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ANAL FISSURES, ABSCESSES AND FISTULAS
by Lawrence Wilson, MD
© January 2011, The Center For Development
Anal or rectal fissures, abscesses and fistulas are fairly common complaints. Rectal fissures are small linear tears or wounds in the rectal mucosa or lining of the end of the large intestine that do not heal well. As a result, they are like an open cut that hurts and may bleed a little whenever one has a bowel movement. They can also become infected, in which case they could lead to a more serious infection since they are in a relatively unclean area of the body.
A perianal abscess is a pocket of bacteria or some other microorganism that forms near the rectal or anal area.
An anal or rectal fistula is is an abnormal opening that develops between the rectal or anal area of the large intestine and an adjoining structure such as the skin around the rectum, a woman’s vagina, or some other structure.
Rectal problems are not only uncomfortable and often painful. They are also quite important because they may prevent a person from doing coffee enemas, a key part of a nutritional balancing program. This article explores the causes and correction of this condition.
Contributing factors may include:
Constipation. This causes straining at the stool and perhaps a toxic condition of the rectum. There can also be mechanical abrasion of the rectum as well.
Copper toxicity. Copper interferes can damage connective tissue in the body. The rectal mucosa and muscles in this area are all connective tissue, as are the tendons and ligaments that support the rectum. For some reason, some people have a weakness in this area, and this may be one factor to consider as a cause of fistulas.
Closely related to copper toxicity is zinc deficiency. Zinc, vitamin C, bioflavinoids and other compounds are needed for connective tissue health.
Inflammation. Generalized inflammation might also contribute to fissures and fistulas. Common causes for inflammation are low levels of omega-3 fatty acids or vitamin D, too much aluminum or nickel, and high levels of biounavailable forms of iron, manganese, copper, chromium, selenium and boron.
Muscle tension. Some doctors are able to heal fissures with botox injections, which relax the muscles of the rectal area. Perhaps the muscles becomes chronically tense, and this may impair circulation and prevent healing in the area. Rather than botox, which is quite toxic, one can use warm or hot sitz baths with Epsom salts.
Pelvic syndrome. This is a common phenomenon in which circulation or nerve energy is impaired in the pelvic region of the body. The cause may be some kind of childhood trauma that affects this area such as a sexual molestation, rape, or even just emotional trauma. A separate article entitled Pelvic Syndrome discusses this interesting topic. Unhappiness may contribute to this condition as well.
Infection. Another possible cause is an infection, particularly a yeast type of infection that may be difficult to identify and heal due to other factors such as copper imbalance.
CORRECTION OF RECTAL FISSURES
General healing measures. A nutritional balancing program with a healthful diet and lifestyle, supplements as indicated by a properly performed hair mineral analysis, and the use of a near infrared sauna, are all excellent general measures. Coffee enemas or colonic irrigation may not be possible, as they often irritate the fissures.
Fissures can heal with a nutritional balancing program, though I would add the Epsom salt baths described below as this will speed up the healing tremendously in some cases.
For Fissures: Epsom salt sitz baths. Fill a bathtub with only one to two inches of hot water. Stir in 2 pounds of Epsom salts until they dissolve. Sit in this bath for at least 20 minutes each day. Do this every day for a few weeks, if needed. The Epsom salts are soothing to the area, kill some germs, and relax the musculature in the area. This has definitely gotten rid of some anal fissures.
Another idea that I have not tried is an herbal bath. Some doctors suggest a sitz bath with warm water and a mixture of horse tail and oat straw tea. First prepare the horse tail and oat straw tea first by boiling a quantity of these herbs for at least 20 minutes. Then let it cool somewhat for best results.
Fill a bathtub with only about one to two inches of warm-to-hot water so you can sit in it and the water will touch the rectum. Add the herbal mixture to the bath water, and sit in the tub for at least half an hour.
You can use the same herb mixture for a second and maybe a third bath later in the day. Just leave the herbs and water in the tub and repeat the treatment at least three times during the day or more. The next day, make some more herbs fresh and repeat the procedure for at least a week or maybe several weeks.
You may also drink horse tail or oat straw tea, at least one strong cup per day. Just boil the herb in some water for about 20 minutes and drink as a tea.
Red heat lamp treatment. I do not have experience with this treatment, but it helps many chronic conditions, so it might be worth a try. I welcome any feedback on this idea.
Carefully set up a single red, 250-watt, ‘heat lamp’ so you can conveniently expose the rectal area to it. Ideally, sit on an old toilet seat or two boards with about 6 inches of space between them. Place the heat lamp below the seat shining upwards from underneath you for maximum comfort. Position yourself as close to the lamp as you can stand, of course without touching it, as it is extremely hot and will burn. Pull the cheeks of the buttocks apart so the light hits the rectum. Men may want to cover the testicles with a hand or cloth to prevent the light from shining directly on the testicles, as they are best kept cool.
Be sure not to touch the hot lamp, as it is extremely hot and will leave a nasty burn. Several sessions daily of about 10-20 minutes each would be best. The red heat lamp will bring blood and nerve energy to this area of the body and stimulate the lower chakra area as well. For more on this treatment, read Single Lamp Protocols on this website.
Herbs and other supplements. Herbs that are traditionally used for the anal and rectal areas include golden seal, horse chestnut, horse tail and oat straw. Aloe might also be useful. All of these herbs happen to be rich in silica compounds. They will probably work best if taken by mouth and used topically, as well. A cream made with vitamin E or perhaps vitamin A might also help.
Reflexology. This may be extremely helpful, according to some books on reflexology. I would suggest first doing a short general treatment on both entire feet. Rub the bottoms and tops of both feet in a general ways for about ten minutes per foot.
Then rub the correct points for the rectal area for another 5 or 10 minutes each. Two reflex points for the rectal area are:
Š On the bottom of the foot, very near the back of the heel, toward the very inside edge of the heel, and mainly on the left foot but perhaps on the right foot as well. Just feel around the bottom inside part of the heel of the left foot, in particular, until you find tender spots and rub them for a few minutes.
Š On the inside of the ankle, along the Achilles tendon, about half way up the lower leg or perhaps closer to the ankle bone. The best way to find the tender spots is to slowly work your way up the inside of the Achilles tendon until you feel any tender spots. Then work this area for a few minutes.
This can tonify and relax the tissues in this area, and also bring more blood and nerve energy to the area. Daily treatments for at least a few weeks or more may be needed in a chronic case, and it might take longer, so ideally continue with the routine for a few months, if needed, to give it a good chance of working. I would combine any remedy with a nutritional balancing program and maybe the Epsom salt baths for best results. Read Reflexology on this website for more information about this simple, yet powerful and very safe healing method.
For abscesses. An abscess is usually treated medically by draining it, and then the person is given antibiotics to kill the germs until it heals. This is one option, of course. However, I would suggest using a natural antibiotic only, as the regular medical ones are quite toxic. Instead, I would try colloidal silver – about 3 tablespoons daily, or some people use wild oregano oil or something else. Vitamin A in high doses, along with vitamin C in a dose about 3-6 grams daily, might help, too.
Fistulas. These can heal naturally. The medical treatment is to seal them off from the inside and then let them drain and heal on the outside. However, they vary in their type, so it depends on their location. Once again, I would not suggest regular antibiotics, if these are prescribed. I would instead suggest a natural antibiotic substance such as colloidal silver, wild oregano oil or something else, instead.
I welcome any feedback on these methods, as this is a condition with which I have less experience.
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Are Swiss Francs Better Than Holding Dollars, Though Not Good as Silver/Gold?Submitted by James_Madison_Lives on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 00:22
Picking the brains of the savvy DP community. Are Swiss franc denominated investments better than holding dollars? I know the argument for silver here are strong, but I have friends who still want to be within the banking system.
Swiss Francs: An Inflation Proof Currency?
Switzerland’s banking system has been a type of financial and banking safe haven for centuries upon centuries. They’ve been used by governments, businessmen, tyrants, freedom fighters, terrorists, organized crime lords, tax evaders, and regular investors for the sake of financial safety and stability.
The reasoning for all of this is pretty straightforward: the Swiss government has historically not taken sides and will usually just mind its own business when it comes to dealing with other people from other lands. Plus, they’ve at least traditionally kept their Swiss francs backed by at least 40% gold.
While much of this has drastically changed in the last few years (especially for money laundering and tax evasion), the Swiss franc is still often seen as a currency safehaven, and is a much, much safer currency than the US dollar.
Direct Swiss Investments
Still, if you decide that you want to put part of your portfolio toward the Swiss system, you have basically two options — direct Swiss investments and indirect Swiss investments. I’ll list the direct methods imediately below, and the indirect methods a little lower on this same page.
Swiss Savings Account. This is a pretty obvious. Find a popular Swiss bank (UBS, most likely) and set up a savings account. If the interest rate is over 1-2% at all, you’re essentially beating inflation with your cash. That’s kind of amazing. Any interest at all with a Swiss franc savings account is incredible compared to US bank account alternatives.
Swiss “Cash” or Bonds. Owning short-term bonds issued by the national Swiss bank is another way to potentially profit from Swiss cash holdings. These are a little less liquid, but they’re still pretty damn safe as far as bonds go.
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Everglades Pythons Exhibit New Behaviors
“What Americans need to do is turn their attention to invasives as homeland security issues and something that has obscene costs to the taxpayer and the environment,” Graham says. Each year invasive species cause $120 billion in damage in the United States (PDF). Since 2005, state and federal agencies, along with other organizations, have spent $6 million responding to invasive constrictor snakes in the Everglades and more than $101 million on the recovery of the wood stork, which is just one of the endangered species pythons prey upon. By allowing potential invasive species into the region, we stand to lose hundreds of millions of dollars already invested in the Everglades ecosystem.
Graham has a potential solution for the aliens: Create economic incentives for their removal, a method used with moderate success to eradicate other invasive species like the nutria, a rodent plaguing the Gulf States.
In its native Southeast Asia, the Burmese python, captured in large numbers for the pet and leather trade, is a threatened species. Ironically, the practice that has driven their numbers down has also brought them, as pets, to a new range where they are growing stronger every day. Human management, says Graham, can continue to shape the python’s fate and, with it, the fate of the surrounding ecosystem.
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Boaters, Swimmers Cautioned About Sandbars
By WestKyStar Staff
WICKLIFFE, KY - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Coast Guard advises residents to exercise caution regarding sandbars exposed by the extremely low water on the Mississippi River. Although the sandbars may look like a beach, they can be very unstable and may collapse into the river under the weight of a person.
“Although the river level is low, the speed and strength of the current remains high,” Dave Berretta, the Corps’ Chief of Hydraulics and Hydrology said. “It is still a very dangerous river.”
Officials from the U.S. Coast Guard agree and offer this advice.
The best stance for safety on the rivers is prevention. Avoiding dangerous situations like traveling across unstable sandbars are the best way to increase one’s safety near the river,” Lt. Ryan Gomez, U.S. Coast Guard said. “Also, the use of a proper fitting U.S. Coast Guard approved lifejacket is always a great idea when conducting any kind of activity near the water.”
During the extreme low water in 1988 three children and an adult who tried to save them drowned after they were swept into the Mississippi River when a drought-weakened sandbar they were standing on collapsed near Ripley, Tenn.
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Do you think there should be an excise tax added to sugar and foods with high content of sugar?
Dodgerfan 2012/06/12 02:39:51
Tobacco and alcoholic beverages are heavily taxed so why not sugar? It is doing serious damage to our health and escalating the cost of medical care. We could surely use the funds for the decaying infrastructure instead of decaying teeth.
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KABUL: Afghanistan has made some progress in using the law to protect women against violence but many still suffer horrific abuse despite 11 years of Western intervention, a UN report showed yesterday.
The assessment, which came a day after a senior women’s rights official was shot dead, opens with the tragic death of a child bride who set herself on fire after repeated beatings by her new husband and his father.
When the desperate 15-year-old girl reported her case to prosecutors she was told to withdraw the complaint or face being jailed herself. In a reflection of the desperate situation of many women in the patriarchal and war-ravaged Islamic country, the report described a sharp increase in the number of reported cases of violence against women as “an encouraging development”.
That is because attacks still remain largely under-reported due to cultural restraints and religious beliefs, and at times because women fear for their lives, the UN’s mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said.
The report comes more than a decade after a US-led invasion ousted the notoriously brutal Taliban regime, which barred women from going to school or to work.
Billions of dollars in aid have poured into Afghanistan since then and Western countries point to advances for women as an indicator of success in a long and costly war which is increasingly unpopular at home.
But Nato and the US will withdraw the bulk of their 100,000 troops by the end of 2014, and there are widespread fears that the gains made by women will be eroded after their departure.
Western nations have pledged to continue pumping aid into the country after 2014, warning however that it will be conditional on respect for democracy and human rights. Girls now have the right to an education and women sit in parliament. But the report shows that the belief still runs deep that women are “secondary” to men — as the country’s top religious council said in March.
There have been a series of widely publicised atrocities this year, ranging from the execution before a mob of a woman accused of adultery to the beheading of another for refusing demands by her husband’s family to become a prostitute.
A 15-year-old had her throat slit by a suitor after his marriage proposal was rejected, while a 16-year-old was flogged 100 times in public for allegedly having an affair. The boy involved was fined.
The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission recorded 4,010 cases of violence against women in the seven months between March and October this year, nearly twice as many as in the previous 12 months, the report said.
In 16 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces, where the UN was able to gather detailed information, just 21 percent of 470 reports of violence against women resulted in convictions. The report listed beating and cutting as the most prevalent crimes recorded under a new law on violence against women adopted in 2009.
But an increase was noted in so-called honour killings, the murder of women for perceived sexual disobedience, while women continued to be imprisoned for running away from home, often to escape abuse.
The report says that prosecutors refer many cases to groups of local elders, whose judgements might include a raped woman being ordered to marry her rapist.
“Impunity for violence against women is endemic in Afghanistan, where perpetrators of human rights abuses are rarely held to account,” Amnesty International said in response to Monday’s assassination of the women’s rights official.
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America's unipolar moment is over. Within the context of the rapid ascent of others, Edward Luce looks at America's mounting domestic challenges at a time when its economy is neither delivering the goods to the country's middle class nor serving any longer as the obvious model for others to follow. America's struggle to refind its economic mojo has profound implications for the UK and America's other leading foreign partners. Luce analyses the deepening paralysis of America's polarised and lobby-driven political system, the deeply worrying trends behind America's stagnating education system, and the concern that America's ability to remain the world's leading innovator - the goose that has laid so many golden eggs - is also showing signs of weakening. The title, TIME TO START THINKING, implies that Obama's America has yet to face up to the consequences of a decline that is fast becoming reality.
Author: Luce, Edward
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I recently met an intelligent Soviet immigrant interested in learning more about Judaism. He would like to start with understanding the basics. Such as:
How do we understand G-d?
What are the foundations of Judaism?
What is the purpose of mitzvos?
While I'm sure putting these questions out on j-se will elicit a number of excellent answers, a better option for him would be books or audio/video shiurim that have put effort into structuring the information in a palatable way.
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The Starry Messenger Showing Forth Great and Truly Wonderful Sights, as Well as Suggesting to Everyone, but Especially to Philosophers, Things to be Pondered
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) was an Italian astronomer, mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and inventor. He revolutionized the sciences in the Western world by using mathematics and experimental evidence in the study of natural phenomena. Born in Pisa, Galileo studied in Pisa and Florence and in 1589 was appointed to the chair of mathematics at the University of Pisa. In 1591 he moved to the University of Padua, where he completed much of his most important scientific work. In late 1609, Galileo perfected a telescope of 30x magnification, with which he quickly ... | <urn:uuid:66e23a92-7d7e-47af-be63-befe800f8ff6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wdl.org/en/search/?additional_subjects=Moon%20surface | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956037 | 154 | 3.21875 | 3 |
As an addendum to his Sounds of Silence article, Matthew Kilburn considers how religion is being used in a Good Man Goes to War.
Having promised a discussion of themes and symbols in my review of ‘A Good Man Goes to War’ and ‘Let’s Kill Hitler’, I barely mentioned Steven Moffat’s return to considering obsession and militarism through religion in Doctor Who. As well as enlarging upon a target of Russell T Davies’s Doctor Who, Moffat paints it with a shade of red which is both bloodier and more implicitly associable with Catholic Christian hierarchy.
Six years ago, in ‘Bad Wolf’/’The Parting of the Ways’, Russell T Davies depicted a Dalek theocracy. Daleks created from the reengineering of human DNA worshipped a Dalek Emperor convinced of its own divinity. Their extermination beams were doing God’s work; the undermining and destruction of humanity, redemptive. The depiction of the Daleks as religious fanatics was recognised as a satire on contemporary religious movements disruptive to secularism and pluralism, from various shades of militant Islam to fundamentalist evangelical Christianity. It was also understood as an identification of these Daleks as essentially human, rejecting a rigid rationalist survivalism in favour of deliverance through faith in a superior, supernatural authority. Human individuality and creativity, and the spirit of rebellion against social conformity which animates Rose in particular in the first series of Davies’s Doctor Who, are stifled by centralised uniformity.
‘A Good Man Goes to War’ returns to this theme in the portrayal of the Headless Monks, but intensifies it. Where the Daleks’ plan is cloaked by exploiting human credulity and laziness through the Game Station, the Monks’ inhumanity is cloaked literally as well as figuratively. Only the internal systems of Demons’ Run recognise that the Monks are not alive in a conventional sense. The Papal Mainframe imposes a single faith upon her acolytes and a single mind. The Headless Monks are presumably under the computer’s remote control. The faith of the Daleks has been superseded by the erasure of the individual’s ability to question, feel, communicate or interpret situations for themself. Colonel Manton presents the Monks to his army of clerics as models to be followed and envied; the pluralism of the force celebrated by the gay Anglican couple and Lorna Bucket from the ‘faith neutral’ Forest becomes another disguise for destructive religious mania.
The Doctor identifying himself as ‘a monk’, after he has allowed Manton to unveil him, seems out of step after the monastic state has been firmly associated with robotisation. Most simply, the Doctor is referring to his disguise; but he also contrasts it with two identities he denies – ‘a phantom’, and ‘a trickster’. The Doctor has never sat comfortably within archetypes, but he is arguably as much a phantom - materialising and dematerialising through a supernatural force impossible to distinguish from magic - or a trickster, breaking from the conformity of his own people to instruct them and others through imagination, story, and chaos. These labels reflect the Doctor’s methodology in this scene and more generally. Steven Moffat’s Doctor is more of a monk than that of Russell T Davies – it’s less certain whether the Doctor, in Matt Smith’s form, ‘dances’ so easily as Eccleston’s Doctor insisted he did or Tennant’s Doctor appeared to demonstrate he could in ‘The Girl in the Fireplace’. All the Doctors have had hermit-like potentials, but those since 2005 – since the Time War – have more explicitly embraced isolation.
Within the ongoing narrative of Doctor Who, though, being a monk is to identify oneself as a phantom and a trickster – or specifically the Monk, `The Time Meddler` himself. In ‘A Good Man Goes to War’, the identification is supported by the Doctor’s irresponsibility and lack of attention to detail, which (depending on one’s point of view) allows Madame Kovarian to make away with Melody, or expose how pointless the campaign was in the first place as through his interactions with River he had already confirmed the future being shaped by Madame Kovarian. If the Doctor is to reshape events, then he would have to embrace the methodology of his historic adversary; but perhaps he does so already, and knows that he deceives himself.
If the Silence is a religious order, then perhaps Madame Kovarian herself is a worthy opponent for the monk-Doctor, a priest of causality who – in contrast to the Doctor’s methods as defined in ‘The Girl Who Waited’ – has studied the history books and is engineering and protecting a chain of events which will lead to the Doctor’s death. For Kovarian it is the Doctor who is the meddler, frustrating the Silence’s desire to end the chatter of the cosmos by asking the oldest question in the universe. Yet for the Doctor, always talkative, silence can’t be an end, because he encourages asking questions by his very name. Perhaps the Doctor, the question who started this iteration of the universe, is by his very existence a challenge to the Silence’s faith. | <urn:uuid:a89c9922-9d76-4157-80d8-88b61bbaa12a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thiswayupzine.blogspot.com/2011/09/church-times.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960635 | 1,132 | 1.867188 | 2 |
This subforum is for discussions of any issues and concerns that impact the environment, such as biodiversity, global climate change, genetically engineered plants and animals, human population, animal and nature conservation, natural disasters, etc.
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Rem Koolhaas has helped come up with a daring plan to run Europe on a grid of shared renewable energy – and redraw the map of the continent at the same time. ...
... Called Roadmap 2050, ... it combines the belief that drastic intervention is required to mitigate climate change, with a desire to give meaning and power to the European Union. It has been commissioned by the European Climate Foundation, a philanthropic body dedicated to promoting policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and it aims to show how the EU can achieve an incredible-seeming target of an 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050. The proposal is being considered by the EU Council of Ministers, for their possible endorsement.
The proposal's starting point is the fact that renewable energy sources such as wind and sunshine are erratic and unreliable, which means they have to be supported by other forms of power. But they are also available in different quantities in different places – wind is abundant in Britain, sun in Spain – and in different seasons. The big idea is to create a power network across the continent linking all these sources, which could then compensate for each other. If it was windless in Britain but sunny in Spain, power could travel from them to us, and vice versa. ...
... OMA insists that its plan makes sense, even if you exclude climate issues. It has produced figures to show that the scheme would not cost all that much per head, especially when compared with road-building, war in Iraq, or bailing out bankers. They point out the benefit of reducing reliance on Middle Eastern oil and Russian gas. They argue that the economic benefits would outweigh the costs. They say that a reduction of even more than 80% could be achieved if North Africa, with all its sunshine, could be included in the grid. Their plan, they say, is "not rooted in apocalyptic hysteria", but is eminently practical.
It's a seductive proposition: go green and get richer. ...
More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/ ... m-koolhaas
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most sweet the sight of the sun;
good is health if one can but keep it,
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January 31, 2011
The need for most species to gather into larger collectives is a primal, animalistic instinct. Whether flocks of birds, schools of fish, colonies of ants, or packs of wolves, it is a natural inclination for animals to form larger units for their mutual protection and productive benefit.
Human civilization has shown the same tendency. Mankind’s first collectives were families and tribes based on common language, customs, lineage, and geography. As tribes grew and formed into kingdoms and vast empires, though, the core power in a civilization became concentrated in the hands of a few.
History is filled with examples of tyrants who mercilessly oppressed their people; in fact, the entire concept of the feudal system which dominated the earth for over 1,000 years was based on this idea that the masses exist to serve the ruling class, not the other way around.
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Tredegar Anti-Jewish Riots of 1911Prepared for JCR-UK by David Shulman
Created 27 May
In 1911, Tredegar was a mining town with an important iron works. However, the town, which had flourished in the nineteen century, was going through a severe economic crisis, in common with many of the Welsh mining communities. There had been several coal strikes due to wage reductions, and prices had risen as a result of a railway strike that had created a shortage of basic goods.
The local Jewish community in Tredegar was relatively affluent and many were local traders. They also owned a number of properties in the town which they reputedly rented out at high rents, which the hard-pressed tenants were finding difficulty to pay.
One Saturday night in August 1911, a group of workers, after a night at the pub, attacked a Jewish shop. By the time the police arrived, the number of rioters had multiplied to more than 200 and they were rampaging through any property having Jewish connections in Tredegar. The windows of Jewish owned properties were broken, eighteen shops were plundered and destroyed by the rioters, but nobody was injured.
Winston Churchill, the British Home Secretary, sent in the army, but the troops arrived after the rioting had largely subdued.
Contrary to certain reports of the incident, the riots did in fact spread beyond Tredegar and affected (but to a much lesser extent) many communities in the Welsh Valleys.
There appeared to be no permanent damage to the relationship between the Jewish and non-Jewish inhabitants of the town and the Jews continued to live and trade in Tredegar many years to come.
The Tredegar riots were the only reported instance in Britain of serious anti-Jewish riots since medieval times (although there had been widespread anti-Jewish demonstrations against the so-called "Jew Bill" of 1753) and were probably as much a symptom of the general economic difficulties facing the population as any inherent anti-Semitism.
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Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
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Other Translations of Colossians 1:13
Who hath deliuered vs from the power of darkenesse, and hath translated vs into the kingdome of his deare Sonne,- King James Version (1611)
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For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,- New American Standard Version (1995)
who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;- American Standard Version (1901)
Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;- Basic English Bible
who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and translated [us] into the kingdom of the Son of his love:- Darby Bible
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his beloved Son: - Webster's Bible
It is God who has delivered us out of the dominion of darkness, and has transferred us into the Kingdom of His dearly-loved Son,- Weymouth Bible
who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;- World English Bible
Which delyueride vs fro the power of derknessis, and translatide in to the kyngdom of the sone of his louyng,- Wycliffe Bible
who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate [us] into the reign of the Son of His love,- Youngs Literal Bible
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1:13 Power detains reluctant captives, a kingdom cherishes willing subjects. His beloved Son - This is treated of in the fifteenth and following verses. #Col 1:15|
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Col 1:13 Who hath delivered us. The language implies that we were captive. We were under the power of darkness. Compare Lu 22:53. Satan is the power of darkness. Those in sin are held under his power. Hath translated [us] into the kingdom of his dear Son. God, through the gospel, had rescued them, and has translated them into Christ's kingdom. This was effected when they were converted. Some teach that Christ's kingdom is yet future, but this passage shows that it already had an existence. The church was its visible form. It was inaugurated on Pentecost.
Mike's comment on 2011-10-29 15:11:51:
The scripture says that we are delivered from the power of darkness, not darkness itself. As one is able to overcome the power of gravity,yet are we not free from gravity itself. I believe this verse refers to the reign of sin and death (romans 5:21) and the release from the power of sin (romans 6:14).
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Testimonies of SS-Men from Various Camps
Testimony of SS Scharfhrer Erich Fuchs, in the Sobibor-Bolender trial, Dusseldorf.
Quoted in "BELZEC, SOBIBOR, TREBLINKA - the Operation Reinhard Death Camps", Indiana University Press - Yitzhak Arad, 1987, p. 31-32:
....We unloaded the motor. It was a heavy Russian benzine engine, at least 200 horsepower. we installed the engine on a concrete foundation and set up the connection between the exhaust and the tube.
I then tested the motor. It did not work. I was able to repair the ignition and the valves, and the motor finally started running. The chemist, who I knew from Belzec, entered the gas chamber with measuring instruments to test the concentration of the gas.
Following this, a gassing experiment was carried out. If my memory serves me right, about thirty to forty women were gassed in one gas chamber. The Jewish women were forced to undress in an open place close to the gas chamber, and were driven into the gas chamber by the above mentioned SS members and the Ukrainian auxiliaries. when the women were shut up in the gas chamber I and Bolender set the motor in motion. The motor functioned first in neutral. Both of us stood by the motor and switched from "Neutral" (Freiauspuff) to "Cell" (Zelle), so that the gas was conveyed to the chamber. At the suggestion of the chemist, I fixed the motor on a definite speed so that it was unnecessary henceforth to press on the gas. About ten minutes later the thirty to forty women were dead.
From the testimony of SS-Unterscharfuehrer Wilhelm Bahr in his trial at Hamburg.
Quoted in "Truth Prevails", ISBN 1-879437-00-7, p. 99:
Q: Is it correct that you have gassed 200 Russian POW's with Zyklon-B?
A: Yes, on orders.
Q: Where did you do that?
A: In Neuengamme [concentration camp].
Q: On whose order?
A: The local doctor, Dr. Von Bergmann.
Q: With what gas?
A: With Prussic acid [another name for Zyklon-B].
Q: How long did the Russians take to die?
A: I do not know. I only obeyed orders.
Q: How long did it take to gas the Russians?
A: I returned after two hours and they were all dead.
Q: For what purpose did you go away?
A: That was during lunch hour.
Q: You left for your lunch and came back afterwards?
Q: Were they dead when you came back?
Q: Did you look at their bodies?
A: Yes, because I had to load them.
Q: Why did you apply the gas to the Russians?
A: I only had orders to pour in the gas and I do not know anything about it.
SS-Doctor Kremer at a hearing on 18 July 1947.
Quoted in 'The Good Old Days' - E. Klee, W. Dressen, V. Riess, The Free Press, NY, 1988, p. 258:
I remember I once took part in the gassing of one of these groups of women [from the women's camp in Auschwitz]. I cannot say how big the group was. when I got close to the bunker I saw them sitting on the ground. They were still clothed. As they were wearing worn-out camp clothing they were not left in the undressing hut but made to undress in the open air. I concluded from the behavior of these women that they had no doubt what fate awaited them, as they begged and sobbed to the SS men to spare them their lives. However, they were herded into the gas chambers and gassed. As an anatomist I have seen a lot of terrible things: I had had a lot of experience with dead bodies, and yet what I saw that day was like nothing I had ever seen before. Still completely shocked by what I had seen I wrote on my diary on 5 September 1942: "The most dreadful of horrors. Hauptscharf¬hrer Thilo was right when he said to me today that this is the 'anus mundi', the anal orifice of the world". I used this image because I could not imagine anything more disgusting and horrific.
Testimony of Magnus Wochner, SS guard at the Natzweiler Concentration Camp.
Quoted in "The Natzweiler Trial", Edited by Anthony M. Webb, p. 89:
... I recall particularly one mass execution when about 90 prisoners (60 men and 30 women), all Jews, were killed by gassing. This took place, as far as I can remember, in spring 1944. In this case the corpses were sent to Professor Hirt of the department of Anatomy in Strasbourg.
Testimony of SS Oberscharfhrer Erich Bauer Quoted in "BELZEC, SOBIBOR, TREBLINKA - the Operation Reinhard Death Camps", Indiana University Press - Yitzhak Arad, 1987, p. 77;
Usually the undressing went smoothly. Subsequently, the Jews were taken through the "tube" to Camp III - the real extermination camp. The transfer through the "tube" proceeded as follows: one SS man was in the lead and five or six Ukrainian auxiliaries were at the back hastening the Jews along. The women were taken through a barracks where their hair was cut off. In Camp III the Jews were received by an SS man... As I already mentioned, the motor was then switched on by Gotringer and one of the auxiliaries whose name I don't remember. Then the gassed Jews were taken out.
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RG4384.AM: Christ Episcopal Church (Central City, Neb.)
Central City, Merrick County, Neb.: Episcopal church
Size: 1 reel of microfilm
The parish of Christ Episcopal Church of Central City, Nebraska, originated from a visit to Lone Tree in Merrick County by the Rev. H.C. Shaw on December 18, 1872. Thereafter, he held regular services in the Lone Tree School House for St. Luke's Mission. On August 10, 1873, a Sunday School was organized which met in the waiting room of the Union Pacific Depot.
In September of 1880 the mission received a donation of land and began to circulate a subscription to raise funds for a church building. Meanwhile, the parish of Christ Church in East Orange, New Jersey, donated a sum of money for a church to be built in Central City, Nebraska. St. Luke's Mission merged with the parish in Central City, named Christ Church after its benefactor. The church building was consecrated by Bishop Robert H. Clarkson of Omaha on March 12, 1882.
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This collection of the records of Christ Episcopal Church of Central City, Nebraska, consists of 1 reel of microfilm containing seven volumes arranged in two series: 1) Church Records, 1872-1946; and 2) Guild Records, 1888-1919.
The Church Records consist of registers of Baptisms, Confirmations, Marriages, Burials, and a list of families as well as a record of services held. In addition, the first volume contains a chronicle of events at St. Luke's Mission; records of the Sunday School; and minutes of the vestry and congregation from March of 1882 to April of 1920. The Guild Records contain minutes and membership lists of the ladies' guilds of St. Luke's Mission and of Christ Church.
This collection was loaned for microfilming in January of 1976.
Series 1 - Church Records, 1872-1946Reel 1
- Parish Record, 1872-1920, including:
Chronicle of St. Luke's Mission, Lone Tree, Nebraska, August 1872 - August 1881, pp. 6-29
Minutes of Vestry and Congregation, March 1882 - October 1905, pp. 29-99; November 1905 - April 1912, pp. 112-149; April 1912 - April 1920, pp. 162-217
List of Families, pp. 100-110
Baptisms, 1874-1885, pp. 150-160
Confirmations, 1874-1886, pp. 250-251
Marriages, 1875-1876, pp. 260-261
Burials, 1874-1886, pp. 274-176
Members of Mission Sunday School, p. 310
Inventory of Mission Library, p. 312
Sunday School Expenses, June 30, 1883, p. 314
Record of Books Given Out, p. 316
- Parish Register, 1885-1906
- Parish Register, 1906-1946
- Record of Services, 1908-1942
Series 2 - Guild Records, 1888-1919
- Minutes of St. Luke's Guild, 1888-1898
- Minutes of Christ Church Guild, 1905-1912
- Minutes of Christ Church Guild, 1912-1919
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(New York, November 24, 2004) – A long-awaited biography of Harriet Jacobs, who wrote the 1861 classic, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, is the winner of the annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, it was announced today by Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.
Jean Fagan Yellin, Distinguished Professor Emerita at Pace University, will be awarded the prize for her book Harriet Jacobs: A Life, which recovers the experience of this once-forgotten but remarkable woman who lived 29 years as a slave, seven of which were spent in a cramped hiding place that kept away a sexually predatory master. Yellin’s book explores beyond Jacobs’s own autobiography and traces Jacobs’s escape north, the harassment she endured by her former owner, and her return south during the Civil War to establish a school for black refugees behind Union lines.
The $25,000 annual award for the year’s best non-fiction book on slavery, resistance and/or abolition, is the most generous history prize in the field, and the most respected and coveted of the major awards for the study of the black experience. The prize will be awarded at a gala dinner at the Yale Club of New York on February 24, 2005, as the capstone of Black History Month.
Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman, the philanthropists who endow the Frederick Douglass Prize, noted: “Jean Fagan Yellin’s extraordinary book—capping a brilliant career of scholarship—provides painful insight into the tragic history of racial and sexual oppression in America. For this reason alone, every modern American should read it, learn from it, and make sure the bitter lessons of the past inspire a better future for men and women, white and black. We are honored indeed to honor Dr. Yellin with the 2004 prize.”
David W. Blight, director of the Gilder Lehrman Center, commented: “Jean Yellin’s biography of Harriet Jacobs has been eagerly anticipated by scholars and readers for almost 20 years. To say that the result more than justifies the wait would be an understatement. This book is an extraordinary example of historical detective work, as well as a powerful piece of literature.”
Commented Lewis Perry, the John Francis Bannon, S.J. Chair of History at St. Louis University and chair of the Frederick Douglass Prize jury: “The result of imaginative and dedicated research over many years, Professor Yellin’s book is a splendid accomplishment in cultural history as well as in the history of slavery, abolition, and women's lives. In the way that only a fine biography can, this book connects so much that is important—people, events, movements—in our history over many decades. I would call it a major contribution to understanding cultural history across the color line during the nineteenth century.”
Three other books were singled out as finalists: A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration by Stephen Hahn (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press), Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770 by James H. Sweet (University of North Carolina Press), and Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730-1830 by John Wood Sweet (Johns Hopkins University Press).
This year’s winning book was selected from a field of nearly 70 entries by a jury of scholars chaired by Lewis Perry (St. Louis University) and including Robert Harms (Yale University) and Brenda Stevenson (University of California, Los Angeles).
The Frederick Douglass Prize was established in 1999 to stimulate scholarship in the field by honoring outstanding accomplishments. Previous winners were: 1999—Ira Berlin (Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery) and Philip D. Morgan (Slave Counterpoint: The Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry); 2000—David Eltis (The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas); 2001—David Blight (Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory); 2002—Robert Harms (The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade) and John Stauffer (The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race); James F. Brooks (Captives and Cousins: Slavery Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands) and Seymour Drescher (The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation).
The award is named for Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), the onetime slave who escaped bondage to emerge as one of the great American abolitionists, reformers, writers, and orators of the 19th century.
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The term “grid” suggests a certain uniformity to the power system’s structure, but the network more closely resembles a patchwork quilt stitched together to cover a rapidly expanding nation.
The United States doesn’t yet face the critical shortage of power that has left more than 600 million people in India without electricity this week
But the U.S. grid is aging and stretched to capacity. More often the victim of decrepitude than the forces of nature, it is beginning to falter. Experts fear failures that caused blackouts in New York, Boston and San Diego may become more common as the voracious demand for power continues to grow. They say it will take a multibillion-dollar investment to avoid them.
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The woman Oprah calls mentor-mother-sister-friend offers wise words about the roots of confidence, the trouble with modesty and how to do the impossible.
Since the moment I opened I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings , I've felt deeply connected to Maya Angelou. With each page, her life seemed to mirror mine: In her early years she was raised by her grandmother in the South; as a young girl she was raped; and, like me, she grew up reciting what the church folks called little pieces—a few lines from the Bible that were usually delivered amid shouts and amens from the women fanning themselves in the front pews. Meeting Maya on those pages was like meeting myself in full. For the first time, as a young black girl, my experience was validated.
And it still is, only now I sit at Maya's feet, beside her fireplace, hardly believing that, years after reading Caged Bird , she is my mentor and close friend. When we met in Baltimore more than 20 years ago, our bond was immediate. We talked as if we had known each other our entire lives; and throughout my twenties and in the years beyond, Maya brought clarity to my life lessons. Now we have what I call a mother-sister-friend relationship. She's the woman who can share my triumphs, chide me with hard truth and soothe me with words of comfort when I call her in my deepest pain.
She speaks of what she knows. Born in St. Louis in 1928, Maya moved to rural Stamps, Arkansas, to be with her grandmother after her parents split. When she went back to St. Louis in the mid-1930s, her mother's boyfriend stole her virginity. In the aftermath of that trauma, 8-year-old Maya became mute and rarely opened her mouth to speak for several years. At 17 she had her only child, Guy. A few years later, when her grandmother died, the grief sent her reeling. It was then that she gave herself what one might call a Maya manifest: She would live—fully.
So she did. She became a celebrated calypso singer and dancer in a San Francisco cabaret. In the late 1950s she moved to New York and took part in the Harlem Writers Guild and befriended literary greats such as James Baldwin, who later encouraged her to tell her story in Caged Bird . In the years that followed, her renewed zeal for life would take her and Guy to many countries throughout the world. In 1961 she moved to Cairo, where she worked at the Arab Observer , and a few years later she went to Ghana to teach at the University of Ghana's School of Music and Drama. As a result of her travels, she became fluent in French, Italian, Spanish, Arabic and Fanti, a West African language.
Today Maya is a kind of quintessential Everywoman: essayist, entertainer, activist, poet, professor, film director and mother-and she recently guest conducted the Boston Pops simply because she felt like it. She has written more than 20 books, and she once had three titles— Caged Bird , The Heart of a Woman and Even the Stars Looked Lonesome —on The New York Times best-seller list simultaneously for six consecutive weeks. In 1993 she became the first poet since Robert Frost in 1961 to write and recite a poem at a presidential inaugural ceremony—a performance for which she won a Grammy for Best Non-Musical Album. She is a Tony-nominated actress who has appeared in such productions as Look Away (1973) and Roots , a 1977 miniseries; and she made her feature-film directing debut with the 1998 Showtime movie Down in the Delta . All that, and she cooks like a champion: She prepares the kind of food that makes you want to take a bite and tell about it.
At Maya's home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, we greet each other with hugs, grins and our favorite exchange: "Hey, you girl!" At 72 Maya exudes confidence and extraordinary intelligence—and her wit is as acute as her wisdom.
I remind her of the time a few years ago when someone in her home told a derogatory joke and she doled out what I call a skinning—the sharp words of correction she will give anyone who demeans her or others while in her presence. Yet all of Maya's friends know that beneath such chastisement is a layer of kindness and generosity you don't often find in people in these times. It is here, in Maya's home, that I feel as comfortable as I do in my own—at the table where we always flop down and catch up, in the sculpture garden in her backyard, in the kitchen where the sweet smell of pumpkin soup wafts through the air. When I am with Maya, unimportant matters melt away—her presence feels like a warm bath after an exhausting day. In our hours together, we can set aside all pretensions and just be: two women barefoot in a living room, sharing the most intimate parts of our lives.
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Stars don’t always die the same way, but now there is evidence that up to a point, the most massive stars may experience the most spectacular deaths. And there may even be one nearby.An international team of astrophysicists has come up with an explanation that posits a new mechanism to describe the brightest explosions.The research by Stan Woolsey of the University of California Santa Cruz; Sergei Blinnikov, a visiting researcher at UCSC from the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics in Moscow; and Alexander Heger of Los Alamos National Laboratory was published in the Nov. 15 issue of the journal Nature.Their explanation emerged from a study of the earliest stars born out of the cosmic dark ages when very big stars were common.“Almost no two supernovae look identical,” Heger said. “But every once in awhile one looks much different than expected. It depends on the mechanisms by which they explode.”A superlative exception was the phenomenal supernova named SN 2006gy discovered by Robert Quinby, a University of Texas graduate student on Sept. 26, 2006.
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|Dental Anesthesia Training Program|
The dental anesthesia residency program at Stony Brook was developed with several objectives in mind.
Our main objective was, and is, to train dentists to provide the full spectrum of sedation and anesthesia services to children, adults and patients with special needs in the ambulatory and inpatient setting for dental procedures. Another objective is to train educators and researchers in the field of dental anesthesiology.
In order to accomplish these objectives, we looked at how dental anesthesiology is being practiced throughout the United States and how this practice may change in the next several decades. We also looked at the accreditation requirements designated by the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) and then reviewed the current programs in the country to learn how they were training their residents. We consulted with Dr. Peter Glass, Chairman of the Stony Brook University Department of Anesthesiology, Dr. Ellen Steinberg, Program Director within the department through June 2008 and Dr. Christopher Gallagher and Dr. Joy Schabel, the current Program Directors, about their experiences educating anesthesiologists and asked for their recommendations for educating dentist anesthesiologists. Other members of the Stony Brook Department of Anesthesiology also provided very helpful suggestions.
The training program consists of thirteen four-week blocks during each year of the two-year training program. These blocks include off-service hospital rotations and rotations providing sedation and general anesthesia in both the Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine (SDM) and in private offices. The first two blocks in the first year consist of a period of comprehensive orientation, including didactic, simulator and clinical training. Please see the attached file to look at a sample grid of the 2010-2011 rotations for the 1st and 2nd year dental anesthesia residents.
Stony Brook University has a Clinical Skills Center with pediatric and adult simulators. These simulators are used to introduce new skills and to refresh skills already learned to achieve clinical proficiency in all aspects of anesthesia delivery and placement of invasive lines. The clinical training during this initial orientation period consists of a faculty to resident ratio of 1:1 to 1:2.
During their dental rotation, the residents will accompany dentist anesthesiologists and administer sedation and general anesthesia in the office-based setting. They participate in the anesthetic administration of pediatric and adult patients for general dental care, endodontic, oral and maxillofacial, and periodontal procedures using an open airway and entotracheal/nasotracheal intubation. During the office-based part of this rotation residents also treat patients with special needs and provide anesthesia for advanced oral and maxillofacial surgical procedures such tibia bone grafts, genioplasty, zygomatic implants, etc. As mentioned earlier, during this rotation, the residents also provide sedation and anesthesia services at the Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine.
The residents take off-service rotations in Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Pediatric Medicine. They also rotate through Chronic Pain management, Preadmission Testing, Pediatric Ambulatory Anesthesia in the Stony Brook Ambulatory Surgery Center, and are the resident in charge of the PACU/AICU (recovery room) for three weeks. The residents also trotate through the Northport VA Hospital to administer anesthesia to our military veterans.
The dental anesthesia residents are required to attend all Grand Rounds, lectures and departmental meetings. In addition, they are required to take all in-service training examinations. Following the orientation period, the dental anesthesia residents take emergency call and respond to codes within the medical center.
The residents receive 4 weeks of vacation per year and are salaried at the PGY equivalent salary for Stony Brook University residents.
Evaluation of resident training and resident evaluation of the program and faculty is an important aspect of all dental and medical residency-training programs at the Stony Brook University Medical Center including the Stony Brook Department of Anesthesiology. Stony Brook University Medical Center uses New Innovations, a resident management program, for evaluation purposes and for residents to log cases. Wherever you have access to the Internet, you are capable of looking at your cases, including: the type of anesthesia administered, surgery performed, airway management, ASA status, invasive lines placed, special needs status, patient age, attending and complications.
We recommend that you click on the link to the Stony Brook University Department of Anesthesiology to find out more about the Department of Anesthesiology in general and its training and research capabilities.
Thank you for your interest in the Stony Brook Dental Anesthesia Residency Program. If you have specific questions regarding the residency program, please E-mail one of the other faculty members or me. Good luck as you become more involved in dental anesthesiology.
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Summer 2009: Features
Long Live the King
From fashion to Facebook, Elvis Presley still leads the way to Graceland
By Mary J. Loftus
Elvis is on Twitter.
The iconic King of Rock, who died in 1977, nevertheless has thousands of followers who micro-blog about “listening to the King on the way to the Elvis festival in Tupelo” and how Elvis is “shaking things up in Vegas at the licensing expo.” He also has official MySpace, Facebook, and Bebo pages (and many more unofficial ones).
Elvis has been a trendsetter since he first rocked America in 1954, so his solid gold status on social media sites isn’t really surprising, says Kevin Kern, director of public relations for Elvis Presley Enterprises. “He’s still very much an influence in popular culture, from Elvis night on American Idol to YouTube videos and iPhone apps for Elvis sightings,” Kern says, sitting in a plush conference room at Graceland’s corporate offices. “Nobody was like Elvis. He changed the world in terms of a musical revolution but also in terms of a sexual revolution and a fashion revolution.”
The relatively modest Graceland estate, off Elvis Presley Boulevard in a well-worn section of Memphis, still draws more than six hundred thousand visitors a year. The annual candlelight vigil the night before August 16—the day of Elvis’s death—attracts nearly fifty thousand. “So many people walk by, we have to resod the grass around the grave afterward,” Kern says. Audio tours are available in eight languages.
Despite a light drizzle on this June afternoon, a line of tourists is waiting to walk through Elvis’s home, his car museum, and his private jet, the Lisa Marie, which is parked beside the Graceland shops, where you can get your photo taken with a life-sized Elvis likeness and sample his favorite fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches.
According to Forbes Magazine, Elvis was the top-earning dead celebrity in 2008 for the second year in a row. “Without so much as lifting a finger, the Memphis Flash earned a whopping $52 million in the last year,” writes reporter Peter Hoy. “The thirtieth anniversary of Elvis’s death helped boost attendance and merchandise sales at Graceland, and new ventures such as an Elvis Sirius Satellite Radio show add to a long list of publishing and licensing deals.”
Licensing deals such as the one that allowed Michael Feder 91MBA to create the Amazon bestseller, Elvis: Your Personal Fashion Consultant. The “Punch Out and Play” book features full-length photos of Elvis that can become free-standing paper dolls—with captions such as “Making the world a better place, one purple double-breasted suit at a time.” It retails for $12.95 and is available through Graceland’s shopelvis.com.
“It’s a very different book and has been quite popular,” Kern says. “It’s interactive in the sense that you can pop out the various Elvi in different states of fashion.” (Yes, apparently, Elvi—plural for Elvis—is a word that’s used at Graceland.)
Most of the archival images in the book are from Elvis movies, such as Jailhouse Rock and Blue Hawaii, and Feder’s wife, Karan, a Hollywood costume designer, painstakingly colorized the black and white images, pixel by pixel.
Michael and Karan, who now live in Nevada, eloped to Vegas in 1994 and were married at the Graceland Wedding Chapel there. “The Graceland Chapel now carries our Elvis book,” he says, “so it all comes around.”
Feder, who guest-lectures at Goizueta Business School, launched his company, Fame Farm, in 2005, when he acquired exclusive rights to the image and brand of Liberace. He and Karan produced their first book, Liberace: Your Personal Fashion Consultant, through Abrams of New York in 2008.
“We wanted to show that Liberace was cool, funny, and kitschy, and could attract a whole new generation of fans,” he says.
After consulting with sales reps, they decided the second in the series should feature Elvis. “I adore the brand,” Feder says. “Liberace’s fan base was older, but Elvis’s was young and rabid during his day. I used to live in Memphis and drove by Graceland all the time when he was living there. I was hoping when I turned sixteen he’d buy me a Cadillac. But I never had an Elvis encounter.”
Everything in the book had to be approved by Elvis Presley Enterprises, says Feder, from the photos to the captions. “Anything with Elvis has to be very carefully done,” Feder says. “The fans know if a sideburn is too long, and they will write Graceland.”
Elvis: Your Personal Fashion Consultant is in its first printing of fifteen thousand copies and has already achieved “top-selling Elvis book” status on Amazon.
Feder recently launched a third “Punch Out and Play” book of Star Wars figures and is working on a fourth on Marilyn Monroe.
“It’s extremely difficult to predict who will become an iconic celebrity, except in hindsight,” Feder says. “Will Michael Jackson become as iconic as Elvis? We might not have thought so six months ago, but recent events have shown how fast the landscape can change.”
Elvis Presley Enterprises generates income from two main areas: Graceland tours and licensing deals. About 250 licensees offer more than five thousand products made in the King’s image, from wine bottles to M&M figurines to a clothing line.“Elvis had a unique fashion sense,” says Kern. “He knew what looked good on him.”
In evidence everywhere at Graceland is Elvis’s singular style: his white jumpsuits and cowboy hats, form-fitting black leather and gold lamé suit—several of the outfits featured in the Feders’ book.
Well before his flashy stage outfits (most of which, like his gold lamé suit, were designed by Hollywood tailor Nudie Cohn), the young Elvis had a sense of style that he couldn’t afford to indulge quite yet. “He hung out on Beale Street back in the day, which was a blues alley then, but it was also where he bought his clothes,” says Kern.
One day he walked up to the Lansky Brothers’ family-owned clothing shop. As Bernard Lansky recalls, “I looked up and saw this young man looking at our displays in the window. I walked outside to greet him and told him ‘Come on in and let me show you around.’ He said, ‘I don’t have any money, Mr. Lansky, but when I get rich, I’m going to buy you out.’ I told him, ‘Don’t buy me out, just buy from me!’ ” Lansky remembers the first outfit he custom-fit for Elvis: the tux for his junior/senior prom. After Elvis became a millionaire in his early twenties, he was true to his word, and the Lanskys custom-made most of his casual clothing for decades.
While the Lansky Brothers main shop has moved to the lobby of the Peabody Hotel in downtown Memphis, the store’s close association with Elvis remains: photographs of Elvis and Bernard Lansky can be found on every wall, Elvis memorabilia is plentiful, and sweaters just like the one Elvis wore in Blue Hawaii are arranged neatly on a table. Julie Lansky, who works in the store, and her twin, Melisa (who recently married Steven Weisman 98C), as well as their cousin, Rebecca Belz 08B, are the next generation of Lanskys. “My grandfather is the best,” says Belz. “He has stories and one-liners for every situation. He once took my mom to Graceland to deliver some clothes, and my mom was scared to death because there was a stuffed alligator on [Elvis’s] couch.”
An aged but spry Bernard Lansky is still a familiar fixture in the store, helping customers find the right size or color. He sometimes has fan encounters of his own with customers who want to hear insider stories. “Is this you?” asks one visitor—pointing to a poster of a young, bow-tied Lansky standing in his original store beside an equally young Elvis.
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United States President George W Bush today asked the UN General Assembly for help in Iraq reconstruction, and said it was time to set aside differences over the US-led invasion.
"Now the nation of Iraq needs and deserves our aid, and all nations of goodwill should step forward and provide that support," Bush said, six months after the US and Britain attacked Iraq without UN backing.
In a speech defending his efforts in Iraq, Bush made no apologies for the chaotic postwar situation, and offered a shift in justification for the war - Saddam Hussein's cruelty - in the wake of the failure so far to find weapons of mass destruction.
"As we discover the killing fields and mass graves of Iraq, the true scale of Saddam's cruelty is being revealed," he said.
Bush, who faces doubts at home and abroad about his Iraq policy, also resisted a speedy transfer of Iraqi sovereignty, saying he wanted an "orderly and democratic" process.
"This process must unfold according to the needs of Iraqis - neither hurried nor delayed by the wishes of other parties," Bush said.
The US president appeared before the General Assembly one year after he said the UN risked becoming irrelevant if it did not take a stand against Iraq.
His approval rating has dropped from the 70 per cent range during the war to 50 per cent, about where it was before the September 11 attacks.
Americans are increasingly concerned about the daily guerrilla attacks on US troops and the costs, after Bush asked the US Congress for $US87 billion ($A128.7 billion) more for the US military deployment and Iraqi reconstruction. He received $US79 billion in emergency funding, mostly for the Iraqi operation, in April.
So far, Bush has not found many other foreign leaders willing to send cash or troops to Iraq, but US officials insisted they had not yet really tried, with a donors' conference coming up in late October.
Bush said he recognised that "some of the sovereign nations of this assembly disagreed with our actions", but said unity remained one of the fundamental principles and objectives of the UN.
"So, let us move forward," he said.
Bush said the war had been justified by what had been learned about the cruelty of Saddam, whose whereabouts remain unknown, despite a major manhunt. He held out the possibility that the promised weapons of mass destruction might yet be found.
"The regime of Saddam Hussein cultivated ties to terror while it built weapons of mass destruction. It used those weapons in acts of mass murder, and refused to account for them when confronted by the world," Bush said.
"We are now interviewing Iraqi citizens and analysing records of the old regime, to reveal the full extent of its weapons programs and long campaign of deception," he said.
He also called on the UN to adopt a resolution making it illegal for so-called outlaw regimes to possess chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons.
"These weapons could be used by terrorists to bring sudden disaster and suffering on a scale we can scarcely imagine," he said.
Bush spoke as the US sought support for a new UN resolution to create a multinational force for Iraq, offering a role for the UN that appeared to be more limited than some leaders want.
He said the UN should help to develop a constitution, train civil servants, and conduct free and fair elections.
Shortly after Bush spoke, French President Jacques Chirac, a key opponent of the Iraqi war, criticised the unilateral nature of the US-led invasion.
Bush was to later meet Chirac, who has also criticised a US draft resolution circulated to the 15-member Security Council for not turning over at least symbolic sovereignty to an Iraqi governing council, then transferring power gradually over six to nine months.
The White House wanted to transfer authority as quickly as possible, but doubted it could be done before next summer.
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There has been a flurry of books in recent years about concussions in sports, an issue MomsTeam and I began covering back in 2001, way before the crisis grabbed the attention of the media, politicians and the sports establishment. So, when I received a review copy of Throwaway Players: The Concussion Crisis from Pee Wee Football to the NFL by Gay Culverhouse, I was a bit skeptical that it could add anything new to the discussion.
I couldn't have been more wrong! I loved this book! It is a must-read for parents for one simple reason: as former President of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL, with a doctorate in special education and mental retardation, and as a woman and mother, Gay has a unique perspective on the concussion crisis in football. Culverhouse offers an oftentimes painfully honest, up-close-and-personal glimpse into a world and a culture most of us have never seen: a place in which, for far too long, the lifelong damage that is inflicted on the brains and bodies of football players has been swept under the rug in the name of the big business of sports, in the name of entertainment not unlike, as she says in the book, the fights of gladiators at the Coliseum in ancient Rome.
The book contains poignant stories of NFL players Gay has known who have grown old before their time, suffering from early dementia and clueless to their surroundings after a career taking blows to the head. She talks about the sexism she encountered as a female executive in the male-dominated world of professional sports. She writes of athletes abusing their bodies with performance enhancing drugs, of testifying to Congress, and of forming a non-profit organization to assist retired players in accessing NFL benefits. Throwaway Players not only "shines the light on the underbelly of America's sport," but issues a clarion call to everyone involved in football, from the NFL to youth football, to make sports less violent and much safer.
Gay takes pains throughout the book to make clear that she "does not want to kill the game of football." Her goal is for there to come a day in the not-too-distant future, in which our sons, and their children, and their children's children, play a smart game of football; a world in which they aren't tempted to use performance enhancing drugs, one in which, after they hang up their helmets, they don't need, as is sadly the case with far too many, a drool bib because they suffer from early onset Alzheimer's or Parkinson's, dementia and or mind-dulling addictions; for football parents to make sure their sons develop secondary skills so they have a career after they leave the game.Throwaway Players is an important and timely book by a woman with the courage to speak truth to power, and with a burning passion to make a difference in the lives of football players everywhere. Its breezy, conversational style makes it an easy read, but one deserving the attention of every football parent, coach, and player. | <urn:uuid:9a6c07db-f5d2-461b-8027-35b43fce9cb0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.momsteam.com/books/throwaway-players-concussion-crisis-from-pee-wee-football-nfl | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976785 | 621 | 1.609375 | 2 |
The inviolable rule of the professional is uniformity of action. Any departure from the customary manner of holding, shuffling, cutting or dealing the cards may be noticed, and is consequently avoided... Whether the procedure is true or 'blind,' the same apparent action is maintained throughout." - The Expert at the Card Table, 1902
"Volume upon volume has been written on cards. Paying particular attention to the uniformity of action is generally a minor detail in most compositions. However, this subject is a crucial one. Its implementation helps eliminate suspicion in the minds of the spectators. Connecting the dodges of showing two or three cards as one, the Gemini Count, top change, various false counts, etc., with a common link of uniformity strengthens the overall ability to deceive the already suspicious crowd... The various techniques are logical and the style is compatible with the way most handle playing cards when they are not trying to do a contrived maneuver of some sort. Their utility is far reaching and many of these techniques have served me for over thirty years. On many occasions, they have caught the well-posted card magician off guard for one reason or another." - It's a Matter of Style, 1997
In addition to card effects, Bob White teaches a uniform system for showing a single card, doing double and triple lifts, false counts (including the Elmsley and Gemini counts) and one-handed Tilt.
White's Fingerprint Trick
Lie Detector Test
Thought-Of Card Across
E.G. Brown's Spelling Trick
Ambitious Classic Revisited
Slow Motion Jazz Aces
Ladies and Gentlemen
A Chemical Reaction
Dai Vernon's unpublished Penetration of Thought & Double Pinochle
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Teleconference on Legislation to Help Curtail Overuse Of Antibiotics on Factory Farms
March 17, 2009
901 E St. NW
Washington, DC 200004
Chipotle restaurant CEO joins Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) and leading antibiotic expert to discuss the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009
An audio recording of this event is now available (MP3).
Nearly one year after the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production recommended that America reform the way food animals are raised, Rep. Louise Slaughter will reintroduce on Tuesday, March 17, the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009 (PAMTA).
The bill will seek the withdrawal of antibiotics important to human health from use on factory farms unless animals are sick. Medical experts agree that the misuse of antibiotics in industrial farming directly contributes to a dramatic rise in antibiotic-resistant infections in people. Opinion leaders have also been weighing in on the issue, including in a column from New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, seen here.
Members of the media may join a teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, March 17, 2009, to find out more about this new legislation and why it is important to protecting human health.
- Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), Chair of the House Rules Committee, microbiologist with Masters Degree in Public Health
- Steve Ells, founder, chairman and co-CEO, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.
- Dr. Stuart Levy, director, Center for Adaptation Genetics and Drug Resistance at Tufts University School of Medicine
- Dr. Shelley Hearne, managing director, Pew Health & Human Services Policy Program
Press teleconference to discuss the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009, legislation that would curtail the misuse of antibiotics on factory farms.
Tuesday, March 17, 11 a.m. EDT
Call-in: 800-311-9403, Passcode: 187086
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According to estimates by the Union of Concerned Scientists, 50 million pounds of antibiotics – nearly 70 percent of all antibiotics sold in the U.S. – have been used in food animals for purposes other than treating disease since PAMTA was last introduced two years ago. Antibiotics are commonly fed to entire flocks or herds in their daily feed or water to compensate for overcrowded, often unsanitary conditions and to promote weight gain, giving rise to new strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. At the same time, few new antibiotics are entering the market to take the place of ineffective ones. The Food and Drug Administration last approved a new antibiotic for humans in 2003.
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Allāh - (الله)
The Takbīr or Tekbir (تَكْبِير) is the Arabic term for the phrase Allāhu Akbar (الله أكبر). The phrase literally means "God is greater"; it is usually translated "God is [the] Greatest," or . It is a common Islamic Arabic expression. It is used in various contexts by Muslims: in formal prayer, as an informal expression of faith, in times of distress, to express celebration or victory, and to express resolute determination or defiance.
The form Allāhu is the nominative of Allah "God". The form akbar is the elative of the adjective kabīr "great", from the root k-b-r. As used in the takbir it is usually translated as "greatest", but some authors prefer "greater". The term takbīr itself is the stem II verbal noun (tafʿīlun) of the triliteral root k-b-r "great".
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This phrase is recited by Muslims in many different situations. For example, when they are very happy, to express approval, to praise a speaker, or as a battle cry, during times of extreme stress. In the Islamic world, instead of applause, often someone will shout "takbir" and the crowd will respond "Allahu Akbar" in response.
In prayer
The phrase is said during each stage of both obligatory prayers (performed five times a day), and supererogatory prayers (performed at will). The Muslim call to prayer (adhan) by the muezzin and to commence prayer (iqama) also contains the phrase.
In times of distress
This phrase is also used in times of distress.
Just before a Garuda Airbus A300B-4 crashed into the jungle near Medan, Indonesia, the pilot screamed "Aaaaaah! Allahu Akbar!" into his radio. According to a radio communication transcript, the pilot's conversation with the air controller had been in English, but his last words were this Arabic phrase as the plane crashed on September 26, 1997, killing all 235 people aboard in Indonesia's deadliest crash. It was suspected that the crash may have been due to either disorientation or engine failure caused by local dense smog resulting from forest fires.
After a failed attempt to climb the world's second highest peak, K2, according to Greg Mortenson's book, he was greeted by his porter with the phrase, "Allah Akbar! Blessings to Allah you're alive!"
Islamic extremism usage
After 9/11, the FBI released a letter reportedly handwritten by the hijackers and found in three separate locations on September 11, 2001 — at Dulles International Airport, at the Pennsylvania crash site, and in hijacker Mohamed Atta's suitcase. It included a checklist of final reminders for the 9/11 hijackers. An excerpt reads: "When the confrontation begins, strike like champions who do not want to go back to this world. Shout, 'Allahu Akbar,' because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers." Also, in the cockpit voice recorders found at the crash site of Flight 93, the hijackers are heard to be reciting the Takbir repeatedly as the plane plummeted toward the ground and the passengers attempted to retake control of the plane.
When in March 2002 Maryam Mohammad Yousif Farhat of Hamas, popularized as "Umm Nidal" (and subsequently elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council), learned that her 17-year-old son had died during a suicide attack in which he killed five teenagers, she celebrated by proclaiming "Allahu Akbar!" and giving out boxes of halva and chocolates. In 2003, when Imam Samudra became the second Bali bomber from a violent Islamist group to be sentenced to death for his role in the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, Samudra greeted his sentence with chants of "Allahu Akbar".
In 2004, in an execution video of Nick Berg being beheaded in Iraq, as one man sawed off Berg's head the other captors shouted: "Allahu Akbar!". And in the 2007 Fort Dix attack plot, a group of radical Islamists who were convicted of plotting an attack on the Fort Dix military base in New Jersey had videotaped themselves shooting weapons and shouting Allahu Akbar. In 2008, Aafia Siddiqui yelled "Allah Akbar" as she allegedly fired at U.S. interrogators.
During the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, witnesses reported that gunman Nidal Malik Hasan shouted "Allahu Akbar" before opening fire, killing 13 people and wounding 30 others. And Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad smiled and said "Allahu Akbar" after receiving a life sentence in 2010 for his attempted bombing.
During the incident aboard American Airlines Flight 1561, the person attempting to bash his way into the cockpit was heard shouting "Allahu Akbar". Mohammed Merah recorded himself shouting Allahu Akbar as he killed three French paratroopers in the 2012 Midi-Pyrénées shootings.
In warfare and politics
In history
It has been used historically as a battle cry during war.
Iranian usage
During the Iranian revolution of 1979, it was shouted from rooftops in Iran during the evenings as a form of protest. This practice returned in the aftermath of the 2009 Iranian presidential election, to protest the election results. Many people shouted it from 22:00–22:30 every night, after the 2009 Iranian election to protest the result.
On flags
The phrase "Allahu Akbar" is written on the center of the flag of Iraq, 22 times along the borders of the central white stripe on the flag of Iran, and beneath the Shahadah in the flag of Afghanistan in white script on the central red background as determined by the 2004 draft constitution.
During the Persian Gulf war in January 1991, Saddam Hussein held a meeting with top military commanders, where it was decided to add the words Allahu Akbar (described as the Islamic battle cry) to Iraq's flag to boost his secular regime's religious credentials, casting himself as the leader of an Islamic army. Henceforth, he said, the flag would literally be "the banner of jihad and monotheism".
In 2004, Iraq's U.S.-picked Governing Council approved a new flag for Iraq that abandoned symbols of Hussein's regime, such as the words Allahu Akbar. In January 2008, however, Iraq's parliament passed a law to change the flag by leaving in the phrase, but changing the calligraphy of the words Allahu Akbar, which had been a copy of Saddam's handwriting, to a Kufic script.
The Afghan constitution that came into force on January 4, 2004, required that Allahu Akbar be inscribed on Afghanistan's national flag.
- 1930s Waziristan (Pakistan) resistance movement
Flag of Iraq, with stylized Kufic script
Flag of Iran, introduced in 1980
Flag of 1930s Waziristan (Pakistan) resistance movement
See also
- E. W. Lane, Arabic English Lexicon, 1893, gives for kabir: "greater, and greatest, in body, or corporeal substance, and in estimation or rank or dignity, and more, or most, advanced in age, older, and oldest" (p. 2587). The translator of Ibn Qayyim's "The Way to Patience and Gratitude" into English[who?] opts for "Allah is Greater". In the Second Edition on page 463, an explanation is given: "...I preferred using 'the Greater' to 'the Greatest', as it is commonly used. Allahu Akbar literally means, "Allah is Greater" with the comparative mode. Yet, this does not mean that He (Glory be to Him) is not the Greatest, nor does it mean that there is anything that is put in comparison with Him. This is because when the Muslim says it, he means He is "Greater" than anything else, which, consequently, means He is the Greatest. This use gives more influence. This may be why it is used in Arabic this way, otherwise it should have been used as "Allahu al-Akbar", in the superlative mode. Surely, Allah Knows best. (Translator)..."
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Editor's Note: As part of a symposium at the "Stuck with Virtue" conference at Berry College in Georgia earlier this year, Reason Science Correpondent Ronald Bailey argued for using biotech, infotech, and nanotech to enhance human intellectual, phyiscal, and emotional capabilities. His essay, along with responses, has now been published in the current issue of The New Atlantis. An excerpt begins below:
Does the enhancement of human physical and intellectual capacities undermine virtue?
In answering this question, we must first make a distinction between therapy and enhancement. Therapeutic technologies are meant to restore impaired or degraded human capacities to some more normal level. By contrast, any enhancements would alter human functioning beyond the normal.
We must also keep in mind that, whatever we think about them, enhancements are going to happen. Age-retardation or even age-reversal are prime targets for research, but other techniques aimed at preventing disease and boosting memory, intelligence, and physical strength will also be developed.
Much worried attention is focused particularly on the possibility of achieving these and other enhancements through genetic engineering; that will indeed one day happen. But the fastest advances in enhancement will occur using pharmaceutical and biomedical interventions to modulate and direct the activity of existing genes in the bodies of people who are already alive. These will happen alongside the development of human-machine interfaces that will extend and boost human capacities.
Contrary to oft-expressed concerns, we will find, first, that enhancements will better enable people to flourish; second, that enhancements will not dissolve whatever existential worries people have; third, that enhancements will enable people to become more virtuous; fourth, that people who don’t want enhancement for themselves should allow those of us who do to go forward without hindrance; fifth, that concerns over an “enhancement divide” are largely illusory; and sixth, that we already have at hand the social “technology,” in the form of protective social and political institutions, that will enable the enhanced and the unenhanced to dwell together in peace. ...
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On August 2, 1971, the Austin Public Library officially opened its North Village Branch in storefront property within the North Village Shopping Center. The conveniently located 3,000-square-foot facility replaced an APL mobile trailer that for some time had been busily checking out books from the shopping center parking lot. The library moved only once in its 30-year history, in 1990, when it shifted a few doors down to a larger space within the Center, expanding to 5,000 square feet. In the 1998 City of Austin Bond Election, voters approved funding for the land acquisition, design, and construction of the North Village Branch Replacement Project to better serve the growing populations of the north central Austin neighborhoods. The Grand Opening of the new North Village Branch was held on Saturday, May 30, 2009. The Branch was patterned after the “library for the future” model, a library design concept which borrows many of its characteristics from upscale bookstores. Today, the North Village Branch features one of the largest DVD collections in the APL system, an express area furnished with automated self-check equipment, a sizeable children’s area and teen center, lots of sunshine and natural light, a beverage station with coffee, tea, and hot chocolate for purchase, two listening stations programmed with selections from the Branch’s CD collection, and a very “green” building complete with a rainwater harvesting system for irrigation, rooftop solar panels for electrical power generation, and xeriscape landscaping incorporating native plants. | <urn:uuid:cfcea111-ac38-439c-a522-cda51dffad31> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://library.austintexas.gov/locations/North%20Village%20Branch | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949171 | 307 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Satyan, Prem Nazir, K.P. Ummer, Sarada, Ambika, Jayabharathi etc
The social and political plays staged by Kerala Peoples Arts Club, popularly known as KPAC were instant hits. Most of such plays were made into films. Several of these plays were written by Thoppil Bhasi, the renowned playwright.
Mooladhanam written by him and published in 1958 was a hit and successful on the stage too. The play was made into a film with the same name by M. Kassim under the banner of Azeem Company and was released on August 15, 1969. The film was a huge box office hit. The script and dialogues were written by the playwright. Thoppil Bhasi won the State award for the best script. Directed by P. Bhaskaran, the film was shot at Vasu Studios. Cinematography was by P. R. Ramalingam, editing was done jointly by K. Narayanan and K. Sankunny. Music was by G. Devarajan and lyrics by P. Bhaskaran.
A multi-starrer, the film had Sathyan, Prem Nazir, K. P. Ummer, Sharada, Jayabharathi, Ambika in lead roles.
The story is set in the background of Diwan’s rule in the State of Travancore. Ravi (Sathyan) and Mammootty (Prem Nazir) lead the agitation against the Diwan’s rule. The government files cases against them and both of them go underground. The government declares a cash reward for information about them. Ravi seeks refuge in his friend Madhu’s (K. P. Ummer) house. A supporter of the Diwan, Madhu refuses. Ravi entrusts the manuscript of his novel Palungu and asks him to publish it in his pen name Soman.
Mammootty is arrested by the police. Ravi gets a job as a tuition master in the house of a retired magistrate Narayana Pillai (Eddy) and hides there.
Ravi’s house and property are confiscated and the police arrests his wife Sarada (Sarada). Ravi’s children Appu (Master Pramod) and Ammini (Sai Suseela) leave their home and reach Ravi’s hideout. Without revealing her identity Ammini takes up a job in the house. Madhu gets Sarada released from jail. He wants Sarada to live with him but she refuses.
Madhu publishes the novel Palungu in his own name and it wins an award. Fascinated by the novel, Narayana Pillai’s daughter Malathi (Ambika) becomes a fan of Madhu’s and invites him home for a celebration. Ravi and Madhu come face to face. Madhu reveals Ravi’s identity and Ravi is arrested and sent to jail.
The police frames Appu in a false case and arrests him. Sarada has no choice but to live with Madhu in order to rescue Appu. Mammootty’s wife Nabeesa (Jayabharathi) supports Sarada and her children. Ravi and Mammootty are released from jail.
Ravi realises Madhu’s deviousness and how he trapped Sarada. He understands why his faithful wife, Sarada, gave in to Madhu’s demands and they live happily ever after.
Satyan and Sarada excelled in their highly emotional roles. K. P. Ummer’s villainous character was a new experience to the audience. His refrain describing himself as a “vikaara jeevi” (a person easily susceptible to desires) gave an entirely different face to his ‘cold blooded’ villain.
Songs written by P. Bhaskaran and composed by Devarajan became timeless hits. “Swarga Gayike Ithiley Ithiley…“ (Yesudas), “Ente Veenakambiyellaam…” (Yesudas) and “Pularanayappol Poonkozhi Kooviappol…” (Suseela) became instant hits. Other hits were “Oro thulli chorayil ninnum…” (Yesudas, C. O. Anto, Venu and chorus) and “Olichu Pidichu…” (Suseela)
Will be remembered: Winner of the Kerala State Award for the best script in 1969. Excellent music and a good social movie. | <urn:uuid:f70bb5d6-fcda-410f-a35e-ff77b71a2a15> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/mooladhanam-1969/article4016592.ece | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976322 | 989 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Posts Tagged ‘Cancer’
It’s the shape of cancer care in the future, smaller, satellite clinics in local hospitals. Today, the Woodstock Hospital, showcased its new Chemotherapy Clinic.
We know the benefits of Aspirin as a pain reliever and as a blood thinner helping to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke. But three new studies in the journal Lancet find that ASA could also be a tool in preventing cancer.
They are partners with a passion for a cure. The Canadian Cancer Society has joined forces with the London Regional Cancer Society and the London Health Sciences Centre Foundation. Catherine Zeisner is a thyroid cancer survivor who took part in the survivor victory lap in the 2011 Relay For Life. She was on hand as they announced the new partnership which should bring more teams and more funds to the Relay For Life. The 12-hour overnight circuit around TD Waterhouse Stadium will start on June 15th this year. With corporate sponsors covering expenses organizers say all money raised will go directly to cancer treatment care and research.
There are few things in life more traumatizing than seeing a child in pain, or sick with illness. But at Windsor Regional Hospital kids are fighting back with karate. Michelle Maluske explains. | <urn:uuid:cfad2631-3fcb-419e-8d61-50f3341113a3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://londonlifetime.wordpress.com/tag/cancer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948774 | 256 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Features Part 1 - A simple feature
I first heard about features at DrupalCon DC and while it seemed like a nice idea, I couldn't really see how it could be practical to someone who can already write their own modules. Of course, I thought exactly the same of views when I first learned of it too.
If you build Drupal sites and you've never built a feature before, it's about time you gave it a go! This post will walk you through what a feature is and how to go about building one. In a later post I'll show you how to make your feature re-usable and why it's important.
A "feature" is simply a collection of drupal objects wrapped up into a module. Most of my features contains views, content types, permissions, image styles (imagecache presets in D6), etc. One of the goals of features was to provide a way to move database configuration into code, which also has the side effect of allowing you track any changes through your favorite revision control tool. While technically a feature is pretty much as simple as that, it becomes a very powerful tool when it comes to building Drupal platforms, re-usability between sites, and the dev -> staging -> production workflow. This concept is so important that there's even a major Drupal 8 initiative in the works with heyrocker behind it: http://groups.drupal.org/node/134569.
A common need for most websites these days is a simple blog. I've built a blog for websites at least a dozen times. The concept is simple enough and it only takes about an hour or two to set one up if you've done it before (not necessarily including theming work), but if you have a re-usable blog feature you'd save yourself that hour or two for every new site. If you bill out at $100/h, that can add up to some real money pretty fast.
Step 1: The prerequisites:
Starting with a fresh D7 "minimal" site install is probably best so you don't include settings from other parts of the site you don't intend to. Download and install a few standard modules that you'll want for the feature:
Next you'll need the features "toolkit" that will consist of a number of modules necessary for exporting various parts of our site. Download and install the following modules:
- Features - This provides the core UI and functionality for creating features.
- Strongarm - Strongarm, though it has other uses, in this case it will primarily allow us to export settings from the variables table into your features.
- Context - Contexts is a bit more difficult to explain, but for our purposes, we'll be using it to allow us to export the block layout among other things.
- Diff - This allows you to easily compare changes in your features as you're working on your site.
As you get into building features, you'll find you need to change the way you deal with some parts of your site build. One of the bigger changes is how you handle blocks. Because the default Drupal block system is not exportable you need to use a different solution. This is where contexts and boxes come in. Contexts is basically an input/output system... as a block replacement tool. the input is the current 'page' (node, views listing etc), and the output is the positioning of the blocks on the page. It should all make sense in a moment :). For more background on this I strongly recommend reading Affinity Bridge's "abridged" series of posts on the topic:
Step 2: Building a blog
This blog feature will consist of the following:
* Blog content type
* Tags vocabulary
* Blog listing view
* Recent comments block
* Recent posts block
* Notify users of new comments (ie comment_notify)
When creating CCK types for use in features, always try to create unique fields. Features need to be somewhat independent from each other and things will be much smoother if you don't try to create generic fields that can be re-used.
Add a vocabulary called "tags" or "blog tags" (again, try not to share vocabularies across features).
Create the blog content type with a body field (called blog_body) and a term reference (called blog_tags) . Note that all settings (comment, display, etc. that you add to the content type will be exported with the feature).
Create the views necessary for the blog (or download the exports attached to this post):
- A full listing of blog posts containing the most recent posts
- Page display (path of /blog)
- Views rss display (path of /blog.xml)
- Recent blog entries
- Block containing the 5 most recent entries
- New blog comments
- Block containing the 10 newest comments on the blog
Let's put the recent comments and recent posts block next to each other on the /blog listing page. We can't use the block system for this as it's not exportable, so instead we'll use contexts. Create a new context and call it "blog_blocks". Add both a Views and a Node condition and set them up accordingly. Now add a Block reaction and add the two blocks in the proper regions (or download my context export at the end of this post).
Finally, enable and configure the comment_notify module so that readers / posters will be notified when new comments are posted.
Step 3: Creating the feature
If you made it here, then awesome! We're ready to export our blog feature now. This will give us a fully functional Drupal module that we could potentially take to any site.
Browse to admin/structure/features/create to create the new feature. Be careful when naming features as you don't want to conflict with the Drupal core or contrib module namespace (i.e. Calling this feature "blog" would conflict with the blog module). Give it a name like "blog feature" or "my blog feature" or "super awesome blog". You can safely ignore the version and URL fields for now but I'll touch on that later.
Under "Edit components" select everything we just created.
- Context: blog_blocks
- Fields: node-blog-*, comment-comment_node_blog-comment_body
- Content types: Blog
- Taxonomy: Blog tags
- All comment_notify permissions
- All "Node: Blog:" permissions
- All Taxonomy "Blog Tags" permissions
- Strongarm: comment_notify_*
- Views: blog_listing, recent_blog_comments
After you've completed this, you should see a listing on the right hand of the page that looks something like this:
You'll notice some items are in blue, and others black. Features automatically identifies dependencies and adds them as the blue items. For example, all of the comment and node settings for the Blog type have been automatically added from the variables table.
Download your feature and untar it to your sites/mysite.com/modules/features/ folder. On the main features page (admin/structure/features) you should see the blog feature you just created listed there. All you have to do now is enable the feature and you're done!
I'll get into managing your feature in the next post where I'll explain the state and actions columns as well as how to update your feature.
I've added the full feature export to the attachments as well.
I've found a few other links to check out on this topic:
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From January 2013,Tallinn will be the first European capital to offer free public transport to its citizens. According to The Baltic Times (August 23, 2012), with the new ticketing system the City of Tallinn will lose approximately €14 million in uncollected ticket revenues in 2013. But then the current system of ticket sales is seen as overpriced anyhow and wasteful for the environment.
Street network in Tallinn: 2,012 km
Roadways: 1,014km Sidewalks: 923 km Bicycle paths: 210 km
The long-term environmental benefits to having fewer cars circulating are evident while citizens will also enjoy cleaner air and less noise pollution. Although several small and medium size cities have already converted to the free-fare public transport system, Tallinn is definitely setting an example and opening the way for other European capitals to follow.
Is free public transport enough of an incentive for commuters to shift to public transport? In Tallinn, paper tickets will be abolished and regardless of a person’s place of residence, anyone under 19 will be allowed to ride for free. Users of the public transport who are not residents of Tallinn will have to buy e-tickets or electronic cards.
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A House or a Home?
As you may know, Aileen and I just bought our first house. While we found the house quite quickly (as these things go), we first toured several towns and walked through fifteen or twenty houses looking for just the right one. As we toured house after house it quickly became apparent which homeowners had invested some extra effort in making their homes attractive to prospective buyers. I’m sure you have experienced what we did. Some houses were immediately attractive to us, even if they did not meet our needs or appeal us as asthetically. The houses that had the greatest appeal were those that were truly homes.
There is a difference between a house and a home, isn’t there? A newly constructed neighborhood not far from me advertises “homes beginning in the low 300’s.” But they aren’t really selling homes, are they? They are selling houses. A house only becomes a home when a person lives in it and when it begins to take on the personality of the inhabitants. An empty house is just a shell. It is much like a dead human body. It is a body, but it is not a person.
There is a lot a person can do to increase the potential of selling his house. Interestingly, many of these revolve around making a house more like a home. A house that has furniture in it is likely to sell for a higher price than a house that is empty. Pictures on the wall, lights that are turned on and beds that are made make a house look like a home. The smell of fresh bread or cookies makes a house smell like a pleasant home. And that is what people are looking for when they buy a house. They are looking for a house in which they can make a home. There is an immediate attraction to a house that feels like a home!
As I was reflecting on the difference between a house and a home this morning I turned, as I often seem to, to the Bible. I found myself reading in the fourteenth chapter of John. We read there an incredible promise of Jesus. Preparing to face his last hours, Jesus spent an evening teaching his disciples and telling them that He would soon be taken from them. Yet in His goodness and compassion He promised not to leave His disciples alone. “I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth.” Jesus promised to ask the Father to send the Holy Spirit to be a helper to His people. But there is more. This Holy Spirit will not only dwell with us, but will make his abode in us. “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.” God Himself will make His home in us.
That little word, translated home, is used in this chapter of the Bible and nowhere else. The Bible Exposition Commentary says the following: “If we treasure His Word and obey it, then the Father and the Son will share Their love with us and make Their home in us. The word translated “abode” in John 14:23 means “make our home” and is related to “mansions” in John 14:2. When the sinner trusts Christ, he is born again and the Spirit immediately enters his body and bears witness that he is a child of God. The Spirit is resident and will not depart. But as the believer yields to the Father, loves the Word, prays, and obeys, there is a deeper relationship with the Father, Son, and Spirit. Salvation means we are going to heaven, but submission means that heaven comes to us!”
Is that not an incredible promise? When we are saved and regenerated by the power of God, God Himself dwells within us. He builds not just a house but a home. He takes up permanent residence within us, promising never to forget or forsake us. Once He takes up residence in our hearts He promises never to leave. Heaven truly comes to us! As I meditated upon this promise I was moved to praise God for living in and with me and for giving His word that He will remain there forever. Truly He is good to me. | <urn:uuid:6835b86f-c6db-4c8f-a654-f33785fba937> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.challies.com/personal-reflections/a-house-or-a-home | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9849 | 892 | 1.71875 | 2 |
As the Saturday night showing of The Great Dictator at the Redford Theatre on Sept. 26, 2009 wound down, I thought back over the fun of sponsoring this movie under the name of this web site. Usually I’m just a visitor, enjoying one show, along with some organ music and some tasty, inexpensive snack food. But this weekend, I was much more involved, and got to see the hard work and magic of the Redford unfold over three showings.
I had been preparing for this sponsorship for several months. The first big charge of satisfaction came on Friday evening, before the doors opened for the public, when I set up a display in the outer lobby that included publicity for the Detroit Film Theatre, Michigan Theater, and Redford Theatre, along with a display of information about the opening of The Great Dictator in New York, Detroit, and Ann Arbor in 1940 and 1941.
As I set up my display, all around me were the friendly voices of different Redford volunteers greeting each other, with an air of familiarity and anticipation. Another great weekend of Redford entertainment was taking shape, and this time I had the privilege of being part of it.
I had never seen The Great Dictator, and its powerful message hit me very strongly from the big screen of the Redford Theatre. Its serious subject matter made me shy away from watching it on TV. It seemed to be a movie that you had to see in a theater.
Through the years, the Detroit Movie Palaces has hosted a wide variety of Charlie Chaplin movies, including the short films from the World War I era that made him famous, through notable movies like Modern Times and City Lights, through A King in New York (1957). It seemed like only a matter of time before The Great Dictator would show up on the screen at the Detroit Film Theatre, Michigan Theater, or Redford Theatre.
I was particularly moved by a scene in which Paulette Goddard spoke directly to the audience, asking in an emotion-filled voice why people couldn’t be left alone. Up to then, I had been enjoying her spunk, humor, and beauty, and now I could also admire her heart, mind, and soul.
This 1940 film about the oppression of Jews by an Adolph Hitler-like character (played by Charles—not Charlie—Chaplin) was particularly meaningful, coming one day after Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s powerful rebuke at the United Nations to Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s denial of the Jewish holocaust of World War II. As current history plays out, I’m sure that I will think back to the integrity and principles of many of the characters of The Great Dictator.
Seeing the movie three times in one weekend gave me the chance to explore it in detail and look forward to my favorite parts, from the amazing pantomime of Chaplin, to the burst of comic energy provided by Jack Oakie in the second half of the movie, to the poignant hope in Paulette Goddard’s face as the film faded out at the end.
Chaplin Speaks Out
And then there was Chaplin’s famous speech near the end of the movie, when he steps out of character, and speaks directly to the audience in a loud, passionate voice about the evils of the dictators that he satirizes and mocks in The Great Dictator.
In my research for this movie, I found mixed feelings about Chaplin’s speech by the movie critics of 1940 (when it opened in New York) and 1941 (when it opened in Detroit and Ann Arbor). In general, they admired it, but didn’t feel it fit in with the story line. But in 2009, with all we know about the horrors of World War II that were yet to come, his speech was perfectly appropriate. It was Chaplin’s first talking picture, and he took full advantage of this new freedom to let his voice be heard.
Also on the bill was a Three Stooges short that had a similar theme to The Great Dictator, and was released about nine months before the Chaplin film. In You Nazty Spy!, our three bumbling friends poked serious fun at Hitler and other current day tyrants. Like The Great Dictator, it skillfully used humor to make an important statement about the world situation.
Seeing the Stooges and Chaplin together in these two similar movies was another great package of Redford entertainment, which also included a lively Charlie Chaplin imitator (Bruce Race), who amused the audience throughout the auditorium and lobbies. These great packages continue in October 2009 with weekends of Halloween fun with themes of science fiction, Universal Studios monsters, silent film, and once again (on Halloween weekend), the Three Stooges.
As I wandered around the Redford Saturday night, I felt like I had traveled back 30 years to when I ran a film committee in college. And I thought about how the Redford volunteers have this same feeling of involvement, this same feeling of accomplishment, with every event. Just before I left, I looked around and saw one more demonstration of the dedication of the Redford staff, as it cleaned up the theater, taking care of the final details of another successful weekend of film and fun.
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The 15th ICOMOS General Assembly and the International Scientific Symposium with the theme Monuments and Sites in their Setting: Conserving Cultural Heritage in Changing Townscapes and Landscapes were officially opened on 17 October in Xi’an, China. A special celebration marking ICOMOS’s 40th anniversary and an exhibition on its achievements during its existence are planned during the meeting which will end on 21 October.
As one of the Advisory Bodies of the World Heritage Committee, ICOMOS provides the Committee with evaluations of properties with cultural and mixed values proposed for inscription on the World Heritage List, as well as with comparative studies, technical assistance and reports on the state of conservation of inscribed properties.
Since its inception as an organization created to foster and promote scientific and professional exchange related to the care and conservation of immoveable cultural heritage, ICOMOS’s focus has largely been on the conservation of individual heritage places, such as monuments, sites, ensembles or landscapes. Yet this focus has always been complemented by particular concern for the relationship between places and their setting, and the crucial role setting plays in the overall significance of cultural heritage. However, increasing concerns about the impact of rapid development on the environment, is supporting the need to broaden attention from a narrow focus on individual sites or places to a more spatial approach which reflects, and works to engage with, wider cultural, social and economic forces.
The International Scientific Symposium of Xi’ian will take place parallel to the General Assembly and will concentrate on four themes: definition, threats, tools and there will be a special focus on heritage routes. Each theme will be treated in plenary sessions and by panels so as to optimize the exchange of experience and interdisciplinary approaches. In addition, poster sessions and professional fora will enable participants to address other related topics and share their experiences in the fields of materials, technologies, methods, tools and information management, etc.
At the close of the General Assembly, the Xi’ian Declaration will be produced which will embody recommendations and guidance on ways to appraise, manage and protect settings which reflect not only planning and legal perspectives but also cultural, social and economic approaches, that allow wider community participation and benefit. | <urn:uuid:2ab94321-71d4-4381-b475-c5258120cfc7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/198 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943706 | 453 | 2.03125 | 2 |
An assault weapons ban sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein cleared a key Senate committee Thursday but will likely fail in the broader Senate.
Democrats pushed an assault weapons ban through a Senate committee on Thursday and toward its likely doom on the Senate floor, after an emotion-laden debate that underscored the deep feelings the issue stokes on both sides.
Exactly three months after 26 children and educators were gunned down in Newtown, Conn., the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the measure on a party-line 10-8 vote. The bill would also bar ammunition magazines carrying more than 10 rounds.
Thursday's vote marked the fourth gun control measure the committee has approved in a week and shifted the spotlight to the full Senate. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he will decide soon how to bring the measures to the chamber, where debate is expected next month.
"Americans are looking to us for solutions and for action," said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. He said that despite gun-rights advocates' claims, the Second Amendment's right to bear arms is not at risk, but "lives are at risk" unless lawmakers can figure out how to keep firearms away from dangerous people.
The other bills would require federal background checks to more would-be gun buyers, make it easier for authorities to prosecute illegal gun traffickers and boost school safety aid.
In a written statement, President Barack Obama thanked senators "for taking another step forward in our common effort to help reduce gun violence" and said Congress should vote on all the proposals. He said assault weapons "are designed for the battlefield, and they have no place on our streets, in our schools, or threatening our law enforcement officers."
Barring assault weapons was part of Obama's plan for reducing gun violence. But banning the high-powered weapons has encountered strong opposition from congressional Republicans and elicited little enthusiasm among moderate Democratic senators up for re-election next year in GOP-leaning states in the West and South.
The measure's sponsor, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and her supporters say the ban would help eliminate the type of firearms and magazines that have been used with deadly effect at Newtown and several other recent mass shootings. Opponents say barring the guns would violate the right to bear arms and have little overall impact because assault weapons are involved in small percentages of gun crimes.
At one point Thursday, Feinstein responded angrily after Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, asked if she would also support limiting the First Amendment's freedom of speech by denying its protection to some books.
"I'm not a sixth grader. Senator, I've been on this committee for 20 years" and studied the issue for a long time, she told Cruz. She later added: "It's fine you want to lecture me on the Constitution. I appreciate it. Just know I've been here a long time."
Cruz, an outspoken conservative freshman, answered, "Nobody doubts her sincerity and her passion and yet at the same time, I'd note she chose not to answer the question."
"The answer is obvious — no," Feinstein said later.
She and other Democrats also argued that there are limits on many constitutional rights. Leahy said the state Board of Education in Cruz's home state "has told people what books they should or shouldn't read" — a reference to that conservative-led board that controls the state's school curriculum standards.
Cruz said lawmakers should make decisions about gun legislation using "facts and data and by the Constitution, not by passion."
Before the ban was approved, Democrats defeated Republican amendments seeking to exempt groups including sexual abuse victims and people who live near the Southwest border.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said Feinstein's measure wouldn't stop criminals from obtaining assault weapons and complained, "We're going to give the American citizens a pea-shooter to defend themselves with."
Feinstein said there was no evidence that people can't defend themselves just as well with a handgun.
At one point, Leahy, an avid gun owner, said some of the debate reminded him of movies depicting "zombie takeovers," adding, "I've always been perfectly satisfied with my .45 that I have at home."
Feinstein's bill would ban semi-automatic weapons — guns that fire one round and automatically reload — that can take a detachable magazine and have at least one military feature like a pistol grip.
It specifically bans 157 named weapons. In an effort to avoid antagonizing those who use them for sports, the measure allows 2,258 rifles and shotguns that are frequently used by hunters.
It also exempts any weapons that are lawfully owned whenever the bill is enacted.
Many expect the assault weapons ban won't be included in the basic bill the Senate debates next month, but will be offered as an amendment. That would mean it would likely need 60 votes to prevail in the 100-member chamber — a difficult margin for Feinstein since there are only 53 Democratic senators plus two independents who usually side with them.
"The vote is uphill. I truly understand it," she said.
Separating the ban from more popular measures would also make it easier for red-state Democrats to vote against the ban but still leave them available to back the rest of the legislation. Several senators said they thought the ban on high-capacity magazines could pass.
The House's Republican leaders have said they'll wait for the Senate to act before moving on legislation. They've not expressed support for an assault weapons ban.
They have discussed improving how states report data on people with serious mental health and drug abuse problems to the federal background check system. Both parties see that as a major flaw that needs to be fixed. | <urn:uuid:bdb8b95f-0cb9-417b-a69f-bab235d47cc9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/politics/NATL-Democrats-Push-Assault-Weapons-Ban-Through-Committee-198373681.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972271 | 1,164 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Jamaican Caving Notes
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Team: RS Stewart, Yvonne Dzal, Nina Veselka
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Bats provide a fascinating system in which to study the importance of trade-offs in constraining phenotypic evolution. As the only mammals capable of powered flight, bats have been able to exploit novel ecological niches and are one of the most diverse groups of mammals. Their commitment to flight has resulted in highly specialized forelimbs: their arms, wrists and hands have been modified into wings. However, this has limited how bats use their forelimbs for activities other than flight. The consumption of food, for example, is necessary for survival, and many mammals use their arms and hands to collect and handle food items.
In bats, thumbs are the only structures of the forelimbs that do not contribute to supporting the flight surface. Although several studies have confirmed that bats use their wings during feeding, few have provided details on how thumbs are used for food handling. The project is focussed on New World leaf-nosed bats (phyllostomids), which exhibit the greatest diversity of all living mammals (feeding on fruit, insects, frogs, nectar, blood). Dumont, et al. have found that the evolution of fruit consumption in phyllostomids led to high rates of species diversification. Keeping this in mind, the project has two main hypotheses:
Hypotheses: The transition from fruit consumption to insectivory in phyllostomids is correlated with increased thumb use.
Prediction: Frugivorous phyllostomids will use their thumbs more frequently than non-frugivores (since fruit is relatively large and requires more mechanical processing before consumption than do insects).
Hypotheses: There is an evolotionary relationship between thumb size and diet.
Prediction: Fruit bats will have longer thumbs than non-frugivores.
To help test the prediction that frugivores use their thumbs more frequently than non-frugivores to manipulate food, the bats were captured in mist nets, transferred to the field-station, and videoed using infrared light that provided illumination without disturbing the bats. Bats that have a frugivorous diet should use their thumbs more than insectivorous, carnivorous, or omnivorous bats. Frugivores should also exhibit a greater number of thumb movements than as they manipulate food during consumption.
To test the evolutionary relationship betweent thumb size and diet, thumb lengths were measured with calipers.
Now, an account of the field activities.
On Sunday, August 21, we began the fieldwork by trekking to the main entrance of St Clair at about 16:00, and setting up a 3m mist net, set about 5m back from the entrance pit. I had warned them that unlike Windsor Cave, where they hadn't actually gotten many bats in the nets, at St Clair the problem would be the opposite - if they used too long a net, they wouldn't be able to keep up with the numbers caught, and we'd have too many bats hanging in the net for too long. The prediction was accurate, and the 3m net was certainly as much as we could handle during the evening.
The first bat was caught at 18:02, one of the two small Pteronotus, either a macleayii (P.m) or a quadridens (P.q). We wouldn't know until later when it was processed, because the only way of telling the difference is to measure the forelimb - the quadridens are always under 41mm, and the macleayii are over 41mm. The second bat, a Mormoops blainvillii, was caught at 18:05, the third, another P.m or P.q, came at 18:13, and then the numbers began to rapidly increase. The main surge was from between 18:40 and 19:30, during which time we caught somewhere on the order of 100-150 bats. Towards the end, most were simply removed and released, rather than bagged for processing.
The net was taken down at 19:50, after we'd finally removed all of the bats. I did what I could to help with this, but some were too tangled for me to manage, and I had to leave them for Nina or Yvonne. During the first while, I received some rather painful bites, as usual. However, I did seem to improve later on, thanks to Nina's guidance, and was doing pretty good at the end.
Only four species were caught, Pteronotus parnellii (P.p), Pteronotus macleayii, Pteronotus quadridens, and Mormoops blainvillii (M.b). The bats we'd bagged were processed (identified, weighed, sexed, and forearms measured) from 20:00 until about 23:30, and we then hiked back to Pollyground, reaching Marie's at about midnight.
At 21:25, the second bat of the evening was caught - an Artibeus in the river nets. At 22:00, a third bat, another Ariteus, was caught in the net across the track, and that was it for the night. We hung in until about 23:00, then gave up and returned to Marie's with what we had. The night was not too unsuccessful, though - we'd capture only three specimes, but at least they were all phyllostomids.
The next evening, the 23rd, we again ignored the cave and set nets on the approach to the river, and across the river somewhat upstream of the "V" net of the night before. The nets were designated, and located, as such:
N1 - a 5m net about 1/3 of the way through the bushy saddle on the track that leads to the river,
N2 - a 3m net at the same location as the second net on the 22nd, which is about 2/3 of the way through the saddle,
N3 - a 15m net right across the river just upstream of the track.
The first bats, two P.p, were caught in N1 at 18:40. Next was N2 with a P.p at 19:05, a M.b at 19:10, and an A.j at 19:25. Nothing was caught in N3, the river net, until an A.j entered it at about 21:45. I write "about", because all three of us had fallen asleep for a little while on rocks beside the net, and it was 21:45 when the first of us, me, woke back up to find a bat in the net. In our defense, I must note that we'd been out there the two previous nights until midnight, and we were all rather beat. N1 yielded another Pteronotus sp. at 22:00, N2 an A.f at 22:05, and N3 a final two A.j at 23:10.
We'd had plenty of time to process bats as we went along, so it didn't take us long to finish up when the nets came down about 23:30. We hiked back out and reached Marie's about 00:30.
It should be mentioned that although my participation was ending about midnight on the three nights, Nina and Yvonne were up for hours afterwards videoing the frugivores, Artibeus and Ariteus, as they fed in a small enclosure at Marie's.
On Thursday, August 25, we had to make a run into Kingston so that Nina could show her data and specimens to NEPA in order to finish up the paperwork. Once we'd reached there, we were told that it would take several hours to have the permit prepared, and that we also needed to go to Veterinarian Services to clear things through them. Their office was kilometers away, up Old Hope Road, but we had time to kill anyway, so we headed off to take care of it. Now follows the most bizarre encounter with a Jamaican government agency that I've ever had.
It soon became clear that Veterinarian Services did not really care what Nina was doing, and what she had in her pickle jar, since the bats were quite dead, and thusly beyond their purview. Indeed, even if the bats had been alive, they're not exactly livestock, and I doubt they would have been terribly concerned. They did try to ask some pertinent questions, though, such as if NEPA had issued permits. Nina's assurances that all permits were in place adequately satisfied them, and after some pleasantries, and amused smiles on both sides, we left to wend our way back to the NEPA offices. Once there, the final paperwork was received, and we began our drive back to Pollyground, becoming somewhat lost in Kingston as we did so. Fortunately, I eventually spotted the Halfway Tree bus terminal, figured out where we were, and got out of town.
My fieldwork with Nina and Yvonne was now finished, but on Sunday, August 28, I had the pleasure of them joining Christina (wifey) and I for my birthday bashment at Marie's. Being very good sports, they donned little aprons that Christina supplied, and helped her with the cooking. All three looked very cute. Afterwards, an appropriate amount of Red Stripe was consumed, and I assume I had a good time, although my memories of the final hours of the evening are a little vague.
I would like to pass along my great respect for Nina and Yvonne. They are dedicated, committed, and quite happy to pass along their knowledge and techniques to those who collaborate with them, such as myself. I learned a lot, and am very thankful for it.
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Are you at increased risk of prostate cancer?
- Age – the risk of getting prostate cancer increases with age. Prostate cancer is most common in men over 65 but has been diagnosed in men in their 30’s.
- Family history – Your risk is higher if your father, brother, or son had prostate cancer, especially at an early age. There is also evidence of an increased risk if close relatives have had breast cancer.
- Race – Prostate cancer is more common in men of color. African-American men have the highest risk.
Other factors that may increase risk include:
- Diet high in animal fat and/or low in fruits & vegetables
- A history of inflammation or infection of the prostate
- Exposure to chemicals including Agent Orange
Biopsy evidence of high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) or atypical small acinar proliferation (ASAP) See: Precancerous Lesions of the Prostate
What are the symptoms of prostate cancer?
There are usually no symptoms for prostate cancer in the earlier stages which supports the importance of screening. As the cancer progresses, urinary symptoms may appear similar to those discussed for BHP and prostatitis in the Prostate Basics section of this Decision Aide.
Can you reduce your risk of prostate cancer?
According to the Prostate Cancer Foundation, “research in the past few years has shown that diet modification might decrease the chances of developing prostate cancer, reduce the likelihood of having a prostate cancer recurrence, or help slow the progression of the disease.” For more information, see the Any Alternatives? section of this Decision Aide.
Medicines called 5-alpha-reductase inhibitors (5-ARI)
The Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial (PCPT) demonstrated that finasteride (Proscar®) reduces the risk of prostate cancer by nearly 25%. The REDUCE trial completed in May 2009 for a similar drug, dutasteride (Avodart®), reported a reduced risk of 23%.
In 2008, ACSO/AUA issued the following guidelines for 5-ARI for PC prevention
- inform the man who is considering a 5-ARI that these agents reduce the incidence of prostate cancer, and be sure to be clear that these agents do not reduce the risk of prostate cancer to zero;
- discuss the elevated rate of high-grade cancer observed in the PCPT and inform men of the potential explanations;
- make it known to men that no information on the long-term effects of 5-ARIs on prostate cancer incidence exists beyond approximately 7 years, and that whether or not a 5-ARI reduces prostate cancer mortality or increases life expectancy remains unknown;
- inform men of possible but reversible sexual adverse effects; and
- inform men of the likely improvement in lower urinary tract symptoms.
See our August 2010 article Chemoprevention of Prostate Cancer
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Pain killers are among the most commonly abused prescription drugs. Over time, addiction can take a severe toll on both a person’s mental as well as their physical health. In many cases, addiction to pain killers may also lead to legal problems and erode relationships. Quitting a pain killer addiction, however, is not a simple matter of choice for many people. It takes an effective pain killer addiction treatment plan like those offered by The Control Center.
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Addicts often learn to depend on pain killers just to get through the day. It is important to break that cycle of addiction so you can learn new coping strategies that promote healthy behaviors and help to develop new relationships. The Control Center uses a Medical Detoxification Program that eliminates drugs from your system and gives your body time to recover safely under medical supervision.
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Many addicts have underlying mental health issues that make it difficult for them to stop using drugs. The Control Center addresses each client’s individual needs by creating a personalized pain killer addiction treatment plan. The personalized plan might include:
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North Korea's latest missile launch moved the United States into new territory as the success of putting a satellite into orbit could also mean the reclusive country is one giant step closer to firing a missile across the Pacific.
The United States is examining information from Wednesday's launch to gather clues about the capabilities of North Korea's rocket technology that can be converted for use in long-range missiles.
Experts say the launch shows North Korea's rocket has the range to hit Hawaii and parts of the West Coast of the United States.
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told CNN's Erin Burnett on Wednesday he is "confident" the United States could stop an incoming missile from North Korea.
"The fact is, we do have a very strong missile defense that would be able to guard against that kind of potential," Panetta said in an interview that aired on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront" on Wednesday.
But with the success comes more scrutiny of what the United States has in place to stop a missile should one be launched.
The type of missile North Korea launched Tuesday is considered a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile, meaning it is designed to deliver a payload long distances across the globe or into space, depending how it is configured. It is not generally designed to strike at short distances, such as Japan or South Korea.
The U.S. military had said it was on a heightened state of alert while it awaited the launch by the North Koreans. To prepare for the launch, the United States had satellite monitoring of the site. The military also had Aegis radar ships and other monitoring equipment positioned off the coast of Japan.
Those ships have a strong and reliable radar systems and sensors that can detect a launch and track the trajectory of the missile, and can also shoot down missiles in some cases.
Sitting off the coast of Japan, they wouldn't be "positioned correctly to hit a missile like this coming out of North Korea," according to a U.S. defense official. "However, their radars are extremely useful on telling us where the missile is going within seconds."
The North Korean government publicly announced where it intended the missile the missile to, a path that did not go near the United States. But protectively, the Pentagon had in place Aegis ships off Hawaii in case the rocket headed in that direction.
Those ships have the capability to shoot down a missile as it is falling toward the islands, according to a U.S. defense official familiar with U.S. missile defense systems.
Past launches of this type by North Korea, while unsuccessful, have shown that it has the capability to strike the main islands of Hawaii and possibly as far as the northwestern United States, said David Wright, a missile defense expert and co-director of Global Security at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
"This most recent launch is similar to the past ones, so we have been able to do some reverse engineering on the launches and get some idea of what they can do," Wright said.
The United States also has a ground-based missile shield with interceptor missiles in Alaska and California if North Korea, or another adversary, were to aim a missile toward the U.S. West Coast.
The United States has been testing this shield for years now with mixed success, but most believe it could protect against a basic missile launch with no decoy warheads to trick the radar system that would detect the incoming missile and guide interceptor missiles.
"There are people who believe that North Korea would not have decoys on their missiles. In that case we have plenty of interceptors," according to Wright. "I would argue just the opposite, if they did fire something we would likely not know what it would be carrying. It would be unlikely they would fire something that they hadn't put countermeasures on knowing about the U.S. system. I think the U.S. would not be able to rely on its missile defense system."
North Korea's launch culminated with the deployment of a satellite that is circling Earth from the North Pole to the South Pole. The U.S. military said Wednesday it does not believe North Korea has full control of the rudimentary satellite, a U.S official said.
The United States does have the capability to shoot a satellite down with the Aegis interceptor. In 2008, the military successfully tested whether a ship-based Aegis missile system could hit a defunct U.S. spy satellite.
U.S. military officials would not comment on whether the Pentagon might try to shoot down the North Korean satellite, but experts say it would be a highly unlikely move because the satellite appears to pose no threat.
"Shooting a satellite down is very similar to the kinds of tests the U.S. does with its missile defense systems. The satellite will be going about the same speed as a ballistic missile and it will not have any decoys," Wright said.
But he added, "The North Korean satellite was put into orbit about 500 kilometers (310 miles) and I think that's slightly too high for the Aegis interceptor."
Wright said the United States would have a better chance shooting a satellite at high altitudes down if it were to use its ground-based missile systems in Alaska or California.
U.S. allies in the region, like Japan and South Korea, have the ability to intercept a missile like the one fired Tuesday, but not if it is on an upward trajectory aimed at the United States. Their capability would be solely to hit such a missile in the later stages of flight if it were falling into their countries. | <urn:uuid:b2f316e3-3769-4982-bebc-5d1e63790750> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kvia.com/news/North-Korea-s-success-raises-stakes-for-US/-/391068/17755640/-/c973d3z/-/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971028 | 1,140 | 2.734375 | 3 |
"Spinal adjustments or spinal manipulation" are very gentle, safe, and effective movements of the spine, designed to loosen tight spinal joints
and relieve pressure associated with swollen or damaged spinal discs. Spinal adjustment/manipulation is a broad term used to describe a variety of techniques used in the treatment of spine and extremity disorders....
Accidents happen suddenly and unexpectedly. The physical effects from your accident injury may take days, weeks, even months to manifest fully.
However, this does not mean that damage to the body has not occurred in the interval due to the accident. It is vitally important to visit a doctor after experiencing a vehicle or other injury accident.
Functional medicine is a form of Western alternative medicine unrelated to the Western biomedical approaches. It focuses on treating individuals
who may have bodily symptoms, imbalances and dysfunctions. Functional medicine seeks to identify and address the root causes of disease, and views the body as one integrated system, not a collection of independent organs divided up by medical specialties. Functional medicine practitioners provide....
Dr. Brunke provides a variety of services to help you identify and reach your wellness goals. First and foremost is the collaboration between doctor
and patient. Identifying an accurate diagnosis is crucial to designing a treatment plan which will accomplish shared goals. This includes manipulation, education and physiotherapy. Physiotherapy is a broad term which encompasses a number of treatment approaches.....
Massage has been practiced for thousands of years. According to a 2007 American Massage Therapy Association survey, almost a quarter of all adult Americans
had at least one massage in the previous year. And, they have a wide range of reasons for doing so. More and more people … especially baby boomers … recognize the health benefits of massage.
Welcome to the website of Monterey Chiropractor, Dr. Troy Brunke and Brunke Chiropractic. Our mission is to provide excellence in patient care through a collaboration with our patients. We pride ourselves on a reliance on evidence-based care, meaning we try to provide recommendations and treatment based on the best available scientific evidence.
We’ll do our best to provide you with choices, facts and alternatives. We also make this pledge to you: if we think we can help you, we’ll tell you; if not, we’ll help you find someone who can.
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Shortages: Fish on the slide
In the first of a series of five essays on declining global resources, the BBC's Environment Analyst Roger Harrabin looks at the depletion of fish stocks.
The sea exemplifies the world's on-going failure to govern shared natural resources.
There's widespread agreement among nations on the need to conserve fish stocks but often disagreement on the details of how to do it.
And the need for unanimity in the UN process consistently allows a handful of countries to put the short-term interests of fishing crews before the fish stocks themselves.
It all means that globally about 85% of stocks are said to be fully exploited, over-exploited, depleted or slowly recovering.
Through the lens of history the depletion of fisheries looks even worse.
Shortages: Resources running out
Using data from 1889, researchers assessed catches of bottom-feeding fish like cod, plaice and sole in England and Wales.
They calculated that over 118 years of industrial fishing, the productivity of this fishery dropped by 94%. Not to 94% but by 94%.
Anyone with a snorkel and mask - and a tolerance to cold water - can attest that much of the sea bed resembles a desert.
The year of Peak Ocean Fish was 1996. Crews hauled in 87.7 million tonnes of wriggling protein.
The total sea catch has since fallen to about 80 million tonnes and stabilised.
But we're depleting the species we like best and making up the difference in low value substitutes.
Tuna, the world's favourite, has declined in the Atlantic since 1993.
Catches of cod in the North-East Atlantic have been tumbling since the late 1960s.
The total catch is being deceptively bolstered by unloved species like blue whiting and sandeels.
Meanwhile fishermen are hunting farther from home for new favourites, using methods like bottom trawling where the ocean floor is scraped clean of life, and long-lining where hooks strung off lines often haul in by-catch that beggars comprehension.
Take the longline fishery for mahi mahi in Costa Rica. Its collateral damage over a decade included 402 silky sharks, 625 stingrays and 1348 olive ridley turtles.
Turtles of course eat jellyfish, an increasing scourge of the seas.
In some areas nine out of ten large sharks have been killed. Callum Roberts, author of the excellent "Ocean of Life", says we're tugging blindly at the web of life in the sea.
Big sharks eat cownose rays and, without their predators, the rays in US waters have been free to gorge on the scallops that adorn the tables of top restaurants.
Fishermen are now muscling into the icy waters of the Southern Ocean in an increasingly desperate search for new stocks to feed a world population that's growing and getting richer.
And our impact on fish stocks isn't just through nets and lines.
Many of the world's great rivers carry so much nutrient run-off from farms that the seas by the river mouths are virtually biologically dead.
The coral reefs and mangroves which serve as nurseries for fish in the tropics are being eroded by development, pollution and silt.
Predator fish accumulate man-made chemicals in their bodies passed up through the food chain - polychlorinated biphenyls, flame retardants, endocrine disrupters.
Fish distribution is being changed as the ocean warms with human-induced climate change.
And the CO2 emissions that warm the planet are also dissolving into the ocean and making it less alkaline - acid ocean syndrome. The change is chemically minuscule but historically huge.
There's much uncertainty how sealife will react but some scientists forecast that coral reefs in their current form won't survive. Studies suggest that pteropods - tiny swimming snails - will be badly hit because they need alkaline water to make their shells.
That could matter to us because pteropods feed the salmon, herring, mackerel and cod that we like to eat.
But the picture is not totally bleak. The first Rio Earth Summit in 1992 called for nations to find ways to conserve fish stocks and prevent international conflicts over fishing on the high seas.
There's been some limited progress since then.
The US announced recently that a record six populations of fish in its waters returned to healthy levels in 2011, thanks to controversial limits imposed on angry fishermen. The restrictions have resurrected 27 fish stocks in the last 11 years. And 79% of the fish populations assessed are no longer over-fished.
Fishing crews are pushing for the limits to be relaxed but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) insists on a precautionary approach. It's much easier when you have just one government, of course - very different from the perpetual squabble of the EU Common Fisheries Policy.Protected area
Marine Protected Zones are another advance in recent years. President George W Bush has banned fishing in an area the size of Spain in US-controlled waters of the central Pacific.
The British government trumped him by creating the world's biggest single marine reserve round the Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean - all 545,000 sq km of it. Last week, Australia announced that it would create the largest network of marine reserves yet.
The waters off British-controlled South Georgia in the south Atlantic might be next. Fiji wants 30% of its waters protected and European nations including the UK are slowly imposing their own marine protected zones, prompted by the UN Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) which was initiated at Rio.
In an example of institutional inventiveness, six protected areas have been created in the North Atlantic by nations under the auspices of the Ospar convention which was created to govern issues like pollution and oil drilling, not fisheries.
But timetables on protected zones have been sliding away. Most recently nations agreed under the CBD to safeguard 10% of seas by 2020. Currently the total is just over 1%.
The issue - like most fishy issues - is complicated as some mobile species will need moveable protected zones.
Then the zones will have to be enforced. Maybe pirate fishermen will be spotted in future by drone aircraft or boats but nations will still need to fund patrol boats to arrest fish thieves.
As the struggle in the seas continues, aquaculture will help to keep fish on our plates. Of the fish we eat 25% are now farmed; in China it's 80%.
There are many problems with industrial scale fish farming though. One is that carnivorous fish like salmon eat several times their weight in other fish, which then have to be caught.
If you feed salmon a vegetarian diet they don't produce the omega 3 oils we value. Biologists are now working to synthesise omega 3 oils to keep farmed salmon tasting like salmon.
That problem doesn't apply to vegetarian fish like tilapia and carp - and they have helped the per-capita supply of fish for humans to reach an all-time high.
Meanwhile, though the plunder of the oceans for wild fish goes on.
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Accessibility on kde is not quite up to speed yet. We are close to working well with people with different disabilities, but not quite there yet. At least on linux. One key ingredient that is missing is qt-at-spi which bridges Qt applications to at-spi2.
For a brief overview of how accessibility works on linux platforms, take a look at http://a11y.org/atspi.
In order to set up a test environment to help improve qt-at-spi (or at-spi itself) You'll need a few things. Orca can be installed from your distribution, as can accerciser, however accerciser will need to be run in a particular way to work with at-spi2 as I'll mention later. You'll also need at-spi2-core and at-spi2-atk to test gtk applications. You'll also need pyatspi2. The simplest way to get these is to clone them from the following git urls:
Then proceed to build them by running
./autogen.sh --disable-relocate make make install (or sudo make install if your user doesn't have write privileges to /usr/local)
Once these are installed, you can then test at-spi2 by running gcalctool with a few environment variables set. As mentioned on the at-spi dbus site under "Instructions for Testing" you'll need some environment variables set. I use a file called ~/.a11ybashrc with the following contents:
export GTK_PATH=/usr/local/lib/gtk-2.0/ export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ export QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1 export GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge
then I just source ~/.a11ybashrc to set up my shell for testing accessibility.
Then to test just run gcalctool with gcalctool & from that shell. You should see at-spi2-registryd in your process table once gcalctool has started. If not you are likely still using at-spi instead of at-spi2. You can use d-feet or qdbusviewer, or just qdbus to inspect the dbus interface of the registry and the accessible methods of the application at this point. You should also be able to run orca and hear the text of the calculator tool at this point.
Once you have a gtk app running correctly with orca and/or accerciser you are ready to try qt-at-spi. In order to do so, just clone the repo from git://gitorious.org/qt-at-spi run qmake && make && make install. There is a handy calculator in qt-at-spi under the test folder that can be used to test qt's at-spi plugin with. Make sure QT_ACCESSIBILITY is set in your environment and run test/test from the source folder of qt-at-spi. You should see some console message about the bridge initializing. You'll also see the calculator's dbus path in the org.a11y.atspi.Registry GetChildren output. | <urn:uuid:eef8431d-daf8-48d0-9bb0-dd3bd76bca45> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Development/Tutorials/Accessibility&oldid=54811 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903913 | 707 | 1.6875 | 2 |
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As zombies invade all manner of pop culture, so does THE
WALKING DEAD tighten its death grip across media. A comic that’s
since spawned a phenomenon of a television series and one of this year’s most
acclaimed video games, THE WALKING DEAD has also expanded to literature where creator
Robert Kirkman has been filling us in on The Governor’s early days. The latest, THE ROAD TO WOODBURY, finds the fascinating, fear-inducing tyrant entangled in a survior skirmish prior to the hell unleashed by Rick & co. FANGORIA is happy
to present this exclusive excerpt from THE WALKING DEAD: THE ROAD TO WOODBURY below.
In THE ROAD TO WOODBURY (available now from Thomas Dunne
Books/St. Martin’s Press), the afraid, hungry and barely alive Lilly and her
band of survivors are saved by the walled-in community. Despite Lilly’s initial
hesitations about Woodbury, her vote to keep moving is outnumbered by the
others in her group. And as she considers the grim alternative of solitude,
Lilly finds no choice but to rely on the residents of Woodbury for refuge and
thus, accept their mysterious leader – The Governor – as her own. Her
suspicions about Woodbury and The Governor soon come to fruition and ultimately,
Lilly and a band of rebels devise a plot to take over The Governors reign – and
in doing so, open up a Pandora’s box of mayhem, destruction, and irrevocable
Special excerpt from THE WALKING DEAD: THE ROAD TO WOODBURY by
Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga
The behavior patterns of the walkers continue to baffle and
enthrall the deeper thinkers among Woodbury’s inhabitants. Some believe the undead move as bees in a
hive, driven by something far more complex than mere hunger. Some theories involve invisible pheromone-like
signals passing among zombies, producing behaviors that depend upon the
chemical makeup of their prey. Others
believe in dog-whistle sensory responses above and beyond mere attraction to
sound or smell or movement. No single
hypothesis has stuck, but most of Woodbury’s residents feel certain about one
aspect of zombie behavior: the advent of a herd of any size is to be dreaded
and feared and treated with respect.
Herds tend to grow spontaneously and take on troubling
ramifications. A herd – even a small
one, like the cluster of dead forming at this very moment north of town, drawn
by the noise of the gladiatorial match the previous night – can overturn a
truck, snap fence posts like kindling, or topple even the highest wall.
last twenty-four hours Martinez has been marshalling forces in order to
suppress the imminent attack. Guards
posted on crows’ nests at the northwest and northeast corners of the wall have
been keeping tabs on the progress of the flock, which first began to morph into
a herd about a mile away. The guards
have been sending word down the chain of command that the size of the herd has
grown from a dozen or so to nearly fifty, and the pack has been moving in a
lumbering zig-zag through the trees along Jones Mill Road, covering the
distance between the deep woods and the outskirts of town at a speed of about
two hundred yards an hour, growing in number as they come. It has taken them fifteen hours to close the
distance to four hundred yards.
some of them begin to emerge from the leading edge of the forest, shambling out
into the open fields bordering the woods and the town. They look like broken toys in the hazy,
distant twilight, like wind-up soldiers bumping into each other, running on the
fumes of malfunctioning engines, their blackened mouths contracting and
expanding like irises. Even at this
distance the rising moon reflects off their milky eyes in shimmering coins of
has three Browning 50-caliber machine guns – courtesy of the ransacked National
Guard depot – placed at key junctures along the wall. One sits on the bonnet of a backhoe at the
west corner of the wall. Another one is
situated on top of a cherry picker at the east corner. The third is positioned on the roof of a
semi-trailer on the edge of the construction site. Each of the three machine guns already has an
operator in place, each man equipped with a headset.
gleaming bandoleers of incendiary armor-piercing tracer bullets dangle from the
stock of each weapon, with extras in steel boxes sitting nearby.
guards take positions along the wall – on ladders and bulldozer scoops – armed
with semi-automatics and long-range sniper rifles loaded with 7.62-millimeter
slugs that will penetrate drywall or sheet metal. These men do not wear headsets, but each know
to watch for hand signals from Martinez, who positions himself at the top of a
crane gantry in the center of the post office parking lot with a two-way. Two enormous klieg lights -- scavenged from
the town theater -- are wired up to the generator chugging in the shadows of
the post office loading dock.
crackles on Martinez’s radio: “Martinez,
thumbs the TALK button. “Copy that,
Chief, go ahead.”
and I are on our way up there, gonna need to harvest some fresh meet.”
frowns, his brow furrowing under his bandana.
voice sizzles through the tiny speaker: “How much time we got before all the
fun and games start?”
gazes out at the darkening horizon, the closest zombies still about three
hundred and fifty yards away. He thumbs
the switch. “Probably won’t be within
head-shot range for these fellas for another hour, maybe a little less than
says the voice. “We’ll be there in five
Bob follows the Governor down Main Street toward a wagon
train of semi-trucks parked in a semi-circle outside the looted Menards home
and garden center. The Governor walks
briskly through the wintry evening air, a bounce to his step, his boot heels
clicking on the paving stones. “Times
like these,” the Governor comments to Bob as they march along, “must feel like
you’re back in the shit in Afghanistan.”
sir, I have to admit it does sometimes.
I remember one time I got a call to drive down to the front, pick up
some marines coming off their watch. It
was nighttime, cold as a well diggers ass, just like this. Air raid sirens screaming, everybody hopped
up for a firefight. Drove the APC down
to this godforsaken trench in the sand, and what do I find? Bunch of whores from the local village giving
out blow jobs to the grunts.”
you not.” Bob shakes his head in dismay
as he walks alongside the Governor.
“Right in the middle of an air raid.
So I tell them to can it and get in before I leave them there. One of the whores gets in the APC with the
men, and I’m like, what the hell.
Whatever. Just get me out of this
take off with the gal still going at it in the back of APC. But you’ll never guess what happened then.”
keep me in suspense, Bob,” the Governor says with a grin.
a sudden I hear a crash in the back, and I realize that bitch is an insurgent,
and she brought an IED in with her, set it off in the cargo bay.” Bob shakes his head again. “Firewall protected me, but it was a
mess. Took off one of the boys’ legs.”
the Governor marvels as he approaches the circle of eighteen-wheelers. Full darkness has fallen, and light from a
torch illuminates the side of a Piggly Wiggly truck on which a grinning pig
leers down at them in the dim light.
“Hold that thought a second, Bob.”
The Governor pounds his fist on the trailer. “Travis!
You in there? Hey! Anybody home?”
cloud of cigar smoke, the rear door springs up on rusty hinges. A heavy-set black man sticks his head out of
the cargo hold. “Hey, Boss… what can I
do you for?”
one of the empty trailers down to the north wall, on the double. We’ll meet you there with further instructions. Got that?”
black man hops off the rear rail and vanishes around the side of the
truck. The Governor takes a deep breath
and then leads Bob around the circle of trucks, and then north along a side
road toward the barricade. “Pretty
goddamn amazing what a man will do for nookie,” the Governor muses as they
stride along the dirt road.
girls you came in with, Bob, Lilly and… what’s-her-name?”
the one. That little thing’s a
firecracker. Am I right?”
wipes his mouth. “Yeah, she’s a cute
flirty… but hey. Who am I to
judge?” Another lascivious grin. “We do what we do to get by. Am I right, Bob?”
as rain.” Bob walks along for a
moment. “Just between you and me… I’m
kinda sweet on her.”
Governor looks at the older man with an odd mixture of surprise and pity. “This Megan gal? Well that’s great, Bob. No shame in that.”
looks down as he walks. “Love to spend
the night with her just once.” Bob’s
voice goes soft. “Just once.” He looks up at the Governor. “But, hell… I know that’s just a pipe dream.”
cocks his head at the older man. “Maybe
not, Bob… maybe not.”
Bob can muster a response a series of explosive clanging noises go off ahead of
them. Brilliant sunbursts from the klieg
lights suddenly tear open seams in the distant darkness from opposite corners
of the wall, the silver beams sweeping out across the adjacent fields and tree
lines, illuminating the oncoming horde of walking corpses.
Governor leads Bob across the post office lot to the crane gantry, on which
Martinez now prepares to give the order to open fire.
your fire, Martinez!” The Governor’s
booming voice gets everybody’s attention.
gazes nervously down at the two men.
“You sure about this, Chief?”
rumble of a Kenworth cab rises up behind the Governor, accompanied by the
telltale beeping noises of a semi moving in reverse. Bob glances over his shoulder and sees an
eighteen- wheeler backing into position by the north gate. Exhaust vapors pulse from the truck’s
vertical stack, and Travis leans out the driver’s side window, chewing a cigar
and wrestling the steering wheel.
your walkie!” The Governor gestures at
Martinez, who is already descending the metal ladder affixed to the side of the
crane. Bob watches all this from a
respectable distance behind the Governor.
Something about all this mysterious business makes the older man uneasy.
the wall the meandering herd of zombies closes the distance to two hundred
reaches the bottom of the ladder and hands over the two-way. The Governor thumbs the switch and barks into
the mouthpiece. “Stevens! Can you hear me? You got your radio on?”
beat of crackling static the doctor’s voice replies, “Yes I hear you and I
don’t appreciate –“
up for a second. I want you to bring
that tub-of-lard guardsman, Stinson, to the north wall.”
voice crackles: “Stinson is still
recovering, the man has lost a lot of blood in your little –“
fucking argue with me, Stevens… JUST FUCKING DO IT NOW!”
Governor clicks the radio off and throws it back to Martinez.
the gate!” the Governor shouts at two workmen, who stand nearby with pick axes
and anxious expressions, awaiting orders.
workmen look at each other.
heard me!” the Governor bellows. “Open
the goddamn gate!”
workmen follow orders, throwing the bolt at one end of the gate. The gate swings open, letting in a gust of cold,
ask me, we’re pushing our luck with this routine,” Martinez mutters under his
breath, slamming an ammo magazine into his assault rifle.
Governor ignores the comment and hollers, “Travis! Back it into position!”
truck shudders and beeps and rattles backward into the opening.
put the ramp down!”
watches, completely vexed by the proceedings, as Travis hops out of his cab
with a grunt and marches around behind the truck. He throws open the vertical door and lowers the
ramp to the pavement.
glare of spotlights the zombie contingent approaches to within a hundred yards.
footsteps draw Bob’s attention back over his shoulder.
the shadowy center of town, in the flicker of burning trash barrels, Doctor
Stevens emerges with his arm around the wounded guardsman, who hobbles along
with the lethargic gate of a sleepwalker.
this, Bob,” the Governor says, throwing a glance over his shoulder at the older
man, and then, with a wink, the Governor adds, “Beats the hell outta the Middle
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Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Team
North Colorado Medical Center offers around-the-clock specialty care for sexual assault victims.
According to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), every two minutes someone in the United States is sexually assaulted.
Victims of sexual assault need a safe place to go where they will be treated with courtesy and respect and have the appropriate examinations done so that evidence can be correctly collected. North Colorado Medical Center offers this important community service.
The Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Team is a group of eight experienced registered nurses who have received specialized training and provide compassionate care to adult, adolescent and pediatric patients impacted by sexual assault and abuse.
The SANE team can:
- Perform examinations and collection of evidence.
- Serve as subpoenaed witnesses to give testimony regarding the care and evidence found in the exams.
- Provide 24/7 coverage for any patient that has been sexually assaulted.
- Prescribe prophylactic medications for sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy prevention.
The SANE Team has worked closely with victim advocacy groups throughout Weld County to provide follow-up counseling, victim assistance programs and support with navigating through the legal process and trauma. The nurses work collaboratively with police, prosecutors, child protective services and others to provide the best and most appropriate care.
Those seeking help can be referred to the main Emergency department at 1801 16th St. for an examination by one of the SANE Team members. The patient will be taken to a private room specifically designed for these exams.
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A $6,000 grant from the Governor's Office of Highway Safety is enabling the Payson Police Department to begin a more intense traffic enforcement program.
The PPD will be working on speed enforcement along with red light and stop sign violations, Lt. Don Engler said. He said in designated residential speed zones, unmarked patrol vehicles will conduct traffic surveillance, with marked patrol cars at either end of the zone on hand to issue citations to violators.
The grant program begins this week and will continue for five to six weeks. The grant money is paying for the officers' salaries and expenses for time devoted to the program in excess of their regular hours.
Volunteers certified to give citations
The PPD has certified 10 of its police volunteers to issue citations for violating handicapped parking regulations.
The certificates were issued June 12.
Any unauthorized vehicles in handicapped parking spaces at businesses and public buildings will be cited, Engler said.
The certified volunteers completed two training sessions. More volunteers will be trained in the future, Engler said.
Block watch meeting set
The public is urged to attend a block watch organizational meeting next week.
The meeting is at 7 p.m., Wednesday, June 26, at the Payson Public Library meeting room.
The meeting is designed to organize volunteers from neighborhoods in all the different geographical areas of the community. These volunteers will return to their neighborhoods and organize others in their area into formal neighborhood watch groups, Lt. Don. Engler said.
A police officer will then work with the smaller groups, training them in watch procedures.
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Excerpts from the Origins of Modern Greek Painting
Modern Greek painting, whether evolved from late Byzantine or Italian art, is rich in religious and secular works, in which one can discern influences from the late Renaissance as well as from artists from the Greek islands, particularly Crete and the Ionian Islands. From the outset, modern Greek art broke with its Byzantine past and defined itself as purely European. The shift toward Europe was bold, yet circumspect. Early in the twentieth century, Greek artists would turn to their past, in their quest for an identity and a source of inspiration.
The Greek artists producing paintings immediately after the Greek War of Independence, which ended in 1829, drew their subjects from Greece’s recent heroic past: battle scenes from the struggle against the Ottomans and portraits of famous fighters in the war. Scenes of battle are not numerous at this time and, unlike such scenes by contemporary philhellene artists, do not depict extreme violence.
When Otto, son of the fervent philhellene Ludwig I of Bavaria, was placed on the Greek throne in 1833, Greek artists turned their attention to Munich. This focus was reinforced by the founding in 1837 of the Athens School of Arts, which based its teaching methods on the German model. Though several Greek artists chose to study in other European capitals, such as Copenhagen, Brussels and Paris, Munich had the strongest appeal. Greek art would be permeated by German artistic currents during the second half of the nineteenth century.
At the Munich Academy, Greek students were imbued with ideas about art from academically conservative professors. The style in which most of the students expressed themselves-a high degree of attention to texture and detail-and which they brought back to the School of Art in Athens, became known as academic realism.
Greek painting in the second half of the nineteenth century was not different from elsewhere in Europe. Genre painting, portraying everyday tasks in urban centers and the countryside, was prevalent particularly in agricultural and pastoral scenes, festivals, and scenes of mourning. Of special interest were architectural features, local costumes, and objects of everyday life. Portraiture was the second most popular thematic subject, with a shift in focus from freedom fighters to merchants and the middle class and an interest in the psychological profile of the person portrayed.
Reaction against the Munich tendency for realism, a dark palette and broad brushstroke came not only from Greek artists who had graduated from other schools in Europe but also from former students of the Munich Academy who had been deeply stirred by the innovations of the Parisian avant-garde in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Paris began to supplant Munich as an art center. The City of Light introduced new ways of painting, freeing the work of art from the confines of visible reality and, thus, from the slavish imitations that Munich was accused of propagating. Paris also supported artists in their subjectiveness and welcomed freedom of expression. In Greece changes came about with the introduction of impressionism. This rejuvenating movement, which was not readily accepted, gained ground and managed to endure. This does not mean that the impressionist movement was fully understood or that it reached its full potential, for there were a number of inherent obstacles to its reception.
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Flamers are flamethrower weapons, capable of unleashing a liquid incendiary chemical that bursts into flames as it leaves the weapon. Similar flame-based weapons are used by several of the intelligent races and their militaries across the Milky Way Galaxy. Flamers are valued for their ability to destroy many enemies at once, regardless of any protective cover they possess. Both Flamers and the more compact Hand Flamers are considered assault weapons due to their relatively short range. Loyalist Space Marine and Chaos Space Marine flamers fire a mix of highly volatile liquid chemicals which ignite with the use of a pilot light. The flaming chemical sticks to its target and continues burning on its own accord - those who are not killed instantly die horribly as the super-hot chemical continues to burn through their bodies. The most common flammable substance used as Flamer fuel is Promethium, which is a petroleum-like jelly that can stick to a target and is very similar to the twenty-first century incendiary called napalm. The flamer fires a burst of expanding flames, making the weapon effective at killing enemies in cover.
- Flamers - Flamers are the most basic and simple version of Flamer weapons. They are portable and hand-held.
- Hand Flamers - Hand Flamers (also called "Burners") are more compact pistol versions of the Flamer, requiring only one hand to wield. Along with possessing a lower-capacity fuel tank, a Hand Flamer has a much reduced range, which makes it suited for assault and close-combat purposes only, incinerating foes at short range. The weapon is used by Imperial assault squads, such as the Sisters of Battle's Seraphim units which employ them in pairs.
- Astartes Flamer - The Flamer is an ideal weapon for flushing out enemies in cover and cleansing areas with purifying flame. The typical pattern employed by the Space Marines of the Adeptus Astartes accepts fuel through a pressure seal that can attach to a backpack feed for longer uninterrupted usage or a smaller canister for quick refuelling in bursts.
- Astartes Hand Flamer - The Astartes Hand Flamer is a smaller and more compact version of the Astartes Flamer that is still capable of unleashing large blasts of flame, but is good for only a few shots before the fuel canister must be swapped out.
- Astartes Heavy Flamer - While the size and weight of Heavy Flamers makes them an unpopular choice among many Imperial forces, these are hardly deterrents to a Space Marine in Power Armour. Terminator Squads and many vehicles make frequent use of the large saturation area of heavy flamers. The twin nozzles produce huge gouts of fire, enough to purge the densest terrain of xenos.
- Flamers are effective in breaking the cycle of Ork infestation of a world by destroying the fungal spores exuded by Orkoid corpses.
- Flamers are an invaluable tactical choice in conditions where spotting the enemy is difficult due to dense terrain (such as jungles), during urban fights and bunker assaults.
- Field commanders must always remember the devastating impression made by a well-used flamer - a single shot has the potential of destroying an entire enemy squad along with the morale of the whole army.
- The most fanatic adherents of the Imperial Cult employ Flamers against mutants and heretics as the weapon's flames are seen to cleanse sin and impurity from body and soul alike.
- The Flamer is the preferred weapon of the more fervent worshipers of the Emperor such as the fanatical Red Redemptionists and the associated Fanatics of the House of Cawdor of the hive world of Necromunda.
- Among the Adepta Sororitas (Sisters of Battle), the Flamer is favoured as a purifying weapon, and for a Sister to be entrusted with one is a great honour.
- The Salamanders Chapter of Space Marines make wide use of Flamers and Melta weapons due to their preference for close-ranged combat.
- The Catachan Regiments of the Imperial Guard are often deployed to areas of heavy jungle, where enemies can make as much use of the ever-present cover as the Catachans themselves. Accordingly Flamers and Heavy Flamers are especially valued by the Catachans for their ability to rob the enemy of the benefit of the tropical terrain.
Chaos Space Marine Use
The Traitor Legions are able to carry larger-bore flame weapons with greater fuel reserves. These weapons can spit out more Promethium at a time, and thus deal more damage. Flamers and Heavy Flamers are widely used among the Chaos Space Marines with the same tactical use as the Loyalist Space Marines except in some notable cases:
- The Thousand Sons seem to fight only with the standard bolter, even in conditions where the wise use of Flamers and other weapons (such as heavy bolters) would be more effective.
- Among Khornate Berserkers, Chainaxes and other bloody melee weapons are preferred over Flamers.
- The Noise Marines of the Emperor's Children Traitor Legion often opt to use exotic weaponry (such as sonic devices), which share some of the Flamer's tactical advantages.
- In the Orks' warlike culture the Burna Boyz are seen as foolish but also really potent Greenskins, as only a very courageous Ork would carry into battle the large amount of highly flammable fuel needed to operate a Burna, the Greenskin Flamethrower that can spray a cloud of oily fire over everything the Ork sees. A Burna is also fitted with a special nozzle fed by valves that when activated unleashes a small blue arc of flame instead of the standard roaring orange conflagration. This small flame is similar to that produced by a Plasma Cutter and is hot enough to slice through even the thickest armour. However it has a much smaller range than the Burna's standard effects and to use it, the Burna Boy must get very close to the enemy.
- Black Crusade: Core Rulebook (RPG), p. 158
- Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition)
- Codex: Space Marines (4th Edition)
- Deathwatch: Core Rulebook (RPG), pp. 148-149
- Warhammer 40,000 Rulebook (6th Edition)
- Warhammer 40,000 Wargear (4th Edition)
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1. Your life becomes significantly more clearer and calm
The hustle and bustle of everyday life is choking our minds of the peace we deserve! Our technology advancements shouldn’t suffocate our minds, it should allow us to achieve more peace. Meditation helps put those events in perspective for our daily tasks.
2. Your blood pressure is lowered
Science has proven it, meditation lowers the blood pressure, which in return is related to your stress levels and stress management. Much better than taking pills to lower your blood pressure!
3. People around you enjoy your company
Regular meditation leads to higher/positive energy that you are consistently tapping into. This effectively makes you very pleasant to be around, and people like that! People naturally gravitate to the people that make them feel good.
4. Your connection with God is strengthened
Spiritual awareness is strengthened with a daily meditation practice. You naturally become more aware of your surroundings, and higher awareness always leads to a deeper connection with God. The trees begin showing personalities, and the landscape takes on different meanings … all through a deeper awareness.
5. You achieve several hours of sleep in one 20 minute meditation session
Another scientific fact is that meditation is known to put you into a deeper state of rest than deep sleep. Deep sleep is associated with a delta brainwave. Deep meditation can drop you into that delta brainwave rapidly, achieving the effects in a shorter amount of time.
6. Problems that seemed very difficult suddenly have clear solutions
For every problem a solution exists. When your mind is clear and your in a state of peace, solutions appear. Being in a state of peace just naturally attracts solutions and pathways into your field of view.
7. Your productivity sky rockets because of your ability to have clear focus
If solutions to problems appear more frequently when meditating daily, then imagine what happens to your everyday tasks. Solutions to everyday life become more and more obvious. And you begin to take note of these subtle changes as your spiritual vision grows clearer and wider.
8. Your life expectancy increases
Science has shown that regular meditation will increase your life expectancy. It’s pretty obvious to see … less stress and more peace promotes healthy cells and healthy cells regenerate healthier cells. And likewise, stressed cells regenerate more stressed cells. So live longer by choosing more peace in your life.
9. You effectively reduce stress in your life
Speaking of stress, meditation has a profound effect on reducing stress in your body. Because meditation promotes peace and inner calm, stress dissolves dramatically from this meditative process. Again, science has proven it.
10. You can visualize powerfully when combined with positive affirmations and meditation
Meditation is powerful at clearing the mind and focusing on simple things … like breathing … or a flower. But, it can be used for so much more! To powerfully manifest your desires, you must get into a clear connection with the source of manifesting (God(YAHWEH)/Universe/Ethers). If your spirits are on high while you visualize then the communication channel for manifesting positive events in your life is strengthened.
While meditating I like to repeat affirmations, otherwise known as mantras, to help focus my energy into the positive. These statements can be as simple as “love” or “I am love, I am joy, I am peace”.
11. You feel fantastic throughout your day!
And finally, when you meditate on a regular basis, you just feel fantastic. Plain and simple. You feel good.
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There is no doubt about it: as Frédéric Filloux writes in The Guardian, folks are likely to begin paying a high price soon enough for yielding their privacy online. The new data mining services, he posits, will not be about tracking core competencies.
“The firm is more into character and personality analysis. … What they basically do is data-mining the social internet: blogs, forums, Twitter, and of course Facebook.” Filloux is particularly concerned about GenY users, and he is making the bold assumption that there will actually be jobs out there for them. In the short term, I imagine the vulnerable might include the more naive Internet users among the 40-something Beached White Males made redundant by the latest financial downturn.
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Berry growers say freeze costs $15M - so far
But they expect the crop to rebound later in the season.
By CATHERINE E. SHOICHET, Times Staff Writer
Published February 1, 2008
PLANT CITY - Last month's freeze has already cost strawberry growers at least $15-million, according to the Florida Strawberry Growers Association.
That's significant damage - and worse than growers expected - but it's too soon to tell what the overall impact will be, said Shawn Crocker, the association's executive director.
The indirect impact, including pickers' revenue and packing supplies, could total another $15-million, he said.
"When you talk to growers, they breathe a sigh of relief because they did not physically lose the core plant," he said. "They've got an opportunity to rebound later in the season. The question is, are they going to rebound in time."
In the weeks following the freeze, many growers said damage seemed minimal.
But as more berries bloom, problems are starting to pop up. Many berries are deformed, which means growers can sell them only at lower prices, if at all.
"The plants have just not rebounded like they should have," said Billy Simmons, who lost about 20 percent of his crop this year.
The culprit, experts say, could be the winds that blew as temperatures dropped and farmers sprayed water on their crops to coat them with ice.
"When the wind blows and you're putting water down for the blanket of protection, you're blowing it away from the areas where that water is intended to go," Crocker said.
Strawberry production is down more than 30 percent from last year's level at this time, he said. And it might not bounce back until after Valentine's Day.
That will affect berry shipments out of state, Crocker said, but local markets should still have plenty of berries.
What does all this mean for strawberry prices? They're higher right now. But they'll likely go down as supplies increase.
That's good for consumers, but bad for growers, who might have a tougher time making a profit this year, Crocker said.
About 90 percent of Florida's strawberry industry is in Hillsborough County, he said. Last year, the state's growers saw about $272-million in revenue.
Federal aid is unlikely, Crocker said, because such appropriations require at least a 35 percent loss.
"We're not going to push the issue too hard, because we want to save that opportunity for when we have a truly catastrophic loss," Crocker said.
With strawberry supplies down, many migrant workers are struggling, said Guadalupe Lamas, a nurse at the San Jose Mission in Dover.
"We have a lot more people coming into the food pantry looking for food," she said.
Some workers have left town to find work elsewhere, Crocker said.
"That scares us, because if the labor's not here when it does get good in March, are we going to have the labor available to get out there and get those berries out of the field?" he said.
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The black market is fueling the killings of eagles in British Columbia.
NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Amy Marie George just couldn't catch her breath.
She had walked this short trail near her house hundreds of times, but on this afternoon in February she had to send her grandchildren ahead to get an old asthma inhaler she hadn't used in more than a year.
"I heard my granddaughter say, 'There's an eagle here,"' recalled George, an elder with the Tsleil-Waututh Nation. "I got such a bad feeling."
Then her grandson Jonas called out. "There's one here!
"And another one here!"
In all, there were 14 dead eagles strewn about the dirt. And it was no accident.
George and her grandchildren had stumbled upon evidence of an international black market, one that fuels the illegal slaughter of an estimated 500 eagles each year in southwest British Columbia alone, and an unknown number in Washington state.
Staggering death count
Their discovery brought to at least 50 the total number of dead eagles found between February and March in and around the Tsleil-Wautuths' tiny Indian reserve.
The black market begins around the salmon runs, where gorging eagles are easy prey for poachers; it arrives in the United States tucked in the suitcases of smugglers; and it fans out across America, where investigators sometimes refer to eagles as "flying $1,000 bills."
Because of the large number of eagles in British Columbia, Washington state has been a key entry point for smugglers.
According to wildlife officials in Canada and the United States, the parts find their way to uses ranging from high-end artwork to Wiccan ceremonies. But officials say the biggest demand is at American Indian powwows, where feathered regalia can help competitive dancers win thousands of dollars in prizes.
To George, it was simple.
"This," she said, "is murder."
But catching the culprits has proven to be no easy task.
Paul Weyland likes to keep a low profile. As a U.S. Fish and Wildlife agent who investigates organized poaching rings, he works in an unmarked office building in a bland business strip on the outskirts of Bellingham, Wash.
Official correspondence carries a P.O. Box address, rather than the street address, ever since Weyland got a vaguely threatening letter from a disgruntled hunter. He carries a holstered gun even though much of his work is at a desk.
For the past few months, Weyland has been investigating possible stateside links to the B.C. eagle case.
U.S. law prohibits killing eagles, or possessing any eagle part -- even just a feather -- without a permit. Selling them is also prohibited, as is transporting them across the border. Canadian law is similar, but some important differences may make Weyland the key to bringing the B.C. eagle killers to justice.
Canadian officials are unsure whether a law that protects the right of First Nations people to harvest wildlife that they've traditionally harvested can be applied to eagles. As a result, they're not even certain how they would charge a suspect in the eagle-slaying case.
For many Indians, these grand birds are sacred because they fly high and carry messages to the Creator. Some compare the symbolic importance of the eagle in Indian religions to the cross in Christianity.
Their sacred status means their parts are often needed for religious ceremonies. Indians traditionally killed the birds sparingly, accompanied by prayer and thanks and elaborate rituals. And for years, this wasn't a problem. Eagles were plentiful.
But as the continent was developed, the great bird's population dwindled. Pesticides were the main culprit, and at one point, the birds nearly disappeared from the lower 48 states.
In 1940, Congress passed the Bald Eagle Act to outlaw the killing, possession or sale of eagles. Later, Congress added golden eagles to the act.
The population has made a comeback, with about 6,000 nesting pairs counted in the lower 48 in 2000, although they are still on the list of threatened species.
American Indians, however, were given some leeway under the act: They may possess eagle parts that have been handed down through the generations, and they may get new eagles through a federal repository, where dead eagles from zoos or those found in the wild are sent for distribution to tribes.
There's just one problem: There are thousands of American Indians who want parts, but not enough repository eagles to go around. Sometimes it takes as long as four years to get a bird.
Federal judges, ruling in cases where American Indians used their religion as a justification for eagle offenses, have found the repository system "utterly offensive and ultimately ineffectual."
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The value of vocational training and work is well established as an important contributor towards the successful rehabilitation and recovery maintenance of people who have had or have mental health problems. Recent changes to the statutory framework governing socially integrative disability policy have certain implications for the successful establishment and co-ordinated working of specialist vocational and educational schemes for people with mental health problems. This editorial article reviews the literature on employment, training and its value to mental health rehabilitation in order to examine these implications.
"The Education and Training for Work of People with Mental Health Problems: Issues Arising from Recent Changes in Ireland,"
Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies:
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Bridging programmes for international graduates
Surveys carried out by higher education institutions (HEIs) offering bridging programmes for international students suggest that the majority of students enter employment on completion of these programmes and a high proportion continue with further studies. Many students also enter employment before completing such programmes.
It can be questioned whether this is due to the study programmes themselves, and whether offering more bridging programmes for international graduates is the most effective way forward in terms of cost and time.
Högskoleverket (Swedish National Agency for Higher Education) has shown in previous studies that bridging programmes for international graduates are most successful if conducted at HEIs. The following aspects are particularly important if international graduates are to succeed in entering employment in Sweden:
Language. Many international graduates have difficulty with the Swedish language in the teaching situation, placements and recruitment process. Course literature in English is also a problem. Extensive language support is required.
Contacts. International graduates lack relevant contacts in Sweden and knowledge about Swedish customs and social skills used during the recruitment process. A range of suitable placements are required.
Time. Many graduates are not able to spend the study time required because of family obligations and the need to earn money. In combination with language difficulties, this can lead to graduates taking 2-2.5 years to complete their training. The Swedish National Agency for Higher Education (Agency) recommends that study programmes are more individualised.
Academic recognition. It can be difficult for international graduates to have their prior learning accredited. The graduates often do not have the documentation available to make this possible and sometimes HEIs do not have the required knowledge, will or resources available for the recognition process.
Regulated professions. The Agency is able to recommend bridging programmes for teachers and Socialstyrelsen (National Board of Health and Welfare) is able to recommend bridging programmes for nurses. More information should be made available about the roles of the Agency and the National Board of Health and Welfare with regard to regulated professions. | <urn:uuid:89222145-aaf8-4669-9494-08c8b70aa610> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hsv.se/aboutus/publications/reports/reports/2008/bridgingprogrammesforinternationalgraduates.5.6d5fe98611d3f068f14800099911.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937669 | 413 | 1.929688 | 2 |
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|12 Jan. 1559||WILLIAM WIGHTMAN|
|23 Apr. 1572||JAMES COLBRAND|
|17 Nov 1584||JOHN KINGSMILL|
|8 Oct. 1586||AMBROSE COPPINGER|
|8 Oct. 1588||CAREW RALEGH|
|5 Oct. 1597||EDMUND LUDLOW|
|10 Oct. 1601||ROBERT PENRUDDOCK|
|JAMES KIRTON I|
Ludgershall was a non-incorporated borough granted in 1539 to Richard Brydges† for 40 years at a rent of £15 per annum. At the beginning of Elizabeth’s reign the widowed Lady Jane Brydges lived there but only the 1563 MPs can be said to have owed their returns to her: Griffin Curteys, servant of the Seymours, a neighbour, and George Cope, who married Lady Brydges’ niece.
None of the Members in this period had a direct link with the borough. Five were returned through their family’s local standing: Henry Sharington (1559), Francis Button (1584), Carew Ralegh (1589), Edward Thornborough (1593) and Edmund Ludlow (1597). Three had connexions with the earls of Pembroke. William Wightman (1559) was an Exchequer official and servant of the 1st Earl; Ambrose Coppinger (1586) was later receiver to the Countess of Warwick, sister-in-law of the 2nd Earl; and Robert Penruddock (1601) of Compton Chamberlayne had already sat thrice for a Pembroke borough and his return for Ludgershall may be presumed to have been at the instance of the 3rd Earl. In the latter part of the reign the Earl of Hertford was responsible for the return of his servant James Kirton I in 1601, and probably also for the returns of Henry Hyde (1589) and Richard Leake (1597). Henry Hyde was a Wiltshire gentleman whose father, Lawrence Hyde I, was the Earl’s auditor. Richard Leake’s suggested identification connects him with the Earl of Hertford. Three Ludgershall MPs owed their seats to Richard Kingsmill who owned property near the borough. John Kingsmill (1584, 1586) was Richard’s younger brother; Christopher Wray (1571) was Richard Kingsmill’s contemporary at Lincoln’s Inn; and Chidiock Wardour (1593), a Hampshire gentleman, had connexions with the Kingsmills in the Exchequer and had already been an MP through Kingsmill influence. James Colbrand of Chichester, Sussex, may have been known in 1571 and 1572 to the St. Johns of Lydiard Tregoze: a decade or so after his return for Ludgershall he married the daughter of Oliver, 1st Baron St. John of Bletsoe, the senior branch of the St. John family. No explanation has been found for Thomas Walkeden’s return in 1572; he was a student at the Middle Temple at the time.
CPR, 1547-8, pp. 118-19; 1549-51, p. 430; 1553, App. Edw. VI, pp. 266, 283; Wilts. Colls. 358-9; Wilts. Arch. Mag. xxx. 138-9; VCH wits. v. 121; VCH Hants, iv. 447, 448. | <urn:uuid:c66c1b37-7438-4262-9324-26e4994ec44d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/constituencies/ludgershall | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921797 | 777 | 2.125 | 2 |
Written in the early 1600s, Miguel Cervantes' novel about the delusional knight's adventures has become a classic staple of historic literature.
Don Quixote is a middle-aged man who, having read too many chivalric novels, actually believes he is a knight and sets out on his adventures. He is aided by his trusted squire, Sancho Panza, to whom Don Quixote has promised an island over which to rule once he completes his adventures and wins over his only love, Dulcinea.
The adventures which follow are exciting and entertaining. Don Quixote charges at windmills, mistaking them to be giants. He mistakes a country wench to be Dulcinea who has been enchanted by an evil magician's spell in order to look like a country wench. In short, he can't distinguish reality from his fantasy.
This novel is long, and unless you're a classic literature buff, you can get away with the abridged version. What makes the book such a classic is the complexity of the characters. Don Quixote isn't insane all the time--there are times when he seems to know more about reality than he lets on. Sancho Panza seems like an idiot for following Don Quixote around, yet Sancho goes back and forth between criticizing his master's idiotic notions and adoring some of them as well.
Moreover, the source of Don Quixote's madness is his obsession with books on chivalry. Yet this book itself is a story about a chivalric knight. By taking this story's message to heart, aren't we committing the same errors as Don Quixote did with his novels?
I liked Robert Whitfield's narration, especially his depiction of Sancho Panza. He made it easy to follow despite a large cast of characters.
I highly recommend this novel, and enjoyed it thoroughly.
The story begins with the end – in Peru in 1714 a bridge collapses, killing five people. Brother Juniper, a monk who witnesses the disaster and is also fascinated with the idea of scientifically proving God’s existence, collects and analyzes the evidence of these victims’ lives, hoping to witness God’s plan.
We then are taken into the lives of the individuals who died on the bridge – who they were, how they lived, and what forces drew them to cross that bridge at that fateful moment. Though seemingly unrelated at first, they are in fact indirectly related to Camila Perichole, a former Peruvian actress.
Upon reading, I had initial fears that TBOSLR would depict the predictable 20th century existentialist world, where “God’s plan” is synonymous with “panacea” and that each of our lives is purposeless. Though I will not reveal the ending, Wilder steeres clear of this conclusion.
Sam Waterston’s voice (Law and Order) is excellent. Perhaps some do not like his plodding, tired style, but I feel it fits this novel perfectly.
Wilder's masterful accomplishment rests upon his proficiency in theatre. Limiting himself to only a few short scenes for each character, he perfectly encapsulates their motivations, dreams, fears, and essences. Readers will enjoy the depth of characters enclosed in such a brief novel.
Fathers and Sons has been hailed as a masterpiece of Russian literature, but I knew nothing about it before picking it up. I was certainly impressed.
The book centers around Yevgeny Bazarov, a young radical who embraces the idea of nihilism. Bazarov rejects the old conventions of the past (religion, aristocracism, liberalism, essentially all “-isms”) and believes that life is meaningless. During his travels with his friend, Arkady Kirsanov, he discusses and argues his beliefs with both parents and other characters. Despite his insistence that nothing in life has any meaning, Bazarov is a caring, loving man.
What happens in the plot is of little importance compared to the progression of Bazarov and his beliefs over the course of the novel. The novel’s ending comes suddenly, but is not surprising.
What is more crucial to the novel’s success is the way it captures the essence of people’s relationships and feelings through Turganev’s recounting of events. One always can tell where people stand in their opinions of each other simply by their basic actions.
I was fascinated that in Bazarov,I could see feelings about tzars and social class in general which was reminiscent of the impending Soviet Communist Revolution. I also saw overtones of modern existentialism in a 19th century novel.
George Guidall does a wonderful job, and is easy to follow. Like many Russian novels, however, Fathers and Sons can be somewhat wordy and complex. I am not sure if the English translations are to blame or if the style of Russian writing is simply not what Americans are used to. Nonetheless, Fathers and Sons is a classic and should not be missed.
I knew nothing of this book until seeing it on a list of the best novels of the 20th century. Now, I must agree that A Bend in the River is a fabulous novel.
Though no specifics are named, A Bend in the River takes place almost certainly in Zaire, where the President (“the Big Man”) has put down the rebellion and restored order to the country. Business flourishes, and many rejoice in the promise of the future. Eventually, however, things take a turn for the worse. The political climate becomes more repressive, government corruption and poverty abound, and the place becomes a real mess.
The reader experiences this through the eyes of Salim, an Arab-African (more African than Arab) storeowner in the local city. Salim is a fascinating narrator – his observations can be brilliant and insightful, yet his detachment from the real world is quite striking. Salim’s ability to conceal his emotions from both the reader and himself is also of particular interest.
Readers should not expect an “action” novel – A Bend in the River falls much more along the style of E.M. Forster or Joseph Conrad – but Naipaul’s prose is superb. Feast your eyes on the opening sentence: “The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.”
Simon Vance's narrative voice is also great.
I now understand why this book is so highly regarded. I have never read a better personal account of the rise and fall of a dictatorial regime, fiction or otherwise. Naipaul’s work makes fantastic modern fiction.
Set in nineteenth-century England, Silas Marner is a weaver who has moved to a new town, Raveloe. Repulsed by his appearance and cataleptic fits, he is ostracized by the community. After losing his faith and having his fortune stolen from him, his fortunes change over time.
The fascinating subject is not Marner but the town, Raveloe, whose characters are of particular interest. It is interesting how Eliot spends more time discussing their thoughts and actions than the does Marner, the title character.
I was interested in this book from reading Middlemarch and found Marner to be decidedly more entertaining, but not as in-depth. Yet there are important themes found in Marner--the loss of faith, the good of the community vs. the rights of the individual, and the importance of social class (this is present in every British novel).
Marner is a masterpiece because it is written by a woman in the nineteenth century and one of George Eliot’s great works. It is also an entertaining book to read, and not too difficult, seeing its short length. Those interested in reading Eliot may want to start with this classic.
A fascinating book about American foreign policy both leading up to and following 9/11.
Though Mr. Friedman?s topic seems impossible to address without some political angle, Friedman takes a ?Dragnet? approach??just the facts.? He explains the goals and aims of Al Qaeda, the history of American presence in the Middle East during the Cold War, and explains Al Qaeda?s motives in attacking the United States on 9/11. He then discusses the response of the United States in great detail around the world, but focusing on the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The most fantastic aspect of this book was that it opened my eyes to the chess game of diplomacy which is going on over our heads. Friedman explains what the U.S. government did in order to get other countries to cooperate (every country stated PUBLICLY that they would cooperate, but many were not as helpful in substance). The flare-up between India and Pakistan was a result of the U.S. using creative diplomatic pressure.
No book is without its shortcomings, and Friedman?s text has some limitations. First, some of his analysis is wrong. I have no idea which information is incorrect, but it is safe to assume that Friedman himself is not 100% correct. Because each of his points is so clearly stated and convincing, it is virtually impossible to know what is correct, and what is incorrect. This is difficult to keep in mind while reading.
Also, I wish the title did not have to contain the word ?Secret.? Though the war is certainly hidden, those who don?t bother to read the book may think the ?secret? is that the war is about oil, the desire for revenge against Saddam, or any other of the groundless conspiracy theories (from any angle).
Brian Emerson?s reading is great--clear and easy to understand.
Friedman has written an epilogue to the book which can be viewed on the web (just Google the author?s name, title, and ?epilogue,? and you?ll find it). You'll love this book!
This classic epic novel, written in 1819, was one I really enjoyed reading.
The story is set in medieval England. King Richard lies in prison in Europe on his voyage from the Crusades. Meanwhile, the Saxons and Normans are fighting over the remnant of England.
Ivanhoe, a disinherited son of a noble who was also on the Crusades, returns disguised as the Disinherited Knight. Together with the help of a mysterious Black Knight, they fight members of the Knight?s Templars, rescue the fair Rowena, whom Ivanhoe has fallen in love with, and perform other feats of heroism.
This is a great adventure novel: a disinherited knight who is forced to fight several times when the odds are against him in order to win his love. Many characters are featured as well, including Robin Hood and his merry men. Any reader with an interest in chivalry, medieval times, English royal history, or good ol? fight scenes will appreciate this novel.
The book does feature a character worth mentioning: Isaac is an elderly Jewish man, and he has a daughter, Rebecca, who falls in love with Ivanhoe. Though the anti-Semitic rhetoric by some of the villainous characters runs pretty thick at times (this does take place during the Crusades, after all), it?s pretty clear the author despises such treatment. In actuality, Rebecca turns out to be the strongest heroine of the novel.
It is clear why this book is still so popular. It?s a great story, with great heroes (and even better villains). You will really enjoy this book.
Frederick Davidson's voice is perfect for this role. He brings each of the many characters to life distinctly, and his depiction of the villains is especially good. I strongly recommend this recording
This debate is fascinating, much more so than the Republican/Democrat debate. There are four ?third party? candidates here, all from very diverse backgrounds.
The Constitution Party?I?m not too familiar with this party, but they really like the Constitution and its very limited powers and seem to want to stick to a strict interpretation of the Constitution, which means a very limited government.
The Green Party?This party wants to promote sound social and ecological change through governmental policy. They want the minimum wage to be raised to a living wage among other things.
The Libertarian Party?Not confused with ?liberals,? this party emphasizes limited federal government, with more emphasis on state power and ?laissez-faire?-style free market capitalism in most affairs.
The Socialist Party?Not THOSE Socialists, but other socialists who are patriotic, peaceful, and want a strong, centralized government with lots of public ownership.
As you can see, there is a lot of contrast here, and the debate, while short, has a good deal of substance to it. The most notable downside to it is the moderator, who is so unprofessional that the segment sounds more like an intellectual dorm meeting rather than a national presidential debate. He comes off as a moron with his side comments and jokes. I?m not even exaggerating here. A MORON.
The candidates, however, are entertaining and informative. Republicans and Democrats are great, and they have the power, but they don?t always make you think. Expand your mind by getting to know some the other parties out there. Although it is unlikely any of these parties will win a national election anytime soon, their debate influences public policies which are often usurped by the Red/Blue parties.
First--They've fixed the one-week delay, and now the broadcast can be heard by the next day!
Second--For those who aren't aware of Charlie Rose, he is the best interviewer I know of right now. Even if you've never heard of him, you recognize his PBS show by his minimalist black set with a wooden table.
What makes Rose's spartan show so interesting is his ability to ask deep questions--insightful ones that interviewers rarely get to but listeners want to hear the answers to.
The other great aspect is his range of dynamic guests--from Hollywood actors and directors to politicians, architects, Harvard professors, CEOs, diplomacy pundits, rock stars, authors, etc. They're all interesting. Or are they boring people who are only interesting because they are answering thoughtful, probing questions from Rose? I'm not sure. Anyway, it's a great conversation.
It's a good show, you get five hours/wk, and you feel smarter while being entertained. It's the best Audible has to offer right now in my opinion, even more so than C-SPAN's Booknotes (Hey, C-SPAN's Booknotes is good, I'm not even kidding here). Go for it and see.
For science lovers, this can be a good subscription. I'm interested by discoveries in science, which is exactly what this periodical is about--imparting the latest in scientific discoveries from the world of computers, astronomy, medicine, biology, and more. It's thorough and educational, but not captivating.
The main problem is that there's only one narrator, and though he seems knowledgable, he speaks with little excitement. This leads to a science recording with more than one slow spot. I think it would be better if they had more than one narrator (like a newscast) or at least something to break up the monologue. It just keeps going from one story to the next like a ticker tape.
If you like science, however, I think you can overlook this problem. It's just something to be aware of.
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In May 1931, the Leprosy Inspector, Souza-Araújo, acquired the Sanatorio Espirita do Gopoúva and installed the Sanatorio Padre Bento, to shelter leprosy sufferers who were begging alms in the city of São Paulo. The Sanatorio was inaugurated on 5 June 1931, with eighty-three patients from the district of Guapira. It provided training, both administrative and technical, to doctors of the Leprosy Inspectorate, potential leprosaria directors.
The initial capacity was for 180 beds. At the time of writing, Souza-Araújo described it as the best leprosy sanatorium existing in Brazil. The number of patients increased considerably, and in 1936 they numbered 497.
(Araujo, H C S. 'A lepra e as organizações anti-leprosas do Brasil em 1936'. Mem. Inst. Osw Cruz, 1937:32, 145-6)
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The evergreen annual RBS Six Nations rugby tournament is underway and so it’s time for large numbers of Londoners to reveal themselves as Scottish, Welsh or Irish.
That is hardly surprising, considering that London draws people in from all over – there are many thousands of French and Italian people in the city as well. What is curious is that the identity of so many Scottish, Welsh and Irish fans is revealed only by the colour of their rugby shirt. In the absence of a distinguishing accent, name or home town, there may be no obvious clue. In fact, it’s quite common to meet rugby fans whose loyalty is to the land where their grandparents were born.
An article in the Daily Telegraph rather unkindly groups together these fans as “plastic Celts”: people who have probably lived all their lives in England and who, in many cases, will happily support the England football team.
It may seem inconsistent to support one national team in rugby and another in football but that doesn’t make the allegiance any less real. It is of course common in the UK for people to have relatives from different places so multiple identities are to be expected. And it can be very complicated. A fan who simultaneously supports the Welsh rugby team and the England football team may well root for Scotland when they play against England at rugby.
As international mobility increases, more and more people are likely to identify themselves with multiple countries and athletes also become eligible for more than one national team. Following controversies about eligibility in previous years, the International Rugby Board now only permits players to represent one country at senior level during their career.
Cynicism about the tenuous links that some fans (and athletes) have to their national teams is not going to disappear but their allegiance should be respected. One of the enriching aspects of sport is the way in which it enables people to express their multiple identities.
Although I don’t claim any allegiance to Wales, I was reminded again on 4 February that the singing of the Welsh national anthem before Wales v England in Cardiff is one of the great spectacles of world sport. | <urn:uuid:e0ac13e1-679b-4bd4-af34-77045592435d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.hillandknowlton.com/rowlandjack/2011/02/05/six-nations-rugby-tournament-reveals-multiple-national-identities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973742 | 432 | 1.6875 | 2 |
There have been many attempts – from every part of the political spectrum – to assign blame for the financial turmoil of late 2008. Judging from the recent New York protests and the reaction to the introduction of monthly fees for debit cards, there are still many people angry with bankers. Whether that blame is justified is addressed in a new book, by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner, entitled Reckless Endangerment.
The economic downturn has affected almost every American, and, as you might expect, has inspired several books on the subject. Selecting the best one can be challenging, but, for my money, none is finer than Reckless Endangerment. In a little over 300 very readable pages, the authors explain exactly what happened and identify the people who really warrant responsibility for this disaster. The book is so clear and informative that when I was finished , I was puzzled how to synthesize so much valuable information into a single column – it truly is chock full of fascinating information, devious characters, and compelling events. When I spoke with Ms. Morgenson, she indicated that the reason they wrote the book was to set the record straight – and, hopefully, to prevent this calamity from happening again. Whether that can be done remains a mystery, as the actual reasons and the real culprits that caused these ill-fated events are barely known as evidenced by the protests.
Many pages are spent defining the role of James A. Johnson, the former head of FNMA (Fannie Mae) who disappeared from the company when his handiwork brought our country to the brink. Most people know him only as the temporary head of Barack Obama’s Vice-Presidential search committee, from which he was canned because of his shenanigans at Fannie Mae and because of his sweetheart loans received from Countrywide’s Angelo Mozilo for his multiple mansions. He subsequently slid back into obscurity, earning big bucks behind the scenes.
Mr. Johnson, a Democratic political appointee, revamped Fannie Mae (with Freddie Mac following right behind) from a sleepy quasi-governmental entity (called in Washington-speak a GSE – government sponsored entity) into a huge funder of loans that lined his pockets, along with those of his cronies. The book describes how his crew manipulated results to maximize bonuses for Johnson, his successor and right-hand man (Franklin Raines), and the rest of the people who were setting us up for a big fall. Johnson also established an expensive lobbying machine that immediately squelched any attempts to rein in the twin entities.
The book also points blame at players in private industry. But when I asked what surprised her most from her research, Morgenson, who is no novice to these issues (having covered them for years for both Forbes and the New York Times), simply answered: “How much government involvement there was in the process.”
Even pros like Morgenson could be confused because Congress has worked overtime to muddle the facts, mostly to point fingers at banks and mortgage companies. But when I asked Morgenson who was most liable for this mess, she replied that the offenders were, in fact, Congress, adding that while there was bipartisan responsibility, the principal blame fell on the Democrats. They wanted to expand home ownership to certain minority communities without considering the related risk, and it was Democrats such as Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd who were primarily responsible for stopping efforts to control Johnson and his cohorts. Private industry may have been greedy, but they were merely following the dictates of Congress to expand home ownership.
Mr. Frank, who seems to have been owned and operated by Fannie Mae, was one of the chief protectors of the GSEs. When asked in 2005 about the potential downside to giving loans to people financially ill-prepared to repay them, the cantankerous Mr. Frank answered: “We’ll deal with that problem if it happens.” Congresswoman Maxine Waters, his fellow Democrat, was another one willing to risk public funds based on ill-conceived schemes. Ms. Waters came to the conclusion that someone who made monthly rent payments could just as easily afford a house, so she pushed for even more ridiculous no-money-down loans. Waters seemed to overlook all the additional costs related to home ownership, such as repairs, insurance, and property taxes.
Before you buy into the need to control the banks that were – according to the litany of the Left – so ungrateful for being bailed out, pick up Reckless Endangerment to gain clarity on who dug the hole out of which we’re still climbing today. Then buy a copy for one of the Wall Street protesters; maybe they’ll learn that if they really want to protest this mess, they’ll have to hop onto an Amtrak train and march on Washington. | <urn:uuid:9561ca71-3080-41c6-b7fc-53a7563ca7b6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://townhall.com/columnists/brucebialosky/2011/10/10/kill_all_the_bankers/print | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98276 | 987 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Although the ports of New York and New Jersey have improved their productivity to handle a rising flow of imports, their increased security costs since 9/11 have eroded some of the gains, according to a study released yesterday.
The ports have been booming as they attract a larger share of the goods bound for the Northeast from China and other foreign countries.
But despite huge investments in machinery and computers to improve their efficiency, terminal operators have been hiring at an equally fast pace, according to the report, the first independent study of local port activity since 2001.
The study was commissioned by the New York Shipping Association, whose offices were in the World Trade Center and are now in Iselin, N.J.
The number of jobs at cargo terminals in the ports has increased by more than 29 percent, rising to 20,947 in 2004 from 16,232 in 2000, the report shows.
The volume of cargo flowing through the port increased 27 percent, to 99.9 million tons from 78.6 million tons in 2000.
The growth in productivity in recent years was offset partly by the hiring of additional security guards to screen cargo and workers, the report said.
Frank M. McDonough, president of the association, whose members are shipping companies, terminal operators and stevedores, said they had added about 300 security workers.
The study found that cargo movements through the ports directly supported the equivalent of 122,550 jobs in the region and were indirectly responsible for almost as many jobs in other industries, including wholesale trades, banking and insurance.
The study estimated that the direct and indirect jobs resulted in $12.6 billion in income annually and contributed $5.8 billion in taxes.
It was conducted by researchers at Rutgers University and A. Strauss-Wieder, a consulting firm in Westfield, N.J.
The biggest increases in employment have been in the warehouses and distribution facilities in northern New Jersey, Mr. McDonough said.
Those facilities, way stations for the goods unloaded off ships before they land on store shelves, have added 23,000 jobs since 2000, he said.
Mr. McDonough said the number of stevedores has declined slightly to 2,495, with average salaries of $87,000 a year. About 15 percent are women.
Security has become a big expense since 9/11 as operators like Maher Terminals have had to install radiation portals to check every outgoing cargo container for explosives.
Maher, a family-owned company, is installing a system of gates at its terminal in Elizabeth, N.J., to speed checks on each container and driver entering or leaving the waterfront, said Sam Crane, Maher's vice president for external affairs.
But it will still take at least 35 minutes and, during busy periods, more than an hour, for a truck to drop off an outgoing container and pick up an incoming one, he said. | <urn:uuid:c1884528-8016-4daf-a427-83e33680a4f1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://old.gothamgazette.com/article/20050816/202/1529 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97293 | 592 | 1.898438 | 2 |
A risk factor is something that increases your chances of getting a disease or condition.
It is possible to develop
with or without the risk factors listed below. However, the more risk factors you have, the greater your likelihood of developing brain tumors. If you have a number of risk factors, ask your doctor what you can do to reduce your risk.
There are few known risk factors for brain tumors, mostly because little is known about the causes. Some metastatic cancers that move to the brain from
breast, skin (
melanoma), and a few other sites have identifiable risk factors.
- Ionizing radiation
Possibly environmental and/or industrial toxins
- Oil refining
- Rubber manufacturing
Older individuals (who are at greater risk for cancer overall) get more metastatic brain tumors, which start somewhere else in the body and then spread to the brain. Brain tumors in children are one of the most common kinds of pediatric cancers.
Several uncommon hereditary diseases can predispose a person to brain tumors.
Lifestyle Factors Related to Secondary Brain Tumor
increases the risk of numerous cancers, including lung and
kidney, that often metastasize to the brain.
- Sun exposure increases the risk of melanoma.
Harrison TR, Fauci AS.
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine.
14th ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; 1998.
Goetz CG, Pappert EJ.
Textbook of Clinical Neurology. Philadelphia, PA: WB Saunders; 1999.
Last reviewed September 2012 by Mohei Abouzied, MD
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More than 200 of the biggest businesses in America, including Google and Microsoft, said on Wednesday that they will file a brief in support of gay marriage with the Supreme Court.
Yahoo News reported that those companies include Microsoft Corp, Google Inc, Starbucks Corp, Pfizer Inc, Amazon.com, Citigroup Inc. and Thomson Reuters Corp, among others.
Facebook, Morgan Stanley and Intel have already announced their support for gay marriage.
The Supreme Court will take a look at two separate cases on March 26 and March 27 that will examine Proposition 8, the California law that banned gay marriage in 2008, as well as the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), signed by former President Bill Clinton, which defined marriage as between a man and a woman.
Several outcomes are possible as a result of a review of these laws. Traditional marriage can be reinstated on a federal level if DOMA is upheld, states can be granted the right to continue making their own laws regarding marriage, or they can even be banned from making same-sex marriage illegal on a state level.
President Barack Obama has long made his views clear that he is not a supporter of DOMA, and in May last year he publicly announced that he believes same-sex couples should be allowed to get married.
On Friday, the Obama administration filed a brief with the Supreme Court against DOMA, urging the justices to strike down the federal law which keeps the government from recognizing same-sex couples legally married in states.
"Section 3 of DOMA violates the fundamental constitutional guarantee of equal protection," argued Solicitor General Donald Verrill. "The law denies to tens of thousands of same-sex couples who are legally married under state law an array of important federal benefits that are available to legally married opposite-sex couples. Because this discrimination cannot be justified as substantially furthering any important governmental interest, Section 3 is unconstitutional."
A number of conservative groups remain opposed to redefining marriage in America, and hope that the national trend in recent years which has seen nine U.S. states, as well as D.C., legalize gay marriage does not continue.
"The Supreme Court has made clear that defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman is constitutional as a matter of public policy," said Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Austin R. Nimocks.
"Thus, Congress and President Clinton acted constitutionally when DOMA was enacted. The wisest course is for the Supreme Court to resist demands to prematurely end the national debate over the future of marriage. The court should respect the freedom of both Congress and citizens to affirm a bedrock social institution that diverse cultures and faiths have honored throughout the history of Western Civilization." | <urn:uuid:b89f9670-6905-4c30-bb18-4eea3b3fb88f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.christianpost.com/news/google-facebook-amazon-among-200-businesses-filing-brief-supporting-gay-marriage-90897/print.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96292 | 554 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Norman Williams is the senior research engineer in Gallaudet University's Technology Access Program. He is deaf and has an AAS degree from the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in Electro-Mechanical Technology, and a BA from Gallaudet University in Computer Science. He has an extensive background in telecommunications used by people who are deaf. He wrote various applications and internet based servers, including the popular TTY software for PCs known as Futura-TTY. He lead an ASCII standard effort for interoperability between TTYs with an ASCII option. He has also worked with the Cellular Telecommunication Industry Association to make TTYs compatible with cellular phones. He also has explored video communication technologies and worked with various companies such as ISDN, Internet, and phone based video calls before video relay service started. Most recently, Williams did some software engineering and some hardware research for a video relay service. | <urn:uuid:e20681de-83c7-42fe-8d6d-c6173d37d770> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gallaudet.edu/faculty-staff/communication_studies/williams_norman.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968721 | 181 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Historically Black College/University?
Common States of Residence
- Foreign countries
- New Jersey
- New York
Student Age Breakdown
Under 18: 0%
African American: 2%
Asian American: 9%
Native American: 0%
BU has been in the spotlight for the surprisingly conservative views of the administration. While no student group within the University at the college level of education has been abolished, the gay activist group at the BU Academy (a high-school functioning under BU’s administration—a breeding ground for potential applicants), was banned from operation in several years ago. According to former BU President John Silber, these students were simply “too young” to explore any sexuality, let alone of the gay variety. This move brought a lot of negative attention to the University, and a gay professor in the Physical Education department resigned in protest of the ban. In general, however, there sometimes seem to be more gay men on campus than straight ones. The lesbian scene is slightly more concealed but definitely prevalent. Boston tends to be extremely tolerant to all forms of sexuality.
Political groups on campus tend to be more prevalent on campus during times of political distress in the world. While the student body is largely liberal, with a strong Democratic college chapter, there is an equally prevalent Republican college chapter on campus. BU also has many active political organizations that cover a wide range of issues including the ACLU, the Darfur Coalition and a newly formed Women's Center.
BU students span a wide range of economic backgrounds. However, the majority of students are middle- to upper-class.
Most Common Religions
Catholicism is the most prevalent religion on campus. There are also quite a few Protestants, Jews, and students who claim no religious affiliation.
Minority Clubs on Campus
There is a club or organization working to represent nearly every minority that is found on campus. While some are certainly more visible than others, the amount of activity is the result of the effort put forth by the members of the individual group. Due to the size of the University, there is literally something for everyone. | <urn:uuid:18b9fe58-5fd0-4a8c-91ed-6a71b5352d73> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://collegeprowler.com/boston-university/diversity/facts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952388 | 431 | 2.046875 | 2 |
By BEN LEFEBVRE, CASSANDRA SWEET and ALISON SIDER
Valero Energy said late Thursday it temporarily stopped selling gasoline in California's wholesale market as a string of refinery outages resulted in a regional gasoline shortage.
Analysts fear the scramble for the motor fuel will send prices in the state close to $5/gal and force some gas stations to close.
The lack of gasoline pushed California's wholesale, or spot, prices of $4.10/gal Thursday, a 39% increase from Aug. 6, the day an explosion shut down Chevrons 245,000 bpd refinery in Richmond.
Those prices don't include taxes, transportation and other fees, which typically add another 70 cents or more before the gas reaches the pump.
Valero said it will meet its current contracts to supply gasoline, but won't sell into the spot market. But spokesman Bill Day said resumption of spot saleswill depend on markets and inventories.
The company also will continue to supply gasoline to its branded and licensed retail stations in the state, Mr. Day said.
Valero, the largest refiner in the US, took the unusual step after a series of shutdowns at Richmond and other refineries.
Supplies have been further limited by a weeklong shutdown of a refining unit in late September at ExxonMobils 149,500 bpd refinery in Torrance. Meanwhile, Chevron's Richmond facility is only operating at reduced rates.
Adding to supply tensions, Phillips 66 on Thursday announced its 120,000 bpd refinery in San Francisco was going to reduce production for an unspecified amount of time due to planned maintenance.
Gasoline supplies were further crimped by a shortage of crude, the feedstock of gasoline, in one part of California.
Chevron shut down of an 85,000 bpd pipeline that ships crude oil from the San Joaquin Valley to refineries in the San Francisco Bay area on Sept. 19 after organic chloride was found in some of the oil put in the pipeline.
A Chevron spokesman said the company was investigating and was working to clean out the pipeline, called KLM, and return it to service.
While a single outage - the fear of shortages - can move prices, the cascade of problems has produced dramatic swings in prices at the pump.
Service stations in the Los Angeles area were selling gasoline Thursday afternoon for $4.45/gal, on average, up 11 cents from the start of the day at midnight, according to GasBuddy.com, on Internet firm that tracks retail gasoline prices nationwide.
San Francisco service stations were charging $4.57/gal, on average, up more than 12 cents a gallon, or 2.8% since midnight, according to GasBuddy.
Thursday's price jumps in California are the largest single-day gasoline price increases that GasBuddy has recorded anywhere in the US since the company started tracking gasoline prices in 2000, said Patrick DeHaan, a petroleum analyst at GasBuddy.
Valeros withdrawal from the broader spot market signifies that the states fuel market is becoming illiquid, causing refiners to keep fuel out of the spot market to ensure they have supply for contracted customers.
West Coast gasoline stocks stood at about 26.6 million bbl during the last week of September, the lowest amount for that time of year since 2008, according to the latest data from the US Energy Information Administration.
Valero operates two refineries in California with a combined capacity of 213,000 bpd. These refineries haven't suffered outages.
This is a serious problem, said Richard Hastings, macroeconomy strategist at Global Hunter Securities. Five dollars a gallon is a plausible concept at this point, and it won't be $5 at the airport filling station - it will be all over the place.
As Valero and possibly other refiners leaving the spot market, independent gas stations not holding supply contracts will start shutting down after their fuel runs out, said Avery Ash, manager of regulatory affairs at motorist trade group American Automobile Association.
The stations that don't have contracts from the major retailers - the mom-and-pop station and Costcos - may decide not to sell gasoline at this point, Mr. Ash said. With spot prices that are well north of $4 a gallon, you're needing to sell retail gasoline near that $5 mark, and they may not see the point of doing that.
The situation could last for weeks until West Coast refineries return to normal production rates, Mr. Ash said.
For Jafar Rashid, the crunch has already come. Mr. Rashid said he closed one of his Los Angeles filling stations Wednesday because it became too expensive to buy more fuel for the pumps.
My street price is $4.69, Mr. Rashid said of his per-gallon retail price.
But if I was going to buy the gas [wholesale and] it was going to cost more than $5. I cant pay that, its too expensive. Id rather close the gas station, he said.
Mr. Rashid also owns four Chevron stations but said he has been able to keep those open. The station he shut down Wednesday will also be converted to a Chevron station soon, he said.
I don't want to buy independent gas anymore.
Rose Marton and Ken Clark contributed to this story.
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() is a small town located in the Pishin District
. It is the capital of the district, and is located in the east of the province at 30°35'0N 67°0'0E near the border with Afghanistan
with an altitude of 1555 metres (5104 feet). Tremors from the 2008 Pakistan earthquake
were felt in the town. Surrounding areas are Yaro
. During World War II
, the British
built two air bases in the district of Pishin, one near the town of Pishin and the other in Saranan
. The runways of the air base are still in good condition.
Pishin is hidden in far history however it played a bright role in Anglo-Afghan Wars
fought between Britain forces and Afghan
tribes. The tribes contributed very much assistance to MALIK BARAN KHAN TAREEN OF HAIKALZAI who was fighting against the English forces. The tribes from Pishin used to attack the convoys of British forces when they were on their way to Afghanistan to fight.
Geography, weather and agriculture
Pishin is the biggest district of Pashtun tribes
in Balochistan. It connects Quetta, the capital city, to Afghanistan. It is located in the north west of Balochistan. Due to its high population and vast area, a new tehsil "Huramzai" has been established. The temperature is hot in summer, up to 40 °C, and in winter it is cold even below the freezing point.
Popular Indian actor Kader Khan
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Pandora's Box was introduced in the myth about Pandora. She was not supposed to open the box, but curiosity got the best of her. She opened the box and out flew all the evils, luckily she slammed it shut again before the last evil flew out and destroyed hope.
From this story, the term Pandora's Box has come to represent something that holds or releases evil. Opening Pandora's Box implies creating serious trouble. | <urn:uuid:040f6621-7d8b-45a4-93c4-75769244a630> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://symbolism.wikia.com/wiki/Pandora's_Box?oldid=7403 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97248 | 86 | 2.75 | 3 |
Aside from a few tomatoes I used in guacamole for a Super Bowl party, I haven’t bought a tomato in a while. They’re so hard and pink and flavorless this time of year, and they’re definitely not local.
Then the March issue of Gourmet arrived, giving me an even better reason to pass them over (assuming, of course, the accuracy of the reporting).
In Barry Estabrook’s “The Price of Tomatoes,” he exposes what he calls “involuntary servitude” in the fields of Immokalee, a tiny Florida town known as the tomato capital of the country. As he reports, more than 1,000 Florida men and women have been freed over the past 12 years in more than a handful of cases. The chief assistant US attorney, Douglas Molloy, is even quoted as calling Immokalee “ground zero for modern slavery.”
After reacting with sadness and disbelief, I thought back to Michael Pollan’s “Unhappy Meals” (New York Times Magazine, 1-28-07), especially to a point in his conclusion where he admonishes us for expecting to pay so little for our food. As Pollan writes, “The American food system has for a century devoted its energies and policies to increasing quantity and reducing price, not to improving quality. There’s no escaping the fact that better food — measured by taste or nutritional quality (which often correspond) — costs more, because it has been grown or raised less intensively and with more care.”
Later, he argues that “those of us who can afford to eat well should. Paying more for food well grown in good soils — whether certified organic or not — will contribute not only to your health (by reducing exposure to pesticides) but also to the health of others who might not themselves be able to afford that sort of food: the people who grow it and the people who live downstream, and downwind, of the farms where it is grown.”
In Estabrook’s article, he talks of hard-fought success in lobbying companies like Yum! Brands (owner Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and others) to pay a penny more per pound to tomato pickers. Success, yes, but it seems the reality of distributing that raise is in jeopardy due to a disagreement with Florida farmers.
Supply and demand are fierce taskmasters, but somewhere along the way, we’ve clearly crossed a line. Hats off to both journalists for bringing this to our attention. | <urn:uuid:a291b663-3bc3-491f-880b-3e7e7b144a51> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://seedtospoon.com/2009/02/21/the-cost-of-cheap-tomatoes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957742 | 544 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Chest-deep in Florida's calm, turquoise waters, buoyancy compensator inflated, regulator in hand, I began to wonder if learning to dive was such a great idea. When I signed up for the open water course
, scuba diving seemed like a great adventure, but now I was being asked to put my face in the water and inhale. I found this counterintuitive. To be honest, I enrolled in a scuba course as a lark, and I had absolutely no idea what to expect. If had, I would have perhaps been less nervous. Here is some information that I would have liked to know before getting in the water for the first time.
Scuba Courses Are Taught in "Baby Steps":
New scuba divers are not expected throw on a full set of scuba gear and leap off a boat into the deep blue sea on their first scuba dive. A dive student's first dive will be at a controlled dive site such as a pool or shallow bay. At least one area of the dive site will be shallow enough to stand up in. What's more, before ever entering the water, a scuba instructor will explain to new divers how all the dive gear works, and will familiarize them with simple techniques used to dive safely. The first skill you are likely to try is breathing through a scuba regulator with just your face in the water. I would be lying if I didn't say that breathing through a regulator feels a little weird at first.
Breathing Through a Scuba Regulator:
Breathing through a scuba regulator for the first time can feel strange. The act of breathing itself, especially in very shallow water, feels almost exactly like breathing in the air. The aspect of breathing through a regulator that is disconcerting is that a student is required to put his face in the water and inhale. This is not a typical human behavior, and it is completely normal to be a little hesitant to put your face in the water and inhale at the beginning.
Skills you might do on your fist dive:
• Communicate Using Hand Signals
• Remove Water From Your Mask
• Equalize Your Ears
The trick that I like to use with students is to ask them to put on their dive masks and practice breathing through the regulator above the water until they become comfortable with mouth-only breathing. Then, they lower just their faces into the water while exhaling fully through the regulator. This usually tricks the divers into breathing in automatically, and gets them past the first, disconcerting step of inhaling underwater. The most important thing is to exhale fully after each breath. This prevents divers from hyperventilating and feeling starved for air. Some students adjust to regulator breathing after just a few breaths, while others take longer to gain confidence in their scuba equipment. Take your time! Be comfortable with breathing at the surface before descending into the water.
The Noisy Underwater Environment:
Divers who have done research into scuba diving have probably read about the silent, relaxing underwater world. This is not completely accurate. Breathing underwater is surprisingly noisy! Once a diver becomes accustomed to breathing underwater, he starts to tune out the bubbling sound of exhalation and the comforting whoosh of air as he inhales, but at the beginning, the sounds are surprisingly loud!
Water conducts sounds much more efficiently than air does because of its density. Sound waves travel more quickly in water, and reach each of diver's ears almost simultaneously. Pinpointing the origin of a sound is difficult, as the physics of sound wave transmission underwater make it seem that all sounds are coming from directly behind a diver's head. While this can be confusing at first, after a few dives you will adjust to this aspect of the underwater environment and will hardly notice it.
Most scuba masks cut off a diver's peripheral vision. At first, this can be disconcerting and may make some divers feel slightly claustrophobic. Don't worry! As with most aspects of the scuba diving, new divers will quickly acclimate to their limited field of vision. Imagine that you are driving a new car with some significant blind spots. These blind spots can be annoying the first time you use the vehicle, but after a few trips, you will become aware of exactly where the blind spots are and will learn to turn your head when you need to see into an area which is out of your field of vision. Scuba diving is just the same! If you cannot see you instructor, simply look left, right, up and down and you will find him.
The physics of underwater light transmission have a magnifying effect. Objects appear about 33% closer than they actually are. The implication of this is that your dive buddy, instructor, the floor, the surface, and any other objects seem nearer than they are. (This also makes it really easy to read your gauges!) Again, this aspect of the underwater world begins to seem "normal" after a few dives. Most experienced divers do not even notice the magnification because a diver's brain quickly learns to adjust to the difference. A good way to speed the learning process is to reach out and touch objects such as the pool floor, pool wall, or your dive buddy. This will teach you quickly how distant these objects really are. Never touch corals, fish, or other aquatic life.
Weightlessness and Freedom of Movement:
One of the best parts of scuba diving is the feeling of weightlessness. Scuba divers can fly up, down, left and right. The weightlessness of scuba diving is one of the most freeing sensations in the world. Divers can move easily in three dimensions. The trick is to relax into the weightless feeling of the water and let the water and your buoyancy compensator (BC) support you. Don't fight the water. At first, a new diver may feel that he needs to move to stay in position -- he doesn't. Try to be as still as possible and enjoy the freedom from gravity. It's like being an astronaut!
Common questions about diving:
• How Long Does a Dive Last
• How Deep Can You Scuba Dive?
• Can You Dive With Corrective Lenses?
The Density of Water Restricts Movements:
Water is, of course, denser than air. A diver who tries to move quickly will feel resistance to his movements from the water, and may quickly exhaust himself. Underwater movements, including swimming
and arm motions, should be slow and controlled. Once a diver accustoms himself to the resistance of the water, underwater movements become an exercise in forced relaxation, almost like Tai Chi!
You Might Need to Pee:
The human body reacts in unusual ways to the underwater environment. Being surrounding by water lower than body temperature may lead to a physiological reaction known as cold water immersion diaresis
. The body speeds up the synthesis of urine, leading to the need to urinate underwater. On ocean dives, many divers simply pee in their wetsuits, but if a new diver is learning to dive in a pool, or is using a rental wetsuit, he may need to hold it! Don't worry, needing to pee underwater is a completely normal consequence of scuba diving. If the need becomes too great and peeing in your wetsuit is impossible or disgusting to you, simply end the dive.
It Is Normal to Forget Skills, Hand Signals, and Other Instructions:
The underwater environment exposes new divers to a completely new world. On your first dive, your brain is working hard to adjust to the feeling of weightlessness, the magnification of the water, underwater breathing, and all the other aspects of the environment listed above. This is a huge amount of information to process, and sometimes instructions which seemed clear on the surface such as the use of hand signals and the steps of underwater skills get pushed to the back of a new diver's mind. It's okay! If your instructor has to bring you to the surface to explain something again, don't feel bad. Be patient with yourself and enjoy the new sensations. It is a new, delightful world down there!
Scuba Diving Takes a Little Getting Used to . . . But It's Worth the Effort!:
Some divers take to scuba diving like fish underwater. They put regulators in their mouths and off they swim! However, this is the exception rather than the rule. For most new divers, scuba diving feels a little strange at first. Be patient with yourself, don't rush through skills, and take your time. By the end of your first dive you will already feel exponentially more comfortable underwater than you did when you first entered the water. I am a scuba instructor, but getting used to the underwater world took me a few dives, too.
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A temp or temporary employee is a worker usually employed by an employment agency on a non-permanent basis. The employer contracts with the employment agency to provide the worker and pays an agreed to rate, usually perhour, for the temp. The employer provides no benefits and can terminate the temp at any time without paying severance pay.
Temps were originally used to fill in for employees calling in sick or on vacation or to fill short term needs for additional manpower. Originally it was mostly office workers and warehouse workers. But employers are finding temps less costly to hire than regular, full time employees, who often receive costly benefits. Employers increasingly rely on a cadre of full time employees to form the core of their operations to train and supervise the temps, but then fill in the ranks with temps to get the work done at lower overall cost.
Increasingly professionals have been brought in as temps. That is because employers may have a need for extra manpower on certain projects, and experienced professionals are willing to work as temps. Computer programmers, scientists, engineers, and accountants are often hired this way to deal with short term project needs.
In recent years, employers have increasingly used contract employees. They were considered self-employed contractors. Unlike a full time permanent employee, the contractor rather than the employer is responsible for providing benefits and paying income taxes.
Certain companies, most notably Microsoft, have recently had their contractor hiring practices challenged. Challengers maintain that people claiming to be self-employee contractors were in fact employees. That would require payment of payroll taxes plus back payments for vacation, holidays, and other benefits routinely provided to employees. To avoid such challenges, employers are increasingly hiring temporaries who work for employment agencies. These temps are employees of the temp agency and cannot be construed to be employees of the temp agency's client.
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2008 Sees Fifth Largest Ozone HoleNovember 3, 2008
The ozone hole over Antarctica, which fluctuates in response to temperature and sunlight, grew to the size of North America in a one-day maximum in September that was the fifth largest on record, since NOAA satellite records began in 1979.
NOAA scientists, who have monitored the ozone layer since 1962, have determined that this year’s ozone hole has passed its seasonal peak for 2008. Ozone data is available online.
The primary cause of the ozone hole is human-produced compounds called chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, which release ozone-destroying chlorine and bromine into the atmosphere. Earth’s protective ozone layer acts like a giant umbrella, blocking the sun’s ultraviolet-B rays. Though banned for the past 21 years to reduce their harmful build up, CFCs still take many decades to dissipate from the atmosphere.
According to NOAA scientists, colder than average temperatures in the stratosphere may have helped play a part in allowing the ozone hole to develop more fully this year.
“Weather is the most important factor in the fluctuation of the size of the ozone hole from year-to-year,” said Bryan Johnson, a scientist at NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, which monitors ozone, ozone-depleting chemicals, and greenhouse gases around the globe. “How cold the stratosphere is and what the winds do determine how powerfully the chemicals can perform their dirty work.”
NASA satellites measured the maximum area of this year’s ozone hole at 10.5 million square miles and four miles deep, on Sept. 12. Balloon-borne sensors released from NOAA’s South Pole site showed the total column of atmospheric ozone dropped to its lowest count of 107 Dobson units on Sept. 28. Dobson units are a measure of total ozone in a vertical column of air.
South Pole ozonesonde measurements for 2006-2008.
In 2006, record-breaking ozone loss occurred as ozone thickness plunged to 93 Dobson units on Oct. 9 and sprawled over 11.4 million square miles at its peak. Scientists blamed colder-than-usual temperatures in the stratosphere for its unusually large size. Last year’s ozone hole was average in size and depth.
Starting in May, as Antarctica moves into a period of 24-hour-a-day darkness, rotating winds the size of the continent create a vortex of cold, stable air centered near the South Pole that isolates CFCs over the continent. When spring sunshine returns in August, the sun’s ultraviolet light sets off a series of chemical reactions inside the vortex that consume the ozone. The colder and more isolated the air inside the vortex, the more destructive the chemistry. By late December the southern summer is in full swing, the vortex has crumbled, and the ozone has returned—until the process begins anew the following winter.
The 1987 Montreal Protocol and other regulations banning CFCs reversed the buildup of chlorine and bromine, first noticed in the 1980s.
Images of ozone concentration from an animation showing the development of the ozone hole during 2008.
“These chemicals—and signs of their reduction—take several years to rise from the lower atmosphere into the stratosphere and then migrate to the poles,” said NOAA’s Craig Long, a research meteorologist at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Prediction. “The chemicals also typically last 40 to 100 years in the atmosphere. For these reasons, stratospheric CFC levels have dropped only a few percent below their peak in the early 2000s.“
“The decline of these harmful substances to their pre-ozone hole levels in the Antarctic stratosphere will take decades,” said NOAA atmospheric chemist Stephen Montzka of the Earth System Research Laboratory. “We don’t expect a full recovery of Antarctic ozone until the second half of the century.”
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You have to give a presentation to several executives at your company. You need some help with creating a nice-looking presentation. You are asking a coworker who's good with design to help you. You start by explaining the situation:
I have to put together a presentation for Upper Management.
When you say that you "have to" do something, it means that you must do it. But "must" is very formal. It's usually used for written instructions or commands, but not in spoken conversation.
When you "put something together", it means that you make something by collecting materials or information from different places. In the example above, you can imagine that the presentation is created using information, notes, photos, and graphics from different sources.
Some other things that people sometimes "put together" include:
- put together an event
- put together a portfolio
- put together a business plan
When you use a short pronoun like "it", "they", "something", etc. it goes between "put" and "together":
We put it together quickly.
We can put something together later this week.
When you use a noun or noun phrase, it goes after "put together".
"Upper management" is the group of people who are at the top of a company. These people usually have job titles like "CEO", "CTO" (Chief Technical Officer), "CFO" (Chief Financial Officer), "Vice President of Sales", and so on.
When you talk about "Upper Management", you use the singular and talk about them as if they are one unified group.
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Marking the boldest move of his brief congressional career, Sen. Marco Rubio walked out on a limb this week by joining a move to pass comprehensive immigration reform — thrusting him into the middle of a thorny political debate that carries risk and reward for the freshman lawmaker.
The move also represented a sharp break with the Florida Republican's far more cautious record on one of the nation's most divisive issues.
Mr. Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, took a much more hands-off approach on immigration a decade ago. With his eyes set on becoming speaker of the Florida House, the Miami-area lawmaker withdrew his support from a bill that would have granted some illegal immigrants in-state tuition rates at community colleges and state universities.
"He just didn't see a lot of value in it, and he was always cautious of being viewed as only being interested in Hispanic issues because that might get in the way of his ambition of being speaker," said former Florida state Rep. Juan C. Zapata, the Republican who wrote the in-state tuition bill and the first Colombian-American elected to the Florida House.
Now a member of the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners, Mr. Zapata told The Washington Times that Mr. Rubio was not anti-immigrant by any means. He was, however, determined not to get pigeonholed as a leading advocate on the issue of immigration, which was becoming more and more emotionally charged.
"It was not as much as his personal conviction but more about his personal ambition," Mr. Zapata said, alluding to the fact that Mr. Rubio co-sponsored his tuition bill in 2003 and 2004 before backing out of it in the subsequent years.
Mr. Rubio won the Florida House speakership, rode the tea party wave to win Florida's Senate seat in 2010 and spent his first two years building his legislative credentials on Capitol Hill.
Changing the message
Along the way, Mr. Rubio, one of two Hispanic Republicans in the Senate, has changed how he talks about immigration.
In that 2010 campaign, during which he emerged as a rising star in the Republican Party, he said that an "earned path to citizenship is basically code for 'amnesty.'"
This week, he embraced that type of earned path to citizenship when he signed onto a five-page framework for immigration reform, joining a bipartisan group of eight senators who have vowed to push for a bill this year. Mr. Rubio spoke — in English and Spanish — at the packed news conference Monday in strong defense of the compromise.
Their framework would grant most of the estimated 11 million-plus illegal immigrants in the country legal status "on Day One," and offer them a chance to earn citizenship over time by paying fines, learning English and keeping out of trouble. The government, meanwhile, would have to bolster border security and enforcement.
For Mr. Rubio, the issue is a chance to make his mark as he ponders a 2016 run for the White House amid a shifting political landscape.
Many analysts said the 2012 election showed the politics of immigration have shifted from the last decade, when supporting legalization was considered to be politically poisonous, to now, when a huge edge with Hispanic voters helped President Obama win re-election.
Indeed, Mr. Obama won Hispanic voters 71 percent to 27 percent over Republican nominee Mitt Romney, who staked out the most hard-line immigration stance of any major party nominee in history.
In the wake of the election, Republican leaders and political operatives have warned their rank-and-file lawmakers that they risk becoming unelectable at the national level unless they find a way to woo Hispanics.
In a postelection interview at a Washington Ideas Forum, Mr. Rubio said, "It's really hard to get people to listen to you on economic growth, on tax rates, on health care, if they think you want to deport their grandmother."
Mr. Zapata said Mr. Rubio is "looking forward" once again and "sees that the political winds are changing."
"He is sticking his neck on a limb a bit, but it is a very calculated move, and he is one of the few people in the party who can do it," he said.
After he joined the senators in releasing the immigration framework Monday, Mr. Rubio went on a charm offensive to try to win over some of the most powerful voices in conservative media. He conducted interviews with radio host Rush Limbaugh and Fox News' Sean Hannity, assuring them that he will insist on more border security as part of any legalization deal.
"What you are doing is admirable and noteworthy," Mr. Limbaugh said. "You are recognizing reality."
Mr. Rubio on Tuesday also warned Mr. Obama — who was unveiling his own immigration reform blueprint in an address in Las Vegas — against trying to push the senators too far to the left.
"The president's speech left the impression that he believes reforming immigration quickly is more important than reforming immigration right," he said.
Despite the approval from conservative talk-show hosts, the politics of the issue could prove perilous for Mr. Rubio — in particular, his embrace of a path to citizenship for those in the U.S. illegally.
"I think they have probably overstepped a little," said Aubrey Jewett, associate chairman of the political science department at the University of Central Florida, who has followed Mr. Rubio's career. "I think they might be able to finesse through something where illegal immigrants are legalized through work permits. But as far as where, over a period of time, those folks get a path to citizenship, I think there is going to be a huge backlash, not from the Republican establishment but from the Republican base."
Al Cardenas, American Conservative Union chairman and a Rubio mentor, said there is a potential downside in "passing [a proposal] with a path to amnesty component that is not acceptable" to conservatives.
Mr. Cardenas, a fellow Cuban-American, downplayed the notion that Mr. Rubio's push is fueled by political ambitions and called his stance "courageous."
"With Marco's charisma and rise to a figure of national prominence, taking a risk of this nature is not what a political strategist would tell him to do — because he does not need the potential downside of this. He understands fully that he is going to incur the wrath of quite a few folks in the [conservative] movement and bear the brunt of that," Mr. Cardenas said. "At this point, it is wait and see."
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The Angry Birds series has catapulted into a new stratosphere. Finnish developer Rovio Mobile today announced that games in the bird-flinging, pig-destroying portable strategy game franchise have been downloaded more than 1 billion times.
The milestone comes after the March release of the game's first true sequel, Angry Birds Space, which blasted off to 10 million downloads in just three days. That game includes a new low-gravity location, as well as additional bird types.
Angry Birds originally launched in 2009 and is now available on a range of platforms, including iOS and Android devices, the PlayStation 3, and Web browsers like Google Chrome.
Some gamers may shrug off Angry Birds as a simple way to pass time, but Legend of Zelda and Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto praised the game last month, saying he admired its simple yet deep control scheme.
Despite the widespread success of Angry Birds, Rovio said in January that it is in no rush to follow the likes of LinkedIn and Zynga in filing for an initial public offering (IPO).
"This year is way too early for an IPO; there are too many open things, and we are in a very early stage of the Angry Birds life cycle," said Rovio marketing chief Peter Vesterbacka.
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JERUSALEM -- At the same time Israel is struggling to keep Jerusalem as the undivided, eternal capital of the Jewish state, many Jews are moving away from the holy city.
During the past 20 years, the proportion of Jews in the city has been slowly but steadily shrinking, to the point where Jews now account for less than 70 percent of the population of 633,000, with Arabs making up most of the rest.
Last year, the Jewish population grew by 1 percent, compared with a 3.5 percent increase for Arabs, according to a study by the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Affairs, a research organization.
"Despite the policy pursued by successive Israeli governments to buttress the Jewish population in the capital, Jews are leaving the city in massive numbers," the newspaper Haaretz declared in a recent editorial.
The exodus includes young families, including the ultra-Orthodox, fleeing the high cost of housing in the city and skilled professionals seeking job opportunities, particularly in high-tech and finance, more prevalent in the center of the country. It also includes people weary of an atmosphere of tension between observant and nonobservant Jews, and between Jews and Muslims.
"It was in the air," said Sharon Lang-Penchas, who moved with her husband, an investment banker, to Tel Aviv last fall. "If it was the only factor, I don't suppose we would have moved. But [taking] everything together, we wanted to move."
The Jewish population continues to increase, largely because of the high birthrate among the very Orthodox, for whom nine to 12 children per couple is common. But the Arab population of East Jerusalem is growing faster. And for every Jewish family that leaves, there's a Palestinian jumping through bureaucratic hoops to gain or keep the right to live here.
"The trends are very dangerous," said Jerusalem's right-wing mayor, Ehud Olmert. "In the long run, it's likely to lead to a different proportion of Jews and Palestinians in Jerusalem. I don't want it to happen. I want to have more Jews than Arabs here."
The gradual population shift has gained new importance because of the peace process. The future of Jerusalem is possibly the most explosive of the "final status" issues being negotiated between Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
With serious talks under way, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak hopes to achieve a framework agreement by February and a final deal by September.
But for that to happen, a solution must be found to two seemingly irreconcilable positions on Jerusalem. Israel insists that a united Jerusalem is its eternal capital; Palestinians want the city to be divided, with the historically Arab eastern part becoming the capital of a Palestinian state.
"If there are more Arabs, or an equal number of Arabs, they will feel stronger in their demand for political sovereignty," Olmert said.
Perhaps no other place on Earth excites such a mix of religious and nationalist passions as this city, which is sacred to Jews, Muslims and Christians.
"What is the soul to the body? Can you describe it?" asked Rabbi Menachem Porush, leader of the ultra-Orthodox Agudath Israel Party, which has its headquarters in Jerusalem, in trying to explain Jews' attachment to the city of David. "Jerusalem is our soul. It gives us life."
Porush, 83, a seventh-generation Jerusalemite, remembers running to pray at the Western Wall an hour after Israeli soldiers captured the Old City in June 1967.
Holy city, hellish problems
The third holiest shrine in Islam after Mecca and Medina, Jerusalem is the place where the prophet Mohammed is believed to have ascended to heaven. For Christians, it is the site of many important moments in the life of Christ, including his final suffering and burial.
Jerusalem's religious and historical importance tends to obscure the fact that it is also a municipality where ethnic and religious divisions compound the prosaic urban problems of pollution, traffic, taxes and crowded housing.
Filmmaker and writer Danny Verete, 47, says he left when faced with spending two hours a day in traffic jams while driving his children to school or taking them to after-school activities.
In Jerusalem, Arab, ultra-Orthodox and secular neighborhoods stand cheek by jowl. This gives the city its vibrant richness. But the various populations notoriously get on each others' nerves.
For secular Jerusalemites, one source of tension has been the growth of the ultra-Orthodox population, spreading beyond its traditional neighborhood and gaining in local political power.
"In the Old City, there has been a change in the social structure. Almost all the secular people moved out and the National Religious moved out," said David Blumberg, chairman of the Bank of Jerusalem. Blumberg, who counts himself among the National Religious, relatively liberal Orthodox Jews, moved from the Old City to the more secular Greek Colony neighborhood. Many of his friends have left the city altogether, he said. | <urn:uuid:2948bfaa-4d58-45ff-b279-3fa43612e2cb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1999-11-24/news/9911240115_1_jewish-population-eternal-capital-final-status | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960728 | 1,022 | 1.703125 | 2 |
CARACAS, venezuela — Nic-olas Maduro, the handpicked successor of Venezuela's ailing president, Hugo Chavez, stood on a stage this month and gave a barnburner of a speech in classic Chavez style. He shouted until his voice gave out, swore an oath of loyalty to the revolution and blasted its opponents. But when the crowd started to chant his name, he cut them off, shouting into the microphone: "Chavez! Chavez! Chavez!"
One thing Maduro has learned in his years at Chavez's side: Do not outshine the boss.
That remains true even with Chavez, 58, in delicate health in Cuba after surgery for cancer, and even after Chavez told the nation that if illness prevents him from governing, Maduro, 50, currently the vice president, should lead in his place.
"He's known as a yes man, and he's somebody that has never shown an independent streak," said David Smilde, a senior fellow of the Washington Office on Latin America, a research organization. "That's what has been key for him, always put the light on Chavez."
But for all Maduro's faithfulness, some see signs that he might be a different sort of leader, someone more moderate and willing to negotiate than the combative Chavez. Not only could that open up the possibility of dialogue with the political opposition inside the country, but it could also mean a softening of Venezuela's strident foreign policy and its antagonistic relationship with the U.S.
"He is a moderate man, a pragmatic man," said Maria Emma Mejia, who worked closely with Maduro when she was secretary general of UNASUR, an group of South American nations.
Still, others say that Maduro has adhered to Chavez's policies so closely for so long that it is hard to know what his own choices would be.
"I don't see Maduro as a presidential candidate," said Carlos Bolivar, 40, a street vendor in Caracas who supports Chavez. "He doesn't have the skill. He's too sealed up." But, he added, "If that's what the president says, we have to accept it." | <urn:uuid:d6c5caa4-ee24-4936-a933-ffc7127fce7c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_22248013/hugo-chavezs-handpicked-successor-venezuela-is-yes-man | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977749 | 442 | 1.585938 | 2 |
11th Zagreb gay pride parade held
The 11th annual Zagreb Pride, dedicated to the right of same-sex couples to a family, was held in the Croatian capital on Saturday and passed without incidents.
The downtown march of LGBTIQ (lesbian, gay, transgender, intersexual and queer) persons was joined by Zagreb's residents, politicians and activists, including Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic, Social Democratic Party MP Mirela Holy and Labour Party MP Branko Vuksic.
The motto of the event was "We have a family! The thousand-year-old Croatian dream!" Participants carried banners which said, among other things, "We have nothing against homophobia as long as it's between four walls" and "Let's destroy fascism, let's raise activism".
Addressing state institutions, activist Branimir Luksic said families made up of LGBT persons were a reality. "We ask the government and parliament to legally regulate our status so that the right to a family will stop being the privilege of only some."
Gender equality ombudswoman Visnja Ljubicic said the issue of families made up of LGBT persons' would have to be aligned with European standards sooner or later. "Human rights belong to everyone and we can't deny them to others based on our prejudices."
"I absolutely agree that sexual minorities should have the same rights as heterosexual citizens because the Constitution guarantees that," said MP Holy, adding that their marriage and family rights would soon be equalized with those of heterosexual couples.
Split Mayor and MP Zeljko Kerum was awarded the Homophobe of the Year title, while journalist Boris Dezulovic was declared Homo-friend of the Year.
According to the organiser, this year's Zagreb Pride was one of the biggest so far with about 4,000 participants. Police estimated that between 1,500 and 2,000 people marched in the parade.
The event passed without any incidents.
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I thought I'd post this before getting to my next book. Not too long ago I heard on National Public Radio, (NPR) that the book A Wrinkle in Time turned 50 last March. All Things Considered is a weekly news program that runs for about two hours a day (one hour on the weekends) on NPR. On this particular segment L'Engle's granddaughter, Charlotte Jones Voiklis, talked about all the her grandmother had getting the book published
Publishers had trouble figuring out what the book was about. There were elements of science and religion as well as mathematics and physics that to some seemed too adult for kids. But L’Engle pushed on and wouldn’t change any of her work. What really struck me was when her granddaughter said that L’Engles intention was not to get kids to understand these grand ideas, but to make them curious about them. It was to get them interested enough to go out and seek the answers themselves. Kids not being the only ones, to this day I don’t completely understand all the concepts in the book. But that seed of inspiration and curiosity is the mark of a good book.
Anyway it’s a great little piece to read and the radio segment itself is only a little more than 8 minutes long. So check it out if you can!
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Iraqi hotel worker Baha Mousa, 26, died in Basra in September 2003
The army general who ran UK military operations during the Iraq war has said he did not know about a 1972 ruling banning the hooding of detainees.
Gen Sir John Reith said he had been unaware prisoners were often "hooded" upon capture, but admitted he banned the practice after bad publicity.
He was giving evidence to the inquiry into the death of Iraqi hotel worker Baha Mousa in British custody in 2003.
The inquiry was adjourned until Tuesday.
Mr Mousa, a 26-year-old hotel receptionist, was found dead with 93 separate injuries after being held in the custody of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment.
The BBC's Caroline Hawley said Sir John was the most senior former military official to give evidence at the inquiry.
He was surprised when the panel told him that "in many cases" the standard practice was to put a hood on a prisoner as soon as they were captured.
In a written witness statement, he said: "If I had been aware that hooding for the purpose of interrogation, stress positions, white noise and/or the deprivation of food, water and/or sleep was being used in 2003, I would have ordered this to cease immediately."
He ordered the banning of the practice in October 2003, following publicity over Mr Mousa's death.
The then UK Chief of Joint Operations and joint commander of UK forces deployed to Iraq, said: "I decided to order the cessation of all hooding as it had become particularly emotive in light of the death of Baha Mousa.
"In any event, given the change in the nature of operations, the security reason for hooding prisoners had, for the most part, fallen away and if prisoners needed to be deprived of their sight, either for our force security or for the protection of the detained person, this could be done by way of blindfolding."
Sir John told the inquiry he had not been aware of the ruling by former Prime Minister Edward Heath in 1972 outlawing hooding.
Our correspondent said Sir John was also unaware that the Red Cross had raised concerns, several months before Baha Mousa died, about British troops hooding detainees.
Sir John said he was horrified by what happened to Mr Mousa and that he felt the reputation of the armed forces was at stake.
Only one soldier, former corporal Donald Payne, has been convicted in connection with Mr Mousa's death - he pleaded guilty at a court martial to inhumanely treating civilians.
Six other soldiers who faced a court martial were cleared on all counts in 2007.
The inquiry, which began on 13 July last year, has heard that illegal "conditioning" methods were used on the prisoners.
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Here are some of the latest health and medical news
developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
Scientists Turn Bad Fat Into Good Fat: Rat Study
U.S. scientists who found a way to turn rats' bad fat into good
fat believe the same thing can be done in humans.
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine team found that
modifying the expression of an appetite-stimulating protein called
NPY in the brain reduced rats' calorie intake and transformed their
white fat into brown fat, which burns off calories and weight,
BBC News reported.
The study appears in the journal
"If we could get the human body to turn bad fat into good fat that burns calories instead of storing them, we could add a serious new tool to tackle the obesity epidemic," said study author Dr. Shen Bi, BBC News reported.
"Only future research will tell us if that is possible," Bi added.
Blood Thinner Drug Recalled
One lot of the blood thinner Coumadin (warfarin) is being
recalled after the discovery of a tablet that was more potent than
normal, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. said Monday.
The recall covers 5-milligram Coumadin tablets with an expiry
date of Sept. 30, 2012, production lot number 9H49374A, the
Associated Press reported.
Consumers who use 5-milligram Coumadin tablets should not stop
taking them, but should ask their pharmacist if their prescription
was filled with the recalled tablets, the company said.
Patients who take an excessive dose of Coumadin could be at
increased risk for bleeding, the
Salmonella Triggers Recall of Grape Tomatoes
Grape tomatoes used in salads distributed by a California
company may be contaminated with salmonella, the U.S. Food and Drug
The prepackaged salads from Taylor Farms Pacific, Inc. were
shipped to Albertson's, Raley's, Safeway, Sam's Club and Walmart
stores in California, Nevada, Oregon, Arizona, New Mexico,
Washington, Utah and Montana,
United Press International reported.
The grape tomatoes came from a California grower called Six L's,
the FDA said.
The salads have "use by" dates of late April and early May. No
illnesses have been reported. Consumers can get more information at
the FDA or U.S. Department of Agriculture websites,
Trauma-Related Disease Found in Ex-Football Player's Brain
Evidence of a head injury-induced disease was found in the brain
of retired football star Dave Duerson, who committed suicide
earlier this year.
The 50-year-old former Chicago Bear had chronic traumatic
encephalopathy (CTE), which has recently been found in about two
dozen deceased former NFL players,
The New York Times reported.
In the months before his death, Duerson complained of headaches,
blurred vision and a deteriorating memory. In his final note to his
family, he told them to donate his brain for research into
football-related brain trauma. He shot himself in the chest on Feb.
An examination of Duerson's brain revealed indisputable evidence
of CTE and no evidence of any other disorder, Dr. Ann McKee, a
neuropathologist at Boston University's Center for the Study of
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On many days, we may feel immortal -- although never, of course, on Monday mornings. But the unpleasant reality is that all of us will die someday.
Purchasing life insurance is among the best ways to provide for our families after we are gone.
Knowing why you want to purchase life insurance can help you determine how best to do so, says Lisa Gardner, resident expert on insurance and associate professor of statistics at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.
Life insurance is a product that sometimes confuses and intimidates people. In a nutshell, who needs this insurance, and who does not?
All life insurance policies provide a death benefit, which is simply a sum of money paid to the insured's designated beneficiaries (those you chose to receive the money) when the insured person dies. If you are the insured, you can determine who gets the money, with very, very few restrictions. Reasons why your beneficiary might need money when you die include the following.
They need to pay for your funeral and burial costs.
They need money to pay for your estate and inheritance taxes.
They depended on your income to make ends meet. Now that you are gone, they need another source of money to help pay the bills.
They depended on your ability to generate income for their business.
They were a creditor to whom you owed some money.
Another reason for buying life insurance protection is simply because you want to give someone money when you die.
Policyholder dividends constitute another, but less significant, benefit associated with some life insurance contracts. Policyholder dividends, which represent refunds of excess premium payments, cannot be guaranteed by insurance companies, and typically they won't be paid until the policy has been in place for a few years. Depending on the policy, these can range from a few dollars to more than a few hundred dollars each year.
Some life insurance policies include savings elements called "cash surrender values," which should build over time. The interest income earned on savings while the policy is in force accrues federal-income-tax-free in the U.S.
Life insurance basically can be divided into two types: temporary, or 'term,' and permanent. Do you have some tips for determining which product is right for you?
Determining whether to buy term versus permanent insurance comes back to deciding for what purpose you are buying insurance. While cost is important, don't let it be the only thing you consider when choosing between the two types of insurance.
Temporary, or "term," insurance is fundamentally a "you die, we pay" product. You buy this to provide money to pay for funeral and burial costs, estate and inheritance taxes, debts, or (provide cash to) businesses that rely upon you to generate income for them. You also buy it to ensure that those you leave behind have adequate income to maintain the standard of living that they had before you, an income earner, died. Or, you buy it to leave money to the people or organizations you care about.
These are the same reasons why you buy permanent life insurance, which includes a savings element called a "cash surrender value." Unlike term insurance, permanent insurance has a tax-protected savings element, and thus, also serve(s) as a savings/investment vehicle with favorable income tax treatment.
How can people best determine the amount of coverage they need?
The amount of coverage that you need depends on why you are buying life insurance. If the purpose is to provide cash to pay for your burial expenses, then you won't need as much as if the purpose is to replace, say, a $50,000 annual income, or pay off many mortgages.
Once you determine why you want to buy coverage, then it's easier to determine how much you need. If you are good in math, you can do some present value/future value calculations to determine how much coverage to buy.
Or, you can simply ask someone who is very knowledgeable about life insurance income replacement needs to help you. Talk to a licensed financial planner, preferably someone who has passed professional exams beyond what is required by your state. These exams include Chartered Life Underwriter, Chartered Financial Consultant, Certified Financial Planner and Chartered Financial Analyst, to name a few. Most university professors of risk management and insurance can help with this task, too.
Do single people need life insurance?
Absolutely. The reasons that I mentioned in response to your first question don't just apply to those who are married or partnered.
Once the children have flown the nest, does it make sense to drop life insurance? What are the benefits and risks of doing so?
Again, you need to know why you want to have life insurance in place. If the only purpose is to pay for the costs of raising your children in the unlikely event that you die before they are grown, then yes, you should drop it once they have left the household.
You will save some money in dropping your life insurance. That's an upside to quitting or, in insurance-speak, "surrendering" your policy. If the contract has a savings element, you will be taxed on the policy's investment gain when you cash it in after the kids are grown. That's a downside to policy surrendering.
But there are many other uses for life insurance as I mentioned earlier. Be clear about what life insurance can and cannot do for you before buying a policy, and before surrendering one, too.
We would like to thank Lisa Gardner, resident expert on insurance and associate professor of statistics at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, for her insights. | <urn:uuid:8d9808f8-cf5f-44c4-a28c-a2b3c4d741db> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2012/10/22/why-life-insurance-should-matter-to/?intcmp=related | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96783 | 1,148 | 1.726563 | 2 |
By Rich Krisher
Everybody’s talking about it and too few are doing anything about it. “It” is bullying in the nursing workplace.
When we published an article on the subject in January, readers posted an avalanche of responses. Many related personal stories of unresolved bullying at work. One stated she is “ashamed to be part of this profession”; another said “I tell anyone I know: Be a teacher, not a nurse!”
Where does it come from? One theory is the stress experienced by nurses is in many ways unique. Inadequate staffing, lack of autonomy, overwhelming responsibilities and constant life-and-death decision-making in numerous settings can make some nurses feel backed into a corner, and they display displaced aggression. While there might be some truth there, it doesn’t help the targets of abuse.
The American Nurses Association has added a new resource on the subject with the recent release of the 28-page book Bullying in the Workplace: Reversing a Culture. Although the price of the brief book raises some eyebrows ($19.95 for ANA members, $29.95 for nonmembers) it’s significant the nation’s most prominent professional nurses association is acknowledging the problem.
The ANA publication outlines zero-tolerance policies against bullying, which is a sensible step to combat such behavior. Bullying exists within organizations because it’s allowed to exist. Most everyone can point them out; bullies are seldom subtle and often flaunt their power. If it’s a nurse or nurses on a unit creating a hostile environment for co-workers, it’s up to their manager to confront them. If the manager is the problem – and have I ever heard those stories – the manager’s direct report is responsible for allowing it to continue. And so it goes up the line.
The buck has to stop somewhere, even in the c-suite. Perhaps workplace atmosphere should be a prominent part of Joint Commission or similar appraisals. If accreditation was on the line, it would be gratifying to see how fast the bad apples would be weeded out.
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Federal Judge Rules Coal Mine Operators Violating Clean Water and Mining Laws
April 1, 2011
On March 31, Sierra Club and its coalfield allies secured another important victory for West Virginia’s communities and waterways, when a federal judge ruled that several of Massey Energy and Arch Coal’s mines are operating in violation of clean water and mining laws. Judge Robert Chambers with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia ruled that the companies’ coal mines have been releasing illegally high levels of toxic selenium into local waterways, in violation of the Clean Water Act and Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act.
The pollution from mines operated by Massey’s subsidiaries Independence Coal Company and Jacks Branch Coal Company, as well as from mines operated by Arch’s subsidiaries Coal-Mac, Inc. and Mingo Logan Coal Company, represents just one part of a pattern of toxic selenium pollution from surface mines across Appalachia. This case relates to several other recent lawsuits filed by Sierra Club and its allies against other mine operators, including Maple Coal Company and Patriot Coal, that seek to hold those companies accountable for their selenium discharge violations. In September of last year, a federal judge in West Virginia ordered Patriot Coal to treat the selenium pollution at just one of its coal mines at an estimated cost of $45 million. With respect to Massey Energy and Arch Coal, additional proceedings will be required to determine the actions the companies must take to prevent future violations, and to assess penalties.
Selenium severely harms fish and other water life, causing reproductive failure, birth defects and damage to gills and internal organs. Selenium in some West Virginia streams has been linked to fish deformities, producing fish with two eyes on one side of their heads. At very high levels, selenium can be toxic to people, causing hair and fingernail loss, kidney and liver damage, and damage to the nervous and circulatory systems.
Sierra Club, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, and Coal River Mountain Watch are represented by Joe Lovett and Derek Teaney of the Appalachian Center for the Economy and the Environment.
Currently, the environmental groups are enforcing other Clean Water Act violations against Massey and its subsidiaries. To read more, click here!
Details and Documents:
Judge Finds Massey Energy and Arch Coal Violating Clean Water Act at Multiple West Virginia Coal Mines
April 1, 2011, Sierra Club et al. Press Release
Judge Robert Chambers' Memorandum Opinion & Order
March 31, 2011, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia
Massey, Arch must pay selenium penalties, Chambers rules
April 8, 2011 by Steve Korris, Cabell Bureau
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First There Were Indians
It is believed Hernando De Soto passed through this area around 1540 and a plaque commemorating this event is displayed near the courthouse in Clarkesville. Later in the 1500s, the French may also have built a fort here; the remains of it and what appears to be an old trading post are located on Alex Mountain.
However, long before De Soto made his journey and the French built their fort, this area was a part of the dominion of the Creek and later the Cherokee Indians. In fact, until the land was ceded to the government, anyone wishing to own property here had to buy it from the Indians.
The Cherokees, whose name means "Upland Fields," had a population of around 11,000 and several settlements in Habersham County. One of these was "Sakwi-yi" or "Su-ki," near where Clarkesville is today. The river of Soque ("Pig River") was named for this settlement. Another, in Cornelia, was called "Chenocetah" ("See all around"), the name now given to the mountain where Cornelia is located. Remnants of Cherokee influence can also be seen in the names of Sautee, Nacoochee, Tallulah, Currahee, Chattahoochee ("flowered rock" or "River of the Painted Rocks"), Yonah ("Sleeping Bear Mountain") and Toccoa ("beautiful"), as well as the names of most of the streams.
The Cherokees lived in houses and planted crops, the most important being corn, beans, pumpkins, squash and melons. Their "Beloved Old Men" chose carefully the time to plant so as to lessen the threat of marauding birds. When the right time came, usually all the inhabitants of a town would work together in sowing seed while listening to orators cheer them on with jests, humorous tales, and tunes beaten on drums made of earthen pots covered with deerskin. Lazy people were not tolerated -- they had to pay a fine or leave.
Once the crops started growing, the women and children protected them against wild birds and wild and later domestic animals. A colorful ceremony followed the harvest.
Any Indian could clear and improve land and pass it on to his descendants, but if the family moved away, the land was once again open for possession by any Indian who happened to want it. By the time the county was organized, there were many well-to-do Indians and half-breeds living here, some of them with farms and slaves.
Tallulah Falls was a hunting ground for the Cherokees and for white people who came up from other cities in Georgia. It was also home to "Council Rocks," the tribal courtroom, located above "Lovers' Leap Lookout" (see The Legend of Tallulah below). The 500-lb Council Chair of Grey Eagle, the last chief of the Cherokees in this area, can be seen on display at Tallulah Falls School.
Six miles southeast of Clarkesville stood an oak tree that became famous in the history of the early settlers. Several trails converged at the tree, and it was there that the Indians met and planned their next exploits against the whites. Because a gash was cut into the tree whenever a scalp was taken, the tree, which no longer stands, came to be known as Chopped Oak.
The End of the Indian Era
In 1828, under Andrew Jackson as President of the United States, the Federal Government changed in its attitude towards the Indians. This change was reflected locally when, late that same year, Georgia passed a law extending its jurisdiction over Cherokee country and refusing any longer to recognize Indian self-government.
The discovery of gold in the Nacoochee valley also brought changes to the Indians' rights with the passage of another law that prevented any Indian from bringing a lawsuit against a white man. The penalty for resistance was death or removal.
In 1832, a new law prevented the Cherokees from holding public meetings. Seeing the inevitable, in 1835 they accepted $5 million for their holdings in Georgia. The next year, in what is known in history of "The Trail of Tears," the Indians were forcibly removed to Cherokee, N.C., and to the Indian Territory west of the Mississippi; only a few stayed behind in hiding.
The Legend of Sautee-Nacoochee
Sautee, a young Choctaw brave, fell in love with the beautiful young daughter of a Cherokee chieftain. The princess, whose name, Nacoochee, means "The Evening Star," returned his love despite the fact that their tribes were enemies.
One night, Sautee and Nacoochee eloped. Nacoochee's father quickly organized a search party of a hundred braves and set off in pursuit. After several days the search party found the pair hiding on the slope of Mount Yonah. The chieftain ordered his men to throw Sautee over the cliff, but no sooner had they done so than Nacoochee flung herself after her lover.
Sautee and Nacoochee were buried together on the banks of the Chattahoochee, and a mound was raised over them. The valley where Nacoochee lived was named after her, and a nearby valley was named after Sautee. The area, now known as Sautee-Nacoochee, is located in the counties of Habersham and White.
The Legend of Tallulah
A white hunter by chance found himself on a Cherokee trail in Tallulah Falls. He was found by the Indian maiden Tallulah, only daughter of Grey Eagle, chief of the Cherokees. She fell in love with him and led him to her father's camp at Council Rocks, where, due to the lateness of the hour, he was told he could stay the night.
Because it was a bad omen for a white man to be found in an Indian camp and because of jealousy, the young Indian men demanded the immediate trial and execution of the stranger. Grey Eagle was forced to pronounce sentence of death. The hunter was to be bound hand and foot and thrown over the cliff into the gorge, 900 feet below.
Tallulah begged her father not to execute the white man, but the chief would not change his judgement for fear of being considered a weakling. His daughter threatened to jump off the cliff if he carried out the sentence. Sadly, Grey Eagle did not believe her. Just as the young man was thrown over the cliff, Tallulah came running from the back of the camp and leaped from the cliff. From that time forward, the cliff is known as "Lover's Leap."
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In my ongoing discussion of Quick-MI we have explored the importance of Sharability and Interoperability as essential components for successful Modular Innovations. Quick-MI consists of 5 components, or categories, that bring to light critical variables instrumental in the sustained success of many current and emerging products, increasingly becoming part of the Modular Innovation trend. Modular Innovation (MI), along with a product’s User eXperience (UX), combine to be strong indicators of a product’s adoption and success.
Modular Innovation (MI) is all about relationships, be they between people or products online. In looking at how these relationships are established, maintained, enhanced, and expanded, one can achieve greater insight into the underlying forces shaping Modular Innovation, quantifying the degree by which a product is participating within, as well as evolving towards greater degrees of, Modular Innovation.
The next of the 5 categories that make-up Quick-MI that we will explore is Portability.
Portability, a key component of Quick-MI , is a measure of degree of ownership and control over one’s own content (commonly referred to as User Generated Content and abbreviated as UGC).
In abiding with the overarching goals of both Quick-UX and Quick-MI (quick assessment for summary, directional guidance, and quantitative comparison), the variables constituting the minimal representative subset for Portability are…
- Exportability (UGC & Settings)
Each variable and category (e.g. Portability) is assigned a value that can be compared and combined. When all the categories’ values are combined, they form the Modular Innovation Index of a product.
Seen by many as dealing most directly with the actual UGC of all the 5 categories of Quick-MI is Portability. And, readily apparent in bestowing the sense of ownership and control over one’s own content and data is Exportability. The ownership and control derives from the ability to download or transfer your content to your local computer or 3rd party service. As a result, the content can be retained independently and re-used independently of the service through which it originated.
Exportability consists of 2 sub-component variables:
- UGC Exportability
- Settings Exportability
UGC Exportability evaluates the degree of Exportability of the UGC created by a user. This can be anything from pictures to blog articles — works created by the user and used with or simply placed upon the studied product.
Settings Exportability evaluates the degree of Exportability of the settings and configurations that directly impact the UGC and resultant User eXperience (UX). For example, the settings can indicate…
- which of the content is public or private,
- the color scheme (theme) to use when displaying the information,
- the user’s friends that are permitted to view each UGC element,
- and more.
The value of the Exportability variable is the sum of the values of the sub-component variables: UGC Exportability and Settings Exportability.
The UGC Exportability sub-component variable’s value is…
- 0 if none of the user’s UGC can be transferred or downloaded,
- 0.5 if some of the user’s UGC can be transferred or downloaded, or
- 1 if all of the user’s UGC can be transferred or downloaded.
- 0 if none of the user’s UGC / UX Settings can be transferred or downloaded,
- 0.5 if some of the user’s UGC /UX Settings can be transferred or downloaded, or
- 1 if all of the user’s UGC / UX Settings can be transferred or downloaded.
WordPress is a good example of a product with a UGC Exportability value of 1 and Settings Exportability value of 0.
The logical progression of ability arising from that of Exportability is Importability. Exportability and Importability are logically linked, however, not inextricably so, as one characteristic can exist without the other. It is not uncommon to find a wiki that allows for the exporting of the full contents of the wiki, but provides no capability to import that which was exported. Importability, within Quick-MI, specifically is the ability permitted by a product to import, or re-incorporate, content and/or settings that were previously exported as well as the product’s capability to managed changes within the exported data during the import process.
An example of Importability (value 1.0) is demonstrated by Google Merchant Center. Google Merchant Center allows users to externally edit the content that was stored or generated within the product and then upload and re-combine the edited content with the user’s existing data.
The value of Importability for a product is…
- 0 if data that was exported from the product cannot be re-imported,
- 0.5 if only an exact export from the product can be imported back, or
- 1 if the data that was exported from the product can be edited in the export format and imported back.
Editability is the measure of the degree of dependence the user has upon the product from which the UGC originated, or was modified by, once the UGC has been exported. Without an independent means of editing exported content, the exported content primarily exists as a backup of a user’s data — with limited reusability and flexibility.
- If none of the exported content can be independently modified, then the Editability value is 0.
- If some of the exported content can be independently modified, then the Editability value is 0.5.
- If all of the exported content can be independently modified, then the Editability value is 1.
A simple example of an Editability value of 1.0 would be the ability to independently modify all the content of a Flickr account.
Delving into the ‘where’ of Portability is a look at the Controllability of one’s own data, or UGC. Data can be Portable, but…
How close can you get to your data?
How much control can you exert over your UGC?
Can you “touch” it?
Some social networks allow their users to import friend lists directly from 3rd party services, e.g. email or other social networks. The social networks, may also allow the users to easily add, remove, and modify all their friends information. However, the control of the transferred content, for this example, is limited, since neither the social network, nor the origin of the content permitted downloading or other remote storage of the friends data — thereby, limiting the user’s overall control over the content.
This variable should not be confused with the previously discussed Redundancy variable, whose focus is limited to the replication of data or functionality. Controllability relates to the storage and manipulation of the active (in-use) data by the product.
The Controllability variable’s value is…
- 0 if none of the active data can be stored locally or at some 3rd-party data store,
- 0.5 if some of the active data can be stored locally or at some 3rd-party data store, or
- 1 if all of the active data can be stored locally or at some 3rd-party data store.
A good example of a product with a Controllability variable value of 1.0 would be Microsoft Word and its ability to save, load, and modify its UGC both locally, and from Office Live. While Ping.fm facilitates replicating of such UGC as a Tweet, it does not facilitate the any further Control of any of the redundant content post-replication (Controllability variable value of 0).
Success of a product is more than having the most awe inspiring UX. There is a lot more to it. Another component, another dimension of sustained success online is Modular Innovation.
Quick-MI is all about understanding and measuring the relationships formed and supported between online products, especially those pioneering the next generation of web products via Modular Innovation.
Integral to successful relationships is the inherent sense of control and ownership over one’s own work and contributions. A relationship cannot hold together without the individual’s “ownership,” and resulting control and pride that accompanies. A relationship cannot hold together without Portability, quantified via the Portability score (a summation of the above variable values).
Remember, Portability is just 1 of 5 categories that make up Quick-MI. The other 4 categories are…
Through all 5 categories, combined, a sound, representative, quantitative understanding of a product’s ability to foster and maintain relationships both within and without — yielding an oft missed, yet critical, perspective into the success and sustainability of an online product.
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Educating for Democracy
Case-method Teaching and Learning
Edited by Robert F. McNergney, Edward R. Ducharme, Mary K. Ducharme
Published April 1st 1999 by Routledge – 216 pages
This book advocates the use of case methods to promote democratic teaching and learning. Part I speaks directly to teacher educators. The chapters in this part suggest how and why they might use case methods at pre- and in-service levels. Part II presents a set of cases and teaching notes designed to stimulate active consideration of democratic teaching and learning in elementary and secondary schools throughout the United States. These cases can be used with both prospective and practicing teachers.
Case methods in education--like those used to prepare practitioners in other professions such as medicine, law, and business--require learners to attend to detail and to exercise judgment as they identify and solve problems. Although each has its own unique variations, case-method approaches in all fields promote careful examination of professional practice. The cases in this book will help teacher educators think anew about many issues related to teaching and learning with cases.
"All of these case studies make for fascinating reading and I could well see my own students becoming very involved in the plight of the individual teachers….Overall, the approach suggested is to be commended."
—British Journal of Educational Psychology
Contents: Preface. Part I: Using Case Methods in Teacher Education. R.F. McNergney, E.R. Ducharme, M.K. Ducharme, Teaching Democracy Through Cases. M.R. Sudzina, Organizing Instruction for Case-Based Teaching. T.W. Kent, Making Connections: The Democratic Classroom and the Internet. V.J. Risko, C.K. Kinzer, The Power of Multimedia Cases to Invite Democratic Teaching and Learning. A. McAninch, More and Less Acceptable Case Analyses: A Pragmatist Approach. Part II: Cases. E.R. Ducharme, M.K. Ducharme, Leslie Turner: A Teacher Under Stress. B. Hallenbeck, A Case of Cruel and All-Too-Usual Punishment. E. Potter, A Delicate Dilemma: Religion in the Classroom. D.S. Libby, Stripped of Dignity. J.M. Herbert, M.E. Hrabe, The Unwritten Amendment: Freedom of Curriculum. T.D. Peacock, C.E. Keller, H. Rallis, A Case of Freedom to Learn: Balancing the Needs and Rights of All Children. C.A. Grant, Full Democracy by Students of Color: A Case From Two Urban Classrooms. | <urn:uuid:c721db01-39d3-4d5d-a601-bdad32c0360a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.psypress.com/books/details/9780805824834/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910253 | 566 | 2.765625 | 3 |
America faces a fiscal crisis. The burden of federal spending has doubled during the Bush-Obama years, a $2 trillion increase in just 10 years. But that’s just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Because of demographic changes and poorly designed entitlement programs, the federal budget is going to consume larger and larger shares of America’s economic output in coming decades.
For all intents and purposes, the United States appears doomed to become a bankrupt welfare state like Greece.
But we can save ourselves. A previous video showed how both Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton achieved positive fiscal changes by limiting the growth of federal spending, with particular emphasis on reductions in the burden of domestic spending. This new video from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity provides examples from other nations to show that good fiscal policy is possible if politicians simply limit the growth of government.
These success stories from Canada, Ireland, Slovakia, and New Zealand share one common characteristic. By freezing or sharply constraining the growth of government outlays, nations were able to rapidly shrinking the economic burden of government, as measured by comparing the size of the budget to overall economic output.
Ireland and New Zealand actually froze spending for multi-year periods, while Canada and Slovakia limited annual spending increases to about 1 percent. By comparison, government spending during the Bush-Obama years has increased by an average of more than 7-1/2 percent. And the burden of domestic spending has exploded during the Bush-Obama years, especially compared to the fiscal discipline of the Reagan years. No wonder the United States is in fiscal trouble.
Heck, even Bill Clinton looks pretty good compared to the miserable fiscal policy of the past 10 years.
The moral of the story is that limiting the growth of spending works. There’s no need for miracles. If politicians act responsibly and restrain spending, that allows the private sector to grow faster than the burden of government. That’s the definition of good fiscal policy. The new video above shows that other nations have been very successful with that approach. And here’s the video showing how Reagan and Clinton limited spending in America. | <urn:uuid:9a55b895-2a29-4367-af19-ac7646a2ccf2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://freedomandprosperity.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/spending-restraint-works-examples-from-around-the-world/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938934 | 431 | 2.5625 | 3 |
I think I am going to talk about the neurobiology of happiness in my next column. The reason has to do with the nature of our 2-month journey into the biology of eating disorders—a subject that, considering the dearth of explanatory data, is tough to write about. It’s also a bit depressing, considering how difficult it can be to treat. This is the second installment in a 2-part series that focuses on the neurobiology of restricting-type anorexia nervosa (AN).
Last month (in Part 1), I discussed behavioral and cellular aspects of AN.1 A testable hypothesis was outlined: AN was described as a conflict between an un-acquired biological need to have food and an acquired negative reaction to it. Patients with AN recruit cortical executive reactions in response to appetite cues, reactions that insert a top-down “food-negative” bias into the normal drives for fuel. These executive reactions are consistently overstimulated in AN patients, leading to high anticipatory behavior and obsessive concern with future events. Derived mostly from noninvasive imaging studies, this notion of conflicting priorities (complete with a dysfunctional reward/punishment system) has surprising empirical support.
But it is hardly the complete story of AN. Besides behavioral and cellular concerns, there are also molecular interactions to consider. It is to these efforts that we turn, focusing on the “usual regulatory suspects” of dopamine(Drug information on dopamine) and serotonin neurotransmitter biology.
A reason for genes
Many twin studies have been initiated in the attempt to characterize potential underlying genetic components to AN. There has been some success, and in 2 directions. Large-scale studies have demonstrated that between 50% and 85% of the variance observed in AN (and bulimia) can be attributed to genetic factors. The numbers actually suggest a continuum of diffuse but related behaviors—including weight dissatisfaction, weight preoccupation, and dietary restraint.
The second direction takes into account child temperament issues. It has been known for years that specific personality traits observed in adolescence can predispose an individual to AN. These include perfectionism, harm avoidance, and certain obsessive-compulsive behaviors. Genetic studies show these traits to be heritable as well. These are independent of body weight and can be present in unaffected family members.
One is continually confronted with complexity, confounders, and nuance. Not a welcome comment regarding a disease such as anorexia nervosa, which has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder.
The aggregation of these 2 lines of work gave researchers ample reasons to seek underlying genetic causes for the disorder. They are still looking. Investigation of the obvious choices—dopaminergic and serotonergic systems—has yielded some fruit. But the picture that emerges is far from complete, and at this point gives only tantalizing hints about potential molecular mechanisms.
Behavioral work suggested ample reasons to suspect dopamine-pleasure responses might be dysfunctional in AN patients. Afflicted individuals often seem addicted to exercise. They are ascetic, anhedonic, and find precious little in their lives that is consistently rewarding (aside from the pursuit of weight loss). This “trait” versus “state” issue is strengthened because such behavioral patterns persist, albeit in reduced form, after successful treatment. Dysfunction in dopamine regulation, especially in the striatal circuits mentioned last month, might provide an important component to alterations in these behaviors. They may also play a role in the motor functions and decreased food consumption behaviors typically associated with AN.
Four lines of evidence support an involvement of dopaminergic processes in at least some types of AN:
• Concentrations of dopamine metabolites in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of both affected individuals and recovered individuals are lower than in those without AN.
• Patients who have AN often present with difficulties in certain visual discrimination learning tasks. This is not a trivial finding. Studies show that such impairment often reflects a malfunction in dopamine-signaling.
• There are dopamine receptor (DR) D2 gene polymorphisms associated with those suffering from AN. (DRD2 is one of a family of dopamine receptors in the human genome.) A polymorphism is an aberration in its normal gene structure. The more tightly the polymorphism is associated with a given behavior, the more likely it is to exert an influence on it.
• Noninvasive imaging studies—positron emission tomography (PET) scans, mostly—found a surprising restoration in dopamine receptor binding activity in recovered patients. (Previous work had shown deficits.) Successfully treated patients presented with a dramatic increase in DRD3 binding—another dopamine receptor—in the ventral striatum. As you recall, the ventral striatum helps regulate reward stimuli. Its function played a prominent role in the cellular explanation put forward in the previous column. It must be noted that these PET scans are interpreted as changes in activity, but that could mean many things. The signals could indicate increased DRD3 densities, decreased extracellular dopamine, or both, in recovered patients. | <urn:uuid:8367621c-c904-4469-b61a-3145f45b7a36> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/eating-disorders/content/article/10168/1491637 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00051-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942319 | 1,035 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Recently-contacted Murunahua man, south-east Peru.
Illegal mahogany loggers are plundering uncontacted Indians' land in the depths of the Peruvian Amazon, according to a new report by the Upper Amazon Conservancy (UAC).
The report says the logging 'provides evidence that Peru is failing to uphold the environmental and forestry obligations of its 2009 Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the US' because 'more than 80% of Peru's mahogany (is) exported to the United States'. UAC's report has been released just a month after the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton travelled to Peru to meet President Alan Garcia and claimed, 'The United States and Peru are working together to protect the environment.'
The report also reveals how loggers trick Peruvian and US authorities into believing the mahogany has been legally sourced. The logging 'will continue until the US government unilaterally rejects questionable Peruvian mahogany,' it says.
Illegal logging settlement inside the Murunahua
UAC's report includes photos of a logging camp and cut mahogany in the Murunahua Reserve, which is supposedly set aside for uncontacted Indians' sole use, in south-east Peru. It says that logging is 'widespread' in the reserve, and that a 'vast network of logging roads' used by 'over a dozen tractors' connects the reserve to a major Amazonian tributary.
The uncontacted tribes in the reserve 'lack natural defenses against diseases brought from outsiders and are threatened by any type of contact,' says the report. It also says the logging violates the 'Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species' (CITES), which aims to protect mahogany.
The Murunahua Reserve was recently made off-limits to oil and gas companies because of the threat exploration would pose to the uncontacted Indians living there.
Survival International director, Stephen Corry, said today, 'It would be a tragedy for US citizens to continue buying Peruvian mahogany if it puts the survival of uncontacted Indians at risk.'
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An anatomist’s recovery: surgery hits close to home for head of first-year course
A sore neck prompted Stewart to seek medical attention for what turned out to be a tumor on his spinal cord that required immediate surgery, two weeks at Yale-New Haven Hospital and five weeks of rehabilitation at Gaylord Hospital in Wallingford, Conn. His recovery continued through the spring as he spent time and energy at home doing rehabilitation exercises, learning to walk without a crutch and regaining the ability to tie his famous bow ties, which he has rarely been seen without for the past three decades. He expects to be back in the anatomy lab for the current academic year.
As an anatomist, Stewart is intimately familiar with the inner workings of the human body and aware of any mishaps that might have occurred during the delicate operation. “In some respects it’s frightening because you know so much—what might happen, and all of the possible negative consequences,” he said. “On the plus side, I think I understand a lot about how my body works so that my interactions with my therapists have been a little richer, because we can discuss what muscles are involved and make a more efficient plan for rehab.”
Although Stewart was absent from the anatomy lab for almost the entire second semester last spring, he began preparing for the start of the current school year early by practicing his lectures and drawing on a whiteboard at home. His lectures have traditionally included neurobiology, but he said that now there will be a little more relevance, given his experience as a patient. His colleague and course director Lawrence J. Rizzolo, Ph.D., associate professor of surgery (anatomy), filled in while Stewart was recuperating. Rizzolo noted that Stewart also plays a large role in organizing and running the section. “I didn’t realize all that Bill does until I was asked to do something,” he said.
Every medical student for the past 30 years has studied under Stewart, who instructs physician associate and nursing students as well as future physicians. And in addition to teaching Yale students, Stewart oversees a collaboration between the medical school and Hill Regional Career High School. Students from the high school come to Yale for anatomy classes led by first and second-year medical students. “He has a very calming presence that makes you enjoy the process of learning about the human body,” said first-year student Lionel McIntosh, one of the instructors for the Career High program. “He knows how to make us better teachers. That go-to person if you had a difficult concept to explain was definitely missing.” Besides teaching anatomy, Stewart studies the effects of low levels of oxygen on postnatal development of the brain.
But it is obvious to the students who clamor for his attention in the anatomy lab and to anyone who has ever observed his enthusiasm in the classroom that Stewart’s first love is teaching. | <urn:uuid:8d227110-ff11-433f-a281-6a35ba19eb4c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://medicine.yale.edu/publications/yalemedicine/autumn2007/news/chronicle/51757 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978869 | 607 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Are you looking for ways you can help a child? Become a CASA Volunteer.
CASA volunteers are trained members of the community who advocate for the rights of abused and neglected children in family court. A volunteer follows a child’s case as it moves through the family court system. The volunteer researches the case, learning everything they can about the child’s special situation. The CASA volunteer then makes recommendations to the judge on what’s best for the child’s future.
To become a volunteer you must: exhibit a desire to help abused and neglected children in our community, be able to work independently and as part of a team, have a flexible schedule that allows for monthly visits to the child(ren) you are assigned to, and have the ability to attend court appearances during working hours.
CASA of the Southern Tier, Inc. will be holding our 30 hour CASA 101Volunteer Initial training on the dates listed below. This training is a flex training, which includes five weeks of online at home study, as well as weekly classroom activities.
The dates listed are classroom dates. Please note that you must be signed up for this training on or before August 27, 2012 to take part.
Dates: September 11, 18, 25 and October 2, 9 and 16
Time: 9:00 – 1:00 PM
Where: CASA Office – 300 Nasser Civic Center Plaza. 2nd floor conference room 225 of the Southeast Steuben County Corning Library
Contact: CASA of the Southern Tier, Inc. at 607-936-CASA (2272) or email firstname.lastname@example.org | <urn:uuid:6cffff26-5f30-4268-b4a6-fbb4558834c4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ihsnet.org/provideronline/article.asp?ID=1537 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949458 | 349 | 1.765625 | 2 |
With Honors: Boyle veteran recognized for bravery during World War II
Robert H. Mitchell holds an Army certificate given to him with a Bronze Star medal he earned for bravery during World War II. (Photo by Brenda Edwards / January 17, 2013)
Mitchell was a member of Co. I, 3rd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment of the 25th Division. from Dec. 1, 1944, to Nov. 18, 1946, during World War II.
“I had never been anywhere until I left for Tyler, Texas, and Camp Farrin for basic training,” said Mitchell. “When I signed up in Louisville, I was squad leader. I was a sergeant when I was discharged. I was gone two years and a month before I came home.”
He earned his first medal while a private during a battle soon after he arrived in the Philippines. His unit was called to help out the 25th Division Infantry.” He was recognized for meritorious achievement in ground operation against the enemy during the Pacific Theatre of Operations.
Mitchell earned the The Bronze Star Medal, the fourth highest for bravery, during the Battle of Balete Pass. He also earned the Asiatic Pacific Theater Ribbon, Victory Ribbon, Conduct Medal and Philippine Liberation Medal.
Mitchell said his unit had been at Balete Pass (also known as the Dalton Pass) near Luzon about two weeks when Gen. James Dalton was killed by a sniper while inspecting the troops.
He was in the mountains of the Philippines then traveled via ship to Japan and was sitting in the harbor when the Japanese surrendered. After the war ended, Mitchell spent a year in Japan with the occupational forces. When he arrived in Tokyo, he got a look at the destruction caused to the city during an U.S. air raid. He took a train ride to view other sites. He brought home a Japanese flag with names of soldiers, and a white silk scarf imprinted with the Stars & Stripes newspaper, dated Sept. 2, 1945, with an article of the surrender by the Japanese.
Two years ago, Mitchell was among several Kentuckians who visited the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. He was greeted by Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He also toured other war memorials in the area.
Mitchell also received his high school diploma about 10 years ago during a ceremony at Perryville Elementary School. It was after he retired from Corning Glass Works where he worked for 33 years.
Born Aug. 19, 1926, in Boyle County, Mitchell has lived all his adult life on a four-acre tract, part of the 5,000 acres of land in the Mitchellsburg-Parksville area where his ancestor J.P. Mitchell settled in the early 1800s. He is the 10th generation of the early Mitchells.
He is the only living child of Robert J. Mitchell, (1876-1972), and Zora Purdom Mitchell.
After he returned home from the military, he married Betty Westerfield. She died Sept. 2, 2010. Their children are Robert Jr. and Steve, both of Mitchellsburg; Deb Dowell of Ottenheim and Clay, who died at age 16. | <urn:uuid:012249e5-f421-4d06-aeee-44bb1a214859> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ktuu.com/topic/amn-with-honors-boyle-veteran-recognized-for-bravery-during-world-war-ii-20130117,0,7175752.story | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984221 | 672 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Manchester Gay Pride 2012: Thousands march in annual parade
MANCHESTER's campest carnival parade meandered its way through the city centre on Saturday, uniting Mancunians and visitors under the rainbow flag.
A diverse throng of floats lit up the streets with the likes of Citroen cars calling onlookers to put more colour in their lives and the cast of Coronation Street chucking polaroids of Hayley Cropper at the crowds.
This year's theme, Queer'd Science, was often haphazardly taken up by parade participants but nonetheless resulted in a colourful depiction of Manchester's scientific history.
The University of Manchester made their debut by claiming ownership of the late great gay, Alan Turing, father of the modern computing age, whilst the Royal Bank of Scotland rewrote the periodic table with Hg signifying Freddie Mercury and Cu meaning Sexy Police Copper.
Manchester Pride's dominance over the UK pride festival calendar continues and as the conglomerates continue to jump on the pride parade bandwagon, the locally produced floats are still the most imaginative and hilarious.
The Salford Ladies United Temperance Society (S.L.U.T.S) are always a highlight and, in the spirit of all things scientific, swung a giant 'gayger counter' device over the crowds to hunt down filthy gays.When their device blasted its siren, the ladies grabbed their handbags and beat the gay into submission before setting back off on their hunt.
On a more serious note, a significant contribution to the Pride Parade came from Manchester City Council.The Council has been unable to financially support Manchester Pride for two years in its bid to make cut-backs. It must be remembered though a couple of decades ago MCC was the first local authority anywhere to come out for the celebration.This time round council workers handed out leaflets, calling parade attendees to send a SMS message of support to the LGBT community of Manchester's twin city, St Petersburg, who are currently suppressed by the anti-gay laws in place there. And it's getting worse. | <urn:uuid:c1b3383b-fabb-4ae7-b5c4-a8644b30ae42> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/manchester-gay-pride-2012-thousands-march-annual-parade | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932367 | 421 | 1.546875 | 2 |