun and safe time for the entire family.
When it comes to keeping your little one safe from hidden hazards in the kitchen and beyond, Julie suggests...
- Attending a holiday party? Foods like grapes or tomatoes left out on a low table can become choking hazards. Speak with your host to see if these can be put out of your child's reach.
- Ask that your host not put lighted candles on a table cloth or anything else that a child could pull down.
- For infants, make sure your child is always buckled in their car seat, even when not in the car. You never know who will pick up a car seat with a sleeping baby and you don't want to risk your child slipping out.
- As family and friends come and go from your house child safety gates may be left open. Always make sure you, a family member or a friend is always watching your child.
- Ensure that your stove has knob covers to protect kids from turning it on and off as you cook. As an added safety measure, try to use the back burners as much as possible.
- Opening and shutting the fridge as you make your holiday meal? A fridge lock makes it difficult for your child to open, but still convenient for mom or dad.
And, thanks to the generosity of Safety 1st, one person will be prepared to head into 2013 knowing that their home will be secure for their little one, because...
One lucky person will win a Safety 1st Perfect Fit Gate, Clear View Stove Knob Covers and a Refrigerator Door Lock (total ARV $60)!
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Glossary:Laspeyres price index
From Statistics Explained
The Laspeyres price index is an index formula used in price statistics for measuring the price development of the basket of goods and services consumed in the base period. The question it answers is how much a basket that consumers bought in the base period would cost in the current period. It is defined as a fixed-weight, or fixed-basket, index that uses the basket of goods and services and their weights from the base period. It is also known as a “base-weighted index”.
In price statistics other price index formulas may be used (Paasche price index, Fisher price index). The choice of the index formula, however, often depends on the availability of data. In contrast to the other formulas, the Laspeyres index does not require information on the basket of the current period. Therefore in practice the Laspeyres formula is usually preferred for the calculation of consumer price indices, which are typically compiled and released rapidly - before consumption or production information for the current period could have been collected.
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Image above: The "Russell Siblings" portrait taken at Kruger Studios, ca. 1885, in Houtzdale, Clearfield County, PA. One of the persons has not been identified, but there are two candidates who are being proposed in this blog entry. The lone sister is Alma Emma Russell (in right portrait only) who immigrated to America about 1885. She was married to Alexander Forsyth by January 1888. Incidentally, there were at least ten children in the first generation.
Image above: Four Russell siblings in the first generation- Thomas William, Robert, Alma Emma, and James Fredrich. James Russell was a step sibling to the others. Photo taken August 1920, in which Thomas and Robert of Pennsylvania traveled to Syracuse, NY, to visit Alma and James. Two Russell brothers had already passed: John Girabaldi (1914) and probably the "unidentified Russell" (1911).
There has been mostly hearsay evidence that the "unidentified Russell" might be called David and that he was a bachelor who worked as a secretary to the officers of the Berwind and White Coal Company. However, a David Russell was not enumerated in the UK census reports of the Russell family during the 30 years or so (1848-1881) they lived in northern England before emigrating to America. The progenitors were Thomas Russell and Jane McNELLEY/ McNALLY, both born in Scotland. They were given as the parents in christening records (Holy Trinity Anglican, Wingate, County Durham, England) and birth registrations (Easington District of Co. Durham) for all the accountable children of the family EXCEPT for a David Russell. Note that Thomas Russell, the Elder, was married twice, and he and his second wife, Jane McCALLUM, had only one child, James Fredrich Russell, who appears in the family portrait with his step siblings. In November 1880, the father of the family died, and a year later, two married sons and their families emigrated to Houtzdale, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, just missing the 1880 US census reports. The younger siblings came a few years later.
A family friend informed me that another immigrant family from Scotland appeared earlier in Houtzdale, PA, according to the 1880 US Census. The family was headed by Robert Russell who we have since identified as Robert McCALLUM Russell. Since his pronounced middle name was the same as the surname of Thomas Russell's second wife, a connection is suggested. Since Robert was in Houtzdale at least 5 years before the said portrait was taken, could he then be the "unidentified Russell"? More has been uncovered about Robert McCallum Russell and his family but the specific connection to the rest of the Russell family is yet to be defined. And thus far, no one can point to the Unidentified Russell in the portrait and say, "yes, that's Robert McCallum Russell".
To confuse the issue further, a second candidate for the Unidentified Russell has recently been discovered. A family genealogist should never make unsupported presumptions. I thought for sure that the oldest child of the first generation Russell family, that is William Russell, remained behind in England after the others came to America. Furthermore, I thought William's first, reconnaissance trip to America in 1879, which resulted in the death of his traveling companion, unnerved William from ever coming to America again. I knew that William married Mary Ann Laverick in January 1870, and that they had four children, all boys, as recorded in the UK census of 1881.
However, my family informant came through again and emailed me a reference indicating William Russell and his family were enumerated in the 1900 US census, in Paint Township, Somerset County, PA, as follows:
William Russell, head, 53, born Dec 1846, in Scotland of Scottish parents; married 28 years [m. about 1872], immigrated 1887, naturalized; coal miner; rents house.
Mary A, wife, 52, born Oct 1847 in England of English parents; bore 8 children of which 6 survive.
All children born in England of Scottish father and English mother:
Thomas Russell, son, 28, born Jan 1871; coal miner.
George Russell, son, 22, born Oct 1877; coal miner.
C A (sic, probably Charles Russell), 19, born Oct 1880; coal miner.
William Russell, son, 18, born Jan 1881, coal miner.
Ph ... (illegible), son, 16, born July 1883.
Jane A. Russell, dau, 14, born Aug. 1885.
Fortunately, the immigration year stated for the family head turned out to be accurate and I found the family on a passenger list at Ancestry.com; they arrived 20 May 1887, at Castle Garden on SS City of Rome; departing from Liverpool, England, Passenger Nos. 515-522 (see cropped image below):
There was a discrepancy in that the "son" identified as "Ph ..." on the 1900 census is listed on the passenger list as a daughter named Phyllis (who wore the same given name as Mary Ann Laverick's mother).
So, all we have to do is find William Russell's family in more recent US census reports. Right? Wrong. I have searched and, so far, have come up empty handed.
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Eccentricities are laid bare in Grey Gardens
Book by Doug Wright. Music by Scott Frankel. Lyrics by Michael Korie. Directed by Ryan Mooney. Presented by Fighting Chance Productions. At the Jericho Arts Centre on Thursday, May 3. Continues until May 19
Grey Gardens is one oddly built musical. To pull it off, you’d need an artistic team capable of phenomenal stylishness and lead performers with stellar levels of charisma and depth. That’s not what you get in this interpretation from Fighting Chance Productions.
The musical is based on the 1975 documentary of the same name, which focuses on the real-life aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Mother and daughter are both named Edith Beale, although in the musical the daughter is known as Edie. In 1971, the National Enquirer found these two formerly wealthy socialites living in squalor in their run-down home in a affluent quarter of East Hampton. The musical describes their cat-, flea-, and raccoon-infested house as a 28-room litter box.
In Act 1, which is set in 1941, Edith is a self-indulgent bohemian and debutante Edie is known by the nickname Body Beautiful Beale. Edie is determined to get away from her overbearing mother, but the two are so enmeshed that marriages and independent lives don’t stand a chance. As a pair, they become increasingly isolated and eccentric. By Act 2 (1973), Edith is virtually bedridden and Edie repurposes various forms of clothing to create turbans to conceal her baldness.
The show’s content and structure are almost as eccentric as its subjects. Off the top, songs such as “Marry Well” feel like standard musical fare, but “Hominy Grits” is deliberately racist and, in Act 2, “The House We Live In” and “Choose to Be Happy” both skewer a rotting American dream. Act 1 eventually finds a plot in Edie’s near-engagement to Joseph Kennedy Jr., but Act 2 contains virtually no action.
Lacking narrative momentum, Grey Gardens is all about character, mood, and style.
Unfortunately, this production’s set design (Matthew Bissett and director Ryan Mooney) looks like hell. I understand that they were working with a reduced budget, but I’d rather look at a bare stage than at yards and yards of tacky lattice. If you don’t have the dough for big sets, go for simplicity—and focus.
Under Mooney’s direction, the parody numbers lack the requisite snap.
In the uneven cast, Cathy Wilmot, who plays Edith in Act 1 and Edie in Act 2, sports an atrocious accent that blends East London with East Hampton. That said, Wilmot delivers some of the goods—the wacky joy of “Hominy Grits”, the aching depression of “Another Winter in a Summer Town”. In a less showy role and performance, Sue Sparlin, who plays Edith in the second half, accesses even more of Grey Gardens’ essential melancholy; for me, her delivery of the pathetic ballad “Jerry Likes My Corn” was a highlight of the evening. Ranae Miller, Act 1’s Edie, drives her character effectively towards desperation.
Mooney fails to make the emotional undertow as strong or consistent as it needs to be, however. Carman J. Price, who plays George, Edith’s gay lapdog, has a lovely light tenor, but he misses his character’s acidic humour. It’s hard to hear both him and Hal Rogers, who plays Brooks, the butler.
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As you know, Mini-ITX motherboards are niche solutions required mostly when space is limited. Their second and third most important aspects are power efficiency and noise level. For your money you can have all three, but Mini-ITX boards usually don't come cheap. On the other hand, they are already equipped with processors, and manufacturers often throw in proprietary bonuses and extra features to sweeten the deal. So, with GA-E350N-USB3, Gigabyte decided to stand out by offering quality power circuitry and a set of proprietary features normally supported by high-end full-size boards.
At first glance most Mini-ITX motherboards look alike, featuring only one expansion slot. In case of AMD E-350 solutions, it's usually a PCI-Express x16 2.0 one working as x4.
Technically, even a dual-slot graphics card will fit, provided that the enclosure is big enough. But in reality even an entry-level video card will just add to power consumption while providing a minor performance boost in games. You see, AMD E-350 has a relatively fast graphics core but its processor part is just not powerful enough for handling atypical tasks. And gaming is atypical all right for a nettop, netbook or some such lightweight rig.
Moving on. USB 3.0 somewhat makes up for the lack of eSATA, although Gigabyte could have provided that too. All the more so because it wouldn't have required an additional controller. All three video interfaces is, in turn, very useful, you won't have to use adapters. By the way, GA-E350N-USB3 allows you to use two monitors at the same time, but you won't be able to use four if you install a discrete graphics card. Only outputs handled by one graphics core, be it discrete or built-in, can be used at the same time.
The cooling system is quiet enough, noise not exceeding 32 dBA (open enclosure, half a meter away) even under maximum load. When you build the machine and close the enclosure, overall noise of your rig will most likely depend on the noise produced by fans in the PSU (and other enclosure fans, if any).
The CPU VRM has 3 phases, with 2 Low RDS(on) MOSFETs per phase and ferrite chokes. There are 5 x 820 µF and 4 x 100 µF capacitors, all solid. The copper power and ground layers are double-thick. Processors with the TDP of up to 140W are supported. In other words, GA-E350N-USB3 meets Gigabyte's own Ultra Durable requirements.
The motherboard also features the second BIOS chip (and supports Dual BIOS). This helps if the primary BIOS chip fails during a firmware upgrade or something like that.
The package is typical: two SATA cables with L-shaped latches, a set of BIOS upgrade, monitoring and power-saving utilities, and Norton Internet Security.
Gigabyte GA-E350N-USB3 is based on the AMD E-350 processor and the AMD M1 Hudson Southbridge. It supports up to 8GB of DDR3-800/1066/1333 memory and has 4 internal SATA 6Gbps ports. The additional controllers are listed below.
- Integrated audio based on the Realtek ALC892 codec, supporting Dolby Home Theater. There's an optical S/PDIF Out on the back panel.
- Gigabit Ethernet based on Realtek 8111E (PCIe x1).
- USB 3.0 based on Renesas D720200 (PCIe x1), supporting two USB 3.0 ports.
- System monitoring based on ITE IT8720F. BIOS has no fan control options, but, as stated above, the cooler is quiet enough even at its maximum 4300 rpm.
We tested the integrated audio solution in the 16-bit/44kHz mode using RightMark Audio Analyzer 6.2.3 and an ASUS Xonar DX sound card.
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Overall grade: average. Well, this leaves a twofold impression. On the one hand, the test results are quite low. On the other, there were no audible artefacts. Given the results, there should've been noise in pauses between playback at the least.
The only peculiarity is that the analog output volume is too high compared to other boards. If you have passive low-impedance headphones, you'll have to lower it in the volume mixer.
Subjectively, the sound quality is acceptable for movies and pop songs. If you're into classical music where wide dynamic range is important, you will need better audio equipment (which you probably already have) connected via a digital interface.
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Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
Grendel is a mail/news reader written entirely in Java, part of the Xena project.
Grendel was originally developed as a part of the "Javagator" project at Netscape. This project was cancelled before completion, but after the source for Grendel was released other people started to work toward completing it. The original release was therefore incomplete.
Since then a lot has been cleaned up. Grendel compiles now and the basic functionality to read and send e-mail is working. Grendel even has the capability of handling multiple identities, or "personalities", for getting and sending email. This allows the user to get and send email from multiple accounts using a single email client.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: A four-degree warmer world
JOHANNESBURG, 19 November 2012 (IRIN) - A new report released just days ahead of the UN climate change talks
to be held in Doha, Qatar, paints an unnerving picture of a four-degree Celsius warmer world by the end of the century.
In such a scenario, there could a “new class of heatwaves” of magnitudes never experienced before, says the report entitled Turn Down the Heat, Why A Four Degrees Celsius Warmer World Must Be Avoided
Current heat waves in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East even with temperatures consistently above 40 degrees Celsius, could seem like a pleasant prospect in a few decades.
A four-degree temperature rise by the end of the century could also trigger declining global food stocks and sea-level rises affecting hundreds of millions of people.
In such a scenario there would be no certainty that adaptation might be possible, says the report, a synthesis of the latest climate science prepared by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
(PIK) and German NGO Climate Analytics
for the World Bank.
Taking steps to control global temperatures by reducing emissions of warming greenhouse gases is a key issue to be discussed at the Doha talks.
Signs of the rate at which the earth is warming are becoming more apparent, the report says. “The area of the Earth’s land surface affected by drought has… likely increased substantially over the last 50 years, somewhat faster than projected by climate models.”
The 2012 drought in the USA affected about 80 percent of agricultural land, making it the most severe drought since the 1950s, which recorded unprecedented temperatures, the report said.
Scientists have been warning countries to keep the global temperature increase below two-degrees by the turn of the century - otherwise we are headed towards a four-degree rise. Even a two-degree rise in global temperatures by the end of this century, which many predict will happen, would have a catastrophic effect: water stress in arid and semi-arid countries, more floods in low-lying coastal areas, coastal erosion in small island states, and the elimination of up to 30 percent of animal and plant species.
Projections for global temperature rises by the world authority on climate science, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), show that if emissions of global greenhouse gases remain unchanged, a rise of 2.2 degrees is possible by 2050.
|Over the next 30-90 years southern Africa, the USA, southern Europe, Brazil, and Southeast Asia could see more frequent and intense droughts
The PIK/Climate Analytics report says: “Current scientific evidence suggests that even with the current commitments and pledges fully implemented, there is roughly a 20 percent likelihood of exceeding 4°C by 2100, and a 10 percent chance of 4°C being exceeded as early as the 2070.”
However, “warming would not stop there,” says the report. “Because of the slow response of the climate system, the greenhouse gas emissions and concentrations that would lead to warming of 4°C by 2100 would actually commit the world to much higher warming, exceeding 6°C or more, in the long term, with several metres of sea-level rise ultimately associated with this warming.”
“The Earth system's responses to climate change appear to be non-linear. If we venture far beyond the two-degrees guardrail, towards the four-degrees line, the risk of crossing tipping points rises sharply. The only way to avoid this is to break the business-as-usual pattern of production and consumption," said PIK Director John Schellnhuber in a statement.
The report is meant to “shock us into action,” writes Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank in the foreword. “A 4°C world is likely to be one in which communities, cities and countries would experience severe disruptions, damage, and dislocation, with many of these risks spread unequally. It is likely that the poor will suffer most and the global community could become more fractured, and unequal than today.”
Life as we currently know it could change considerably. Over the next 30-90 years southern Africa, the USA, southern Europe, Brazil, and Southeast Asia could see more frequent and intense droughts, says the report, citing new studies. By the turn of the century 43-50 percent of the global population will be living in water-scarce countries, compared to 28 percent today.
Countries in tropical South America, Central Africa, and all tropical islands in the Pacific “will see unprecedented extreme temperatures become the new norm in all months of the year,” says the report. In fact, the coolest months in those countries now could become hotter than the current warmest months by the turn of the century.
Of the impacts projected for 31 developing countries, 10 cities account for two-thirds of the total exposure to extreme floods.
Here are some of the report’s findings:
- Extreme heatwaves, which in the absence of global warming would be expected to occur once in several hundred years, will occur during almost all summer months in many regions. The effects would not be evenly distributed. The biggest jump in warming would be expected to occur over land (range from 4°C-10°C). Increases of 6°C or more in average monthly summer temperatures would be expected in the Mediterranean, North Africa, Middle East and parts of the USA.
- Sea level-rise by 0.5 to one metre by 2100 is likely, with higher levels also possible. Some of the most highly vulnerable cities are in Mozambique, Madagascar, Mexico, Venezuela, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam.
- The most vulnerable regions are in the tropics, sub-tropics and towards the poles, where multiple impacts are likely to come together.
- Agriculture, water resources, human health, biodiversity and ecosystem services are likely to be severely affected. This could lead to large-scale displacement of populations and consequences for human security and economic and trade systems.
- Many small islands may not be able to sustain their populations.
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Just wrote this for the next issue of the Earth First! Journal, based in the USA.
Global day of action against state terror in Aotearoa / New Zealand
Demonstrations and protests were held around the world on August 30th for the global day of action to ‘Drop the Charges’ against the 20 people arrested in the nationwide State Terror Raids of 15 October 2007 in Aotearoa / New Zealand.
On Monday, October 15th 2007, more than 300 police carried out dawn raids on dozens of houses all over Aotearoa / New Zealand. Police claim the raids were in response to ‘concrete terrorist threats’ from indigenous activists. The reality, however, included heavily armed police terrorising an entire township. To date, no evidence of the so-called terrorist plot has been revealed.
Police arrested 16 indigenous, anarchist, environmental and anti-war activists, including Tuhoe, Te Atiawa, Maniapoto, Nga Puhi (all Maori iwi, or tribes) and Pakeha (non-indigenous) people (a further person faced unrelated drugs charges stemming from a raid on his house). Police wanted to charge 12 people under the Terrorism Suppression Act (TSA), however the Solicitor-General denied the police permission to proceed. After four weeks in jail everyone was released on bail. On Tuesday, February 19th 2008, police raided further properties, arresting 3 more men. All were released on bail with strict conditions that same day. A woman was arrested on Thursday April 17th, 2008, and also faces charges under the Arms Act.
The 20 arrestees face hundreds of charges of illegally possessing firearms and molotov cocktails. This is despite the face that only a handful of weapons (many legally owned and registered) were found during the extensive police raids, while many of the firearms people have been charged with possessing have never been proven to even exist.
On a cold and miserable day, the cries of “No More Police State!” echoed through central Auckland’s as over 200 Maori, trade unionists and left wingers joined a rally to defend the Urewewa 20, and remember the State Terror Raids of October 15th last year. Images and Sounds were projected against the court house in support of the Global Day Action. International indigenous support was present with First Nations manuhiri (guests) from Turtle Island (Americas). 150 people went on a lively march through the capital city, Wellington, and stopped at the police station for a shaming history of their violence, and a pass-by of Labour Party candidate Grant Robertson’s office nearly resulted in a very large broken window.
Overseas, banners were hung and fliers were handed out in Hamburg, Freiburg and Berlin (Germany), Basel and Lausanne (Switzerland), the Congo and Melbourne (Australia) in support of the call to drop the charges. Fundraisers and awareness raising events were also held in Vancouver (Canada) and Tucson (USA). Many international groups also signed on to the solidarity statement prepared by the October 15th Solidarity collective, which can be seen at http://october15thsolidarity.info/en/node/332
September 1st saw the start of the depositions hearing, a pre-trial hearing where the crown presents its evidence and the Judge rules on whether there is enough for the charges to proceed to trial. At the time of writing, this hearing (now into its fifth week) is still ongoing, and it is still unclear what the outcome will be.
Early in the hearing, the judge issued extensive suppression orders, making it illegal (potentially punishable by an indefinite jail sentence and/or an unlimited fine) to discuss anything that is said or occurs inside the courtroom – this includes media (corporate and independent), public talks, leaflets and anything else you can imagine.
During the course of the hearing, Police have conducted an intimidation campaign against the arrestees and their supporters. On September 9, one of the arrestees and his partner were arrested, after Police accused the arrestee of scratching the car of Aaron Pascoe, the lead officer in the raids. Both were bailed after several hours in the cell (and face charges of wilful damage, assaulting police and resisting arrest), however the partner was not allowed to breast-feed her young baby while she was in the cells for over 4 hours.
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The Performance Management Process
The City University of New York follows a performance management process (PMP) that links planning and goal setting by the University and its colleges and professional schools, measures annual progress towards key goals, and recognizes excellent performance.
The Performance Management Process is continuous. The process begins in the early spring when the Chancellor publishes the University's performance targets for the upcoming academic year. The PMP is guided by the University’s Master Plan and contains targets and objectives for three goals: 1) Raise Academic Quality, 2) Improve Student Success and, 3) Enhance Financial and Management Effectiveness.
To inform the campus planning, the University Office of Institutional Research and Assessment (OIRA) generates the Performance Management Report, a report that contains data for more than one hundred indicators. Using this information along with campus specific information, each college president, working with their executive team and the college community, develops performance targets that are responsive to the University targets. Lehman’s PMP targets are also aligned with campus documents and processes such as Lehman’s Strategic Plan Achieving the Vision.
The College Performance Goals and Targets are sent to the Chancellor in June of each year and the work to accomplish the targets takes place during the academic year. The performance goals for each CUNY college are posted on the CUNY website. At the end of the academic year the Central office review team evaluates the performance of each College. The review team considers the year-end report prepared by the College and the Performance Management Report (data book) produced by OIRA.
Lehman’s Performance Goals and Targets can be accessed from the following links:
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- Urtica urens (6C) is a great remedy for urticaria (nettle rash or hives). This homeopathic ingredient is used for red, burning, stinging skin eruptions that may be swollen or itchy. Symptoms are often aggravated by warmth, bathing, and vigorous exercise.
- Apis (6C) is useful for ailments that are accompanied by symptoms similar to the results of a bee sting, such as redness and swelling. Also effective when addressing skin complaints, such as bites, rashes and stings, in which the skin becomes swollen, itchy, or burning, and sensitive to touch. Apis is great in aiding water retention in tissues.
- Chamomilla (6C) is a wonderfully soothing remedy considered to work best for people who are extremely sensitive to pain, irritable, impatient, and implacable. Chamomilla suits those who tend to sweat easily.
- Ammonium carb (6C) is a homeopathic remedy used when there is a lack of oxygenation to the tissues.
- Rhus tox (6C) is used homeopathically to treat skin complaints with burning, itchy, red and swollen skin.
• Relieves welts, raised bumps and visible symptoms of hives
• Soothes burning and itching
• Reduces inflammation and swelling
• Calms the skin
• Alleviates skin reactions to poison ivy
• Provides fast-acting relief in a concentrated tincture
• Safe for all ages, also during pregnancy and nursing
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What is Hive Away?
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Although we never think of it, the skin is the largest organ of the body. It doesnt take much for something to set off a reaction. Certain physical phenomena (such as irritants, insect bites, temperature changes, and food sources) or even psychological stressors can cause outbreaks on the skin forming as round shaped, raised welts or red patches. In the case of an allergic reaction the body releases a protein called histamine.
When histamine is released, our capillaries (tiny blood vessels in the body close to the skin surface) leak fluid. The fluid accumulates in the skin and causes the appearance of these flare up patterns that are sometimes hot to the touch on the surface of the skin.
These can form suddenly as red, itchy and raised patches on the skin on the trunk of the arms, legs and back. Treatment will depend largely on the severity and frequency of the outbreaks. Depending on the cause (if the doctor feels it is physical or psychological) different options of treatment would be considered.
The natural way
There are many things that you can do to help your skin maintain health and balance. Avoid heat and keep the temperature of the skin cool. Avoid drinking alcohol, as it causes flushing of the skin and try not to scratch an inflamed patch as this will likely worsen the stinging.
Wear loose fitting clothing thus lessening pressure on the skin. It is always a good idea to consider a natural detox. Exercise regularly to burn excess fats to lessen histamine production in the body, and excrete toxins through sweat.
What are the Ingredients?
Hive Away is a 100% homeopathic formula and contains the following ingredients in therapeutic dosage: Urtica urens (6C), Apis mel (6C), Chamomilla (6C), Am-c (6C), Rhus tox (6C).
This homeopathic remedy is an OTC medicine registered with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Native Remedies is the leading brand of natural remedies known for safe, effective and quality products. Our remedies are formulated by natural health experts and produced under the highest pharmaceutical standards in FDA-registered, GMP certified facilities. We utilize the finest quality ingredients that are officially monographed in the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States (HPUS).
Native Remedies homeopathic products and biochemic tissue salts never contain any animal products, gluten, artificial colors, flavors or preservatives, and are not tested on animals. Our products are always backed by our One Year Unconditional Money Back Guarantee.
How do I use Hive Away?
Hold bottle upside down and drop directly into the mouth. Alternatively, dilute drops in a small amount of water and sip slowly.
For all ages: Take 10-15 drops every 2 hours until symptoms subside.
Hive Away is a homeopathic remedy and is safe for all ages and during pregnancy and breastfeeding.
Caution: Avoid strong mint-flavored candy, as this may reduce effectiveness of the remedy. As sudden skin inflammation may be related to a number of more serious health concerns, it is recommended that should it be accompanied by other symptoms (particularly difficulty in breathing), a doctor should be consulted immediately.
How long until I see results?
Hive Away gets to work upon the first dose helping to soothe inflamed burning skin. Hive Away contains homeopathic ingredients in a tincture formula that facilitates rapid absorption into the system just when you need it!
Get optimum results with regular use
While conventional medicine works by often treating just the symptoms, natural medicine strives to create holistic balance in the body to support systemic health, relieve ailments, and help prevent future disease. Unlike pharmaceutical drugs, the natural ingredients in our remedies support overall health and functioning (rather than just suppressing symptoms).
People respond to natural medicine in different ways, some of our satisfied customers experience immediate results while many others have reported optimal benefits taking effect within 3-6 weeks. To ensure you receive optimum results it is important to take natural remedies as directed and remain consistent. You may also find that a smaller maintenance dose is beneficial for ongoing support, many customers report taking a regular maintenance dose as part of a preventative program for continued health and well-being.
How long will a bottle last?
One bottle of Hive Away will last approximately 30 days. Exactly how long a bottle lasts will depend on the frequency of use.
How has Hive Away helped others?
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— Des, GA, USA
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A Look Back to the Future
Related topics: Health
When the Alliance For Aging Research was formed fifteen years ago, the country was not focused on the impact of the aging and how the health of the Baby Boomers will affect our economy and our overall society.
A New Class of Medical Tests
Cholesterol checks, mammograms, prostate exams-all these screenings have become routine as science discovers ways to detect disease at its earliest and most treatable stages.
A Quick Look At Alzheimer's- Outreach Partners
The following organizations are helping promote A QUICK LOOK AT ALZHEIMER'S: Four 'Pocket' Films to Increase Understanding of a 21st Century Epidemic.
Science in the Spotlight
A Shot of Hope on the Alzheimer's Front
This is not the case of the mouse that roared, but instead the one where the mouse stayed plaque-free.
Get Mad Column
A Time to Commit
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Lithuanian Cultural Garden
The Lithuanian Cultural Garden extends between the upper and lower East Boulevard, commanding an inspiring view from both levels, and constructed in the shape of a large lyre, emblematic of the Lithuanian love for music in which , through centuries of national oppression, the Lithuanian people has expressed both its sorrows and its joys.
The stone work in this garden portrays three epochs of Lithuanian history.
The unification of the three Lithuanian provinces or tribes under the rule of the Grand Duke Gediminas at the beginning of the fourteenth century—an event which inaugurated an era of pride and strength for the Lithuanian nation—is represented by a sculptured wall in the lower garden. A reproduction of a three-pillared symbolic piece of sculpture built by Gediminas to commemorate Lithuanian unity in the City of Vilnius in ancient Lithuania, it stands as a memorial to Lithuania's past greatness.
Another stage in Lithuanian history is symbolized by the large stone Fountain of Biruta, the central feature of the upper boulevard level of the garden. It represents the era of pagan worship of the country before the Christianizing of Lithuania. Biruta, Grand Duchess and first Queen of Lithuania, was, according to legend, the daughter of a fisherman. Consecrated a vestal virgin to the goddess Praurime, whose shrine stood on a lofty mound overlooking the shore of the Baltic Sea, Biruta, when on the verge of becoming a priestess to the goddess, was seen by Keistutis, the son of Gediminas, who had stopped at the shrine to give thanks to the goddess on his return from battle with the Crusaders in Prussia.
On beholding Biruta, he fell in love with her and bore her away with him to make her his wife. Their son, Vytautas the Great, in 1410 defeated the Crusaders at Gruenwald. After this event, Lithuania voluntarily espoused Christianity.
Biruta is revered by the Lithuanian people as an ideal of feminine virtue, and many little Lithuanian daughters have been proudly named in her honor.
By implication, an emblematic fire is assumed to illuminate the Biruta Fountain, symbol of the everlasting flame kept by the vestal virgins in the pagan temple of old Lithuania.
The Fountain of Biruta is dedicated to the Lithuanian women of Cleveland, and bears a plaque testifying to their generous contributions and enterprising fund-raising which have made this monument possible.
A unique and fascinating feature of the Lithuanian Garden, also traceable to pagan influence, is the zig-zag motif used as a decorative theme. This
symbolizes lighting in honor of Perkunas, ancient god of thunder, once worshipped in Lithuania.
The third stage of Lithuanian history—that of its rebirth after the First World War, is commemorated in the stone-paved lower court of the garden by a bust of Dr. Jonas Basanavicius (1851-1927), scholar, historian, and first president of the Lithuanian Republic in 1918. The bust is a gift of the Lithuanian Government.
In a nook of the upper level garden, which is planted with alleys of oak leaf and mountain ash, there is a bronze bust of Vincas Kudirka (1859-1899), poet, author, and composer of the Lithuanian national anthem. The Kudirka bust was erected by the Dr. Vincas Kudirka Society of Cleveland, and was dedicated on September 21, 1938.
On the opposite side of the garden, a nook has been appropriated for the placement of a bust of Maciulis Maironis, the poet-priest whose poems were the inspiration for the Lithuanian's struggle for independence. Funds for this bust, at the present writing, are being raised by St. George's Church.
Both the Basanavicius and Kudirka busts are copies of originals by Jonas Zikaras, now in the garden of the Museum of Kamas, Lithuania.
Also in the Lithuanian Garden are two oak trees, dedicated respectively to the Lithuanian Alliance of America and the Lithuanian Roman Catholic Alliance of America in appreciation for their large financial contributions and moral support in the building of the garden. A linden tree was dedicated to the Lithuanian Metropolitan opera star, Miss Anna Kaskas, whose concert yielded a contribution to the Lithuanian Garden sufficiently large to wipe out debts incurred during construction.
The original design was drawn up in Lithuania by Professor Dubinecras, and was modified to fit the boulevard topography by the City Plan Commission of Cleveland. WPA funds for the construction of the garden were approved to the amount of $27,000/
The Lithuanian Garden was dedicated on October 11, 1936, with the unveiling of the statue of Dr. Jonas Basanaviciu. An impressive procession marched to the strains of the Lithuanian national anthem, and about 2000 spectators witnessed the ceremonies. A wreath of Lithuanian rue, red roses, and foliage of the diemedis, or God's tree, was placed before the bronze statue by ladies in Lithuanian national costume.-
Principal speaker was Bronius K. Balutis, Lithuania's Minister to the United States.
"Aside from being a picturesque lesson on the origins of the diverse population of this city, the Cultural Gardens development offers also an excellent course in international relations," Mr. Balutis said. " It is an encouraging sight to see a great municipality actually demonstrating that its citizens may speak many different tongues, may have many distinct customs, may be partisans of various political or religious beliefs—and still be peacefully united in a common purpose, for a common and noble achievement."
Mr. Balutis also spoke on behalf of his government in the Lithuanian language. K. S. Karpius, editor of Dirva, Lithuanian weekly, and the Reverend Vincent G. Wilkutatis of St. George's Catholic Church, also spoke in Lithuanian. John L. Mihelich, first vice-president of the Lithuanian Cultural Garden Federation,
Mayor Ray T. Miller accepted the bust of the Lithuanian hero on behalf of the city. Mrs. together with Mrs. Lottie Sukys, secretary, unveiled the statue. Mrs. Mihelich also acknowledged the co-operation of the nineteen Lithuanian societies which worked to establish the garden.
Other distinguished visitors to the Lithuanian Garden, in addition to Mr. Balutis, Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, have included the late Antanas Smetona, President of Lithuania Mikas Bagdonas, attaché of the Lithuanian Embassy, and Mykolas Skipitas of Lithuania. The Sportsmen of Lithuania also staged a basket-ball game with the local St. George's Church team, for the benefit of the garden.
Funds for the garden were raised by a local cultural committee and by the Cultural Garden Federation by sponsoring picnics, concerts, theatrical events, and bazaars and by solicited contributions through individuals and the contributions of twenty-one affiliated clubs and societies in the Lithuanian Cultural Garden Federation. In this manner, $11,000 was raised.
The first meeting of the Lithuanian Cultural Garden Association occurred on October 4, 1929. The first officers were Vincent P. Chesnul, president John T. Kerichter, first vice-president Mrs. John L. Mihelich, second vice-president K. S. Karpius, executive secretary and Peter P. Muliolis, treasurer.
Officers at the present writing are John Brass, president Florionas Saukevicius, first vice-president Joseph Grazulevicius, second vice-president Mrs. John L. Mihelich, recording secretary and Mrs. Justin Mischik, financial secretary.
Active members who have contributed generously of their time and efforts through the years since the beginnings of Lithuanian Garden history, have been Mrs. John L. Mihelich and Mrs. Justin Mischik, both continuous office-holders in the Lithuanian League and its parent organization, the Cultural Garden Federation. Mrs. Mihelich is also president of the Women's Committee of the Cultural Garden Federation. Mrs. Pola Glugodas has been active as a tireless publicity chairman, and in fund raising since the garden's inception. Mr. V. P. Chesnul, first president, rendered outstanding service during the planning and dedication of the garden. Mr. John Brass has ably succeeded him as president. Mr. Peter P. Muliolis has served on the board since its inception, in charge of organization finances. Mr. K. S. Karpius, secretary, has successfully secured contacts with Lithuania and aid from the Lithuanian government, for the benefit of the garden. Mr. George Vensluvas, successor to Mr. Karpius, deserves credit for his direction of the Lithuanian Sportsmen's show. Mr. Joseph Blaskevicius has led committees raising largest amounts in funds.
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From the chaos come ‘uktena’Written by George Ellison
The natural history of a region consists of the plants, animals, and landscapes we can see and explore any given day. But no full comprehension of any region can be had without coming to some understanding of its spiritual terrain. When we consider this aspect here in the Smokies region, we necessarily enter the realm of Cherokee sensibility.
There are various examples. My favorite is the uktena, a monstrous serpent, because it persists as an informing presence in Cherokee lore. When anthropologist James Mooney visited the Qualla Boundary of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in Western North Carolina during the late 1880s, he collected uktena data subsequently published as part of his classic study Myths of the Cherokee (1900). In the 1960s, Indian historians Jack and Anna Kilpatrick found that the Cherokees removed to Oklahoma in 1838 vividly retained in their collective memory stories of the serpent, which they called the uk’ten. To this day, in my experience, a conversation about them can be conducted with many traditional Cherokees.
According to Mooney’s informants, the uktena — born of envy and anger — was a representative of the Under World: the realm of darkness and decay. They were, he was advised, “as large around as a tree trunk, with horns on its head, a bright blazing crest like a diamond upon its forehead, and scales glittering like sparks of fire. It has rings or spots of color along its whole length and cannot be wounded except by shooting in the seventh spot from the head, because under this spot are its heart and life.”
Aside from the horns that resembled those of a buck deer, the most compelling feature of the uktena was the diamond-shaped crest on its forehead (the ulunsuti) that emitted flashes of light like a blazing star. Those encountering the serpent — especially little children — were doomed, moth-like, to become so dazzled by this light that they ran toward it and sure death.
But in Cherokee spiritual life there was always a balance between good and evil. The danger of the uktena was counterbalanced by the potential power of the burning stone. If an individual was brave enough to confront the serpent, he could evoke the Mythic Hawk, which represented the forces of the Upper World: peace and light. Together, they would be able to venture into the recesses of the Under World, slay the serpent, and bring the ulunsuti crystal back to the Middle World: the mundane realm of human existence.
University of Georgia anthropologist Charles Hudson has made these observations in an essay titled “Uktena: A Cherokee Anomalous Monster” published in the Journal of Cherokee Studies (Spring 1978):
“The Cherokees believed that their priests or medicine men were able to gaze into certain crystals and thereby foresee the future ... The Cherokees told James Mooney that according to their traditions only one man — Groundhog’s mother, a Shawnee medicine man and a great worker of wonders — was able to get possession of an ulunsunti. A great hunter among the eastern Cherokees still had possession of it in 1890, but he kept it hidden in a cave and would not show it to Mooney, but he did describe it in this manner: ‘It is like a large transparent crystal, nearly the shape of a cartridge bullet, with a blood-red streak running through the center from top to bottom. The owner keeps it wrapped in a whole deer skin, inside an earthen jar hidden away in a secret cave in the mountains.’
From this description Mooney concluded that the ulunsuti might be an unusual crystal of rutile quartz with metallic streaks running through it ... Of all the anomalous monsters of the old world, the one that comes closest to the uketna is the dragon, a monster which existed at one time in the belief of people in most parts of Europe and Asia ... The dragon had no ulunsuti on its forehead, but it did have a lump on its head, called by the Chinese chi’h muh, which enabled the dragon to fly, and it had a pearl of great value and power which dangled from its neck. Also, the traditional Chinese used ‘dragon bones,’ the fossilized bones of extinct animals, for all sorts of religious purposes ... We are reasonably sure that the Cherokees, and other American Indians, are descended from people who came from Siberia, across the Bering Strait land bridge at the close of the Pleistocene. Therefore it is probable that these ancestors of the American Indians categorized the universe in a way similar to that of the Asian people who were ancestors of the Chinese. It is possible, in fact, that the people who came across the land bridge 15,000 years ago believed in the existence of a dragon-like monster.”
According to ancient sources, uktenas lived in caves, gorges, or lonely passes in the high mountains. Such places were carefully designated as “where the uktena stays” from generation to generation. They resided on the margins of the Cherokee universe like dark shadows in a dream.
Such places were obviously touchstones for the collective imagination of the Cherokees from one generation to the next for hundreds of years. They were constant reminders of the angry and envious serpents in their lives and hearts. To ignore these reminders was to follow the pathway into chaos and darkness; to come to terms with them was the pathway into a bright future. | <urn:uuid:acae5b8f-4b46-4423-82d9-e8609f8ed487> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://smokymountainnews.com/outdoors/item/2050-from-the-chaos-come-%E2%80%98uktena%E2%80%99 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962937 | 1,155 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Don't Call It Night
By Amos Oz
(Mariner Books, Paperback, 9780156005579, 208pp.)
Publication Date: October 1997
In this “extraordinary novel from a great and true voice of our time” (Washington Post), a teenage drug overdose throws a closely knit Negev Desert settlement into turmoil - and tests the limits of a precarious love affair. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Translated by Nicholas de Lange.
Born in Jerusalem in 1939, Amos Oz is the author of numerous works of fiction and essays. His international awards include the Prix Femina, the Israel Prize, and the Frankfurt Peace Prize, and his books have been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in Israel. | <urn:uuid:499b409b-0cf4-4849-a019-a87dfdbc945b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780156005579 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916483 | 158 | 1.609375 | 2 |
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GROS VENTRES (Fr. for " Great Bellies "), or ATSINA...
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Runners who’ve faced off against Oscar Pistorius say they know when the South African is closing in on them from behind. They hear a distinctive clicking noise growing louder, like a pair of scissors slicing through the air—the sound of Pistorius’s Flex-Foot Cheetah prosthetic legs.
It’s those long, J-shaped, carbon-fiber lower legs—and the world-class race times that come with them—that have some people asking an unpopular question: Does Pistorius, the man who has overcome so much to be the first double amputee to run at an Olympic level, have an unfair advantage? Scientists are becoming entwined in a debate over whether Pistorius should be allowed to compete in the 2012 London Games.
Pistorius was born without fibulas, one of the two long bones in the lower leg. He was unable to walk as a baby, and at 11 months old both of his legs were amputated below the knee. But the growing child didn’t let his disability slow him down. At age 12 he was playing rugby with the other boys, and in 2005, at age 18, he ran the 400-meter race in 47.34 seconds at the South African Championships, sixth best. Now 25, the man nicknamed the “Blade Runner” has qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, just three weeks before the games were to begin. But should he be allowed to compete?
The question seems preposterous. How could someone without lower legs possibly have an advantage over athletes with natural legs? The debate took a scientific turn in 2007 when a German team reported that Pistorius used 25 percent less energy than natural runners. The conclusion was tied to the unusual prosthetic made by an Icelandic company called Össur. The Flex-Foot Cheetah has become the go-to running prosthetic for Paralympic (and, potentially Olympic) athletes. “When the user is running, the prosthesis’s J curve is compressed at impact, storing energy and absorbing high levels of stress that would otherwise be absorbed by a runner’s ankle, knee, hip and lower back,” explains Hilmar Janusson, executive vice president of research and development at Össur. The Cheetah’s carbon-fiber layers then rebound off the ground in response to the runner’s strides.
After the German report was released, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) banned Pistorius from competing. Pistorius hired Jeffrey Kessler, a high-powered lawyer who’s represented athletes from the National Basketball Association and National Football League. It soon became clear that the IAAF’s study was very poorly designed, so when Pistorius’s team asked for a new study they got it. Soon scientists gathered at Rice University to figure out just what was going on with Pistorius’s body.
The scientific team included Peter Weyand, a physiologist at Southern Methodist University who had the treadmills needed to measure the forces involved in sprinting. Rodger Kram, at the University of Colorado at Boulder, was a track and field fan who studied biomechanics. Hugh Herr, a double amputee himself, was a renowned biophysicist. The trio, and other experts, measured Pistorius’s oxygen consumption, his leg movements, the forces he exerted on the ground and his endurance. They also looked at leg-repositioning time—the amount of time it takes Pistorius to swing his leg from the back to the front.
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The observation report describes your observations and one interview among members of a local Hindu community during one of the annual celebrations, recorded at a local worship site, and relates these to the observations of other ethnographers who have observed the same celebration in India. You write as if you were articulating your thoughts not just for your own reflection for the professor to assess, but also to provide explanations for a peer (vs. a specialist) who is unfamiliar with the topic. NOTE: half a dozen student Observation Reports will be assigned as readings for the final TRA and application exercise.
IMPORTANT: you must observe one of the celebrations at one of the times listed under Local Sites, not simply visit the site and talk to people. Although you may at other times have interesting informal interactions with community members there, it will be difficult to tell what they normally do when outsiders are not present based exclusively on such interactions.
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At the end of last year’s legislative session, Congress let two of corn ethanol’s market-rigging policy gimmicks—the 45-cents-per-gallon tax credit (VEETC) and the 54-cents-per-gallon ethanol import tariff—tumble into history’s dustbin.
This was good news for taxpayers and consumers. The VEETC added $5-6 billion annually to the federal deficit and the tariff propped up domestic ethanol prices by blocking competition from Brazilian sugarcane ethanol.
The demise of the VEETC and tariff is the ethanol lobby’s first loss of corporate welfare benefits in more than 30 years. As the Wall Street Journal noted , “Congress created ethanol subsidies in 1978, expanded them in a 1980 bill, and then rinsed and repeated in 1982, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1998, 2004, 2005 and 2007.”
But not in 2011: Congress declined to renew the subsidies just two weeks before the caucuses in Iowa, where pandering to Iowa corn farmers had been a staple of American politics for decades.
Several factors converged to kill those once sacrosanct policies: the federal debt crisis, the Tea Party movement (an Iowa Republican poll found that caucus goers were more likely to support candidates who opposed ethanol subsidies), and research by Bruce Babcock of Iowa State University refuting ethanol lobbyists’ hysterical claims that terminating VEETC would destroy 112,000 or even 160,000 rural jobs. Only about 1,000 ethanol-related jobs would disappear over the next five years, Babcock estimated. Renewing VEETC would add $30 million to the national debt for each ethanol job “saved.”
Perhaps the key factor turning the tide against the ethanol lobby was the formation in 2010 of “No2VEETC,” a coalition of business associations, hunger and development organizations, agricultural groups, environmental groups, budget hawks and free marketers.
Green groups like Friends of the Earth, Environmental Working Group, and ActionAid USA, limited-government groups like Taxpayers for Common Sense, National Taxpayers Union and Competitive Enterprise Institute, and business groups like Grocery Manufacturers Association, National Turkey Federation and National Restaurant Association worked together to expose VEETC as a costly, polluting, food-price-inflating special-interest giveaway.
The coalition was also vigilant in opposing schemes to replace VEETC with Solyndra-like loan guarantees for construction of ethanol pipelines and tax credits for installation of pumps to sell E-85 (motor fuel made with 85% ethanol) at service stations.
The final critical ingredient was the emergence of legislative champions, such as Representatives Jeff Flake (R-AZ), Joseph Crowley (D-NY), Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Wally Herger (R-CA), and Pete Stark (D-CA), and Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), who worked across party lines to end VEETC and oppose pipeline and blender pump subsidies.
The really good news is that the most coercive ethanol policy—a Soviet-style production quota called the “renewable fuel standard ” (RFS), a.k.a. the ethanol mandate—is now vulnerable to political challenge.
Created by the 2005 Energy Policy Act (EPA) and expanded by the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA), the RFS establishes a guaranteed market for ethanol producers, forcing refiners to blend and consumers to buy ethanol whether they want to or not.
Under EISA , sales of renewable fuels are to increase from 9 billion gallons in 2008 to 36 billion in 2022, of which 16 billion gallons are to be “cellulosic”–ethanol made from wood chips, prairie grasses and other fibrous plant matter. Ethanol from corn maxes out at 15 billion gallons in 2015. But cellulosic is proving to be a spectacular flop , and the ethanol lobby is pushing to have corn ethanol qualify as “advanced” biofuel to take up the slack.
Many of the reasons persuading Congress to drop the VEETC and tariff apply in spades to the mandate. The mandate diverts massive quantities of corn from food to fuel production, making food more costly for the world’s poorest and hungriest people . It inflates U.S. corn prices, undercutting the competitiveness of U.S. cattle, hog and poultry producers. It ramps up production of water-and-fertilizer-intensive corn, expanding aquatic “dead zones” in the Gulf of Mexico and the Chesapeake Bay . It induces land-use conversions that can increase net greenhouse gas emissions .
By expanding supply relative to demand, the mandate has pushed the per-gallon price of ethanol below that of regular gasoline.
Nonetheless, gasoline is still a better buy, because ethanol contains one-third less energy by volume. According to the American Automobile Association’s Daily Fuel Gauge , for example, on Jan. 16, 2012, the mpg-adjusted price of E-85 was $4.014/g—higher than regular gasoline ($3.387), premium ($3.663), and diesel ($3.871).
Even more telling, according to www.fueleconomy.gov , a Web site jointly administered by the Department of Energy and EPA, flex-fuel vehicle owners will spend up to $750 a year more for fuel if they fill up with E-85 rather than regular gasoline.
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The Rise of the Vertical Stack
Posted By Atul Patel On February 11, 2013 @ 6:00 AM In Emerging Platforms, Opinions, Video | 1 Comment
Welcome to the era where being a contender in the technology industry means offering the consumer the vertical stack. Remember Amazon as a bookstore, Apple as a high-end computer company, and Google as a colorful search engine that replaced our four-legged friend, Lycos? Fast forward to the present and these businesses bring a dizzying array of products and services to mind – from the tablet, to the cloud, to the music service, to the video service, to the photo service, to even a credit card. While cataloging all of their products may be overwhelming, the spread of these and other big brands’ reaching into vertical products presents a boon of opportunities for digital video stakeholders and, of course, audiences.
Everybody has a rumor
So what brought this trend of the vertical stack into the norm? From their birth, these businesses specialized in making information more efficient, connected, and available, and the demand for this efficiency from consumers only grew. Add in the fact that the cost of adding new products and services, including those backed by physical hardware, has been falling fast, and we now have phones that integrate with our email and calendar, photos, games, and videos at our fingertips, and the ability to store an unlimited amount of creations and data in the cloud. The companies who introduced us to these technologies have evolved, from providing a product to providing efficiencies across every layer of the spectrum (from the device to the data) – and each wants to be considered the best. Evidence of this new reality can be seen with almost all of the tech giants. Amazon has gone from a popular online retailer to leading with its Amazon Web Services, its Kindle devices, Amazon Instant Video, and the rumored Amazon phone . Apple has expanded its reach into cloud storage, music, phones, Apple TV companion box, tablets, and a rumored television set and streaming radio . A search engine is just the beginning of how you interact with Google’s popular innovations, including Google Maps and Talk, Gmail, Google+, the Galaxy Nexus device family and now Google Wallet and the rumored physical credit card . The list of brands going vertical goes on. Microsoft expanded to tablets with Surface and recently launched its Xbox music service. Barnes and Noble launched its own NOOK tablet . Toys “R” Us released the Tabeo tablet and streaming video service Toys “R” Us Movies. Blockbuster, the once dead physical store, is rumored to create its own Blockbuster phone . And, RedBox is starting to sell event tickets through their presence in almost every grocery store. While this array of new technology can make for a lengthier consumer decision process, the vertical stack is a recipe for success for the vendors involved and the audiences who have their pick of efficient technology.
What does vertical stack mean for you?
Publishers: When it comes to connected devices, publishers play a pivotal role in a tech company’s vertical stack success, as applications for accessing the publisher’s content are often key to platform adoption. Audiences expect content wherever they go, and they have their list of go-to publishers for consuming it. Audiences want to read the Washington Post on their smartphones, catch up on E!’s celebrity gossip on their tablets, and stream Grimm on their connected TVs. If vertical stack companies don’t make competitor’s applications available on their devices or provide a similar service for accessing this content (at a similar price), customers may end up opting for a device company that has. In some cases, they work together – Netflix can be downloaded on Kindle Fire. However, in other cases the services are only on the provider’s own devices, like Apple iTunes (if you exclude Windows). This is why publishers need to develop content applications for every device and every platform to stay connected to their audience. Bottom line: if vertical stack companies don’t work with publishers, not only do they not gain audiences but they risk losing the ones they have – all while seeing subscription and advertising dollars walk out the door.
Producers: Producers benefit from the increased flexibility of this new structure. Instead of the traditional one-to-one relationship with a specific publisher, producers can get their content in front of more eyes, on more platforms, earning more revenue for the assets they have already generated. We are living in an era of demand for content everywhere, where producers will have the opportunity to negotiate deals with numerous publishers across websites, devices, and traditional mediums, and reserve some opportunity to go directly to the consumer. For example, with the Kindle Direct Publishing system , writers can skip the costs of a distributor and self-publish straight to the Kindle network, for free. Similarly, producers can quickly get their videos in front of a wider audience by syndicating to publishers with web-based and connected device applications. The opportunities don’t end there; native stores on devices (e.g., Apple’s Newsstand and Google’s YouTube) are continually seeking out new sources of interesting content to stand out in the democratized landscape (see Google’s funding of YouTube’s premium channels ). Producers with quality videos will not have a hard time finding publishers as the democratization continues.
Advertisers: Let’s not forget our favorite friends – the advertisers. Advertisers have a slew of reasons to embrace the vertical stack and incorporate the new outlets into their business models, as well. Gone are the days of marketing through one platform and reaching a large segment of the population. For example, broadcast TV ad campaigns are “lucky to reach 60% of TV viewers in their target audience,” while just 15 years ago penetration was closer to 90%, according to AdAge . Although traditional advertising methods should not be abandoned, audiences are more fragmented than ever before. According to recent data by eMarketer , 77% of audiences are interacting with another device while watching TV, and the percentage of simultaneous cross-device usage is similar for tablets, PCs, and smartphones. After all the complexities are solved, new outlets can allow for even better planning, targeting, and engagement. From pairing a popular CPG product pre-roll with videos about staying healthy to an appliance company sponsoring how-to videos on a foodie blog, advertisers can now target smaller audiences at more niche outlets related to their interests, instead of trying to force a message that resonates on a national scale. The best part is that many of these outlets are accessed through devices in audiences’ hands, keeping them actively engaged. As has always been the case, advertisers are an important part of the content and publishing industries, so you can count on the vertical stack companies waiting with open doors to deliver your message, provide the creativity necessary to make an impact, and to deliver a ROI for the spend.
Audiences: And what does vertical stack mean for audiences? It means we have access to the content we crave, on the devices and platforms we use, available to us everywhere we are connected. Audiences are the biggest winners in this new paradigm because the stakeholders in the vertical stack’s success depend on their satisfaction with the content and the user experience they’re providing. All of this high praise for the vertical stack company should not suggest that these new opportunities don’t come without their own set of obstacles. There will be an abundance of new relationships to manage between the platforms, publishers, producers, and advertisers. Agreements around exclusivity and economics will have to adapt to the new landscape. And, the competition for the attention of an increasingly fragmented audience will become even more intense. In order for the relationships in this new ecosystem to thrive, it will require intermediaries with the right technology, connections, and data to smoothly manage it all. But these topics are for exploring at another time. For now, one thing is clear: The vertical stack is the new norm and the future looks promising for all who successfully adapt.
URLs in this post:
Amazon phone: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2412582,00.asp
television set: http://www.macworld.com/article/2023257/imagining-an-apple-television.html
streaming radio: http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/apple-streaming-music-service-rumors-rekindled-hidden-ios-61-icons/2013-02-05
credit card: http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/06/google-wallet-card-confirmed-support-page/
NOOK tablet: http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/26/barnes-and-noble-announces-nook-hd-9-inch-tablet-we-go-hands-on/
Blockbuster phone: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-05/blockbuster-is-said-to-beging-selling-phones.html
RedBox: http://tickets.redbox.com/
Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/contents/mobile/apps.html
E!’s celebrity gossip: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rhythmnewmedia.android.e&hl=en
develop content applications for every device and every platform: http://blogs.imediaconnection.com/blog/2013/01/30/publishers-vs-platforms/
Kindle Direct Publishing system: https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/signin
Google’s funding of YouTube’s premium channels: http://mashable.com/2011/10/29/new-youtube-channels/
AdAge: http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/tv-put-mass-mass-media-anymore/232988/
recent data by eMarketer: http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1009500
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Are you saying I’m a cheeseburger if I visit that greasy fast food place and devour a Big Mac?
That I have a bun for a head, lettuce for a face, and cheese and ground beef as a body?
Yup. But that’s beside the point.
Corny attempt at humor aside, you can also look at someone who opts for a healthier diet than the one above, and consider the same logic with what I am getting at here. If you eat a lot of veggies and fruits, cut back on the carbs and fats, you may not look like a broccoli or apple, but you still carry the healthy results of those food choices with you.
You are what you eat means that if you eat a lot of carbohydrates, sugary desserts and bags of potato chips, then you are going to gain weight.
Conversely, if you keep the carbs down and the fiber up, try to consume 5 – 8 servings of fruits and vegetables a day, add some fish or poultry, then you may not sprout fins and feathers, but there’s a good chance you will become more fit. And happy!
Here’s a simple formula to consider:
PIZZA + SIT ON COUCH + SODA = OBESITY
While you digest that, watch this:
Eating the right foods and the right amounts go a long way to leading a healthier, happier, LONGER life. But if it was easy, we all would look like Brad and Angelina.
Here’s another video that can help:
Recently, I wrote a very popular post about diabetes, how it is the new silent killer. That even if you HAVE a body like Bradgelina, you may still be a walking time bomb. That underscores the importance of eating the RIGHT foods, as well as staying active and counting those calories.
You may be slender, but if you eat too many carbs, even when they are in the form of potatoes, bananas, or whole wheat bread, you could be susceptible to diabetes.
Remember, eating well is one of the keys to living life to its fullest. Take a gander of yourself in the mirror and if you see a pork chop and mashed potatoes staring back at you, then change your ways.
Opt for your reflection to be a bowl of almonds, a side of spinach, and some grilled salmon.
You ARE what you eat.
Think about it.
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After a year of fevered debate regarding Alexandria’s waterfront, it is time to embrace the basic framework approved by the planning commission. A recently released alternative proposal by Citizens for an Alternative Alexandria Waterfront falls far short. The commission’s approach is the most economically feasible way to proceed. It also is the plan most likely to actually produce the attractive waterfront we deserve.
The alternative requires the city to borrow more than $100 million dollars to buy, through eminent domain or otherwise, private land to add more open space than the plan already provides. The budget forecast recently delivered to the city council anticipates years of slow economic growth. The reality is Alexandria can’t afford such outlandish spending.
In addition to increasing park space and a new museum, the proposal approved by the planning commission addresses flooding problems and allows for better pedestrian access — and does all of this within the current low-building heights and architectural care that characterize Old Town. And it uses a public-private financing approach that takes much of the economic burden off taxpayers.
There are ideas in the alternative concept meriting consideration. For example, council should evaluate the appropriate number of hotels allowed along the waterfront, as well as work to prevent privatization of the remaining waterfront with more town homes. Encouraging adaptive re-use of historic spaces is important. And the idea of a waterfront not-for-profit that raises funds to improve and maintain the waterfront is a good one.
But the sheer audacity of spending proposed in the alternative concept make this a budget issue.
In addition to land purchases, the alternative would use funds to build and operate a maritime museum, which would allegedly attract thousands of people a day paying up to five dollars per person. This idea fails any basic test of reasonableness, as evidenced by the failed maritime museum in New York, our fiscally challenged Carlyle House and Torpedo Factory and the reality that no city museum has been able to pay for itself with an admission charge.
Proponents of the alternative say their plan will attract people and tax dollars to Old Town. It likely would. But the Planning Commission proposal would as well. In fact, opponents once criticized the commission recommendation by saying more visitors to Old Town was a bad idea, raising concerns about traffic. They also once professed concerns about costs in the Planning Commission plan. Now they want to spend millions more and need a higher number of visitors to make up lost tax revenues and pay for their enormous borrowing binge. Their proposal contradicts their own arguments.
After five years of budget cuts, with our nation’s lackluster economy, city council must carefully manage city resources. The city manager recently asked departments to suggest up to 6 percent cuts in their budgets.
“Just borrow the money,” some say. But they fail to consider the significant new taxes required for the bond payments or the effect of borrowing on our city’s AAA credit rating — or the risk that new borrowing will undermine school and transportation needs.
We have a multi-year plan to add classrooms for our growing student population; it requires new funds each year. We likely will need even more to address continued crowding. Transportation and Metro costs continue to burden our city as state and federal funds vanish. Opponents of the planning commission’s waterfront plan should be clear about what they want to give up and who it will impact. There are no free lunches. Not even on the waterfront.
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Brain Storm Productionsin Grenada carried out a HIV/AIDS community outreach project aimed at reducing stigma and discrimination towards individuals living with or affected by HIV and AIDS.
Project leader: Amanda John
Lead organisation: Brain Storm Productions
Other organisations: Grenada National Organization of Women; Ministries of Youth, Health and Social Services; Legal Aid Counseling Clinic; St. George's University; Rotoract club of Grenada; GrenCHAP; Meaningful television; Boss FM radio
Timeframe: December 2010-September 2011
To empower young people, (male and female) to change risky behavioral patterns and to embrace that we all have the same set of human rights and have the right to protect and respect each other’s rights
Brain Storm Productions in Grenada carried out a HIV/AIDS community outreach project aimed at reducing stigma and discrimination towards individuals living with or affected by HIV and AIDS using the concept of a ‘Blocko’. A ‘Blocko’ is a colloquial word used to describe a street party where natives cook local cuisine outdoors with an abundance of food and music.
This concept was used to develop a series of twelve HIV&AIDS awareness programs that targeted young people in their own environments. The program was the first of its kind on island and was designed primarily to target young males especially those who “hang out on the block.”
To do so, ‘The Blocko Caravan’ traveled to 12 different communities in Grenada over a twelve week period. Each session was filmed and produced as a short ‘reality TV program’ (15-20 minutes in length) and broadcasted on the television and internet.
The response and interest in the project were tremendous. So much so that in each community, after filming, HIV educators held additional sessions with people on the street.
Are you experiencing the impacts of climate change?
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Dialysis Tech Stuff
A dialysis technician performs renal dialysis duties to treat patients suffering from kidney failure or chronic kidney disease. Educational requirements and training may vary depending on where you reside, but most positions as a dialysis tech generally require a high school diploma and graduation from an approved training program as well as obtaining certification. It may also be of interest to you to look into taking some courses to help you deal with social and or psychological issues you would potentially encounter. You can find companies that use candidates with no accreditation as well, however developing a dialysis tech accreditation adds to the reliability from the candidate’s training, knowledge, and also experience, which in turn, boosts people probability of getting good opportunities of which shell out now more than the common industry criteria.
You then must also get certification from a state-supported program at a college, university, hospital or technical school. There are different job titles that are referred as dialysis technicians, such as nurses, biomedical equipment technicians, patient care technicians, and reuse technicians. Ranging from six to 12 weeks in length or up to 12 months, these programs include both course work and supervised clinical experience. Some comforts have a set income for new employees while some have a operation from that they select formed on a educational turn of a applicant, before experience, and a company’s budget.
For more details with regards to the accreditation test out, you can visit the state web sites connected with above mentioned corporations which often control and also monitor this accreditation course of action. You can find several options for getting your training as a renal technician, just call your local community college. The technician’s main job, that of monitoring and operating the dialysis machinery, and usually preparing the patient for treatment is all required aside form being responsible for monitoring the entire treatment. You can study in a regular college that offers a curriculum in dialysis technology or you can attend a specialty technical school that offers training and education that will lead to dialysis tech certification. Besides having interest in this particular career field, you must also be able to complete a dialysis certification course, enjoy making others feel better and have an inclination towards science to be a dialysis tech.
It’s really not likely that a individual with insufficient practical experience would be permitted to try this particular job, and on the off possibility you are allowed it will only be with a more experienced dialysis technician supervising you. The dialysis machine takes the place of the patients kidney. It cleans the blood before returning it to the body. Taking frequent vital signs will enable you to determine how the treatment is going. Once the blood is filtered through the dialysis machine it is returned back to the patients circulation.
An applicant applying for dialysis tech accreditation need to have accomplished his/her school degree or diploma and must possess twelve months full-time experience in dialysis affected person health care, or possibly a accomplished the dialysis training course via a licensed institute, institution, or even university. To get this done, a candidate needs to take note of every aspect of this demanding field, both basic and advanced learning areas.
The Dialysis Technician Has Got A Great Job
In the medical field of dialysis the most important element is to receive your dialysis technician certification. You will perform technical aspects regarding the equipment that performs the dialysis and also you are responsible for monitoring your patient. They are in charge of acquiring the dialysis equipment they operate and are generally expected to make reports. Being a professional dialysis specialist and having proof of certification are crucial to ensuring that the standard of overall performance is upheld.
The dialysis technician training programs are generally 6 to 12 weeks long in duration. Many smaller institutions such as community colleges will have courses for this type of profession. Employment shouldn’t be a problem since you will be in demand at locations such as hospitals or dialysis centers.
All that’s required to start your training is a high school diploma. Some dialysis facilities will provide on the job training. This is only one way to enter this field, the most common though is to get training. Your pay rate will be influenced by what you bring to the table as far as experience is concerned. If you have none it is best to be certified. Depending on the metropolitan area you live in you can make as much as $16 hourly just starting out. Kidney disease increases with age. So this means that in the coming decade the growth in dialysis technician pay will continue to rise because of the baby boomers getting older.
The most important aspect of your job as a dialysis technician is direct patient care. You will be trained to deal with problems if they occur while your patient is getting their dialysis treatment. Monitoring the patients overall condition and well being is your main job as a dialysis tech. Taking frequent vital signs will enable you to determine how the treatment is going. The dialysis machine takes the place of the patients kidney. It cleans the blood before returning it to the body. As the dialysis tech you will be tasked with making sure the correct materials are being removed from the blood. If the patients blood has too much or too little of certain minerals removed by the dialysis process it can cause harm to the patient.
The cost of becoming certified as a dialysis technician can range from $5000 to $12,000 depending on the school. But this will be easily paid for once you are employed. You may be able to qualify for pell grants or other assistance to get your certification. Be sure the time and effort you put into this certification is appropriate to your wants and desires. Most of your patients will be sick with other health problems. Compassion will be your strong ally. By becoming a dialysis technician you can provide yourself or your family a good life. If you have a strong will to succeed, this profession could be the one for you. Considering what this career can give you will help you determine if its for you. This career pursuit isn’t always the easiest, but it will always be emotionally and financially rewarding.
When there are patients who suffer from end stage renal disease, then there’s a requirement for people who can help all of them. This is where the dialysis technician would come in handy. If you are such a technician, then you would generally be working in hospitals under the path of a nurse or a doctor. The most important thing for a dialysis technician to consider is that every patient is different and would have different needs. It is the technician’s duty to ensure that the proper care of the individual is taken and also the information you need is given.
As a dialysis technician, you have to ensure that all your duties as well as responsibilities tend to be executed without any hitch. Why you need to take so much care is that the patient has misplaced the use of a vital organ in the body. If there is any negligence on your part, it might put the individual in serious danger. Consequently, you should always make sure that you are on your guard to make sure that the patient offers all their needs fulfilled. You should also possess the necessary knowledge to ensure that the gear is operable and can be handled by you.
Of course, there are some requirements that need to be fulfilled prior to one can become a dialysis technician. One of the simple requirements that you need to have is a high school diploma. With no diploma, you wouldn’t be eligible to obtain this job. There are many clinics that would give you the required training that you’ll require so that you can perform your job without any problem. However it would always reflect better if you had prior training prior to applying for a job within this field.
One more reason for high Dialysis technician Salary is the fact that medical amenities understand the intense nature of the job. Professionals also have to stop wasting time thinking and it being a market field in itself, they get rewarded appropriately for their hard work. Moreover, you’re going to get to learn a great deal on the area because you is going to be seeing patients with different health conditions as well as issues everyday and it will give you great first-hand experience. You also are in position to learn from physicians who you works with in your job and this knowledge is actually of great importance for your future development.
You might be wondering exactly what the dialysis technician salary could be. Usually the income that can be expected is in between $10 and $14. You can decide regardless of whether you want to operate in a hospital or a clinic. Either way, you would be working for Forty hours per week, and you might also be on-call as well as do extra time. Of course, your earnings would vary based on the kind of experience you have. As you complete more many years as a dialysis technician, you would have the potential in order to earn more money. Later on, there would lots of demand as well.
The Dialysis Technician Salary
Of all of the duties that the dialysis technician may have, the main is using the equipment to wash the particular bloodstream in the patient. For instance, there’d be some harmful materials inside the bloodstream, for example creatinine, in sufferers struggling with this problem. The dialysis device can be used to make certain that such elements are removed the bloodstream. Because the dialysis technician, it might be your personal responsibility to make certain that you simply provide the individual all the details he needs in regards to the procedure to ensure that he’s psychologically ready for this. Your career would be also to ensure that he’s really ready too.
You may even be known as upon to operate carefully along with other health care professionals, because you will likely have to coordinate services to be able to ensure the individual gets the very best care possible. Someone who is affected with diabetes, for instance, may should also work toward getting that disease in check to be able to improve the potency of the dialysis. In some instances, it might really be possible to turn back results of diabetes about the renal system by addressing other health problems.
Here, you are able to complete your training like a Dialysis Technician in just six days! Once within the Dialysis Technician Course become familiar with: Summary of hemodialysis, Chemistry of body liquids, Water in the body, Kidney anatomy and physiology, Hemodialysis products, Patient treatment methods, Diet management, Health factors in dialysis, and much more. You are able to sign up for this program easily online, creating a simple telephone call, or signing up personally! When you receive training, you’ll be qualified for employment in hospitals, some nursing facilities, long-term care facilities, along with other similar medical configurations.
Responsibilities of a dialysis technician
If you are looking for a good medical career that brings you reputation as well as monetary benefits, you could opt to work as a dialysis technician if you possess the necessary qualifications.
The past few years have witnessed an increase in the number of patients suffering from various renal diseases that prevent the proper functioning of their kidneys. Some diseases make the kidneys almost non-functional, thereby leading the patient to a very critical condition. They make use of artificial equipment that functions as a kidney in helping to eliminate the harmful wastes from the blood stream. A dialysis technician is a person who assists during this treatment process by operating the equipment and ensuring that the process is carried out accurately.
The job of a dialysis technician is crucial in saving a person’s life. This is because the responsibility to ensure that the equipment is in working condition and the process is being carried out smoothly lies with the dialysis technician. Proper care is to be taken while assisting in the process. The instruments are to be handled with great care and all the necessary precautions are to be taken to ensure that the environment is completely clean and hygienic so that the patient does not get infected in any way.
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Experiences of Learning, Teaching and Managing Schools
Designed to accompany the Open University course Developing Intensive Curricula:Equality and Diversity in Education, Vol 1 will appeal to research students undertaking research in the area of education, focusing on special needs....
Published December 21st 1994 by Routledge
National and International Contexts for Practice and Research
Like the first reader, this collection examines the grounds which are accepted for inclusion or exclusion of students, and looks at how appropriate support can be guaranteed for people who experience difficulties in learning, who are disabled or who experience social or other kinds of disability....
Published December 14th 1994 by Routledge
They can make a start by recognising and accepting difference in their students and by providing curricula that are accessible to all. This volume portrays attempts to alleviate difficlties in learning across the curriculum, in history, mathematics, poetry and science, and explores ways of...
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In his Introduction Professor Hayek argues that political thought is still restricted by the use of outdated terms which reflect subjective explanations of social institutions.
Order enables us to explain the world about us, but not all social order is the product of deliberate action. Some orders are spontaneous by-products of human activity. Professor Hayek suggests that the term ‘cosmos’ be adopted to describe them. The term ‘taxis’ is to be reserved for orders or arrangements intended to
serve specific human purposes.
A cosmos cannot be claimed to have a purpose because it is not deliberately created by men; it is self-regulating. A taxis has an organiser and is therefore more limited than a spontaneous cosmos that utilises the knowledge of all its individual elements. For the same reason the outcome of a cosmos will always be unpredictable. A taxis is more efficient than a cosmos when the purpose to be served reflects a given hierarchy of ends.
Two types of rules or norms correspond to the two social orders and modern European languages do not conveniently reflect the distinction between them. Professor Hayek proposes adopting ‘nomos’ to describe the universal rules of just conduct which will regulate a cosmos. In contrast he describes a rule applicable to particular people, or serving the ends of the rulers in a taxis as a ‘thesis’. A nomos has the advantage of not obliging individuals to perform particular actions; they can use for their own purposes knowledge not possessed by the rulers. The distinction between nomos and thesis roughly corresponds to that between private and public law. The mistaken belief in the pre-eminence of public law results from its deliberate creation for particular purposes. Private case law is universally applicable and independent of specific ends, but there is no comparable limitation to the norms established by legislation. Public law is in this way transforming the social order from the nomos into a taxis.
Men may know how to act without being able to express the rule governing their conduct. Conclusions derived from artificial rules will therefore not be tolerated by society if they conflict with the conclusions to which unarticulated rules lead.
The substitution of the term ‘will’ for the older term ‘opinion’ has proved unfortunate. The order of an open society depends largely on opinions which have been effective long before men could explain why they held them. Successful action depends as much on knowing what to do as on understanding consequences. Taboos or inhibitions are therefore a necessary basis for successful life. Civilised order requires the observance of general rules rather than rules prescribing conduct. All moral problems arise from a conflict between values (i.e. rules which tell us some kinds of actions must be avoided) and knowledge that particular desirable results can be achieved in a given way. It is our ignorance which makes it necessary for us to accept limits. The actions of a person guided only by calculable results would soon prove unsuccessful. The members of an open society cannot agree on specific ends. They can only hold values in common.
Professor Michael Oakeshott’s nomocracy corresponds to Professor Hayek’s cosmos, and teleocracy to his taxis.
The word ‘economy’ is unfortunately used to describe both types of order. A market economy ought not to be judged by its ability to serve a hierarchy of ends. It is a spontaneous cosmos which can be described as a catallaxy in distinction to an economy (e.g. household) which serves individual purposes. Competition tends to minimise the cost of production. Individual incomes are determined partly by skill and partly by luck in order that total output can be as large as possible. A competitive market does not preclude government action from outside the market to help people who cannot earn a given minimum. But attempts to make the market itself serve some ideal of distributive justice will reduce the total wealth in which all can share.
Democracy meant that whatever ultimate power there was should be in the hands of the people. But the term implied nothing about the extent of that power, and certainly not that it should be unlimited. An elected legislature that does not confine itself to establishing universal rules of just conduct will soon be driven by vested interests to serve particular private ends. A court of justice is needed that can say whether the acts of a representative assembly do or do not possess the formal properties necessary for valid law. Though the assembly’s power would be supreme it would not be unlimited. Members of the law-making assembly (as distinguished from the governmental assembly) would be elected for long periods, each generation electing once in their lives, say, in their fortieth year. The law-making assembly would therefore consist of people between 40 and 55. The creation of such a body would make possible the separation of powers which has never existed anywhere in practice. The word ‘democracy’ is now indissolubly associated with the conception of the unlimited power of the majority. A new word is needed to stand for what ‘democracy’ originally expressed. ‘Demarchy’ describes such a limited government. | <urn:uuid:bcb0747d-d39d-4eae-9a7e-eabe8e405e46> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hayekcenter.org/?p=2575 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956664 | 1,043 | 2.140625 | 2 |
The Collier County Sheriff's Office has launched an anti-texting while driving campaign, aimed at making Florida the 40th state to ban the activity.
The Sheriff's Office calls "Stop Texting & Driving" a community-based, grassroots movement to raise awareness and collect signatures of residents favoring the ban. Sheriff Kevin Rambosk will deliver the petition to Tallahassee during the 2013 legislative session, which starts in March.
"Members of our community tell me almost daily that they want texting and driving to be illegal in Florida," Rambosk said in a statement. "We are partnering with them to help make this law a reality."
Sheriff's officials have created a page on their website, www.colliersheriff.org, devoted to information and statistics about texting while driving. Red wristbands with the words "I won't text and drive" will be distributed at community events and homeowners association meetings.
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At a glance
How your child will learn to read, write and use numbers from primary school through to secondary school.
What are literacy and maths?
Learning to read, write and spell, together with general speaking and listening skills, are called Literacy at primary school. Learning about numbers is called Maths or Numeracy. Both subjects are very important for your child’s future, and will be taken throughout their school life to GCSE level.
The Literacy and Maths Frameworks
Since 1998, most primary school teachers have taught Literacy and Maths (or Numeracy) according to a framework laid down by central government. This requires an hour of Literacy teaching and an hour of Maths teaching each day
In June 2009 the government announced that from 2011 this framework would no longer apply, giving schools more freedom to decide how to teach Literacy and Maths.
It’s very likely, though, that the ideas underpinning the Literacy and Maths frameworks will continue in most schools.
Literacy at primary school
Of all the help you can give your child, the most important job you’ll probably do is helping with reading. That’s because learning to read is best taught on a one-to-one basis, so giving your child a bit of shared reading time every day will make a big difference.
Reading should be fun – that way it will be more effective. Here are some tips:
- Talk about the story and the characters as you go along.
- Let your child take over reading gradually – don’t push them into reading before they’re ready.
- Visit the library and borrow books you enjoy reading together.
- Choose subjects your child prefers - factual books or stories.
- Look for words in everyday life, not just books. Read newspaper headlines, shop signs or menus in cafes
Maths at primary school
As with Literacy, talk about Maths as much as possible at home. Try to find examples in everyday life – such as using small change or measuring ingredients when cooking – to make Maths relevant and fun.
There’s a lot of focus on developing Mental Maths skills during Key Stage 1 (ages 4-7). You can help by practising times tables and asking for the answers to simple sums. You could also try to:
You could also try to:
- talk about pocket money and what your child could buy with it
- get your child to weigh the fruit and vegetables at the shops
- measure your child’s height over time, and ask them to record how much they’ve grown
Literacy and Maths at secondary level
Literacy is called English at secondary level and together with Maths is compulsory to the age of 16 (Year 11). (This minimum age will go up to 18 in 2013.) Your child will have to take an exam in both subjects, usually a GCSE. This is because these two subjects are considered the basic building-blocks for a huge range of other skills in the workplace and everyday life. | <urn:uuid:8553ce86-e61a-40a6-91c9-8e6e3828520e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/parents/literacy_maths/index.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95903 | 635 | 4.28125 | 4 |
Forging is a manufacturing process involving the shaping of metal items using localized compressive high forces. Forging is often classified according to the temperature at which it is performed: '"cold," "warm," or "hot" forging.
Press forging process works by applying a pressure or force at different speeds depending on materials and specific applications.
Our main types of forging machines are high efficiency screw presses and high speed hydraulic presses with many different variants in force, energy, stroke and accessories.
Typical industrial fields that use forged products:
- Automotive and Motorcycle
- Agriculture and Earthmoving
- Bolts and Nuts
- Energy transfer
- House ware
...for ferrous and non ferrous metals
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The desert, she does more than bake.
She takes. She breaks. She even aches.
One thing she won’t do is slake. Not often.
Takes a rare air to tear through there
And break the thirsties. But it does, time on a time.
You stamp that sand under your feet,
Thick rubber feet with padded soles,
Modern mutations, fruit of mind. Low hanging
Fruit, but who complains? I pity snails on
Desert sand comes in varieties, but it’s all dust,
Dead skin of every race of stone
Cracked in furnace, smoothed in storm.
Sand is the scrapings of the world,
Rolled down the mountain, down the dune.
It scrapes the world.
I’m always shocked at people living here.
What kind of mind, given the whole flat world
To stick a spear in, sticks it here
Where the stone point shreds with every thrust,
Where the prey is small and tough,
Where tooth and tail can spit a drink
That rips the spirit out and leaves a husk?
Hang the good and the bad from two ends of a stick
And see how far from the middle, toward the bad,
You have to set your finger underneath
To get it balanced. There must be something here,
Maybe the spirit ripped from wetter times,
Wiser and weirder, singing in the sand,
Brushing the hot rocks with its rags,
Small tufts catching on the sage—
I mean the shaman and the shrub,
There to be picked up in a word or on a ramble.
Hunkered for the kill, you might look up
And spot one twitching helplessly like a dry berry on a vine.
Something there was. It seized the sticks,
Chew-tipped with juice and grindings of the wild,
Signed with preliterate ease its near-true name
As near as fear and faith could come,
Its cartoon essence on the stones
Still cooling from the campfire of the gods,
Those ghosts that carved the shadows of the world.
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| Robert Ampeau, an extraordinary anachronism among growers in Burgundy, died on December 5, 2004, of a stroke he suffered while working in his vines in Savigny lès Beaune. He was 83. Ampeau was a legendary figure, and an admired colleague of the most important producers in Burgundy, including Aubert de Villaine, Lalou Bize-Leroy, Dominique Lafon, and Hubert de Montille, whose cellars all contain Ampeau wine. His death, however, was little noted in the popular wine press. Though he continued to work until he died, Ampeau had gradually relinquished control of the estate to his fifty-two year-old son Michel (shown here in the cellars). The parcels they cultivated together in Meursault and Volnay are easy to identify, if not for the grass that grows between the rows to manage water uptake (Robert Ampeau was one of the first to incorporate the practice in Burgundy), than for the obvious fact that the vines are all pruned neatly, exactly forty centimeters higher than their neighbors,' which is the height that their perfectly maintained, fifty year-old enjambeur (tractor) prunes them. The vines look like specimen plants; the enjambeur looks like a museum piece. Robert Ampeau was the proprietor of some of the most exalted vines in Burgundy, which he acknowledged was a great privilege, but he always described himself as un ouvrier (a worker). So it wasn't surprising to hear that he was buried with no one but his wife and son present. When asked by his friend and neighbor Jean-Pierre Diconne why there was no funeral, Michel replied that it was his father's wish. Robert had told him many times in his later years, that as a worker, it wasn't his place to inconvenience others by obliging them to attend his burial. | <urn:uuid:935cc1c8-760a-4852-a2ea-1f5b08c52d8c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wineaccess.com/store/moorebrosnj/winery.html?producer_id=115422 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989625 | 400 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Ferrous wrote:And, assuming that all bats have a move of 22, we can get an idea about how many hexes there are between the chokepoint and Transylvito (4 days travel for the warlords and their bats, 2 days for Jill and her gwiffons - ~80 hexes or so)
DevilDan wrote:Looks like a great starting point! I'm afraid I'd have to go through the whole comic to see if there's anything to correct or add. We'd have to draw a list of "rules," of the relative positions of point x versus point y to do that, I suppose.
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pSycHOtic chICkeN wrote:The world Parsons entered is divided into spaces called a "hex". The pattern of a normal brick wall would fit the rules just as well as a plane filled with hexagons. Each brick touches 6 other bricks, movement works out the same. We have seen maps made up of hexagons but that may have been the format used by the lookamancer just to keep things simple for parsons and the tool. A "hex" can be close to a hexagon most of the time and still allow for a wide variety of structures.
Consider a ceramic mug filled with Guinness. At the surface were the mug meets the froth the beer forms a 2 dimensional hexagonal lattice. The surface area inside of one bubble would be one "hex". Assume the model is frozen in time, not refluxing. In order to compare to erf-world make the carbon dioxide bubbles rocks. Parsons is confined to the glaze in one hex. The walls of Gobwin Knob are like a scratch in the glaze. Flying creatures can move through the ceramic region. The nice thing about foam is that it conforms to any surface. Some of the "hexes" might contact 5 or 7 other hexes when there is a sharp curve but the vast majority always touch six.
Guinness can be consumed in a flask, a beaker, a vase, a bowl or a wide variety of creative vessels. It tastes about the same and the foam still creates a hex grid at the surface. The terrain in erf-world have various types like mountains, water, lava, forest, but that would be like changing the glaze on the mug. The glaze does not effect the shape of the mug or the shape of the Guinness.
A ceramic mug can also have a ceramic handle. The handle could also be hollow. This is not a hex grid that you would expect to see on a map. But the since everything in erf-world is relative to the observers hex there is no reason that erf-world can not have the shape of frozen Guinness in a hollow handled mug.
Today I thought of one step further. Suppose the mug handle is hollow, but the hollow space is not connected to the inside of the mug. That would mean that non-flying creatures could explore all of the glaze in the hexs inside the mug and never find the inside of the mug handle. However, a gwiffon could fly to the area where the handle attaches and then fly straight "up" and fall into the handle. That could explain the FAQ's ability to remain hidden and would also explain why Jillian did not bother putting walls around FAQ.
moose o death wrote:wow have you guys bitten off alot.
raphfrk wrote:moose o death wrote:wow have you guys bitten off alot.
Another issue is that the whole project depends on there actually being a map, that all the in-comic info is based on.
I wonder if it would be possible to set up something on the wiki.
For example, your map could be background, and then overlays added. I think it is possible to directly position stuff using wiki code.
Ferrous wrote:I'm a little skeptical. It's not clear if erfworld is even round, since so many other things from "real life" don't apply. Parson is in the middle of a very complex board game.
atteSmythe wrote:Until we hear more, I've been assuming it's cylindrical. My guess would be that if you go far enough north or south, you'd find hexes that are literally impassable.
DevilDan wrote:Well, MOD, you could get North and South by rotating the grid 90 degrees. You'd lose exact East and West movement, of course. Decisions...
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The California condor can soar 15,000 feet above the earth. It has a wingspan of up to 9.5 feet—nearly twice your height! Because of this broad wingspan, power lines are a serious hazard to condors.
Small birds can sit safely on one power line. They don’t touch the ground, or any other grounded object, so electricity stays in the power lines and doesn’t harm the birds. Condors, with their broad wingspan, are likely to touch a power line and pole at the same time and become a path for electricity to travel down the pole to the ground. Or, their large wings can bridge two power lines at the same time, creating a short circuit. In either situation, the birds are electrocuted.
Condors have a slow rate of reproduction, which is one reason they nearly went extinct. Power line contacts haven’t helped matters.
In 1979, only 25 California condors were left and efforts began to save them. Scientists at the Los Angeles Zoo developed a program to train captive condors to avoid power poles before they are released into the wild. A perch that looks like a power pole delivers a mild shock to any bird that touches it. The birds learn to land somewhere else.
Most condors that have graduated from the shock training program successfully stay away from power lines. Today, about 208 condors are living—76 of them in the wild.
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This degree is intended primarily for international students who hold a first degree in law (JD or LLB or equivalent) from a non-U.S. law school and who wish to establish eligibility to take a state bar examination in the United States, where permitted by state bar authorities. The degree will give students from foreign jurisdictions a thorough understanding of the fundamental principles of U.S. law and the American legal system, as well as an appreciation for law practice in the United States.
The academic program is designed to enable students who earn the degree to satisfy the American law school course requirements of the Bar Admissions Committees of Louisiana and New York. These two U.S. states are among those whose rules permit foreign lawyers to sit for their bar exam subject to, inter alia, completion of certain coursework in American Law. Students seeking to take the bar examinations in these two states, or any other state, must still meet all other eligibility requirements of the state in which they seek to take the bar examination, and are therefore urged to review those requirements at the earliest possible time. The Louisiana Supreme Court rule permitting foreign lawyers to sit for the bar exam is located here.
The degree requires successful completion of 24 credit hours of coursework. In addition to the required Introduction to the Law of the United States course (a 2-credit course taught during the month of August), students must take at least 14 hours of coursework in the following subjects: Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Corporations or Business Enterprises, Evidence, Intellectual Property, Federal Civil Procedure, Taxation, Uniform Commercial Code, Torts, or (if planning to take the Louisiana bar exam) Louisiana Civil Procedure or Louisiana Obligations Law. Students seeking this degree are also required to take either Common Law Property or Civil Law Property.
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The Origin of the Baptists By S.H. Ford
Milestones by the Track of Time
This is an age of inquiry and tireless research. To the questionings of an imperative curiosity the very rocks have rendered an account of themselves, and the leaves that fell before the flood, have been made to tell their story. Not a time-worn mark, or hieroglyphic, but has been cleared from the dust of centuries and deciphered. Not a crumbling monument, or a buried city., or perished people of the dead, past, but has been reproduced on the canvas of living history. Naught escapes the sleepless eye, the persevering industry of modern research.
Now, there is a class of people in our midst, numbered by hundreds of thousands—found, indeed, wherever soul-freedom is, and the gospel is—a people marked and peculiar, whose principles and influences have told, and must still tell on the character and destiny of society. This people are called BAPTISTS.
Their distinguishing peculiarities are, an uncompromising avowal and advocacy of soul-liberty, enlightened, and guided, and governed only by the Eternal King. That earthly priests, and kings, and governments, ranged hierarchies and mitered fathers, are but as those "that peep and that mutter." "To the law and to the testimony," is their watchword; "if any man speak not according to these things, it is because there is no light in him"—that no mortal has the right to decide the church relations of any human being. In a word, that Christianity demands voluntary obedience; and to fore-stall, control, or fetter this, is antichristian. This is the prominent peculiarity of the people of whom we speak. And the profession of this voluntary surrender to the Lord of life is avowed by a burial by baptism into his sacred name.
Now, this people, so well known and so rapidly increasing among us, as a distinct class, originated somewhere. Some spot witnessed their beginning; some period in the march of time noted the birthday of these Baptists. Can the place of their nativity be found? Can the record of their origin be traced? Is the energy of human research, with all its triumphs, to pause breathless here, and acknowledge itself baffled and defeated? No, no! The question can and must be answered, or history is a dead, a dumb thing. Let its voice but be heard as it tones distinctly through the mists of ages, and it will be forever decided—WHERE
But in vain shall we seek among the authoritative records of the past, for one kind word concerning them. Crushed beneath a powerful and persecuting hierarchy; few, feeble, and what the world calls unlearned, yet lifting up their voice in defiant tones above the storms of execration and violence; protesting, in the name of truth and freedom, against the universal domination of a State Church, and a proud, tyrannical clergy; sounding out through the grates of filthy prisons the joyous notes of redeeming mercy, and melting the hearts of those that mockery attracted to the spot; scattered defenseless, without State patronage, or the prestige of noble names, or great leaders; with no earthly head, or strong central government to give direction to their aims; with the Word of God their only guide; yet rising in the strength of God above the crested waves, battling with the storm, steadily, steadfastly, onward, upward, until now, in the words of the eloquent Chalmers:
Such are the people whose origin we would trace, and whose origin surely can be found.
* Dr. Chalmers’s Lectures on Romans.
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Chattanooga’s not going to replace Silicon Valley anytime soon, but the city built the nation’s first gigabit-per-second fiber optic network—even if that service does cost more than $300 a month.
Now, the Lamp Post Group, a “venture incubator” backing a program dubbed “Gig Tank”, is offering $300,000 in start-up cash and prizes to entrepreneurs and students to design high-speed apps and business using the network.
The Tank will fund 10 teams with $15,000. The team with the best idea at the end of the program earns the top prize of $100,000. Ten-to-15 students will also compete for a $50,000 prize, but will receive no start-up funding. The Gig Tank is also offering a $1,000 finder’s fee to anyone who nominates a candidate who is chosen for the program. For more information, visit thegigcity.com. | <urn:uuid:f07a2ea0-3bed-4ec3-9695-43e93d29874b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.chattanoogapulse.com/news/we-built-gig-city-now-gig-tank-offers-300k-to-make-it-hum/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938647 | 209 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Miss a show? Watch Recent Sessions of The Movement.
Growing up in Philly, it was inevitable that you were exposed to Hip-Hop. For those who were drawn to it, the love affair began and the culture grew. Since 1973, Hip-Hop grew from B-Boys, Beat Boxing and DJs to an art form relatable to everyone. The 1990s gave way to a generation of people who could appreciate Hip-Hop as an art form rather just a commercial entity because artists from NWA and Snoop to A Tribe Called Quest and Nas could co-exist. There wasn't one sound and people could hear different artists on local radio stations.
Coors Light and Power 99 would like to introduce The Movement, to give the mic to 13 local emcees and introduce the collective of real Hip-Hop artists that exists in the city. The Underground Summer Series, featuring 13 local artist performances, live in our performance studio, will take place over the 13 weeks of summer.
Penning his first rhyme at 14, Amir Taron grew with Hip-Hop. Growing up in Camden, the oldest of three brothers, music was everywhere. Although he was exposed to everything from Gospel to Soul and Jazz to R&B, Hip-Hop stood out. Influenced by emcees like Nas, Ghostface, Common, Big L and Big Pun, he realized his attraction to writing very early. The emcee was urged by Novel, a friend and artist, to rhyme; and in a cipher at about five in the morning; his ill vocabulary finally turned into true lyricism.
Feeling the frustration of Hip-Hop being stifled, he went on hiatus. After 5 years, he met some emcees who inspired him to get back to music. Amir Taron wrote for the next two years, and after Chemistry Music was started in 2008, he dropped his first album, watercoloroncanvas. Recognizing the inevitability that Hip-Hop would grow and spiral off into other art forms also helped him recognize his purpose and the fact that what was going on around him gave him something to talk about. watercoloroncanvas was his way of speaking to those who have been through what he's been through and giving them a voice to relate to; just like Hip-Hop had done for him at such a young age.
The album is a series of anecdotes than span from the depiction of poverty stricken streets to a more personal struggle; and a perfect display of his ability to paint a picture with flawless delivery. It was a well-received underground debut and helped solidify Chemistry Music. The emcee is working on his next project tentatively titled, Aerosol Diaries.
How did growing up in Camden influence your music?
Born in Camden… spent the first portion of my young life in Camden… until it was time to go to school… my mom didn't want me going to school in Camden so I pretty much stayed with my aunt outside the city and weekends with my mom. I lived in and out of Camden at several different points in my life and there's always been an attachment to the city. It really just contributed to my life in that I always had a heart for the struggle, for the people that struggle, for what struggle is, what it produces, and for the barriers that are placed in front of certain individuals in life that maybe other individuals don't have to deal with. Struggle is the main thing that I get out of that. It's not even just in my music… in my life… things in my personal life… the things that I put my time and my energy and my effort into… it's always about struggle and oppression. I don't think that you can look at me as an artist and separate me from a fight against oppression and struggle. If it's got my name on it, one way or another, you're going to know how I feel about those things.
I know you've spent time in Philly… what would you say Philly has contributed to your music?
Philly… growing up listening to the radio on Friday nights… Philly Hip-Hop… that was where you got it from back in the day. Philly always had its own flavor, its own style, and its own thing going on. It's separate. That's Hip-Hop in general… depending on where you come from; you put your own spin on it. What I get from Philly is a certain kind of freshness. It's distinct.
How do you think Hip-Hop has changed since you first started paying attention?
I think that Hip-Hop is in the process any art form, music or outside of music, goes through. You have a pure art form that starts off in its purity and it begins to grow; and along the way as it's growing there are people who see viability in it to market it and to sell it. Mainstream Hip-Hop (if you want to call it that, some people call it hip pop) is about making music, making club music, making sales, making your numbers for your record label and kind of gutting it for its substance. Just like any other genre, it spirals off into many other art forms. Hip-Hop has influenced the world. I certainly don't think Hip-Hop is dead or anything like that. You got underground Hip-Hop. You got mainstream Hip-Hop. You got your Hip-Hop fusions. It just goes and I think at this point I just can't be ambivalent about what's going on in Hip-Hop. It's just the inevitability of art.
How did you first get into music anyway?
We grew up on Gospel, Soul, Hip-Hop, R&B, even Classical and Jazz. I never knew that I could rhyme until I met one of my closest friends… he's like my brother. He said, "You got an ill vocabulary. You should write a rhyme." I tried to write a rhyme and it was probably the worst rhyme anybody's ever tried to write… and we just gave up on the idea of me being an emcee. This was like 94, 95. I was like 14… and then one day it just clicked. I wrote a rhyme and it just clicked. I never stopped writing ever since. Emceeing works. I'll always be surrounded by music until the day I die. It's like a heartbeat.
Which emcees have played a part in your music?
The number one influence for me would be Nas. Illmatic, It Was Written. Ghostface… he brings a lot of emotionalism. Big L influenced me for a long time. Common has been a huge influence. One thing I love about Common is the fact that he could say something real complex in a simplistic way and to do simplicity well is difficult. Pun influenced me. Those are probably my biggest influences.
What other things influence your lyrics… whether it be Business or Politics or Family?
Business influences my music because I hate business. I hate the flow of money changing the stream of art. Politics-I don't like the Political spectrum. What really influences my art is when I wake up in the morning and whatever thought is in my head, whatever emotion is in my soul; however I feel… that's what influences me in Art. Life is my biggest influence. Family is probably the number one influence. If you don't care about the people closest to you, then what's the point of caring about anyone else?
watercoloroncanvas was your first project and what were you trying to do with it?
It starts off with a Hip-Hop intro. The first track is about me… the man I see in the mirror, what I like about me and what I don't like about me… what I want to make better, what I'm striving for. The next track is about what I see when I walk down the street in Camden ("colorwaterincamden"). Proverbs is what it's like when you're dealing with yourself and you're dealing with people. The next song is about people who have so much talent and potential but they never use it and they throw it away by getting in trouble in the street. The next track talks about emcees talking about nonsense. The next track goes back to that old school feeling of "he's the DJ and I'm the emcee." "Then and Now" is just a narrative about one guy who doesn't know what he's talking about and he's trying to influence people and another guy who isn't strong and gets influenced and I put that all to the backdrop of people letting a beat control them and not listening to the lyrics. The last track is just a heartfelt message to somebody close to me. The premise behind that whole thing which nobody ever really got was that if you look at the track list… it's 10 tracks but it's really only 4 songs. It goes watercoloroncanvas, "colorwaterincamden"… proverbs and lamentations… charcoal and pastel… then and now.
And what do you have coming up?
The next one is made by a very talented up and coming guy out of Camden. His name is Mute. Mute Sweetenberg. This brother is just really really talented. I heard his beats. I was in Philly at Medusa. Medusa was a dope staple for Hip-Hop for a minute. His beats were ridiculous. What we're putting together is that really hard drums… that boom bap drum style that only Camden can do because Mute is so Camden in his beats. It's tentatively titled the Aerosol Diaries. Mute brings the aerosol to the equation. He's the tag on the wall. I'm the diary. I put chapters of my life over his ill production style so that's all that's about. | <urn:uuid:908c535d-bb6d-488f-932c-c541393d305d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.power99.com/pages/movement-blog.html?page=3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982929 | 2,026 | 1.585938 | 2 |
500 ml - Catalonia, Spain (2011)
This unfiltered, extra-virgin Spanish olive oil is from the northern Catalan province of Girona, north of Barcelona on the Mediterranean coast. Bottled completely without additives and "exactly as [it was] inside the olive," L'Empordà is a complex and subtle oil that more than holds its own alongside better-known oils.
The oil's beautiful green-gold color comes from a blend of three olive varietals: arbequina, hojiblanca and koroneiki, and it has the light aroma of toasted bread, with notes of green tomatoes, artichokes, fresh flowers, and orange blossoms. L'Empordà's fresh, intense taste ends with a very delicate finish of pepper.
About Bodegas RODA
DAURO was born on a farm in the Empordà, which is in the province of Girona, in the areas of Siurana and Torroella de Fluviá, a few kilometres from the Empurias Roman ruins. It is here, near the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean, the sea and the mountains, that the character of the Empordanès is forged.
But in the Empordà, there is one aspect of the climate which leaves its mark on vegetal life, as well as the landscape: The north wind, or the tramontana. It is an intense and continuous wind which, when it blows at midday, obliges the olive trees to bow respectfully. The tramuntana sweeps away the clouds and cleans the sky, leaving incredible transparency and light. Light and aeration, the two great physiological requirements of the olive tree.
Up till 1956, all of the Bodega lands were olive groves. But, on a fateful February morning a frost devastated the plantations. As a result, during the second half of the 20th century, cereals and alfalfa colonized the soils, until the DAURO project restored to the landscape the prescious trees which had been with it since the invasion of the Roman Empire.
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Words.. I have always been fascinated by the power of words. Its amazing what words can do. Lighten a heart, tell a story, give a message, portray an emotion and may be take away your sleep.
Every word that's written has a special meaning in it, meant sometimes just for the reader and sometimes for everyone. It depends on the writer what he or she portrays it to be. And today, as I type these words that flow through my mind, I wonder about how did I stumble on writing as a hobby. I remember myself writing poems back in school when I was less than 8 years old. When I had just known that there is a difference between a guy and a girl, when I had wondered on things like "why does mom have to go and read dad's letters in a separate room all by herself?" and I had written a poem on that too. My family had a great laugh on it.
Over the years though, as words have begun to flow out of me more readily, I know the kind of "writer blocks" that I come across when I put words to my feelings or my feelings into words. It's a lot easier when I have to do the latter because I know my emotions on something and I just have to give it a face. The hard part comes when I have to unerringly "develop" feelings for something, or give some emotions to a face. Take the writer's workshop for example. I just love writing for it. But it takes me hours, days sometimes weeks to pinpoint JUST the right emotion that the image would make me feel. Now that's fine you'd say, but hey, I can practically see that image flowing through my mind all day long, all night long! And then sometimes in the middle of the night I turn on the light and my mom comes in "don't tell me you're on your writing frenzy again?" I've just gotten this brilliant idea. I can't let time get me down now! Not when I have to turn in my contribution by tomorrow evening!
There was another time when I was in the middle of a meeting at work and got all dreamy eyed when someone said, "do you know?" Though I was jerked back to reality without warning, those three words were the key inspiration to me for the next workshop!
So there I sit down to write late into the night and one by one the words begin to come. But when I read them again. What do I find? Either the words are not right or the right words are not there! I think of all the famous writers and novelists I'm so fascinated by and the way their creation has taken me over each time I've read it or heard it. Say Javed Akhtar the famous lyricist from India and Daniel Steel - the world-famous novelist. If they can come up with so many words over the years, I shouldn't give myself another choice but to go on if I wish to be like them someday.
I realize that this is the best I can do at this minute so I go back to bed. Self-defense mechanisms work best in circumstances like these. You see, Asia is a couple of hours ahead of the US so I tell myself "make sure you send in your contribution before the date changes in the US!"
On the next day, Finally, I have everything ready and I'm about to click "send" to submit my contribution when I want to change a line from something like "the perfect theme" to "the essence of my being". Quickly I make the correction and send it off just in time for the clock to turn mid night in the US!
Now I'm free until the next workshop. Thank God! One day goes by, another day goes by and I think "why is the next workshop pic not up yet?" its like an addiction. The more I write, the more I crave for it. The want never goes. Despite the fact that I run short of words and vocabulary and short of time sometimes, it seems I'm never short of ideas. All a writer needs is some inspiration. The fire of words never dies down in me. It's an ever-glowing flame that's made stronger by the firewood of inspiration from writers of all sorts all over the world and workshops on Boloji.
As I wait for the next workshop image, I write this article as my first attempt at humor. You can imagine how long it must've taken me to arrive at this. How humorous is it that's for you readers to decide. So over to you. | <urn:uuid:cc4c5421-565a-4d6f-8025-ca2b3c154ce5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1340 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977581 | 936 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Hello people , I have been browsing here and have seen very nice themes here. I was interested to get a website for myself. More like a portfolio for a designer (more business oriented). The thing is i dont know coding at all. So i mean even if i buy a site/theme from here and then buy domain. Do i need to know coding for putting up my site my way. Or is there easy instruction given. And are wordpress sites SEO friendly? I mean how would i make these themes optimized for search engine. As i have not personally coded them. It would be nice if some one help me out. Because i was considering about getting a wordpress theme for myself!
well if you are not a good coder, a wordpress theme is the best solution for you. Some themes are SEO optimized, but you should check that with the author of one specific theme. Wordpress themes are easy to work with and you always get instructions on changing and customizing it. Just make shure that the theme is SEo optimized and you’re good to go.. Even if it’s not optimized, there are some really cool plugins for that, like http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/. Hope this helps, good luck
As Pixel-industry said it sounds like WP themes are the best option for you – most on here are SEO friendly and there are bundles of plugins that you can add that will make optimisation easy to set up and improve.
It is worth noting (as this is a confusion for quite a few new buyers), what you are buying is a pre designed site or a Wordpress theme. Many authors do provide support (within reason) although they are not obliged to in any way and all fiels come with documentation, which should answer most technical questions and act as a guideline.
What you are NOT buying is a hand holding service to make the site exact customised to your desires or any form of basic technical tutorial. The point here is that like building a house – you can buy the parts but to make it just right requires some skills and knowledge. The same goes for buying here – yes templates or themes offer a very cost effective and time saving solution and the standard is very high here BUT you will need some basic understanding of how HTML /CSS or PHP works for site templates and some basic knowledge of Wordpress and how that operates to upload it to your site and to ”...put up the site your way”.
Very rarely do people want the site to look exactly the same as the demo with no differences and often when people run into problems they can become frustrated easily.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as is his habit, sought to pour cold water over the notion that US-led international sanctions on Iran are having an effect on its controversial nuclear program.
Sure, the sanctions have undermined the Iranian currency, resulted in the expulsion of Iran's central bank from the international system that facilitates interbank transfers, and squeezed Iran's oil exports, the government's major revenue source. The rial has lost about 40 percent of its value against the dollar since December, and is now trading on the informal market at about 20,000 rials to the dollar. In the latest sign of the pain being inflicted on Iran's economy, a newspaper there today reports that the government has banned the import of 600 products.
But Mr. Netanyahu told reporters yesterday that he sees no evidence of any impact on Iran's calculations about its controversial nuclear program. Israel insists Tehran is seeking a nuclear weapon, but Iran says its program is for peaceful purposes only. (A report from the United Nations nuclear watchdog last fall estimated that Iran stopped the bulk of its weapons-related work around 2003, but continued some modeling and design work until 2009.) The Israeli prime minister also indicated that he hopes sanctions lead to regime collapse.
"The sanctions are painful, hard .. but will this bring about a halt or a retreat in the Iranian nuclear program? Until now, it has not happened," he said. The Iranian government "is struggling financially and it still hasn't turned back by even one millimeter from its nuclear program," he told reporters in Israel.
Not everyone agrees with Netanyahu, among them Ron Prosor, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations. On Friday, Ambassador Prosor told reporters that the sanctions have a good shot at changing Iran's behavior.
"I think the international community at this stage has really moved forward and have made at least clear to Tehran that there is a certain price tag for continuing," he said. "The decision on SWIFT [the global system for interbank transfers], the issue of the sanctions by the EU, are important and have an effect on Iran... I do see really a movement on the international stage, especially on the economic side.... It's much more effective than people think and it might change, hopefully it might change behavior patterns if we continue with it."
"SWIFT" is the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, which coordinates millions of secure communications and money transfer information between the world's banks every day. Last month, Iran was unplugged from the system in a highly unusual move, creating major obstacles for the country's banks, including the central bank.
Netanyahu has consistently insisted that Iran is moving implacably toward a nuclear weapon and characterized the country as an existential threat to the Jewish state, leading to speculation that he may decide to unilaterally attack Iran.
Recently there have been some hints, however, that Israeli's defense establishment is backing away from talk about attacking Iran, particularly as the Obama administration has sought to cool the war talk to give sanctions a chance to work. A story in the hawkish Jerusalem Post yesterday, for instance, reported that "a possible military confrontation with Iran may be postponed until 2013, senior defense officials said in recent weeks amid growing signs that the West’s economic crackdown on Iran is bearing fruit."
Currently the only nuclear power in the Middle East is Israel, with a minimum of 100 warheads.
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Algonquin Hotel, New York, New York
A hotel which exudes sophistication and elegance for over a century, the Algonquin Hotel also has its share of ghost stories. The members of the Round Table who were primarily critics and writers is still said to make their presence felt in the hotel. Some employees and guests have reported seeing members of the Round Table walking in the bar, lobby and the dining room.
One guest experienced two haunting incidents in the hotel. The guest was billeted on the ninth floor and he was awakened by a tapping sound from the bathroom. It was the like the sound of razor tapped on the side of a porcelain sink. The guest turned on the light and saw a completely empty bathroom.
The next incident occurred when the guest just came back from a cruise the following night. He took the elevator to his room on the ninth floor at almost 2 am. While he was walking to his room he heard footsteps coming up the stairwell. The sound got closer and closer but when he looked, there was no on one on the stairs.
When the hotel opened in 1902, it had 174 rooms. The hotel is best known for housing some of the best literary and theatrical minds. The most prominent of these geniuses was called the Algonquin Round Table. Frank Case, the hotel’s original owner established some of the hotel’s traditions. One of these traditions is to keep a cat. Male cats are named Hamlet and female cats are named Matilda.
The recent multi-million dollar renovation has upgraded the hotel’s amenities. There are also additional services which make the guest’s stay even more delightful. The Lobby has also been renovated. The Lobby serves cocktails, snacks and appetizers. Although it has been years since the original Round Table disbanded, the restaurant for which they were named after still exists. It still continues to be one of the most sought after restaurants today.
The restaurant serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. The Blue Bar is a place where guests can enjoy ideas and cocktails together. The bar is enveloped with artworks from al Hirschfeld. The bar also offers a menu which will compliment the fine selection of wines, beers and cocktails.
- Wireless internet connection
- Flat-screen television
- Iron and ironing board
- Electronic in-room safe
- Plush terry robes
- Signature bath amenities
- Complimentary newspaper
- 350-count thread sheets
- Data ports
- Speakerphones with conference call capability
When staying in the Algonquin Hotel, you can be in the middle of it all. The restored hotel is smack in the middle of the excitement of the city. The city offers various attractions which everyone will enjoy. The Bronx Zoo, located in Fordham Road at the Bronx River Parkway is a great place to take the children too. The Children’s Museum of Manhattan is also another great alternative.
The Carnegie Hall has been the home of great music for a very long time. Guests can listen to classical music, pop, rock and jazz. The Lincoln Center for Performing Arts located on Broadway and 64th street is also a must-see. Radio City Music Hall also features entertainment for both locals and guests. St. Patrick’s Cathedral is a treasured landmark in New York which is currently in restoration.
The Statue of Liberty is also a landmark which must not be missed. It is the nation’s classic neoclassical sculpture which is located on Liberty Island.
- Rooms with queen beds start at $224
- Deluxe rooms with queen beds start at $249
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AQUA FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN
December 2, 2009
I support this organization because I know 100% of the proceeds go back into the community. The Scholarship and mentoring program is well thought out. With each scholarship recipient getting a mentor from the community it gives them a much higher chance for success in their chosen field. It also promotes community awareness and activism for future generations. We all learn from life experience. Hopefully the scholarship recipients will turn around and become mentors in the future. We can promote awareness and education by setting a positive example. This Organization has everything accounted for. If you have a question the staff always makes the time to answer it.
I have been in the office doing administrative work. While in the office I have met a few of the recipients.
It is wonderful to know they are not just left on their own with the scholarship money. I have see class schedules and I know that success is really being encouraged.
I personally know women that mentor and they really do take to time to check in with their mentee. Whether it be squeezing in a lunch or calling in the morning to check in.
I remember Aqua Girl flying in film makers for the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. I remember being in the audience for Q & A sessions.
Many of these films were extremely educational and eye opening. Some films being about homeless gay youth in NY. These films raised awareness and definitely made me open my eyes. Speaking with the film makers educated me further.
Overall, The Aqua Foundation for Women encourages awareness and community activism.
It gives me a place where I can volunteer. A place where I know the services are going to the right place.
What I've enjoyed the most about my experience with this nonprofit is...
Being able to see women grow more aware the issues We Face as GLBT women. When we raise awareness we become stronger. It is impossible to fix a situation if people are not aware of it.
When we are educated we all become stronger.
If this organization had 10 million bucks, it could...
Really help foster an amazing future for GLBT women. Doing something positive for the community creates a cycle. Everything we do to help will be multiplied over time. It only takes a few people to start a movement. Look how far we have come.
How frequently have you been involved with the organization?
About every month
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
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Fashion design by the constant search for new textures, technologies and attempts to use non-traditional materials. Despite the distance between the design of clothes and jewelry design, the relationship of these art forms are much closer than it seems: the fashion naked belly – and there are all kinds of chain around her waist. Fashion designers turned to natural reasons – and then jewelers are beginning to use its products to natural materials – python skin or feathers of exotic birds.
Contemporary jewelry design does not take courage. In the course is any improvised material. For example, one well-known French company Chaumel in 2011 to offer its customers the suspension in gold frame.
The young German designer, offered to buyers of the ring of ice. The life of this decoration is extremely short – to shock the audience in a ringlet just something you two minutes. Jewelry design so seductive application area talent that her appeal even famous fashion designers. His own jewelry line has at Valentin Yudashkin and Igor Chapurin.
The Leg Veins are being a common problem for aging women so that most people will be diagnosed with it. Some people may haven’t some understanding of your venous disease problem. When you face the vein disease of the leg, you may have some symptoms, including tired, aching legs, usually best in the morning and worse during the day, especially after prolonged standing or sitting. In some cases, you may undergo leg discoloration, thickening and ulcers that are difficult to heal, spider veins, varicose veins and leg swelling from venous stasis and intolerance to exercise. Therefore, you should find the gentle way to remove veins and broken capillaries.
By looking good you can certainly boost up your self-confidence. This is especially true if you are a woman. You must be always in the search of beauty tips in order to look attractive and beautiful. Women of all ages, be it an adolescent girl or a middle aged woman, are keen on looking fresh. It does not necessarily mean that you will have to spend a lot in order to keep yourself beautiful. By following a daily routine you can keep your youthful look intact. You need to take care of the food that you eat and also the products you use. Following some basic tips will enable you to keep yourself beautiful without having to pay frequent visits to the parlor.
Modeling is the dream profession of many youngsters. They want to be famous models and earn lots of money and fame in this industry. Modeling is such a sector where you need to have lots of factors working together in order to become successful. Modeling career is not an easy one. Though from the outside it seems that this industry has lots of glamour and fun; the truth is a model needs to do lots of hard work and sacrifices lots of his or her personal choices while doing an assignment.
As we were talking about different factors of modeling, one of them is getting the right contact at the right time. The industry of modeling and fashion run on the basis of good contacts. If you have a good list of high profile contacts with you, your modeling career will become successful easily. Hubpages One Source Talent plays a vital role in having such contact. They offer a wide data base both for the clients, fashion houses and for the models. With the help of this data base all of them can contact with each other as per their requirement.
All women know how important it is to ensure their eyebrows look great and are kept tamed. You can have perfectly polished make-up and beautiful hair, but if your eyebrows are a mess then people will notice them first.
There is certainly no nicer feeling than having your eyebrows waxed or threaded. This is obviously not the feeling of the procedure, but the feeling you get when you look in the mirror and you see the beautifully shaped and defined eyebrows you now boast of. This can make your face look fresher and give you a great boost of confidence.
However, when you wake up in a few days time and you see your eyebrow hairs rearing off in different directions it can certainly be frustrating. But, it does not need to be. All you need to do is have a trusted eyebrow brush handy in order to tame any hairs. A brow brush can come in extremely handy and can ensure that your eyebrows look perfect in a mere few minutes. | <urn:uuid:3c801204-8dbf-42c0-8d05-4e61693d77c2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thebitbot.com/category/beauty-cosmetics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967058 | 890 | 1.554688 | 2 |
In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code of values … He cannot escape from this need; his only alternative is whether the philosophy guiding him is to be chosen by his mind or by chance.
The quote, from Philosophy and Sense of Life by Ayn Rand, is a less pithy (and less fatalistic) version of Socrates: “An unexamined life is not worth living.”
From A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt:
Margaret: In any State that was half good, you would be raised up high, not here, for what you’ve done already. It’s not your fault the State’s three-quarters bad. Then if you elect to suffer for it, you elect yourself a hero.
Thomas More: That’s very neat. But look now … If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we’d live like animals or angels in the happy land that needs no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all … why then perhaps we must stand fast a little — even at the risk of being heroes.
Now, back to grading essays on business ethics …
Despite Nick Carr’s insistence that Greg Mankiw stop blogging to concentrate on his comparative advantage as an economic thinker, I’m glad Mankiw continues with his inefficient pursuit. From a recent entry:
If, however, beauty is correlated with income, which it is, then like height, it should be taxed, even according to the logic of utilitarianism.
Professor Mankiw, citing evidence that better looks lead to higher incomes, notes that a social planner (with commonly assumed preferences), would wish to allocate income from the rich and beautiful to the poor, less well-endowed among us. I fully expected a dismissal of the ethical consequences, in the traditional economic mold, but instead was treated to this:
Most people would reject a beauty tax as absurd, which only goes to show that that most people do not share the moral sentiments often assumed in the economic literature on optimal tax policy.
I sometimes make the mistake of raising a question with colleagues in economics and finance about the ethical implications of traditional economic assumptions. I usually receive some form of “these are just assumptions, not ethical issues” in reply, taking neither side in the debate on scientists’ social responsibility, but simply sidestepping the rhubarb.
After all, how can normative statements in the study of the allocation of scarce resources (the traditional definition of economic science) possibly have ethical implications? Who would even ponder such a thing?
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Sledding safety to remember during the winter in Chicago
Monday, December 13, 2010
Winter wouldn't be the same without zooming a sled down a snowy hill. But this favorite snowy-weather pastime could land kids in a heap of trouble. About 20,000 children under age 19 go to the emergency room each year with sledding-related injuries, more than 4 percent requiring hospitalization, according to recent data by the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Boys were more likely to be injured, accounting for nearly 60 percent of all injuries. More than 42 percent of the injuries involved children age 10 to 14.
Collisions produced 51 percent of the injuries. While the majority of injuries were fractures, cuts and bruises, collisions were more likely to result in traumatic brain injury. The majority of injuries, 34 percent, occurred to the head. The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons recommends all participants wear helmets, sit in a forward-facing position and never slide headfirst down a slope.
To further reduce injury, sleds should be self-propelled. Children and young adults being pulled by motorized vehicles accounted for one-third of all injuries. Those under age 4 were more likely to be involved in accidents with vehicles.
"Given the potential for serious injury, children should never ride a sled that is being pulled by a motorized vehicle of any type including all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles, cars, trucks, tractors, motorcycles, dirt bikes and lawn mowers," says the study's co-author, Lara McKenzie, Ph.D., the center's principal investigator.
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WONG SHUN LEUNG: Wing Chun Personified
Trained by the late grandmaster Yip Man, teacher to the great Bruce Lee, Wong Shun Leung is perhaps best-known as the wing chun man who routinely challenged anyone of any style and lived to tell about it.
by David Peterson
*** The following article was previously published within the pages of “Inside Kung-Fu” magazine (Vol.18/No.2) as ‘Wong Shun Leung: Wing Chun’s Living Legend’. It is reproduced here in its original form as a tribute to Sifu Wong, who passed away on January 28th 1997 - the Author. ***
Which ever way you want to look at it, there is no denying that Wong Shun Leung is possibly the greatest living representative of the dynamic Chinese fighting art of Wing Chun, the man who put Wing Chun on the map in the late ‘fifties and early ‘sixties in his well publicised challenge matches against representatives of all the major combat arts in Hong Kong. He is the man who can rightly claim to have been the late Bruce Lee’s teacher, and to have influenced the development of Lee’s personal art of combat, Jeet Kune Do. His ego is such, however, that Wong Shun Leung prefers to be known simply as a teacher, a sifu, and he refuses to accept accolades such as “master” or “grandmaster”, terms which he believes are worthless because they have been abused so readily in recent years.
Wong Sifu, in his own typical fashion, usually downplays his “deadly” image by stating that, “I can’t fight very well and my Kung Fu is not very good.” He decries the claims of other so-called “masters” by emphasising that it matters not whether one is the son of a grandmaster, or that one knows “every deadly move known to man.” In his opinion it is far more important that one must practise hard, to “become the master of the art, not its slave.” To Wong Sifu it makes no difference how senior you are, but how good you are. He considers that Wing Chun is a SKILL, not an ART, and he sees nothing wrong with using ones skills.
In comparing skills and art, Wong Sifu has been quoted as saying, “…if A and B have a fight and B gets knocked out, then everyone knows that A won. There’s a winner and a loser. However, in music, you can like someone’s guitar playing or not like it and it doesn’t matter. Because it’s an ART, you can’t PROVE that one painting or piece of music is better than another. However, in Kung Fu, you can prove your skill in such a way that there is no doubt! This is the difference….in other ARTS, beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but in MARTIAL ART, the only judgement is whether or not it works!” Statements such as this one are characteristic of the very down-to-earth approach that Wong Sifu has to combat, and he certainly has the fighting record to back up such a beliefs.
Wong Shun Leung began his training in the martial arts while in his early teens. He tried his hand at several styles, including Western boxing, in which he developed a real interest, an interest which he still maintains today. Wong Sifu considers boxing to be very practical for the street because boxers learn to give and take punishment right from the word go, concentrating on attacking instead of “chasing the opponent’s hands” like many of the classical Kung Fu styles do. He probably would have still been boxing now if it hadn’t been for two particular incidents which changed his approach to combat once and for all.
Firstly, while sparring with his boxing coach one afternoon, Wong accidently landed a damaging blow to the face. In a rage, the coach began pounding Wong until, bleeding from nose and mouth, Wong managed to gain the upper hand, eventually knocking his coach out cold. After this event, Wong lost all respect for his boxing coach and never went back for another lesson. Wong’s father and grandfather had both been doctors of traditional Chinese medicine and were well acquainted with members of Hong Kong’s martial arts community so that from a very early age, Wong had heard hundreds of tales of the exploits of various local heroes. His grandfather had even been a good friend of Chan Wa Sun, the first of his future instructor Yip Man’s Wing Chun teachers, so Wong was aware of the fighting art of Chan the “money-changer” (Jau Chin Wa) from Fatsaan.
Wong recalled some of the stories he had been told about Chan Wa Sun, and of Chan’s teacher, the legendary Fatsaan Jan Sinsaang (Dr.Leung Jan, a noted herbalist in the nineteenth century, renowned for his unrivalled fighting skills) and he decided to seek out a Wing Chun teacher to see what the system had to offer him. As it turned out, friends of his older brother were learning Wing Chun so it was arranged that he would go to see them train. To cut a long story short, Wong ended up having a match with the man who was to become his teacher, the late grandmaster Yip Man, after initially having “held his own” with a couple of the junior students at the school, and was very soundly beaten. From that moment onwards, Wong Shun Leung became a devoted member of the Wing Chun clan and within a year had single-handedly elevated the Wing Chun system from the position of an obscure, virtually unknown, southern Chinese martial art, to that of a real force to be reckoned with.
Now 55 years old, Wong Shun Leung has been involved in Wing Chun for over 38 years, constantly working to develop and pass on the skills of the system to literally thousands of students. These days he spends at least three months of every year travelling to various places around the world, spreading his interpretation of Wing Chun in an honest, effective and realistic manner. Wong Sifu is a realist when it comes to combat, advising his audiences that martial artists are not invincible, and that sometimes the best solution when surrounded by villains is “…run away!” It is foolhardy, he suggests, to believe that training in the martial arts will enable a person to dispose of a group of attackers without raising as much as a sweat.
“If someone practises any martial art,” says Wong, “then that person must become stronger and more durable than someone who hasn’t practised. So if you are punched you are able to take a lot more punishment than a normal person. I have been hit many times, as have all of the great martial artists that I know of. So we are not supermen, but we can take a lot more. Any martial artist who says that he does not get hit is lying to himself!”
To him, fighting is like a game of chess; just as one cannot expect to win a game of chess without firstly sacrificing one or more pieces, so one cannot expect to be victorious in a fight without sustaining some kind of injury, even if only a few bruises. Several jagged scars on his knuckles, as well as scars from a knife on his arm and forehead attest to this belief. When it comes to combat experience, Wong Shun Leung could tell many tales, but with his usual modesty he tends to downplay this aspect of his career in martial arts.
It is a well-known fact in Hong Kong, however, that from around the time Wong Sifu was 18 until about the age of 24, he took part in countless challenge matches (referred to in Cantonese as bei mo) against fighters from virtually every style of martial art in the colony. Bruce Lee credited Wong with hundreds of victories, but conservative estimates suggest something along the lines of at least 50 to 60 such matches, with Wong always emerging as the winner. So successful was he that the local Hong Kong press picked up on his exploits and one enterprising reporter (now a resident in Australia) actually went out and arranged fights for him against non-Chinese as well, including a 250lb Russian boxer named Giko!
In the press reports Wong became known as Gong Sau Wong, meaning the “King of the Challenge Fight,” the sound wong meaning both “king” as well as being the same as his surname (although a different written character). The term gong sau was actually coined by Wong during an interview conducted at the time and means literally “talking with the hands,” a very apt description of exactly what he did. When pressed about these matches while being interviewed in Australia two years ago, Wong Sifu responded by saying, “I didn’t actually learn Wing Chun just to go out and fight. Kung Fu should really be used as a way of protecting yourself in circumstances where you are physically threatened.
“After I learnt the skills of Wing Chun from Yip Man I often had the opportunity to test them. By experimenting with my skills I could discover their limitations and how they compared with other disciplines and so improve myself. After a time of this experimentation I learnt that I needed to rely less on the fighting part to get that self-satisfaction and feeling of achievement.” It was also during this period of experimentation that Wong Shun Leung introduced Bruce Lee to the experience of the challenge fight. In the first of Lee’s matches, Wong coached him between rounds, encouraging Lee to continue when it seemed that he was about to give up.
The result was a victory that possibly changed the course of Lee’s life and certainly began the development of the martial arts superstar whom the world was later to discover. Grandmaster Yip Man, on hearing of the event, was said to have told Wong, “Fortunately you accompanied him to the venue and encouraged him to go on with the match. This trial of martial skill may be a decisive influence on him in the future. If someday Bruce Lee succeeds, the credit should rightfully go to you.” In discussing this period in Lee’s life, Jesse Glover wrote, “Wong was four years senior to Bruce in Yip Man’s clan and Bruce studied privately for a year and a half under both him and Yip Man” and that Wong was “…the man most responsible for the development of Bruce Lee.” Glover also wrote, “In ’59 Bruce told me that Wong was the greatest fighter in the Wing Chun style, and that he had successfully defeated all challengers.”
Wong Shun Leung is not just a gifted fighter and excellent teacher, he is also a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, and a self-taught calligrapher whose writing is greatly prized by those who appreciate such talent. He enjoys reading classical Chinese poetry, eating fine food, sipping a glass of good brandy with friends and sharing amusing anecdotes and jokes with his students. Bey Logan, in his article ‘Bruce Lee’s Teacher’ wrote, “The first thing you notice is how normal he looks. He looks too short, too friendly to be the legendary Wong Shun Leung Sifu. It is only the way he moves, the way he watches, that reveals the nature of the discipline he has mastered.
“Next, you’re surprised by his keen sense of humour. Many Westerners seem to cling to the idea that a Sifu must be a very old, very solemn man. There is none of the stereotypical Master Po-figure about Wong Shun Leung. He is very funny.” But as well as being a very friendly, amusing and approachable man, Wong Sifu is first and foremost an exponent and teacher of combat with quite definite views on the purpose and function of Kung Fu. Being the one student of Yip Man to have taught for him rather than go out and open his own school, Wong was able to truly absorb all that his teacher had to offer, the result being that he, above all other pretenders to the throne, could rightfully claim to be the inheritor of the system. Instead, Wong simply gets on with the task of teaching, letting his skills and experiences speak for themselves.
On the subject of self-defence, Wong says, “If you learn Kung Fu, your purpose is to fight. If you can’t fight and win, how can you defend yourself? Therefore, if you want to defend yourself, you must train until you can overpower others.” In an article on him which appeared in ‘Black Belt’ magazine, Wong said, “Wing Chun Kung Fu is a very sophisticated weapon… nothing else. It is a science of combat, the intent of which is the total incapacitation of an opponent. It is straightforward, efficient and deadly. If you’re looking to learn self-defence, don’t study Wing Chun. It would be better for you to master the art of invisibility.”
Strong opinions indeed, but then Wong Shun Leung bases such opinions upon many years of experience in what could only be described as real combat. He views many of the practices of modern martial artists as little more than games. Although he realises that the days of the challenge fight are well and truly over, he looks upon their passing with an element of sadness, not because he is an advocate of violence, but because today’s generation of martial artists are missing out on realistic training, and he sees the kinds of sparring exercises common to most styles as being a poor substitute for the realities of street combat.
Wong Sifu is constantly warning his students against the dangers of blindly following an instructor, copying every move he or she makes and accepting everything that they say as gospel. “You must become the master of your system, not its slave” is his often repeated motto. Using art as an example yet again, Wong Sifu says, “…Kung Fu is like painting a picture. When you learn to paint from your teacher you cannot be exactly the same as he or she because there are differences in age and experience, and so there must be personal differences.
“A person’s nature and physique influences the way in which one does things. Besides, if you do things exactly the same way your teacher does them, you’re just copying, not expressing yourself and will therefore not improve yourself.” He is not suggesting by these words that the Wing Chun student should go out and invent his or her own way of doing things. On the contrary, Wong Sifu is a firm believer in passing on and practising the skills of Wing Chun exactly as he himself learnt them. However, he accepts the fact that all people are different, having different levels of ability and so on, and therefore adopts the more realistic approach of passing on the essence of Wing Chun in the form of its concepts and basic principles with which the students are then free to interpret and utilise in their own particular way.
Wong Sifu also enjoys dispelling the many myths that shroud the martial arts, myths that give martial arts a bad name and detract from their credibility. “Martial artists are not people who learn magical powers to become mystical monks like the movies portray them to be. A lot of Kung Fu styles have in the past lived off reputations of having some secret level that you can eventually attain and, unfortunately, some instructors have maintained these ridiculous ideas.” He cites an example from his younger days when he was involved in a fight that had erupted between a friend of his and another man.
He defeated the person in question and was about to leave the scene when the guy, still lying on the ground, called out, “Hey little fella, don’t go! I’ve already given you the dim mak (death touch). You’re doomed!” Wong then adds, “That was around thirty-five years ago and the dim mak hasn’t worked yet…” Once, when asked by a journalist for an Australian magazine about the existence or non-existence of dim mak techniques in Wing Chun, Wong Sifu jokingly replied, “You might kill yourself if you touch yourself,” and then in a slightly more serious tone, “Besides, if a person is moving very fast, it’s almost impossible to touch some small areas with such precision.”
Wong Shun Leung is indeed a rare breed of man. He doesn’t try to exploit his reputation as one of Hong Kong’s most formidable streetfighters, nor his influence on the career of the late Bruce Lee. He doesn’t go around telling everyone how good he is, nor does he run down other instructors and styles. Despite his obvious skill he is not a pretentious man and his school in Hong Kong is small and drab, containing none of the mod cons found in most Western schools, just an excellent teacher who embodies all the qualities one could ever hope for in an instructor.
He has dedicated his life to the advancement and understanding of Wing Chun, “spreading the word” everywhere from Melbourne to Munich, establishing schools wherever he goes, teaching anyone willing to listen to what he has to say regardless of race, colour or creed. Wong Sifu is the enemy of all who make false claims about Kung Fu and the friend to everyone searching for the truth about combat and themselves. He has been described as “… an appropriate example of a man who has become his art and vice-versa. He started as a gifted fighter, studied both the physical and mental aspects of Wing Chun, and finally became Wing Chun spiritually.
“He’s a man who can be either soft-spoken or out-spoken depending upon the situation at hand. He has learned to understand his own limitations and thereby the limitations of others. His demeanour is calm, relaxed, and his intent unwavering. He is philosophy without embellishment, like an old sword that doesn’t appear dangerous at first, until you’ve tasted its razor edge.” Wong Shun Leung Sifu is Wing Chun personified, a living example of what can be achieved by anyone willing to devote all their energy into the practice and understanding of their chosen field of endeavour. The fact that he refuses to accept such praise makes him all the more deserving of it. Why he has achieved the level of expertise that he has is due to a very simple philosophy:”My aim,” says Wong, “is to better myself with each day of training.” | <urn:uuid:35622985-7c1d-47bd-b59f-279e05644cde> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.stickgrappler.net/2013/02/articles-david-peterson-wong-shun-leung_3.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982483 | 3,961 | 1.734375 | 2 |
The Best Way to Talk to Aging Adults About Driving
When you raise the issue of driving with your parents or other older adults, your approach may determine the outcome.
How to approach the issue of driving
What's the best way to approach your parents or other older adults about their driving abilities? In The Driving Dilemma, Elizabeth Dugan encourages adult children and caregivers to use open-ended questions and reflective listening techniques when they raise the driving issue.
Beginning the conversation with an open-ended question invites them to explore and express their feelings. This is far more effective than starting off with an emphatic statement -- no matter how accurate -- which is likely to get the conversation off on the wrong foot.
Consider these two examples (you can substitute the appropriate name or form of address you use for the person you're caring for):
Emphatic statement: "Mom, you nearly hit that car at the intersection near the grocery store today, and that's not the first time. You need to stop driving!"
Open-ended question: "Mom, you seemed really tense while we were driving to the grocery store today, and you had a little trouble at that traffic light. How is driving going for you these days?"
The emphatic statement certainly will get her attention, but it's also apt to make her angry. She'll feel compelled to defend herself rather than to give careful thought to what you said. On the other hand, the second approach encourages her to express her own concerns about her driving. | <urn:uuid:91f96cc1-fb1b-4fc0-8e61-0122ae0d3edc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.caring.com/articles/senior-driving-approach-issue-driving | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969433 | 307 | 2.46875 | 2 |
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PARIS — The word “coupe” is French in origin, from the verb “to cut,” and is often used in automotive parlance to describe a sedan that has been cut down from four doors to two. These days, in the auto industry, the word “coupe” has been corrupted; it is difficult to tell what it means anymore.
Consider the Mercedes-Benz CLS “coupe.” It has four doors. For the 2004 model year, the German automaker applied the word “coupe” to its new CLS sedan –- presumably because its sleek styling and low roofline tended to camouflage the fact that it had rear doors. The look, all definitions aside, seemed to resonate with buyers; Mercedes-Benz says it sold more than 170,000 CLS “coupes” worldwide over the ensuing seven years. Now, the CLS has been redesigned; it is still called a coupe -– but upon its unveiling at the 2010 Paris Motor Show on Thursday, it is fair now to ask “why?”
The new model has lost it clever disguise. It boldly flouts its sedan-like attributes. Less sleek, less furtively sporty, the new CLS is as ungainly looking now as any sedan. There is no mistaking the fact it has four doors; its roofline seems taller, even if designers suggest it isn’t really. It has strongly defined wheel arches, especially at the rear; the rear taillight treatment seems rather déclassé for the upper echelons of the luxury market. And, perhaps, worst of all, it seems to have a nose and grille treatment – particularly the CLS 350 on the Paris stand — inspired by the 2002 Dodge Ram pickup. Mercedes-Benz says the exaggerated nose was required to meet increasingly stringent pedestrian protection standards required by the European Union.
Somehow, however, over at the Audi pavilion, where the new CLS-fighter, the A7 Sportback, was on display the stylists obviously found a way to address pedestrian safety, keep harmonious proportions and coupe-like lines. And at BMW, its new 6 Series Concept not only looks comparatively svelte, it also has –- gasp -– only two doors. Perhaps more are on the way, as it is widely reported in the industry, with later iterations. In fact, the 6 Series-sized Gran Coupe Concept, introduced by BMW at the Auto China show in Beijing last April, has four doors.
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- Post 18 September 2012
- Last Updated on 19 September 2012
- By Zacharys Anger Gundu, Ph.D.
A bill to create grazing reserves and livestock routes across the country is under consideration in the Senate. Proponents of the bill argue that once passed, it will reduce the incessant clashes between nomadic pastoralists and farmers in different parts of the country. The bill provides for a National Grazing Reserves Commission and those promoting it have reminded Nigerians that the idea of grazing reserves and corridors is not new in the country. Up to a point, they are correct. Following the Othman Danfodio Jihad of 1804, the Fulani who had foisted themselves on parts of Northern Nigeria in the name of Islam, created grazing reserves for their bororo kith and kin across the areas they had influence on. Though the British who privileged the Fulani over and above other ethnic nationalities in Northern Nigeria ‘formalized’ these reserves, it was five years after independence that the Northern Regional Government enacted the Grazing Reserve Law. By 1976, the Federal Government assisted by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) had established hundreds of reserves for use by nomadic pastoral families. Given the skewed nature of this concept, it never succeeded explaining the incessant clashes between the intended beneficiaries of the concept and farmers across the country from Southern Kaduna to Oyo state. The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) have however not given up on their dream to have grazing reserves and their continued lobby of government and politicians is certainly responsible for the current initiative to resuscitate this concept.
Many people argue that creating grazing reserves across the country is a positive development because it will boost livestock development, reduce the pastoral burden, check incessant migration of nomads and improve the strained relationship between famers and nomads. While these reasons maybe laudable, they are entirely besides the issues that are material to the nomadic challenge in Nigeria. Two of these issues stand out. One is the rapid desertification of the Sahara that has continued to encroach virtually unchecked on part of the country while the other is the international character of the Fulani who are at the centre of nomadic pastoralism in Nigeria. Increased desertification is a driving force behind the push of nomads into other parts of Nigeria in search of pasture. This push is exacerbated by nomads from other West African countries that flood the Nigerian area in search of pasture especially in the dry season. The Fulani who are at the centre of the nomadic challenge in Nigeria are incidentally spread throughout West Africa. More than half of them are however in Nigeria where their population has continued to grow due to immigration from neighbouring West African countries suffering from the incessant sahelian drought.
The nomadic challenge cannot be tackled successfully by creating grazing reserves. What the country needs more than anything else is to effectively check desert encroachment and discourage the nomadic push into and across the country especially in areas inhabited by farmers whose attachment to the land is fore grounded by a different set of values from those of nomads. Given the international character of Fulanis, it is quite clear that many of them who have continued to push into different parts of the country are not even Nigerian citizens. Creating grazing lands in the country for the benefit of non Nigerians at the expense of Nigerian farmers is not only irresponsible, it is unpatriotic. Nomadic pastoralism might have been a good model of keeping livestock in the past but not so today. The conflicts it has continued to generate across the country alone should make us rethink this way of life. Nomadic pastoralism also has implications for national and regional security. The manner in which nomads crisscross national boundaries penetrating deep into countries like Nigeria is capable of undermining national security at many levels. Arms and ammunitions can be moved in and around countries without detection. The sophisticated weapons deployed by Fulani militias against unsuspecting farmers in places like Plateau, Nasarawa, Taraba and Benue states should send us thinking about the grave dangers of allowing nomads free movement into and across the country. Nomadic pastoralism also poses a health challenge. Zoonotic diseases from animals to humans are driven by the nomadic lifestyle. This is so because the lifestyle complicates structured livestock health care, making it very difficult to enforce minimum healthcare requirements for livestock and control the incessant outbreak of diseases.
Grazing reserves and dedicated livestock routs are also meaningless unless we are able to ascertain the population of livestock supposed to benefit from the reserves. At the moment, there is no certainty about the livestock population we are dealing with in the country. Indiscriminate immigration of nomads into the country has made this difficult. It is therefore difficult to establish the carrying capacities of these reserves and routes complicating the extent to which they can be managed sustainably. Increased population build up amongst farming communities is also putting pressure on available farmlands. This will make it very difficult for farmers to accept grazing reserves that will shrink available farmlands.
Nomadic pastoralism is not sustainable- not any more. The future for livestock farming in Nigeria must be on the farm and ranches specially developed to accommodate those with animals. People with animals must reside, feed and keep their animals on farms. Fortunately for us, institutions like the National Animal Production Institute (NAPRI) in Zaria have developed and tested varieties of pasture that can be produced in commercial quantities to support such farms. Contrary to proponents of the grazing reserves bill, it is ranches and farms that can grow livestock production in the country and not grazing reserves.
States who are at the receiving end of the bill must be in the forefront of rejecting this bill. If passed, it will not only destabilize them, it will also pitch their unsuspecting farmers against better armed nomads who are bent on imposing an archaic way of life on the country at all cost. Nomads in places like Plateau, Nasarawa, Taraba and Benue states are also gradually staking political claims to land leading to frictions and bloodletting. The grazing reserves bill is also against the spirit of true federalism. If Nigerian states like Sokoto, Kebbi, Kano, Bornu and Katsina for whatever reasons, would want to allow nomads from other countries to graze their states, it will be too much for them to expect that such nomads and Nigerian nomads must also have free grazing access in other Nigerian states. Other states in the spirit of true federalism must begin to regulate livestock farming in favour of farms and ranches. If states like Plateau, Benue, Taraba and Nasarawa had such legislation, the amount of bloodshed and the intensity of conflict between nomads and farmers reported in them would have been significantly reduced. Many of the herds grazing indiscriminately across the country belong to the Fulbe siire (Toronkawa) who are rich patrons in the cities. The Fulbe ladde (Fulanin bororo) who tend these herds are merely hired hands. The Toronkawa can afford ranches and farms upon which to keep their cows. They can also grow the appropriate pasture for these herds and must be compelled by legislation to do this. Even though, the bororo prefer traditional Fulani education(pulaaku), if they settle on ranches and farms with their herds, it will be easy to integrate their children into the normal school system saving the country tons of money which is literally wasted today in the guise of providing nomadic education. Government at the Federal and State levels must muster sufficient courage to let Nigerians who want to keep livestock know that the way forward in tackling the nomadic challenge is in ranches and farms not grazing rights across the country.
The lobby of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) and other Fulani groups is nothing more than cheap blackmail. The Association is living in the past and must wake up to the realities of our time. It is no longer possible to foist a Fulani interest on other parts of the country and invite Funalis from all over West Africa to benefit from the foisting. The arguments of Fulani apologists to the effect that nature has consigned the Fulani and his cattle to the bush where he has no option than to fight to the ‘last drop of his blood’ to graze uncultivated forests and grass lands on the continent is unacceptable. The Fulani ambition to one day get his herd to drink from the Orange river in Southern Africa is obscene and is repeated only because of arrant arrogance and extreme disregard for people including national and other boundaries. Fulani cattle have no ‘universal rights’ to grazing resources in the country. Staking claims to such imaginary rights is an ambition that courts chaos which we must avoid by all means.
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New Rijksmuseum Opens to the Public in April 2013 Following a Ten Year Transformation
By: PR Newswire
Nov. 15, 2012 07:02 AM
AMSTERDAM, November 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
After ten years of rebuilding, renovation and restoration, the new Rijksmuseum will open on 13 April 2013. Never before has a national museum undergone such a complete modernisation.
The transformation of the Rijksmuseum provides an opportunity for a major re-presentation of the museum's world-famous collection, much of which has not been accessible to the public for a decade. For the first time, visitors can follow a chronological sequence of 80 galleries displaying 8,000 works of art and objects that tell the story of 800 years of Dutch history seen in an international context, from the Middle Ages to the present day. Only Rembrandt's celebrating masterpiece, The Night Watch, will be returning to its original setting.
More than 30 galleries are dedicated to the glory of the Golden Age when the young mercantile republic led the world in trade, science, military exploits and the arts. At the heart of this will be the magnificently restored Gallery of Honour, presenting world-famous works of art by Frans Hals, Jan Steen, Johannes Vermeer and Rembrandt van Rijn.
Spanish architecture firm Cruz y Ortiz arquitectos has turned the 19th-century building into a bright and spacious museum for the 21st century, with an impressive new entrance, state-of-the-art facilities, restored galleries, and a new Asian Pavilion. The architects have recreated the clear layout conceived by the museum's original architect, Pierre Cuypers, and have restored the high, spacious, late 19th century galleries to their former glory. An outdoor exhibition space and renovated garden have also been added.
The French interior architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte has selected an interior colour scheme inspired by Pierre Cuypers palette for the building, and has designed and chosen furnishings for the gallery including the display cases, plinths, lighting and furniture.
The museum is currently installing the 8,000 works of art and historical objects into the new building. The last work to be moved will be Rembrandt's The Night Watch.
The Rijksmuseum is the only major national museum in the world that will be open to the public 365 days a year.
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At just 10:30 AM the sun was already near its full zenith and it beat down upon the city of Osaka with an intense, angry glare. Waves of heat shimmered up from the pavement and superheated the air which blew around in tepid, weak breezes that offered little respite. Perhaps later, the column of heat created by the great city’s many square miles of pavement would spark a sudden thunderstorm as it rose high into the stratosphere and the resultant rain would bring relief as it cascaded down and turned the streets into raging torrents. For now, however, there was only the glare of the sun, the stifling heat and, for me, the thought that riding an 1100 cc air cooled sport bike in a full set of leathers was a choice I should have avoided making.
Earlier this week, I wrote about the General Motors XP-75 Eagle and the idea that GM might have engaged in a relatively small bit of realpolitik during said plane’s conception and gestation. I’ve been writing for TTAC long enough to have a fairly accurate sense of how the B&B as a whole will regard whatever I write, but in the case of this article my guesses about what I’d find in the comments section were completely and thoroughly mistaken. I’d like to address them as part of larger concerns I have about the future of writing and criticism on the Internet, and I will do so in what you’re about to read.
But first, let’s talk about the way the Japanese treated prisoners during World War II, shall we?
General Motors was the largest supplier of war materiel to the American armed forces. Ford famously built B-24 Liberators that rolled off the Willow Run assembly line at a rate of one per hour. Chrysler alone built as many tanks as all the German tank manufacturers combined. With those high profile contributions to the war effort made by the big three automakers, it’s easy to forget that the independent automakers (and automotive suppliers as well) also switched over completely to military production.
To commemorate Memorial Day here in the US, we’re taking a look at how the American auto industry was mobilized into war production for World War Two. Because that mobilization was so extensive, the conversion to military production so complete, a blog post by it’s very nature cannot really do the subject justice. This is only the most cursory review of the topic, which truly deserves a book length treatment. As a matter of fact, historian Arthur Herman is currently working on a book about the “arsenal of democracy”, American industry during the war.
Herman will have a lot of material to work with.Today we’ll be looking at the role of the Big Three automakers in war production, starting with General Motors. (Read More…)
Memorial Day is a time set aside to remember those who gave their lives in military service to the United States. Today, even as we are fighting two wars and have men and women in harms way in yet other places, though, a relatively small fraction of Americans serve in the military. Few civilians, except military families, understand the sacrifices necessary to protect our country. There was a time, though, when the military conflict was genuinely existential and just about every able bodied man was drafted or enlisted, while virtually the entire civilian population was directly involved in the war effort, either through their jobs in military production, or more personally, because just about everything was rationed giving the military a higher priority for things like vehicles, tires, fuel and food. With the dawn of total war, the plants and proving grounds of Detroit became a new kind of battlefield, in which the tools of economic prosperity were turned into munitions and machines that would change the course of history. | <urn:uuid:6ec6aa50-a731-464a-91d6-d0f06c93ec57> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/tag/wwii/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00048-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972918 | 785 | 1.8125 | 2 |
In response to today’s ever-increasing demand for speed, accuracy and performance at an affordable price, Digitron has developed a wide range of handheld digital thermometers.
Infrared thermometers are the most cost-efficient way of measuring temperature in the food industry. Readings are instant, saving hours of operator time each week. Furthermore, packaging and food is kept intact as the readings are taken.
When used in conjunction with a conventional probe thermometer, IR thermometers help general food safety system surveillance by allowing the user to scan numerous food temperatures quickly. There is no faster way to monitor food temperature in your daily HACCP routine. Temperatures can be taken of food with a low thermal mass eg. salad leaves or sliced meats. It also allows for non-destructive measurement, reduces waste and damage to packaging and overall are quick and easy to use!
The DRT 880 is a multi feature Relative Humidity Meter is quick and easy to use, as well as being accurate.
In response to today’s ever-increasing demand for speed, accuracy and performance at an affordable price, Digitron developed the 2000 series of hand-held digital thermometers. Models available range from simple on, off and hold versions to instruments with advanced measurement and datalogging functions across a range of sensor types.
The 2100 series, an evolutionary advance on the 2000 range have a rugged ergonomic, waterproof construction, Lumberg connector and are specifically designed to meet the harsh conditions of today’s food industry. Used in conjunction with Thermistor and Thermocouple probes measurement accuracies are well within those specified in the Food Temperature control Regulations (1995).
The Digimate series provides low-cost, accurate food thermometers for use in catering and food processing environments.
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The book's title - "Cold, Hungry and in the Dark: Exploding the Natural Gas Supply Myth" - pokes fun at the statement made by former Chesapeake Energy CEO...read more
Exposed: Pennsylvania Act 13 Overturned by Commonwealth Court, Originally an ALEC Model Bill
Exposed: Pennsylvania Act 13 Overturned by Commonwealth Court, Originally an ALEC Model Bill
On July 26, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court** ruled PA Act 13 unconstitutional.*** The bill would have stripped away local zoning laws, eliminated the legal concept of a Home Rule Charter, limited private property rights, and in the process, completely disempowered town, city, municipal and county governments, particularly when it comes to shale gas development.
The Court ruled that Act 13 "...violates substantive due process because it does not protect the interests of neighboring property owners from harm, alters the character of neighborhoods and makes irrational classifications – irrational because it requires municipalities to allow all zones, drilling operations and impoundments, gas compressor stations, storage and use of explosives in all zoning districts, and applies industrial criteria to restrictions on height of structures, screening and fencing, lighting and noise."
"It’s absolutely crushing of local self-government," Ben Price, project director for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), told Rosenfeld. "It’s a complete capitulation of the rights of the people and their right to self-government. They are handing it over to the industry to let them govern us. It is the corporate state. That is how we look at it."
Where could the idea for such a bill come from in the first place? Rosenfeld pointed to the oil and gas industry in his piece.
That's half of the answer. Pennsylvania is the epicenter of the ongoing fracking boom in the United States, and by and large, is a state seemingly bought off by the oil and gas industry.
The other half of the question left unanswered, though, is who do oil and gas industry lobbyists feed anti-democratic, state-level legislation to?
The answer, in a word: ALEC.
PA Act 13, Originally an ALEC Model Bill
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is in the midst of hosting its 39th Annual Meeting this week in Salt Lake City, Utah. ALEC is appropriately described as an ideologically conservative, Republican Party-centric "corporate bill mill" by the Center for Media and Democracy, the overseer of the ALEC Exposed project. 98 percent of ALEC's funding comes from corporations, according to CMD.
ALEC's meetings bring together corporate lobbyists and state legislators to schmooze, and then vote on what it calls "model bills." Lobbyists have a "voice and a vote in shaping policy," CMD explains. They have de facto veto power over whether their prospective bills become "models" that will be distributed to the offices of politicians in statehouses nationwide.
A close examination suggests that an ALEC model bill is quite similar to the recently overturned Act 13.
It is likely modeled after and inspired by an ALEC bill titled, "An Act Granting the Authority of Rural Counties to Transition to Decentralized Land Use Regulation." This Act was passed by ALEC's Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force at its Annual Meeting in August 2010 in San Diego, CA.
The model bill opens by saying that "...the planning and zoning authority granted to rural counties may encourage land use regulation which is overly centralized, intrusive and politicized." The model bill's central purpose is to "grant rural counties the legal authority to abandon their planning and zoning authority in order to transition to decentralized land use regulation..."
The key legal substance of the bill reads, "The local law shall require the county to repeal or modify any land use restriction stemming from the county’s exercise of its planning or zoning authority, which prohibits or conditionally restricts the peaceful or highest and best uses of private property..."
In short, like Act 13, this ALEC model bill turns local democractic protections on their head. Act 13, to be fair, is a far meatier bill, running 174 pages in length. What likely happened: Pennsylvania legislators and the oil and gas industry lobbyists they serve took the key concepts found in ALEC's bill, ran with them, and made an even more extreme and specific piece of legislation to strip away Pennsylvania citizens' rights.
There were many shale gas industry lobbyists and those affiliated with like-minded think-tanks in the house for the Dec. 2010 San Diego Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force Meeting where this prospective ALEC model bill became an official ALEC model bill. They included Daren Bakst of the John Locke Foundation (heavily funded by the Kochs), Russel Harding of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy (also heavily funded by the Koch Family Fortune), Kathleen Hartnett White of the Texas Public Policy Foundation (again, heavily funded by the Kochs), Mike McGraw of Occidental Petroleum, and Todd Myers of the Washington Policy Center (a think tank that sits under the umbrella of the Koch Foundation-funded State Policy Network).
A Model That's Been Passed and Proposed Elsewhere
The Act Granting the Authority of Rural Counties to Transition to Decentralized Land Use Regulation model bill has made a tour to statehouses nationwide, popping up in Ohio, Idaho, Colorado, and Texas. The model passed in some states, while failing to pass in others.
Here is a rundown of similar bills that DeSmogBlog has identified so far:
Ohio HB 278
Long before the ALEC model bill was enacted in 2010, Ohio passed a similar bill in 2004, HB 278, which gives exclusive well-permitting, zoning, and regulatory authority to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). Ohio is home to the Utica Shale basin.
Mirroring ALEC's model, HB 278 gives the "...Division of Mineral Resources Management in the Department of Natural Resources...exclusive authority to regulate the permitting, location, and spacing of oil and gas wells in the state.."
Could it be that the ALEC model bill was actually inspired by HB 278? It's very possible, based on recent history.
As was the case with ALEC's hydraulic fracturing chemical fluid "disclosure" model bill (actually rife with loopholes ensuring chemicals will never be disclosed), ALEC adopted legislation passed in the Texas state legislature as its own at its December 2011 conference.
Idaho HB 464
Idaho's House of Representatives passed HB 464 in February 2012 in a 54-13-3 roll call vote. A month later, the bill passed in the Senate in a 24-10-1 roll call vote. Days later, Republican Gov. Butch Otter signed the bill into law.
Key language from HB 464 reads,
It is declared to be in the public interest...to provide for uniformity and consistency in the regulation of the production of oil and gas throughout the state of Idaho...[,] to authorize and to provide for the operations and development of oil and gas properties in such a manner that a greater ultimate recovery of oil and gas may be obtained. (Snip)
It is the intent of the legislature to occupy the field of the regulation of oil and gas exploration and production with the limited exception of the exercise of planning and zoning authority granted cities and counties...
The Democratic Party State Senate Minority Office was outraged about the bill's passage.
"[HB] 464 establishes Idaho law governing oil and gas exploration and development including limits to local control over the location of wells, drilling processes, water rights and the injection of waste materials into the ground," reads a press release by the Idaho State Senate Minority Office. "[HB 464] preempts local land-use planning statute dating back to 1975. Counties will have little input in the permitting process whereby well sites are selected (or restricted) and no role in planning and zoning."
Sound familiar? Like PA Act 13 and the ALEC model? It should.
Full-scale fracking has yet to take place in Idaho, though the race is on, with Idahoans signing more and more leases with each passing day. Thanks to gas industry lobbyists' use of ALEC's model bill process, the industry will have far fewer hurdles to clear in the state when the race begins.
Colorado SB 88
The Bill Summary portion of SB 88 explains the bill concisely, mirroring, once again, PA Act 13 and the ALEC Model Bill: "...the Colorado oil and gas conservation commission has exclusive jurisdiction to regulate oil and gas operations, and local regulation of oil and gas operations is preempted by state law."
“From Colorado Springs to Boulder County, cities and counties across Colorado have passed measures against fracking,” Sam Schabacker of Food and Water Watch told the Colorado Independent at the time SB 88 was struck down. “This bill is an attempt by the oil and gas industry to strip local governments of what little power they have to protect their citizens and water resources from the harms posed by fracking.”
Far from a completed debate, as covered in a June 2012 follow-up story by the Colorado Independent, things are just getting underway on this one in The Centennial State.
“I don’t know where it goes from here. I suspect there is a happy medium and there is a compromise that can be reached,” Democratic Party State Senate President Brandon Shaffer told the Independent. “I also suspect next year additional legislation will come forward on both sides of the spectrum. Ultimately I think the determination will be made based on the composition of each of the chambers. If the Democrats are in control of the House and Senate, there will be more emphasis on local control.”
Texas HB 3105 and SB 875
SB 875's key operative paragraph explains,
[Entities] subject to an administrative, civil, or criminal action brought under this chapter for nuisance or trespass arising from greenhouse gas emissions [have] an affirmative defense to that action if the person's actions that resulted in the alleged nuisance or trespass were authorized by a rule, permit, order, license, certificate, registration, approval, or other form of authorization issued by the commission or the federal government or an agency of the federal government...
The ALEC model bill calls for a transition from centralized power by local governments to individual property rights under the common law of private nuisance, a civil suit that allows those whose private property has been damaged to file a legal complaint with proper authorities. Now, under the dictates of SB 875, even these rights have been eviscerated.
Perhaps Texas exemplifies a realization of the oil and gas industries' ideal world: legal rights for no one except themselves.
"This [bill allows] the willful trespass onto private property of chemicals and or nuisances, thus destroying the peaceful enjoyment of private property, which someone may have put their life savings into," Calvin Tillman, former Mayor of Dish, Texas and one of the stars of Josh Fox's Academy Award-nominated documentary film, "Gasland," wrote in a letter. "Therefore, private citizens would have no protection for their private property if this amendment was added."
HB 3105's key language, meanwhile, makes the following illicit (emphases mine):
...the adoption or issuance of an ordinance, rule, regulatory requirement, resolution, policy, guideline, or similar measure...by a municipality that..has effect in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the municipality, excluding annexation, and that enacts or enforces an ordinance, rule, regulation, or plan that does not impose identical requirements or restrictions in the entire extraterritorial jurisdiction of the municipality...or damages, destroys, impairs, or prohibits development of a mineral interest...
This bill, unlike SB 875, never passed, though if it did, it would do basically the same thing as PA Act 13 and the ALEC model. If it ever does pass, however, it would mean that Texans would have literally no legal standing to sue the oil and gas industry for wrongdoing in their state.
ALEC's Bifurcated Attack: Erode Local Democracy, Strip Federal Regs,
Coming full circle, though PA Act 13 was struck down, for now, as constitutional, that doesn't necessarily mean ALEC copycat versions like it won't start popping up in other statehouses nationwide.
Sleep on this for awhile. There's more to come.
Part two of DeSmog's investigation on ALEC's dirty energy agenda will show that, along with pushing for the erosion of local democracy as we know it today, ALEC has also succeeded in promulgating legislation that would eliminate Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions - another Big Business giveaway of epic proportions.
If anything is clear, it's this: statehouses have become a favorite clearinghouse for polluters to install the "Corporate Playbook" in place of democracy.
Stay tuned for Part Two of DeSmog's investigation, coming soon.
**In an earlier version of this post, we mistakenly attributed the court decision to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, though it was a Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court decision. We regret the error.
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A “Cell Phone” is a very small two-way radio. Every two- way radio receives Electro-Magnetic-Waves and, transmits Electro-Magnetic-Waves. An Electro-Magnetic-Wave is a fundamental part of the energy of the universe.
It has two components: Electricity — which is a current of electrons, flowing through a Conductor. A Conductor can be anything, but for humans, it is usually a wire made of a metal, such as copper. Around the row of electrons is a field of energy, known as a Magnetic Wave.
Up to this very point in time, we do not know what a Magnetic Wave is. All we know is that Magnetic Waves are a form of energy and that they interact with the atoms found in the Universe by changing the locations of electrons.
Electrons are found in Orbits or circular paths, surrounding the nucleus of an atom. These paths are elliptical and at different distances from the center of the nucleus. They are analogous to the planets circling the Sun. If an electron goes from a farther distance to a closer distance to the nucleus, energy is released.
It can be intuitively understood, that more energy is required to hold mass farther from a central point than closer. We can see that space and energy are inter-related. This is the fundamental relationship that was described in Einstein’s work. The energy involved in maintaining the paths of the electrons is that which is found in the electro-magnetic-waves.
THE IMPORTANCE OF ELECTRO-MAGNETIC ENERGY IS THAT IT AFFECTS ALL ELECTRONS WITH EQUAL FORCE. WHEN AN ELECTRO-MAGNETIC WAVE PASSES THROUGH THE CELLS OF YOUR BRAIN, IT AFFECTS THE ELECTRONS OF THOSE CELLS! GENETIC D.N.A.
All the cells of our body divide in order to maintain the life of the individual. Some cells divide rapidly, such as skin cells and blood cells, and some cells divide very slowly, such as the cells of the nervous system. If a cell divides very rapidly, without control, we call the resultant accumulation of cells, Cancer.
We know that control of the division of cells resides in the genes or DNA of the cells. We think that this control is affected by the Telomerepart of the DNA.
To this very day, we do not know why the telomeres change and produce uncontrolled divisions of cells, resulting in cancer. We do know that Electro-Magnetic-Waves are one cause, because when we apply such waves, in the form of X-Rays, we can easily produce cancer. That is why patients receiving X-Rays are covered with lead in order to avoid too much exposure to this form of Electro-Magnetic- Wave.
Skin cancer is caused by the electro-magnetic-waves of the sun (Sun light is all Electro-magnetic-waves). People exposed to sun light for long periods of their lives have an unusually large quantity of skin cancers. Most elderly people, in all parts of the world, have skin cancers, but, only in those areas exposed to the electro-magnetic-waves of the sun.
We are absolutely certain that Electro-Magnetic- Waves cause cancer!
What we are not certain about is the quantity of those waves needed to cause cancer. Most likely, this is determined by the cell type and the individual DNA structure.
Electro-Magnetic-Waves are all around us. They are found in our radios, micro-wave ovens, televisions. and, of course, telephones. Probably, a huge part of the cancers found in humans today, is caused by this explosion of Electro-Magnetic-Waves.
Although cancers can be caused by chemicals and by the electro-magnetic-waves of the Sun, the numbers of such cancers, in the past, were relatively low. In the last century, mankind has seen a dramatic increase in the numbers of cancers found in humans.
Naturally, these cancers are found in tissues that multiply rapidly; such as, breast, lung, liver, ovary, prostate and skin. Many scientists believe that this unusual increase in cancer numbers is related to the increased use of electro-magnetism by humans.
THE CELL PHONE
Throughout the Universe, Energy is dissipated, or made smaller, at the rate of the square of the distance. In other words, if an object is two feet from an energy source, it only receives one fourth (2 squared=four) of the energy. At four feet, the object only receives one-sixteenth (four square=sixteen) of the energy.
The farther away, the less the energy, the closer to the source, the greater the energy. What does this mean in terms of the energy from a cell phone?
The POPCORN experiment.
On the internet today, videos are circulating, showing how popcorn can be exploded, simply by being placed next to cell phones.
If you click on the word “Popcorn” above, you can see the videos. This is clear evidence of the effect of Electro Magnetic-Waves on matter, heating pop corn kernels to the point that they pop. One must conclude that brain cells are being heated and the DNA changed by the energy of the waves entering the brain.
All the neurologists and neuron-surgeons that I know are convinced that brain cancer will be in epidemic proportions within a decade. Since brain cells divide slowly, and since the period of time when cancer develops is during the process of cell division, brain cells can withstand the intrusion of magnetic-waves better than other cells.
However, the use of the cell phone is so ubiquitous, that the increase in brain tumors is already being noticed. There are many websites on the internet, explaining this process.
Here is one of them: http://www.ehso.com/ehshome/cellphonecancer.php
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From CSI Wiki Farm
- Microsoft becomes the world’s largest PC software company based on sales. Computers are starting to become a part of daily life for some office workers.
- 2 November - Internet worm burrows through the Net, affecting ~6,000 of the 60,000 hosts on the Internet
- Soon after the completion of the T1 NSFNET backbone, traffic increased so quickly that plans immediately began on upgrading the network again.
- CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) formed by DARPA in response to the needs exhibited during the Morris worm incident. The worm is the only advisory issued this year.
- The Morris Worm Incident: Then-23-year-old Robert Morris, the son of a computer security expert for the National Security Agency, sent a nondestructive worm through the Internet, causing problems for about 6,000 of the 60,000 hosts linked to the network. A researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California discovered the worm. "It was like the Sorcerer´s Apprentice," Dennis Maxwell, then a vice president of SRI, told the Sydney (Australia) Sunday Telegraph at the time. Morris was sentenced to three years of probation, 400 hours of community service, and a fine of $10,050. Morris, who said he was motivated by boredom, programmed the worm to reproduce itself and computer files and to filter through all the networked computers. The size of the reproduced files eventually became large enough to fill the computers´ memories, disabling them.
- DoD chooses to adopt OSI and sees use of TCP/IP as an interim. US Government OSI Profile (GOSIP) defines the set of protocols to be supported by Government purchased products
- Los Nettos network created with no federal funding, instead supported by regional members (founding: Caltech, TIS, UCLA, USC, ISI)
- NSFNET backbone upgraded to T1 (1.544Mbps)
- CERFnet (California Education and Research Federation network) founded by Susan Estrada
- Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) established in December with Jon Postel as its Director. Postel was also the RFC Editor and US Domain registrar for many years
- Internet Relay Chat (IRC) developed by Jarkko Oikarinen
- Asante founded to provide Ethernet adapter cards for Apple Macintosh computers.
- Ungermann-Bass acquired by Tandem Computers.
- First Canadian regionals join NSFNET: ONet via Cornell, RISQ via Princeton, BCnet via Univ of Washington
- FidoNet gets connected to the Net, enabling the exchange of email and news
- The Swedish University Network (SUNET) moves from X.25 to a 64 kbit/s wide-area ethernet (Vitalink equipment) that carries TCP/IP aswell as DECnet and other protocols. The TCP/IP network is connected to the Internet. This is a controversial decision, as continental Europe still believes in OSI and X.400. National networks in Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland through Nordunet are connected to Stockholm, where a common connection goes to the John von Neumann Supercomputing Center (JVNC) at Princeton. Canada and France also connects to the Internet this year.
- The first Interop conference is organized in San Jose.
- The NSFnet is completely upgraded to T1 speed (1.5 or 2 Mbit/s).
- Transatlantic telephone cable TAT-8 is installed, the first to use fiber optic technology. It carries 8,000 circuits (simultaneous telephone calls) or 280 Mbps. The cable is a joint venture between AT&T, Standard Communications Laboratories (a subsidiary of STC), and the French firm Submarcom. The investment was US$ 9,000 per voice channel.
- Thirteen European countries issue a simultaneous tender for GSM equipment heralding a new era in communication.
- Donald T. Valentine, a venture capitalist, gains control of Cisco; John Morgridge is named president and CEO.
- Hewlett-Packard introduces the Deskjet printer, HP's first mass-market inkjet printer, offering plain-paper printing and industry-standard print resolution.
- CCITT (now ITU-T) jointly with ISO issues the second generation of recommendations for the X.400 Message Handling System (MHS), an e-mail system for the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI, X.200). Recommendations for a Directory Service (DS, X.500) is also issued. The first generation of X.400 was issued in 1984.
- The best-selling book of one of our times' greatest physicists,
- The first optic fiber is laid across the Atlantic (cf 1972, 1986).
- Spain, The national teletext system Telecinco is officially launched.
- Formation of of GPT by GEC and Plessey (cf 1989).
- December 6, Covidea announces it will close its videotex services, Pronto and Business Banking.
- November, MS-DOS 4.01 was released
- November 2, Internet worm burrows through the Net, affecting 6,000 of the 60,000 hosts on the Internet, leading to the formation of the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT).
- October 12, at San Francisco's Symphony Hall, Steve Jobs premiers the NeXT Computer he has developed since being ousted from Apple. Some corporate funding was provided by Ross Perot. The computer did not actually go on sale until mid-1989.
- October 10, New York Times photographers use a Macintosh and 9600 bps modem to send Dodgers-Mets photos from L.A. to New York.
- September 20, Apple and Quantum Computer Services announce AppleLink, a graphical online service for Apple computer users.
- Summer, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is born when Jarkko Oikarinen writes the first IRC client and server at the University of Oulo, Finland. The first IRC server was named tolsun.oulu.fi.
- July, Prodigy begins test marketing in Hartford, Atlanta and California with a service for PCs.
- July, MS-DOS 4.0 was released
- June 16, introduction of the Intel 386SX microprocessor, operating at 33 MHz, having a 16 bit bus, 275,000 transistors, being able to address 4 GB of memory.
- June, IBM and Sears change the name of Trintex to Prodigy.
- June, IBM introduces the AS/400 system in the largest worldwide product announcement in IBM history. More than 100,000 customers, IBM business partners, consultants, analysts, vendors, reporters and IBM branch people in more than 140 locations were linked to the main product unveiling in New York City. Rolled out that day were six AS/400 models and more than 1,000 software packages. The AS/400 family at announcement offered a 10-fold performance range from the smallest to the largest model in the number of commercial transactions it could process per hour -- up to 45,000 in IBM benchmark tests.
- In May, August, and September, the magazine Data Communications (now Network Magazine, a McGraw-Hill publication) contained an interesting debate in three articles between William Stallings (pro OSI) and Joachim Martillo (pro TCP/IP). The fact that the benefits of competing technologies is the topic of a public debate might indicate that the battle had already been won (by TCP/IP).
- February, Compaq reports $1.2 billion sales for 1987.
- January 2, shutdown of Multics at MIT, then running MSS 38.3.
- The first multicast tunnel is established between Stanford and BBN in the Summer of 1988
- Countries connecting to NSFNET: Canada (CA), Denmark (DK), Finland (FI), France (FR), Iceland (IS), Norway (NO), Sweden (SE)
Jon Postel is the Director of ISI's Computer Networks Division. The division has 70 staff members working on about 10 projects, including the NSF sponsored Routing Arbiter, and DARPA sponsored projects in the areas of Active Networks, Middleware, Security, Distributed Systems, and High Speed Networking.
He received his B.S. and M.S. in Engineering, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA, in 1966, 1968, and 1974 respectively. Jon is a member of the ACM and the Internet Society (and currently serves on the Internet Society Board of Trustees). At UCLA he was involved in the beginnings of the ARPANET and the development of the Network Measurement Center.
He has worked in the areas of computer communication protocols, especially at the operating system level and the application level.
His interests included multi-machine internetwork applications, multimedia conferencing and electronic mail, very large networks, and very high speed communications.
Jon was also involved in several Internet infrastructure activities including the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, the RFC Editor, the US Domain, and the Los Nettos network (a regional network for the greater Los Angeles area).
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Lump on Breast While Nursing
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Lump on Breast While Nursing
I am a nursing mother (baby 10 month old, now). About two months ago or so I
noticed a little lump on the tip of my nipple. I've seen three doctors,
they all said never had seen anything like it. I Put atlet's foot and
vaginal cream on it - didn't help. This lump is growing rapidly and is
painful with a burning/shooting sensation (like yeast infection), specially
after nursing. It looks like a blister or overgrown skin. I have reduced
nursing quite a bit on this side to see if it would go away but it is not
getting better. Has anyone experienced such a thing? What can be done?
Could this be related to doing so much pumping? Can a lactation consultant
help? Any idea would be helpful.
I am not certain (without looking at it) that it is the same but it
sounds like a little blister-thing I got a few times. I went to a
lactation consultant and paid $75 to have her tell me that my son has
too short a tongue and ... Her big bosses had (coincidently) both
watched me nurse my son a week before when I was a "model nursing mom"
for their training class of about 25 lactation consultants. Everyone
commented on our great nursing technique.
I figured out that the little blister would appear when I had been
nursing my son in bed and was too tired to hold my body at the angle
needed for correct positioning. I was so certain of my thesis--and so
desperate to be able to stop it from happening--that I actually
puposely made it happen once. I never followed up with a Dr. or
lactation consultant to verify my findings.
This sounds like it might be a plugged nipple pore, or
a "bleb." They are extremeley painful, and persistent.
There are several things you can do to try to remedy it.
Please feel free to call me (I am a La Leche League
Leader, and would be taking your call in that capacity)
I would call a lactation consultant or la leche league
leader right away. I know you can try 1-800-LALECHE,
or go to their website, .
Another site I know of with Q & A stuff that might help
is . I think there are
also non-laleche league lactation consultants available
by phone at 1-800-lactate (or something close to that!).
I have had two similar conditions you might mention
to you doctor. If they have never "seen anyting like
it" you might try another more experienced doctor.
First, with a vigourous nursing child, I had blisters
and peeling pieces of skin at the tip of my nipples,
which became raw and painful, sometime even resulting
in secondary infection. You are right to ease up on
that side, but it's a delicate balance it you want to
keep your milk flow consistent.
You might want to consider having your breast check by a specialist
who has seen cases of chronic areolar mastitis (see Dr. Susan Love's
Breast book). I have had this condition for the last year (7 years
after last nursing), where I developed occasional (3-4 times a year)
infections in the skin glands of the areola. The bacteria can
accumulate, causing painful abcesses, and sometime draining fluid.
Because it is hard to get rid of, and thus can be recurrent, often the
treatment is longer than usual doses of antibiotics.
Something similar happened to me, and it turned out
to be a plugged milk duct. Reducing nursing actually
made it worse. Once I started nursing more often on
that breast, it went away. A lactation consultant
could probably help you as well, or you could call
someone from La Leche League free of charge. Lyla
from LLL at 234-1300 has been very helpful.
I also had a lump on the tip of my nipple. Turned
out to be a cebaceous (sp?) cyst, which was easily
and painlessly removed. Although the doctor said
he'd never seen one in that location before, and
thought he hadn't gotten the whole thing (expecting
it to come back), it did indeed go away and hasn't
returned. The doctor who found it (a surgeon who I
went to because of a breast infection that thankfully
didn't need surgery) thought it was a plugged milk duct
and offered to remove it and, as I said, was very
surprised with it being a cyst.
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Purifying start to the day
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RE: Echoing sound when playing music or videos.
Open the Realtek control panel 'Realtek HD Audio Manager" and select 'Sound
Effects" and check settings and select the option that does not produce the
If advise given from anyone, solves problem or not, or if solved from
another source,post back & let us know.
Then we all benefit.
> Hi there,
> I recently installed Vista and I am currently having some sound issues. I
> have an onboard sound device, which is a Realtek HD ALC882 codec. At first I
> had no sound at all, so I downloaded the newest drivers. After loading the
> drivers my sound works, however when I play music or watch video's the sound
> starts echoing really fast and continues until I either close the program or
> stop the sound. I've done some searching through forums and haven't found
> much about the issue.
> Also I have a AMD 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+ 2.20 GHz w/ 2G ram. I'm running the
> 32-bit OS right now (so I can run Itunes). I'm thinking this could be my
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Published in Immunotherapy Weekly, June 11th, 2003
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Revista Española de Salud Pública
versão impressa ISSN 1135-5727
BALLESTEROS POLO, Mónica et al. Cost comparison of temporary sickness absence in 2006 between Barcelona and Madrid provinces, Spain. Rev. Esp. Salud Publica [online]. 2009, vol.83, n.3, pp. 453-461. ISSN 1135-5727. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1135-57272009000300010.
Background: Sickness absence due to non work-related conditions is a major public health issue with important socio-economic implications, and is not homogenously distributed in Spain. The objective of this study is to compare cost differences of temporary sickness absence between Barcelona and Madrid. Methods: A study was carried out based on incident cases of temporary sickness absence of more than fifteen days of duration, followed to case closure, in a retrospective cohort of workers in 2006. The study population consisted of workers of companies covered by the general regime of the Social Security System, and managed by an insurance company based in the provinces of Barcelona and Madrid in the year 2006. We compared the incidence, median duration and daily income base between Barcelona and Madrid, adjusting by sex, age and economic sector, using statistical models that take into account recurrent events in the period. Results: 24.527 cases of temporary sickness absence were identified, 62% of which originated in Barcelona. The mean cost was 33% higher in Barcelona with respect to Madrid (2.589 euros vs 1941 euros). The incidence was 22% higher in Barcelona than Madrid (1,22, IC95%: 1,10-1,36) and mean daily income base per episode was 7,80 euros higher (IC95% :7,20-8,40). In the duration the time ratio was: 1,03 ( IC95%: 1,01-1,05). Conclusions: The higher incidence and daily income base of temporary sickness absence in Barcelona with respect to Madrid may explain the higher costs observed in the former.
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Why amNY's logo is orange today
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Tuesday, the amNewYork logo and the Empire State Building are orange. While orange is the color of hunger awareness, today it’s our bat signal, calling you to serve and support the one in five mothers, children, seniors, veterans and neighbors who rely on soup kitchens, food pantries and after-school programs — the one in five who depend on the Food Bank.
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Emsellem, Dr. Helene A., M.D., Whiteley, Carol. "Part III When to Seek Help from Professionals -- 10 What Are Sleep Disorders and How Should They Be Treated?." Snooze... or Lose!: 10 "No-War" Ways to Improve Your Teen's Sleep Habits. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2006.
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observed an improvement in some patients when body iron stores were replenished. Other studies have found a relationship between RLS and diseases of the peripheral nerves and spinal cord, kidney failure, dialysis, pregnancy, Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative conditions, and alcoholism. RLS can also occur as a side effect of some medications, particularly SSRIs, or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, which are prescribed for depression. Researchers from Stanford University’s School of Medicine have reported that about half of the 10 to 15 percent of the population who suffer from RLS have a family member with a history of the disorder, providing evidence that they inherited it.
IT’S A FACT
If you have RLS, the National Sleep Foundation warns that your symptoms can become more severe if you consume caffeine or take antidepressants.
While a diagnosis of RLS in kids is made very infrequently, if your teen is excessively tired and you’ve seen involuntary movements or your teen has complained of discomfort in her legs or arms and the need to move them, be sure to mention the symptoms to your daughter’s doctor. A history of building discomfort in the limbs that is relieved by movement helps distinguish a sleepy teen with DSPS from one with RLS. The doctor should see if an underlying condition exists—iron levels should definitely be checked—or if any medication the teen is taking precipitated or is aggravating the condition (a trial of a lower dose, a dose taken earlier in the day, or an alternative medication may be in order). You don’t want to neglect the problem when relief is available.
That relief may come in the form of different kinds of behavioral interventions, such as gentle stretches or yoga exercises in the evening. Some patients have reported that a warm bath or shower can be beneficial. Adult patients may get relief by drinking a glass of quinine water, but I know of no information about the chronic use of quinine water in teens. Boosting potassium stores with orange juice or a ba- | <urn:uuid:a48f5be6-f59c-4d3a-92a4-5fbd31fc0004> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11633&page=168 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925309 | 565 | 2.953125 | 3 |