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While some local residents and officials are excited about the prospect to wide Highway 1 and thereby, hopefully, relieve traffic and congestion, a new group of Pacificans are rising up and protesting the idea.
The group is calling itself "Pacificans for Highway 1 Alternatives," or "PH1A."
Representatives from the group, who sent out a press release earlier this week, say they believe widening the highway is not the answer to ongoing problems, and is not an efficient use of taxpayer money.
“PH1A wants alternatives implemented that can help relieve traffic congestion sooner than the widening project, at less cost, and with far less impacts to neighborhoods, businesses, and the environment,” said Pete Shoemaker, chairman of the new group.
Among the potential alternatives PH1A members are suggesting are re-timing and coordinating the Vallemar and Fassler traffic lights, modifications to the Reina Del Mar Avenue intersection, a flex lane with moveable cones, increased public transportation, increased school bus service, car and van pools, and changes to school schedules.
“In public meetings and in the 212 written comments submitted to Caltrans concerning its Draft Environmental Impact Report, two-thirds of all comments were critical of the widening project, which wouldn't offer traffic relief until years from now,” said Nick Leone, a member of PH1A.
PH1A supports the approach recommended by the California Coastal Commission staff, members of which said the EIR “should fully evaluate a range of alternatives that could meet the purpose and need of the project, including alternatives that would reduce traffic congestion, but would not result in significant adverse impacts on coastal resources.”
PH1A members say California State Assemblyman Jerry Hill has also called for studying the alternatives to identify the most cost-effective solutions.
“The highway widening proposal is the most costly project, it is years away from being implemented, there isn’t sufficient funding for it, and if it is ever built it will create terrible traffic delays during two-plus years of construction,” said Hal Bohner, another PH1A member.
“We want alternatives to the widening that can be implemented sooner to reduce traffic congestion, that will not create major traffic delays during construction, that will be far less costly, and will have far fewer impacts on our environment and our economy,” said Cynthia Kaufman, a PH1A member.
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Soldier's holiday miracle
There are not as many lights and other decorations at the Jauregui house as there might normally be, but few homes were as festive on Christmas Day.
Bron Jauregui, 7, woke up to an iPod Santa had left him; his 4-year-old brother Danny got a toy helicopter and a startup computer to help him learn his letters and numbers.
The nicest gift of all, however, was Alex Jauregui sharing those moments with his wife, Isa Marie, and their 3-month-old daughter, Lilly.
It is a holiday miracle.
Eight months ago, Staff Sgt. Alejandro Jauregui, 27, a 2003 Williams High graduate and nine-year veteran of the US Army, made a decision that would change his life.
"Our second squad had gone on patrol and had found an IED," Jauregui recounted from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where is assigned from his home base of Fort Bragg, NC.
An IED is an improvised explosive device, a roadside bomb, in essence, and the thing soldiers fear most.
"The firefights are actually fun. I'm an adrenaline junky, so the firefights are pretty exciting. What I don't like are the bombs. No one likes the bombs," said Jauregui, and by bombs he means the IEDs. The patrol unit had contacted the bomb disposal unit, which arrived at Jauregui's outpost for an escort to the patrol site.
"I was on radio guard ... and already dressed, so I took the patrol," Jauregui said.
The decision allowed a buddy of his to stay and get some extra sleep.
Jauregui's patrol arrived on scene and the situation was evaluated. It was then he noticed what he was told was an infant's grave.
"But it was out of place," Jauregui said.
He said it was facing east and west, and the custom of the locals was to bury the dead north to south. It proved to be another IED.
Jauregui informed the bomb team.
"And were going back to the site ... and that was when I stepped on my IED," Jauregui said.
It was unusual to have three in such close proximity.
The explosion took both of his legs: one above the knee; the other below it. He also lost the tips of a couple of fingers, took shrapnel to one of his forearms and nearly lost all of his hearing.
"I've lost all of my hearing in my right ear and 70 percent of my hearing in my left ear," said Jauregui, adding, however, that some of the hearing is returning now.
But don't offer up any pity.
Jauregui has no regrets, and he thinks of himself as pretty lucky.
"You can't feel sorry for yourself here. There is always someone else worse off than you," Jauregui said of Walter Reed.
"I have a friend who is a quad — he lost both his arms and legs — and there are guys here worse off than him," Jauregui said.
Isa Marie Jauregui was at the family home in Fort Bragg just three days from her discharge from the Army.
She and Alex had met while both were in Iraq, what was the second tour for Alex Jauregui. He would have two more in Afghanistan.
"It was Easter Sunday, and I was sitting on the couch watching cartoons with the boys," said Jauregui.
"And then I got a call from a number I didn't recognize. Normally on Sunday, I would not answer a call from a number I didn't recognize, but something made me think I should take this call."
On the other end of the phone was Alex Jauregui's rear detachment commander.
"He told me (Alex) had stepped on an IED and lost both of his legs and was in surgery. ... I didn't even know if he was alive."
Longtime friend Juan Loza said he first saw the news on Facebook.
"I started to call people, and then I called Germany," said Loza, also an Army veteran, forced from the military with a shoulder wound he suffered in a firefight. "I started to pull rank and lying to everyone and finally got someone who let me talk to him."
Loza, 28, said a day after his surgery, and despite the horrific injuries, Jauregui was talking about staying in the Army.
"He had no legs, and he was talking about staying in the military," Loza said.
Loza was born in the same Mexican village as Jauregui, and both families moved to Williams.
"We lived in the same apartment complex," Loza said.
"We were into the same kind of things, the things in Williams you can do: Growing up playing sports and being outside with your friends," Loza said.
The families even returned to Mexico and often celebrated Christmas together, going to dances and hanging out with a whole new set of friends.
Loza was planning on going to college after he graduated from Williams High, but found out something went wrong in processing his financial aid.
"I got mad, and I called the recruiter and told him I wanted to be an airborne Ranger," said Loza, who is back in school and working on his credential to be a PE teacher.
Jauregui said he never was much for school, and was inspired to join the military by Loza and another friend.
And if he could, he would stay in the Army.
"But I think I am getting out because I can't do the job that I love, which is an infantryman," Jauregui said.
He hopes that there will be a spot for him with the DEA or another federal agency, somewhere he can continue to fight.
Jauregui is happy to be home with his family for the Christmas season.
He said he has missed four or five during his military service, and while he has been kept busy during those deployments, it is tough to be away.
The one thing he regrets is, because of his injuries, he was not able to decorate the house as much as he would have liked. He knows his children are a bit disappointed.
Isa Marie said that may be true. They don't understand, yet, why their father cannot do everything he used to do.
But they will understand in time, and will appreciate what he does even more now.
"Obviously, we are more grateful for what we have," she said.
Isa Marie is looking forward to getting out of 2012 and into the new year.
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Ten things about New Year
1. They celebrated the vernal equinox in the northern hemisphere, when day and night are equal, which the Babylonians' regarded as the beginning of the new year. They marked the celebration with a 11-day festival called Akitu, derived from the harvesting of barley in spring, with a different ritual on each day.
2. In countries where Eastern Orthodox Christianity is the predominant religion, New Year is celebrated according to the Julian calendar – it falls on January 14 in the Gregorian calendar and is a religious holiday dubbed Old New Year. January 1 is treated simply as a civic holiday. The orthodox churches of Georgia, Russia, Serbia, the Republic of Macedonia and Jerusalem still commemorate the new year in this way.
3. The year 2013 is the first year since 1987 to be made up of four different digits.
4. In Spain and several other Spanish-speaking countries, people eat a dozen grapes, each one representing their hopes for the months ahead.
5. The month of January gets its name from Janus, the two-faced god who looks backwards into the old year and forwards into the new. Janus was also the patron and protector of arches (ianus in Latin), gates, doors, doorways, endings and beginnings.
6. In the Philippines, people eat round food such as grapes, which resemble coins and wealth. They also sport polka-dotted clothing, because of the round shapes, in the hope that it will bring prosperity.
7. This year in Burma, after nearly five decades under military rule that discouraged or banned big public gatherings, about 90000 people gathered in Rangoon to participate in the country's first New Year's Eve countdown.
8. In Germany, Austria and Finland, some people continue the fortune-telling tradition of Bleigiessen. Families get together and melt a ball of lead in a spoon over a candle. The molten metal is dropped into a bowl of cold water. The shapes made by the hardened lead supposedly foresee the fortune of the following year. A ball means luck throughout the year, an anchor foretells a need for help and a cross signifies death.
9. New Year's resolutions began during the rule of Julius Caesar when people made promises to be good to others. This tradition took a religious tilt with the adoption of Christianity and involved prayers and fasting.
10. Ecuador welcomes in the New Year by burning dolls symbolising the old year (Año Viejo). They are made out of paper, wood shavings and old clothes and are usually life-size. They sometimes resemble a disliked famous person or politician, or symbolise regrets from the past year. They are displayed during the day and burnt in the evening to clear the way for the new year. | <urn:uuid:9c25472d-fce5-4bd1-b633-ce8e780e409b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mg.co.za/article/2013-01-04-00-ten-things-about-new-year | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958407 | 568 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Went to buy some electronic equipments at a local shop called Tokyu Hands. Bought 5 Bright red LEDs, 6 resistors 330ohms and 400ohms. LEDs cost 20yen or about 20+ U.S. cents each, resistors for 10yen or about 10+ U.S. cents.
Tested my 814 robot, worked great outside, but trying to figure how to conserve battery power. The 814 MCU board runs at 3V, and supplies 2motors 3V. The gear box of my robot uses Tamiya's 6-Speed GearBox H.E. bought for about $9.00. The wheels are equipped with 1/10th scale radio control car wheels, which provides great stability and speed. I made a electronics / robotics site with my robot and simple light and temperature sensor diagrams at: http://www.stingraze.net/electronic | <urn:uuid:a0041e0c-7fa0-4be1-bc42-7b343bc8f27a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://robots.net/person/stingraze/diary/1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930415 | 188 | 1.507813 | 2 |
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Running apps in virtual machines
This page documents efforts and methods to run apps within virtual machines, with a view to removing the dependence on the host operating system.
See the LHC@Home Twiki for previous efforts within the context of LHC@Home.
- Ben Segal's early implementation suggestion is attached to this page.
- David Weir's proposal was:
I think, though, that the exact way in which we do this is strongly dependent on the "target audience" -- is it still the porting of applications? I'm aware that what follows is essentially a rewrite of the implementation you suggested to me a month or two back, but as I have become familiar with the capabilities of the VIX API I've been able to flesh out some of the details.
Assumptions: no "inner BOINC client", inner application does not link against BOINC libraries, inner application is small with very few dependencies not included in a basic virtual machine. No assumptions are made about whether the inner application would need access to the network, but the wrapper XML standard could be extended to include a field indicating whether this is necessary.
- We deploy a virtual machine image over BOINC, with the VMWare Tools installed. This need only be done once for our hypothetical project, with different programs being sent as part of the workunit.
- The VMWare-aware wrapper powers up the virtual machine, checks for a snapshot relevant to the current workunit with VixVM_GetNamedSnapshot() and VixVM_RevertToSnapshot() (this is our checkpointing recovery step). If so, we skip to stage 4.
- For a given workunit, the wrapper XML standard is then used to send a package containing a non-BOINCified program and dependencies (suppose a RPM for the CernVM). This is installed using a call to !VixVM_RunProgramInGuest() by the VMWare-aware wrapper. This is then also used to start the program running.
- (main loop). The wrapper polls the process handle returned by RunProgramInGuest() to see if the workunit has finished. It also calls boinc_time_to_checkpoint(); then runs VixVM_CreateSnapshot() to create a snapshot as a checkpoint, if necessary.
- Upon successful completion of the inner job, we must copy out the results, uninstall the workunit package in the VM and move the checkpointed snapshot. The results are then sent back to the BOINC server. We can get the CPU time easily inside the virtual machine by calling the executable through time(1), say, but it may turn out to be more reasonable to use the cputime estimate made by the core client itself.
Note: For issuing partial credit on long processes we could require the inner program to update a file inside the VM (say /tmp/creditreport) giving the number of floating point and integer operations done so far. This could then be polled in step 4 (the main loop), and the results returned to the core client. The same thing would be necessary for reporting the fraction done. We could even re-implement fraction_done() and ops_cumulative(), writing a "fake" BOINC library to be used when compiling projects to run inside virtual machines.
- Daniel's proposal?
- If we specialise to VMWare Server 1, we do not gain access to all the API calls suggested in "David's proposal" above. The snapshot calls are not available until VMWare Server 2, which unfortunately does not allow anonymous logins to the local machine.
- Much as we would like to use the latest possible release of VMWare server, if we require the user's login details we would not be able to BOINCify the VMWare calls because the user would have to provide the correct username and password for the VMWare server. This would (at least) require interactive input to the wrapper (user provides login to VMWare server), and (most probably) changes to the BOINC infrastructure. The latest VIX reference page for !VixHost_Connect() mentions logging in anonymously as the current user on the current host, so it is possible that this is simply an oversight in the current release of VMWare Server.
- Do we grant credit based on virtualised CPU time, or wrapper CPU time, or something else?
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Forget the over-hyped bogeymen net neutrality and the ever-more-omniscient Googleplex. The real threat to Internet freedom comes from plain old criminal law.
In three weeks time, Missouri housewife Lori Drew will face trial for entering false personal details when she signed up for a MySpace account. Her indictment alone, whether or not she is convicted, should frighten anyone who’s ever filled out a form online.
The case, which captured the tabloid media when it broke last year, turns on unusual facts. Drew, posting as a teenage boy, created the MySpace account to probe why a neighbor’s daughter, Megan Meier, had broken off a friendship with her own daughter. She gave a few others access to the account, and things quickly spiraled out of control. Before long, “Josh Evans” (the fictional teen) and Meier were an online couple, and soon after that, they were hurling insults at one another on public message boards.
Meier, already suffering from depression, was devastated by Josh’s turnabout. A final private message from the Evans account–”The world would be a better place without you”–pushed her over the edge. Twenty minutes after receiving it, Meier hung herself in her closet.
Even though she was not responsible for the worst of the messages (according to a prosecutor who investigated the case but declined to file charged), Lori Drew’s mislead an emotionally troubled youth, and that was surely wrong.
But it’s more problematic to say that it’s a crime.
The theory of the prosecutor behind this case would make all Internet users criminals. It goes like this: Drew lied when she created the “Josh Evans” account. That was a violation of MySpace’s terms of service (those slabs of legalese that nobody reads before checking the box on a sign-up form). And by violating those terms, she accessed MySpace without authorization. “Unauthorized access” is a felony under a federal statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986. The statute was meant to target hacking, but its loose language leaves the door open for a much broader reading.
(And as I discuss in a National Review Online column today, that’s the same law that could be used to prosecute the person who hacked into Gov. Sarah Palin’s email account.)
To put it succinctly: Violate any website’s terms of service, and you could face five years’ jailtime. Include a conspiracy charge (Drew faces several), and the maximum sentence doubles.
As the Electronic Frontier Foundation spells out in a brief in the case, that formula spells an end to online anonymity. Using a fake name or making up any detail when creating an email account or anything else could be grounds for prosecution.
Even innocent exaggeration could be targeted. Adding an inch or two to your height is a violation of the terms of service on Match.com and most dating sites.
But that’s not the scariest part. This threat isn’t just about one law, twisted into absurd form by an aggressive prosecutor, but thousands of them. After decades of fast growth, there are at least 4,450 separate criminal offenses in federal laws, and perhaps tens of thousands more in regulations. And then there’s state law: Each state, to begin with, has its own copy of the federal anti-hacking statute Lori Drew is accused of violating.
I discuss this issue, in the context of the Drew case, at some length in a recent paper. The problem, in brief, is this: Public pressure has led legislators to criminalize so much behavior in vague and broad statutes that probably all Americans are criminals under some dumb law. When there’s a tragedy–like the death of Megan Meier–prosecutions will follow, whether or not anyone had reason to believe that what went on was actually against the law.
Fixing this one statute won’t solve the problem.
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Six Culturally Themed Heritage Months
- Hispanic Heritage Month (October)
- LGBTQ History Month (October)
- Diversity Awareness Month (November)
- Black History Month (February)
- Women's Herstory Month (March)
- Asian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month (April)
International Student Programming
- This includes immigration related programs that provide an overview of Optional and Curricular Practical Training, visits to local museums and New York City attractions, as well as programs geared toward international student life and success such as "Adjusting to Life in the United States" & "Academic Success in American Higher Education".
- The Office also collaborates closely with offices like The Career Center to help prepare international students to find employment after they graduate. These programs focus on "Workplace Culture in the USA" and "Applying for an H1B Visa".
The Diversity-Dialogue-Desserts Series
- The Diversity, Dialogue and Desserts Series is a discussion-oriented forum regarding various issues of diversity in our world today. Each program is hosted by a Hofstra student, faculty or staff member. We encourage all members of the Hofstra community to participate in these campus conversations. Some of the most recent Diversity-Dialogue-Desserts events have included: "That's So Gay: The Proliferation of Homophobia on Campus", "Latinonation: America's New Majority", "Is the Revolution Being Televised: Portrayals of Diversity in the Media", "Reflections on the Death of Sean Bell", "Merry Christmas Everyone…Thanks But I am Actually a Muslim", "White Privilege: An Examination of Systemic Racism in the United States", and "The ‘N' Word: Should it Ever Be Used Again?".
International Education Week
- While International Education Week is a time for Hofstra to honor its international student community, the Week itself is also a broad program designed for the entire campus to embrace the international nature of Hofstra. Events that take place during International Education Week include the student and cultural student group performance showcase "International Global Glitz", a Discussion Series about "Is Hofstra Global?", the showing of international documentary films like "Amandla!" (the story of how music fueled the Apartheid Movement in South Africa), and a World Cup Soccer Tournament where students from different countries face-off against each other in competition.
Diversity Training and Education Programs
- The Office assists in providing the Hofstra community with a wide array of options with regard to diversity training and education. Some of the programs offered by the Office include: "Creating a Safe Space for the LGBTQ Student and Staff Community", "Understanding White Privilege", "Multicultural Competence Training", "Dismantling Stereotypes", and "Confronting Racism".
- With regard to student-leader training the Office has conducted workshops for Resident Assistants, Orientation Leaders, Greek Organization Presidents, Resident Safety Student Officers, and student clubs and organizations.
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The 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans were just released. Here are the take-home messages:
Enjoy your food, but eat less.
Avoid over-sized portions.
Make half your plate fruits and vegetables.
Switch to fat-free or low-fat (1%) milk.
Compare sodium in foods like soup, bread, and frozen meals and choose the foods with lower numbers.
Drink water instead of sugary drinks.
Related: Home Soda Maker Review
I'm in shock. I never would have believed they could pull this off. The new guidelines recognize that obesity is the number one public health nutrition problem in America and actually give good advice about what to do about it: eat less and eat better. For the first time, the guidelines make it clear that eating less is as priority.
My two quibbles:
Quibble #1: They still talk about foods (fruits, vegetables, seafood, beans, nuts) when they say "eat more." But they switch to nutrient euphemisms (sodium, solid fats and added sugars) when they mean "eat less."
They say, for example: limit the consumption of foods that contain refined grains, especially refined grain foods that contain solid fats, added sugars, and sodium.
This requires translation: eat less meat, cake, cookies, sodas, juice drinks, and salty snacks.
That's politics, for you.
Lets give them credit for "drink water instead of sugary drinks." That comes close. But I listened in on the press conference and conference call and several people pushed federal officials about why they didnt come out and say eat less meat. The answers waffled.
Quibble #2: This is all about personal responsibility. What about the toxic food environment? Shouldnt these guidelines be directed at the food and restaurant industries? The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee made a big point of that. Apparently, thats in the full dietary guidelines report but Ive only seen the executive summary.
Overall, the new guidelines arent perfect but they are a great improvement.
Next: lets see what they do to improve the implementation guidethe pyramid or its equivalent. This, they say, will come out in a few months. Stay tuned.
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Yesterday morning, I woke up to a tweet from Trevor Mainza suggesting that I check out this video of Slavoj Zizek discussing charity:
You can see the full 30 minutes of the talk (which I highly suggest if you have the time) to get a more complete picture of what Zizek is arguing. However, the animation and shortened version make it more enjoyable and get across the point. Plus, Zizek is not a great speaker to watch as he rocks side to side with firm double hand motions and constant brushing of his hair or clearing his nose. On second thought, at least watch him speak for 2 minutes as it is enjoyable to physically see what it takes for the man to think. There has to be something tied to his manner of thought and physical gestures.
I am not entirely sure what conversation that I was having that inspired Trevor to send me the tweet, but I watched the video. After watching, I found the full version and watched that. I then went on to learn more about Zizek throughout the day as I considered his ideas on charity. It would take up far too much space to try to sum up what Zizek said in his talk and I would do it incorrectly. However, for this purpose I will bring up two points.
First, he makes the claim that charity is essentially demeaning to the recipient. Second, the image of Soros destroying with one hand and building with the other. The best illustration of Zizek’s first claim comes when he discusses Starbucks, Tom’s Shoes and organic apples. All fall under what he calls “cultural capitalism;” consumers buy into an idea that still engages in capitalism but leaves them with a greater sense of responsible action (ie. fair trade, giving to the needy and helping the environment, respectively). He sees it as a combination for those who reject and accept capitalism. To him, there is no difference other than the feeling that is created when participating in a form of capitalism that has a relation to social justice. In the end, he does not see this as a solution; then goes further to say that charity acts in a similar way. People feel better about what they have done, but it is not making things better since the person is still in the same situation. To relate it to my Pedals for Pets discussion, Zizek is saying that it is nice to give people bikes, but they just end up being poor people who now have a bike. The circumstances that created and continues the poverty remains. For him, the changes have to be systemic. Based on the premise that charity is an inherent part of capitalism, the Communist Zizek sees that it is unable and unwilling to create real change since it is a part of an inherently unequal system.
This leads to the second part I want to point out: the image of Soros. He basically says it is disingenuous to be a person who makes massive amounts of money through the capitalist system and once the wealth is acquired, give away large sums because it does not really affect the wealthy person. By name, he pulls Gates into this group. In short, Zizek claims that the act of destruction and building accomplished at the same time by these kind of people.
This leads me to ask what you all think. Is Zizek right? Or maybe a bit misguided? One thing that I struggle with is the idea of the intent of an individual. Are Gates and Soros to be celebrated for their achievements or condemned for their participation in a system that creates and perpetuates extreme poverty? Are the actions of charity and philanthropy simply modern indulgences? I would like to add some more comments as I continue to process this and also get feedback from some readers (if you are out there).
Update: I read this post by Joe Turner when it came out that was influenced by his coming across Zizek. Although he does not really focus on Zizek, I believe that some of my thoughts after hearing his talk had in some way been influenced by Joe. So, since I am not really sure how I cannot point to something specific, but I think that the correlation to indulgences is there and I would be remiss to not give him his due credit and citation.
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Why not solve the New York City’s pressing housing and open space issues by growing Manhattan island? That was the proposal made in a joint studio last fall at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), run by Laurie Hawkinson, architect and professor of architecture, and Vishaan Chakrabarti, director of GSAPP’s Real Estate Development Program.
The studio, called Speculation, brought together collaborative teams of architecture and real estate students. “It was a great match,” said Hawkinson. “The architects were very articulate at creating visions and the real estate students were excellent at crunching the numbers.”
The studio was driven by two au courant themes, “density” and “speculation”—defined as a kind of amalgam of intelligent vision and risk taking—along with a mandate to “keep it real.” Otherwise, Hawkinson said, “Everything was up for grabs.”
One of the student proposals, The Present Future of New York City, has captured wider attention for its visionary plausibility. “We wanted to get at the issues of growing cities in the future in terms of environment, economy, and housing demands. And we used New York as a model with its issues and initiatives like rising waters, building performance, and PlaNYC 2030,” said team member Luc Wilson, an architecture student.
Developed by real state students Leigh D’Ambra and Scott Hayner with architecture students Wilson and Muchan Park, the project started with research on marine ecology and the discovery that the Army Corps of Engineers must pay to remove and ship out vast amounts of dredged materials from New York’s waterways. And so their proposal asks, why not use the muck to grow a new sixth borough off the southern tip of Manhattan and around Governors Island? Call it Lo-Lo Ma. Mindful that housing is not allowed on Governors Island, the team began phasing in buildable land by locating barrier reefs around the island. Then, based on examples in Norway, they propose sinking prefabricated subway tunnels to the riverbed and covering them with more landfill. Voila, the Number 1 line can go to sea and arrive at Governors Island for much less than it has taken to get the Second Avenue subway not to open and the Number 7 to inch its way across the West Side. With Governors Island as the new borough’s green lungs—perhaps with a campus of some sort added—the remaining dredges would continue to fill in the gaps until reaching mainland and connecting to the street grid; however, all the Lo-Lo Ma streets would be oriented to maximize solar gain.
And then it gets innovative. Using CATIA software explored in an earlier studio, the team was able to project flexible ranges for development through to 2035. According to the proposal, “Depending on the density of development, the value of the new land created in Lo-Lo Ma would pay for the costs of developing this new neighborhood, while also allowing for investment in other infrastructural projects.” Thus a build-out with a Floor Area Ratio (FAR) of six could pay for a subway extension to the island, while a FAR-10 would make a bridge from Red Hook not only possible but desirable in light of the increased density. Things like 40 percent affordable housing, a waste-to-energy plant, even a field of wind turbines could be achieved in the same way. Even the worst-case scenarios are under consideration with streets and boulevards transforming into either permeable gutters or Venetian-style channels depending on storm severity. “We prepared for disaster in an optimistic way,” Wilson said.
According to The Present Future, Lo-Lo Ma could provide about 88 to 100 million square feet of developable land as compared to the 44 million square feet on offer at Hudson Yards. The PowerPoint images of Lo-Lo Ma—that Chakrabarti has shown at a 50th-anniversary Zoning Conference sponsored by the Planning Commission as well as on WNET—as a shimmery sun-catching cluster of towers, turbines, and oyster-rich soft edges have an Oz-like resonance and appeal. In late January, the students will begin presenting Lo-Lo Ma to city officials, engineers, experts, and the public to ascertain its feasibility. | <urn:uuid:5cddd9a4-b134-4083-a749-ade49d3e8923> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=5838 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958972 | 907 | 2.34375 | 2 |
POLARIS POINT, Guam (NNS) -- Hospital corpsmen assigned to the submarine tender USS Frank Cable (AS 40) and U.S. Naval Hospital Guam, held a Bone Marrow Registry Drive at Polaris Point Jan. 3-4.
The purpose of the drive was to disseminate information about the new process of collecting bone marrow.
"We are trying to get rid of that stigma of pain," said Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Rebecca Jones, assigned to U.S. Naval Hospital Guam. "Most people know about the old, painful method with the giant needle. This new process is not as bad. It is just like donating a unit of blood."
The drive was held across the Department of Defense (DoD) allowing Sailors and anyone who is DoD sponsored and between the age of 18 and 60 to be placed into the registry. Donors filled out personal information and gave cheek swab samples.
Jones said everyone who is able to enter the registry, should.
"You could be in the registry and never get called up or you can get called up and once they do a little bit more testing, you may not be a match," said Jones.
"Finding a match is hard," said Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Edgardo Victorino, assigned to Frank Cable, "So the more people who register, the more selections there are for them to pick out someone compatible."
During the drive, the corpsmen explained the benefits of being a bone marrow donor.
"You never know who will need it some day, said Victorino. "It could be your wife or child. It's an opportunity to save someone's life."
"The people you are donating to are dying so you are giving somebody a second chance at life that they would never have," said Jones. "If you really think about it, it is two weeks of a little bit of discomfort for you and a whole lifetime for that person you are donating to."
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What Spiking Food Prices Mean For Your Portfolio.
What’s behind the latest spike in food prices?
In 2007 and 2008, when surging food prices led to riots in more than 30 countries, the spike was at least partly down to speculation. Commodities in general were enjoying a final surge before the credit crunch demolished asset prices across the board in late 2008.
America’s second batch of quantitative easing (QE) shouldered some of the blame for higher prices. This helped fuel the ‘Arab Spring’ protests in the Middle East.
But this time around, it’s hard to pin the blame on speculation or loose monetary policy. There’s little sign of further QE on the horizon. As a result, the dollar is steady to strengthening, which would normally mean lower commodity prices in general.
Instead, the current spike is very much down to Mother Nature. And the impact will stretch far beyond farmers in the American Midwest.
This is a serious problem: the US is the world’s largest exporter of corn. It’s also unexpected, which makes it even worse. Indeed, until very recently, the US Department of Agriculture had expected a record corn crop this year. Last week, it had to slash its production forecasts by 12%,‘the most in a quarter of a century’, notes the FT.
Corn and soybean prices have now jumped to all-time highs. Wheat prices aren’t at record levels yet, but they have risen by more than 50% in a matter of weeks.
This will have a severe knock-on effect on consumers and businesses around the world. Some farmers will be in trouble, but those who manage to grow corn will make more money from it. Others will have insurance. Indeed, as Reuters reports, some experts are worried that government-backed crop insurance programmes mean that many farmers will just write off their whole crop rather than spending money to try to save it, making the situation even worse.
So what about other businesses? Richer farmers normally mean a boost for agricultural equipment makers. However, poorer crop yields may mean that even those who can afford it won’t need to buy new equipment, as another analyst tells Bloomberg.
Further down the line, any industry that uses corn will be affected. About a third of the corn crop goes on feeding livestock; if corn gets too expensive, then cattle will be slaughtered early to avoid the cost of feeding them. That means there’ll be less meat further down the line.
So, as David Fuller points out on Fullermoney.com, we can expect a big impact on general food prices ‘later this year, and for at least the first nine months of 2013?. That’s bad news for consumers who might have been hoping for a bit of respite from rising prices.
Also, if prices keep rising, there’s a potential safety valve in the form of the ethanol market. An incredible 40% of the US corn crop is used to make ethanol; petrol companies have to buy a minimum amount each year to turn into biofuel, by blending it with petrol. This subsidy for crop farmers is mainly down to the power of the farming lobby in US politics, as it makes neither environmental nor economic sense.
However, rising corn prices have seen some ethanol plants shut down, as the cost of making the fuel hurts profits. Meanwhile, because biofuel output was so high last year, oil companies can use a system of credits to meet this year’s quota without actually buying more ethanol.
Yet in the longer run, we can expect food price shocks to come more frequently. Even if extreme weather events can’t be predicted, population growth, and increasing wealth in emerging markets, make it all but certain that demand for food will continue to grow.
Those of a more Malthusian bent argue that we might even see ‘peak food’. However, just as rising oil prices have led oil companies to explore more expensive, higher-risk ways of getting oil and energy out of the ground.
As a result, in the past ten years, we’ve extracted oil from places that would once have been considered impractical or even impossible: tar sands, shale oil, deep beneath the waves.
The same will happen with food. While some worry about ‘peak food’, Africa holds two-thirds of the world’s uncultivated arable land, and asThe Sunday Times points out, ‘even the land used for crops is farmed so inefficiently that training programmes and rudimentary solutions could vastly increase outputs’.
Paul Conway of agribusiness giant Cargill argues that ‘average production is so far below the known potential that this argument about whether the earth’s potential [to feed people] is tapped out is almost irrelevant.’
There will also be constant efforts to get more out of the resources we already have. One way to profit from all this is to invest in companies that are trying to improve farm yields.
Contributing Editor, Money Morning
Publisher’s Note: This is an edited version of an article that first appeared in MoneyWeek (UK).
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April 8, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.
Abbey Lincoln is proof that a rose by any other name smells as sweet. The reigning diva of jazz has had more than a few names over the years. She was born Anna Marie Wooldridge. Her earliest professional names include Gaby Wooldridge and Gaby Lee. For eight years, she was legally Mrs. Max Roach. The cultural minister of Zaire bestowed the name Aminata Moseka.
Abbey Lincoln has certainly earned the right of the great singers in our music, those who need only one name. Billie. Sarah. Ella. Carmen. Betty. Abbey.
For decades, Ms. Lincoln has also been the poet laureate of jazz. Her songs have expressed the essential components of a life unfolding, the sum of our strengths and vulnerabilities. That which makes us human. What's right and what's wrong with us. What we have done. What we can do better.
WBGO recorded Abbey Lincoln at Iridium in New York, October 1996. Marc Cary is the pianist, Michael Bowie the bassist, Aaron Walker the drummer.
© 2008 WBGO
April 7, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.
It's a Memphis Monday, courtesy of Harold Mabern. WBGO has recorded pianist Harold Mabern as a member of George Coleman's quartet. We've also recorded Mabern's own quartet at American Museum of Natural History.
Check out this version of Harold Mabern's trio, recorded in 1984 at Citicorp Center in New York. Bassist Jamil Nasser (like Mabern, a Memphis native) and drummer Frank Gant, two veteran trio performers (check out those Ahmad Jamal records!) make the trio. They play "Ray's Idea," a song composed by bassist Ray Brown and Walter "Gil" Fuller during the heyday of Dizzy Gillespie's big band.
© 2008 WBGO
April 4, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.
Happy birthday today to pianist Michel Camilo.
WBGO recorded Michel's trio at Iridium on April 24, 1997.
Michel Camilo, Bassist Lincoln Goines and drummer Cliff Almond had a killer piano trio sound. Listen to "A Night in Tunisia" from the WBGO Archives.
And do you know what inspired Michel Camilo to play jazz? Hearing Art Tatum play "Tea for Two." When Camilo was 14, he heard that jazz record in his native Dominican Republic. Since you cannot see Art Tatum magic on a record, and you can no longer see him play, you'll have to check out this re-performance of "Tea For Two."
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One of the first things you will notice when moving from a Windows machine to a Unix machine is that the data is laid out differently. You will notice that the directory separator is leaning the opposite direction. Windows uses the back slash and Unix uses the forward slash. Also, Windows assigns each disk and partition a letter. The floppy disk is the "A:" drive, the hard disk is the "C:" drive, and other letters are assigned as you partition or add storage devices.
Unix looks at all disks and storage devices as part of one filesystem. Storage devices are linked to the directory structure. The top of the filesystem is called the "root" directory and is represented by the forward slash
/. Each directory, starting with the root directory needs to have a storage device associated with it. A whole disk, or just a partition of the disk can be assigned to the directory. For example, the root directory is usually assigned between 30 to 50 megabytes of disk space.
Any subdirectories that are created will use the storage space assigned to their parent directory, unless they are assigned their own storage space.
So, the 30 megabytes assigned to the root directory will be used up extremely quickly, unless we assign some storage space to large directories such as
/home. It is possible to assign storage space to a subdirectory that is more than one level deep -- actually, you can assign storage space to any directory anywhere in the structure.
/ has 30 MB,
/usr has 1 GB, and you can assign
/usr/local 1 GB as well. That way, files such as
/usr/local wouldn't use storage space from
/usr. If you were running a cache server, you might assign a large amount of storage space to
/usr/local/squid/cache. In the current example, the directory
/usr/local/squid would use space assigned to
/usr/local because it hasn't been assigned its own, while
/usr/local/squid/cache would use the space that you assigned to it directly.
Before you can assign the disk space, you must first partition your disks. Dru Lavigne has an informative series on setting up your disks.
There are several things to consider when assigning storage space to a directory, and by now you should have an idea of how the Unix filesystem works. Luke A. Kanies gives a few suggestions on how to lay it out properly.
Even if you think you have your filesystem laid out properly, bits can pile up and partitions can start filling up. Michael Lucas shows us how to deal with things when your Unix filesystems start getting full.
There are a few directories that have special purposes. Among these are the
/dev directories. On Linux, in particular, the
/proc directory has some interesting features.
Unix is also capable of reading most other filesystems and if you are transferring from a Windows- or DOS-based environment, you will enjoy this article by Dru Lavigne about working with MS-DOS filesystems.
Good luck with your filesystem setup.
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The alligator snapping turtle and all species of map turtles, which are native to the United States, are being given international protection, effective June 14, 2006, by their addition to Appendix III of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today. The listing, which will allow the Service to work with States to regulate exports, marked the first time the
The alligator snapping turtle, the largest freshwater turtle in the world, is found in
There are 12 species of North American map turtles, which range from
Some 168 countries, in addition to the
"Wild populations of these turtles continue to decline, in part because of their popularity as both food and pets," said Service Director Dale Hall. "Working in close partnership with the States, we determined that an Appendix-III listing would allow us to reinforce State protections for these species and provide key trade information to better conserve these vulnerable species."
The Appendix-III listing of these species, published in today's Federal Register, requires a CITES export permit issued by the Service for all shipments of live specimens or products containing the turtle species. An export permit may be issued only for turtles collected in accordance with all Federal, State and local laws. Other CITES countries will only allow imports from the United States when shipments are accompanied by a valid U.S. export permit, and will only allow re-export of certified shipments. The CITES listing has no direct effect on any activities taking place within a State.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the principal Federal agency responsible for conserving, protecting and enhancing fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. The Service manages the 95-million-acre National Wildlife Refuge System, which encompasses 545 national wildlife refuges, thousands of small wetlands and other special management areas. It also operates 69 national fish hatcheries, 64 fishery resource offices and 81 ecological services field stations. The agency enforces federal wildlife laws, administers the Endangered Species Act, manages migratory bird populations, restores nationally significant fisheries, conserves and restores wildlife habitat such as wetlands, and helps foreign governments with their conservation efforts. It also oversees the Federal Assistance program, which distributes hundreds of millions of dollars in excise taxes on fishing and hunting equipment to state fish and wildlife agencies.
For more information about CITES, alligator turtles and map turtles, visthttp://fws.international.gov
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Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographor
Description: Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer is a brilliant, innovative film about the origins of cinema and its most famed forefather, Muybridge. Filmmaker and Cal Arts professor Thom Andersen, over the course of ten years, animated Muybridge's photographic studies of human and animal gesture and movement. Interpolated with these incredible sequences are biographical sections detailing Muybridge's personal and professional struggles, narrated by Dean Stockwell. The result is a film that investigates the history of cinema while it traces its development from pre-cinematic technologies. Drawing parallels between Muybridge's reclusive lifestyle and genius and the explosive, very public birth of cinema, Eadweard Muybridge manages to be both a film about history and a genuine work of art.~ Brian Whitener, All Movie Guide
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After 44 years of service at the Corps’ most historic helicopter squadron, the last CH-53 helicopters from Marine Helicopter Squadron 1 will soon be reassigned to the operating forces. The CH-53s will be redistributed as part of the Marine Corps fiscal year 2011 aviation campaign plan, which will increase the Corps’ number of CH53E helicopter squadrons.
Honored at an April 15 ceremony at HMX-1, the CH-53 was an integral part in presidential support mission since 1967. The CH-53 was responsible for “green side” HMX-1 missions: supporting the executive flight detachment, transporting the White House staff, United States Secret Service, and White House press corps, and facilitating training aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico.
Former pilots, aircrew and commanders paid tribute to the heavy-lift monster that first joined HMX-1 as the CH-53A in 1967. The last variant to serve the squadron was the CH-53E Super Stallion.
“The earth doesn’t spin--the Super Stallion drags it around,” said Blake Dunn, a former CH-53 crew chief who now works for the helicopter’s manufacturer, the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation.
Dunn wasn’t alone in his high praise for the largest, most powerful helicopter in the Corps’ inventory. Many HMX-1 personnel felt sad at seeing the workhorse depart, despite the ample supplies of barbecue served during the squadron stand-down.
“It’s the end of an era,” said Col. Matthew Glavy, commanding officer of HMX-1. “We bid farewell to this incredible capability… and what it’s done for this squadron.”
Retired Marine Lt. Gen. Fred “Assassin” McCorkle was the guest of honor at the ceremony. The former deputy commandant for aviation flew more than 1,500 combat missions in Vietnam and flew more than 60 types of aircraft in his career, according to his official biography on the Navy and Marine Corps Association Web page. McCorkle has flown all Marine Corps variants of the CH-53, from Alpha to Echo.
“This aircraft has really been the workhorse and the Cadillac of helicopters for the United States Marine Corps,” said McCorkle. “I think it’s going to continue to be that.
“To all the [CH-53] guys in here, thank you for all that you’ve done for the Marine Corps, for HMX-1 and in support of the presidential mission,” said McCorkle.
Though HMX-1 personnel said they would miss the Super Stallions, knowing that the aircraft would be going to the sound of the guns cheered the Marines.
“It’s a sad day, but the warfighter needs [CH-53s],” said HMX-1 pilot Lt. Col. Doug Ogden. “We’ve got to let them go. The best thing about them is they can do so many missions. They’re so versatile and that’s why they’re used so much by the [Marine Expeditionary Units] and the operating forces. Obviously, in Afghanistan, they’re helpful with the high altitude ops.”
This particular quality stems from the sheer power of the aircraft, something HMX-1 aviators said they would miss even as they spoke about the need for the CH-53’s impressive capabilities elsewhere.
“They’re using [CH-53s] a lot in Afghanistan,” said HMX-1 pilot Capt. Luke Frank. “They need them out there.”
Frank participated in the Big Iron’s final mission at HMX-1, flying in support of President Obama’s recent trip Philadelphia on April 6.
“I was very lucky get to go along on the 53’s last flight,” said Frank. “It’s kind of bittersweet. They’re very capable, very deep aircraft. We had a good time and we took a lot of pictures, that’s for sure. We got to do an over-flight of the Phillies game while they were playing.”
The CH-46E medium lift helicopter, known affectionately as the Phrog, will fill the gap at HMX-1 created by the CH-53’s departure, until V-22 Ospreys arrive in the summer of 2013. All CH-53 pilots at HMX-1 are in the process of re-qualifying on the CH-46, but having already completed his requalification, Frank was able to offer a comparison of the two aircraft.
“It’s very smooth, very big—it’s a really, really nice aircraft,” said Frank, “but it’s also complex, which is why the [CH-46] is good. The Phrog is simpler to maintain.”
Fourteen CH-46s have been added to the HMX-1 inventory to maintain the squadron’s capabilities until the arrival of the V-22s.
“Certainly [HMX-1] Marines have a lot of pride in this airplane,” said Glavy of the Super Stallions. “With that said, they’ve embraced the transition to CH-46s on the flight line.”
“All the love, sweat and tears Marines put into the [CH-53s], they’ll now put into the ‘46s,” said Glavy. “I’m very proud of them for that maturity, that professionalism, to be able to embrace that. They know what’s best for the Marine Corps. They know what’s best for the operating forces. If this squadron can help Marines in Afghanistan, everybody’s going to say ‘yes’ to that.”
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- Israel receives surplus CH-53s for spares
- ATK awarded contract for AAR-47 missile warning systems
- Sikorsky awarded $14M contract for H-53, H-60 work
- Rockwell-Collins awarded $17M contract for Nav/Comm repairs
- 15-Aug-12 Sikorsky CH-53 Tel Nof, Israel
- GE awarded $8.2M modification to H-53 contract
- 19-Jul-12 Sikorsky MH-53E Muscat, Oman (2F)
- 29-Jun-12 Sikorsky MH-53E Pohang, Korea
- 21-Jun-12 157135 Sikorsky CH-53D Sarabagh, Afghanistan
- Sikorsky awarded $9M for H-53 swashplate and gearbox work
- 26-Apr-12 164771 Sikorsky MH-53E Virginia Beach, US-Virginia
- Raytheon awarded $9.5M contract to repair CH-53 and V-22 weapon replacement assemblies
- “Sikorsky 2025” project extends life of vital helicopter
- 19-Jan-12 Sikorsky CH-53D Helmand Province, Afghanistan (6F)
- CPI Aero to present at Noble Financial Capital Markets conference
- HMH-461 conducts desert training at EMV
- Israeli military set up memorial for Romania crash
- Hawaii Army National Guard re-equips with CH-47F
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Definition of Hyperbilirubinemia type I
Hyperbilirubinemia type I: Better known as Gilbert's disease, a common but harmless genetic condition in which a liver enzyme essential to the disposal of bilirubin (the chemical that results from the normal breakdown of hemoglobin from red blood cells) is abnormal. (The errant enzyme is called UDP- glucuronosyltransferase).
This enzyme abnormality results in mild elevation of bilirubin pigment in the blood and the elevated bilirubin pigment, in turn, can sometimes cause mild yellowing (jaundice) of the eyes. People with Gilbert's disease are otherwise entirely normal with no other signs or symptoms and their liver enzymes in blood serum are also entirely normal.
The gene for Gilbert's disease has been mapped a non-sex chromosome (chromosome 2). A single dose of the Gilbert gene is sufficient to produce the disease. (The diseases is said therefore to be an autosomal dominant trait). If someone has Gilbert's disease, the chance of their transmitting the Gilbert gene to each of their children is one-half (50%) and each child who gets the gene gets Gilbert's disease.
There is no need for treatment in Gilbert's disease, and the prognosis (outlook) is excellent.
Gilbert's syndrome is a frequent finding in people in the United States and Europe. The condition is usually detected serendipitously (purely by accident) in the course of routine blood screening. Gilbert's disease is thus an accidentally-encountered enzyme abnormality of no health consequence.Source: MedTerms™ Medical Dictionary
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Wi-Fi operators promise globo roaming standard
An alliance of alliances
The Wi-Fi Alliance has allied with the Wireless Broadband Alliance to sort out some standards for Wi-Fi roaming, taking its queue from the mobile industry, which does it so well.
The details are still under development, but the idea is that a traveller will be able to just fire up their PC/tablet/smartphone and have it automatically log onto the nearest Wi-Fi network that has a roaming agreement with the home network, just as they can with a mobile telephone – which sounds terrific until one realises how complicated it is beneath the surface.
BT was on hand to lend credibility to the plan, which involves using one of the various Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) standards to allow roaming users to securely authenticate themselves without mucking about with password screens and such.
Kit supporting the roaming system will get a "Wi-Fi Certified Hotspot" logo from the Wi-Fi Alliance, but the partners are keen to avoid a publicly-displayed service mark for compliant networks, preferring to assume that every network will join, while admitting that they still have to work out a precedence mechanism for when more than one network is available.
Cellular roaming is hugely complicated by the requirement that the roamed-to network has no access to the encryption keys used to authenticate the user, and this is one aspect that the new alliance plans to emulate though the use of EAP, ideally based on the GSM SIM which can be found in so many Wi-Fi devices these days.
Mobile networks also have to deal with knocking credit off pre-paid tariffs, and tunnelling all data through the home network, neither of which will form part of the proposed Wi-Fi roaming system though some operators are reportedly keen for tunnelling to be explored. That would enable operators to enforce content restrictions, but would also mean we could access the BBC iPlayer when using a Wi-Fi hotspot abroad.
How much users should pay for roaming is another question as yet unresolved. Apparently users don't want to pay by the minute, though that's how BT OpenZone currently bundles its roaming deals. Whether it will eventually come as part of a subscription, or an optional extra, will depend on the home provider and the tariffs it decides to offer.
Equally unclear is how much the operators will charge each other for access. Cellular roaming rates are ruinously high, so much so that the EU had to step in and cap the amount companies were charging each other. The partners expect the low cost of Wi-Fi to be the driving force for adoption, but if roamed-to partners decide to overcharge then that could easily disappear. ®
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+1 for eduroam here - a worldwide roaming agreement for wifi hotspots already working and in place - and uses EAP as this article suggested would/should be the way for it to work.
This is only for academic participants - and the actual technology driving it is always being reviewed and updated - eduroam pushes some tech further than its been done before and the shortcomings have been noted.
It's not often we get to say this, but we've had this in academia for years.
It's called Eduroam and is particularly useful when at conferences.
I already have this service
It's called Boingo. Works just great for me in North America, South America, Europe, Asia...
nice something is being worked on
I hope these guys succeed in really making it global.
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LOS ANGELES Broadcasting pioneer Ralph Edwards, who spotlighted stars and ordinary people as host of the popular 1950s show This Is Your Life, died today of heart failure. He was 92.
Publicist Justin Seremet confirmed that Edwards, whose career as producer and host included Truth or Consequences and People s Court, had died. Other details were not immediately available.
Edwards first hit it big in radio in 1940 with Truth or Consequences, a novelty show in which contestants who failed to answer trick questions the truth had to suffer the consequences by performing some elaborate stunt.
Then came television. The Federal Communications Commission approved commercial broadcasts beginning on July 1, 1941, after a few years of experimental broadcasts, and NBC s New York station was the first to make the changeover.
Amazingly enough, I did Truth or Consequences on television in July 1941. It was the first commercial show for NBC, Edwards recalled.
A 10-second commercial was $9, he said.
The United States entry into World War II five months later disrupted TV s progress. Truth or Consequences, which prospered on radio in the interim, returned to television in 1950.
Earlier that same year, the citizens of little Hot Springs, N.M., voted 1,294-295 to change the town s name to Truth or Consequences. Edwards had promised to broadcast the radio show from the town that agreed to the change.
In those days, nothing seemed impossible, he once said.
This Is Your Life also was born on radio and then migrated to television, running on NBC-TV from 1952 to 1961. It featured guests, many of them celebrities, who were lured in on a ruse, then surprised by Edwards announcing, This is your life! Relatives and old friends then would be brought on to reminisce about the guest.
Among the people he caught unaware were Marilyn Monroe, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Bob Hope, Andy Griffith, Buster Keaton, Barbara Eden, Bette Davis, Shirley Jones, Jayne Mansfield and Carol Channing.
But not all guests were entertainers. A 1953 episode profiled Hanna Bloch Kohner, a survivor of the Holocaust.
At least half of our guests were ordinary people, Edwards said. In the beginning we didn t use celebrities at all. But when we did, I think it humanized the stars and gave them more appeal.
Edwards said he and his staff used all kinds of subterfuge to surprise guests. Some would run away and be pulled back, all in fun, but broadcaster Lowell Thomas made headlines when he refused to play along on a 1959 show.
He saw instantly what was going on, and nobody puts anything over on Lowell Thomas, Edwards recalled years later. He tore the show apart. I said, You re going to enjoy this, and he said, I doubt that very much.
According to the reference book The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, one person was off limits for the surprise treatment: Edwards himself. He told staff members he would fire every one of them if they put him on.
Both Truth and This Is Your Life have periodically returned to television in syndicated form.
Just last week, it was announced that a new version of This is Your Life, with Regis Philbin ( Live with Regis and Kelly ) as host, is planned by ABC. Philbin previously was host of Who Wants to be a Millionaire for the network.
Over the years, Edwards kept himself busy as a producer.
Edwards had a hand in other shows, producing or creating Name That Tune, Cross Wits, Superior Court, It Could Be You, Place the Face, About Faces, Funny Boners, End of the Rainbow, Who in the World, The Woody Woodbury Show and Wide Country.
In the 80s, Ralph Edwards Productions show The People s Court made a star of retired Judge Joseph A. Wapner.
We ve seen many changes and enjoyed them all, Edwards said in a 1999 interview. I still find live the most exciting, particularly for my type of shows.
Edwards broke into radio in 1929 in Oakland as a 16-year-old high school student.
He worked at KROW and KFRC in San Francisco while attending college at the University of California at Berkeley.
The changes in both radio and television are mind-boggling, Edwards said. He recalled that until 1948 his radio version of Truth or Consequences was done twice each Saturday, once for the east coast and again three hours later for the West Coast.
We would use the same script, but all new contestants, he said.
Edwards said he went back to Truth or Consequences, N.M., dozens of times over the years.
Besides changing the name, townspeople made Edwards an honorary member of the Sheriff s Posse. The name continues a half-century later. Periodic efforts to reverse the change failed.
I am truly proud of my namesake city and have enjoyed a wonderful association throughout the years, he said.
He also appeared in several motion pictures: Seven Days Leave, Radio Stars on Parade, Bamboo Blonde, Beat the Band, I ll Cry Tomorrow, Manhattan Merry-Go-Round and Radio Stars of 1937.
Edwards wife, Barbara, died in 1993 after 53 years of marriage. Their children are a son, Gary, who worked with Edwards; and two daughters, Christine and Laurie.
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Electronic Music Studio
The CIM electronic music studio is a 250 square-foot facility designed to create a warm and inviting atmosphere, one conducive to creativity. The philosophy behind the studio is that one powerful and comprehensive workstation is a greater asset than several smaller stations. Since only 8 to 12 students use the studio each year, there is plenty of opportunity for everyone to realize their projects.
Our state-of-the-art production rig is centered around a Macintosh G5 computer running Digital Performer sequencing and recording software. The studio boasts an excellent array of hardware and software instruments, running the gamut from vintage synthesizers like the Roland Jupiter 8, to virtual instruments including Atmosphere, Absynth and East-West Gold Edition Virtual Orchestra.
Everything from simple pieces to large film scores can be created, orchestrated, mixed and finalized without leaving the room. For concert presentations, Mixon Hall has an excellent built-in sound system as well as a theater-quality projector and screen.
Composition students take a yearlong course in which they program synthesizer patches, sample, solidify their sequencing and recording skills and create original pieces and short film scores. After completing the course, composers are welcome to continue working in the studio via independent study, generating more involved concert pieces, scoring and sound designing longer film excerpts or designing projects of their own.
Artistic and practical considerations are given equal emphasis and students are encouraged to explore their passions. The goal of the electronic music studio is to give composers a broad grounding in the use of technology as a means not only for the creation of original pieces, but as an invaluable set of tools which will broaden their sonic pallet, increase their productive capability and better prepare them to work in the real world.
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13th ANNUAL GUITAR WEEKEND
May 25, 2013, 12:00 am
CIM's Mixon Hall and various studios
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May 31, 2013, 6:00 pm
Lunch & Listen Recital
July 2, 2013, 12:30 pm
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MOSCOW- Russia accused Syrian rebels of using chemical weapons in an attack on Tuesday and said it was an extremely alarming and dangerous development.
"A case of the use of chemical weapons by the armed opposition was recorded early in the morning of March 19 in Aleppo province," the Russian Foreign Ministry said after President Bashar Assad's government and rebels accused each other of launching a deadly chemical attack.
"We are very seriously concerned by the fact that weapons of mass destruction are falling into the hands of the rebels, which further worsens the situation in Syria and elevates the confrontation in the country to a new level," the ministry said in a statement.
Britain said earlier on Tuesday it was aware of media reports about a chemical weapons attack in Syria, adding that the use or proliferation of chemical weapons there would demand a serious response from the international community.
"The UK is clear that the use or proliferation of chemical weapons would demand a serious response from the international community and force us to revisit our approach so far," a Foreign Office spokeswoman said.
Turkey, meanwhile, rejected an accusation from Syria on Tuesday that Turkey bore responsibility for a possible chemical attack in the northern province of Aleppo.
"This is a baseless accusation, the Syrian government has accused Turkey in the past as well," a Turkish government official told Reuters.
Syrian Information Minister Omran Zoabi said earlier that Turkey and Qatar, which have supported rebels fighting President Bashar Assad, bore "legal, moral and political responsibility" for the attack, state television reported.
Syria's Information Minister Omran Zoabi said on Tuesday the country's armed forces would never use internationally banned weapons, after the government and rebels traded blame for what both sides said was a chemical weapon attack near Aleppo.
"Syria's army leadership has stressed this before and we say it again, if we had chemical weapons we would never use them due to moral, humanitarian and political reasons," Zoabi said in a televised news conference.
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As the country gears up for implementation of the major provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), June’s Kaiser Health Tracking Poll takes a step back and examines views on health insurance more broadly among some key subgroups, including young adults, the uninsured, and those with pre-existing conditions. The poll finds that the large majority of Americans want and value health insurance.
Amid increasing state and national interest in using managed care delivery models for Medicaid beneficiaries, the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured will host a public briefing from 12:00 Noon to 1:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, June 25 to provide information on recent transitions from fee-for-service to managed care,…
An Analysis of the Share of Medicare Beneficiaries Who Would Benefit from an Annual Out-of-Pocket Maximum under Traditional Medicare Over Multiple Years
This analysis examines the share of Medicare beneficiaries who would be helped over time if the program were to add a limit on out-of-pocket spending to traditional Medicare. This analysis was conducted jointly with the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) in response to a request made during a Feb. 26, 2013 hearing of the House Ways and Means’ Subcommittee on Health.
As one of the cornerstones of global health, widespread immunization through vaccines is critical to reducing child mortality and eradicating polio, two goals endorsed by the international community and particularly emphasized by the U.S. government. This live, interactive webcast explores the importance of vaccines in global child survival efforts, including the role of the U.S. government, the GAVI Alliance, and NGOs. Panelists discuss the current state of childhood immunization, global investments in vaccines, and the opportunities and challenges faced by key stakeholders. This webcast is part of “U.S. Global Health Policy: In Focus”, a Kaiser Family Foundation studio webcast series devoted to discussing current and critical issues facing the U.S.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved two vaccines against infection by certain strains of human papillomavirus (HPV), the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. Initially, the vaccines were recommended only for girls and young women, but in 2011 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention broadened them to include boys and young men. This fact sheet discusses HPV and cancers related to the virus, use of the HPV vaccines for both females and males, and insurance coverage and access to the vaccines.
This brief finds that people of color will be disproportionately impacted by state decisions to expand Medicaid and that the impact of current state Medicaid expansion decisions varies widely by race and ethnicity, with Blacks at the highest risk of continuing to face coverage gaps and remaining uninsured due to state decisions not to expand at this time. As such, state Medicaid expansion decisions have important implications for efforts to reduce disparities and promote greater equity in health coverage and care.
Walgreens and Greater Than AIDS Team With Health Departments and Local AIDS Service Organizations to Provide Free HIV Testing in Support of National HIV Testing Day
HIV Testing Events Being Held at 175 Walgreens Locations in 54 Cities June 27-29 Thursday, June 13, 2013 – Walgreens, the nation’s largest drugstore chain (NYSE: WAG) (Nasdaq: WAG), and Greater Than AIDS, a coalition of public and private sector partners united in response to the domestic AIDS epidemic, are…
This Policy Insight explores possible explanations for the continued rise in Medicare Advantage enrollment between 2010 and 2013 in spite of a projected decrease following payment changes in the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
This June 10 briefing looked at Medicare Advantage and changes affecting it, including revised calculations of payments from CMS, and the Affordable Care Act’s reduced payments to Medicare Advantage plans. Speakers discussed how Medicare Advantage plans are expected to respond to payment changes; if quality bonus payments created significant changes in patient care or plan choices; and what implications could these decisions have on beneficiaries with regard to premiums, benefits and more. | <urn:uuid:3bd24f4f-9933-48a2-addb-568f3fb06a26> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kff.org/search/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931209 | 833 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Dead weeks: It's far less macabre than it sounds, at least as it applies to the travel industry.
For travelers on the hunt for bargains, dead week is actually one of the best (read: cheapest) weeks of the year. And it's coming up.
Mark Jan 4 – Jan 16 (ish), 2013 on your calendar. Coming on the heels of the Christmas-New Year's Eve travel period, the dead week brings incredible savings on airfare, hotels and cruises. On its own but especially by comparison, the deals during the dead week are ubiquitous.
"A lucky handful of flexible travelers can scoop up the cheapest prices of the year - slashed by more than 60 percent compared to the holidays - with the added bonus of an empty middle seat," said Rick Seaney, CEO of FareCompare.
So why the bargains? Simple: a dramatic drop in the number of people traveling. The number of domestic air travelers in December 2011 was about 37 million, according to industry group Airlines for America. The following month (January 2012), that number dropped to 34 million.
Think of it as a holiday travel hangover. Many people have traveled for Thanksgiving or Christmas or both, and perhaps even New Year's. Wallets are light from holiday shopping. Kids are going back to school. All this leads to the perfect recipe for people staying home.
Which is exactly when the budget-conscious should strike. But beware – the dead time comes and goes quickly. Once Martin Luther King weekend comes around (Jan 21) and many are celebrating a three-day weekend, prices start to creep back up.
Below, some of the dramatic savings available during dead week.
The period between Christmas and New Year's is always one of the most expensive when it comes to airfare, and this year is no exception. Travel-booking website Orbitz said fares were up 8 percent this year versus last year. All the more reason to postpone that vacation if possible.
Los Angeles to New York: The cheapest nonstop, round-trip flight during Christmas week was $700, including tax (dates searched Dec 22 – Dec 29). During Dead Week, the same flight is $400 (Jan 4 -11).
Chicago to Orlando: The cheapest nonstop, round-trip flight during Christmas week was $530, including tax (dates searched Dec 22 – Dec 29). During Dead Week, the same flight is $230 (Jan 4 -11).
New York City – Cancun: No nonstop flights on dates searched. Cheapest option was $900, including tax (dates searched Dec 22 – Dec 29). Nonstops available during Dead Week, cheapest flight is $430 (Jan 4 -11).
Many travelers are drawn to hotels and resorts during the holiday season for the beautiful decorations and festivities. You can get the same holiday cheer if you travel early in the year, before the decorations come down.
If skiing is your thing, check out the savings by choosing to stay at the Beaver Creek Lodge after the first of the year as opposed to Christmas week. During the holidays, prices at the all-suite luxury property that's steps from the lifts costs as much as $700 per night. But during the dead weeks, the same hotel room can be had for less than $400 per night.
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The Tale of Two Snakes
Once upon a time there was a king named Devasakti. He had a son who was very weak and growing weaker by the day. It was found that he had a snake in his stomach. Experts, physicians and surgeons tried to nurse him back to health without success. Dejected, the son left his palace one night and took shelter in a lonely and dilapidated temple in another town ruled by a monarch called Bali. Every day, the son would go out to beg and return to the temple in the night.
King Bali had two daughters who came of age. Following a tradition, the two daughters would get up every dawn and touch the feet of their father in reverence.
One day, after paying respects to the king one of his daughters said, “Victory to the king. We are happy in every way.”
The second daughter said, “O king, reap the harvest of your actions.”
The king, very angry at the words of the second daughter, called his ministers and told them, “Take this foul-mouthed woman away and marry her off to some stranger. Let her reap the consequences of her actions.”
In compliance with the orders of the king, the ministers took her away and married her without pomp or ceremony to Devasakti’s son living in the old temple. The daughter considered the king’s son as God’s gift and after persuading him, left for another country.
The princess and the son of Devasakti reached a city where they camped close to a lake. She asked her husband to take care of the camp and went into the city with her maids to buy daily needs like rice, salt, butter oil and vegetables. After shopping, she returned to the lake where she saw a surprising spectacle.
The prince was sleeping, resting his head on an anthill. The serpent in his stomach came out to breath fresh air. Then another serpent emerged from the anthill for the same reason. Both of them glared at each other.
The anthill inmate said, “You wicked creature, why do you torment such a handsome prince.”
The other serpent retorted, “Why are you polluting the two golden urns in your hole.”
Thus in their row, they revealed the secrets of each other.
The serpent in the anthill told the other serpent, “Don’t be arrogant. Who does not know the secret of your death? If the prince drinks a concoction made of gruel and mustard you will die unsung”.
“Oh, is that so? You will also perish if someone pours hot oil or hot water in your anthill. Don’t be too proud,” said the serpent in the prince’s stomach.
The princess, who heard all that passed between the two serpents, poured hot oil into the anthill and took the two golden urns and gave the mustard concoction to her husband and killed the serpent inside his stomach. Both Divyasakti’s son and his daughter-in-law returned to his kingdom and lived happily ever after.
After listening to this story, owl king Arimardana accepted his advice that Sthirajeevi’s life should be spared.
Raktaksha, the first minister, was sad and told the ministers, "You have misled the king by giving wrong advice and paved the way for his destruction. The learned have said that where wicked men are honoured and wise men are insulted, there will be fear, famine and death.”
Disregarding the warning of Raktaksha, the king’s men set out to take Sthirajeevi to their fortress.
On the way, Sthirajeevi said, “My lord, in my condition, I cannot be of any help to you. Why do you unnecessarily carry me to the fortress? I will jump into a fire and perish. Please permit me to do that.”
Sensing his internal thoughts, Raktaksha asked him why he would want to end up in fire.
Sthirajeevi said, “It is for your cause I met this fate in the hands of Meghavarna.”
Raktaksha said, “You are a cheat, good at spinning words. You were really born as a crow and even if you are born as an owl in your next birth, you will still be a crow in nature. Haven’t you heard the story of the mouse, which even when she was born as a girl in another birth, chose to marry not a human being but another male mouse?”
The ministers and other king’s men pressed Raktaksha to tell them that story.
There was a hermitage belonging to the sage Salankayana. He went one morning to river Ganga to bathe. As he was reciting stanzas in praise of the Sun, he saw a kite carrying a mouse in its claws. At once, the sage aimed a stone at the kite. Hit by the stone, the kite released its prey and the mouse at once ran to the sage asking him for protection.
The kite addressed Salankayana and said, “O sage, you have hit me with a stone, which is not proper. Are you not afraid of God? Surrender that mouse to me or you will go to hell.”
The sage said, “You wretched bird, my duty is to save God’s creations, to punish the wicked, to respect the good, to honour the teacher and worship the Gods. Why do you preach all those irrelevant rules of conduct to me?”
The kite delivered a big lecture to the sage on the right path. “You have no idea of what is good and what is bad. God created all of us and at the time of creation also prescribed what should be our food. God has marked mice, other rodents and insects to be food for us. Why do you blame me for seeking what God has meant for me? There is nothing wrong for anyone to eat the food marked for him. The danger comes when one eats what is not food for him. What is meat for someone is poison for someone else.”
“It is not proper for sages to be violent. They are not presumed to notice what is happening around them. They are detached from this world. Nothing that happens in the material world should interest them. They should not discriminate between vice and virtue. They are above everything. But by your deed today you have lost all the gains of your penance. Learn from this story of three brothers how to attain that state of detachment.”
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We do not need to suffer or live in poverty to be a spiritual person.
The idea that we have to suffer or live in poverty in order to be spiritual is an old one and can be found in the belief systems of many philosophies. Most of us carry this idea around subconsciously, and we may be holding ourselves back from financial or emotional well-being, believing that this is what we must do in order to be virtuous, spiritually awake, or feel less guilty for the suffering of others.
While it's true that there can be a spiritual purpose to experiencing a lack of material well-being, it is rarely intended to be a permanent or lifelong experience. What we are meant to find when material or emotional resources are in short supply is that there is more to our lives than the physical realm. Intense relationships and material abundance can distract us from the subtler realm of the spirit, so a time of deficiency can be spiritually awakening. However, once we recognize the realm of spirit, and remember to hold it at the center of our lives, there is no reason to dwell in poverty or emotional isolation. In fact, once our connection to spirit is fully intact, we feel so compelled to share our abundance that lack becomes a thing of the past.
If you find that you are experiencing suffering in some area of your physical life, perhaps your spirit is asking you to look deeper in your search for what you want. For example, if you want money so that you can experience the feeling of security but money keeps eluding you, your spirit may be asking you to understand that security is not to be found through money. Security comes from an unshakable connection to your soul. Once you make that connection, money will probably flow more easily into your life. If relationships elude you, your spirit may be calling you to recognize that the love you seek is not to be found in another person. And yet, ironically, once you find the love, your true love may very well appear. If you feel stuck in suffering to live a spiritual life, try to spend some time writing about it. The root of the problem will appear and it may not be what you expected. Remember, the Universe wants you to be happy. | <urn:uuid:aa932de0-e0f2-4660-974d-132b816ea8da> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.albany.com/psychotherapy/2011/10/we-dont-need-to-suffer-learn-and-let-flow.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955687 | 451 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Working odd hours in a high-stress, mostly sedentary job, school bus drivers face an uphill battle when it comes to maintaining good health. With early morning runs or late-night field trips, it can be tempting to grab a donut or fast food instead of packing a well-balanced meal. And after long hours fighting traffic and keeping a bus-full of rambunctious kids in line, one hardly feels like hitting the gym and toning up.
Still, of all professions, school bus driving is one in which a certain level of physical fitness is imperative. Drivers must be able to evacuate students from the bus quickly and efficiently in the event of an emergency. Their level of fitness must not impede their ability to safely operate a large, powerful vehicle and to maintain control of the environment therein.
Evaluating driver health
A Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) study on the health of over-the-road truck drivers indicated that more than 7o percent are overweight at the level of obesity, compared to just over 30 percent of the general population. It also found that approximately half smoke and experience high levels of stress. Would a study of school bus drivers return similar results?
"I think most school bus drivers are overweight. Any sedentary position tends to lead to weight problems," says Fran Briggs, a school bus driver in Phoenix. In addition to lack of exercise, Briggs says poor eating habits are to blame for ailing driver health. "We love to eat, and it's no one's fault but our own," she says.
Briggs adds, however, that weight should not be an issue if it does not inhibit a driver's ability to perform his duties. "[If he] can get down the aisle to help a child in trouble as quickly as possible, it's the driver's business if he is overweight," she says.
Yet, many transportation officials think the industry needs to do a better job of staying healthy. "In my almost 20 years of school bus operations, it seems a large proportion of school bus drivers are very overweight," says one official at a national school bus contractor in the Midwest. His operation supplies uniforms to its drivers and receives many requests for sizes XXXL and XXXXL. "I have even had numerous requests for bus modification to allow drivers to fit behind the wheel," he says.
Conversely, Chris Weston, a driver trainer at Pacific Western Transportation in Maple Ridge, B.C., asserts that the health of school bus drivers is no better or worse than that of other professionals. "I have been doing this for five years and I am not fat and neither are the people that I work with," he says.
However, he agrees with Briggs on one point. "Our first priority is safety," he says, and a driver needs to be healthy enough to satisfy the requirements of his position.
Designing a health plan
While school bus operators generally lack the funding to offer extensive diet and exercise resources to their drivers, there are certain things they can do to help drivers reach their health goals. Here are five steps operators recommend taking to revitalize your employees' health.
1. Provide health resources
No wellness program will be a success if drivers do not have the time, money or interest to participate. Mark Obtinario, former school bus driver and current owner of Cowlitz Coach Service in Castle Rock, Wash., suggests making it as easy as possible for employees to take part in a wellness program by offering convenient, low-cost health improvement options. "Almost every school district, particularly in urban areas, has swimming pools and gymnasiums. They [administrators] can allow the staff to use those facilities at low rates or for free," he notes.
With these resources in place, it is up to the employees to make the program a success by taking advantage of what their employers have to offer. "I believe the wellness programs that many employers have offered are only as good as the people who take advantage of them," says Cindy Miller, lead driver for Geminus Head Start XXI in Valparaiso, Ind. Miller has made efforts to stay healthy by walking to work, bike riding in between runs and working out to exercise videos in the evening. But her efforts have not been entirely successful. Working an average of 10 hours a day, she finds herself constantly low on time and energy. Driver wellness programs are nice, she says, but will not reap rewards unless employees have the time, energy and desire to take advantage of them.
Jim Pope, director of transportation and safety for the Lexington (S.C.) School District, agrees that a program's success hinges on employee interest and motivation. "I do see an interest on the part of employees to participate in something that will help their health," he says. Though the district doesn't provide funding for a driver wellness program, Pope does what he can to help drivers stay in shape by encouraging exercise and nutrition. He says that many of his drivers want to lose weight and could use support in doing so. "Overall, you'll see a concern over weight issues. Just like with me. Right now I'm trying to drop 15 to 20 pounds," he says.
Still, you cannot compare a school bus driver's plight to that of an over-the-road truck driver, says Lesley Lightner of Bloomfield, Ind. And she should know. She drove a school bus for 14 years and has been doing long-haul truck driving for the past nine years. "It's like comparing apples to oranges," she says. School bus drivers return home every night, whereas truck drivers may be on the road for weeks at a time. School bus drivers have breaks in their days, whereas truck drivers often don't. "My weight problem started when I started driving a truck. I gained 50 pounds," she says. "I was in pretty good shape when I drove a school bus because I had the opportunity to do things in between runs and eat more healthfully than I do now."
2. Focus on health, not weight
Keep in mind that the purpose of a driver wellness program is to improve drivers' health and ability to perform their jobs - not to prep them for a beauty contest. Don't fall into the trap of equating weight alone with health.
"I've known as many fat bus drivers as skinny ones, and the skinny ones have as many, if not more health problems than the fat ones," says Obtinario. Weight problems are often a result of genetics, rather than eating habits or lifestyle, he explains. Nonetheless, he doesn't deny that driving a school bus makes staying healthy even more difficult. "The fact that my job is sedentary just exacerbates my weight problem," he says.
Phillip Paige, president of Paige Bus Enterprises in Riverdale, Ill., echoes Obtinario's sentiment that weight and health are not to be confused. "Some of our drivers may look overweight, but they have to pass physicals. I feel secure after they pass that physical," he says. Having just undergone his own annual physical, Paige is confident that his drivers are being held to high standards. "It's a demanding physical that requires them to demonstrate a certain level of physical abilities," he explains.
Like Paige, Alice McCullough, a safety supervisor in Oakdale, N.Y., asserts that physical performance tests prove her drivers are fit for duty. With more than 1,000 drivers on staff, she says the majority are concerned with their health. Many walk the tracks every day while waiting for students to come out of school. "My drivers have even worked to get into shape to drag 125 pounds," she says.
3. Promote good eating habits
We all know how difficult it can be to eat healthy meals on a regular basis. The challenge is even greater when you work odd hours in a sedentary job, with little spare time before or after work due to family obligations. On any given day, 50 percent of people don't eat a single piece of fruit, according to data collected by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The "Nutrition Almanac" recommends adults get 60 to 100 grams of protein a day and that no more than 30 percent of daily caloric intake come from fat calories. "It's very easy to fall into the 'snack trap' and substitute chips or cookies for healthful food. Candy especially provides a quick sugar high that may get a driver a few more miles down the road," says Lightner.
Proving that different people require different approaches, Richard Hansen, director of transportation at School Districts 47 and 155 in Crystal Lake, Ill., says that he has improved his heath not by being choosy about what he eats, but by eating smaller portions. He calls this the "stop eating so much diet," a term he adopted from popular cable TV sitcom "The Man Show." "I know many drivers try to lose weight by eating the right foods, but the most successful people, myself included, are the ones who simply restrict their intake," he says.
By reducing the amount he eats, Hansen has lost 41 pounds. One of his drivers followed suit and dropped 47 pounds. "This driver and I just had to overcome the old mindset, drilled into us since birth, of 'finish everything on your plate.'" It's as simple, he says, as taking smaller portions and stopping when you are full.
Paige's drivers have started a weight loss club to help improve eating habits and overall health. Each employee who participates starts the year by contributing $20 to the pot, which goes to whoever loses the most weight over the course of the year. In addition, each participating employee contributes $5 a month toward a pot that goes to whoever loses the most weight in a 30-day period. Paige says that about 30 percent of his drivers participate in this program and that they support each other, often by discouraging the intake of junk food.
About a half dozen of Pope's drivers joined Weight Watchers together through a local church. They also maintain a sort of quiet competition with each other to eat healthy and stay in shape, says Pope. "The biggest thing right now is trying to keep your canned Slim Fast in our refrigerator. It gets pilfered every night," he quips.
4. Facilitate exercise
According to the USDA, 30 percent of men and 45 percent of women say they never exercise. Experts say that even small amounts of exercise on a regular basis can significantly improve your health and reduce your risk for illness. Ten to 20 minutes of aerobic exercise - such as walking, jogging or bike riding - a day, four days a week, can reap cardiovascular benefits. This can be done in or around the bus yard, and many transportation officials are encouraging their drivers to exercise on site.
Pope promotes exercise at his operation by proposing a fantasy excursion to a faraway beach, where drivers will travel on foot. He has measured the distance around the bus lot so drivers can walk laps between routes and measure exactly how far they've gone. They then mark that distance next to their names on a chart in the drivers' lounge. The destination, Myrtle Beach, is about 150 miles from home. "It [the chart] would say, for instance, that they've walked 26 miles in the last few months and that they're heading toward Myrtle Beach. It's just something to pump them up a little bit," he says.
Mike Wagner, general manager of Alpha School Bus Co. in Crestwood, Ill., provides his employees with an in-house gym. "We have scheduled several different types of workout programs, from the very active to the more easygoing," he explains, adding that the gym is in use every day. Wagner reiterates that sitting behind the wheel all day does not make it easy to remain in top physical condition. "Therefore, it is very important that we, as employers, give them [drivers and attendants] the opportunity to recondition themselves," he says. Use of the gym is free to employees, and Wagner says it does not cost much to maintain, once the equipment has been purchased.
Similarly, drivers at Paige Bus Enterprises benefit from a drivers' lounge equipped with Orbatrack machines, stationary bikes and weights. In the past, Paige has also hired aerobics instructors to teach classes at the company three times a week. Occasionally, he pays for special passes to the YMCA for some of his employees so that they can do aerobics or swim.
Paige's most successful health incentive, however, is the sports program. About 80 percent of Paige's drivers play on one of the company's volleyball, softball or basketball teams, which compete against teams from other operations. "I've had to pick up worker's compensation costs for a couple of broken bones, but I think it's worth it for the public and human relations benefits," says Paige. In addition, Paige employees participate in ping-pong, pool and card tournaments and some get together to walk in the park.
5. Work on the body and mind
Improving diet and exercise are sure-fire ways to increase fitness, but they alone will not necessarily solve a driver's health issues. It's important to realize that some health issues may stem from other sources. According to Lightner, "Stress is another factor that contributes to obesity." And we all know how stressful it is to drive a school bus.
Larry Meyer, driver trainer and safety technician at Indianapolis Public Schools, suggests that stress is a key cause of weight gain. "We must realize that a bus driver's job is a hard one. I've seen people working for us come in slim and in 10 months, they have blimped out. I think it deals with the job and the stress of everything combined," he explains.
If stress contributes to weight gain and other health concerns, will a reduction in weight and other problems reduce stress levels? Weston believes so. If you support and encourage employee health, he says, "you would be surprised how much better relations around your shop would be and how much behavior would improve on your buses." And increased job satisfaction, as we all know, leads to improved performance and reduced absenteeism. Plus, it's not a bad way of combating the driver shortage.
"I think the bottom line is you've got to have good bus drivers. How are you going to get them if you don't have an environment they want to work in?" asks Obtinario. "The whole health issue is more than just 'are they overweight,' or 'are they getting enough sleep.' It's about investing in the people who make up your operation."
Keys to success
According to the Wellness Council of America (WELCOA), which tracks wellness programs in more than 2,100 companies, the following 10 tips will help make your program a success:
1. Make the program voluntary
2. Continually market it to employees
3. Be sensitive to age and body limitations, as well as cultural differences
4. Make the program as flexible as possible
5. Evaluate the program frequently
6. Make sure the management staff is modeling healthy behavior 7. Reward the people who have helped put the program together
8. Keep good records in order to properly evaluate the program
9. Provide a balance of fun programs and those that are clinically significant
10. Personalize the program to the workers' needs
Major health risk factors
Being overweight - When you are overweight, your heart has to work harder to keep your body running. Those who are overweight also run a greater risk of having high blood pressure and high cholesterol, contributing to a number of other health problems.
Diabetes - Diabetes increases blood cholesterol levels, which in turn increases the risk of heart problems. Being overweight also increases your risk of developing diabetes.
Inactivity - Because the heart is a muscle, it needs exercise to stay fit. Lack of exercise leads to decreased cardiovascular fitness levels.
Stress- Dealing with unruly students, difficult parents and uncooperative administrators is a sure source of stress for school bus drivers. Stress can make your blood pressure rise and increase your risk of heart attack.
Smoking - Smokers have a significantly higher risk of cardiovascular disease. The FMCSA study of truck drivers found that 54 percent of truckers smoke. That's a 29 percent higher frequency than among the general population.
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An iCloud account, iTunes account and Apple ID are all the same thing. Apple just refers to them a bit inconsistently. You can (and typically should) have a single Apple ID for all of them, unless you specifically need to separate them out.
Typically refers to the Apple ID that is used for iCloud services, such as backup and syncing documents and settings between apps. This is set in Settings → iCloud → Account.
The Apple ID that you use to purchase downloads from the iTunes, iBooks and App Stores and what syncs your iTunes Match songs, if you use that service. It's set in Settings → iTunes & App Stores → Apple ID.
It's important to note that your purchases are linked to your Apple ID (although music is now DRM-free), and are not transferrable to other Apple IDs. So you should be sure to make all your app, video and music purchases on a single Apple ID to save yourself future headaches.
Your Apple ID is also used for iMessage. Set in Settings → Messages → Send & Receive.
Using Multiple Accounts
You can be signed in to different accounts for each of these services, which can be useful if, for example, you want to have a single family account for iTunes purchases, but keep your iCloud and iMessages separate.
Apple has a few support pages that are helpful for untangling all the intricacies of the Apple ID: | <urn:uuid:2434e94e-160d-43c2-bb9d-2eeac17bf72c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/69651/whats-the-difference-between-an-itunes-account-an-icloud-account-and-an-apple | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924417 | 290 | 1.90625 | 2 |
You have visited an Apple Store and seen an iPhone playing some demonstration videos. Well, by using this simple trick described below you can also turn your iPhone into a demo device just for fun, to impress your friends or to show your customers the features of any product in iPhone if you are a shopkeeper.
The trick involves copying a .mov video file into /var/mobile/ folder of your iPhone. The step by step method is as follows:
Step 1: Make your video and convert into .mov format using any free Video Converter that supports .mov files. The file name should be “Demo.mov” (without quotes).
Step 2: Jailbreak your iPhone if it is not already jailbroken. If your device is running on iOS 4.3.3 or you have iPad 2, you will have to use JailbreakMe 3.0 to jailbreak your device. The devices running on any previous iOS version can be jailbroken with Redsnow.
Step 3: Now either use SSH method or iFile method to transfer the Demo.mov file into /var/mobile/ folder on your iPhone. The former method has already been posted here in details. iFile method seems simpler than SSH method but it requires your PC and iPhone connected with each other on the same WiFi connection.
To use the iFile method, download iFile from Cydia Store after jailbreaking your device.
Go to iFile preferences and turn on the Web Server. Type a username of your choice and password and press the Done option on top right corner.
Now tap on WiFi signal present in iFile bottom area.
Type the address shown on the screen of your iPhone into your PC browser.
When you are prompted for username and password, type the same which you entered during iFile’s web server set up.
Now you can transfer the file from your PC into your iPhone.
Step 4: Respring your iPhone. Now make sure you have activated autolock feature on your iPhone. After the set time ends the phone will loop the video rather than locking.
Keep your iPhone into a dock and impress your friends with continuous demo video.
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BUFFALO, NY (WKBW-TV) - A new report by the U-S Department of Agriculture says food prices could jump by 3 or 4 percent of the next couple months.
Experts say beef prices could see the largest jump of 4 or 5 percent... followed by dairy products at roughly 3.5 to 4.5 percent...
Consumer affairs manager for Wegmans Theresa Jackson says eggs have gone up significantly and they've only seen a slight increase in beef and poultry.
Jackson says for the most part they are not passing the increase onto the consumer.
"Right now we are able to hold those prices for our customers especially in the areas of producer, beef and dairy. We're doing a lot to source local products and really keep our prices low for our customers," Jackson says.
Customers we spoke to had mixed reaction to the price increases.
"A usual week for me is roughly $150. It wouldn't alter too much for me. I would keep buying organic, i would still buy the pack," says Amherst resident Maria Simon.
Jamie Fanara says "If you're feeding 5 people it does add up."
So as you wander through the isles there are some ways to lower your bill. One, buy in bulk.
"Especially with meats and beef. Just buying a large packs, they sell those giant packs and chop it up and throw it in the freezer," says Buffalo resident Nick Duell.
Second, don't let those cheaper store brands scare you away.
"Sometimes those store brands have a bad reputation of being less than or a generic brand and we want our customers to know they can save money and get the same quality by buying Wegmans brand products," says Jackson.
And finally, plan out your week in advance, "a lot of meal planning which is good that way you're not just going into the store buy whatever. Planning is really good," says Jamie Fanara | <urn:uuid:822aa357-081c-483c-83b7-27198c4b3472> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wkbw.com/news/Saving-Money-As-Food-Prices-Climb-164318546.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979857 | 400 | 1.6875 | 2 |
A two-week pilot program will allow Sweet Home High School students to use their personal electronic devices, mainly to listen to music, only in non-instructional settings at the school.
Principal Joleen Reinholz on Tuesday shared details of the pilot program with the School Board. Reinholz said that in pursuing the test program, school administrators were responding to a petition signed by 500 students at the high school.
During the pilot period, which will occur between Jan. 28 and Feb. 15 after the district’s midterm break, students will be allowed to use iPhones, iPads and other electronic devices to listen to music in the cafeteria and during study halls.
“The time period is going to begin the day that we get back from break through Feb. 15,” Reinholz said, “so it’s a relatively short amount of time to gather data and see if, from the teachers’ point of view, from the kids’ point of view, is this something that we would want to continue, or change, or modify?”
She said faculty were surveyed online, and more than 78 percent were open to the idea of modifying the school’s current rules against using personal electronic devices in the building. A subsequent meeting with staff sought to identify potential concerns.
“We tried to look at some of the challenges of enforcing this or allowing this new privilege for our students,” Reinholz said. “The areas that they thought would probably make the most sense [were] the cafeterias, study halls and in the fitness area, and certainly not in the hallways, and certainly not in the classroom or someplace that was used instructionally.”
Students wearing headsets in the hallways and unable to hear emergency announcements was too much of a concern, she said.
Students will be prohibited from making phone calls or sending text messages.
Parents will be notified about the particulars in a letter over midterm week. Building administrators will meet in an assembly with the students on their first day back from midwinter break.
“We also want the kids to understand, very crystal clear, our expectations for the pilot and that this is something that we’re trying, and there’s going to be some expectation for them to not abuse this moving forward, and to tell them why we’re doing it,” she said. | <urn:uuid:90086ff3-06c3-4cc3-824e-f38ee41d7e9a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130116/CITYANDREGION/130119386/1020 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963835 | 497 | 1.632813 | 2 |
-powered clothing is nothing new; we've seen CO2-detecting dresses
, compass belts
and inbox-checking T-shirts
all within the last six months. But this Ping social networking garment concept is not quite the same thing. Where those were DIY projects with a single-function, Ping is the brainchild of a professional UI designer... and the fabric itself is a social network UI that registers your movements as attempts to communicate. Woven with flexible sensors and conductive threads connected to an Arduino Lilypad and Xbee, clothing made from the fabric can detect when you lift a hood or tie a ribbon and wirelessly send Facebook status updates accordingly -- or tap you on the shoulder in a number of different rhythms so you know not only when, but who might be trying to get in touch. Designer Jennifer Darmour imagines a future in which clothing offers full-body 3D gesture recognition and senses our environment. When we can reliably use it to control our computers
, we hope she'll get in touch. | <urn:uuid:4b1023a0-cf6e-4fdd-94bb-7ef6362d8a20> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/19/with-ping-clothing-status-updates-literally-tap-you-on-the-sh/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935115 | 209 | 1.90625 | 2 |
I'm taking an English academic writing course. My teacher recommended using today as it is more accepted compared to nowadays. I asked her if this is accepted in American English (she's from US) or in general. She said in general. Then I asked her why it was recommended. Her reasoning was:
When you publish an article your audience will be the whole world and not everyone in this world is a native English speaker, so it is recommended to use simple English.
Is replacing nowadays by today really recommended? I'm looking for a source that can prove or disprove the above statement. I am a non-native English speaker myself, trying to learn English from different sources. | <urn:uuid:b578bdb2-814f-42d2-978d-98048b59802d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/46771/nowadays-vs-today/46911 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973538 | 138 | 1.789063 | 2 |
If you put an imaginary bubble around your head —a comic book type of balloon that showed a picture of what you were thinking about, what would it be?
Even while you are reading this you might be thinking about how you can’t wait to stretch your muscles and take a walk or start reading that best seller you just checked out from the library.
If that ‘thought bubble’ was permanent, what a rude awakening that would be for most of us. The reason is that daydreaming goes on all the time in all of us.
Now here’s something to really make you glad you don’t have a ‘Velcro’ bubble of ideas swirling around your head. Researchers have found that one-third to one-half of our waking life is spent daydreaming!
So if you find your mind wandering during the day, rest assured, you are not alone.
There is also good news attached to all that daydreaming. Wandering thoughts like what a warm beach would feel like now, or how nice it would be to sit in a classroom again studying astronomy or mulling over whether you should buy an electric bikecan help improve your life.
Many of us understand sleep is crucial to good health. But we are just beginning to understand that those brief mental naps we take in between emails, or looking out the window during a boring meeting, may actually be contributing to our overall restfulness. Taking a break is also thought to give the mind a break from stress, a brief release and is an important way for the body to cope with the caustic effects of stress.
Give Yourself a Daydreaming Break
Current research is discovering more benefits attached to daydreaming. Researchers have found that daydreaming in adults may help repair some damage from aging brain cells. This damage may contribute to memory problems, concentration and affect other important mental tasks.
The benefits of daydreaming are also related to sleep which is crucial to overall brain function. Research from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has highlighted how quality sleep, which can include daydreaming and an occasional afternoon nap, may help cognition functions such as memory and concentration skills.
Daydreaming can jump start new ideas that you mull around in that thought bubble. Think of daydreaming this way: Pondering life may lead to improving the quality of your life.
Dreaming while you’re awake can inspire you to try something new, break up your routine and do something you haven’t done in a long time. When was the last time you went ice skating or used a recipe that wowed your family?
Daydreaming can help you work through your thought process and get inspired and get going.
Use Daydreaming to Improve Your Life
If your daydreams are filled with thoughts like, “Oh, I wish I could do that, but I don’t know” keep these daydreaming tips in mind.
Small nuggets of an idea can lead to big things that may change your life. And daydreaming is one place for new ideas to form.
Daydreaming about people, places and possibilities can motivate you to take the plunge in making positive changes.
But some people need even more of a motivator. If that’s you, here are some things you should know about lifestyle changes—maybe first thought about in daydream—to help you improve your health and even help you live longer.
- Jot down your dream ideas: If you’ve been daydreaming about something that pops up often, take note –literally –of your thoughts. If you keep dreaming about breaking your routine, it may be time to act on those thoughts and take a few days off.
- Thinking about becoming more active? Do it. According to a British Medical Journal study people who are 75 or older and physically active lived 5 years or longer than those who were sedentary.
- Get unstuck from too much TV. If you’re daydreaming about sewing, golf or playing Scrabble, make it happen. A surprising new health study found the more you sit watching TV, the less healthy it may be. The study found that for every hour an adult over 25 sits in front of a TV, it may decrease their life by 22 minutes.
Put Your Daydreams to Work
Just imagine how many of these types of daydreams you have every day. Think about how many you probably have in a week’s time. Hundreds and hundreds, but what are you doing with these moments of leisure?
There’s no better time than now to use daydreaming to improve the quality of your life.
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If you’re struggling with washing machine odor in your front load washer, or just hoping to avoid it, here are a few simple tips to ensure you always have a fresh washer.
The Water Factor
Water plays an important role in the function of your washing machine. Not only does it clean your clothes, water is also responsible for ensuring your washer is clean (or not!)
When a cycle is complete, there is a gallon or more of residual water left behind that does not drain. This water is not visible as it remains on the bottom of the plastic outer tub and in the drain pump in the bottom of the washer.
Many people like to use only cold water for washing in order to save energy. This is great but a hot wash or soak should be done as the last cycle on wash day. It’s a perfect chance to do more soiled laundry! If leaving for a vacation or the washer is not going to be used soon a second rinse is a good idea. These methods are the easiest ways to prevent a smelly washing machine. The temperature of the water can also be a culprit of washing machine odor. While it’s unrealistic to wash all your laundry in hot water, heat kills bacteria and can help prevent mildew from growing. At the very least, run the hottest cleaning cycle once a month with no clothes in the washer.
Don’t use fabric softener
If it’s a fresh washer you crave, liquid fabric softener is one of your worst enemies. Liquid fabric softener has a tendency to leave a residue behind that builds up on the inside of outer tub. It also accumulates in hard-to-reach places such as under the agitator and above the splash line. When combined with water, this residue makes the perfect food source for mildew to grow and cause washing machine odor.
The solution is simple: switch to fabric softener sheets or dryer balls. The sheets can be cut in half and even reused and still be effective. They even have an added bonus of preventing static in the dryer. Keep in mind softener and/or sheets can be overused and cause problems with long dry times and multiple repair attempts by coating the lint screen and/or the moisture sensor in most dryers.
Use A Washer Cleaner
Using a washer cleaner, such as Smelly Washer, monthly will ensure you always have a fresh washer. Smelly Washer uses all natural ingredients to eliminate odor, fungus and mildew that cause washing machine odor.
Smelly Washer should be used in the hottest or “clean” cycle of your washer with no clothes. For more stubborn odors, allow the solution to soak in the washer. If odor persists add a cap of Smelly Washer or Smelly towel to a full load of whites. The added bulk of the clothing will lift the water level to include the splash area 3-5 inches above the normal waterline. This “splash area” is always the worst area for buildup. Use Smelly Washer before washing machine odor begins and you’ll always have a fresh washer.
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BBC Radio 7, 21-25 June 2010
Adapted in five bitesize fifteen-minute episodes, this version of Orwell's
classic read by Bill Nighy focused on major episodes, such as the building and destruction of the windmill, Snowball's
expulsion from the farm and the gradual rise to power of Napoleon with the help of the dogs whom he had plucked from their
mother at birth and trained to become his personal bodyguards. There was a frightening inevitability about what happened:
once the animals assumed control of Manor Farm, they were ripe for exploitation by opportunists like Napoleon, who cleverly
exploited their gullibility with (empty) promises of untold wealth and riches.
Orwell's fable was deliberately aimed at the Stalinist regime prevailing in the Soviet
Union after the end of World War II. Boxer the workaholic horse was a reincarnation of Stakhanov, the legendary mine-worker
held up as a paragon of virtue for his limitless capacity for hard work, and subsequently cast aside like a piece of litter
once his powers had expired.
In Bill Nighy's reading of the story, the ironies were evident. Each episode was
introduced by him singing the anthem 'Beasts of England' - emphasizing the farm's commitment to patriotism and national unity.
However Napoleon's actions had precisely the opposite intention; to promote discord and dissension, despite Squealer's
best efforts to present them in a favourable light. Nighy spoke in a calm, almost dispassionate tine, as if what he was saying
was the most normal thing in the world. In truth this made Orwell's narrative seem even more sinister: if the abnomal
was presented as normal, then Napoleon could quite literally get away with murder.
The story's ending was narrated in an almost as if it were an epiphany;
the supreme culmination of what the animals had been striving for all these years. It was only when we stood back and
reflected for a moment that we understood how Napoleon had brought the story back full circle; now he and his fellow pigs
were acting just like the hated human beings who had originally exerted such tyranny over the animals. Perhaps the ideal of
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ACSEF (Aberdeen City and Shire Economic Future) is a public-private partnership that drives economic development in the region.
It brings together Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Councils, Scottish Enterprise, Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce, Skills Development Scotland and VisitScotland with representatives from business and academia to ensure a collaborative approach to growing the economy and enhancing quality of life.
Aberdeen City and Shire Economic Forum was originally set up in 2001 when the Scottish Government set up local economic forums. Following the Government’s review of economic development in 2008, local economic forums were disbanded and a new structure for Scottish Enterprise was established. This included the introduction of five regional advisory boards throughout the Scottish Enterprise area.
The Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth, John Swinney MSP, highlighted the Aberdeen City and Shire Economic Forum model as an exemplar of how the Scottish Government saw its approach to regional economic development being delivered in his statement to the Scottish Parliament on 26 September 2007.
He said: “I am aware that in many areas there are successful examples of effective local collaboration between the enterprise networks, local authorities and the business community. The Aberdeen City and Shire Economic Forum is one such example. So I want to make absolutely clear that where there are strong, effective local partnerships and strong local identity - these should continue to operate within the regional model. This Government wants to encourage collaboration between the public, private and voluntary sectors and indeed believes that more local areas, having seen the benefits of this collaboration elsewhere, will choose to adopt a similar approach.”
Aberdeen City and Shire Economic Future (ACSEF) was set up in 2008 to maintain the momentum achieved and ensure a continued, concerted approach to economic development in the region. It was agreed that the ACSEF board would also fulfil the function of the Regional Advisory Board for Scottish Enterprise in Aberdeen City and Shire.
Delivery of ACSEF Vision
Through engagement with over 1,500 businesses, ACSEF shaped a vision for the region in 2025. All the partners have signed a formal charter to underline their commitment to achieving that vision.
The vision is being realised by the delivery of an ambitious action plan which focuses on the priorities of improving transport, maximising intellectual capital, developing, retaining and attracting skilled people, anchoring a global oil and gas industry, stream-lining the planning process, redeveloping the city centre and attracting more corporate head-quarters.
The charter states that the partners will provide leadership to deliver the ACSEF vision, commit the required level of resource to achieve sustainable economic growth, recognise the advisory role of the board and work collaboratively to deliver the shared objectives.
The partners take responsibility for leading on key strategic objectives, agreeing the required level of funding to meet the objectives identified in the plan and ensuring that all stakeholders, elected members and staff are fully engaged in ACSEF’s plan.
ACSEF’s plan is to facilitate over £1.5 billion in investment in the next 15 to 20 years which will safeguard and create thousands of jobs.
The ACSEF partnership is funded by Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Councils and Scottish Enterprise. Management of both core operational and project costs is controlled by the public sector organisations through their normal accounting and management systems.
The public funding is supplemented by in-kind support by the private sector.
The ACSEF board comprises the leaders of both councils, a member of the Scottish Enterprise Board, representatives from the education sector and private sector representatives who are appointed for their industry sector knowledge and expertise as well as their influence and commitment to economic development.
Board members are guided by the Principles of Public Life as set out by the Model Code of Conduct for Standards in Public Life produced for Members of Devolved Public Bodies by the Standards Commission for Scotland in 2002.
Board members receive no salary for their role as ACSEF Board members and give their time for free to attend meetings and lead on strategic priority areas and projects on behalf of ACSEF.
Both Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Councils along with Scottish Enterprise have formal complaints procedures in place.
Any complaints regarding ACSEF activities can be made through these channels:
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Courtesy Netherlands Society for Nature and the Environment
OMA and Rem Koolhaas have released an ambitious plan for the North Sea that would produce all the electricity for Dutch households via offshore wind power before 2020. Commissioned by the Netherlands Society for Nature and the Environment, the plan would create North Sea wind parks as a “sustainable battery for Europe.” Further, OMA believes its plan would “bridge the divide” that separates the seven countries around the North Sea by exploring other potentials of the sea. By linking several different wind parks, OMA claims, “in a clever way, vast contiguous new nature areas can be created. Wind parks could provide a shelter to fish and other animals. Since fishing is not allowed in wind parks, artificial reefs could enrich the sea life.” OMA and Koolhaas certainly never think small or rigidly about the limits of architectural practice, and their audacious explorations may offer suggestions to other practices seeking commissions in these hard times.
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Enough is enough: let us all demand an end to the UN occupation of Haiti (29th February 2012)
There are a thousand reasons for the UN occupation troops in Haiti (MINUSTAH) to leave. And not one single legitimate reason for them to stay. [Castellano] [Kreyòl Ayisyen] [Français]
Enough is enough: let us all demand an end to the UN occupation of Haiti (29th February 2012)
There are a thousand reasons for the UN occupation troops in Haiti (MINUSTAH) to leave. And not one single legitimate reason for them to stay. What are the only achievements of MINUSTAH? Let us quickly and frankly review the most remarkable of them:
• Over 10,000 violent deaths related to “paramilitary” or “humanitarian” violence;
• Over 6,000 deaths because of a cholera epidemic caused by MINUSTAH soldiers using local rivers as sewers;
• Thousands of rapes (at least 35,000 just between 2004-2006, according to a “Lancet” report);
• Over 700,000 people still living in tents more than a year and a half after the earthquake;
• 2 rigged, selective elections with historically low turnouts (a mere 22% for the last one);
• Increasing use of the sweatshop model of fake “development”;
• Providing a safe comeback for the nostalgic elements of the “good old days” of the Duvalier dictatorship;
MINUSTAH has been in Haiti since 2004, supposedly on humanitarian grounds. Yet, they should have never gone there. In any case, the list of their achievements is indeed queer for what is supposedly “humanitarian” intervention.
Sure, we know there is no such a thing as “humanitarian” intervention. Superpowers always intervene out of their own interests, not because it is best for the oppressed and impoverished majority. They intervene where they see business opportunities, and they don’t hesitate to crush (on “humanitarian” grounds) any local resistance to their grand designs. We’ve seen this pattern of behaviour time and again. But poor Haiti... no-one has had it as hard as they have.
Why? You can go back to the birth of the Haitian republic in 1804, as a result of a slave revolt - the first black republic in the world. Since then, to the eyes of the “civilised” powers of the West, it has been a pariah republic. In fact, everything possible has been done to make sure that Haitians were to remain forever an impoverished, oppressed group of people: illegitimate debts were imposed on them as soon as they became independent, they suffered blockades, embargoes, military occupations and interventions, and all sorts of dictators were imposed on the people according to the interests of this or that superpower, France first, Germany later, the US today. In its savage treatment of Haiti, the “civilised” West has shown the wild beast that lies inside it.
But to really understand what is happening now, we have to come closer in time to 1986, a crucial moment in Haitian history, when mass mobilisations all over the country, brought down the infamous US- and France-sponsored dictatorship of “Baby Doc” Duvalier. That a small, Third World, impoverished nation in the middle of the Caribbean could challenge the designs of the US masters and attempt to build forms of radical and direct democracy was surely too much for them to take. Since then, every single attempt by the “international community” led by the USA has been directed at suppressing the popular movement which toppled this tyranny and dared to build a Haiti of its own. First, they imposed new military rulers; then in 1991, they toppled the first democratically-elected president in Haitian history, Aristide, after a mere seven months in power; next they imposed yet another dictatorship; then, in 1994, they returned Aristide on condition that he implemented a programme of further neoliberal reform and remained in power for just a couple of months; then they let the country sink into an illegitimate debt crisis while they plundered it through their multinational corporations; then, when Aristide won the elections again in 2000 and showed signs of too much independence while rejecting full implementation of the plan for further privatisations drawn up for Haiti, the country was subjected to international sanctions on spurious charges of “undemocratic” behaviour, crippling the economy.
Finally in 2004, when all this proved insufficient, and with Aristide having incensed the colonial pride of the former French master by demanding that Haiti be given back the illegitimate compensation it had had to pay France for its right to be independent (which it started paying in 1825 and only finished in 1948), the CIA trained and armed a band of neo-duvalierist thugs in the Dominican Republic and sponsored a military coup which they carried out early in February 2004. Then, the US sent troops, kidnapped Aristide at gunpoint and put him on a plane to the Central African Republic. Brazil, which was willing to “do something” to ensure itself a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, then led MINUSTAH which took over from direct French, Canadian, Chilean and US occupation, giving it a cover of “legitimacy” from the so-called “international community”.
All this is well known and documented – not a mere conspiracy theory. How dear MINUSTAH is to US imperialist interests in Haiti was revealed in a 2008 cable from a US ambassador, revealed by Wikileaks: “A premature departure of MINUSTAH would leave the
[Haitian] government...vulnerable to...resurgent populist and anti-market economy political forces—reversing gains of the last two years
”. MINUSTAH “is an indispensable tool in realizing core USG
[US government] policy interests in Haiti.
So what is the role of MINUSTAH? It is not just an ordinary occupation force. It is more than that, it is actually the army supporting the de facto regime, the dictatorship imposed on the Haitian people since the 2004 coup (barely disguised in democratic robes by two sham, rigged elections, full of irregularities and with a historically low turnout from the people). The Haitian coup was a very peculiar one; because the Haitian army was disbanded by Aristide in 1995 (due to its historic role as a guardian of privilege and its tendency to engage in putsches), the coup could not be carried out by the army, so disgruntled ex-army officers became CIA mercenaries. But inasmuch as they could carry out the coup while posing as “freedom fighters” in true CONTRA style, they could not run the show; so military force has been provided by international “peace” troops – the blue helmets. They have repressed and attacked the poor and have let paramilitary gangs, armed by businessmen and recalcitrant oligarchs, do their dirty business. This is no surprise given the fact that the army of this “peace-keeping” mission is almost entirely composed of countries who have been themselves serious human rights abusers, such as Morocco, Jordan, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Sri Lanka, etc.
It is time to put a stop to this farce. On 29th February 2012, it will be the eighth anniversary of the coup. It will be eight years since this international-imperialist tutelage started. It will be the eighth anniversary of the complete ruin of the Haitian people. We should all – solidarity organisations, alternative media, everyone – start agitating already so as to make that day a massive day of solidarity with the Haitian people in their struggle for liberation from the heinous military boot of MINUSTAH.
Now, after the cholera cases, the repeated assaults on poor shanty towns, the systematic rape made evident by the controversial leaked video of Uruguayan troops raping a boy, the Haitian people are demanding louder and louder an end to the UN occupation of Haiti. And we should join in and support their voices.
Some misled do-gooders will tell us that the Haitian people cannot be abandoned by the “international community”. But let’s put the record straight: the so called “international community” has long abandoned Haitian people, at least from a purely “humanitarian” point of view. All that the “civilised West” has done over the last decades is to inflict even more pain on the Haitian masses, to increase their hunger, to humiliate them, to rob them of everything they could get their hands on and strip them bare. The so called “international community” has shown no sign of genuine concern about the Haitian people, as proved by the extraordinarily inefficient response to the tragic earthquake last year, which only meant that international agencies filled their pockets with billions of dollars that the Haitian people have never seen. While the UN has refused to give more than half the money requested for humanitarian aid this year (U$382,000,000 in total was requested), while it would cost a mere U$200,000,000 to solve the crisis for the people displaced by the 2010 earthquake, while the UN has been unable to raise even U$100,000 to fight the cholera epidemic which has cost over 6,000 lives so far, the UN is spending roughly U$850,000,000 in keeping a rather expensive military occupation force, adding insult to injury. Instead of taking the opportunity to rebuild a better Haiti, as Bill Clinton (probably the single person with more Haitian blood on his hands) cynically said, the chance was taken for big US corporations to grab multi-million contracts without any responsibility to deliver, leaving hundreds of thousands out in the cold. Instead of taking the opportunity to move people back to the countryside by developing an long-overdue wholesale agrarian reform, they decided to pave the path of sweatshops as a means to “develop” Haiti.
All the “civilised West” has done in Haiti is to meddle in its affairs, to impose a neo-duvalierist regime against the will of the majority of the Haitian people, to crush the remnants of the movement that back in 1986 dreamed of a different country. This occupation, like the constant intervention and succession of US-sponsored terror regimes since 1986, is designed to break the people’s will, to convince them of the futility of resistance and to convince them that duvalierism is the best model for Haiti. But the Haitian people will prove them wrong: their whole history is an uphill struggle against servitude and this is just the latest chapter of it.
The time has come to say: enough is enough! There are a thousand reasons for the UN occupation troops in Haiti (MINUSTAH) to leave. And there is not one single legitimate reason for them to stay. Let’s start coordinating and working so that February 29th sends a very clear message to the international community: Haitian people are not alone.
So let us say it loud and clear:
No more lies, no more MINUSTAH!
No more occupation, no more MINUSTAH!
No more rape, no more MINUSTAH!
No more abuse, no more MINUSTAH!
No more murder, no more MINUSTAH!
No more racism, no more MINUSTAH!
No more colonialism, no more MINUSTAH!
No more intervention, no more MINUSTAH!
Respect for Haitian people’s dignity and self-determination!
There are a thousand reasons for MINUSTAH to leave, and not one for it to stay!
José Antonio Gutiérrez D.
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Basketball New Zealand recognises that the development of quality coaching
across New Zealand goes hand in hand with the development of quality basketball
in the country.
An important aspect of this development is the recognition that grass roots,
development, elite and senior coaches are equally valuable to the sport and
this website contains information and resources for coaches across the whole
New Zealand Basketball community.
Coaching Development Framework
Basketball’s coach development framework also recognises that coaches develop in a variety of ways and that there is a diverse range of development opportunities
available to New Zealand basketball coaches.
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3.2 Reported Profitability and the Principle of Conservatism
At the end of this section, students should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Describe the method used to differentiate assets from expenses.
- Discuss the rationale for the principle of conservatism and its effect on financial reporting.
- Explain the reason dividend distributions are not reported within net income.
- Discuss the need to study an entire set of financial statements rather than focus in obsessively on one or two numbers such as net income.
Question: Previously, the term “asset” was defined as a future economic benefit owned or controlled by a reporting company. On an income statement, items such as rent and advertising are listed as expenses. Why are such costs not grouped with the assets on the balance sheet? For example, the rent paid for a building could provide a probable future economic benefit for the reporting organization but it is included in Figure 3.1 "Income Statement" as an expense. The same is true for advertising. How does a company determine whether a cost represents an asset or an expense?
Answer: Drawing a distinction that allows a cost to be classified as either an asset or an expense is not always easy for an accountant. If a company makes a $1,000 rent payment, an expense might have been incurred because an outflow of an asset has taken place. However, the cost of this rent could also be shown on the balance sheet as an asset if it provides future economic benefits.
A cost is identified as an asset if the benefit clearly has value in generating future revenues for the company whereas an expense is a cost that has already helped earn revenues in the past.
With an asset, the utility will be consumed in the year. With an expense, the utility has already been consumed. To illustrate, assume that on December 31, Year One, a company pays $1,000 for rent on a building used during the previous month. The benefit gained from occupying that space has already occurred. Use of the building helped the company generate revenue during December. The outflow of this money is reflected on the income statement as a rent expense. The benefit is now in the past.
If on that same day, another $1,000 is paid to rent this building again during the upcoming month of January Year Two, the acquired benefit relates directly to the future. Until consumed, this second cost should be shown on the balance sheet as a $1,000 asset (referred to as prepaid rent).
- Expense. Cost that helped generate revenues in the past.
- Asset. Cost expected to help generate revenues in the future.
When a cost is incurred, the accountant must investigate to determine when the related benefit is expected. This timing—which is guided by U.S. GAAP—indicates whether an asset should be recognized (shown on the balance sheet) or an expense (reported on the income statement).
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Question: A business or other organization can face many complicated situations. At times, the decision as to whether a specific cost will generate revenue in the future (and is reported as an asset) or has already helped create revenue in the past (an expense) is difficult. When an accountant encounters a case that is “too close to call,” what reporting is appropriate? For example, assume that a company has agreed to pay $24,000 but officials cannot ascertain the amount of the related benefit that has already occurred versus the amount that will take place in the future. When delineation between an asset and an expense appears to be impossible, what is reported?
Answer: Being an accountant is a relatively easy job when financial events are distinct and clearly understood. Unfortunately, in real life, situations often arise where two or more outcomes seem equally likely. The distinction raised in this question between an asset and an expense is simply one of numerous possibilities where multiple portraits could be envisioned. At such times, financial accounting has a long history of following the principle of conservatismPreference of accountants to avoid making an organization look overly good; when faced with multiple reporting options that are equally likely, the worse possible outcome is reported to help protect the decision maker from being too optimistic..
The conservative nature of accounting influences many elements of U.S. GAAP and must be understood in order to appreciate the meaning of the financial information that is conveyed about an organization. Simply put, conservatism holds that whenever an accountant faces two or more equally likely possibilities, the one that makes the company look worse should be selected. In other words, financial accounting attempts to ensure that a reporting organization never looks significantly better than it actually is.
If a cost has been incurred that might have either a future value (an asset) or a past value (an expense), the accountant always reports the most likely possibility. That is the only appropriate way to paint a portrait of an organization that is the fairest representation. However, if neither scenario appears more likely to occur, the cost is classified as an expense rather than an asset because of the principle of conservatism. Reporting a past benefit rather than a future benefit has a detrimental impact on the company’s appearance to an outside party. This handling reduces the reported net income as well as the amount shown as the total of the assets.
The principle of conservatism can be seen throughout financial accounting. When the chance of two possibilities is the same, accounting prefers that the more optimistic approach be avoided.
Question: Why does conservatism exist in financial accounting? Companies must prefer to look as successful as possible. Why does a bias exist for reporting outcomes in a negative way?
Answer: Accountants are well aware that the financial statements they produce are relied on by decision makers around the world to determine future actions that will place monetary resources at risk. For example, if a company appears to be prosperous, an investor might decide to allocate scarce cash resources to obtain shares of its capital stock. Similarly, a creditor is more willing to make a loan to a company that seems to be doing well economically.
Such decision makers face potential losses that can be significant. Accountants take their role in this process quite seriously. As a result, financial accounting has traditionally held that the users of financial statements are best protected if the reporting process is never overly optimistic in picturing an organization’s financial health and future prospects. Money is less likely to be lost if the accountant paints a portrait that is no more rosy than necessary. The practice of conservatism is simply an attempt by financial accounting to help safeguard the public.
The problem that can occur when a company appears excessively profitable can be seen in the downfall of WorldCom where investors and creditors lost billions of dollars. A major cause of this accounting scandal, one of the biggest in history, was the fraudulent decision by members of the company’s management to record a cost of nearly $4 billion as an asset rather than as an expense. Although any future benefit resulting from these expenditures was highly doubtful, the cost was reported to outsiders as an asset. Conservatism was clearly not followed.
Consequently, in its financial statements, WorldCom appeared to have more assets and be much more profitable than was actually the case. Investors and creditors risked their money based on the incorrect information they had received. Later, in 2002, when the truth was discovered, the stock price plummeted and the company went bankrupt. Even if the decision had been close as to whether these costs represented assets or expenses, the practice of conservatism would have dictated the need to record them as expenses to prevent an overly optimistic picture of the company and its financial health.
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Question: Previously, the term “dividends” was introduced and discussed. Dividend distributions reduce the net assets of a company. In Figure 3.1 "Income Statement", a number of expenses are listed but no dividends are mentioned. Why are dividend payments not included as expenses on an income statement?
Answer: Dividends are not expenses and, therefore, must be omitted in creating an income statement. Such payments obviously reduce the amount of net assets owned or controlled by a reporting company. However, they are not related in any way to generating revenues. A dividend is a reward distributed by a company (through the decision of its board of directors) to the owners of its capital stock. Thus, a dividend is a sharing of profits and not a cost incurred to create revenues.
In Figure 3.1 "Income Statement", Davidson Groceries reports net income for the year of $230,000. The board of directors might look at that figure and opt to make a cash dividend distribution to company owners. That is one of the most important decisions for any board. Such payments usually please the owners but reduce the size of the company and—possibly—its future profitability.
An income statement reports revenues, expenses, gains, and losses. Dividend distributions do not qualify and must be reported elsewhere in the company’s financial statements.
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Question: The final figure presented on the income statement is net income. This balance reflects the growth in a company’s net assets during the period resulting from all revenues, expenses, gains, and losses. In evaluating the operations of any company, that figure seems to be incredibly significant. It reflects the profitability for the period. Is net income the most important number to be found in a set of financial statements?
Answer: The net income figure reported for any business organization is an eagerly anticipated and carefully analyzed piece of financial information. It is the most discussed number disclosed by virtually any company. However, financial statements present a vast array of data and the importance of one balance should never be overemphasized. A portrait painted by an artist is not judged solely by the small section displaying the model’s ear but rather by the representation made of the entire person. Likewise, only the analysis of all information conveyed by a complete set of financial statements enables an interested party to arrive at the most appropriate decisions about an organization.
Some creditors and investors seek shortcuts when making business decisions rather than doing the detailed analysis that is appropriate. Those individuals often spend an exorbitant amount of time focusing on reported net income. Such a narrow view shows a fundamental misunderstanding of financial reporting and the depth and breadth of the information being conveyed. In judging a company’s financial health and future prospects, an evaluation should be carried out on the entity as a whole. Predicting stock prices, dividends, and cash flows requires a complete investigation. That is only possible by developing the capacity to work with all the data presented in a set of financial statements. If a single figure could be used reliably to evaluate a business organization, creditors and investors would never incur losses.
Conservatism is an often misunderstood term in financial reporting. Despite a reputation to the contrary, financial accounting is not radically conservative. However, when two reporting options are equally likely, the one that makes the company look best is avoided. In that way, the portrait created of a company is less likely to be overly optimistic so that decision makers are protected. Losses are less likely to occur. For example, expenses refer to costs that had value in the past while assets reflect future economic benefits. If this distinction cannot be drawn for a particular cost, it should be reported as an expense. That assignment reduces both reported income and assets. The resulting net income figure is useful in evaluating the financial health and prospects of a company but no single figure should be the sole source of information for a decision maker. | <urn:uuid:502b1748-f71a-476a-833d-9f3395203b43> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com/bookhub/reader/11?e=hoyle-ch03_s02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00051-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959059 | 2,662 | 2.890625 | 3 |
GCN LAB REVIEW
Dead zones don't stop this phone
There are places out there in the world where you can’t make a call on a normal cell phone. We explored some of these dead zones earlier in the year in reviewing the Wilson Sleek, a device that helped cell phones eke out a signal in the hinterlands between major cities. But even with a booster device on your signal, there are places where cell phones just can’t go. For those locations, you need a satellite phone.
I’m not completely new to the world of satellite communications. Many years ago I reviewed a satellite phone from a company called Globalstar.
I took it out into the Mojave Desert on a four-wheeling trip to a place where there really wasn’t any signal at all and proceeded to make calls, to the amazement of both the off-road guides and my fellow travelers. The biggest problem was that, back then, satellite phones were huge, bigger than a brick and just about as heavy. I had to strap the Globalstar to my back, and carrying that extra bulk wasn’t too fun when the temperature reached 110 degrees later that day.
Inmarsat IsatPhone Pro
Pros: Works where other phones won’t; better form factor than previous units.
Cons: Must be outside for optimal coverage; signal breaks up more than a regular phone.
Ease of Use: A
Satellite phone crosses the dead zone
On the range, and out of range
But much has changed in the satellite phone world in 10 years, and much has stayed the same. The IsatPhone Pro phone from Inmarsat we tested for this review minimizes the flaws of the previous generation, although they don’t completely go away.
Those of you who have experience with this type of device will notice the size of the IsatPhone Pro right away. It’s a lot sleeker than the phones of yesteryear, and a lot lighter too. But it’s still bigger than any standard cell phone by at least half, even though a lot of that goes into the length of the phone because of the need to act as a case for the antenna. My guess is that there is a lot of empty space inside the phone because of this.
The antenna telescopes and is about a foot long when fully extended. You will need to extend it each time you want to make a call, which is done by simply rotating it along an axis, which will cause it to lengthen itself.
The phone is able to work anywhere in the world other than the extreme polar regions, because satellites don’t generally go to the farthest edges of the planet. Besides voice, it also can support a data interface up to 20 kilobytes/sec., so you can use it to surf the Internet or send mail with other devices wherever you happen to be traveling. It uses a single network to perform all these functions, so there is never any worry of going out of range, unless you happen to be leaving the planet for a few days.
There is a very helpful interface that tells you how strong a signal the phone is getting, and it can even help you to locate satellites in your area, which is helpful because it can tell you where to stand to get the best reception. That brings up the main problem of satellite communications: the need for line of sight to space.
Although it’s true these phones can help you make calls pretty much anywhere, you need to be outside to do it for the most part. Even a standard roof on a single-family home is normally enough to block the signal and prevent you from making a call. Office buildings with all their steel infrastructure make the phone unusable. Sitting near a window sometimes can help you find a satellite, but even then the call quality is likely going to be low.
To test the phone, I drove into the mountains to a known dead zone around Oakland, Md., which happens to be where my father-in-law lives. It just so happens that the trip coincided with the year’s first snowstorm, which is not unusual in an area of the country that gets more snow than Chicago. But since I couldn’t get a signal inside, I had to venture out into the blizzard to conduct my testing. Calls went through fine, and it was apparent that I would freeze long before the phone did.
The storm itself didn’t seem to have any effect on the signal because, the next day when things cleared up, it performed exactly the same. However, this did not mean the call quality was perfect. I called an answering machine several times and read passages into it for study later. The recordings are not as high quality as you would get from a normal cell phone. It sounded like I was speaking through a digital signal, yet not all the data was getting through. You could mostly understand what I was saying, but it was a bit choppy.
Now, we are talking about an area where cell phones don’t work at all. So when compared to the alternative, the IsatPhone worked much better than, say, smoke signals. Just don’t expect crystal-clear communications every time. There is also a little bit of a delay as your words go up into space and bounce back down to Earth. It’s noticeable, but the delay is much less than I expected, and much less than I experienced in the past.
Battery life with the IsatPhone is about the same as with a normal cell phone. It can last in standby mode for days or even weeks, and three hours of use only drained the battery by a little less than half. It also was able to charge about at the same rate as a regular phone, going from zero to a full charge in under an hour.
At $599, the IsatPhone is a good deal only if you really need it. If that is the case, it’s value is probably going to be somewhat close to priceless. If all you ever do is motor around Washington, D.C., or the metro areas of large cities, you can purchase a smart phone or even a tablet for that same price. But if you routinely travel to places where any service at all is questionable, much less where you can’t find any Wi-Fi hot spots, then the IsatPhone could very well save your life, or at least keep you connected to it.
The bottom line is that if you travel in areas with spotty cell phone coverage, or no cell phone coverage, you will need a device like the IsatPhone if you want to communicate with the outside world. It can provide a lifeline whether you are trying to brave a scorching desert or a freezing blizzard. And it can do it far better than the previous generation of satellite phones. The IsatPhone earns high marks in all areas and is a good value for those who need to get there and back again, wherever there might be. | <urn:uuid:5f5d7613-340b-47ff-ae15-afe48739d2b9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gcn.com/Articles/2011/12/05/Review-Inmarsat-IsatPhone.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963717 | 1,454 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Is it ethical for a psychiatrist to Google a patient? There are no established policies about this, and perhaps there should be, contends Damir Huremovic, MD, co-chair of a session on cyberspace at the American Psychiatric Association meeting.
His fascination with the question arose when he read the printout of an e-mail suicide note, as he stood beside the patient who lay intubated and unconscious in the ICU. There was a link to a blog in the e-mail footer.
“My dilemma was whether or not to open it,” said Huremovic. “I finally did, considering that his blog may yield critical information about his attempt.” The information, and the e-mail, may have saved his life.
“As I skimmed over his personal musings in chronological order,” Huremovic recalled, “I could get an almost instant insight into the course of his drama, his aspirations and hopes, and his big disappointment which culminated with the suicide attempt. I found this way of learning about the patient so easy and almost seductive.” At the same time, he was uneasy about trespassing in a realm of intimacy and privacy—even though the patient had willingly posted the information in the most public of places
Untold amounts of personal information about patients may be freely available on the Internet, but Huremovic urges psychiatrists who might want to go there, to address the issue with patients at the outset. “It’s not a matter of ethics,” he added. “You should tell them in advance to minimize any kind of fallout. In fact, it may be an interesting point of therapy. If they don’t want you to go there, why not?”
On the other hand, he points out, patients may be just as likely to Google a psychiatrist as the other way around. It may be prudent to be aware of what’s out there about yourself, and perhaps also to anticipate this as a point of discussion at the start of a relationship.
The issue arose 3 years ago when Philadelphia psychiatrist Geoffrey Neimark and others1 wrote a letter to the American Journal of Psychiatry describing an earlier example of using Google for background information about a patient who attempted suicide. “What about other potentially useful, although perhaps more controversial, sources of information on the Internet?” they wrote.
“Many states now have websites that list parole absconders and wanted fugitives and offer online registries of sex offenders. In addition, elements of patients’ financial, criminal, and civil histories can be obtained on the Internet. What, if any, role could and should this sort of information have in clinical evaluations, and what are the ethics of this?”
Other issues are whether it is wise to visit Internet forums about mental health issues in search of insights, or even to follow the lightning-speed posts on the new medium of Twitter. People have been known to post successive distressing notes on Twitter in which they threaten suicide, generating immense concern among their followers. (A quick example posted on Twitter 7 seconds before writing these words: “If next Tuesday doesn’t go well . . . I’m going to f---ing commit suicide. No f---ing joke.”)
Humerovic, who practices in East Meadow, NY, writes a blog, but he avoids social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook, because he believes in “certain elements of privacy.” He urges psychiatrists to beware what they click on.
“You may not want to get involved,” Humerovic says. “God forbid something should happen. How would you feel?”
In a separate workshop at the APA meeting, L. Mark Russakoff, MD, of Sleepy Hollow, NY, will be chairing a discussion [Thursday 5/21 at 11 AM] of the use of Internet tools by psychiatric administrators, including the impact of electronic medical records.
He anticipated a wide-ranging conversation directed largely by the interests of the audience, but reflected that some responses are predictable.
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Two nonprofits in the county were among eight in the state to receive grants from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities to fund history programs.
The Burlington County Historical Society in Burlington City was awarded $9,500 for the development of a high school program series based on letters written by Cpl. David Hankins, a Civil War soldier from Chesterfield. Hankins, who served in Company D of the 9th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, died in 1907 at age 63 and is buried in the Jacobstown Baptist Church Cemetery in Wrightstown.
The Roebling Museum in Florence will use its $2,995 grant to fund an exhibit featuring the John A. Roebling’s Sons Co. steel mill’s historic contributions to the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. The bridge’s wire rope was made in the Florence and transported to San Francisco, where the steel mill’s workers spun the cables in place using an aerial travel wheeler, another Roebling invention.
“In one eight-hour shift, the bridge men could install over 1,000 miles of cables. As a result, the cables for the Golden Gate Bridge were finished eight months ahead of schedule and contained 55,144 wires made by the Roebling Co. At the time, they were the largest cables ever spun,” said Roebling Museum Director Patricia Millen.
The Roebling Museum exhibit, “Spinning Gold,” will coincide with the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge. It will debut in May with a public lecture, children’s engineering programs with emphasis on the construction of suspension bridges and a bridge-themed birthday party, said Millen.
Other organizations awarded in the $68,495 wave of grants include the New Jersey AFL-CIO Community Services in Trenton; the Global Education Center at Monclair State University in Clifton, Passaic County; the Newark Public Library in Essex County; People and Stories/Gente y Cuentos in Trenton, Mercer County; American Repertory Ballet in New Brunswick, Middlesex County; and the Lawnside Historical Society in Camden County.
The nonprofit NJCH was established in 1972 as the state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities, according to www.njch.org.
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By ANDREW JACOBS, The New York Times, February 18, 2012
HONG’AI, China — Despite the absence of road signs or promotional Web sites, a dozen or so people each day manage to find their way to this sleepy hamlet that sits in the fold of a dusky mountain in northwestern Qinghai Province.
They congratulate themselves for having found the place — and for evading the police — but then come face to face with Gonpo Tashi, a squat, no-nonsense barley farmer who guards the entrance to the house where his uncle, the 14th Dalai Lama, was born 76 years ago.
If the traveler speaks Tibetan, Mr. Tashi, 65, will peer warily out into the road before swinging open the heavy wooden doors and allowing entry to the modest home where China’s most reviled and revered spiritual leader spent the first three years of his life.
If the visitor is Han Chinese, the country’s dominant ethnic group, the gatekeeper might grumble vaguely about “the rules” but then relent.
But if the supplicant bears patently Western features, Mr. Tashi can be relied upon to throw up his hands with dramatic effect and shoo the interloper back toward the vehicle that made the hourlong drive from the provincial capital. “Leave, leave now,” he will shout. “If they come, you will be in trouble.”
“They” refers to the local public security personnel who occasionally block the road to Hong’Ai or stand outside the Dalai Lama’s ancestral home, especially when there is trouble brewing somewhere on the expansive plateau where most of China’s 5.4 million ethnic Tibetans live.
That this state-financed shrine to the Dalai Lama exists at all highlights Beijing’s complex and contradictory attitude toward a man it frequently describes as a terrorist, a separatist and “a wolf in monk’s robes.” Since relations between the exiled Tibetan leader and the Chinese government took a nose dive in the mid-1990s, even possession of the Dalai Lama’s picture is considered a crime.
The government’s official line is that the Dalai Lama is agitating for an independent Tibet, even as he insists that he is seeking only meaningful autonomy. In recent months, the government has sought to blame him for the self-immolations of about two dozen Tibetans, a ghastly act of protest against Chinese rule that he has condemned.
Hong’Ai, or Taktser as it is known in Tibetan, has long been on the receiving end of that official ambivalence. In the mid-1980s, when talks were proceeding reasonably well, the government rebuilt the Dalai Lama’s birthplace, which had been destroyed during the antireligious fervor of the Cultural Revolution.
In 2010, the local Communist Party poured 2.6 million renminbi, or about $410,000, into Hong’Ai, upgrading the town’s 54 residences, including the Dalai Lama’s homestead, with the aim of turning the place into a lucrative tourist attraction. The improvements included tall, white-tile gates for every home and a colorfully painted but imposing wall in front of the Dalai Lama’s home that prevents visitors from peering inside.
In an article about the town in 2010, the official Xinhua news agency boasted that the improvements to each house had cost more than 10 times as much as the average villager’s annual income. “Everyone was enthusiastic,” a township official was quoted as saying about the renovations.
Mr. Tashi, the caretaker, made out particularly well, having received a modern toilet to replace an arrangement that involved two planks over a trench. “Maybe when I am too old to squat, the flush toilet will be useful,” Xinhua reported him as saying.
Other official news accounts were slightly disparaging, calling him a “big shot” and pointing out that his family owns a car paid for with a handsome government salary augmented by visitor donations. Two of his three children, one article said, are Communist Party members.
That same account said that Mr. Tashi had visited his uncle twice in the 1990s in India and that he yearned for his return. “I miss him very much,” he said.
According to official figures, a majority of the town’s 274 residents are Han, and even those who describe themselves as Tibetan cannot speak their ancestral tongue. In his 1990 autobiography, “Freedom in Exile,” the Dalai Lama said his family spoke no Tibetan, only a dialect of Mandarin. It was only when he and his family moved to Lhasa — after high-ranking lamas identified him as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama — that he learned the language.
In his book he described his hometown in bleak terms, recounting the crop failures and the harsh winters. His last visit was in 1955, four years before he fled to India during a failed uprising against Chinese rule.
Those who make it past Mr. Tashi’s temperamental door policy report that there are a few utilitarian rooms surrounding a courtyard, its center anchored by a pole draped in multicolored Tibetan prayer flags. Just as eye-catching is the late model Volkswagen, covered by plastic drop cloth, that sits in one corner. One room contains a bed, another a yellow throne and a Buddhist shrine.
Most of the two-story house is off limits to visitors, and the only nod to the Dalai Lama is a small painting of him on the ceiling. Photographs are forbidden.
Those villagers willing to speak to foreign visitors were proud of their connection to a man who, under different circumstances, might have been the most powerful religious figure in the land. A 46-year-old woman who gave her name as Chobai and described herself as a distant cousin said she had once traveled overland to India to visit him.
“We are all waiting for him to come back one day,” she said with a smile.
Another woman a few doors down offered a tour of her home and the shrine that includes two photographs of the Dalai Lama, a distant relative.
After a trio of Dutch tourists pounded on the front gate and refused to retreat, Mr. Tashi’s 45-year-old nephew stepped outside and watched with a mixture of curiosity and annoyance.
When the police failed to materialize, he seemed to relax as one of the tourists, Lisanne de Wit, described a recent visit to Dharamsala, India, where the Dalai Lama lives. Ms. de Wit, a 19-year-old theology student, then made one last plea for entry, describing how she had endured a weeklong bus ride from Sichuan Province to reach this corner of Qinghai.
The nephew shrugged and offered a sympathetic smile. “The order has come from above,” he said before shutting the door. “And there’s nothing you or I can do about it.”
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| Harrisburg, PA – As the busy July 4 holiday approaches, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) is reminding boaters to follow safety precautions when they are on the water, particularly when engaging boat propellers.
“Boating is among the most popular of summer recreational activities and a lot of people like to anchor their boats and go swimming,” said Ryan Walt, PFBC boating and watercraft safety manager. “However, a day of fun and sun out on the water could end in serious injury or even death if boaters don't follow appropriate safety precautions. Every year we see accidents in which individuals swimming behind boats are struck by propellers.”
Last year in Pennsylvania, 72 boating accidents were reported to the PFBC, of which 15 involved individuals being struck by propellers. Since 2000, three people have died as a result of being struck by a propeller. According to the U.S. Coast Guard, more than 6,000 boating accidents occur every year.
Walt says propeller strikes are among the most preventable of all boating accidents and advises boaters to practice the following safety tips:
Before starting your boat:
- Put on your life jacket.
- Walk to the stern and look in the water to make certain there is no one near your propeller (people near the boat’s propeller may not be visible from the helm).
- Attach the lanyard to the engine cut-off switch to your life jacket. If the lanyard is removed from the switch, the engine will shut off.
- Explain the dangers of a motorboat running into a swimmer.
- Show the location of the propellers.
- Establish clear rules for swim platform use, boarding ladders and seating (if possible, passengers should remain seated at all times).
- Talk about safety procedures and emergency action plans.
- Discuss preventing falls overboard: Maintain three points of contact; keep your weight low and close to the centerline.
- Watch crew members and frequently check that everyone is aboard.
- Wear deck-gripping shoes (bare feet have poor traction).
- Avoid rough water and adverse weather conditions whenever possible.
- Limit alcohol use.
- Discuss swamping and capsizing prevention: Don’t overload your boat. If capsizing occurs, stay with the boat and make sure everyone has a life jacket.
Keep a lookout:
- Assign a passenger to keep watch around the propeller area of your boat when people are in the water.
- Never allow passengers to board or exit your boat when the engine is on or idling (your propeller may continue to spin). Turn the engine off.
- Be especially alert when operating in congested areas and never enter swimming zones.
- Take extra precautions near boats that are towing skiers or tubers.
- Never permit passengers to ride on the bow, gunwale, transom, seat backs or other locations where they might fall overboard.
- Children should be watched carefully while onboard.
- Carefully approach your downed skiers or tubers. Turn the engine off before allowing them to board the boat.
Also, Walt suggests boaters consider purchasing propeller safety guards, cage-type devices which surround the propeller and shield people from the blades.
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Calling the war in Afghanistan a "slow but steady train wreck," a
Wilmington College alumnus and Iraq war veteran spoke at the college
on Thursday night about the role of the United States in that conflict.
Matt Southworth, a foreign policy assistant at the Friends Committee
on National Legislation in Washington, D.C., addressed a crowd of 40
peace activists during a discussion about policy updates on Capitol
Hill, about local anti-war efforts and about the future of Afghanistan.
"We're very proud to have Matt, a Wilmington College grad, in D.C.
doing what he's doing, and doing it well," said Ruth Dobyns, director
of the Quaker Heritage Center at WC.
Southworth said it was during his time in Iraq, where he was
stationed as an intelligence analyst in 2004, when he realized he was
against the American occupation there.
"My experiences in Mosul, doing things I didn't expect to do, things
which I considered to be un-American, turned me against the war," he said.
He spoke briefly about his difficulty transitioning back into "normal
life" and about struggling with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. After
graduating from WC in 2009, Southworth moved to D.C. to work for
FCNL, a Quaker, anti-war lobbying organization.
He updated the crowd on a recent bill in the U.S. Senate, HR 4899,
which was initially intended to provide supplemental funding for
"summer jobs and disaster relief for Haiti," he said.
"But, as you know, the Senate is kind of backed up and they don't
really do much, so they sat on it," he said. "When they came back,
they said 'Hey, we can take out the summer jobs portion of the bill,
and add-in extra war spending, and jam it through. Done.'"
The bill, passed in March, provides an additional $34.7 billion
toward the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Southworth then spoke about two "significant accomplishments:" a
recent vote in the U.S. House of Representatives which garnered more
votes than ever for a withdrawal from Afghanistan, and a recent surge
in support for an Afghanistan study group which would advise
President Obama about war strategies there.
"These are significant improvements. There are positive things
happening," he said. "It's all about providing Obama with policy
recommendations and a security review. What that means is it will
create political space for him to withdraw from Afghanistan."
"To give you an example of failed strategy in Afghanistan," he
continued, "right now General [David] Petraeus has begun organizing
training for afghan militias to defend their villages from the
Taliban. But when you arm people, after time they eventually will say
'your objectives are not my objectives,' and they will fight against you."
Southworth called such a strategy a "slow, but steady train wreck.
And this method will accelerate the train."
When a woman asked if he thought the situation would ever improve in
the war-torn region, Southworth responded: "No, I don't. I think
we're going to be in the region for a long time, 30 or 40 years. I
don't think we should leave the Afghans entirely. We need to be a
support role, not a military role. Give them resources, education,
schools, funding, and then get the hell out of the way."
Southworth shifted the discussion to the local level when he spoke
about U.S. Rep. Mike Turner's reported plans to earmark federal
funding for unmanned drone testing at the Wilmington Air Park. Turner
"has the power to slip that in," he said.
"From what I've heard [Wright Patterson Air Force Base] would send
employees here to carry out the research, so few jobs would even be
created," he said.
Asked how he would tell a community reeling from massive job loss to
not support any potential jobs at the airpark, he answered: "I know.
It's a tough sell. Most people think 'Hey, it's better than nothing.'
But, the big deal is drones are unreliable. They cause more
collateral damage than anything else. Troops are regularly put into
risky situations having to retrieve drones that have crashed."
Southworth fielded questions from the audience, which was mostly
made-up of graying peace activists who were on campus for the
week-long National Peace Academy. The audience asked about the size
of FCNL about 25 people, he said about recommendations for
organizing locally and about his thoughts on the firing of General
Stanley McChrystal, the former commander of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
"One of the conduits of change is to organize locally, to organize
within your community," he said. "We're not being loud enough right
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Behavioral Targeting May Be Illegal
from the smells-like-wiretapping dept
A bunch of ISPs have been experimenting with systems such as Phorm and NebuAd that monitor their users' online behavior and create profiles that help third parties create more targeted advertisements. Back in March we noted that behavioral advertising may be illegal under UK law. And last week we reported that Congress was asking some tough questions about the plans. CNet's Declan Declan McCullagh has an in-depth look at American law, and concludes that such systems are probably illegal here too. The problem is that what Phorm and NebuAd do sounds a lot like wiretapping, and wiretapping is illegal under several federal laws. At least three federal laws govern when electronic communications providers can disclose their customers' communications to third parties. One of the key questions Declan looks at is consent: the law generally allows eavesdropping with customer consent, but the exact nature of the consent isn't clear. ISPs have tended to be very secretive about their use of these systems, so at the very least, privacy laws would require that ISPs disclose what they're doing and give consumers a way to opt out. But Declan suggests that this might not be sufficient. Some of the legal experts he talked to think the law would require the ISPs to obtain the affirmative consent of customers before commencing the use of these programs. Since it's hard to imagine customers being enthusiastic about having their ISPs eavesdrop on them, such a requirement might make these programs non-starters. | <urn:uuid:508db30e-1a5b-4dd8-b6e2-7defcb408075> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080520/0904321181.shtml?threaded=true&sp=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972791 | 312 | 1.648438 | 2 |
That’s because the yellow-red pigments found in fruits and vegetables, called carotenoids, are associated with changes in skin color, the authors found. They also found that the skin pigment changes may be viewed as healthier and more attractive.
Researchers from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland monitored the fruit and vegetable intake of 35 Caucasians over a six-week period and measured skin color changes. In a separate experiment, they investigated how attractive people found the skin color changes associated with the increased intake of fruits and vegetables.
Increasing consumption of carotenoids is associated with a more yellowish skin tone, and the authors also found that eating more fruits and vegetables correlated with skin that appeared to have a healthy red tone.
“Such coloration is held to contribute beneficially to the appearance of health in human faces as is the case with skin yellowness,” the authors wrote.
The effects on skin color required only a moderately increased intake of fruits and vegetables, they said.
Carotenoids are made by plants. They are distributed through the bloodstream to various organs, including the skin. Previous studies have found that high levels of carotenoids offer protection against ultraviolet radiation by decreasing the skin’s sensitivity to redness caused by UV light.
But it’s the perception on attractiveness that the authors think could potentially be the key to encouraging people to eat more fruits and vegetables, something that adults in the U.S. and the U.K. don’t do very much.
“Such inadequate intake is estimated to precipitate 2.6 million premature deaths per year worldwide,” they wrote. “Fruit and vegetable consumption affects skin carotenoid levels; this may lead to skin color change in a fashion that is known to contribute to the appearance of health. It follows that dietary change may be motivated by illustrating to individuals these beneficial effects on appearance.”
The authors also add, however, that further research is needed to determine whether carotenoids affect non-Caucasians the same way. | <urn:uuid:54dd1602-9108-4a96-9dd8-f31822667f4d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/03/08/does-eating-fruits-and-veggies-make-us-more-attractive/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963036 | 429 | 3.40625 | 3 |
The Honorable S. Ward Casscells, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Public Health,
Vice President for External Relations and Public Policy
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Texas Heart Institute
The Honorable S. Ward Casscells, MD, is the Tyson Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Public Health, and Vice President for External Relations and Public Policy at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and Senior Scholar at the Texas Heart Institute.
From April 2007 through April 2009 he served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) where he was credited with turning around a struggling $45 billion health and education system with 137,000 employees, 10 million patients in 900 clinics and hospitals in 100 countries. For this work Dr. Casscells received the Department of Defense's highest civilian award - the Distinguished Public Service Medal and the Surgeon General's Medallion from the Department of Health and Human Services.
Dr. Casscells graduated Yale College and Harvard Medical School (magna cum laude). He trained in medicine and cardiology at Beth Israel, Brigham and Women's, and Massachusetts General Hospitals, the Harvard School of Public Health, National Institutes of Health, and Scripps.
His published research is in the areas of prevention of heart attack and stroke, Bayesian decision-making, medical ethics, influenza and emergency preparedness, nanotechnology, and healthcare management. He also speaks publicly about living with cancer. An inventor, he has founded several successful companies, including Volcano Corporation, and served on numerous civic, corporate, and professional boards, and has been elected to a number of honorary societies.
His recent book, When It Mattered Most, a tribute to medics killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, was termed by Newsweek's Evan Thomas, "a noble work".
A colonel in the Army Reserve, Dr. Casscells served in Iraq in 2006, earning the Joint Commendation Medal and honorary membership in the Iraqi Medical Regiment.
He, his wife and three children are Texans, living in exile in Washington, DC. | <urn:uuid:3361642c-362f-4cb3-a2be-d06b1f3fc68a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.uth.tmc.edu/schools/med/imed/divisions/cardiology/faculty/faculty-casscells-s-ward.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950836 | 420 | 1.617188 | 2 |
This is a picture of all the Disney cartoon character: Goofy, Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse, Daisy Duck, Pluto and Snow White. They are cartoon characters loved by children and adults.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Mickey Mouse is one of the characters of Walt Disney's most famous and able to make the screen on November 18, 1928 as the star of the first sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie. Mickey Mouse was born in the imagination of Walt Disney in 1928, on a train trip from New York to Los Angeles. Through the forties and early fifties, Mickey Mouse cartoon made into a little more, gives ground for Donald Duck, Pluto, and Goofy to be more flexible as characters.
Dora the Explorer is one of the United States animated television series is funny and like to continue the adventure with monkey red boots or Boots. They are created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh and Eric Weiner. In 1999, episode pilot for series have been aired, and in 2000 became a series regular. The event was aired on television network Nickelodeon, Nick Jr, including associated channels. This was aired on CBS until September 2006.
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HON 102 — Drugs, Culture and Society
This one-credit honors course will undertake a multi-disciplinary examination of the impact legal and illegal drugs have on culture and society in the modern world. Drugs, including alcohol, have bestowed great benefits upon humanity and simultaneously have caused some of society’s greatest ills. Drugs can provide life saving cures and cause fatal addictions. This course seeks to examine the promise and peril of drugs from a multi-disciplinary perspective and help students formulate their own views on the topic. | <urn:uuid:210fb1a6-5995-4c28-b903-e529099682a7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.baypath.edu/Academics/CourseCatalog/HON/HON102.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915522 | 105 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Wed March 28, 2012
The Good And Bad Of Kenya's First Oil Strike
DAVID GREENE, HOST:
Kenya strikes oil - that was the headline in Nairobi's Daily Nation newspaper this week. It's the first time such a discovery has been made in the East African nation. Kenya's energy minister quickly held a press conference with oil company executives. Holding up a glass bottle of crude oil, he pledged to make sure that oil is a blessing for the people and not a curse.
And we're joined now by the BBC's Will Ross in Nairobi to talk about this discovery. Well, good morning.
WILL ROSS: Good morning.
GREENE: So Kenya may be joining the league of oil-producing nations at some point. What is the reaction to this discovery there?
ROSS: Yeah. Well, there's been quite a lot of excitement amongst ordinary Kenyans who are seeing it as a possible way of transforming the economy and they're, you know, all predicting bright days ahead. We ought to put a little warning in here that we've been told that there will need to be quite a lot more exploration done before we know whether the oil down there is in commercially viable quantities. But certainly, the people here are pretty excited.
We've had, you know, so many countries in the region that have discovered oil and Kenya maybe thinks that the days ahead will produce much cheaper fuel. It remains to be seen if that's going to be true or not. An extraordinary, you know, reaction from Turkana, which is where the oil is being found, possibly one of the poorest areas in the entire region.
Just to give you a quote from one person in Turkana, he said God has remembered us and we're planning to have a prayer meeting next month so that the oil deposits can be confirmed in large quantities. It will be a new beginning for us. So that's the kind of excitement coming from Kenyans who think that better days are ahead.
GREENE: You know, I wonder, you mentioned that the oil discovery was in an area that's impoverished. I think about a country like Nigeria, which is, you know, one of the top 10 oil producers in the world and you hear about so much wealth but so much corruption and still a lot of poverty. You haven't really seen oil solve the problem of poverty in that country.
ROSS: Yeah. And I think that's the case in most of the oil-producing countries across the continent. I mean, Nigeria, of course, had the civil war in the '60s, partly because of, you know, arguments over the resource of oil. Those problems still continue. And when you look at, you know, what's happened in Angola, say, another massive oil producer; Equatorial Guinea. These countries simply haven't seen the wealth trickle down to the people.
There was a fantastic cartoon in the Daily Nation newspaper here in Kenya, which had all of the politicians there with their arms up in the air cheering, you know, we found oil, and then a group of very impoverished looking people in Turkana saying: And when will you discover water?
ROSS: Because basically, up there, their daily struggle is just getting water.
GREENE: That really sends the message, doesn't it? You know, when I think of Kenya I often think of game parks, you know, those sorts of natural resources. Was the discovery of oil a surprise?
ROSS: I think for a long time people have known that it's highly likely that there's oil underground somewhere in Kenya. Because when you look at the region there's simply, you know, so many countries are now finding it. Tanzania is finding oil and natural gas. Prospecting has started now in Puntland, an area of Somalia. South Sudan and Sudan, of course. Uganda to the west. But I think that, you know, the fact that there was no warning that this announcement would be made, it did sort of cause quite a lot of drama and excitement, because suddenly, you know, as you mentioned, the headlines were saying: We've Struck Oil. But I think, you know, many warnings coming from the analysts saying, hang on a minute. Don't get too excited. Show me a country in Africa where the oil has really helped.
GREENE: Will, thanks you very much.
ROSS: You're welcome.
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Treatments and drugsBy Mayo Clinic staff
Your doctor is likely to recommend a combination of treatment strategies to relieve your symptoms.
Behavioral interventions are the first choice in helping manage an overactive bladder. If you experience urge incontinence, these interventions alone aren't likely to result in complete dryness, but they may significantly reduce the number of incontinence episodes. The interventions your doctor recommends may include:
- Pelvic floor muscle exercises. Kegel exercises strengthen your pelvic floor muscles and urinary sphincter. These strengthened muscles can help you stop the bladder's involuntary contractions. Your doctor or a physical therapist can help you learn how to do Kegel exercises correctly. It may take as long as six to eight weeks before you notice a difference in your symptoms.
- Healthy weight. If you're overweight, losing weight may ease your symptoms. Weight loss may help if you also have stress urinary incontinence.
- Fluid consumption. Your doctor may recommend the amount and timing of your fluid consumption.
- Double voiding. People who have problems completely emptying their bladders may be helped by double voiding. After urinating, you wait a few minutes and then try again to empty your bladder completely.
- Scheduled toilet trips. Your doctor may recommend a schedule for toileting so you urinate at the same times every day — for example, every two to four hours — rather than waiting until you feel the urge to urinate.
- Intermittent catheterization. You can learn how to empty your bladder by using a catheter periodically to empty it completely. This simply helps the bladder do what it can't do itself. Your doctor can tell you if this is right for you.
- Absorbent pads. You can wear absorbent pads or undergarments to protect your clothing and avoid embarrassing incidents if you do experience incontinence. In addition, the use of pads means that you won't have to limit your activities due to your symptoms. Absorbent garments come in a variety of sizes and absorbency levels.
- Bladder training. Occasionally, your doctor may recommend a strategy to train yourself to delay voiding when you feel an urge to urinate. You'll begin with small delays, such as 30 minutes, and gradually work your way up to urinating every three to four hours. Bladder training is possible only if you're able to tighten (contract) your pelvic floor muscles successfully.
Medications that relax the bladder can be effective for relieving symptoms of overactive bladder and reducing episodes of urge incontinence. These drugs include:
- Tolterodine (Detrol)
- Oxybutynin (Ditropan XL)
- Oxybutynin as a skin patch (Oxytrol)
- Oxybutynin gel (Gelnique)
- Trospium (Sanctura)
- Solifenacin (Vesicare)
- Darifenacin (Enablex)
- Mirebegron (Myrbetriq)
Common side effects of most of these drugs include dry eyes and dry mouth, but drinking water to quench thirst can aggravate symptoms of overactive bladder. Constipation — another potential side effect — can decrease bladder capacity, also aggravating symptoms. Extended-release forms of these medications, including the skin patch or gel, may cause fewer side effects.
Treating the side effects of a medication that's working is more important than stopping the medication. For example, your doctor may recommend that you suck on a piece of sugar-free candy or chew sugar-free gum to relieve dry mouth, and use eyedrops to keep your eyes moist. Over-the-counter preparations, such as Biotene products, can be helpful for long-term dry mouth. To avoid constipation, your doctor might recommend a fiber-rich diet or use of stool softeners.
OnabotulinumtoxinA (on-uh-boch-yoo-LYE-num-tox-in-ay), also called Botox, is a protein from the bacteria that cause botulism illness. Used in small doses directly injected into bladder tissues, this protein partially paralyzes muscles. Clinical research shows that it may be useful for severe urge incontinence. But it's not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for this purpose in people without neurological disease. The effects are temporary, lasting only about six to nine months. This medication also carries a risk of worsening bladder emptying in older adults and people already weakened by other health problems.
Sacral nerve stimulation
Regulating the nerve impulses to your bladder can improve overactive bladder symptoms. In this procedure, a thin wire is placed close to the sacral nerves — which carry signals to your bladder — where they pass near your tailbone. Your doctor then uses a device connected to the wire to deliver electrical impulses to your bladder, similar to what a pacemaker does for the heart. If this successfully reduces your symptoms, the wire is eventually connected to a small battery device that's placed under your skin.
Surgery to treat overactive bladder is reserved for people with severe symptoms who don't respond to other treatments. The goal is to improve the bladder's storing ability and reduce pressure in the bladder. However, these procedures won't help relieve bladder pain. Interventions include:
- Surgery to increase bladder capacity. This procedure uses pieces of your bowel to replace a portion of your bladder. This surgery is used only in cases of severe urge incontinence that doesn't respond to any other, more conservative treatment measures. If you have this surgery, you may need to use a catheter intermittently for the rest of your life to empty your bladder.
- Bladder removal. This procedure is used as a last resort and involves removing the bladder and surgically constructing a replacement or an opening in the body (stoma) to attach a bag on the skin to collect urine.
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- Subak LL, et al. Weight loss to treat urinary incontinence in overweight and obese women. New England Journal of Medicine. 2009;360:481. | <urn:uuid:5626b7d4-d2a2-4b33-ac5c-bd61cda5d96c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/overactive-bladder/DS00827/DSECTION=treatments-and-drugs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903457 | 1,750 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Yeast and Fermentation Session
Anita Van Landschoot, University College Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
Co-author(s): Sylvie Vandoorne and Dana Vanderputten, University College Ghent, Ghent, Belgium; Gary Prescott, BioTek Instruments Inc., Luzern, Switzerland
ABSTRACT: Saccharomyces strains are industrially important yeasts in the production of many beverages. The ability to obtain the desired product reliably and repeatedly in the same amounts requires careful monitoring of not only the material inputs, but also the growth of the yeast strain during propagation or hydration/revitalization, in the case dried yeast, that is used for the fermentation process. This often requires monitoring of the growth of these strains under various conditions to optimize industrial conditions. The Synergy H1 hybrid multi-mode microplate reader was used to provide temperature control, suspension agitation, and monitor cellular yeast growth using light scattering in 96-well microplates at 600 nm. Measurements were made every 2 min, and data were collected using Gen5 data analysis software. The system was used to explore the optimum conditions for propagation and hydration/revitalization of 13 industrial yeast strains. These Saccharomyces yeasts were used to study the effect of temperature, pH, and density of industrial media (wort or must of white grapes) on yeast growth/biomass production. Lowering the pH of the wort to an industrially acceptable value of 4.8 had almost no effect on yeast growth for the different densities of the wort. Lowering the density of the wort or must to about 10°P extract of malt or grapes always had a positive effect on yeast growth. This proved that such medium contains sufficient nutrients for the industrially necessary yeast growth during propagation or hydration/revitalization. If it is industrially relevant, a higher yeast growth temperature can be used. At 30°C the same final cell number can be obtained in half the time compared to room temperature. The final conclusion is that the Synergy H1 microplate reader is a useful high throughput system to screen for optimal industrial growth/revitalization conditions for industrial yeasts. The system has also been tested for fast screening of yeast fermentation conditions.
Anita Van Landschoot is a professor at University College Ghent and Ghent University and lecturer in brewing technology and industrial microbiology. The research of Anita’s group is related to applications of microbial and enzymatic biotechnology: industrial yeast starter cultures, microbial contaminants, microbial populations, antibacterial activity, industrial fermentation processes, glycobiology, and isolation and characterization of microorganisms and some enzymes. The group has the technology and know-how for extraction and fermentation of biomass to ethanol and for the brewing of most Belgian beer types. Most of the research is done in collaboration with industry. The brewing lab represents the oldest Belgian brewing institute. | <urn:uuid:8e0e7652-ef59-41ac-9b1b-18719190230d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mbaa.com/meetings/archive/2012/Proceedings/pages/242.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924414 | 597 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Hurricane Season: Things You Should Know
Some things to keep in mind when we travel, and certainly one of those issues are the weather effects that can happen in the destination we travel.
From June 1 to November 30 lies the Atlantic hurricane season, although you will not see big storms. At the same time, there is in the eastern Pacific, affecting Hawaii and the Pacific coast of Mexico. In this season, there are things you should know to be prevented. Here are some tips.
Knowing where hurricanes are more frequent
We must take this into account when planning a trip. They are less frequent the further south you go. Are any options? Trinidad and Tobago, ABC islands (Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao). Although keep in mind that these areas are susceptible to stronger storms, with winds and rain.
Understand the policies of the airlines
What usually happens is that because hurricanes often cancelled flights, so your trip can be suspended. Ideally, consult regularly with the airline where you bought the ticket, thus providing for all contingencies that may occur. Surely you have to plan your journey later.
Includes hotel policies
If a hurricane threat arises and you can not travel, some hotels may allow you to cancel the reservation, but others will give you a refund or be left with money until you find a new date to visit the place. There is greater understanding in areas where hurricanes are more common.
Consider hiring a travel insurance
This type of coverage for the trip can be expensive, up to 10% of the trip. Make sure you well informed about the plans you can offer. We know that the holidays are sacred when you have little time, but there is no need to submit to bureaucratic policies of insurance companies.
Monitoring of these hurricanes
If you are curious and you are interested nature, you can track how is the weather in the place you have chosen to vacation. Several websites are tracking this phenomenon.
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ON THE RIGHT TRACK
Corum points out that Mercer “agrees with FMCSA’s intent with CSA and on the whole, it is a good program.” But he takes major points off for the inequities of the enforcement that goes with it. “We do embrace CSA. It aims to eliminate those who do not measure up—and they need to be gone. But on the other hand,” he adds, “it shouldn’t involve making rules that make life difficult for professional, safe drivers.”
Herb Schmidt, president of Joplin, MO-based Con-way Truckload, says “at this stage” he gives CSA a 6 on the 1 to 10 scale. “The program has the potential to be far better than it is now,” he states. “My grade weighs everything about the program, including its subjective nature and the threat it raises of vicarious liability for carriers.”
According to Schmidt, the downside of CSA starts with the penalties assigned drivers and carriers “regardless of who is at fault in an incident. A driver struck by another vehicle can go against the driver and carrier [instead of it being ruled a non-preventable accident as in the past].”
He says he has heard FMCSA’s view on this is that fleets are being compared to others in their peer group “through the law of averages” rather than viewing each accident as preventable vs. not. “Then you must consider what is an accurate peer group? Instead of having groups built around the type of operation, everyone—linehaul and regional carriers—gets lumped in together. That’s a major flaw right there.
“FMCSA could have saved itself and the industry a lot of trouble,” Schmidt continues, “had it not created the program behind the smoke of a mysterious veil. They did not think through the unintended consequences, again, [by] not soliciting the views of those regulated.”
State-by-state enforcement is also an issue for Con-way. “For example,” says Schmidt, “New Mexico and Indiana only have to have reasonable cause to pull a driver over for speeding— then that becomes the violation if no other problem is found. All this leads to less accuracy [in finding violations] and thus a less effective program, which benefits no one.”
But there may be little or nothing that FMCSA can do about the threat of vicarious liability raised by the new program. Schmidt explains that this is defined as “the imposition of liability on one party for the conduct of another” and says the upshot is that shippers and brokers now “must be extremely concerned about hiring a carrier or that carrier’s driver with a substandard CSA score.”
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Chia was cultivated by the ancient Aztecs, and was honored as a "power food". Chia is one of the best plant sources of beneficial Omega-3 oils, especially a-linoleic acid (ALA). Scientific Research on Omega-3 and other essential fatty acids (EFA) continues to prove that EFA's support cardiovascular health, comfortable joint mobility, immune system function and overall cellular energy. Chia is often stored for long periods of time as a Survival Food, since it does not quickly turn rancid like other sources of essential fatty acids. Chia is high in vitamins and minerals, such as magnesium, potassium and phosphorus. It contains many antioxidants, including significant levels of caffeic acids, quercetin and flavonols.
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TRAPPING IN LABRADOR—What do you know about trapping in Labrador, Newfoundland? What kind of furbearing animals and game are to be found there?
Gee whiz, must you cross the continent looking for trapping country? Labrador is so wild and desolate, that men starve to death there, but there are fur pockets, and trappers who know make money there. Fisher, marten, otter, mink, seal (on the coast), foxes, wolverines, bears—practically the same animals that you find in Alaska, or Canada.
Harding, A.R.. 3001 Questions and Answers. Columbus, Oh: A.R. Harding, 1913.
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|Death:||Died in TITANIC at sea|
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About Joseph Alfred Gunn
- Name: Mr Joseph Alfred Gunn
- Age: 28 years
- Marital Status: Single.
- Last Residence: in Southampton Hampshire England
- Occupation: Assistant Saloon Steward Victualling crew
- First Embarked: Southampton
- Died in the sinking. Body Not Recovered
Mr J. T. Gunn, 28, was born in Hatfield.
When he signed-on to the Titanic, on 4 April 1912, he gave his address as 22 Bridge Road, (Southampton). His last ship had been the Oceanic. As a second class steward he received monthly wages of £3 15s.
Gunn died in the sinking. His body, if recovered, was never identified.
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As users traverse through a web site, they encounter 5 different types of navigation pages. The designers of today’s most successful sites, understand these different types of web pages and make design choices based on each page’s specific purpose.
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Alice Mitchell was a white society girl who grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, in the USA, during the late nineteenth century. Very much in love with her fiance, Freda Ward, she’d been devastated when Ward’s family cut off contact between them. Deciding that, if she couldn’t have Ward, neither could anyone else, on 23 January 1892, at nineteen years of age, she slit the throat of seventeen-year-old Freda in the street. And American ideas about sexuality, violence, and the nature of womanhood got shot to hell.
Except they didn’t, really, not at once. Let’s set the stage a bit. Present in Europe for a while, ideas of a queer female sexuality were just emerging in American sexology at this time. The ways in which Mitchell was pathologised were incredibly important to this case. Violence had been seen as inherently male, and Mitchell’s crime wasn’t simply one of murder, nor one of sexuality, but also one of gender. By desiring a woman, by murdering, and in a “masculine” fashion with the razor at that, and by having planned to take on a male role when their plans to run away and get married were still in sight, Mitchell had transgressed the boundaries of how her society understood gender.
Meanwhile, the 1890s was the start of mass national media in the United States. The Mitchell-Ward case was publicised incredibly widely, and made the front page of The New York Times more than once. Following Mitchell’s death, the 1 April 1898 edition of The Chicago Daily Tribune called the murder ‘one of the most remarkable tragedies in the world’s history’. Speculation abounded that no crime in Southern history had ever been written about as much. I doubt that’s the case, but that these hyperbolic responses existed at all says something about the impact Mitchell’s actions and the response to them had on the US psyche.
I’m not going to go into this very much, but I want to note how important it was to how the case was received that Mitchell was a white society woman. Southern understanding of violence was very much about protecting white womanhood against the supposed threat of black men. Mitchell really messed with this as a white woman acting violently against another white woman. She also had the benefits of a high social position, which helped her escape the death penalty as she had a legal team do a rather solid job of pathologising her instead. It also garnered her a lot of sympathy as a young lady from a perfectly nice family who just suffered an illness she couldn’t possibly help, delicate feminine creature as she was. Lisa Duggan covers this in some depth in her book Sapphic Slashers, which is definitely worth a read, both as the only book length work on this case and for racial context in particular which I don’t give here.
The crux of the case for me is the extraordinary divergence between responses to the case, be they from the media, medical professionals, Mitchell’s family, or the general public. Some did their absolute best to reconcile Mitchell to femininity and to explain away her sexuality. Others tried just as hard to figure her as a monster, which was, curiously, one of the rare times her sexuality was acknowledged as genuine. Almost all the controversy was about Mitchell’s transgression of gendered and sexual societal norms rather than the fact that she took someone’s life.
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company this week topped off its Fab 12 manufacturing facility. The new fab will allow TSMC to significantly boost output of chips produced using leading-edge fabrication processes that carry higher price tag. Besides, TSMC also announced that it would start production of chips using 28nm fabrication technology in Q4 2010.
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“The topping of our Fab 12, Phase 5 facility, and our plans to rapidly move in equipment and begin volume production there in the third quarter of this year is another example of our competitiveness in providing steadfast support for customers,” said Mark Liu, TSMC's senior vice president of operations.
In addition to volume production of 28nm products, Fab 12, Phase 5 will also serve as the base for research and development of 22nm and more advanced process technologies. Currently, TSMC is conducting R&D for 28nm and 22nm process technologies at its Fab 12, Phase 1 and 2 facilities, and will hand 28nm technology to the Phase 5 facility for volume production in the Q4 2010.
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Print version ISSN 0034-8910
Rev. Saúde Pública vol.41 no.2 São Paulo Apr. 2007
Ana Paula Soares GondimI; Cláudio Borges FalcãoII
de Farmácia. Universidade de Fortaleza. Fortaleza, CE, Brasil
IINortheastern University Boston. Boston, MA, EUA
The growing number of Internet users brought forth an increase in the search for Brazilian online pharmacy services. Aiming at evaluating the validity of information disseminated in these websites, a descriptive study was carried out in 18 virtual pharmacies concerning legal aspects, accessibility, sources of information and drug advertisings. It was found 15 pharmacies did not have authorization of the Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency; the manager pharmaceutical officer's name could not be found in 17 of them; 17 pharmacies marketed drugs with no registration, especially herbal medicines, and did not show either information on adverse drug reactions or this agency's alerts and health recommendations. Since health control and drug commerce in Brazilian online pharmacies have not been yet regulated by proper government agencies, these gaps found in the sites can pose risk to the users' health.
Keywords: Drug commerce. Internet. Standards. User-computer interface. Drug. Legislation. Health surveillance.
Online pharmacies are computerized systems having the potential role of real pharmacies and handling business transactions remotely with no physical proximity between consumers and drug retailers.1 These pharmacies' business is modest in Brazil compared to that in developed countries where online drug retail services are regularly available.1 The growing number of Internet users in Brazil can bring forth an increased demand for these drug retail services.
Health control and drug commerce in Brazilian online pharmacies have not yet been regulated. In 2001, the Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) published a public consultation1 with the purpose of regulating the operations of online pharmacies. Nonetheless, their operation has not yet been regulated as this is still a subject of strong discussions among ANVISA, representatives of pharmaceutical companies, civil society, and the Brazilian Pharmacy Board, which is the agency that regulates pharmaceutical occupation. The objective of the present study was to evaluate Brazilian online pharmacies aiming at assessing the validity and potential gaps in the information provided.
A descriptive study was carried out to evaluate Brazilian online pharmacies.
The inclusion criterion was drug retail websites with Uniform Resource Locators (URL) ending in ".br". The exclusion criteria were as follows: websites that only made information available on drugs and price lists; institutional websites of pharmacy businesses; sites of drug distributors; sites of online veterinary pharmacies; and sites of manipulation pharmacies. A total of 18 Brazilian online pharmacies were evaluated between March and May 2005.
Data was collected from each website using a form comprising 13 items grouped according to five variables:
- Legal issues - approval of operation; drug company's complete geographical address; states where the drug retail company is licensed for drug commerce, name of the manager pharmaceutical officer providing assistance to consumers; and logs of contacts with prescribers to assure prescription dispensing;
- Drug information - comprehensible by consumers; reference of the body providing the information available or of any entity supporting the publication of this information;
- Forms of communication - types of contact for providing drug information or for asking questions to the manager pharmaceutical officer; and means facilitating contact with consumers and, if needed, prescribers;
- Drug commerce - drugs registered at ANVISA; drug advertising or marketing of prescription drugs found anywhere in the website; and controlled drugs; and
- Communication with ANVISA - mechanisms of prompt communication of adverse drug reactions and communications with the National Pharmacovigilance Service, alerts and health recommendations.
There were evaluated 18 online pharmacies that were almost distributed nationwide. Of them, ten were based in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in the Southeastern region, six in the Southern region (three in the state of Paraná, two in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, and one in the state of Santa Catarina), and of the remaining, one was based in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul in the Midwestern region, and one in the state of Ceará in the Northeastern region.
In regard to ANVISA's approval of operation, 15 online pharmacies have not yet been approved, which can indicate the lack of specific regulations for this pharmacy. According to the Public Consultation No. 20/01,1 as for the basic requirements for approval of operation, online pharmacies should comply with the current law, Law No. 6,360/76, granting drug companies authorization to market their products subject to health control.2 However, these legal requirements have not yet been regulated. It could be verified this information is not available in the websites of online pharmacies.
Seventeen pharmacies did not make available the name of the manager pharmaceutical officer providing consumer assistance and responsible for the website operation. Law No. 5,991/73 establishes that the pharmaceutical officer is solely accountable for drug dispensing.3 Therefore, many online pharmacies operate unlawfully in Brazil as they are not accountable for drug dispensing and drug assistance.
The information on the pharmacy's or drug company headquarter's geographical address should be available in the website's home page and there should also be specified the Brazilian states where the pharmacy is licensed for drug commerce. The address information was provided by two pharmacies and only one of them specified the state where it can operate in a secondary page of the website. Of three pharmacies licensed to operate, only one provided its complete geographical address but none of them specified either the states where they are licensed for drug commerce or the name of their manager pharmaceutical officers.
As indicated by the Public Consultation No. 20/01, online pharmacies should have a toll-free phone number (0-800) making the contact between consumers and the pharmacy easily accessible for questions on drug use or other specific questions to the manager pharmaceutical officer through their site. Of 18 pharmacies studied, only four had a toll-free phone number, 12 had direct dial long-distance numbers, and two did not provide any contact phone number. The four pharmacies that made available their toll-free phone number had also communication through e-mail and two of them had webchats available. It was found that all pharmacies did not provide consumers means of communication (phone, e-mail, webchats) to request information after drug purchase.
As for drug shipping by the Brazilian Mail and Telegraph Company (ECT), 17 pharmacies reported using this service nationwide. Of them, two were not approved to market drugs directly to consumers: one was a drug distributor and the other one was a pharmaceutical industry; only the latter was approved to operate. Information on the drug distributor was not available on their website and they introduced themselves as a regular online pharmacy but it was verified in ANVISA's website their categorization as a drug distributor.
Drugs are required to be stored and shipped under specific temperature and humidity conditions. Administrative Rule No. 12 determines that only ANVISA-certified companies are authorized to drug shipping.4 Although certified, ECT cannot assure shipping specifications for the different drugs on the way up to their delivery at the consumers' home, their physical and chemical and microbiological stability properties can be affected and they can be harmful to consumers' health. This is a challenge that needs to be addressed by proper agencies.
Only six pharmacies provided consumers information on the proper use of drugs, such as preservation specifications, dosage, contraindications, (drug and/or food) interactions, and potential adverse drug reactions. This information was provided by pharmaceutical companies through drug inserts. According to Gonçalves et al,2 quality of information on these drug inserts is not reliable, once they omit or soften important information. Four pharmacies provided information such as "natural product," "no contraindications," and "no adverse effects," which constitute deceptive marketing practices.
There were identified 17 pharmacies that made available to consumers unregistered drugs, especially herbal medicines, as confirmed in ANVISA's drug registration. Six of them did not comply with the regulations on drug commerce and four violated the regulations forbidding commerce of controlled drugs.
Non-registration of herbal medicines indicates these drugs did not go through ANVISA's inspection procedures. These products' quality is questionable as their safety and therapeutic efficacy has not been evidenced entailing further risk to people's health.5
In addition, it was verified no pharmacy had any means of communication with ANVISA available in their websites for prompt reporting of adverse drug reactions as well as they did not provide any alerts or health recommendations.
The lack of regulations by ANVISA and state health surveillance agencies on online pharmacies became evident. This can lead to easy access to unregistered drugs and lack of control on prescription drug commerce, acting as facilitating factors for improper and indiscriminate drug use. Improper drug use can expose people's health to risks such as therapeutic inefficacy, unsafe drug use, adverse drug reactions, poisonings, and (drug and/or food) interactions.
The study findings show the need for regulations in this new modality of drug commerce in Brazil. These pharmacies should be subject to more efficient inspections by health authorities and heavy penalties should be imposed on violators, thus benefiting the community and responsible pharmacies.
For these regulations to be effective, it is crucial to stress the role of pharmaceutical officers as technical specialists responsible for online pharmacies and for providing drug information in their websites as well as being skilled providers to assist consumers. As a result, an effective service can be provided, allowing to expanding the pharmaceutical profession into a new field of operation.
1. Barros, JAC. Políticas Farmacêuticas: a serviço dos interesses da saúde? Brasília: UNESCO, 2004, 400p. [ Links ]
2. Gonçalves SA, Melo G, Tokarski MHL, Branco AB. Bula de medicamentos como instrumento de informação técnico-científica. Rev. Saúde Pública 2002; 36: 33-39. [ Links ]
Ana Paula Soares Gondim
Av. Washington Soares, 1321 - Bairro Edson Queiroz
60811-905 Fortaleza, CE, Brasil
is a doctorate student at Northeastern University, Boston, United States.
1 Ministério da Saúde. Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária. Consulta Pública No 20, de 21 de março de 2001. Brasília: MS/Anvisa, mar. 2001. Available at: http://www4.anvisa.gov.r/base/visadoc/CP/CP[2946-1-0].PDF [Accessed on Dec 2, 2004].
2 Brasil. Lei nº. 6.360, de 23 de setembro de 1976. Dispõe a vigilância sanitária a que ficam sujeitos os medicamentos, as drogas, os insumos farmacêuticos e correlatos, cosméticos, saneantes e outros produtos e dá outras providências. Brasília, 1976. Available at: http://e-legis.bvs.br/leisref/public/showAct.php?id=16615&word= [Accessed on May 30, 2005]
3 Brasil. Lei nº. 5.991, de 17 de dezembro de 1973. Dispõe sobre o controle sanitário do comércio de drogas, medicamentos, insumos pharmaceutical officers e correlatos, e dá outras providências. Brasília, 1973. Available at: <http://e-legis.bvs.br/leisref/public/showAct.php?id=16614&word=>. Accessed on Dec 2, 2004.
4 Ministério da Saúde. Portaria nº. 12, de 05 de janeiro de 2005. Brasília: MS, 2005. Available at http://e-legis.bvs.br/leisref/public/showAct.php?id=14133&word= [Accessed on May 30, 2005].
5 Ministério da Saúde. Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária. Resolução de Diretoria Colegiada nº 48, de 16 de março de 2004. Brasília: MS/Anvisa, 2004. Available at URL: http://e-legis.anvisa.gov.br/leisref/public/showAct.php?id=10230&word= [Accessed on May 19, 2006]. | <urn:uuid:ac14b57a-6774-4b2c-9e7b-2dd7b5b78c9f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-89102007000200019&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918706 | 2,684 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Today many people, even among Seventh-day Adventists, attend church to be entertained. This is why we have celebration churches and sermons that are watered-down messages. This should not surprise us, however, for we have been warned that it would take place. ""Teach the Word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." II Timothy 4:2–4.
In Jesus’ ministry, there came a time when a crisis point was reached. You can read about this experience in the chapter in The Desire of Ages entitled, "The Crisis in Galilee." It was at this time that Jesus clearly spelled out the spiritual nature of His kingdom. To many, His words were difficult to accept. We find their response recorded in John 6:60. "Many therefore of His disciples, when they had heard this, said, ‘This is an hard saying; who can hear it?’"
Have you at some time heard a message, which was just, more than you could handle? At that point, the road appeared too rugged. The reality is that it only appears impossible to the carnally minded. The person who is converted finds that he has no problem with it.
To Each One the Test Comes
In the life of every person, there comes a time when he must make a decision and take a stand. Though this decision will require an effort, when we remember that we are talking about decisions that will affect our eternal happiness, we realize that we are talking about a priceless treasure, something that we cannot adequately measure.
Every decision that we make in this life has its affect upon our characters. This, in turn, determines our eternal destiny. It matters not what area of our life we are speaking of; for the Bible tells us, "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." I Corinthians 10:31.
Solomon, a very rich man, recognized the futility of worldly gain, apart from eternal considerations. He said, "I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits: I made me pools of water to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees: I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me: I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts. So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me. And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them. I withheld not my heat from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity." Ecclesiastes 2:4–11. In addition, the Bible also tells us that he had about one thousand wives.
I compared this passage with that found in the NIV and found that the NIV more nearly expresses it as translated in Martin Luther’s German translation. It says, "Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained." Is it not amazing that a man could have everything his heart desired and at the end say, "It was so useless"?
Jesus said, "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the wold world, and lose his own soul?" Matthew 16:26. There is a reason why He said that. The time is coming when we will have to pass on; and when that time comes, we will not be able to take with us any o the things we have accumulated in this life. How short-sighted to do as many are doing today, selling their birthright for a mess of pottage. For some, it is for a job. Others trade eternal life for an unbelieving spouse, or a friendship; and for some it is their appetite. Whatever the object to be obtained, people are selling their eternal life for that which will prove to be of no worth in view of eternity.
Jesus said, "So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be My disciple." Luke 14:33. Is that a hard saying? It is for some people, because they find that there are certain things that they still want to hang to. But for the truly converted person, it will not be a problem.
Jesus said, "Verily I say unto you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 19:23, 24. Is it impossible? No, it is not impossible; but it is difficult. However, "No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." Luke 16:13. Though a person may try to have both heaven and the world, eventually a decision must be made. Jesus will accept nothing less than 100 percent. Ellen White makes a statement that almost saved does not mean almost saved but wholly lost. (See Christ’s Object Lessons, 118.) A serious though, is it not?
The message that Jesus gave to the people of His day was too difficult for many of those who had been following Him to accept. "From that time many of His disciples went back, and walked no more with Him." John 6:66. There were twelve of His closest friends, however, who stayed with Him no matter what happened. Turning to them, Jesus asked, "Will ye also go away?" Verse 67. Did the twelve disciples have a choice to leave Him? Yes. They could have left, but they chose not to.
We may be faced with a similar choice someday. In fact, even now as we look around us, we see the numbers lessening. We should not be disappointed, however, because the number will always be small; but we are in the majority as long as we are on the side of the Lord. We may not be able to realize it right now, but we will at the end.
In response to Jesus’ question, Peter answered, "To whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life." John 6:18. That was a good answer. If we leave Jesus, what do we have left? It is the same question that we can ask ourselves today. On one side there is apostasy, worldliness, and heresies. We have no choice but to go where the truth is being preached, because that is where Jesus is. It is so simple. That is what Peter said. "Lord, to whom shall we go?" There is no eternal life when you have error. There is only eternal life where there is truth.
Only Eternal Life Where There is Truth
Now if we have that attitude and conviction, we do not have to fear, even if everybody leaves us. Men may disappoint us, but Jesus will not. As long as we stick to the Word, we are securely united to Him; and when we are one with Christ, of course, we will be one with each other. It is this unity that we need to experience, especially as Historic Adventists.
"The oneness and unity of God’s truth-believing remnant people carries powerful conviction to the world that they have the truth, and are the peculiar, chosen people of God. This oneness and unity disconcerts the enemy, and he is determined that it shall not exist. The present truth, believed in the heart and exemplified in the life, makes God’s people one, and gives them a powerful influence." Testimonies, vol. 1, 327. But while we are to seek unity, it is never to be formed on the platform of error. We cannot unify with any who are preaching error. This does not work because just as Jesus said, "No man can serve two masters," neither "can two walk together except they be agreed." Amos 3:3.
"There is no compromise in the Word of God for those who conform to the world. The Son of God was manifested that He might draw all men unto Him. But He came not to lull the world to sleep—not to send peace, but a sword. The followers of Christ must walk in the light of His glorious example; and, at whatever sacrifice of ease or selfish indulgence, at whatever cost of labor or sufferings, we must maintain the constant battle with self, exalt the gospel standard, and push forward the triumphs of the cross." Signs of the Times, September 12, 1878.
In Matthew 10:35, 36, Jesus gave us another hard saying. "For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household." When we truly accept Christ and follow His words, there will always be division and separation. This is because there is a collision of spirits that just cannot get alone. That is why it says in II Corinthians 6:14–18, "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion that light with darkness?" When we determine to fully follow Jesus, we may expect misunderstanding, hatred, disunity, division, and sometimes even war. "The faithful presentation of the message of truth will always cause division. And upon the messenger of truth the blame of the trouble will be cast." Review and Herald, October 22, 1901.
In II Thessalonians 3:6, 14, Paul tells us, "Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us. . . . And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed." When you continue to go to a place where you know that error is steadily being preached and do nothing about it, what are you actually doing? You are encouraging the error.
The apostle John tells us, "Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: for him that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds." II John 9–11.
We need to avoid those people whose influence would lead us astray and corrupt our morals. "When those who are uniting with the world, yet claiming great purity, plead for union with those who have ever been the opposers of the cause of truth, we should fear and shun them as decidedly as did Nehemiah." Prophets and Kings, 660. Even in worship, you cannot unite with those whom God tells you not to unite with. There are only two camps—truth and error. We admonished, "Sever the links which have bound you to those who love not God and the truth." Testimonies, vol. 2, 48.
Peter was always outspoken. At one time he said to Jesus, "Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed Three; what shall we have therefore?" Matthew 19:27. Jesus did not rebuke him, but answered, "Verily, I say unto you, That ye which have followed Me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of His glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life." Matthew 19:28, 29.
The bottom line is that in leaving all, we are not leaving or separating from anything that is good for us. And, if we are converted, we will want to do it anyway, because there are better things in store for us.
All May Have the Power to Overcome
I would like to share one more statement with you. "While Jesus was talking to the people, His mother and brethren, stood without, desiring to speak with Him; and one told Jesus. And He said unto him that told Him, ‘Who is My mother? and who are My brethren?’ And He stretched forth His hand toward His disciples, and said, ‘Behold My mother and My brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of My Father which is in heaven, the same is My brother, and sister, and mother.’" Review and Herald, August 7, 1888. She then goes on to say, "If we are doing the will of God, we are counted as the brethren and sisters of our Master. We are to remember this in our daily life. We are to press toward the mark for the prize of our high calling, exerting every God-given power, that we may be overcomers. We must be constantly drawing nigh to God. We must talk of Jesus, expressing His love in a devoted life of entire consecration to His service.
Right now there are many messages that, to the unregenerate heart, seem hard to listen to. It is far better, however, to hear a hard message right now while there is opportunity to turn around. This is not the time to celebrate, but rather the time to hear the hard messages. If we are unwilling to hear hard messages today, the day is coming when we will hear an even harder message from Jesus. "And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." Matthew 7:23. How much better to be able then to hear His commendation, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." Matthew 25:21. This is the message that I want to hear from Jesus. But the only way that I can hear this message is if I am willing to hear the straight, hard message today, because that is the message of love.
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Canada is reviewing its security procedures after a navy intelligence officer recently admitted passing military secrets to Russians, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said Thursday.
During a press conference in Calgary, Alberta, he said that, with the nature of threats constantly changing due to internet and cyber-security issues, intelligence agencies have to be “more aware of potential threats and move to act proactively”.
Toews said he expects Canada’s reputation with its allies to remain intact, pointing out that such breaches are not unique to Canada and have also occurred in the US, reported Xinhua.
On Wednesday, 41-year-old Sub-Lt. Jeffrey Paul Delisle pleaded guilty to three espionage-related charges in a Halifax court, including breach of trust and two counts of passing information to a foreign entity between July 2007 and January 2011.
Toews declined to comment on the specifics of the case until the naval officer is sentenced in January, when he could face life in prison.
Delisle, who was arrested in January, is the first person in Canada to enter a plea under the Security of Information Act, which is part of Canada’s post-9/11 anti-terrorism legislation.
He was posted to a naval intelligence center in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was allegedly paid as much as 3,000 Canadian dollars a month to pass along classified information on a thumb drive to the Russian intelligence community.
Every time there is a compromise of information, Canada cooperates closely with its allies to ensure that “we minimize any damage that might have been done or ascertain the extent of that damage”, Toews said. | <urn:uuid:e632f74f-dbd0-4c05-b238-54cfad93e0cd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wespeaknews.com/world/spy-scandal-prompts-security-review-in-canada-102816.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976667 | 333 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission
An endangered Florida Panther was released in the Everglades after spending most of his life in captivity.
The 2013 Python Challenge ended Sunday night, wrapping up a month of competition in the Florida Everglades designed to help reduce the Burmese python population in South Florida.
Over 1,000 people put their name to paper to hunt Burmese pythons in the Everglades, but few have managed to capture or kill the invasive snakes.
Someone committed a cruel attack on a pair of geese in a South Florida canal. Two large geese were found shot by arrows. One of them died, and veterinarians are still working to save the other. | <urn:uuid:d5769cee-3be7-436a-b6fe-a426d337f1de> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://miami.cbslocal.com/tag/florida-fish-wildlife-commission/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958279 | 142 | 2.34375 | 2 |
HCM built an indoor Aquatic Center for the purpose of giving every child swimming lessons. The temperature of the water is kept between 85-90 degrees.
Each child learns to swim using the fundamental strokes. Water safety is essential for children living on an Island. The benefits and pleasures of our swimming program are immeasurable.
We take full advantage of our 10-acre island setting that features nature trails, meadows and gardens. Hazel Creek was featured on the renowned Bainbridge Island Garden Tour 2002 and hosts the annual event, 'Christmas in the Country.'
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HCM has a large covered Equestrian Center with schooling horses for riding lessons. Each student is given riding lessons as part of their outdoor education.
Riding teaches the child to activate and use various parts of the body, in new and varied ways, acquiring skills that in the course of time become an integral part of his or her life.
Riding entails active involvement and self-discipline, improves the rider's self-image, balance and spatial orientation and encourages his or her independence and decision-making abilities.
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Learn about the threats to America's public lands by visiting our News and Resources, Research and Publications and Multimedia pages. Speak up to protect special places from our Action Center. Track how your elected officials are voting on public lands legislation and hold them accountable from our Vote Center. Showcase your favorite outdoor experiences by posting your pictures. America's public lands--our national forests, parks, wildlife refuges, monuments, wilderness areas, Bureau of Land Management land and rangelands--are a uniquely American legacy. In all, these lands cover over 650 million acres - or almost 30% of the nation! Public lands provide habitat for more than 600 sensitive or threatened fish, wildlife and plant species. They also provide a place for sportsmen and other outdoor enthusiasts to recreate. More than 516,000 sportsmen hunted on BLM lands in 2002, spending nearly $780 million. The value of wildlife viewing activities on BLM lands exceeded $1.4 billion that year.
Created by National Wildlife Federation™, this website provides information on public lands issues of both national and state significance. Although issues regarding all public lands are featured, this site focuses on the western states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico where the public lands conservation tradition runs deep.
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Programmes > Arts
Kirklees YOT is committed to using the arts as a
means of reconnecting young offenders with
education, training and employment opportunities,
and with their communities. We are interested
in creating long-term solutions to help young people
at risk of offending or re-offending and committing
crime or anti-social behaviour. Our experience
has shown that the arts have a significant and
unique role to play in this process.
The arts are capable of liberating the potential of marginalised young people who, for various reasons, have lost out.
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Never Ignore a Barking Dog
Dogs communicate their emotions by barking. Most dog owners can tell what their dog needs or wants by the tone and pitch of its bark. A barking dog can be a delight to its owner or a source of annoyance to neighbors.
The reasons a dog barks are to alert, to draw attention to something of interest, to greet, express unhappiness, or to communicate a physical need. The tone and pitch of a dog's bark can indicate whether it is happy, scared, lonely, sad, hungry, thirsty, or some other physical discomfort.
Animal cruelty investigators are taught that a barking dog may be the first sign of animal cruelty and neglect. This was the case in two tragic animal cruelty cases right here in Wayne County. The first happened a number of summers ago when a Newark woman moved to Geneva and decided that she no longer wanted her dog. She left the dog tied in the backyard of her former residence rather than take to an animal shelter. This dog was left without proper shelter from the hot sun, food, and water. Neighbors were disturbed by the dog's constant barking and complained to animal control. Unfortunately, by the time the animal control officer arrived on the scene, it was too late. The dog died of a combination of hunger and dehydration. What a slow painful way to die!
The second incident is more recent. Last winter during a long frigid cold spell neighbors in the town of Williamson complained of a barking dog. Here again, by the time animal control investigated the complaint, the dog froze to death and its dead body had to be pried out of the snow and ice. During necropsy by a local veterinarian if was confirmed that the dog froze to death and it was further revealed that the dog weighed ten pounds less than it should have for its age and particular breed.
The point is that both of these tragic endings could have been different if just one of the complaining neighbors stopped to investigate why the dog was barking and talked to the dog's owner. There is probably not a person alive that has not, at one time or another, been annoyed by a neighbor's barking dog. Unfortunately, our general reaction to a barking dog is to get mad at the dog.
The next time a barking dog disturbs your peace get involved! Yes, it is your business! Make an effort to go look at the dog and make sure there is a shelter with enough food and clean water. Make an effort to talk to owner calmly and rationally about the dog and his or her plans for the dog as well as proper care of the dog. If you suspect that the dog is being neglected and/or abused promptly call your local animal control officer, police or sheriff and explain the nature and urgency of the complaint. Follow up on your complaint and ask to be informed on the results of the investigation. Your prompt and compassionate involvement may alleviate the horrible sufferings of "Man's best friend," before it is too late. | <urn:uuid:bf6b37bb-0f8b-4dee-961a-7786973e5a05> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hswaynepets.org/archives/barkingdog.shtm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975122 | 603 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Ten years ago today, I started a blog. It was later removed from the Web by the company that employed me to write it, and until today only existed inside an archive that can itself be a bit ephemeral.
Now it’s back, in a way — here.
The first, post, on Oct. 26 1999, was entitled “We Launch” (the link goes to the restored post on this site). It described the new site, called EJournal, which was located at SiliconValley.com, an online affiliate of the San Jose Mercury News, my employer at the time, and it described the purpose of the exercise. As I wrote that day:
I’ve been thinking about the new ways of journalism, namely the ways the Internet is imposing on all of us. Internet Time has compressed the lives of all kinds of people in all kinds of businesses, and journalism is no exception. In fact, it may be one of the businesses most affected in the long run, both in the opportunities the Net creates and the threat it represents.
On two occasions during the five-plus years I wrote the blog for Knight Ridder, which owned the newspaper and the website, the company removed it from the Web. The first time was because of a platform change combined with the company’s misguided understanding of what the Web was about; removing history struck me as perverse and still does. The second time was after I left Knight Ridder; the reason given was that it would be too costly to keep running the server — something that again struck me as bizarre. But they had the right to delete it, even if I though they were doing a dramatically wrong thing.
What prompted this project was the remarkable Web-sleuthing of Rudolf Ammann, who used the wonderful Internet Archive to locate many of the earliest posts. This made me wonder if it might be possible to resurrect a lot more or even most of what had gone missing.
Pete Kaminski, a friend and technical whiz, took on the task. He’s done an incredible job of spidering, scraping, parsing and otherwise pulling out of the Archive as much as possible.
We’re not nearly done. We’re looking for more of the EJournal, of course — dozens or perhaps hundreds of posts are still missing, and may be gone for good.
We’re also planning to add as much as we can find of the Bayosphere project, another site that has gone off the air. Bayosphere, some of you may recall, was an abortive Bay Area blog that was sold to Backfence, a hyperlocal media site that failed. The Backfence folks were kind enough to return the Bayosphere domain, and that’s why we’re putting all of the archival material under that URL. It just feels to me like the right place for it to live.
A special word of gratitude goes here — to the man who helped me understand why I needed to become a blogger a decade ago and whose software, then in beta form, was our original EJournal platform. He’s Dave Winer, a pioneer whose work is at the core of much of what we do today on the Web, an innovator who keeps on innovating. I’m grateful for Dave’s energy, vision and help. | <urn:uuid:6146fdb2-49f0-4967-ba1d-330a7f0183f8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bayosphere.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973286 | 695 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Egyptian sarcastic writer Ihab Moawad released a controversial book titled “I Will Still Remarry,” in which he counts what he sees as advantages of polygamy for both men and women and for the society as a whole.
Moawad dedicates his book to the “oppressed” men in Egypt “who woke up one morning to find that society has changed from being predominantly male-oriented to being increasing female-oriented, Arab Press House reported.
Stereotyping polygamous men
He also dedicates the book to all single women, including his first wife who was angry when her husband remarried, allegedly for the best of their relationship.
In his book, Moawad tackles the way women perceive men who choose to have more than one wife and regard them as “unfaithful” and “disrespectful” and the way they look at their husband’s second wives.
Moawad writes about a conversation that took place between him and an unnamed woman and in which she lashed out at every man who remarries and every woman who agrees to become the second wife.
Men support polygamy
“No decent man will take another wife and stab his first wife in the back and no decent women would agree to ruin the relationship between a man and his wife and children,” she told him.
When he reminds her that polygamy is allowed in Islam, she argues that it is only done under very specific circumstances.
“A man can take a second wife in special cases. For example, if the first wife can’t have kids or is sick. But apart from this, it is unacceptable.”
Moawad interviews several single women and most of them rejected being second wives under any circumstances.
Men not like women
“After all this waiting, I can’t marry half a man,” A woman told him. “But isn’t half a man who’s decent better than 100 men who are indecent?” he asked.
“No decent man would have two wives,” she replied, adding, “Men remarry because they are flirts and are not satisfied with one woman.”
In contrast to women, the men Moawed interviewed supported polygamy, which they see as important in many ways.
“Several men cannot live with one woman so they have to remarry to quench their desires. Isn’t that better than committing sins?” one of them said. “If he remarries, he will become more emotionally stable and this will also have a positive effect on the first wife.”
This man disagrees with women’s statements about men remarrying only if the wife is sick or can’t have kids.
“A man can remarry because he doesn’t like the way his wife treats him,” he added. “Some women think that being tough with men is the best way, but this is what makes a man look for another woman.” | <urn:uuid:1d23cc8b-ea50-4235-a392-017aef4a7230> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/01/23/134687.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98304 | 641 | 1.6875 | 2 |
To B or not to B: Here are the questions
Vitamin B12, also known as cobalamin, is a member of the group of water-soluble vitamins in the B-complex family. Take the quick quiz below for a fun test of your knowledge about this important B vitamin.
True or False?
Vitamin B12 helps maintain healthy nerve cells.
Strict vegetarians and vegans may be at risk for B12 deficiency.
Vitamin B12, although essential for our health, is required only in minute amounts.
It is easy to overdose on vitamin B12.
1. True. Vitamin B12 is essential for nerve-tissue metabolism and helps maintain healthy nerve cells and red blood cells.
2. True. Naturally occurring forms of B12 are found predominantly in red meat, with the highest amounts in organ meats such as liver; fish, such as trout and salmon; and dairy products, in that order. B12-fortified breakfast cereals and drinks and foods, such as nutritional yeast, are some of the few plant sources of B12 (always check nutritional labels to be sure of B12’s origins).
3. True. The RDA for vitamin B12 is 2.4 mcg for adult men and women. A microgram (mcg) is one one-millionth of a gram. A milligram (mg), the unit by which many vitamins are measured, is one one-thousandth of a gram.
4. False. As with all the B vitamins, there is little potential for toxicity, even at high doses. According to the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine in Washington, D.C., no adverse effects have ever been associated with excess vitamin B12 intake in healthy individuals. | <urn:uuid:c7ac9455-d50b-4bd8-be2b-265a9be320a7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://deliciousliving.com/print/ingredients/b-or-not-b-here-are-questions | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948737 | 366 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
A companion to Ken Burns's film of the same name, Unforgivable Blackness provides an extensive look into issues surrounding race relations, sports, and definitions of freedom during the Progressive Era. In the documentary, Burns delves into the life of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavy Weight Champion of the World. Johnson is explored as a man unapologetic for his strength, dominance, and defiance of society’s "rules."
This well-designed website has appeal for those teaching a variety of subject matter and content at the high school level. Background information is plentiful for those unfamiliar with early 20th-century boxing history, and sections are written at an appropriate Lexile level for high school use. Fight of the Century includes an interactive link filled with photographs, music, newspaper excerpts, political cartoons, and six audio clips (Flash Player required). Discussions of political cartoons and the depictions of African Americans during the early 1900s may be necessary before viewing Fight of the Century with students. Primary sources are plentiful throughout, including full text of the Mann Act, as well as Johnson’s FBI files.
Ghost in the House and Sparring provide information concerning four of Johnson’s contemporaries, including boxers Joe Louis and Sam Langford. Knockout also details Johnson's dalliances with a number of white women, which led to his conviction under the Mann Act. While important to the overall discussion of race relations, this section and coinciding discussions should only occur with more mature high school groups. An additional section, For Teachers, includes 10 lesson plans that may be used in a range of classroom settings—from math and civics, to history and sociology. Lesson plans are well thought out and descriptive, yet still leave room for open dialogue and connections with relatable current events. The website was last updated in 2005, which has resulted in a lost connection with three of the eight website links listed under the Resources section.
Overall, this website provides an in-depth and user-friendly overview for those interested in connecting issues of race relations and the Progressive Era into their classrooms. | <urn:uuid:d1350654-965d-4f06-8c36-10cde036e91f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.teachinghistory.org/history-content/website-reviews/24096 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951701 | 440 | 3.109375 | 3 |
ICLEI is the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, or Local Governments for Sustainablility.
- ICLEI is a UN accredited Non Governmental Organization (NGO) that implements the Action Plan of Agenda 21. In fact, on their own website (under the "Programs" section), they state, "Our campaigns, programs, and projects promote Local Agenda 21 as a participatory, long-term, strategic planning process that addresses local sustainablility while protecting global common goods."
- Cities pay dues in order to obtain direction from ICLEI in establishing local policy and law. This is a violation of the Constitution, Article 1, Section 10: "No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance or Confederation..."
- ICLEI is funded by the David Rockefeller Fund, United States EPA, etc.ICLEI targets mayors- in the 'Cool Mayor' program, and other local officals to implement Agenda 21.
- ICLEI provides toolkits for action on local, state and national levels. Their objectives are dressed up in soft language, so as not to alert people to the true intention.
- ICLEI was founded in 1990 as the 'International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives'. The Council was established when more than 200 local governments from 43 countries convened at our inaugural conference, the World Congress of Local Governments for a Sustainable Future, at the United Nations in New York.
As you can see from their own cartoon propaganda, they want radical change for individual behavior and business.
ICLEI, when implemented, creates new local laws and city planning requirements that restrict economic development and personal freedom. Some examples include:
- Crowding and highrise, high density housing scams
- Water usage restrictions wherein violations could result in fines, and there are programs for people to rat on their neighbors
- Monitoring business and individuals' energy usage. Many new buildings have thermostats that are controlled remotely, offsite.
THE GOOD NEWS:
ICLEI and Sustainable Development are implemented within local communities, therefore, an informed public can pressure elected officials to get rid of it!
It only takes one educated person to get the ball rolling.
The most effective form of marketing by word-of-mouth, so tell your neighbors and local business owners.
You can form alliances with-like minded freedom oriented people and businesses to pressure your city council and mayor.
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Myrtle Ave. bet. Nostrand Ave. and Marcy Ave.
Directions via Google Maps
William Learned Marcy (1786-1857) was a lawyer, soldier, and statesman who made his mark in both local and national politics.
Marcy was born in Southbridge, Massachusetts. He moved to Troy, New York, and in 1811 opened a law office. Marcy left Troy to serve as a United States captain in the War of 1812, later returning to continue his practice and take up politics. He joined the Democratic Party and served as state comptroller from 1823 until 1829, at which time he was appointed to the state supreme court. Marcy was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1831.
Marcy served as governor of New York from 1833 until 1839. During his tenure, he oversaw the construction of the Erie Canal and resolved the boundary dispute with New Jersey. Marcy was secretary of war under President James Knox Polk from 1845 until 1849, guiding the United States through the 1848 Mexican War. In 1853, he accepted his final political post, secretary of state under President Franklin Pierce. He negotiated the Gadsden Purchase, allowing the United States to buy a sizeable territory from Mexico. Marcy died in office on July 4, 1857.
An unnamed park preceded this playground that honors Marcy. It was located a block further north, was one-third the size of Marcy Playground, and held a flagpole with a monumental base dedicated to Samuel V. Crews (1888-1929), a veteran of World War I. His brother John was a Republican leader in Brooklyn and another brother, Robert, was a member of the State Assembly.
In 1945, New York City purchased 28.5 acres of land for the Marcy Houses development. As part of the Marcy Houses design, the existing playground would be relocated. According to the final New York City Housing Authority plan, dated June 26, 1946, 3.2 acres were set aside for a park within the development; the base of the flagpole from the previous park was moved to the new location.
Marcy Playground was reconstructed in 1989, and a half-court and regulation full court were added for basketball. The playground includes benches, game tables, a baseball diamond, spray showers, play equipment with safety surfacing, basketball hoops, swings for tots and children, picnic tables, and the flagpole, with its monumental base and a yardarm. | <urn:uuid:991e93b4-9dcd-4c5e-8ce2-5d08a0e8a02c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/marcyplayground/history | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980243 | 516 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Prozac Nation is based on a true story. In this film it talks about how Harvard Journalism Student Elizabeth portrayed by Christina Ricci who is suffering from depression. Her parents divorce is one of the main causes of her depression. When she goes to Harvard she befriends her roomate Ruby (Michelle Williams) and Ruby tries to help her as much as she can until it gets to be too much for her. Finally Elizabeth decides to see the school psychiatrist Dr. Sterling(Anne Heche) on the advice from her mother(Jessica Lange) and her friends. Dr Sterling decides to put her on an antidepressant called Prozac which Elizabeth has decided is the only thing that has helped her. She shows that even with depression it is possible to lead a normal, happy life.
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=latest update: Aug 25th 2007=
I thought Id start an infomercial on graphics so that we are all on the same page when talking about graphics tweaking. Why this is important? Because when we use WRAPPERs vertical synch mode tied to the monitor's refresh rate (60 or 75hz or whatever); we need to keep our systems in close synch if we want to minimize multiplayer jitter or warping. There are a few contributing factors such as: Game graphics, Monitor, Vcard, wrapper, Windows and its adaptor configuration that make a difference.
BEFORE I GO ON, HERES A LINK TO POSTIVE G'S MOST EXCELLENT SITE ON HOW TO SET UP LB2 FOR WINDOWS SYSTEMS. Link to Positve G\'s LB2 Setup Site
HERES A DISCUSSION ON HOSTING LB2 OVER INTERNET VIA HARDWARE ROUTERS (WIRED AND WIRELESS SOLUTIONS)
"Wired & Wireless Router LB2 Hosting & Client Success.... At Last" Hosting LB2 on internet via routers
HERES A DISCUSSION ON VOICE COMMS OVER TS2 with LB2 "In Game Voice Comms for LB2 mutiplayer"
AND HERE IS A FORUM DISCUSSION OVER GAMEPLAY FEATURES: "Features Of LB2 That You May Have Known About"
Now, back to the discussion on graphics tweaking once you have LB2 running... REFRESH-Rate and FRAMERATE:
The refresh rate is the number of times per second that the RAMDAC is able to send a signal to the monitor and the monitor is able to repaint the screen.
The frame rate of a program refers to how many times per second the graphics engine can calculate a new image and put it into the video memory.
The refresh rate is how often the contents of video memory are sent to the monitor. Frame rate is much more a function of the type of software being used and how well it works with the acceleration capabilities of the video card. It has nothing at all to do with the monitor.
The refresh rate is important because it directly impacts the viewability of the screen image. Refresh rates that are too low cause annoying flicker that can be distracting to the viewer and can cause fatigue and eye strain.
My SONY flat panel refreshes at 60hz. In fact, its the only rate it allows. I must therefore conclude that LB2 is being forced to be refreshed and vertically synched at the monitor refresh rate of 60hz, and not the rate that WinXP default of 75hz.
Can anyone confirm this statement with some authority? I will also look for a refresh (not frame rate) counter. Anyone have a good one to point me to?
Below is an example of a nVidia 6800 tweak tool that allows for both refresh and OverClocking: http://3dgpu.com/archives/2004/08/09/geforce-6800-tweak-guide/
Below is how on an ATI vcard that we can control the resolution and refresh rate, apart from the WinXP default value of 75 hz (or earlier Win to 60hz).
TWEAKs for Refresh and OC - handle with care ATI Tool - refresh and overclocking tweak utility nVidia refresh and oc tweak method
Only what your monitor can handle will actually be attainable. CRTs and LCDs differ by design and hence their refresh rate settings behave differently.CRTs and LCDs:
The main issue with changing the screen resolution on a CRT monitor is that it affects the refresh rate. The refresh rate refers to the number of times that the screen redraws the image every second. Since there is always movement on your screen, the image needs to be redrawn quite often for it to appear that it is in motion.
Typically, the optimal refresh rate for a CRT monitor is 75Hz, meaning that the image is redrawn 75 times every second. The highest you’ll need is 85Hz, and some people can tell the difference between a 75Hz and 85Hz refresh rate. Anything higher than 85Hz generally won’t be noticeable and can also be dangerous to your monitor, as some people have the tendency to push their monitors to refresh rates beyond what they were intended to use. Anything lower than 75Hz and you may notice a flicker of the image as it refreshes.
Too low of a refresh rate is a common occurrence and is often a major case of tired eyes and office fatigue. “Power users” will tell you they will often sit down at other people’s workstations and notice right away that the refresh rate was too low for comfort.
When dealing with LCDs, refresh rate is not much of a concern since they use a different technology to draw the image. Refresh rates as low as 40Hz or 60Hz are perfectly acceptable with LCD monitors.
What is important is the concept of response time – the time in milliseconds it takes for the screen to update the pixel colors. This is a big deal because a slower response time will give the illusion of “ghosting” – the effect of pixels not updating with new information fast enough, so that a trail is left behind a moving object. This usually happens in high action movies or games and is one of the main reasons why LCDs are often not recommended for gamers. This is changing however, as displays with 20ms – which are just fine for gaming - are becoming more prevalent.
Apart from the technical differences between how LCD and CRTs deal with refresh to handle persistance and flicker; the point related to LB2 multiplayer is that when using the REFRESH SYNC method, we must be aware of our refresh rates amoungst players in the same online session. My LCD has two refresh rates: 60 or 70 hz, thats it. My buddy has a monitor that goes from 45 - 125 hz, he normally is set for 85hz. To reduce the amount of lag and jitter while playing online together, we pick one of our common refresh rates (usually the higher one) and we get the best results. WRAPPERS
Wrappers are programs which convert the calls of one graphics API into another. This means you can run LB2 a Glide video game without having a glide graphics card (e.g. 3dfx Voodoo5), but using a Direct3D or OpenGL card (e.g. nVidia GeForce or ATI Radeon) instead. (You still need hardware 3D acceleration of some sort if you want playable speeds!)
Are there any drawbacks to using Wrappers?
You are effectively adding another layer of emulation. There can be problems, such as graphics glitches and increased sound stuttering. In particular, you are likely to always lose some visual effects (usually fog, and more subtle things like certain kinds of dynamic lighting or transparency, for example). None of the wrappers are perfect, but in many games they are close, and more than adequate. With LB2 we see that with the known issues like dancing clouds or lines in the 2D cockpit. Zeckensack\'s Glide Wrapper (To run LB2 in Glide mode) - 1280res limit, has refresh rate control) dgVoodoo Glide Wrapper - (can go greater than 1280 res and has refresh vert sync control)
Heres what I did (with help from this community) that made the dgVD Wrapper work at 1600res:
- d/l the latest dgVoodoo package
- Unzipped its contents into the LB2 folder
- Set the dgVoodooSetup to be like Shadow's:
- Switched LB2Cfg.exe to 3DFX
- Ran the game, with AA and AF turned on also
========== portion of readme_eng.txt======
If you don't want to use this wrapper, or/and you just would like to try
it with a certain game/app, then you can copy the needed files into the
directory of that game/app!
=============================AA/AF/BF/TBM: AntiAliasing & Ansitrophic Filtering & Bilinear Filtering & Trilinear Bitmaps
AA has to do with reducing the jaggies we see on the edges of graphics. Its a technique of blurring pixels. AF has to do with the quality of the patterns we see, so that we dont get interference patterns that close lines might produce.
Bilinear filtering or interpolation is used in computer graphics to reduce "blockiness". In LB2 this would be what smoothes out the 3D world ground tiles to look more blended together.
Tri-linear filtering is combination of bi-linear filtering and mip-mapping which enhances even more the quality of texture mapped polygons. For each polygon that is rendered, the two "MIP maps" that most closely match the polygon size will be used to compute pixel colors that are the most realistic. This technique is superior to both bi-linear and mip-mapping (This reduces rendering artifacts such as "sparkling" and "moiré" patterns as well as blockiness.)
Who can use these advanced 3D techniques? This is a very vcard hardware and driver dependant equation. The nVidia cards appear to be better with AA and AF than the ATI when running LB2 due to the 3dfx and glide bias leans to nVidia's hardware more. Mileage will vary so its hard to pin this down. The common symptoms are: AA causing black 2D cockpit in the Kiowa. Bilinear Filtering causing the HUD symbology to dissapear.
Below is a snap provided by SHADOW using dgVoodoo v1.50b running at 1280x1024@32, 16xSAA and 16xAF LAG and SYNC in LB2 Multiplayer
Multiplayer "lag" (a/c to a/c positional data jitter or micro-warping) has many sources: inet, latency-ping, packet loss, isp, mtu, game-application, OS, refresh, etc...
The ones that we have in view are related to the game dependance on CPU speed.
To deal with these, there are two basic remedial approaches. Both of these methods work to allow multiplayer to work with minimal lag, and to bring the game's world speed closer to what it was intended. Refresh sync is easier to set up, but is only a course sync. CPU sync is harder to get dialed in, but is a fine tune sync method.
If you care about close up flying or sharing cockpits with minimal lag, the CPU sync method is the more stable of the two methods. For all other general flying and combat, the refresh method is fine and easist for most folk to set up, especially when more than 2 players are flying together online.
1. CPU SYNC
Synch different game speeds down to a common speed that is closer to the CPU clock rate that the game was designed for (200Mhz-750mhz)via CPU slow down utilities. This method controls synching by CPU clock rate tweaking.
2. REFRESH SYNC
Synch the game by video card vertical synch rate control. By limiting the graphics card to only refresh at 60 hz, it makes the game frame rate tied to an external and common control index. This method controls synching by video card refresh rate.
My testing shows that the refresh method is a good course sync method that works for most CPU speeds with no fiddling with CPU speed matching.
The refresh method has a symptom of when getting formation close to AI or another player, once a second you will see a small jitter and when very close the other a/c will dissapear. I believe this had to do with the blank portion of the refresh cycle. When sharing the same a/c as Pilot/CPG, you see a definite micro-pause/warp every second for a short duration.
The CPU method is the fine sync method that can fine tune the systems so that warp and jitter is minimal to even unnoticible. This method is the most precise and does not suffer from the winking out of the other player or AI when very close up. The negative is that it requires experimentation to get two or more systems in lock sync from a CPU speed perspective. For example, two 2.4GHZ systems slowed to 35% of normal, are almost perfectly in lock sync with very little jitter even when sharing the same a/c. I recommend turning off the refresh rate tied to monitor option in the wrappers when using this CPU sync method, rather use a slow down proggy like TURBO.
When the processor is HyperThreaded, the control is less effective due to the nature of what HT was meant to do. HT can be disabled via the BIOS.
Using the DGVOODOO glide wrapper along with its monitor refresh feature, no CPU throttling
is needed on WinXPsp2 and Vista32. This wrapper will synch the game world speed to the
monitor refresh rate which is now CPU independant. Ive also found that if online players
also set their monitors/flatpanels refresh to the same frequency (60/70/85 etc) that this
minimizes the: jitter, close up dissapearing, and CPG to Pilot update jitter that happens
when connected together online. The other factors of course are connectivity quality
and whats configured and running concurrently on the PC itself.
As a final note, with systems with 2 or more GB of real memory (RAM) the tricks to fake out
Windows via the MS compatibility tool kit using the memory lie feature are no longer needed.
Im running LB2 on both laptops and desktops with 2Gigs plus run LB2 without any tricks, just
the wrapper and for Vista, setting the desktop icon to WinXP compatibility mode.
Retro-Rotor simming has a rampup learning curve to address the many requirements to make an older game work on newer technology. Hopefully this answers more questions than it creates. | <urn:uuid:e9b7c52e-f569-47ff-8be8-4c2dbf129f94> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/2644596/1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929171 | 2,957 | 1.625 | 2 |
Editor’s Note: When Connor Wilson published “So You Want To Play Lacrosse In College…” the post got a ton of attention; over 2,700 page views and counting, and 12 great comments that have really kept the conversation going. One of those comments was from Richard Roy, the Head Coach at Harney-Nadzitsaga HS in Oregon, and he had a lot to say! So much, in fact, that we asked Rick to write a separate post on the subject!
Coach Roy covers how parents AND kids can make the biggest decision of their lives TOGETHER to get the best possible results. Choosing the right college is so important! Lacrosse is really a small component of the decision of which college to attend. It’s a must read for players, and it’s a MUST READ for parents! Take it away, Coach Roy!
Lacrosse is expanding by leaps and bounds at the collegiate level. Every year new programs are started at the recreational club, MCLA, NAIA, and NCAA DI-III levels. High school lacrosse players that want to play lacrosse in college at any of these levels have an incredible amount of choice. However, there are some realities that prospective college players and their parents need to understand and consider. This is my perspective as a former college player, parent of multiple lacrosse players, and as a high school varsity coach. And I hope it can help future college players, and their parents, make an educated decision.
For those that don’t know how college lacrosse is organized, I’ll provide a quick breakdown:
There are four major lacrosse “leagues” in college lacrosse: the NCAA, the MCLA, , the NCLL, and the NJCAA. The NCAA has three divisions of varsity teams; the MCLA is made up of non-varsity club teams and varsity NAIA teams (For now. The NAIA could sponsor lacrosse soon), and has two divisions. The NJCAA is made up of junior colleges located primarily in the northeast.
The NCLL is made up of non-varsity club teams as well, many of which are club teams at schools with varsity NCAA programs. There are several other college club leagues, like the GLLL, CUFLA, and others, which are smaller players on the national scale. The important thing to remember is that even with all this diversity, there is still quality lacrosse to be had in all leagues.
So now that you know a little bit about how college lacrosse is set up, I’ll get back to the BIG Picture:
The level at which you play college lacrosse really makes no difference . The way you play and approach the game should define you, NOT what teams you play for, or what league you are in. If your primary concern with playing college lacrosse is about bragging about playing for a DI program and getting an athletic scholarship, then you are most likely going about things the wrong way, and with the wrong spirit.
Mom and dad, if your primary concerns are “bragging” rights around the water cooler at work or one-upmanship among other lacrosse parents, then you too are looking at this with the wrong set of lenses. There is NOTHING wrong with playing club, MCLA-club, NCLL, NAIA, junior college or DIII lacrosse. In my opinion, one of the primary goals of a lacrosse player is “to play as many games as possible before you die!” So the important thing is to “throw the ball on the ground and play the game.”
Stop worrying about who is watching or what others will think. Just play because someday you will no longer be physically able to do so, and that will indeed be a sad day.
Of course it’s not always that simple, so here are some more defined concepts regarding the Big Decision:
A major goal for many players is to see significant playing time. “Are you satisfied with wearing the jacket, standing on the sideline, and rotting on the bench? Or do you actually want to get on the field and play?”
If the goal is to get significant playing time as soon as possible, then one should really look at smaller programs and especially new programs. I started as a freshman and started all four years at a very small private New England college. I loved it and never ever considered playing for anyone else. I recommend finding a place where you can actually PLAY!
Of course, finding a place to even play can be hard, and coaches can make it harder during the recruiting process. There is a lot of information out there, and a lot of promises being made. What Should A Recruit Expect From Coaches?
Some college coaches would make pretty decent living selling used cars! They will tell a potential recruit, and the parents, almost anything (“You are my number 1 recruit”) in order to land the player at their school. Just like buying a used car, college recruiting is “buyer beware”. In reality, you are the number the #1 recruit at that point in time at that hour of the day, but at the end of the call, the coach could be prepping to talk to his next #1 recruit.
Some coaches recruit far more players than he will ever need or use. The coaches basically “overbook” their programs just like some airlines overbook flights. If an airline “bumps” passengers off of the overbooked flight, the affected passengers are offered free tickets, money, lodging or some other perk through federal airline regulation. If you get “bumped” off an overbooked college lacrosse team, it is “sucks to be you” and you have no recourse.
The coach that “overbooks” knows he will cut a significant number of recruits after the kids arrive on campus, and that this will happen every year. He will not tell the recruit that, but he will leave the recruit believing he is on the team all the while having no intention or belief that the recruit will make the team! Why? Simple, the student-athlete is bringing significant money in the form of tuition, fees, room/board, books, etc. into the school. This is very unethical and disingenuous in my opinion. I personally know of one DIII team that is known by the school administration as the “million dollar team”. Each year, the tuition, room/board and fees generated just from this lacrosse team exceeds well over 1 million dollars!
Those are just some examples, and not every team is like that. So a prospective college player, and his parents, really need to do their research when looking at EACH school. Talk to former players if you can, and learn as much as possible. The facts you find out might surprise you! And you might also bust some college lacrosse myths:
There is really no such thing as a “full ride” scholarship in college lacrosse. Lacrosse scholarships are still very limited. Only NCAA DI, DII and NAIA programs have athletic scholarships for lacrosse. NCAA DIII, MCLA-club and other club programs do not have athletic scholarships. A fully funded NCAA DI program only has 12.5 scholarships. DII programs offer only 4 or 5 scholarships. The reality is that there is very little true scholarship money out there. The average NCAA DI program has over 40 players on the roster. Many coaches spread out the scholarship money among many of his recruits giving many players a piece of the scholarship pie.
The scholarship money is nice, but only pays a tiny fraction of the college bill. The average tuition, room/board, associated fees and other expenses of a four year private liberal arts college easily exceeds $35,000 a year. State colleges and universities are typically less expensive (for in-state students) but can be just as expensive as a private college for non-resident students. I am not suggesting that one turn down an athletic scholarship, but to plan on athletic scholarships as a means to finance one’s college education is like planning on winning the lottery to finance one’s retirement.
So how can I get into school and make it all work if I’m not as good as Mikey Powell?
Great question! As a sport, men’s lacrosse has one of the highest GPAs and graduation rates of any college sports. As such, lacrosse coaches typically want good student-athletes. A potential college lacrosse player should have above a 3.0 GPA. In addition, many admission departments, especially private colleges, want to see well-rounded and responsible student-citizens. Players should be heavily involved in their school and their community.
The admissions departments want to know what kind of person they are admitting, and how the student will contribute to the institution beyond just lacrosse. So be socially responsible! High school lacrosse players should be spending a significant amount of their time volunteering to work for various service organizations (senior centers, Boys and Girls clubs, Habitat for Humanity to name a few).
Potential college lacrosse players with an exceptional academic record and that are deeply involved in their community will in many cases be rewarded with significant academic and merit scholarships and awards. This is certainly the case at many private colleges. This can be an important and significant part of financing one’s college education and is much more reliable than scholarship money for most players.
The other great thing about academic and merit-based scholarships is that to maintain these scholarships all four years it is up to you and your ability to maintain grades, and they are not subject to the “whim” of some administrator or coach. With athletic scholarships, they are subject to the whim of the coach. The coach can reduce, increase or totally eliminate your scholarship each year.
In essence, the coach has you where he wants you, he “owns” you. If you do not “play his game” or if you get injured he could reduce or eliminate the athletic scholarship. Your athletic scholarship could also be reduced in order to lure a new recruit by adding more money to the new recruits offer.
Are there any other options to finance school out there?
Some schools in the MCLA have other financial programs that may be very attractive and should be considered. In the western United States, where the MCLA is so strong, there is the Western Undergraduate Exchange program. Essentially, 15 western states have created a compact to provide affordable education to residents of member states. For example, a student from Oregon could attend a state college or university in Arizona for a tuition rate far below a non-resident student from a non-WUE state but only slightly above a resident tuition rate. In addition, some MCLA schools have very strong club sport programs with top notch facilities. Some of these institutions provide “in state” tuition rates for non-resident club sport athletes that academically qualify!
Junior colleges typically have tuition rates well below those of four year schools (public and private). If you are not sure what you want to major in, or need to get your GPA up to get into your school of choice, this is a good option. Many of those college players you see playing on television spent time at a junior college. There is quality lacrosse to be had in junior college and you could potentially save a lot of money. Why pay hundreds of dollars per semester hour to take College Algebra at a four year school when you can take the same class for half the cost at a junior college?
So is it just about grades and lacrosse?
As I stated previously, college lacrosse has one of the highest average GPAs and graduation rates of any NCAA sport. Unfortunately, college lacrosse is also known for having the highest overall use of drugs and alcohol compared to other college sports. This is a “dirty little secret” of the sport. Unfortunately, this dirty little secret has become an epidemic; an expectation in lacrosse “culture”, and addressing this aspect of the game is long overdue. Parents and players need to be aware of this.
There can be a large amount of peer pressure to “join the crowd” and be “part of the team.” Some coaches run a very tight ship, while others do not, at least when it comes to dealing with drugs, alcohol, partying, etc. Some coaches only deal with the consequences and they are not proactive. I think we are all aware of several very unfortunate events involving lacrosse players the last few years where alcohol was a major contributing factor. This to me is a major red flag and parents must be on guard.
Cultural and belief traditions are a big factor. If you are a western or West Coast kid looking to play college lacrosse back east or in the northeast (aka hotbeds) there are some things to consider. I am an “East Coast” transplant (New Hampshire), my wife is from Arizona. She views ALL New Englanders as cold, rude, impatient, vulgar, and disagreeable. I tell her we are just misunderstood. My kids were raised in the intermountain west, and they think the same. They are westerners.
They all have a difficult time relating to my own family in New Hampshire and the vast majority of people from the northeast. I think it is easier for an east coaster to adjust to the more laid back ways of the west than a “left” coaster to adjust to the east. I do believe that it is healthy for kids to expand their horizons and get out of their comfort zones. I encourage our players to at least look at schools in the east, midwest and southeast and I try to help them in the process.
Just realize that although we live in one country, there are some very distinct regional differences that could be an issue.
Lacrosse is often still quite parochial and pretentious in my opinion. How open is the college team to diversity? I am not only talking about the color of one’s skin here either. Diversity is far more than that; it is not just about race. What economic background you come from could be a factor with how you interact and get along with your team. Does the coach heavily recruit players from private prep schools that come with significant financial means? Do you come from a “blue collar” family and public school with very limited means? Do you come from a more rural and conservative part of the country? If you do and the team is made up of players from major urban centers there could be some major culture shock!
There are still those players and coaches out there that are quite “uninformed’ about this nation. My oldest son went back east to play college lacrosse. He was shocked that his team mates and even some coaches and school administrators did not know that Oregon has a coast, that the State of New Mexico, where my son was born, is in the United States or that not all west coast players look and talk like the stereotypical California surfer dude! His team mates could not find Oregon on a U.S. map!
If your Faith tradition is important to you and you would prefer that “Junior” not become a pagan then you should really look hard at the school, the coach and the team. Is the school secular? Is its religious affiliation consistent with yours? Is it truly an institution that “practices what it preaches?” Is the coach a “believer” or at least supportive of your beliefs?
If not, then you may need to keep looking. Talk with the coach, talk with admissions, and talk with students, faculty, and obviously pray to help you discern if your faith and the school are compatible. Maybe you want a challenge and you’ll seek one by immersing yourself in a culture of people who think totally different from you. The important thing is to know what you’re getting into, and that it matches up with your goals.
Here’s the Bottom Line…
Find the school that offers what you want to study, a school you and your parents can afford (not all schools are”need” blind), has the social and cultural environment that suits you, and has the learning support services you may need. Find a coach that wants you, appreciates you, is interested in you as a person, and is interested in your growth both on and off the field. Find the school you want to be at so badly that if you stop playing lacrosse for some reason you would still remain enrolled and continue with your academic endeavors.
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Have you ever desired to experience a Nordic world ...from within Minecraft? Or perhaps a tropical forest? Fear not, these mods will make it possible!
Both mods are world generators that work the same way and are very easy to use. All you need to do to create your new world is execute a single command, with or without specifying a name, and a seed. After the process is completed you'll get teleported automatically to the newly created world.
The Nordic world consists of large stretches of land and small islands, where you will find plenty of lakes, mountains, cliffs and more. However, for a Nordic world, the density of tree placement did feel a little thin. Food for thought.
Compared to the Nordic world, the Tropic one is a totally different experience. The generation process takes much longer to complete, but it is surely worth the wait! The result is an overgrown rain forest filled with various types of trees, bushes and other foliage. Elements that stood out were the mushrooms that glow at night, and the enormous trees reaching above the clouds. These trees are large enough to build your own home in! Of course, this map has more to offer than just trees and foliage - there are many lakes, creeks and beaches as well!
If you are bored with Minecraft's default world be sure to check these out! All in all, both are unique enough to change your Minecraft experience, especially Tropic. It really shows how much time went into creating these mods. Check out the interview below to find out more about the creation process!
What inspired you to create these mods?
I saw a thread in the bukkit forums where the basic use of the new world-gen API was explained. The Pictures that were posted there showed terrain which looked totally different form the vanilla Minecraft terrain. I really loved the unusual look and from there I started to experiment with the API, but I didn't had a special sort of terrain in mind. After like a month I finally got some sort of useable terrain which then ended up in Nordic :)
Approximately how much time goes into developing a world generator?
Compared to normal Bukkit Plugins it is extremly time consuming. The only way to check your code is to let the server generate a new world (which takes its time) and then fly around to see if it turned out the way it should, so I normally end up having about 200-500 worlds generated and moved to the bin during a week of development.
To sum it up, Nordic took around 3 months of development, Tropic around 2 months if you account 2-4 hours per day with exceptions.
Have you encountered any problems while working on your mods and, if any, how did you solve them?
There were quite a few, but one of the biggest problems was/still is how time intense Tropic is. Caused by the way Bukkit generates the chunks, big objects like the Worldtrees in Tropic also makes Bukkit call the populators on the chunks around the initial chunk, which then might request the chunks around them and the circle begins again.. so this could easily end in a StackOverflow and therefore a server crash. I used some hackish workaround where the foliage is generated after the terrain is generated, it is not pretty and a suboptimal solution, but afaik the only way to generate such dense foliage without causing a overflow.
What tools did you use to make these mods possible?
I'm using Eclipse as IDE and a self written tool that previews the generated terrain as a heightmap
What part of the creation process of your mods did you enjoy most?
When a part i've been working for a while finally does what it is intended to do :P As an example the small creeks I did for Tropic really took alot of time until they didn't kill the server or cut every mountain in half. But after they worked as they should, I re-enabled the other populators and it just looked so beautiful with all the parts of the plugin coming together.
Could you tell us about any other mods you have planned for the future?
I am working on a desert/canyon world gen, but its far from done. I'm also working on a better cave/underworld system for both, Nordic and Tropic. But as I'm currently pretty busy with university these won't be completed any time soon.
Do you have any advice for others who would like to start modding?
You should have a basic knowledge of Java and OOP, and from there on just read some basic getting-started tutorials, then start with some smaller projects and read the code of other developers, the source of most plugins is available on github or elsewhere. Imo you can learn a lot from seeing how others solved their problems or did things in a different (maybe better) way than you.
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MIT News at Noon with Neil Gershenfeld and Ara Knaian
Neil Gershenfeld, Director of the Center for Bits and Atoms, and visiting scientist Ara Knaian, deliver their"News at Noon" talk at the MIT Museum. The event is co-sponsored by the MIT News Office and the Museum, and features researchers discussing their recently promoted work.
On Nov. 30, Gershenfeld and Knaian discussed their robot, the Milli-Motein, which is not only one of the world's smallest robots, but if can also reconfigure itself in a matter of seconds.
Presenters for "News at Noon" are announced each week following an appearance in MIT News. Come and connect with local colleagues before and after the program. Free admission to all.
Learn more at http://web.mit.edu/museum/pdf/MITNewsAtNoon-F12.pdf
Read more about Milli-Motein at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/reconfigurable-robots-turn-into-anything-1130.html
Learn about the MIT Museum at http://web.mit.edu/museum/
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Birth Defects Testing
Deciding About Testing
The decision to have a test for birth defects is personal. You have to think about your age, your chance of passing on a family disease, your need to know about any problems, and what you might do after you have the test results. Your spiritual beliefs and other values also may play a role in your decision.
Some birth defects—such as a Reference cleft lip Opens New Window or Reference cleft palate Opens New Window or certain heart problems—can be fixed with surgery after birth and sometimes even with surgery during pregnancy. Some other defects cannot be fixed.
Reasons to have tests
You may decide to have the tests because:
- You would think about whether to continue the pregnancy if there is a birth defect.
- You have a family history of an illness such as cystic fibrosis, Tay-Sachs disease, or hemophilia. For more information on cystic fibrosis testing, see the topic Reference Cystic Fibrosis Carrier Screening.
- You have insurance that will pay for some or all of the cost of the tests.
- You need to know whether there might be a problem, because not knowing would make you worry.
- You want to learn all you can about caring for and raising a child with a certain birth defect.
- You would want to plan what hospital and doctors to work with to make sure that all of your baby's needs are met.
Reasons NOT to have tests
You may decide not to have birth defects tests because:
- You would continue the pregnancy no matter what the tests show.
- The screening test may show a problem even though your baby doesn't have the problem. You would be worried while you wait for the test results.
- These tests can't find all possible problems.
- You are worried about the risk of Reference miscarriage Opens New Window. Both CVS and amniocentesis have a small risk of miscarriage.
- Tests can be expensive. You may not have insurance, or your insurance may not pay for the tests.
For more help on deciding about tests, see the topics:
- Opens New Window Pregnancy: Should I Have the Maternal Serum Triple or Quadruple Test? Opens New Window
- Opens New Window Pregnancy: Should I Have an Early Fetal Ultrasound? Opens New Window
- Opens New Window Pregnancy: Should I Have CVS (Chorionic Villus Sampling)? Opens New Window
- Opens New Window Pregnancy: Should I Have Amniocentesis? Opens New Window
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30 Years of Marathon Training
We Know MORE, But It's Still 26.2 Miles
"There’s no race that’s simpler to prepare for than the marathon," wrote Mark Conover in our pages in 1996. Five years later, Pete Pfitzinger echoed him, writing, "While running a marathon isn’t easy, training for it should be relatively simple."
If this is the case — and who am I to question two Olympians — I postulated that I should be able to sort through all the marathon training articles published in RT over the past 30 years and find the essential, core principles by which to make all those four-page, four-month, four-point-font charts "simple." I also wanted to see what may have changed in those 30 years since RT began publishing marathon training programs.
One way of making it simpler is to isolate which marathoners we’re talking about. Beginning marathoners have different priorities and different programs than experienced marathoners. In the very first marathon training program RT published, penned by Tom Allison in February 1980 (coincidentally, the same year I first ran the marathon), we laid out our target audience:
This article is addressed to individuals between these two extremes [first-timer and elite]. If you have been running seriously for at least one year, have progressed up to 50 or more miles per week, and have completed at least one full marathon, then you may be ready to begin a training program that will enable you to run the fastest marathon possible for your age, sex, and genetic endowment.
With very few exceptions, all of our marathon training articles since then, some two dozen of them, have been aimed at the same runners. While this simplifies the parameters, it complicates the training, since for first timers, all that is required is adequate miles and some long runs, as Jeff Galloway spelled out in a crash-course for the 100th Boston, or as John Treacy said in the intro to his 1994 article:
Running a marathon is easy. All you have to do is put in the miles — perhaps 35 a week or so — more or less regularly, and you’ll be able to complete the course. To be sure, you shouldn’t be in any particular hurry, and you may need to walk from time to time, but you will get to the finish line. . . . Racing a marathon, however, is an entirely different matter.
What, then, do you need in order to race a marathon? Not necessarily as an elite, but to the best possible performance for your age, sex and genetic endowment? While terms change, different workouts get emphasized and phases get rearranged, four elements remain constant from that first 1980 article through the present: mileage, long runs, speed work and tapering.
|+++ HOW MUCH MILEAGE|
|While elites nearly universally run 100-120 miles/week in preparation for the marathon, how much you need to do depends mostly on your goals, which in turn are dependent on how much mileage you can handle without injury. The following charts show weekly mileage estimates for different goals from three different authors over the past 30 years.||Jeff Galloway (1991)|
|Marathon Goal||Weekly Mileage|
|Mark Conover (1996)|
|Marathon Goal||Weekly Mileage 6 months before||Weekly Mileage 4 months before||Weekly Mileage 2 months before|
|Mark Winitz (2003, Daniels, Larieu Smith, Martin, Vigil)|
|Marathon Goal||Weekly Mileage - Base Phase (6 months)||Weekly Mileage - Marathon Buildup (final 4 months)|
+ + + Mileage
How many miles do you need to run in order to race a marathon? Elites regularly report 100–120 miles per week, some even more. For us mortals, Tom Allison said 60-100 miles per week in 1980. At the time, he spent more space telling why you wouldn’t benefit that much more by going over 100 per week than defending the minimum. That would change.
In 1993 Jack Daniels stated, "I think that a serious runner who wants to break three hours using my program has to come to me already doing 70 miles a week." Talking to a different audience in 2003 (those aiming for a 4:00 or better marathon), he moderated considerably, saying that if you can comfortably run 30 minutes continuously each time you work out, regardless of pace, you are ready for marathon training.
The running masses have backed off from 100-mile weeks, but some minimums remain. David Martin summed it up well in a 2003 article: "I don’t think anybody can have an enjoyable experience running a marathon unless they’ve been averaging 40 miles per week for the better part of six months." I’m sure many readers will write to contradict that; if you’re one of those who raced to a PR on 30 miles per week, either you do a lot of other aerobic work or you’re lucky to be so gifted.
As for running more miles, that depends on your ability and your goals. Running more miles doesn’t necessarily correspond one-to-one with running faster in the marathon, but most runners need to be in a certain range to run certain times. See the "How Much Mileage" box for three charts presented in RT over more than a decade showing the miles needed for different time goals.
+ + + Long runs
Long runs are unanimously the most essential single workout for the marathon. Long runs are also where you find more variety in training programs than any other area. People set up camps, dig trenches and shoot arrows at each other protecting their views on two questions: how long and how fast.
In 1980, Allison set out what was, and still largely continues to be, the conventional wisdom:
Long runs should be of 18-22 miles. Plan to increase until you are running the same length of time of you plan to run your marathon race (but at a slower pace, of course) . . . maintain a steady pace at 30–60 seconds per mile slower than your targeted marathon pace.
That advice has remained fairly constant for more than two decades, with some variation in how you measure the intensity.
Galloway, who recommends runs up to race distance in length, said, in 1991, "Because they’re run only to build endurance, the pace should be slow (at least two minutes per mile slower than your 10K race pace). The slower the run, the faster the recovery. You’ll receive the same endurance value from the run whether it’s fast or slow, so run and enjoy!"
John Treacy, in 1994, citing the teach-your-body-to-burn-fats theory, said, "Slow means slow. How slow? Ninety seconds to two minutes slower than your marathon pace. If you run at a quick but manageable pace, you’ll accomplish little, tiring yourself by carbohydrate consumption and defeating the very purpose of the workout." To seal his point, Treacy reported:
I have a friend who used to complete his 20-milers in 2:10 (6:30 pace). That’s the same pace I run. Although, to the casual observer, it might seem as if we were achieving the same end, we were running these workouts to very different effect. I was burning fat; he was burning carbs. I was rested; he was always tired. To be sure, other factors enter into the equation, but this is one reason why my best time is 2:09 and his is 2:55.
Even Mark Conover, in 1996, said that the weekly long run of 17 to 20 miles "should feel relaxed, conversational; if you use a heart rate monitor, do this training at no more than 70 percent of your maximum."
Conover, however, is quoted in Kevin Beck's 1999 article as saying that following the "standard stuff we all learn" may have limited his marathon success, stating that "others like [Gelindo] Bordin and the Africans hammered out some quality 40K-plus runs."
Beck’s article proposed, heretically, that marathoners wanting to perform at their maximum should run workouts of up to 30K at marathon pace. Citing then-world-record-holder Ronaldo da Costa and his own experience as examples, Beck referenced exercise physiologist Pete Pfitzinger to explain the rationale for faster long runs: "Faster running trains the body to utilize fuel in certain ways; long runs teach it to recruit additional fibers when muscles tire. But only long, hard efforts maximally train all these systems at once." Beck’s program calls for these long, hard efforts every three weeks, with a long run at "moderate effort — i.e., the sort of long runs you’re probably used to doing" of 22–26 miles on another week of each three-week cycle.
Subsequent articles, even by Beck, have adopted a more moderate approach to accomplish these goals for the long run by integrating a segment of marathon-pace running within a longer run, either in the middle, or, more often, at the end of the effort. In 2000, when I interviewed three European coaches of world-class African marathoners, one constant in their training was long runs which progressed from an easy pace at the beginning to marathon pace for the final 20–30 minutes. Gordon Bakoulis called for 15–25 minutes of marathon pace at the end of every other long run in a 1998 marathon training plan, and in an excerpt from their 2001 "Advanced Marathoning" book, Pfitzinger and Scott Douglas describe the best intensity for the long run "is to gradually increase from a slow early pace as you warm up, reaching 20% slower than your goal marathon race pace at five miles and accelerating to 10% below marathon pace during the last five miles of the run."
The principle seems to be making the long run as specific as possible to the actual race without being too tiring. Treacy’s friend in the above example was doing his long runs near marathon pace, but obviously doing them too often, with inadequate rest, both limiting their effect and compromising other workouts during the week.
One solution to this equation is to limit the length of the long run, as the Hanson brothers suggested in a 2005 article by Jim Gerweck. While touted as radical, their program, which caps runs at 16 miles, has several precedents in RT. The closest is Winitz’s 2003 article where he quoted Jack Daniels, David Martin, Joe Vigil and Francie Larrieu Smith as all suggesting measures for long runs that would make them less than 20 miles, either two to three hours maximum, or 25 percent of weekly mileage. As early as 1993, Martin and Daniels had given similar advice, capping the run at two-and-a-half hours. Instead of complete emphasis on the long runs, these programs use some intense runs during the week, including marathon-pace runs up to 10 miles, to simulate the marathon effort by the compounded effect of the full schedule.
In the end, how you do runs that provide specific stress without excess fatigue depends on your physiology and preferences. It seems clear, however, that, contrary to what we believed in 1977, both the best in the world and many not quite as gifted benefit by doing some of their long runs, or portions thereof, at or near marathon pace.
+ + + Speedwork
While the marathon is about endurance, if your goal is more than just finishing the distance, you also need to work on your speed. As Treacy said in 1994, "If you’re not prepared to work through the physical and psychological stress of race-paced, 800-meter repeats . . . read no further because my program isn’t for you. There’s a hoary, but true, marathoning adage: if you don’t run fast in training, you won’t run fast in a race."
Treacy recommended 400m, 800m, and 1600m repeats, plus what he called "sustained runs," better known as lactate-threshold or tempo runs. The repeats are common fare, dating from the beginning of mass-marathoning and before, when competitive running was primarily done on tracks. They remain the best way to build V02 max, and an important, if increasingly smaller, part of marathon training for those trying to run fast for 26.2 miles.
Lactate-threshold runs — 20-plus minutes at approximately 20K race pace — didn’t appear in early articles, but gained in credence in the 1980s, and were part of every marathon training program by the ’90s. By 2001, Pfitzinger and Douglas noted, "Briefly put, we designed the schedule to provide the optimal stimuli to the physiological systems that most determine marathoning success — endurance, lactate threshold and V02 max, in that order. In the long run, it’s the long runs and tempo runs that have the most relevance to your performance on marathon day, not how often you’ve churned out a sterling set of half-mile repeats."
The other now-standard element of marathon training that, surprisingly, does not show up specifically in a training program until Bakoulis’s 1998 plan are sustained runs at marathon pace. To be fair, as early as Allison’s 1980 article, he called for mile repeats at predicted marathon pace, but the idea of running 6–10 or more miles at marathon pace as a workout appears to be primarily a 21st century one, at least for the marathon masses.
How you arrange these elements, both day-to-day and over the different phases of marathon training, is an art and science with nearly as many variations as there are runners, and the reason we can continue to print a new marathon training plan every six months. Two articles, a decade apart, distilled the main elements into succinct, readable tables, presented here for those who have enough knowledge and experience to flesh out the workouts and who enjoy plotting the daily efforts themselves.
+ + + Tapering
Thirty years ago, marathoners used the last two weeks of training for final preparation. Allison described a week of long runs two weeks from the race — with the last 17–20 miler 10 days out — followed by a week of "sharpening" with a Monday speed session and a Wednesday 10–13 miler.
In the ensuing years, most programs recommended more rest and considerably more time — up to three weeks — between the last long run and the marathon. The most thorough tapering plan we have presented was spelled out by Pfitzinger in 1994. The essentials are summarized in the "Three Week Marathon Taper" box and should complement any marathon program.
While working on this article, I talked with Brad Hudson about his marathon training philosophies and discovered that he believes people reduce their mileage too much and do too much fast, high-intensity work during the taper, confusing their metabolic systems. Instead of a traditional taper more suited to races 10K or shorter, he proposes an entirely different marathon taper that keeps much of the volume but reduces the intensity during the final weeks. That, however, is a an article for the future, as we start the next decade of Running Times. I’m happy to know there is still more to learn and apply.
|+++ AT A GLANCE: MARATHON TRAINING DISTILLED|
|MARK CONOVER, 1996 "The Key Components"|
|Pace||% Weekly Mileage 4-6 months before marathon||% Weekly Mileage 2 months before marathon||Heart Rate at Pace||Benefits|
|RE*||90-95%||80-90%||at or below 70% max||Increases aerobic capacity
Increases muscular and skeletal strength
Allows recovery from faster-paced running
Allows time to relax, take in scenery, socialize, etc.
|LT*||5-10%||10-15%||87-92% max||Increases running speed and its duration
Maintains marathon pace
|VO2 max **||none||5% biweekly||100% max||Increases oxygen intake efficiency|
|*RE=Running Economy LT=Lactate Threshold **Long ingervals:Add only if you can handle more than the LT workouts|
|MARK WINITZ, 2003 "Marathon Target Essentials"|
|Sub-4:00||Sub 3:30||Sub 3:00||Sub 2:30|
|Long Run (25% of weekly miles or 2-3 hours)||1/week||1/week||1/week||1/week|
|Marathon Pace (6-12 miles)||optional||1/week||1/week||1/week|
|Lactate Threshold (20-30 minutes)||1/week||1/week||1/week|
|Long Intervals (4-6x1000-1200m @ 5K pace)||optional*||1/week*|
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While many newspaper endorsements of the presidential candidates are expected to be for one candidate or the other due to the newspapers’ past affiliations and endorsements of the candidates’ political parties, there have been surprises in in some of the 2012 publication endorsements during the 2012 campaign.
Of the many justified endorsements of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney over President Barack Obama, the reason given most often for the endorsement for a change in the White House is due to the failed United States economy compounded by President Obama’s un-kept promises regarding the job market’s unemployment rate which still hovers around 8.0% rather than the approximately 5.0% that the president marked as his goal for the nation at the end of his first term.
In the past week, there have been some newspapers, though very few, that have given the nod to challenger Mitt Romney rather than President Barack Obama due to the growing scandal regarding the 9-11 terrorist attack on the Benghazi, Libya consulate which resulted in four Americans being murdered, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
As the controversy continues to escalate right up to Election Day, more and more persons and organizations are becoming more vocal about their concerns and discontent over the controversy – primarily being concerned about the media and the Obama administration burying the issue, at least until after the election if not longer.
In terms of newspapers that are not endorsing the president due to the economy, the Des Moines Register summed up the concerns of its editorial board well by publishing: “[President Barack Obama’s] best efforts to resuscitate the stumbling economy have fallen short. Nothing indicates it would change with a second term in the White House.”
One of the strongest non-endorsements of President Barack Obama due to the Benghazi, Libya deadly attack and alleged cover-up came in the form of an editorial on Thursday in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The publication severely attacked the president with the blistering claim that due to the Benghazi, Libya attack in which four Americans died, President Obama is “unworthy” to be the nation’s commander-in-chief. The headline screamed what many Americans have felt since the 9-11 terrorist attack when Obama and his administration claimed the attack was a reaction to a viral amateur video: “Benghazi blunder: Obama unworthy commander-in-chief”.
Promoting a story which most media have chosen to ignore, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has justifiably stood up to print: “The Obama administration sat by doing nothing for seven hours that night, ignoring calls to dispatch help from our bases in Italy, less than two hours away. It has spent the past seven weeks stretching the story out, engaging in misdirection and deception involving supposed indigenous outrage over an obscure anti-Muslim video, confident that with the aid of a docile press corps this infamous climax to four years of misguided foreign policy can be swept under the rug, at least until after Tuesday’s election.”
The newspapers that are not endorsing President Barack Obama are extremely brave. They are to be positively recognized for their courage to stand up against the onslaught of the liberal media which refuses to speak in the best interest of the country as the presidential election nears.
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Parents' role key in child becoming accomplished musician, scholar says
Melissa Mitchell, Arts Editor
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by L. Brian Stauffer
|Research by Gary McPherson, the Zimmerman Professor of Music Education, focuses on why and how some young music-learners develop into accomplished musicians while others do not. He believes – and his research supports his theory – that parents play a key role in determining the outcome.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Thinking of buying a guitar for little Jim or Kim this holiday season, but afraid to spend too much for an instrument that might ultimately spend too much time in its case?
Don’t fret. Some useful, practical knowledge to assist with such decision-making may be plucked from the research of Gary McPherson, the Zimmerman Professor of Music Education at the University of Illinois. McPherson, whose work focuses on why and how some young music-learners develop into accomplished musicians while others do not, believes parents play a key role in determining the outcome.
“The parents’ role is absolutely crucial, and the emotional climate in the home is very important,” said the U. of I. professor, whose research specialties include psychological aspects of musical behavior and giftedness and talent in music.
“We’ve found that parents of successful kids tend to provide support and encouragement for them during the early stages of musical learning and that this tapers off as the children become hooked on music and more independent with their music learning,” he said.
“In contrast, children who give up playing tend to come from homes where there is little parental involvement during the early stages, but greater amounts of parental pressure to practice during the teenage years, when it is obvious that motivation is waning and when the parent tries to make a last pitched effort to keep the child learning.”
The overarching message for parents is, he said, “Never, ever give up.”
Among the many misconceptions associated with learning music, the most problematic is “the commonly held view among the general population that musicians are born not made,” he said. “Most research shows the opposite.”
McPherson’s own extensive longitudinal study with colleague Jane Davidson, focusing on 160 children learning instruments, supports that conclusion. The continuing study, the first and most substantial of its kind, has documented the musical development and practices of 160 Australian schoolchildren since 1997.
Among other outcomes, McPherson said, the research indicates that “it is almost impossible to predict which children – in the first couple of years of learning – will eventually turn out to be the most successful musicians.”
“The key factor again is parents,” he said. “Parents who provide early encouragement and gentle ongoing support, are far more likely to see their child succeed with music.”
And, he said, contrary to what some might think, those students who have excelled aren’t necessarily from musical families.
“Many of the most successful learners in our studies have come from families where neither mum nor dad had any musical experience whatsoever,” McPherson said. “But in the early stages of learning, these children had opportunities for intense praise, such as when they played to a delighted grandma or when their parents made it clear to them that they could do something they couldn’t. They had loads of opportunities to feel special.
“One of the main problems we see in music learning is that very early after the child begins playing, parents begin to make judgments of whether they believe their child does or does not have what it takes to succeed musically,” he said. “So, if a child doesn’t seem to be making progress right from the start or has periods where he or she isn’t practicing, it’s not uncommon for parents to reduce the level of their involvement and support or even stop issuing gentle reminders to practice altogether.”
Providing further evidence to support the theory that musicians are made, not born, McPherson points to Mozart.
The U. of I. professor believes the composer – regarded by many through the centuries as the ultimate child prodigy because of his prowess on violin and keyboard – developed into a great musician largely as a result of his environment.
“If you think about Mozart, at the time, children didn’t travel much,” he said. “But by an early age, Mozart had traveled to about 80 towns, performed for royalty and undertaken literally thousands of hours of practice – something that is unheard of even today. He also had a father who was willing to spend hours each day teaching his very young son, which meant that by the age of 8 or 9, Mozart had probably accumulated as much learning and practice as many students who are entering specialist music courses in today’s universities. He’d just packed it into a much shorter amount of time.”
Likewise, McPherson believes 11-year-old wunderkind-pianist Tiffany Poon, whom he has known and observed for more than four years, has blossomed as an artist through similar circumstances. Poon, who is performing Nov. 16 at the U. of I.’s Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, demonstrated an interest in learning to play the piano at a very early age and began formal lessons as a 4-year-old in Hong Kong, but went through several teachers before her parents connected with McPherson for advice and direction.
Poon has performed at Carnegie Hall and has a full scholarship to attend the Julliard School in New York, where she is the youngest student ever to be allowed to perform a solo recital.
“Her extraordinary ability can be attributed to a combination of many factors, the most important of which is the love and support she receives from her parents,” McPherson said. “All of her early musical involvement has shaped what we now see – a remarkable ability as a ‘deep learner’ and the intellectual curiosity and emotional engagement needed to perform music at a level well beyond her years.”
Among the U. of I. professor’s most current research is a new article that details the role of parents in children’s musical development in the October issue of the journal Psychology of Music. In the article, he proposes “a framework for studying parent-child interactions.”
Such a framework is needed, he said, because to date, only a handful of studies have considered how parents factor in to children’s musical success.
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A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan
Synopsis: Not a day goes by that the post does not bring me at least one letter from a young person (or sometimes one not so young) who wishes to follow in my footsteps and become a dragon naturalist. Nowadays, of course, the field is quite respectable, with university courses and intellectual societies putting out fat volumes titled Proceedings of some meeting or other. Those interested in respectable things, however, attend my lectures. The ones who write to me invariably want to hear about my adventures: my escape from captivity in the swamps of Mouleen, or my role in the great Battle of Keonga, or (most frequently) my flight to the inhospitable heights of the Mrtyahaima peaks, the only place on earth where the secrets of the ancient world could be unlocked.
Even the most dedicated of letter-writers could not hope to answer all these queries personally. I have therefore accepted the offer from Messrs. Carrigdon & Rudge to publish a series of memoirs, chronicling the more interesting portions of my life. By and large these shall focus on those expeditions which led to the discovery for which I have become so famous, but there shall also be occasional digressions into matters more entertaining, personal, or even (yes) salacious. One benefit of being an old woman now, and moreover one who has been called a "national treasure," is that there are very few who can tell me what I may and may not write.
Beyond this point, therefore, lie foetid swamps, society gossip, disfiguring diseases, familial conflicts, hostile foreigners, and a plenitude of mud. You, dear reader, continue on at your own risk. It is not for the faint of heart -- no more so than the study of dragons itself. But such study offers rewards beyond compare: to stand in a dragon's presence, even for the briefest of moments -- even at the risk of one's life -- is a delight that, once experienced, can never be forgotten. If my humble words convey even a fraction of that wonder, I will rest content.
In this first volume, I will relate to you how my career as a lady adventurer and dragon naturalist began, commencing at the creation of my childhood fascination with all things winged, and for the bulk of its length describing my first foreign expedition, to study the rock-wyrms of Vystrana. Common gossip has made the bare facts well-known, but I warn you, dear reader, that all was not as you have heard.
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The anti-psychiatry movement has already been consigned to the history of psychiatry (Tantum 1991) despite the relatively recent first use of the term in the literature (Cooper 1967). A key understanding of "anti-psychiatry" is that mental illness is a myth (Szasz 1972). The argument is that illness is a physical concept and therefore cannot be applied to psychological disorder without any physical pathology. As soon as it is accepted that mental illness can refer to psychological abnormality then the "anti-psychiatry" argument fails (Farrell 1979).
However, "anti-psychiatry" includes critics with differing views and the essence of its argument has not always been clear (Gijswijt-Hofstra & Porter 1998). Anti-psychiatry has perhaps been defined more by psychiatry itself than by its adherents. R D Laing (1986) never called himself an anti-psychiatrist and distanced himself from David Cooper, as Laing did not regard himself as ideologically Marxist as Cooper. Thomas Szasz attacked Laing for his lack of rigour (Mullan 1995) and although Laing agreed that the term mental illness is a metaphor, he argued that it mapped onto reality. Nonetheless, "anti-psychiatry" has had an anti-authoritarian popular, even romantic, appeal as an attack on psychiatrists' use of psychiatric diagnosis, drug and ECT treatment and involuntary hospitalisation.
Over recent years psychiatry has become more biological in its approach, partly as a reaction to the perceived threats to its foundation from antipsychiatry. Doctors tend to view the mentally ill as blameless victims of brain disease and a structural and physiological basis for mental illness is assumed to have been demonstrated (Double 1992a). Nonetheless the human and inanimate realms are distinct and there are consequences of treating people as though they are objects or things (Johnstone 2000).
Psychiatric legitimacy was embarrassed by Rosenhan (1973) who claimed professionals were unable to distinguish the sane from the insane because of his demonstration that normal people could gain admission to hospital and acquire a diagnosis of schizophrenia by merely feigning a mundane, simple hallucination. Rosenhan suggested that psychiatric diagnosis is subjective in the minds of the observers and does not reflect inherent patient characteristics. Operationalisation of psychiatric criteria as in DSM-III and DSM-IV (American Psychiatric Association 1994) arose as a response to the perceived dire need for objectification in diagnosis. The modern explicit and intentional concern with psychiatric diagnosis contrasts with earlier views de-emphasising diagnosis in favour of understanding the life story of the individual patient. The Meyerian psychobiological model has been devalued and reframed into a neo-Kraepelinian consensus (Double 1990).
In this context renewed criticism of modern psychiatry is needed and it may be important to resurrect "anti-psychiatry" ideas (Double 1992b, 1998). "Anti-psychiatry" in this sense is merely what psychiatry should be if it truly understood the facts of the case (Critical Psychiatry Network website). Anti-psychiatry is part of psychiatry but recognises that objectification of the mentally ill makes psychiatry part of the problem rather than the solution of mental illness (Jones 1997).
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An Anti-psychiatry Reading List (compiled by Ian Pitchford)
Quote from Professor Anthony Clare in Mullan B (ed) (1997) R. D. Laing: Creative destroyer. Cassell: London:-
"Laing seem[ed] to suggest that schizophrenia is no more than a social construct, that schizophrenics are possessed by some superior vision of reality and truth and psychiatric treatment is nothing more than a banal society's attempt to sterilize and contain revolution. Many parents of sufferers from schizophrenia cannot forgive him either for adding the guilt of having 'caused' the illness in the first place to their strains and stresses of having to be the main providers of support"
Is this what Laing suggested and should he be condemned if he did not?
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Galapagos sea lion massacre fuels conservation fears
QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadorian authorities are investigating the massacre of 53 sea lions in the pristine Galapagos islands in an incident fueling concerns over the government's capacity to protect the famous archipelago.
Park rangers found the decomposing sea lions with their skulls crushed on a remote islet earlier this month and now reports of tourists meddling with animals are prompting calls for stricter controls at the U.N. World Heritage site.
Ecuador is already debating whether to limit growing tourism on Galapagos and has expelled hundreds of illegal workers there to protect the natural reserve after the United Nations warned last year that the site was in danger.
"It is obvious the control system has to be greatly improved," said Luis Suarez, the head of Ecuador's branch of Conservation International. "We need satellite control to know where people are, and better police intelligence to know more about the traffic of species and their organs."
Authorities are unclear why the sea lions were butchered. Traffickers often kill the animals to take organs in demand for traditional medicines. But these sea lions were untouched except for head wounds, officials said.
Ecuador's media also recently criticized local Galapagos authorities after showing images of one tourist holding a baby sea lion and another sitting on top of a massive tortoise in a violation of strict controls at the site.
The volcanic islands, located 650 miles off Ecuador's coast, inspired British naturalist Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Centenarian tortoises and blue-footed boobies live alongside 18,000 islanders who earn a living from fishing and the tourism industry.
"The growing demand and the tourism market is imposing the rules of the game," Eliecer Cruz, the governor of Galapagos, told Reuters. "We are working very hard to look for a new type of tourism in Galapagos."
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My nieces love going into Central Park in New York City or out in the yard in the Hamptons and digging for worms. Not exactly my cup ‘o tea digging for worms, BUT its very entertaining for the kids and can be educational too! With summer here and in need of afternoon activities, why not dig for worms with your kids? Here are some fun facts:
- A worm has no eyes, legs or arms.
- There are 2700 different types of earthworms in the world.
- There can be up to 1 MILLION earthworms in just 1 acre of land.
- 22 foot long earthworm was found in South Africa.
- Worms help plants by mixing the soil. So gardeners love them because they are ‘free’ help!
- Even without eyes, a worm can still sense light and will move away from it.
- Earthworms come to the surface when it rains because they need oxygen to breathe, and they would drown if they stayed in the soil.
- Regular earthworms can live 15 years.
- Although native to Europe, earthworms are found throughout North America and western Asia. They do not live in deserts or regions where there is permafrost or permanent snow and ice.
- They are often called night crawlers because they are often seen feeding above ground at night. Said to be shy of the light, they burrow during the day and stay close to the surface, but they can dig down in the soil as deep as 6.5 feet (2 meters).
- The worm’s first segment contains its mouth. As they burrow, they consume soil, extracting nutrients from decomposing organic matter like leaves and roots. Earthworms are vital to soil health and to plants growing in it because they transport nutrients and minerals from below to the surface via their waste.
- As they move through the soil, their tunnels aerate the ground. An earthworm can eat up to one third its body weight in a day. That would be equal to a 75-pound (34.1-kilogram) youngster eating 25 pounds (11.4 kilograms) of food in one day!
- Earthworms are a source of food for numerous animals, like birds, rats, and toads, and are frequently used in composting and as bait in commercial and recreational fishing. Their numbers are strong throughout their range—they’re even considered agricultural pests in some areas—and they have no special status.
- Earthworms are invertebrates—they don’t have an internal skeleton made of bone.
- There isn’t a fossil record of earthworms because they are soft-bodied invertebrates.
- Most earthworms will live for about six years in the wild.
- Many people believe that if a worm is cut in half, the two pieces will grow into full-size worms. This is not true.
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Top 10 Old Wives’ Tales Debunked
Almost all of us have, at some time, been chided by a parent or grandparent who has been mislead by an old wives’ tale. Their intentions are always good, but unfortunately they are misguided. There are thousands of old wives’ tales – ranging from the seemingly logical to the outright bizarre.
This is a list of ten of the most common old wives’ tales which are, in fact, bunkum! Feel free to use the comments to tell us about some of the more unusual tales you have come across in your life.
In fact, both colds and fevers cause dehydration – so liquids are essential when suffering from either. In addition, missing out on food when you are sick is never a good idea as food provides the body with the sustenance it needs to get healthy. So, you should feed a fever and feed a cold. This, of course, does not mean to overeat – it means to eat healthy balanced meals.
There is an old wives’ tale that says that if you eat within an hour of swimming you will get cramp. The Red Cross says that eating directly prior to swimming does not increase risk of cramp at all. They do, however, recommend at least waiting for digestion to begin if you have eaten a particularly fatty meal. They also recommend that you not eat gum or food while you are swimming.
There is actually not an iota of evidence to support this tale – no food type (not just chocolate) can cause acne or bad skin. Needless to say, eating too much chocolate or sugary food is unhealthy for the body, but it will not cause skin problems. Acne is actually caused by changes in the lower layers of the skin surrounding hair follicles.
It is possible that this tale came about due to allied propaganda during the second world war when rumors were spread that the British airmen had excellent night vision due to eating carrots. The myth was spread to stop the Germans from discovering that the British were using Radar. While carrots contain vitamin A which is good for healthy eyes, eating lots of them will do nothing to improve your vision.
There are a huge number of myths about how to catch a cold, but in fact there is only one way to catch a cold virus – by direct contact with the virus itself. You can stand outside on a cold night with wet hair and your chances of getting a cold do not increase at all. The reason that colds seem to spread more in Winter is not from the cold itself, but the fact that people tend to live more often indoors and this increases your chances of coming in to contact with a sufferer. It is also worth mentioning that if you get a cold in your nose, you can not stop it from spreading to your chest if the virus is programmed to attack you there. Most cold medicines are completely pointless and do nothing to help except alleviate the pain through the inclusion of painkillers.
My parents constantly told me off for sitting too close to the television when I was a kid – I was told that my eyesight would deteriorate from doing so. The same was also said of reading in dim light. In fact, neither of these things do any damage to the eyes. It should be noted, however, that spending too much time in front of the TV is not good for children (regardless of how close they sit) as research has shown that children who spend 10 hours or more in front of the television each week are more likely to become overweight, aggressive, and slower in school.
The tale states that masturbation will cause blindness (in France it is said it will cause deafness). This is not true (at least not completely) and the idea has probably been spread in order to prevent children from masturbating for religious reasons. Curiously, sperm contains quite a lot of zinc, and a serious zinc deficiency can cause a decline in vision. However, it is nearly impossible to cause a zinc deficiency through masturbating.
While it is true that constant knuckle cracking can reduce the strength of your grip and cause swelling, it does not lead to arthritis. There are many causes of arthritis (such as trauma or infection of a joint, or old age), but knuckle cracking is not one of them.
If a person suffers from an ulcer, spicy food can often aggravate it; however, ulcers are not caused by spicy food at all – if they were, ulcers would be pandemic in many eastern nations. An ulcer is usually caused by overuse of medications like aspirin and anti-inflammatories.
It is almost certain that this strange old wives’ tale has come about because of the appearance of wart-like growths on many toads. In fact, these growths are not human compatible at all. Warts are caused by viruses and they are almost always exclusive to a particular genus of creature. Human’s cannot catch warts from other animals, and animals can not catch human warts. The most common human wart virus is called the human papillomavirus. | <urn:uuid:561458ba-9a27-494d-a833-8ec7ed9d52ef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://listverse.com/2008/05/19/top-10-old-wives-tales-debunked/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00048-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975719 | 1,040 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Sick students who caused a major health response from officials at Auckland International Airport today were suffering from the common cold.
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Auckland hospitals were on standby and medical staff were called on to assess the health of 73 passengers reportedly suffering flu-like symptoms on board an Air New Zealand flight that landed in Auckland at 9.20am.
Auckland Regional Public Health Service said the ill passengers had symptoms such as coughs, which might be colds or may be flu. They were called to the airport after the captain alerted ground staff to the problem about 9am.
However, clinical director Julia Peters said at a media conference this afternoon that none of the teenagers, all boys from a Japanese high school, had tested positive for influenza.
All the passengers were allowed through the airport by 1pm, to the delight of their waiting families.
"I want to reassure the public that from our perspective there was no risk to the New Zealand public that required isolation or quarantine," Peters said.
The students had all been immunised against flu and were only suffering from viral respiratory problems, she said.
Passengers on board the flight had complained of a lack of information and said authorities had panicked without need.
Medical officer for health Richard Hoskins said the reaction was in line with the heath service's guidelines.
"In hindsight we overreacted to this but that's better than under-reacting. We needed to make it safe until we were sure.
Passengers began coming through Customs at midday, and an Air New Zealand email at 12.39pm said all 274 passengers had been released.
Stuart Cundy, head of the homestay organisation hosting the Japanese students, said it was definitely an overreaction.
A few of the students had sniffles and maybe small colds because it was winter in Japan but none had flu-like symptoms, he said.
All the students were from Hitachi Technical Senior High School. Many were wearing masks when the left the plane, but happily passed through Customs into the main terminal building, where they were posing for photos.
One of the students said everybody was "fine".
Japanese woman Mari Yoshikawa, the first passenger to come through Customs into the main terminal, said she was okay but that two students on the plane had been vomiting.
UK resident and passenger Dave Popman said he was taken to a room at the airport and questioned by health officials.
Some passengers were taken off for further tests then while others, including himself, were allowed to go through Customs.
Popman said he thought some of the students were among those taken for further tests.
Some passengers criticised the lack of information they received.
One man named Phillip said his brother on the plane had told him passengers were being given very little information and the crew had told the passengers New Zealand health authorities were not telling them anything.
Passenger David Turner said communication from flight staff had been "terrible" but admitted they didn't know what was going on either.
After a long wait, paramedics came on the plane dressed in full hazard gear, he said. "It was like we were radioactive or something. I think it freaked some people out."
Kiwi passenger Brooke said she had to log onto the internet in the waiting room for information.
She was shocked to see people who were believed to be ill brought to the same room as those who were well.
Some passengers got on the plane wearing face masks, which is a Japanese custom for people who have a cold.
Brooke said passengers had been given a form advising them of the symptoms and to see a doctor if they got sick.
Medical staff wearing hazard suits were on standby at the airport, along with several ambulances.
Earlier a St John spokesman said Aviation Security Services staff were working to identify two safe, well-ventilated areas at the airport where passengers could be taken.
If passengers needed to be moved through crowds, that would also be done with caution. Large numbers of masks were being taken to the airport for passengers.
A Counties Manukau District Health Board manager had said that all hospitals were "contingency planning" in case they were required to take passengers although would not give details of what those plans were.
It is flu season in Japan, but the predominant flu strain there is covered in New Zealand's seasonal flu vaccine and has been for a number of years, Auckland Regional Health said.
- © Fairfax NZ News
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GUNNISON COUNTY- Investigators say pilot error was the probable cause of a single-engine plane crash in western Colorado last year that killed the pilot, who was from Missouri. Two passengers from Arizona were also injured.
A National Transportation Safety Board report issued Thursday says 39-year-old William Michael Fritts of Osceola, Mo., miscalculated the capabilities of the Beech G35 at high altitude when attempting to land at an airstrip outside Marble on June 6.
The report says Fritts’ inexperience in mountain flying and poor visibility caused by the rising sun contributed to the crash.
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Learn to make delicious wholemeal breads, Mediterranean or seasonal breads, or immerse yourself in the world of historical cooking.
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An old fashioned white tin loaf, hearty wholemeal and soda breads. Step by step our friendly instructor shows you how simple it can be, and it tastes delicious!
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By David Swanson
I wrote a review of Karen Malpede's new play "Prophecy " when I had only read but not yet seen it. Karen read the review and invited me to lead the first in a series of talk-back discussions following performances in New York, and I did so on Wednesday. For that incredible privilege I'm glad I wrote that early review, but I'm sorry it was so insufficient as an attempt to convey the intensity of the phenomenon that is "Prophecy."
"Prophecy" should certainly be read (and the book, available in the UK , will soon be published in the US), but it must be seen. This play has, in fact, received the highest praise everywhere it's been presented in this country and the UK, and has nonetheless been refused by the theaters that have praised it. The UK run, and success there, was necessary before any theater in New York would permit a performance, and now a run of three weeks has been selling out -- yet extending the run is forbidden. Why? I heard nothing but passionate praise and gratitude from members of the audience on Wednesday. When a bunch of us went out afterwards, the conversation centered on how we could get the play more widely seen and how that could change our world.
But we were a self-selected group of people who had chosen to attend a performance that we knew was anti-war. We were not just representatives of that majority of Americans who tell pollsters they want the current wars ended. We were people who feel compelled to work for that end. Others who have seen the play and praised it have not been peace activists, and they have not stood up for an artistic masterpiece in the face of what they've claimed have been angry Emails. You see, the play, while it focuses on the lives of eight people, inevitably leaves you with the understanding that there is something horribly and outrageously evil about U.S. foreign policy, and even worse: Israeli foreign policy.
The play is set in the early fall of 2006 in New York City, but includes flashbacks to earlier decades, and also includes a scene in which one character is speaking by telephone from Beirut. The eight characters are played by five actors, with one young woman masterfully playing three very different roles. The play reveals itself slowly, in the sense that later scenes give earlier scenes new meaning. While I found the performance overwhelmingly powerful despite (or even because of) having read the script, I don't think I should impose any knowledge on you that could interfere with your seeing the play fresh.
So let me just say this: Multiple wars explode into the characters lives from the past, present, and future. The lives and relationships are not otherwise untroubled (knowing the story of Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar enriches the play), but it is impossible to separate the characters' personal troubles from the wars that have impacted them. Among the characters are victims, participants, opponents, and avoiders of war, and they come from a variety of backgrounds. You are likely to relate to at least some of them in the sense of having met people and known people they resemble. But a prominent theme in the play is the need to look at things from the other people's points of view. And this is contrasted subtly with the dehumanization of enemies that takes place in war.
It's easy to ask how we would approach the occupation of Afghanistan or Iraq if we were the ones occupied. Would we want the occupation ended slowly and "responsibly" if we were the occupied instead of the occupiers? It's easy to question the New York Times story printed on Wednesday's front page that explained how humanitarian aid workers are something "Israel sees as a serious and growing threat." It is not easy to feel the soul-crushing pain our short-sightedness inflicts on people we feel we know and care for.
Tragedy often involves prophecy and the playing out of events understood to be inevitable, but of course war -- even if it seems to repeat itself each generation -- is something we could very easily put an end to. That fact makes it all the more horrifying to realize that we can with great certainty prophesy the creation of hundreds of thousands of unnecessarily traumatized lives if we do not act. "Prophecy" is a play that shows us and pulls us into what we need to know, and yet leaves us with a crystal clear understanding that we are not expected to merely feel worse about what we are allowing to occur. Our responsibility is to render false the prophecy that foresees ongoing war forever and always.
One tool we have at our disposal is "Prophecy." We need to find a way to have this play performed, including in Washington, D.C., with congress members invited to attend. There are no sound bytes or caricatures here for them to work with, only people struggling to survive the policies so routinely enacted and re-enacted by our representatives. | <urn:uuid:47a07238-ef6a-4ad1-89a9-da20af9e1318> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://warisacrime.org/print/52847 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978909 | 1,012 | 1.515625 | 2 |
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