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Public & Community Service Studies
"Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do"
- Steve Jobs
The Department of Public and Community Service Studies strengthens communities by integrating public and community service into the liberal arts curriculum. Believing that service bears witness to religious and ethical values central to the college's mission and is at the heart of a liberal arts education in a democratic society, the Department provides an environment for research and reflection on the meaning of public and community service and an educational experience that prepares future leaders for positive change.
Public and Community Service major Katrina Lipinski discusses her experience as a PSP major.
Public and Community Service Studies offers introductory courses open to all students at Providence College and major and minor courses that cover central themes and issues in democratic community, service, and social justice. With rare exception, each of these courses requires the students to participate in 2 - 4 hours per week of community service.
The academic program is built on the pedagogical model of service learning, and nearly all of the courses that students take in the major integrate service into the course in an intentional way. The service is approached much like a "text" in the course. That is, it forms the basis for a significant part of the discussion and reflection in the course. Through the courses in the Department of Public and Community Service Studies, students engage in a diverse range of service work including direct service, community organizing, community development, and public policy.
Spring Into Service
At this time each year, the PC community collects and donates a tremendous amount of canned goods, clothing, books, etc. and also engages in numerous cleanup activities and days of service. In an attempt to better publicize and organize these events, as we have done in the fall with Months of Giving, and in order to connect interested PC clubs, organizations and departments with community organizations, the President’s Standing Committee* on Service has compiled the “Spring Into Service” calendar.
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This week China’s chief media regulator issued a statement outlining new regulations for media organizations. They basically boil down to the following:
- News organizations may not cite foreign media without permission.
- News organizations must file with authorities when setting up an official Weibo account and assign a person to insure that only kosher topics gets tweeted.
- Journalists should offer proper guidance of public opinion under the principle of focusing on positive propaganda.
- People without journalist permits are barred from interviewing or reporting under the name of a news organization.
- Online news sites should not publish any reports from a news source, freelance writer or NGO before the facts are verified.
Nothing too earth-shaking here, and these directives are hardly enforceable. However, they do present a clear message: The Party’s grip on the media will not be loosening one bit. If anything, it will tighten.
For years now there’s been speculation over whether Xi Jinping (and the rest of the new government) will maintain the status quo, be reformist or even head in the opposite direction and roll back reforms. This is an oversimplified debate. These things will happen and are already happening.
These new media directives are one of many recent examples of an overriding principle that’s hardly changed since 1979: Nearly everything is eligible for reform and a Communist Party retreat, except for the “Three Ps” – Propaganda, Personnel and the People’s Liberation Army.
Over the past few months I’ve spoken with a number of experts in fields ranging from gay rights to the environment who are very excited about the new leadership, and with good cause. Everywhere you look in China there seems to be the beginnings of actual reforms, or at least hints that the rigid status quo is going to change for the better.
Measures have been put in place to make leaders less pompous and overindulgent. After 24 years, public discussion has been re-opened on Hu Yaobang. Behemoth state monopolies are being put in check. Homosexuality is moving away from being officially taboo. It appears the model of “GDP growth ahead of all else” is being dismantled. China is improving its environmental transparency. A raft of long-overdue economic reforms are kicking off. The list goes on and on.
It’s still too early to say for sure, but this could very well be a new spring for civil society and long stigmatized groups.
But before we break out the champagne, let’s consider a few other recent signals from our bold new reformers. Last year Xi Jinping ordered more “thought control” in universities. Several times over the past year, Xi has commanded the PLA to remain “absolutely loyal” to the Communist Party above all else. There was the infamous Southern Weekly Incident illustrating an increasingly overbearing propaganda department. In the past year, two foreign correspondents have faced de facto expulsions for the first time since 1998, while new foreign journalists are waiting over a year to get their visas in some cases. And last, but certainly not least, China’s internet censorship apparatus is becoming ever-more sophisticated at weeding out “harmful” content.
So what’s the deal? Are these new leaders reformers or not? Obviously, it’s complicated, but you can make a pretty good prediction on the likelihood of a given reform just by establishing whether it threatens the Party’s absolute control over who educates the public, who holds any kind of political power, and which way the guns would face in the event of an uprising (AKA – Propaganda, Personnel, People’s Liberation Army).
Since the 1990s, China’s communist mandarins have religiously studied the downfall of the Soviet Union. The conclusions they’ve reached are that democratizing, opening the press and losing control over the military opened floodgates that resulted in the regime’s collapse. Xi Jinping gave a private speech to this effect to Party leaders in Guangdong last December on what was supposed to be his nod to Deng Xiaoping’s “Southern Tour.”
Some have contrasted Xi’s private instructions to remember the Soviet Union with his efforts to align himself with Deng Xiaoping’s reformist legacy, but the two are hardly contradictory. Although he was unquestionably a real reformer that forever changed China for the better, Deng was also a firm believer in upholding absolute Party control over the Three Ps.
Xi, like Deng, recognizes that the Three Ps are non-negotiable in order to keep continued Party rule, and by extension (in their minds), a stable environment for other reforms to happen.
In some ways it may seem like the new government is more amenable to opening up the press. Xi has vowed to go after both “the tigers and the flies” (top leaders and low officials who are corrupt) and hinted that this involves more freedom for the press and the online public. But there will always be a cage over the press. If that cage gets bigger (and there’s been no meaningful indication that it actually will), it will be carefully designed to let reporters roam only in areas that serve the Party’s self-preserving interests. These new directives suggest that that the vetting process for those even allowed to roam in that cage is getting stricter.
So this is what we’ll need to get used to. Virtually everything outside the Three Ps is eligible for reform, and that’s good news. There’s still a lot of room for making China a better place within those confines. But the Three Ps will absolutely remain under complete Party control, barring some massive national movement that presents a crisis even greater than Tiananmen.
So far it seems that opening up and reforming in the allowable areas means locking down the three non-negotiables even more tightly so as to ensure the approved reforms don’t bring any unpredictability. So feel free to get your hopes up in many arenas. Just also recognize what’s not likely to ever happen. | <urn:uuid:e09a099f-4efe-4102-b5f3-27af2b7b0db0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sinostand.com/tag/media/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950487 | 1,268 | 1.859375 | 2 |
A list is provided, describing various fun things that teens( or anyone) can do during the summer time. Have fun and I hope you enjoy your summer!
How are you spending your summer? Sleeping till 10 PM, relaxing in front of the t.v for a couple hours, playing video games…sleeping some more. It get so monotonous sometimes. You’re here because you’re bored, right? Well here’s a list of things that you, or anyone, can do to avoid a a wasted, boring summer:
- Start an exercise regime. It’s easy, makes you feel happier and you can feel good about yourself.
- Hang with friend. ‘Nuff said
- Volunteer. Volunteering is an awesome way to: feel good about yourself, help others, enhance your college applications, etc. You can volunteer at you local library, hospital, soup kitchen or whatever. For those of you who have no means of transportation and think you can’t volunteer, I got good news for you. You don’t even need to leave your house to do this! You can volunteer from home by micro-volunteering. There are many sites that do this and you help the world and others in small ways that have a large impact.
- Read a good book. Yes, reading. Reading can enhance your vocabulary, transport you to a different world, change your perspective on things, and reading books is just a lot of fun.
- Accomplish a goal that you always had. Everybody has goals, and even if you don’t you can make some!
- Get a summer job. It’s always nice to have a bit of cash in you pocket. It’s also good work experience.
- Clean you house(or just your room). I know, I know. Who wants to clean? Well, if you do you can make your parents happy and they’ll be touched by this random act (or suspicious lol).
- Get a hobby. Hobbies are fun to do and give you something to do in those mind-numbingly boring times.
- Sign up for an real or on-line class. O.k so I’m taking one of these right now. I saw some fun classes that you can take. Unfortunately I chose medical terminology and I must warn you, it is not for the faint of heart. I’ve got med words coming out of my ears!
- Study your notes from last year. This may sound stupid to you but it’s a proven fact that people lose 2 months of schooling during the summer.
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The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously authorized the termination of the county's local emergency status, which was proclaimed on Sept. 24, 2002, at the peak of a bark beetle infestation spurred by years of drought. The status had been renewed monthly ever since.
Emergency funding for the county, however, will not officially cease until June 30, said Peter Brierty, assistant chief of the San Bernardino County Fire Department.
The infestation killed more than 1 million pine trees in the overgrown forest and fueled the Old Fire in October 2003, which burned more than 90,000 acres in the San Bernardino Mountains.More than 6 million acres of California forest were threatened by bark beetle infestations at the height of the crisis in 2003, when then-Gov. Gray Davis proclaimed a state of emergency for San Bernardino, Riverside, Los Angeles, and San Diego counties.
The San Bernardino National Forest is the most popular and populated forest in the U.S., with $8 billion in residential, business and infrastructure risk, Brierty said.
"When the bark beetle hit, it had this overabundance of trees and it just had a field day," Brierty said.
Each tree bred thousands of the bugs - so many that despite each being half the size of a grain of rice, they
"We just saw tree after tree dying and then, eventually, thousands of trees dying," he said.
The emergency proclamation enabled the county to receive $59 million in federal and state funding for tree removal and expedited environmental review processes, Brierty said.
In addition, utility companies and community action groups dug into their pockets to help in the efforts to protect mountain residents from the threat of fire danger.
Southern California Edison contributed $200 million for the removal of dead trees, Brierty said.
More than a decade of tree removal and efforts by public safety agencies and mountain residents to stabilize the forest has paid off.
"The forest is green," Brierty said. "We don't have the bark beetle die-off anymore."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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If you ever wonder what’s the future of freethinking and who’s leading the charge; if you are curious to know what Freethinkers of today are doing to ensure that tomorrow’s secular world is on the right path; if you want to know what’s good to (free) think about these days; or, if you simply want to read a mind-bending interview, tune in to Religion Nerd for my series, Freethinking Tomorrow: In the Words of Today’s Freethinkers.
If, like yours truly, you’ve been closely following the new wave of freethinkers, if you’ve helped Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Bart Ehrman, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens and many others become bestselling authors, you might remember Matthew Alper, author of The ‘God’ Part of the Brain: A Scientific Interpretation of Human Spirituality and God. You might even recall the original cover of the 1996 self-published edition of his seminal work.
Indeed, there were 50,000 of us who became fans long before The “God” Part of the Brain was bought by Sourcebooks and repackaged in 2008. And, to think of it, long before the aforementioned became household names.
Although The “God” Part of the Brain continues to pad Sourcebooks’ pocketbook; although it has been adopted by about 50 college professors; and, although, fifteen years after the initial release, Matthew Alper still receives hundreds of e-mails from students and professors worldwide, I still think it should get more attention. It should get Religion Nerd’s reader’s attention. Here’s why.
First, Matthew Alper is one of the first thinkers, if not the first thinker, to successfully demonstrate that human spirituality and our longing for a transcendental being might have a bio-psychological root. Second, he is responsible for the now fast growing field of bio-theology (aka, neuro-theology). And, last but not least, The ‘God’ Part of the Brain is a remarkably easy read, considering the complexity of the concepts Alper introduces. In short, below is my interview with Matthew Alper, a true pioneer.
MCB: Why is ‘God’ in quotation marks in your title? Is God always in quotation marks for Matthew Alper?
MA: I put God in quotation marks in my book’s title for the simple reason that I don’t believe in one [God]and wanted that to come through lest people think I was writing a book which suggested that the actual spirit of God somehow resides in our heads as many probably do believe. According to Wikipedia, the use of quotation marks to denote sarcasm is referred to as irony punctuation so this was my intention.
MCB: Why did you relegate the mind-bending concepts of religious and spiritual impulses to a footnote?
MA: My book is so packed with mind-bending concepts that sometimes I ran out of room and had to cram some concepts, as they occurred to me, into footnotes to avoid shifting all of the page/chapter settings, which, frankly, would have been a pain in the ass.
MCB: And what do you say to people who argue that the spiritual/religious dichotomy is a contemporary and fallacious invention?
MA: Every culture from the dawn of our species–no matter how isolated–has believed in some form of a spiritual reality. I therefore hypothesize that this would suggest that humans, as a species, are genetically predisposed–that is “hard-wired”–to believe in some form of a transcendental reality. This is further supported by an accumulation of genetic, anthropological, biological, and ethno-botanical evidence. Thus, one of the main premises of my book is that humans are genetically engineered with a dualistic perception of reality which compels the majority of our species to believe in some form of a spiritual reality. It is neither a social or historical construct but rather a biological one. The function of this cognitive adaptation is to enable our species to survive our unique and otherwise debilitating awareness of death. Of course, each individual belief system, that is religion, is constructed by individual cultures, but the initial predisposition to have faith in a spiritual realm comes from the mechanics of our neurophysiology–what I informally refer to as our “God” part of the brain.
MCB: Which concepts in The “God” Part of the Brain show your greatest strength as a thinker?
MA: Without reiterating the entirety of those concepts I think are most original to my work and which highlight my strengths as a thinker, I will simply list seven of them as something of a teaser.
- That humans are genetically predisposed to a dualistic interpretation of reality.
- My theory that it was the advent of self-conscious awareness, which, though it made us the most powerful species on earth, also made us the first animal to be aware of our own mortality. It was this debilitating anxiety of inevitable death that I suggest prompted the evolution of a cognitive adaptation that helped allay our fear of death by compelling us to believe in an alternate, transcendental realm through which our “souls” or “spirits” would persevere for all eternity.
- My theory regarding the nature of our view of infinity as nothing more than a cognitive construct.
- How in our original state–as Paleolithic nomads–the religious function was essential but then became maladaptive as we became a global animal.
- The biologizing of our concepts of good and evil via my theories regarding the evolution of moral reasoning.
- A biological explanation of atheism and the introduction of the new field of “Bio-Theology” and “Bio-History.”
- A neurophysiological interpretation of near-death experiences, speaking in tongues, transcendent states and religious conversion.
MCB: The God Part is as relevant today as it was when it was first published. What do you have to say to your new readers that you didn’t have a chance to say in 1996?
MA: I’d say to them, “Why didn’t you listen to me in 1996 when I first discussed these ideas? What the hell were you doing then that was so important? And now you want me to repeat myself?”
MCB: In the 2008 edition of The “God” Part of the Brain you first introduce the concept of bio-history and illustrate your point by discussing what has motivated people to immigrate to the US. How can bio-history help readers better conceptualize (their) cultural heritage? Can it help them understand why religion plays such an important role in American life?
MA: Regarding the premise of bio-history, without reiterating the entire chapter, suffice to say that, what I wanted to introduce as a concept was that just as particular physical traits can be passed along with the migration of a particular gene pool via the phenomenon known as genetic drift (as was true, for instance, of those physical traits associated with the Native Americans whose Asian ancestors crossed the Bering Strait), the same holds true for cognitive traits which can also be transferred by the migrations of certain gene pools.
MCB: You have a fascinating chapter entitled ‘Why are there Atheists?’ I’m sure Religion Nerd readers would like to know why you think there are people like us?
MA: In that chapter, I offer the first proactive take on an atheistic philosophy i.e., as most atheistic ideologies are based in the mere denial of God’s existence, I would like to stress that no philosophy can be justifiably upheld without possessing some underlying logic through which to substantiate its basic principles. Without such a logic, what is referred to as a philosophy is really nothing more than just another groundless belief system, founded in emotion rather than reason. As I see it, this is the essential problem faced by today’s atheist movement. Rather than possessing an inherent wisdom of its own, the atheist movement relies on the logical shortcomings of those faiths it seeks to contest. And though it’s true that no religion has ever been able to defend its precepts with reason, no legitimate philosophy can stand on gainsay alone. The contradicting of one belief system does not validate the tenets of another. Establishing that something is not white, for instance, does not necessitate its being black. Analogously, finding fault in the convictions of every world religion does not constitute proof that there is no God. Consequently, if we are ever to advance a viable atheism, it must possess its own rationale, its own logical foundation, something I believe this new science of Bio-theology finally provides.
When I re-read The ‘God’ Part of the Brain to prepare this interview, I was most impressed by the maturity and freshness of Matthew’s incredible effort—I like to think we are on a first name basis. Reading The ‘God’ Part of the Brain today, reading it along the works of Harris, Dawkins, and Bennett, reminded me that I/we have a lot more to learn from it.
For more information on Matthew Alper and his book, The ‘God’ Part of the Brain, visit his website at http://www.godpart.com/
About Michel-Camille Bordeau
Michel-Camille Bordeau is the founder and author of The School of Seshata (www.scriptotheism.net), a blog about secular spirituality and the home of the Scriptopedia Project. Michel earned an M.A. in French Studies from The Ohio State University (1998). Mid-life crisis oblige, he is returning to college in August 2011, to pursue an M.S.W. with a specialization in Mental Health & Drugs of Abuse.
Before relocating to Atlanta, Michel was an Academic Advisor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor campus, for nearly ten years. He has advised many students (and parents) on academic and life matters. He taught English, Public Speaking, Humanities, and French at various colleges and universities. In 2002, Michel published Poire Sucrée, Salée, Epicée, a short novel about a dance teacher forced to face the demons of her past. He is currently seeking representation for Seeing Purple, a dystopian novel set in Anaïs Abelard’s hometown, the New Orleans of tomorrow, also home to the power-hungry mega church known as the Calvinistry. Michel considers himself an amateur ‘atheologist’ and he often writes under the nom de plume Anais Abelard. | <urn:uuid:1a251dd1-3cb1-4740-94e9-93e6f9215464> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://religionnerd.com/2011/05/25/freethinking-in-the-words-of-matthew-alper/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954803 | 2,240 | 1.664063 | 2 |
The U.S. Open — History In The Making
I promised last week to bring you at least a little of the history behind one of golf’s greatest tests, the U.S. Open, which was first played on October 4, 1895 at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island (If you’ve never been to Newport, I highly recommend it. Make sure you take in some of the local seafood!)
That first competition was only 36 holes, and was played in a single day. In that first competition, there were ten pro golfers, and one amateur. The winner was a 21 year-old Englishman named Horace Rawlins, who had arrived in the U.S in January that year to take up a position at the host club.
His winnings: $150 cash and a $50 gold medal…and, the Open Championship Club trophy.
It went on that way for a number of years, with the Brits dominating until John J. McDermott came along to become the first native-born American winner, and soon, the U.S. Open found itself joining the ranks of golf’s majors.
Since 1911, the title has been won almost exclusively by U.S players. Since 1950, players from only six countries other than the U.S. Have taken the Open trophy, most notably South Africa, which has taken it five times since 1965.
Today, the U.S. Open is the second of the four major golf championships, and is staged by the United States Golf Association in mid-June, with the final round typically played on Father’s Day.
The tournament is staged at a variety of courses, often set up in a way that scoring is very difficult with a premium placed on accurate driving. The tournament’s play is typically characterized by tight scoring at or around par by the leaders (with Rory McIlroy’s −16 finish last year a very rare exception!).
A U.S Open course is very rarely beaten by such a margin, and in fact, there have been a number of over-par wins. Often, Open courses are very long in yardage, and have a very high cut of primary rough, undulating greens (making putting and approach placement critical), and tight fairways.
The U.S. Open is the only one of the four majors which does not go immediately to a playoff if two or more players are tied at the end of the four rounds, instead having the players play a fifth 18th-hole round the following day (Monday). After that, if a tie still exists, then a sudden-death playoff is held, much as happened in 2008 when Tiger Woods defeated veteran golfer Rocco Mediate on the first additional playoff hole, a finish rife with drama and much pain incurred by Woods with his weakened knee ligament.
In San Francisco this week, at the Olympic Club, the site of the 2012 U.S. Open, that course’s history exceeds that of the Open itself. It was established in 1860 and enjoys the distinction of being America’s oldest athletic club, wtih some 5,000 members who compete in 19 sports out of its downtown San Francisco clubhouse. Its 45 holes of golf include the Lake Course, originally designed in 1924 by Willie Watson and Sam Whiting, and redesigned by Whiting in 1927 after suffering storm damage.
The Lake Course remains true to its 1927 design, with minimal renovations in the intervening years, save for the creation of a new 8th hole, a 200-yard par 3. The course is hosting its fifth U.S. Open and should provide a substantial challenge with its narrow, tree-lined fairways and small, well-bunkered greens.
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One of the many challenges facing President Barack Obama is climate change, as the U.S. has been criticized by other nations for its lack of commitment to fighting global warming.
Steven Cohen, the executive director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, joins Martin Savidge to discuss the new administration’s approach to fighting climate change, the impact of the financial crisis on potential action and the U.S. role in encouraging developing nations to reduce their carbon footprint.
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Khan Academy Presents: Hypothetical bank balance sheet. What book value means.
In the last video, I discussed a personal balance sheet or what illiquidity or what insolvency means and if you understood that I think we're now ready what a balance sheet of some of these potentially troubled banks might look like. And I'm not going to, you know, go into the details but I'm going to give you the big picture, I think that’s, that’s essentially what matters. So essentially this banks they have a bunch of assets and I'm just going to talk about banks very generally right now both commercial and investment banks, in the future video I’ll tell you the difference between the two and what regulation means and what leverage means and all of that maybe I’ll touch on that in this video. But let's just kind of think about a generic balance sheet for bank, so its assets. So assets, so I don’t know I'm just going to make up some things, let's say that it has I don’t know one billion, one billion in government bonds, US government bonds I'm just throwing that in there just this kind of filler, just to show that there could be a lot of different types of assets in there. Let's say that they, it has another I don’t know 10 billion in Triple A corporate bonds. So, you know, this are loans to really solvent or really high credit where a very credit worthy company, so Triple A corporate bond, so companies that have really good cash flows. There is very little chance of them defaulting on their loans. And what is a bond? Well a bond is just a loan to another entity right? If you loan me money I could give you and IOU, right. Saying that “Sal owes you, whatever $10.00” and that IOU you could call that a Sal bond. So, you know, one billion dollars of govern bond that’s an assets that says the government owes me a billion dollars and then in the mean time it's going to pay interest. Similarly corporate bonds that saying that you know this corporation wherever this bonds are issued by, they owe me collective 10 billion dollar in the mean time they're going to pay me interest, so that’s all it is and all in asset is something that has some future economic value and that’s what this are, this bonds have some future economic value. They have the value of the interest payments plus eventually they're going to pay you the 10 billion dollars back or maybe to something less than that, so the 10 billion is the interest payments plus what they're going to pay you back which might be I don’t know 9.9 billion, I'm making up numbers. But that’s not the issue here, what the crocks of the issue are that there is this stinky asset here. Actually, let me draw a couple of more assets here just to show you that this is the stinkiest of them all. So let's say I have another, another group of assets I don’t know let's say I have a 10 billion dollars of commercial mortgages, commercial mortgages. So this is essentially, I lend the money to companies to you know buy land or develop land or buy buildings that they're going to go rent out to other people. So ones again it's just alone to someone else and alone to someone else that I've given is an assets because they owe me interest and eventually they're going to have to pay the money back to me. And then finally I'm going to throw and I'm not being comprehensive here I'm going to throw the crocks of the issue here. Let's say that I have two—but let me I have 21 right now, let me just make it an even number. Let's say that I have four billion dollars that I’ll add up to 25, I have four billion dollars in residential CDOs collateralized debt obligations, residential CDOs. And I've done a video on the CDOs but just to kind of have a review, CDOs are a derivative instrument and I know that sounds complicated but that just means they derived from another instrument, which probably, you know, that’s a sign of the stinkiest starting to emerge from this part of the balance sheet. What does it mean derivative? Well you take a bunch of mortgages, so I’ll just draw it down here. You take a bunch of mortgages, so you know this are house mortgages and maybe you take a million of them. You group them all together and you end up with a mortgage-backed security. Although mortgage-backed security is a loan to a ton of big group of people and you put them all together so that you can kind of you know be able to statistically give it properties because if you lend to anyone person that’s hard to trade but if you lent to a bunch of people you can—it starts to become something that you could trade with other people because they can understand it and you know, in aggregate you can say, “Oh, 8% of the people are going to fall and then all of that” but anyway that this isn’t the crocks of it either, I have a whole video on mortgage back securities. CDOs collateralized dead obligations are derived from mortgage-backed securities and that’s why they are called derivative instruments. What CDOs are and you take this mortgage back securities you know that there are loans to some people and some region of the country or maybe they’re at—they're diversified across regions and then you slice and dice them, so what you do is you slice them in to traunches and I go into a lot more detail on this in the other videos, right. And you say this group of the CDOs, look at the first payments or if any payments that go, immediately go to this very senior traunch, right. And then the next payments go to this one and then this top traunch you could cut the most junior traunch and sometimes called the equity traunch. This traunch they're going to get whatever is left over. So if everyone pays they get and made it whole, but if a lot of people default. All the defaults are going to hit this traunch right. And to kind of make up the fact that this is the riskiest traunch or essentially this people are taking on all of the risk and are essentially this traunches are giving all of the risk to this traunch. And a traunch is just a layer it's just a slice, okay. I don’t want to use too fancy words. But in return for taking on all of the risk this person is going to get a higher yield, so you know all of this person might be getting 6% this person might be getting 7% on their money, maybe this person gets 12% on their money. And this is another interesting thing because this person is the most secure the ratings agency which I’ll probably do a whole another series of videos on, they might give it in like I don’t know a Triple A rating and maybe they give this traunch, I don’t know, I'm making up things but maybe they give it a double a ratings. But this equity traunch they will get a junk year rating and because it's a junk year rating no one is going to want to buy it. So the person who constructed this whole collateralized debt obligation and who sold this traunches to the public markets and this process by the way is call securitization because you're creating securities out of this assets that you sell to everyone, maybe the Chinese or whoever served at well funds. But people only want to buy this traunches, so the banks have to figure out what to do with this traunch which is the stinky equity traunch. So most of them just kept it on their balance sheet they said, “Oh, it looks like housing never goes down, we get a really high yield on this so we are going to keep this traunch for our selves”. And that’s what these residential CDOs are that are the crocks of the issue. But anyway that was just in a side and so I wanted to show you this because this aren’t just any residential CDOs, this aren’t the Triple A’s this—they might be some of them but just for the sake of argument let's say that this are junky ones or smelly. So anyway that’s my example bank asset, the asset side of its balance sheet. Let's think about its liabilities. So liabilities, liabilities well lest just say it has a bunch of loans, right. So let's say it has loan a, loan a for I don’t know 10 billion dollars and let me to actually just store some cash in here. Let's say it has a billion dollars of cash, a bank always has to keep some cash just incase someone asks for its, their money immediately, that’s in the context of a commercial bank but anyway. And let's say it has some cash for just immediate liquidity it needs. So the liability side has loan a and it owes someone 10 billion dollars it has loan b, I don’t know, let's say it's another 10 billion dollars. And let's say it has loan c, loan c is just to make it interesting. Loan c is—let's say it's for three billion dollars. So in this example right now, if we assumed that all of this asset values are correct and all of this liability values are correct, what are this banks equity? And in this case if the publicly traded company, what is it share holders equity? And let's figure it out, it's equity well it's assets are one plus—let's see 21, 25, 26 billion in assets, right and it's liabilities are 23 billion. So 26 billion of assets minus 23 billion of liabilities, means that we have three billion of equity of share holder’s equity and just to make it clear, what does equity—let's say this is a publicly traded company. If you own a share of the company, you own a share of this equity. So let's actually let's just write it out, let's say that this company has, you know, it's called this, I don’t know, Wachovia Bank actually that’s too close, let's called this bank a, right. And let's say that bank a, bank has I don’t know let me make up something. Let's say that it has a, I don’t know, a billion—let's say it has 500 million shares. 500 million shares right, if you're going to Yahoo Finance you said “How many shares are outstanding?” it has 500 million shares. So each share price or the book value of each air price essentially should be this three billion dollars of equity based on the balanced sheet. And that’s what they all it book equity because the balance sheet is often called the companies books. So it's these three billion dollars of equity divided by the number of shares. So each share should be worth let's say three billion divided by 500 million, it should be $6.00 of book equity, book equity per share. And that’s something important to realize because a lot of people think that you know for stock price goes to zero that, you know, that means if you're getting the company for nothing, you know, that’s not true that just means that the equity is worth zero. And I just realized that I'm out of time. 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Project code: XB/SRL/06/X06(D177), XB/SRL/08/X03(D211), XB/ SRL/08/X04(D213)
Background and objectives
The primary focus of the project was to support the Government Agents (GAs) and RADA to achieve the completion of a coordinated tsunami housing programme. The project provided district level technical support to the GAs and support for the development of a National Housing Policy. The third year post-tsunami activity involved the completion of approximately 50,000 houses.
The main activities included:
- District Housing Profiles developed
- A clear statement of core tsunami housing issues faced by each district (including analysis of co-financing availability),
- A clear analysis of the infrastructure related challenges and
- A clear explanation of emerging quality issues and recommended remedial actions.
The results achieved included:
- Coordination challenges addressed as a result of the unprecedented response of aid agencies rushing to Sri Lanka.
- UN-HABITAT advocated a coherent coordination structure for the rebuilding of houses and communities.
- Post Disaster Housing Coordination Project established after initial funding delay
- Project, in partnership with key government agencies, developed structures to improve coordination in the tsunami-affected areas and in Colombo.
- Project produced improved and reliable data on the housing needs and progress being made and improved communication within implementing agencies. | <urn:uuid:3fc8fa98-0490-44a5-9851-3407bbc42490> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.unhabitat.org/content.asp?cid=6767&catid=574&typeid=13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917105 | 295 | 1.734375 | 2 |
I’ve written about the history of shaving before, but with Diana’s encouragement, I’ve decided to go a different way. Because she agreed with YouTube viewer h4lk7, who said that I should grow a mustache, I’ve decided to give it a whirl. While I realize that this could be a not-so-elaborate hoax at my expense and she’s saving the really hearty laughter for when the thing grows in a little more, I may have the last laugh. After all, Diana’s the one who’s got to be seen in public with me!
But first things first: is it mustache or moustache?
Wikipedia (the unquestioned bastion of all things truthy — next to Stephen Colbert, of course) tells us:
The word “moustache” derives from 16th century French moustache, which in turn is derived from the Italian mostaccio (14th century), dialectal mustaccio (16th century), from Medieval Latin mustacium (8th century), Medieval Greek moustakion, attested in the 9th century, which ultimately originates as a diminutive of Hellenistic Greek mustax, mustak-, meaning “upper lip” or “facial hair,” probably derived from Hellenistic Greek mullon, for “lip.”
It also tells us that “mustache” is the American English version of moustache, so I’ve got to go with that unless I want to come across as some sort of pretentious so-and-so. I want to make sure the thing is really defined before I embark on that route…
Don’t you hate it when you walk into the movie theater just a few minutes too late and the picture’s already rolling? You just had to wait in the popcorn line, didn’t you? Well, don’t get lost in the vlog fog! You can witness the whole torrid tale (so far) over at the Pirillo Vlog Playlist page. We’ll be here when you get back — no rush!
Have you been enjoying our vlogs, but found yourself curious about what happened to our tech stuff? Ponder no more, because we’re still talking tech every single freaking weekday. It’s more succinct than it used to be; I try and save my more spirited ramblings for the vlog and Google+ Gnomies hangouts and webinars. Everybody wins! | <urn:uuid:486c6932-6816-4d63-a1a9-2757fd40f222> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://chris.pirillo.com/does-this-mustache-make-me-look-fat/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939471 | 542 | 1.585938 | 2 |
The response to the concept has been mixed and like a coin has two sides, there are people who don’t see any stigma attached to the concept and there are others who have no qualms in entering such relationships, provided they end in marriage.
India is a land of prejudices and diverse cultures. We are afraid of change, be it in social or political scenario and thinking out of box is not really encouraged here. However, in spite of negatives, it is also a developing nation and western culture is creeping into it. Kaustav Rakshit, an engineer by profession, would like to spend some time with his prospective better half, provided he gets married to her. When asked whether it is a western influence, he replied, “What is wrong with that? The west has influenced us and will keep influencing us and live-in is here to stay as it allows a person to escape the pitfalls of marriage. It is basically marriage without the legal complications.”
Dr. S.P Dubey, the founder member of the Adarsh Samaj Sahyoy Samiti, a non-governmental organisation that looks after the empowerment of women is very critical of the concept and through such relationships; he believes that women are trampling their societal and cultural values. “Indian women have forgotten their place, by blindly following the west they forego their culture, the societal values and also discipline. Once praised for our culture, India is heading towards a land with no identity,” said a vehement Dr Dubey. Saying that such cases are on the rise, Dr Dubey cites economic freedom as the sole reason of such liaisons. When asked if any woman, who had faced any issues in such a relationship approached the organisation, he denied and advised that women should make better choices, rather moan after facing the consequences.
Dr. Hemant Singh, a psychologist by profession doesn’t agree with Dr Dubey and tried to take us through the mindset of people regarding the entire situation. “There is no stigma attached to the live-in relationship culture, maybe in smaller towns but definitely not in metros like Delhi and NCR regions like Gurgaon,” he said. According to him, this is not a western influence but liberalisation and financial independence of the modern era that has given birth to these kinds of relationships. He mentioned that as women are getting economically independent, they don’t depend on their parents to make their life choices. But for him the only bad part of the deal is ‘the frequent change of partners as many enter into live-in relationships for the sake of time pass and no-strings attached attitude.’
While ‘no-strings’ attitude is okay as long as both the partners are mutually satisfied by the agreement but when children and legality are taken into consideration, it turns out to be a very sticky patch. Many cases have come to the notice of lawyer V P Singh in which one of the partners opts to move out of the live-in relationship of many years that has even produced kids. That is the moment when hell breaks loose between the partners and kids are forced to suffer for no fault. “While according to the Hindu marriage Act of 1955, women on divorce are sure to get maintenance and property claim but since no bill for live-in relationships has been passed, hence it is not legal, so women cannot claim anything,” said Singh. He also added that in spite of the legal stamp, the trend is rising and people are getting into live in relationship as they have an easy way out.
In all this, what happens to the parents and are they happy that their children have found happiness in an unorthodox tradition, Dr. Singh said: “Parents in India are still not happy about the trend. Societal pressures ask them for answers and since they themselves do not approve of the matter, they are not happy to face such kind of questions about their wards.” Children of such live-in partners suffer the most as this concept is evolving but very new to the Indians. The west is quite comfortable with the idea of remarriage and stepmother or stepfather but Indians are not. The next generation would face the challenge as they would have amongst them kids who are of live-in couples.
Divorces may be reduced owing to the growing trend or so, believes a large chunk of population. Sandeep Viraj, an IT professional, who recently got divorced, however has a very different view. “Actually both the things are far from connected. As one might think that after staying with a partner and knowing them in a marriage, divorce is not possible but that is not true. Anything can go wrong even after 12 years of staying together and divorce depends on many factors. So live-in doesn’t decrease the level of divorces.” | <urn:uuid:23867385-e743-48fc-b5c3-20768beae206> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.merinews.com/article/live-in-relationships-are-trending-we-have-an-answer/15864952.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979511 | 991 | 2.34375 | 2 |
At last week’s Net Impact conference, the World Resources Institute (WRI) challenged teams of attendees to come up with what was essentially a “mashup” of megatrends and environmental challenges. The teams then engaged in a friendly competition to see who could create the most innovative corporate sustainability strategies for a hypothetical company modeled after LEGO.
The teams began by looking at global environmental challenges (like clean energy, climate change and waste removal); then connected these hurdles to other big trends (such as urbanization and social inequality); and finally, assessed strategic actions for the model company. The result was a handful of very clever corporate sustainability strategies.
One team suggested that 3D-printing and materials science could enable the company to produce toys in growing markets using bio-based plastics, thereby reducing shipping costs and greenhouse gas emissions. Another team thought that creating visual instruction guides could help overcome language barriers and promote affordable green building design and construction. And the winning team proposed partnering with companies like Coca-Cola and non-profit organizations like 5 Gyres to reuse plastic waste in the world’s oceans -- similar to what Method and United by Blue are currently doing.
The proposals varied greatly, but all the teams had one thing in common: They used WRI’s new Sustainability SWOT (sSWOT) as a guiding framework to shape and communicate their strategies.
WRI’s New Sustainability SWOT
The sSWOT, which recently wrapped up its “road test” phase and will be widely released later this fall, is a guide that reframes the traditional strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis to focus on environmental challenges. Developed in partnership with companies in WRI’s Next Practice Collaborative, the sSWOT emphasizes collaboration with new strategic partners. It highlights key questions to ask and answer with colleagues (using the familiar SWOT framework) to translate environmental sustainability into real business risks and new opportunities.
Prior to the Net Impact conference, WRI invited a dozen companies across multiple sectors to “road test” the sSWOT within their own organizations. They used it to complement traditional SWOTs and other efforts, such as strategic planning, goal setting, scenario analysis or visioning exercises. Some of the companies that helped pilot the sSWOT included:
- Target: A team at the North American retailer looked at how long-term climate change impacts will affect agriculture and water. The sSWOT helped frame a conversation with colleagues from Target’s food business about the company’s mid-term priorities for sustainable food initiatives.
- Delphi: The automotive parts supplier used the sSWOT to assess its waste-management strategies and options for achieving “zero waste to landfill.” Delphi subsequently found opportunities to coordinate with customers who have achieved zero-waste goals (like General Motors) in order to identify vendors and build local infrastructure for recycling.
- Sanepar: This Brazilian water and wastewater company tested the sSWOT to evaluate the implications of climate change on its future activities. The company’s team identified environmental challenges creating risks or opportunities, like those related to greenhouse gas management, adaptation to climate change and energy efficiency. Looking for others who shared those risks or opportunities, the company identified potential partnerships, such as working with a local electric power company to coordinate efforts related to climate change adaptation.
The Forthcoming sSWOT Guide
WRI is currently incorporating feedback from road tests and expert external reviewers into the final sSWOT guide. We expect to release the final version later this fall. | <urn:uuid:9194f902-2a2b-4434-ae08-660cb0c9be70> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.greenbiz.com/news/2012/11/06/target-delphi-sustainability-SWOT-analysis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929999 | 742 | 2.46875 | 2 |
The Worst Stock Sale In History?
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It's rare that someone can question selling an investment with a $100,000 cost basis that turns into $1.9 billion. However, that's exactly what I'm doing in questioning why SunTrust (NYSE: STI) would choose now to sell its 60 million shares in Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO)? I know that the company suggested that this move was designed to shore up its balance sheet and eliminate some of the uncertainty in its capital ratios, but I don't believe there's been a shorter-term thought process behind a stock sale that I can remember.
Just as a bit of background, one of the predecessors to SunTrust helped Coca-Cola with its initial public offering back in 1919. Instead of receiving $100,000 in cash as compensation, the company chose to receive shares in Coca-Cola instead. Anyone who knows much about the stock market can imagine what an unbelievable investment this has been. Since 1919 this original $100,000 investment has ballooned to 60 million shares of Coca-Cola common stock, with a value of $1.9 billion. SunTrust management apparently decided that after an almost 2,000,000% return that that was enough. I have no problem saying this might be one of the best investments in the history of the stock market. What's unbelievable is the company's disregard for the value of the dividend income they just gave up.
SunTrust announced several moves connected with this sale designed to improve their balance sheet and lower the company's risk going forward. The proceeds of the Coca-Cola sale will coincide with a provision of $375 million for mortgage putbacks from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The company is also taking a $250 million write-down and transferring $3 billion in underperforming loans to loans held for sale. Because the upcoming Basel III guidelines treat equity holdings as higher risk than many others, the sale of stock and conversion to other types of assets will improve SunTrust's regulatory capital ratios. In fact, the Chairman and CEO of SunTrust, William Rogers said the bank's decision results in less risk on the balance sheet with the same regulatory capital and “I personally think that's a good trade.” To understand a little more about why SunTrust felt the need to make this move, let's take a look at the company's competitive position versus some other banks.
SunTrust was one of the banks that was subjected to the Fed's recent round of stress tests, and while the dividend was increased, the bank also issued additional debt and shares to repay preferred stock owned by the U.S. Treasury. The bank does not appear to be doing all that badly. In a recent investor presentation, the company said its performing loans increased 9%, and total deposits were up 3%. This certainly compares favorably to banks like Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), which last reported average deposits down 2% and everything from residential mortgages to home equity loans showing decreases. However, when compared to stronger institutions like BB&T (NYSE: BBT) and Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), the comparisons are a little tougher.
In its most recent quarter, BB&T showed total deposits up 17.7% and average loans up 6.3%. Where Wells Fargo is concerned, this bank saw average deposits up 9%, and loans increased 2.25%. As you can see, BB&T and Wells Fargo saw better deposit growth than SunTrust, with all three companies seeing sub 10% loan growth. In addition, Suntrust's credit quality is not that bad relative to its competition. The company's nonperforming loans in their most recent earnings were 2.37% of total loans. By comparison, Wells Fargo reported nonperforming loans at 3.21%, Bank of America came in at 2.87%, and BB&T led the big banks showing just 1.5% of non-performers. Overall, it looks like SunTrust is doing okay, which brings us to the original question of why the bank would sell its Coca-Cola shares at this time.
While there's no question that the gain on the company's Coca-Cola investment is impressive, what seems to be lost in the shuffle is the short term thinking in the loss of significant dividend income from this investment. With about 60 million shares and Coca-Cola paying an annual dividend of $1.02, this is the equivalent of $61.2 million in annual dividends that SunTrust is giving up. Considering the fact that the company's cost basis for the shares was $100,000, the company's effective yield is an astronomical percentage that will likely never be re-created. The fact that Coca-Cola has a history of increasing its dividend for over 50 years, and doesn't show signs of stopping, means SunTrust also gave up these additional dividend increases in the future. This begs the natural question, why was such an outstanding investment that could not possibly be duplicated liquidated?
I would suggest there are only two possibilities. The first possibility is the company is so desperate for capital that it had no choice but to cash in this massive capital gain regardless of the loss of future dividends and the huge tax implications. If this is the case, I would run from the stock as fast as possible. Management just gave up one of the best effective yields anyone will ever see in order to raise money for the short-term. The only other possibility I can come up with is that the bank is trying to simplify its balance sheet to prepare for a merger or acquisition. With the stock selling at about 0.80 of book value, SunTrust could be an attractive takeover candidate. The company's market cap is less than $16 billion.
However, a potential acquirer would gain the over $100 billion in loans and over $90 billion in deposits that SunTrust currently holds. Even if a bank offered twice the current market cap, that would would seem like a very good deal. The scary part for investors is this sale of Coca-Cola stock is either one of desperation for capital or preparing for a merger or acquisition. If you believe that SunTrust will be acquired, this could be a very good investment. On the other hand, if you question as I do why this stock sale would be necessary even if an acquisition were pending, then I would stay away from the shares. In either case, one of the best long-term investments in history just disappeared.
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`DESPERATION is our only hope.'' Those are the ironic words of a Peruvian official surveying the wreckage of his nation's economic, political, and social structures. Nothing short of desperation, he was saying, will release the commitment and steam required to tackle the country's enormous problems. Any one of those problems would tax the competence and resources of a government. In combination, they produce the resigned, even despairing tones that creep into the voices of authorities discussing Peru's plight.Skip to next paragraph
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Its inflation rate has been rising more steeply than the Andes. The nation's productive energies are dampened by deficit spending and blankets of bureaucracy. Like many of its Latin American neighbors, Peru owes billions to foreign lenders, but, unlike more conscientious borrowers, Peru's economic and debt-service policies have almost been calculated to alienate the international financial community.
As the world's leading grower of coca leaf, Peru is engaged in an ongoing war with cocaine traffickers. At the same time, Lima is battling terrorism by two communist groups, the brutal Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) and the smaller Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement; the counterinsurgency efforts have given rise in turn to widespread human rights abuses by the military. Terrorism and political violence claimed 3,384 lives last year.
This is the disaster, as he put it, that President Alberto Fujimori inherited when he took office last summer. And as if the other problems weren't enough, the country has also been swept by a cholera epidemic. The economic problems are the legacies of years of mismanagement. Rebuffing the traditional parties, exasperated voters turned to the independent Fujimori, an obscure engineer.
It is not clear yet that Fujimori has either the experience or the political backing to pull Peru back from the brink. His anti-inflation measures, called Fujishock, have thrown Peru into recession. His programs to liberalize trade conditions, reduce the size of government, and privatize some state industries appear to be on the right track, however.
Fujimori properly has given high priority to improving relations with the international financial community, which were strained under his predecessor. US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady should do what he can to mediate on Peru's behalf with the international lenders and to help restore Peru's place as a debtor in good standing with appropriate access to international credit.
One US expert in Latin American affairs proposes that Peru's neighbors, together with the US, should take on Peru as a special regional reclamation project, as the Contadora countries joined several years ago to help bring peace to Nicaragua. The rationale, he points out, is the same: Problems like those plaguing Peru are not forever contained within a country's borders. National problems can become regional problems, unless neighbors pitch in. | <urn:uuid:1d3e94dd-9f9c-484e-a52b-59583feb12db> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.csmonitor.com/1991/0415/eperu.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954586 | 584 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Multiple testing in large-scale genetic studies.
Recent advances in Molecular Biology and improvements in microarray and sequencing technologies have led biologists toward high-throughput genomic studies. These studies aim at finding associations between genetic markers and a phenotype and involve conducting many statistical tests on these markers. Such Please confirm the changes in the sentence "Such a wide..." a wide investigation of the genome not only renders genomic studies quite attractive but also lead to a major shortcoming. That is, among the markers detected as associated with the phenotype, a nonnegligible proportion is not in reality (false-positives) and also true associations can be missed (false-negatives). A main cause of these spurious associations is due to the multiple-testing problem, inherent to conducting numerous statistical tests. Several approaches exist to work around this issue. These multiple-testing adjustments aim at defining new statistical confidence measures that are controlled to guarantee that the outcomes of the tests are pertinent.The most natural correction was introduced by Bonferroni and aims at controlling the family-wise error-rate (FWER) that is the probability of having at least one false-positive. Another approach is based on the false-discovery-rate (FDR) and considers the proportion of significant results that are expected to be false-positives. Finally, the local-FDR focuses on the actual probability for a marker of being associated or not with the phenotype. These strategies are widely used but one has to be careful about when and how to apply them. We propose in this chapter a discussion on the multiple-testing issue and on the main approaches to take it into account. We aim at providing a theoretical and intuitive definition of these concepts along with practical advises to guide researchers in choosing the more appropriate multiple-testing procedure corresponding to the purposes of their studies. | <urn:uuid:c48821fc-6b34-4833-b248-7aff66fb0823> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.citeulike.org/user/guhjy/article/11503300 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935587 | 366 | 2.6875 | 3 |
The balloon is scheduled to begin official operation on the 80th anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam on February 2, 2010.
is the first tourist balloon in Nha Trang from which people can get an
aerial view of the city and one of the world’s most beautiful bays.
The 1.2 million-euro balloon will carry 25-30 passengers per 20-minute flight.
The investor has sent two officials to France for a training course on flying the balloon. It also invited French and German specialists to Vietnam for installation and technical assistance.
A reader named Khue Viet Truong shot the balloon. | <urn:uuid:13acc7c2-938a-4380-950b-0ff0a718a71c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.footprintsvietnam.com/Travelnews/2010/January/Hot-air-tourist-balloon-trialed-in-Nha-Trang.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923784 | 129 | 1.921875 | 2 |
In addition to the Youga Gold Belt, Endeavour has strategic land positions in two additional greenstone belts in Burkina Faso:
Banfora Gold Belt - Burkina Faso West
The Banfora Gold Belt located in western Burkina Faso extends for over 150 kilometres and continues into Côte d'Ivoire, where significant gold occurrences have been reported. Endeavour holds an interest in six exploration permits along the Banfora Gold Belt covering over 600 square kilometres.
The Banfora Gold Belt is one of the most under-explored volcano-sedimentary belts in Burkina Faso. Limited regional mapping and geochemical surveys were carried out in the belt by junior explorers in the mid-late 90's. In recent years, gold digging activity (orpailleur fields) has been undertaken in the northern parts of the belt. Endeavour has conducted regional exploration over the Banfora Gold Belt. Follow-up pitting and auger drilling has delineated four primary and eight secondary drill targets. Drill-ready targets on the Comoé Permit include Phaco Hill (350 meter long target with 0.5 -4.1 g/t in rock samples coincident with a regional arsenic anomaly), and Siniko West (two targets comprising a 700 meter strike length with up to 1.3 g/t from pits and auger drilling). Additional regional soil targets remain to be tested with auger drilling.
In April 2010, the Company finalized a joint venture agreement with AusQuest Limited of Australia whereby AusQuest acquired an initial 51% of the Banfora project for US$1 million and has the right to acquire up to 80% over a six year period by sole funding US$7 million on the Banfora project. AusQuest will act as operator and has developed an initial 10,000 meter drill program to test eight targets identified by Endeavour.
Boromo Gold Belt - Burkina Faso North
Endeavour holds two permits under option in the Boromo gold belt, which hosts the Bissa Gold Deposit of High River Gold Mines Ltd. The Bissa Deposit hosts 1.1 million ounces of measured and indicated plus 483,000 ounces of inferred resource (High River Gold Mines Ltd., news release dated September 2010). Preliminary investigations by Endeavour on the Boulonga and Minina permits in the areas of active gold digging suggests that the potential exists for significant gold discoveries. | <urn:uuid:fa4073ef-25a8-4667-9f50-ac40556d9452> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.endeavourmining.com/s/BurkinaFaso.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917171 | 501 | 1.570313 | 2 |
The American Society of Civil Engineers' latest report card on the United States' infrastructure, from roads to hazardous-waste systems, gives the country a D and warns that rotting infrastructure poses risks to safety and growth. The society urges wholesale changes.
- Increased R&D. Even modest gains in the efficiency of construction and repair could yield huge overall savings. Tom Warne, chairman of the Transportation Research Board, says federal funding in the 1990s yielded innovations like the Superpave system, a technique for making durable, location-specific asphalt mixes.
- Unconventional funding. Governments and builders should embrace alternative infrastructure-related sources of revenue, such as leasing public roadways. In 2004 Chicago netted $1.8 billion by leasing the Chicago Skyway, a 7.8-mile toll road, to a private consortium for 99 years.THREE
- Design-build contracting. Engineers and contractors should work together closely, rather than having engineers sketch out designs for contractors to build. This approach helped Utah finish the $1.5 billion I-15 project in less than five years, in time for the 2002 Olympics.
- Long-term planning. States draw up multiyear budgets; Washington spends in fits and starts. A federal fund designated for long-term infrastructure projects would "encourage an investment philosophy," the society says.
- Yes, taxes. When gasoline was $1.60 a gallon, the society called for a six-cent-per-gallon levy to fix roads. Congress demurred. With gas at $2.40, six cents now seems meager—and it is needed more than ever. | <urn:uuid:8872d733-ac10-4a41-94e3-67bb1c844921> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://discovermagazine.com/2006/apr/civil-engineers-report | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937247 | 331 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Richmond Maids of Honour
Maids of Honour tarts, Richmond’s greatest contribution to the culinary arts, are believed to have originated in the Royal kitchens at Hampton Court. Legend has it that the recipe was locked away in an iron chest until it was rediscovered by Henry VIII who presented it to Anne Boleyn, lady-in-waiting to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. She is believed to have made the tarts for Henry who, in turn, named them "Maids of Honour" after her. Another story has it that Henry came across Anne and other attendants eating the cakes from a silver dish and, after tasting them, was so delighted that the recipe was kept secret and locked in an iron box in Richmond Palace. Yet a third version claims that, in order to protect the secret, the unfortunate "maid" who invented the tarts was imprisoned within the Palace grounds and ordered to produce the pastries solely for Henry and the Royal Household.
Whichever tale is correct, the recipe appeared in the second edition (1665) of The Accomplisht Cook by R. May. The commercial production of Maids of Honour in Richmond began in 1750 in Hill Street when Thomas Burdekin took a small shop next to the White Hart Inn. Within 20 years he was able to expand into the next-door premises - now number 3 Hill Street. Burdekin went on to become a vestryman in 1785 and in 1790 he sold the business to William Hester. Hester was succeeded by John Lea and then, in 1830, by John Thomas Billett. (Take a walk down Victorian Hill Street.).
The Billett family became synonymous with Maids of Honour tarts and the famous shop front proclaimed that it was "the original shop of the Maids of Honour". Grandfather, father and son in turn welcomed visitors to Richmond who made the mandatory pilgrimage to the shop. On one famous day at the turn of the 20th century no less than 8000 cakes were baked and sold. In 1908 big business seems to have taken over when the Richmond (Original) Maids of Honour Limited under the chairmanship of Mr Colnbrook, whose sister had married John Thomas Billet junior, came into being. In 1921 it was again taken over by Hygienic Bakeries Ltd who already had several shops in the area. The shop closed in 1957.
Robert Newens served his apprenticeship at the Hill Street bakery and in 1850 he opened a shop in King Street, later moving to number 3 George Street where he continued the tradition of making and selling the Maids of Honour. Robert’s son, Alfred, opened a new establishment at 288-290 Kew Road, Kew in 1887 where he also made Maids of Honour from the recipe passed on by his father. Alfred died in 1927 leaving the business to be carried on by his son John and daughter Kathleen. The bakery suffered serious bomb damage during the Second World War. After the war, John’s son, Peter set to work to repair the damage and get the business back on its feet. The bakehouse was rebuilt and new gas ovens installed as well as the shop front being remodelled. The shop, still owned and run by the Newens family, is a bakery as well as a restaurant and tea room where the Maids of Honour are served, made to a closely kept family secret recipe. | <urn:uuid:57d6ae46-01c4-4e56-8634-d1ce1b85376a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.richmond.gov.uk/home/leisure_and_culture/local_history_and_heritage/local_studies_collection/local_history_notes/richmond_maids_of_honour.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98401 | 706 | 2.25 | 2 |
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The Monell Chemical Senses Center says that people can tell another person’s age simply by their smell.
All human bodies have a body odor that is composed of different chemicals that change as a person ages. Research also showed that the “old-person smell” was less unpleasant than the smell of younger people. This theory also applies to animals when choosing a suitable mate by their body odor.
Although research already showed that animals were able to distinguish ages by smell, the Chemical Center proved that humans can do the same. To read more, click here. | <urn:uuid:df547613-4e9e-4383-9f43-c9323f32d3b4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.buckinghampost.com/2012/06/01/study-says-people-can-tell-age-by-body-odor/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00072-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977399 | 135 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Oh, look what’s appeared on the wall in my local Starbucks! It has gone rather quiet in there lately, as people cut back on expensive coffees. (I have not, because caffeine is not something I can easily do without.) Evidently the company is looking for new ways to bring people in, and this is what it has come up with: you can book a table for a group meeting for your business, community group or club. I find this very amusing, because this practice — the ability to reserve tables — was one of the things that made coffeehouses such hotbeds of networking and innovation in 17th-century London. Most famously Lloyd’s coffeehouse, opened by Edward Lloyd in the 1680s, was frequented by ship captains, shipowners and merchants who went to hear the latest maritime news and attend auctions of ships and their cargoes. Lloyd began to collect and summarise this information in a regular newsletter, and his coffeehouse became the natural meeting place for shipowners and the underwriters who insured their ships. Some underwriters began to reserve particular tables or booths at Lloyd’s to ensure that their customers could always find them in the same place, and eventually a group of them established the Society of Lloyd’s, which survives to this day as Lloyd’s of London.
So this move by Starbucks is a lovely echo of the golden age of coffeehouses. Another example is the use of Wi-Fi in coffeehouses to get your e-mail and read the news. In the 17th century, before street numbering, people would use coffeehouses as mailboxes, saying “write to me care of the Rainbow”, or whatever. They would also drop into coffeehouses to read newsletters, pamphlets and broadsides, which were available free to patrons. And coffeehouses, then as now, were often used as reputable and neutral venues for business meetings. (I went into all this in my coffeehouse internet piece, which grew into a whole chapter of my drinks book.)
The notion of coffeehouses promoting intellectual and commercial connections is in the air again as a result of Steven Johnson‘s new book, “The Invention of Air”. I haven’t read the book yet, but I used to write for Steven’s webzine, FEED, so he was an early patron of my interest in historical analogies. Several of his books also interweave old and new technologies, but whereas my thing is historical analogies, his is something like interconnectedness, if I had to choose a single word. He is also a proponent of the idea that video games are good for you, which makes him a hero in my book.
At the end of last year I was often asked to suggest some things that I expected to happen in 2009. Speculating about anything to do with finance seems to me to be a mug’s game, and it’s not something I know much about in any case. I’m on firmer ground with technology, however, so one of my predictions for 2009 is that Apple is going to kill the Kindle by opening the iTunes Store to sell e-books, and turning every iPhone and iPod touch into an e-book reader overnight.
There are two reasons I think Apple will do this. The first is that it needs an answer to the netbook phenomenon; and like many other people, I think Apple’s answer will be a larger iPod touch (perhaps twice as big, though not perhaps as big as the mock-up shown on the left). That would be a great machine for web browsing on the sofa, etc, and it would be consistent with Steve Jobs’ insistence that Apple could not make a sub-$500 laptop that was not a “piece of junk”. A bigger iPod touch might cost $399 and would do many of the things that people use netbooks for. It would also make a great e-book reader. At the same time, all those iPhones/iPod touches have a pretty good screen for reading already, and a big installed base, so it would be silly not to include them too. (There are some impressive third-party e-book readers for the iPhone already, but not much content is available.)
The second reason is that the e-book market is Apple’s for the taking. The situation now is much like that in the music industry, pre-iTunes Store (ie, pre-2003). There are lots of different standards for e-books, but none has achieved critical mass. The publishing industry has formed various committees to design a common standard, which will probably go nowhere. So far, this is exactly what happened with music (oh look, a historical analogy). What is needed is for an outsider to come in and make things happen. Amazon thinks it is the company to do this, with the Kindle, which it (but hardly anyone else) likes to call “the iPod of e-books”. Read More
Several people have written to me directly, or sent letters to The Economist, to ask whether the ditching of Southwest flight 1549 on the Hudson River on January 15th contradicts a point made in my article, “Fear of Flying”, from 2006. That article was a tongue-in-cheek piece about in-flight announcements, imagining what a brutally honest one might sound like on board an imagined airline, Veritas Airways, “the airline that tells is like it is”. One of the things the piece pokes fun at is the complex explanations airlines provide about the procedures for a water landing, with life jackets, slides that detach to form rafts, and so on, given that water landings almost never happen:
In the event of a landing on water, an unprecedented miracle will have occurred, because in the history of aviation the number of wide-bodied aircraft that have made successful landings on water is zero.
I made the same point in more detail an earlier piece about pilotless planes in 2002. So, is this now wrong, given Captain Chesley Sullenberger’s heroic achievement this month? No. There have been a few successful water landings by narrow-bodied aircraft in the past, as this Wikipedia page points out. And flight 1549 was an Airbus A320, which is a narrow-bodied aircraft. The only attempt to ditch a wide-bodied aircraft, a 767, in 1996, was unsuccessful and the plane broke up, killing 125 of the 175 people on board (though, to be fair, the pilot was fighting with hijackers at the time). So the point made in my article stands: the number of wide-bodied aircraft that have made successful landings on water is still zero.
That doesn’t mean it’s impossible. The main difficulty is that when touching down on water, the plane must be perfectly level, so that the engines on one wing do not make contact with the water before those on the other wing. Landing on a river, as flight 1549 did, rather than the sea, would no doubt improve the chances of success — as would having a pilot as skilled as Captain Sullenberger. Read More
Mobile-phone text messages (SMS) have a lot in common with telegrams, as I have pointed out on several occasions. The need for brevity forces you to be concise and encourages the use of abbreviations to save space. And of course I love the fact that Nokia handsets can announce incoming texts with three short beeps, two long ones and three short ones — Morse code for “SMS”. If text messages are Telegram 2.0, however, then might Twitter be Telegram 3.0? Once again the constraint of brevity applies, at any rate. The similarity between telegrams and Twitter messages (tweets) is explored by An Xiao, an artist based in New York, in a new piece that has just gone on show at the Brooklyn Museum (her video explanation). She’s taking a Twitter feed and turning it into audible Morse code. I think this is pretty cool, not least because there are also some portraits by Samuel Morse (himself pictured left) in the museum.
An Xiao notes that Twitter got going just after the demise of the telegram in America in early 2006. She also points out that there are some significant differences between Twitter and telegrams. Twitter messages are broadcast (one-to-many); telegrams were generally one-to-one messages. The other big difference is that the cost per bit has fallen to zero since the days of the telegraph. So instead of being used to send urgent messages, as telegrams were, tweets tend to be used to send trivia. Once you have near-instant point-to-point messaging, you can’t get any faster — just more verbose and trivial. | <urn:uuid:634dfcfd-dd4b-4696-819e-89a45b41b5dd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://tomstandage.wordpress.com/2009/01/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973103 | 1,839 | 1.601563 | 2 |
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NEW YORK STATE -- As people mourn the tragedy in Webster, a bill to protect first responders continues to work its way through Albany.
Mark's Law would make it first degree murder to kill an emergency responder. State Senator Patty Ritchie introduced the law a year ago honoring Mark Davis. He was responding to a medical emergency, when he was murdered by the man he was trying to help.
Those who worked close with Davis say they hope the law would deter people from committing such a crime.
"It will certainly help us out in the long run. It will also give us the edge in the fact that we are better prepared and the training has now been in place and this law will help us in that process," Roland Churchill, 1000 Islands EMT Chief.
The bill passed the State Senate unanimously. Now, the bill will be sponsored in the Assembly by Assemblywoman Addie Russell. | <urn:uuid:8b92953d-2561-456f-a031-a09c4e680bb3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://centralny.ynn.com/content/top_stories/624627/mark-s-law-emt-response/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958952 | 229 | 1.710938 | 2 |
RICHMOND (AP).- The company with exclusive rights to salvage the Titanic is entitled to full compensation for artifacts worth about $110 million that it has recovered in a half-dozen perilous expeditions to the famous shipwreck, a federal judge has ruled.
However, U.S. District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith's ruling late Thursday did not determine how RMS Titanic Inc. will be paid. She said she could take up to a year to decide whether to give RMS title to the approximately 5,900 artifacts or sell them and turn the proceeds over to the company.
Meanwhile, RMS will retain possession of the items, which its Atlanta-based parent company Premier Exhibitions Inc. has been displaying in exhibitions around the world. The artifacts include pieces of china, ship fittings and personal belongings.
"The company is extremely pleased with the ruling, which reflects a thoughtful, deliberate approach to this case as well as the judge's deep concern over the long-term well-being of the Titanic artifacts," RMS attorney Brian Wainger said in a telephone interview.
The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage on April 12, 1912, killing more than 1,500 of the 2,228 passengers and crew. An international team led by oceanographer Robert Ballard located the wreckage on the North Atlantic floor about 400 miles off Newfoundland in 1985.
Courts later declared RMS Titanic salvor-in-possession meaning it had exclusive rights to salvage the shipwreck but explicitly stated it does not own the artifacts or the wreck itself.
In her ruling, Smith praised RMS Titanic for taking substantial financial and physical risks and for going to great lengths to preserve the fragile artifacts. She said the company has devoted more than 500,000 hours of labor to salvaging, conserving and exhibiting the artifacts.
Smith noted that RMS had to invent tools to convert manned submersible vessels from research-only to salvage operations. For example, the company developed a vacuum system for collection of small items and a system that used diesel fuel-filled lift bags to recover a 15-ton section of hull the largest artifact ever recovered from the deep ocean.
RMS employees who took those submersibles 12,500 feet to the ocean floor did so at great personal risk, Smith noted.
"The water pressure at that depth is 6,300 pounds per square inch, meaning that a breach in or even significant damage to, the hull of the submersible would cause the instantaneous death of the entire crew," the judge wrote.
She also recognized the company's extensive efforts to preserve the salvaged artifacts, including desalination and storage in a climate-controlled "bubble" at a warehouse in Atlanta, and its promotion of the items' historical significance through worldwide exhibition. More than 20 million people on four continents have viewed the artifacts.
"The company's commitment is to continue to exhibit the artifacts to educate future generations about this epic tragedy," Wainger said.
Smith's praise for the company's actions was slightly tempered by her concern that the court previously had to block RMS from selling some of the artifacts, but she said that attempt "does not rise to a level of bad faith that would require a substantial reduction in the amount of the salvage award."
The ruling came a little over a week before a new expedition to the Titanic by RMS. Wainger said this one, departing Aug. 22 and scheduled to last about a month, will focus on a scientific study of how rapidly the Titanic is deteriorating.
Smith wrote that the Titanic "is in a process of bio-deterioration that, in one projection, may lead to the deterioration of the promenade decks by the year 2030, with the decking at all levels continuing to collapse towards the keel as the walls fail."
Wainger said the upcoming expedition will be the first one by RMS that will not take artifacts.
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We know that conflict and violence affects all people, but not in the same way. Men and women can be perpetrators and victims; but, often they play different roles and have different needs before, during and after a conflict.
The differences in gender roles and responsibilities means that in order to be effective we have to target certain activities to particular individuals/groups, as well as “mainstream” a gender lens into all our programs. At the most basic level this means designing gender sensitive programming, and while this includes gender disaggregated indicator data, it is also much more.
Conflict analysis is a well-established best practice in peacebuilding (perhaps increasingly so in development work as well) project design. It’s hard to imagine any project being funded without some form of analysis being demonstrated on paper—of course another issue is whether or not it is primary or secondary data, but another issue for another time.
You might consider including the following points on gender in your context and/or conflict analysis:
The Australian Agency for International Development created an excellent guidance note on gender in peacebuilding programming. They suggest the following 10 tips for gender equality in peacebuilding programming:
Of course there are also gender considerations for implementation, monitoring and data collection, and evaluation. There’s a whole range of resources that cover gender in all aspects of the project cycle. Consider consulting the following resources.
Gender Guidelines: Peace-Building by the Australian Agency for International Development
Gender Mainstreaming Strategies in Decent Work Promotion: Programming Tools: GEMS Toolkit by the International Labour Organization
Gender Analysis Tools by the Canadian International Development Agency
Guide to Gender Sensitive Indicators by the Canadian International Development Agency
Presentation 4 in this American Evaluation Association Conference 2010 presentation by CARE on indicators for women’s empowerment disaggregated by type of human agency.
Designing for Results: Integrating Monitoring & Evaluation in Conflict Transformation Activities, Chapter 4, by Cheyanne Church and Mark Rogers
Jonathan White is the Content Manager of the Learning Portal for DM&E for Peacebuilding at Search for Common Ground. Views expressed herein do not represent SFCG, the Learning Portal or its partners or affiliates.
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[5:47 p.m. ET] Former Tropical Storm Lee left at least four people dead as it crossed Southern states.
In Gwinnett County, Georgia, just outside Atlanta, firefighters said Tuesday they found the body of a man who drowned in a rain-swollen creek near Norcross. He was one of two men who were trying to walk across the creek Monday "when a sudden gush of rushing water swept them over into the middle of the creek," the Gwinnett Fire Department said.
The creek was estimated to be 8 to 10 feet deep near the spillway where the two were swept away. The first man held onto the second but eventually lost his grip. He was washed downstream as well but managed to escape the water.
In Baldwin County, Alabama, police said they no longer believe a missing 16-year-old boy is alive. The teen was last seen on a beach near Gulf Shores on Sunday, said sheriff's spokesman Maj. Anthony Lowery. Lowery said Tuesday hopes of him coming to shore have faded.
A flooding death was also reported in rural northeast Mississippi, where one person drowned after floodwaters swept away a vehicle in Tishomingo County, emergency officials said.
In addition, a woman died in Chattanooga, Tennessee, early Tuesday. A woman went outside about 12:30 a.m. to move her vehicle and was struck by a tree, said police Sgt. Jerri Weary. About 30,000 people in the area were without power as of Tuesday morning, Weary said, and several roads were closed because of flooding.
As of 5 p.m. ET, the center of what remained of former Tropical Storm Lee was located about 115 miles northwest of Atlanta and was nearly stationary, the National Weather Service's Hydrometeorological Prediction Center said Tuesday.
Winds of up to 30 mph may accompany the rain.
[12:18 p.m. ET] Lee is now a post-tropical cyclone, but its remnants still pose a significant threat as they move up the Appalachians into the Northeast.
Flash flood watches, flood watches and flood advisories were in place from the Gulf Coast northward into New England on Tuesday, the National Weather Service said.
Rainfall of 4 to 8 inches with isolated areas of 10 inches was in the forecast from the Tennessee Valley into the central Appalachians on Tuesday, forecasters said. Winds of 30 mph may accompany the rain.
The new rainfall comes just a week after Hurricane Irene brought high winds and torrential rains to the Northeast, washing out bridges and cutting off towns in Vermont.
In Burlington, Vermont, on Monday, water flooded streets up to people's knees as they waded through, CNN affiliate NECN reported. More than 2.5 inches of rain was recorded at Burlington's airport, the National Weather Service said.
Rainfall totals in other states hit by Irene - New York, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia - had topped 3 inches in some places, with more on the way.
Meanwhile, areas from Louisiana into Tennessee might take a while to dry out.
Lee and its remnants dumped 15.43 inches of rain on Holden, Louisiana; 13.45 inches on Florence, Mississippi; 11.74 inches on Tillman's Corner, Alabama; 10 inches on Milton, Florida; and 12.22 inches on Cleveland, Tennessee, through 8 a.m. ET on Tuesday.
Chattanooga, Tennessee, had its rainiest day ever Monday, with 8.16 inches, CNN affiliate WTVC-TV reported.
Lee also spawned tornadoes that damaged about 100 homes in Cherokee County, Georgia, north of Atlanta, CNN affiliate WSB-TV reports.
"We heard a big rumble, and we went out and the house was ripped in half," Chris Turner, of Woodstock, Georgia, told WSB.
Georgia Power reported 11,000 customers without electricity Tuesday morning, WSB said.
Firefighters recovered the body of a man swept away in a swollen creek in Gwinnett County, Georgia, WSB reported. The station said he and another man fell while walking across a Peachtree Creek spillway. Firefighters said one man got out and tried to rescue his friend but lost his grip, WSB reported.
In Cleveland, Tennessee, floodwaters got into downtown businesses and forced the evacuation of some apartments, CNN affiliate WDEF-TV reported. The storm also knocked out power to 5,100 customers, the station said.
To the west, heavy rain flooded roads in Knoxville, Tennessee, CNN affiliate WBIR-TV reported.
In Jefferson County, Alabama, the roof over the performing arts center at Pinson Valley High School collapsed Monday in the wind and rain. The school was closed Tuesday, as were Birmingham City Schools and Mountain Brook City Schools, among others, CNN affiliates WBRC-TV and WVTM-TV reported.
In Jackson, Mississippi, up to 150 residents in the Camelot apartment complex were evacuated Monday after floodwaters began entering ground floor units, CNN affiliate WLBT-TV reported.
In North Carolina, more than 3,500 customers were without power Tuesday morning because of the storm, CNN affiliate WCNC-TV reported.
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|Technical notes: Special Considerations for Programming in Unstable Situations (UNICEF, 2000, 490 p.)|
|Chapter 19 - Annex 1: Types of Latrine|
The VIP version should be built whenever possible. These do not necessarily have to be built of solid materials such as bricks and concrete blocks; lighter materials can also be used such as mud bricks, straw mat walls, timber or CI sheeting. The main difference between the ordinary pit latrine and the VIP is that the VIP has a ventpipe (chimney) fitted to draft-off smell, and this pipe is also fitted with a fine screen to trap and kill flies. (See Panel 3):
· The vent pipe is typically l5 cm in dia. ventilated improved version meter, about 2 m high, painted black and placed on the sunny side of the latrine to accelerate upward drafts to maximum odour and insect control. The top of the pipe must be fitted with an insect-proof gauze screen to prevent flies escaping from the dark pit.
· A lid should therefore not be used to cover the squat hole or seat, as this would impede the airflow.
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Cuts to Environmental Clean-up Funds Concern Some Developers
Cleaning up contaminated property in Hennepin County is about to get more expensive for developers.
The Hennepin County Environmental Response Fund grant program expires in January.
According to Rosemary Lavin of Hennepin County Environmental Services, since the fund started in 2001 it has funded approximately $37 million in cleanup for sites that developers went on to build upon. The coffee shops, computer stores and other businesses on them have created an estimated 9,500 jobs.
Real Estate Recycling built the $30 million three-building complex on Lakebreeze Avenue North in Brooklyn Center, which houses Caribou Coffee's world headquarters. The complex houses other Minnesota businesses as well, which together employ some 500 people.
Paul Hyde, a partner in the company, says of the site "but for the grant funds none of this ever would have happened. There isn't private sector money available to pay for pollution cleanup."
The grant provided some $6 million dollars to clean up the site.
However, realtors applaud lawmakers' decision not to extend the program. Chris Galler, CEO of the Minnesota Association of Realtors explains, "It raises transaction fees. So at the same time that the same government officials will say we need to lower home prices, we need to make housing more affordable, they tack an additional fee on to the transaction which makes it less affordable."
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Updated and republished from 1/13/2011.
For more information on warming up IP’s and setting up your email infrastructure, download SendGrid’s Ultimate Email Infrastructure Guide for free.
The New Hotness (err…Warmness) – What, Why, and How of the IP Warm-up Process
Whether you are new to the email game or an accomplished vet, you have probably run across the idea of warming up an IP (Internet Protocol) address to improve delivery performance. Since we often find ourselves explaining the ins and outs of the IP warm-up process to current and prospective customers, we figured we would write a post to explain the basics. Below, we ask and answer four basic questions to explore and explain the topic.
1. What does it actually mean to “warm up” an IP address?
IP warming is a gradual process that happens over time, with the goal of establishing a reputation as a legitimate email sender in the eyes of ISPs (Internet Service Providers). When an ISP observes email suddenly coming from a new or “cold” (ie, recently dormant) IP address, they will take notice of it and immediately begin evaluating the traffic coming from that IP. Since volume is perhaps the most telling factor in the eyes of ISP SPAM filters, it is best to begin sending low to moderate volume (e.g., up to 1 million emails/month), eventually working your way up to larger volumes (e.g., over 1 million emails/month). This gives the “powers that be” a chance to closely observe your sending habits and the way your customers treat the emails they receive from you.
It should be noted that taking this gradual, ramping approach does not guarantee smooth sailing for ever more. It remains important to follow other email best practices – send acceptable content that your users want to get, maintain quality lists and send your email on a consistent basis.
2. Does my IP need to be warmed up? And if so, why?
If you are sending email from a new or “cold” IP address, the various ISPs have no basis from which to assign you a sending reputation. Since this reputation will eventually determine whether or not your emails will get past their SPAM filters, it’s obviously pretty darn important. In the case that your are sending a very low volume (e.g., < 10,000 emails/month) of email, you will likely stay off the ISPs’ radars for the most part. However, if you are exceeding this approximate threshold, you should make the warmup process a priority in order to start off on the right foot. One may even argue that a warmup period is useful regardless of volume.
Often times, the history of your IP is also an important determinant of an ISPs initial evaluation. Here are a few tools you can use to check the reputation of any IP: SenderScore.org and SenderBase.org.
3. How does one go about warming up an IP? What does it entail in terms of volume, time frame, etc?
The first time you send email from a fresh IP, ISP SPAM filters have to make a quick decision. Unfortunately, in this case they don’t have enough information to make an educated decision. Therefore, you have to give them something to work with – just not too much and not too quickly!
Below are a few different “schedules” for ramping up your sending:
For newsletters & marketing campaigns
Estimate your total monthly email volume and divide that number by 30 and then try to spread your sending evenly over the first 30 days, based on that calculation.
Example: if you will send 90,000 emails/month, you should start off sending 3,000 per day over the first month.
Instead of dividing total monthly volume by 30, divide it by 15.
Example: say you still need to send the same 90,000 email/month, but you need the emails to reach your recipients in half as long of a time frame, send 6,000 per day for the first 15 days.
For transactional email
If you are already sending a ton of email, and you decide to move to an ESP for the first time or switch to a new vendor, you should migrate your sending a little bit at a time. One way to do this is to split your traffic and move small portions of it to the new IP over time. Alternatively, if you are already maintaining multiple mail servers, you can move your servers over to your new IP one at a time.
Typically, the organic growth of your business will, by its nature, create an ideal ramp. Since transactional email is usually dependent on the number of users you have, the growth in your customer base will create a nice, comfortable growth curve in your email volume.
ISPs keep monthly histories of all the email being sent to their systems. Therefore, you can expect to accomplish a sufficient warmup within about 30 days. You should be able to gradually increase your outbound traffic from about 1,000 emails/hour (at the outset) up to 10-20,000 emails/hour when the process is complete.
4. What does SendGrid do to prepare its IPs for their customers?
We are constantly working on different approaches to allow our customers to begin sending the email volume that their business demands as soon as possible. We take the first step of evaluating the history and cleanliness of the IPs that we put into our inventory – if a block doesn’t meet our standards, we send them back. Once we’ve determined that our IPs have an acceptable pre-existing reputation, we then distribute those with the highest reputations first. This gives those with lesser reputations some time to cool off a bit and get ready for future assignment.
We will continue to innovate in this space, because we see it as an important piece of our overall service offering.
You might be thinking, “why haven’t I encountered this whole warmup issue at other ESPs?” The answer is simple: many of them, especially those focused on marketing email tools, do not offer dedicated IP addresses to their customers. Most often, ESPs simply place everyone on a shared cluster by default. While it may be less cost effective and more technically complicated, we think it is important to empower our users by allowing them to earn their own reputation on their own IP.
Questions or Comments?
We hope this overview is helpful for all email senders – whether you are a SendGrid customer or not. Please take the opportunity to ask questions, provide input based on your own experience and expertise or make recommendations to help us all become wiser in our sending habits. As always, we welcome your feedback via the comments section below, our support portal, our Get Satisfaction community, and/or our Twitter and Facebook pages.
Until next time … Happy Emailing!
Updated and republished from 1/13/2011.
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Around the World in Meatballs — Worst Cooks in America by Sarah De Heer in Shows, February 20th, 2012
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The second episode of Worst Cooks in America had the remaining 14 recruits thinking international — that is, making meatballs from Sweden, India, Lebanon, France, Spain, Greece and Morocco. For their demos, the teams watched as Bobby took on a Mexican Meatball With Red Chile Tomato Sauce and Queso Fresco, while Anne took on an Italian meatball called Polpettini.
So what is the difference in these meatballs?
- Spanish meatballs are a mixture of ground pork, veal and beef, which are combined with bold flavors like smoked Spanish paprika, cilantro, chile powder and red onion. Get Emeril’s recipe for Spanish Meatballs.
- Lebanese meatballs, also known as kofta, are usually made with lamb and are combined with vegetables and spices like cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves, and are then formed around a skewer.
- Greek meatballs, or Keftedes are an all-beef ball, seasoned with mint, oregano and nutmeg, and served with a side of yogurt sauce. Cat Cora uses cucumbers in her sauce recipe for Keftedes.
- Swedish meatballs are a combination of pork and beef meat (or pork and veal), and are seasoned with nutmeg, allspice and white pepper, and are served with a gravy made from beef broth and heavy cream.
- Moroccan meatballs combine lamb with a flavorful mixture of shallots, cinnamon, coriander and mint leaves.
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Since weather patterns are ever-changing and often difficult to predict, a real-time weather "widget" has been added to the Campus Advisories home page. When you visit Campus Advisories, weather for the Foggy Bottom Campus zip code is displayed in the small box on the right-hand side of the screen. If there is a weather alert, the link "Severe Weather Alert" will appear in red within the box. Click on the link to find out more specific details about the weather alert.
Although the forecasts are provided through The Weather Channel (www.weather.com), the severe weather alerts are receieved via live RSS feeds through the National Weather Service (www.weather.gov) allowing for the most accurate and timely notifications.
If you are not within the 20052 zip code area, enter your own zip code to display the current weather in your location. Links are also provided for extended forecasts.
Foggy Bottom Campus (Washington, DC) - 20052
Mount Vernon Campus (Washington, DC) - 20007
Virginia Science and Technology Campus (Ashburn, VA) - 20147
Biostatistics Center (Rockville, MD) - 20852
Graduate Education Center (Alexandria, VA) - 22314
Graduate Education Center (Arlington, VA) - 22201
Hanover High School (Mechanicsville, VA) - 23116
Advanced Technology Center (Virginia Beach, VA) - 23453
Hampton Roads Center (Newport News, VA) - 23602
Important Weather Terms
Watch - A watch is used when the risk of a hazardous weather or hydrologic event has increased significantly, but its occurrence, location, and/or timing is still uncertain. It is intended to provide enough lead time so that those who need to set their plans in motion can do so.
Advisory - Highlights special weather conditions that are less serious than a warning. They are for events that may cause significant inconvenience, and if caution is not exercised, it could lead to situations that may threaten life and/or property.
Warning - A warning is issued when a hazardous weather or hydrologic event is occurring, is imminent, or has a very high probability of occurring. A warning is used for conditions posing a threat to life or property.
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There's no such thing as an insignificant economic downturn, but the one that befell metropolitan Fayetteville in 2011 was slight - just over half a percent. And even that was quickly obscured from view.
In fact, you could almost argue it was never there, because that 0.6 percent was only the private sector's figure. Overall, which means including the government's activity (which mostly translates as the military), the local economy grew. Not to be boastful, it grew impressively, outpacing other U.S. metros at 2.3 percent.
Look at the big numbers: $6.88 billion in the private sector, $8.55 billion in the public sector, most of it federal. That's not chump change.
Some, though, see what they call weakness in the private sector. We prefer to call it a vulnerability: Until we diversify our economy, instability in either sector can make the whole assembly go wobbly, no matter how sturdy the other one is.
Whatever your choice of words, this stool needs more legs.
We've seen our share of uncertainty, with a halting recovery from deep recession, high unemployment, self-induced paralysis in Congress and nail-biter manipulations menacing the credit of the United States. And surely no literate person needs to be reminded that today is the first day of the infamous "sequester," a political default that will, in fairly short order, start reducing government by $399 million per day - not targeted cuts, but conspicuously foolish across-the-board cuts that became law anyway. The next crisis is only weeks behind that.
Unfortunately, we'll have ample time to explore those avenues. So get back to the matter of adding legs to the stool: How do we diversify an economy?
The short answer is that "we" don't. At times, things that the public elects to do for itself will make the city busier, livelier or more attractive. But in terms of broadening the industrial and commercial base, local government will usually be found doing the sorts of things discussed amid planners' pie charts and sketches: enticing, facilitating, promoting. The heavy lifting will be done by investors who size up the metro's assets and liabilities and conclude that construction, expansion and innovation in this place, at this moment, are worth the risk.
It's bothersome that it takes 14 months to get these data. They tell us nothing of 2012, which brought its own problems and promise. But if the field has changed, the challenge is the same: Try harder, work smarter and leave complacency aside. We plainly aren't there yet. | <urn:uuid:31bf97bc-debe-4acf-b373-1bcdb7ba7b0a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://fayobserver.com/articles/2013/03/01/1240377?sac=fo.opinion | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956935 | 544 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Advanced Maternal Age and Fetal Development
Age is important in a pregnancy, as the quality of eggs produced has been documented to decrease with age. This puts older mothers at increased risk for chromosomal disorders like Down syndrome. Poor egg quality also can be a reason for higher rates of spontaneous miscarriages. Once you are pregnant at an age of 35 or older, it is up to you and your doctor to determine appropriate genetic screening, which usually includes first and second trimester blood tests that can tell your risk compared with the average at your age for disorders such as Down syndrome.
Also, your doctor probably will offer you an amniocentesis, sampling of the baby's fluid, for chromosomal testing. As far as growth and development of the baby, it is more important that you refrain from smoking, get proper nutrition and obtain regular prenatal care. Your doctor will advise you on prenatal vitamins and supplements that are appropriate for you. | <urn:uuid:55c5a0d1-13cf-4127-b479-c76edef18d4d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.parentsconnect.com/pregnancy/trying-to-conceive/over_35_pregnant.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960377 | 188 | 2.96875 | 3 |
yesterday, astronaut flight multiply the group participated in the training. CCTV screenshot
<span class="img_descr Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in climate chamber, thematic conference for the launch site the next few days the weather conditions. News agency issued the
yesterday, astronaut flight multiply the group participated in the training. CCTV screenshot
MUMBAI, under the unified organization of the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center scheduling, Shenzhou No. 9 spacecraft system-wide emission drill, the implementation of the first manned rendezvous and docking mission and Astronautics members of the flight by group wearing a space suit and full participation in the exercise task. The results show that the smooth organization and command of the various systems, the technical condition is correct, the tested device is working correctly, to meet the launch requirements.
yesterday the launch site area, the Shenzhou No. 9 and the launch vehicle in the package of the blue tower piercing the sky. This drill is the first organization in the God of nine pre-launch joint exercise, the task commence been tested up to the most complete, most close to the combat of a simulation exercise.
the day 10:00 pm, drill into negative four hours and 30 minutes program. Arrangements for the implementation of three astronauts God nine missions in accordance with the official task node, leaving asked the Tin House, and into the launch area, entrance to the preparation, ignition off, the whole process involved in the drill.process of
drill the participants of the astronauts, spacecraft, rocket launching sites, monitoring and control communication system organizations closely commander password accurately, skilled technical personnel to operate the system coherence between the various procedures an orderly manner. Astronaut flight by group of mutual tacit understanding, program execution is accurate. The joint exercise of the over four hours to fully test the system work situation.Cui Jijun, commander of the
launch site system, the entire exercise process is very smooth, and technical status of each system is set up correctly, test indicators qualified, smooth command will do a better job in the next few days, the test data review complex operator curing technology status, and then filling ready to enter the rocket propellant, and propellant filling implementation, and finally into the launch program.
It is reported that the implementation of the major systems of manned rendezvous and docking mission has gathered at the launch site, has completed the assembly and testing of the technical area and rockets, the spacecraft functions and interface matching check circuit voice of Heaven, Earth, image transmission check work, the astronauts flying by group have continued to carry the flight manual review, medical examination and physical condition to maintain a range of activities. At present, nine launches in God all the preparatory work is progressing smoothly.
the last moment the astronauts do to prepare
astronauts body exercise can not be interrupted
at this last moment, the astronauts to do to prepare?
“the most important psychological qualities,” said Jiao Weixin, professor of the School of Earth and Space Sciences God to do what the astronauts on the ground and repeatedly done simulation training , but what will be in space encountered, it is difficult to predict, so the closer the launch may be a nervous, the astronauts need to “failing to panic, aware of” before.
Once inside the launch site, the “live ammunition” technology training, the astronauts to eat safety, nutrition, adequate sleep, practical, and physical exercise can not be interrupted, and to participate in ship, arrows, and joint testing.
astronauts to perform tasks multiplied group to be familiar with the launch tower, underground safety shelters, such as the launch site facilities, to carry out boarding spacewalk drills, foot what position, grasping what parts of what posture , and how to switch doors, each small link must exercise to be foolproof.
temple to do what preparations
advance 15 days to purify the air in your home
astronauts will be settled in the “Temple”, it will be the first to create a livable environment to greet the arrival of the astronauts, the astronauts in a vacuum, hypoxia, cold and hot temperatures of the evil space environment, a warm home.1
Temple with mixed air composed of oxygen and nitrogen, where oxygen has been to heaven, in the absence of run-time will be “hiding” them, the astronauts settled enabled. Confined aircraft, “Temple” After six months of unmanned flight, the cabin materials and equipment will release harmful gases, 15 days before the astronauts to enter the “Temple”, it will open a purification device, the astronauts breathe fresh the air. PM2.5 and ground concern, “Temple” indicators of microbiological indicators, and inhalable particulate matter, equipped with special devices clean the cabin, kill microorganisms, to prevent it from affecting the health of the astronauts, corrosion of the equipment inside the spacecraft.What is the difference between male and female astronauts
men and women with flying do not work tired
Jiao Weixin , the female astronaut physical, business, psychological quality training to meet the requirements, can astronauts, there is not much difference in male and female astronauts.
He said that female astronauts involved in the implementation of space missions, on the one hand, make the space life experimental data are more comprehensive, in the case of the combined effect of the microgravity environment, and weight, physical and mental reactions of men and women astronauts from may be different from the data perspective, the only female astronaut into space, in order to get comprehensive data.
some reports said that more detailed female Director-General, Jiao Weixin that this is not the main reason for selection of a female astronaut selection of male astronauts certainly not careless, mainly due to the “men and women with work and not tired. ”the
fly regardless of flying are proud proud
Shenzhou No. 9 spacecraft will be powered by The three astronauts launched astronauts combination of the two male and one female. Media reported that former Shenzhou VII astronauts Jing Haipeng has been identified as one of the preferred male astronauts, Liu Yang was designated as the first choice for the “Goddess”.
Liu Yang’s relatives, said Liu Yang’s circumstances permit, the first time and share the experiences growing up in Liu Yang. “He said, also on behalf of Liu Yang parents thank you for your interest.
Liu Yang, another relative said, recently received a lot of media calls for comment, but 11 declined. The family is also waiting for the final result, I hope that we can understand their feelings.
However, Liu Yang into the candidate the ranks of the “Goddess”, he also sent word: regardless of the election would not be elected, are you proud.
yesterday, a close friend of Liu Yang wrote a blessing: I wish her all the best and hope she can, to achieve the dream of space travel, flying with the usual smile and calm. Come on!
forecast accurately are not afraid of the wind is strong
forthcoming from entering the space to complete the Chinese for the first time manned rendezvous and docking of the Shenzhou spacecraft, 9 9 spacecraft Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in climate chamber to provide weather protection.
for the launch, weather protection there are two important nodes: First, the vertical transporter, the second is fired. 1.5 km distance from the assembly plant to the launchers, the rocket did not raise supports the weight of the spacecraft has been fueled, became a top-heavy, high center of gravity of the monster, the transfer vehicle carrying the combination of 15 meters per minute more than one hours driving speed of 20 m. During this time, the wind speed can not be higher than 10 meters per second, once the wind is too large, the combination will inevitably shake.
some extent, arrows ship transshipment weather requirements even higher than the launch, weather director Li Xingdong said.
a decade ago means of weather forecasting is still relatively backward. Shallow wind gale forecast made by the climate chamber, the vertical transporter ahead of the high winds before the arrival.
results windy time earlier than forecast a half-hour. Transhipment has been completed, we still over quickly! “Li Xingdong very seriously worried that experience, the danger is a good thing , let us recognize the importance of accurate prediction of shallow wind. “
experience as experience, experience accumulated wealth. With the development of the concept of detection technology and numerical prediction technology, more and more precise forecasting of meteorological room, the Shenzhou V and Shenzhou VII vertical transshipment have successfully escaped the expected wind and rain.God
has just completed nine vertical transport, weather room, predicted transporter period will be windy. Forecasters to determine the wind will show a decreasing trend, which did not propose to change the transshipment schedule.
that day, on-site viewing transshipment feel very “God”: The morning is also a large wind mess up her hair, and shortly wind so much!
Li Xingdong said, this is the charm of the weather forecast.the Shenzhou flying course, the people most impressed than the Shenzhou VI the astronauts Taxue expedition. Had reporters on the scene since I remember when the snow goose feather – cold hands and feet had not been able sky snow blurred vision, are whispering in the air: “This weather, but also launch?”
Li Xingdong and his colleagues tension but also calm: can according to the forecast, the launch window before the cold air, high winds can come down, the snow will stop.
astronauts boarding moment wind live Xueting the!
edition have written newspaper reporter provider West Xinhua News Agency CCTV
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Librarians know that it can be hard to navigate the range of online media resources and feel confident about their quality. To help educators prepare for this school year, we’re providing a list of useful online resources. Teachers can experiment and add these resources to their toolkits for middle and high school classrooms. Visit the Articles and Databases page of sfpl.org to find resources containing information collected from books, magazines, research journals and other authoritative sources, each with bibliographical citations.
For social studies and history:
- San Francisco Chronicle Historical offers news articles from 1865-1922.
- New York Times Historical offers news articles from 1851 to three years ago.
- Opposing Viewpoints is a great site for getting information on both sides of controversial issues. There is a list of commonly searched topics, and a wealth of other possible searches; good for students who are learning how to have to present theses and need more in-depth research.
- Biography Resources Center + Marquis Who's Who is useful for finding well-known figures, as well as learning about more obscure people who students may have a hard time locating in encyclopedias.
For science, geography and health
- Gale Virtual Reference Library and Student Resource Center both have sources on the environment, medicine, cloning and other topics.
- Sanborn Maps California offers digital access to maps of California from 1867 to 1970
- Teen Health and Wellness has information from experts on physical and emotional health related concerns for teens.
For the college bound:
CollegeSource Online has full text college catalogs for about 45,000 colleges.
- Learning Express Library offers online practice tests for the SAT, GED and other standardized tests.
Other recommended online resources for educators
- CIA World Factbook is a government resource that has a broad range of information on governments around the world and more general geographical information. www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
- United Nation’s Cyber School Bus has resources for students aged 5-18, and curricular tools on a range of global issues like poverty and human rights. http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/
- Online Archive of California has a range of digitized primary source materials to view, as well as curricular tools to provide lessons on topics from native Californians to the Gold Rush to the internment of Japanese citizens. www.CaliSphere.UniversityOfCalifornia.edu
- Freedom Archives is useful for school projects on social-justice movements in the Bay Area. Students may want to explore the audio recordings from this resource, which is based in San Francisco’s Mission District. www.FreedomArchives.org
Media sources by and for young people:
- Youth Radio is regularly featured on NPR. The website has a range of stories from pop culture to youth viewpoints on the hard news issues of the day. http://www.youthradio.org/
- YO! Youth Outlook is an award-winning literary journal of youth life in the Bay Area. Features in-depth reporting pieces and first-person essays, comic strips and poetry pages. http://www.YouthOutlook.org/news/ | <urn:uuid:7f94dac2-72af-480e-9062-146a10919e69> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sfpl.org/index.php?pg=2000117301&fullsite=true | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909203 | 664 | 3.640625 | 4 |
What is Arbor Day?
Arbor Day was first celebrated in 1972 in honor of the Arbor Day Foundation’s centennial. Its mission is to impact the world through conservation and education. It is the largest non-profit organization dedicated to planting and nurturing trees in the country. The foundation is attempting to better our environment by planting trees in cities, reforesting the Rain Forest, and educating the public on the benefits trees have on the environment. However wonderful the Arbor Day Foundation is, the products and resources it offers can be costly. The American populace has been celebrating Arbor Day since 1874, when it became an official holiday as mandated by Governor Robert W. Furnas. Your class can celebrate by visiting the Arbor Day Foundation’s official website or through a series of engaging classroom activities.
Arbor Day and Class Curriculum
Start the day off with by providing students with a brief history of how and why Arbor Day is celebrated. Have small groups use the Internet to find and share interesting facts about Arbor Day. Get outside to practice math. Have small groups each choose one tree in the school yard to measure. They should measure and record the circumference and length of a branch, trunk, and twig. Have each group add their data to a chart, being sure to label the type of tree they measure. They can then compare their data and make generalized inferences about tree types and growth. They can also write a story about their life as a tree in the school yard, asking the following questions:
- What would they see?
- How old are they?
- How were they treated by animals, students, and teachers through the years?
Get out the microscope and science journals. Have your class collect sap, leaf, and bark samples. They can use the microscope to observe, record, and make comparisons between items that have come from different trees. Purchase a small tree from your local nursery and plant it in or near your school. End the day with a very special film. The Man Who Planted Trees is an eloquent and beautifully animated film that tells the tale of one man who dedicated his life to planting trees. The film is most appropriate for children 4th -7th grade, but is lovely and inspiring enough to bring tears to this teacher’s eyes.
History and legend alike are full of individuals that are passionate about the impact trees have on the environment. Have groups of 3 or 4 choose and research an individual conservationist. They can use their information to create a poster or trading card depicting who the individual was, where they were from, a brief history, the positive impact they had on the environment, and images of their trees.
Here are a few names to research for the project:
- Abdul Karim
- Johnny Appleseed
- Elzeard Bouffier
- Jean Giono
- Jadav “Molai” Payeng
- Marthinus Daneel
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We all know the media can be overwhelmingly toxic, but no one is more negatively impacted than teen girls. Luckily, Teen Voices is here to help.
As their mission statement says, Teen Voices supports and educates teen girls to amplify their voices and create social change through media. They do this through an after-school journalism, mentoring and leadership program for teen girls. The program produces a print magazine twice a year with content written by teens, targeted towards teens, as well as a website with content that is updated daily, and receives over 320,000 page views annually from around the world.
85 teen girls from around Boston, approximately 80% of which are from low-income families, participate in the program each year. They are guided by the Teen Voices staff, and by about 60 local college students who serve as mentors to the girls.
This past Tuesday night, Teen Voices held their annual benefit, Amplify! The event took place at the Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge. There, I was able to speak to many of the people involved in Teen Voices, and see first-hand the amazing work they are doing.
Bria Gadsden, a senior at Boston Latin Academy who is planning to attend the University of Connecticut next year to study biomedical engineering, is currently a Peer Leader. She says she got involved with Teen Voices as a sophomore, and just kept coming back. Through researching and writing articles on diverse, heavy subjects such as Facebook depression and sex trafficking, she says she has “learned a lot” and “been exposed to issues around the world.”
The keynote speaker at Amplify! was Maria Hinojosa, anchor and managing editor of NPR’s Latino USA. She also recently completed an in-depth report for Frontlineabout immigrant detention. Hinojosa spoke about the need for female and minority voices in the news, and about how important it is, as either a reporter or a strong woman in any situation, to “eat your fear.” As the first Latina hired by NPR, she shared stories of challenges she had to overcome, and the questions and discrimination she still faces today. Still, her message was one of empowerment: “If you own your power and speak from the heart and with respect, people willlisten.”
Hinojosa’sspeech was followed by a group spoken-word poetry performance by the teen Peer Leaders. Their passion and enthusiasm filled the room as they spoke about the damaging affects of the media’s portrayal of women. The performance ended with many in the audience moved to tears.
Stephanie Carvajal, a Teen Voices alumna, spoke next, calling the program “a second family; a sisterhood” for her. She summed up the important message Teen Voices is sending to girls, saying, “You don’t have to be what you see in the media--girls come in all shapes, sizes and colors.” This message is invaluable to girls who are constantly bombarded with images of women who are anorexically thin, or size-four and being derided as fat.
Teen Voices is looking for more college girls to mentor their participants. Powerful bonds form between teens and their mentors; Bria says that she’s still in close contact with her former mentor. Saun Green, the Director of Transformational Leadership, says that becoming a mentor means “investing in the future hopes and goals” of these teen girls and providing a positive, attainable vision of what they can achieve. Many of these girls will be the first in their families to attend college, so it is important for them to be able to have someone who can offer advice and encouragement.
The passion and energy coming from the Teen Voices participants and staff members were palpable in the room the other night. This organization is doing exactly what our culture needs it to: giving teen girls a positive vision of themselves in the media, and empowering them to bethe truth-tellers and leaders of tomorrow.
If you or anyone you know is interested in becoming a mentor, contact Saun Green at email@example.com, call (617) 426-5505 or visit www.teenvoices.com
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As Australia’s largest humanitarian and development agency, World Vision has been helping many of the world’s poorest communities to respond to hunger, malnutrition and unstable food supplies for decades. With your support, we can continue to implement life-changing programs worldwide.
World Vision's efforts to support communities in securing stable and nutritious food supplies are cornerstones of our work.
With millions of people across the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda) currently in urgent need of food, our immediate focus in this region is on supplying therapeutic and supplementary food to malnourished children and families and supporting agricultural and livestock recovery.
World Vision’s response to increasing food prices is to address immediate food insecurity through safety net programs, including food assistance, and strengthening agricultural production to break the cycle of food insecurity. World Vision is currently implementing food assistance programs in 20 countries.
As part of our broader response, World Vision is addressing both the short and long-term implications of hunger and food insecurity in many countries around the world by:
- teaching farmers how to protect their land, prevent soil degradation, increase sustainability and productivity
- diversifying farm production and resilience by incorporating tree crops and environmentally restorative trees into farming systems, ie. agroforestry
- providing farmers with seeds and tools to grow crops and raise livestock
- training farmers on improved agricultural techniques such as crop rotation, drip irrigation and the planting of trees that will enrich overworked soil
- educating families on the importance of feeding their children foods that contain essential nutrients such as vitamins A and C
- helping communities protect their available food resources with new storage techniques
- supporting Food for Work projects that meet immediate food needs and facilitate community infrastructure and development activities
- helping farmers produce and market crops
We are also working at national and international levels to lobby for changes to policies and systems that disadvantage the world’s poorest and most vulnerable communities.
With support from ordinary Australians, World Vision is continuing our work with vulnerable communities to increase their access to food and improved nutrition. There are many ways to actively participate in creating a better world for disadvantaged communities through World Vision. | <urn:uuid:0c9a1401-c496-4931-8543-1a574dcf15a2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.worldvision.com.au/Issues/Food___Nutrition/WhatIsOurResponse.aspx?lpos=top_drop_2_Whatisourresponse | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942336 | 437 | 2.625 | 3 |
I've posted about this project occasionally over the past year. The massive sparkling rhinoceros being approved by the Birmingham, England City Council to revitalize the city center and gay village is now a reality, the Birmingham Mail reports:
Three artists were commissioned to design and create the rhino: Emma Butler, Vikki Litton and Robbie Coleman. Emma said they started making the statue in February. It was made out of a polystyerene mould, carved into a rhino shape and then coated in fibreglass. Its “bling” was created out of 80 pieces of smashed mirror and dozens of fake diamonds.
“We’re immensely proud of it and feel like proud parents but know that it now belongs to the community,” she said.
She said they had also given the rhino - which is neither male or female but gender neutral - a “heart”. This is a memory stick put inside the statue containing music, photos, videos and stories from the city’s lesbian and gay community.
The rhino has been an until-now largely abandoned gay rights symbol.
From the website Lambda.org:
The purple rhino made its first appearance in December 1974. It was created by two Boston gay rights activists: one source names Bernie Toal and Tom Morganti, another says it was Bernie Toal and Daniel Thaxton. The entire campaign was intended to bring gay issues further into public view. The rhino started being displayed in subways in Boston, but since the creators didn't qualify for a public service advertising rate, the campaign soon became too expensive for the activists to handle. The ads disappeared, and the rhino never caught on anywhere else.
As Toal put it, "The rhino is a much maligned and misunderstood animal and, in actuality, a gentle creature." But when a rhinoceros is angered, it fights ferociously. At the time, this seemed a fitting symbol for the gay rights movement. Lavender was used because it was a widely recognized gay pride color and the heart was added to represent love and the "common humanity of all people." The purple rhinoceros was never copyrighted and is public domain. | <urn:uuid:71b161f6-aea9-43f8-8cbf-9046f63ee569> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.towleroad.com/birmingham/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00048-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971049 | 457 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Apples are the most widely grown of all the
tree fruits in the UK, the reasons for this are easy to find. There is a
cultivar that will succeed nearly all parts of the UK and on most soils. There
is an apple to suit every taste whether it is a dessert or culinary variety. No
other fruit can provide a range of cultivars which will bear fruit for nine
months of the year.
Apples are a long term crop which with
regular care will remain healthy and productive for fifty years or more. With
this in mind it is important to decide which rootstock the tree should be grown
on, which tree form you wish to grow, and the pollination requirements of the
cultivar you wish to choose before buying.
Rootstocks in order of their vigour are
outlined below: -
M27 - Very
Dwarf. An ideal rootstock
for the smaller garden. It will reach a height of no more than 2 metres and need
very little support. Trees grown on this rootstock will bear fruit within two to
M9 - Dwarf. A very productive rootstock which needs good soil. It has poor anchorage so
requires permanent staking. It will reach a height of 2.5-3m. Trees grown on
this rootstock will bear fruit within three years. Used for dwarf bushes,
spindlebushes, dwarf pyramids, and cordons.
Semi-Dwarf. A good rootstock for most soils, requires support on most sites. It will reach a height
of 3-3.5m. Trees grown on this rootstock will bear fruit within three to four
years. Used for bush trees, dwarf pyramids, and cordons.
Semi-Vigorous. A general
purpose rootstock which is suitable for most soils including lighter grounds. It
will reach a height of 4-5.5m. Trees grown on this rootstock will bear fruit
within three to four years. Used for bush trees, spindlebushes, cordons,
espaliers, and fans.
MM111 & M25 -
Vigorous. This rootstock
makes large trees on good soils and medium-sized trees on poor soils. It will
reach a height of 5.5-7.5m. Trees grown on this rootstock will bear fruit within
six to seven years. Used for standards in large gardens or for medium-sized bush
trees on poor soils.
Apples are available as bare-root
one-year-maidens from November to March. Trained forms of apples are available
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A few minutes fter midnight on June 5, 1968, Democratic presidential candidate Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot shortly after claiming victory in the California Democratic primary in Los Angeles. He was rushed to hospital in a critical condition.
At the time of the shooting, Senator Edward Kennedy had been in San Francisco, where he had been campaigning on behalf of his brother. Returning to his hotel after a campaign event, he learned of the shooting after he turned on the television and saw coverage of the shooting's aftermath. He rushed to the Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles where Robert Kennedy∇ had been taken.1 Hours later, it fell to Edward Kennedy to call his father, Joseph, in Cape Code to tell him that a second of his sons had been shot.2
Twenty-five hours after being shot, at 3:44 [A.M.] Pacific Time on June 6, Robert Kennedy died.
In this call, about four hours after Robert Kennedy was pronounced dead, President Johnson called Senator Edward Kennedy to offer his condolences. Johnson was in the Mansion at the White House. Kennedy was in Los Angeles.
Editors' Note: Kennedy's side of the call is difficult to hear at times.
Edward Kennedy: Mr. President, how are you? Ted Kennedy here.
President Johnson: Ted, I know what a burden you bear, but your shoulders are broad, and you’ve got lots of people who love you and who want to help you and make it as bearing and . . . as possible. So I don’t want to add to your burdens by having to answer my call, but I didn’t feel like that a wire would just be enough. [Lady] Bird [Johnson] and I wired your parents and Ethel [Kennedy] and we don’t want to require them to just be answering a lot of our calls.3 But I did want to talk to you direct and tell you that anything and everything that I have or the country has or that we can get, is at your disposal, if you’ll just tell [James] Flug to tell Jim Jones.4
And we are grieved and wish there was something we could do. But we can’t. I was up from 3:30 [A.M.] here yesterday morning until 2 [A.M.] last night and then I was up since 5 [A.M.], and you—I know what you’ve gone through because we just had a tenth of it here. But if there is anything, why, we’re as close as the telephone, and your boy Flug has been handling things with us. We’ve told him. And if you’ll just whisper, why, your requests will be our command.
Kennedy: Well, Mr. President, you’re most kind. I can’t tell you how much [unclear]. You know that both my parents appreciated your call five years ago and they certainly did the other night.5 [Unclear] you've really [been] terribly kind to me personally and I know the members of the family want you to know. I appreciate it more [unclear] you understand that it's [unclear] have to [unclear] feel our way along. But knowing that your call and those expressions were very, very [unclear]. Thank you for them.
President Johnson: Well, I’ll be seeing you. But please, just tell any of your folks to talk to my boy Jim Jones. He—you may not have met him, but he’s a boy that was with Howard Edmondson [Kennedy acknowledges] and who took Marvin Watson∇’s place when he moved over.6 He’s the old Kenny O’Donnell desk.
President Johnson: And he works—he and Tom Johnson--work with, I think you’ve got a boy named Flug.
Kennedy: Yes, that’s right, Jim Flug.
President Johnson: And they like him. So you just tell him whatever we can help do, well, we want to do, in any way we can. And may God be with you.
Kennedy: Thank you very, very much, Mr. President.
President Johnson: Bye.
Kennedy: And I appreciate it very much.
President Johnson: Come in any time you feel like it. Let’s get together when this is all over.
Kennedy: Fine, Mr. President.
President Johnson: We've been too few of us, and we’ve got to stay a little closer together. Bye.
Kennedy: Thank you so much, Mr. President.
President Johnson: Bye. | <urn:uuid:218e38ef-bec3-4550-ac14-d53ff89c4d07> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://whitehousetapes.net/transcript/johnson/wh6806-01-13113 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978093 | 988 | 2.140625 | 2 |
I see it all the time- Vaccine Injury, all the time on Facebook, kids go into get their shots:
I see this:
Awww...I had to get my baby her shots today...she cried...
My baby has a fever, and she has diarrhea, must be a bug.
I don't know why she is acting so sick, no one has been sick in the house....
I know exactly why this baby is sick: Vaccines.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out if you put something toxic in your body- something bad is going to happen........regardless of the time frame ....
I also see this:
My Son has Eczema, and now has food allergies.
Do you know that Eczema is another form of Vaccine injury? Yep- it is - but that's another blog post....
So some kids get sick when they have vaccines...some of them bounce back..some of them get so sick, they might have to go into the hospital.....
some get so sick , they never recover- this is Autism,
or even a permanent injury ....
some babies die!
And then their parents go to jail.
Why do they go to Jail?
It's because Shaken Baby Syndrome is the same thing as Vaccine reactions that are so severe- the babies head explodes from the inside. It looks like a blunt force trauma.... eyes detaching lose of motor skills, etc, but it is actually Vaccine reactions.
Naturally Doctors will not suspect Vaccines- because they don't know, aren't educated, or just believe that the parents are to blame...
How many parents have gone to Jail because their kids have died because of this- or have been injured.
How many people?
So before you get your kids shots- know this: You could go to JAIL - if your child has a reaction so severe- that it could appear to be Shaken Baby Syndrome.
Doctors will not believe that the vaccines play a part in damage. They will blame you.
Watch out! and watch this!
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When Oded Shimoni competes at the Athens Olympics this summer, he could do more than win a medal. He could make history.
Shimoni is the first Israeli to qualify for an Olympic equestrian event. He will compete in dressage, in which riders lead their horses through a series of prescribed movements; scores are based on the horse’s accuracy and response to commands.
In modern times, Germany has dominated dressage at the Olympics, consistently taking home the medals in recent games: “It’s a very old sport, and a very German sport,” Shimoni told the Forward. Although Shimoni spends his winters riding his gelding on a sunny farm in rural Florida, he — like many of his peers — spends much of the year on Germany’s preeminent dressage training grounds.
Shimoni is proud that he has established a reputation for Israel as a contender in dressage. “It took me a few years to be accepted,” he explained. “There are not many judges in the world who don’t know me. There are not many people in the international circuit who don’t know me.”
Shimoni, 41, qualified for the Olympics two weeks ago in Florida, when he edged out a female rider from Belarus. He will be part of a four-person European equestrian team. (At the Olympics, Israel is considered part of European League Group C.) Although there are other Israeli equestrians, none will compete for Olympic representation this year, because they lack suitable horses, due to a combination of circumstance and limited resources. “In this sport, you are totally dependent on what you are sitting on,” he said. If a horse has an injury or doesn’t fit well with a rider, it can compromise one’s score.
Shimoni’s horse Glenstern was not sound enough to compete for Olympic qualification. So a German former student of his lent her 17-year-old horse Falco to Shimoni for the Olympics qualifying competition. Shimoni has yet to decide which horse he will ride in Athens.
Shimoni has not always groomed himself for Olympic competition. He discovered horse riding at age 13 through a government-sponsored program in his hometown of Ramat Gan. He took to it immediately, and though the sport is expensive, he worked in stables in exchange for training lessons and riding time. After he finished his army service in the mid-1980s, Shimoni left Israel to pursue his equestrian interests. He spent two years working with Israeli trainer and competitor David Pincus in England and also trained in Switzerland with George Wahl, a world-renowned dressage trainer.
Shimoni represented Israel for the first time in 1998 at the World Equestrian Games in Rome. The Israeli government, however, does not offer financial assistance to sportsmen like Shimoni. “In Israel we have some great athletes, but unfortunately, the number one priority of money-spending in Israel is in security,” Shimoni lamented.
Even prize-winning equestrians earn virtually no money in competitions, so Shimoni supports himself through Kingsclere Inc., a private dressage training business in Palm Beach, Fla. and New York that he has been running with fellow equestrian and partner Nancy Later for 17 years. His Olympic bid will require more money, however: Shimoni estimates his costs for competing in Athens to be $100,000. Most of that he hopes to raise through donations via Maccabi USA/Sports for Israel. The group has collected money for him in the past, and continues to funnel him funds that donors have earmarked for dressage, in which Shimoni is the only recipient. Shimoni has already garnered product sponsorship from the Der-Dau boot company, a famous riding-boot manufacturer. He also hopes to raise money through speaking engagements and events in the Jewish community.
Kenneth Braddick — Shimoni’s friend of 16 years and the founder, editor and publisher of Horse Deals US, a magazine focusing on equestrian sports — has a plan to help Shimoni raise more funds by creating a book about the Israeli’s “road to the Acropolis.”
Braddick believes Shimoni has a strong shot at a medal in Athens. “Familiarity counts,” he noted. “Now all the judges know him. Now instead of looking at him as someone new, they look at him as someone who’s paid his dues. So I suspect he’ll do very well.”
The son of Holocaust survivors from Hungary, Shimoni will compete in Athens against an American team that includes his friend Robert Dover, a five-time Olympian who is also a fellow Jew — “which is unusual,” Braddick mused. “It tends to be a somewhat WASPy sport. It’s changing obviously, but I think a lot of it is traditional, the landed gentry.”
When asked about competing against another Jewish equestrian, Shimoni replied, “For me they are all Americans. I am competing against the performance.”
The roots of dressage are usually traced back to ancient Greece, where chariot fighting involved similar skills. But some archaeologists suggest that the sport may have its roots even further back, in ancient Israel, which puts Shimoni’s achievements in a different historical perspective.
Deborah Cantrell, a doctoral student at Vanderbilt University who is writing her dissertation on the horsemen of Israel, said her academic research — involving extensive archaeological digs in Tel Megiddo National Park in Israel (the legendary battleground prophesied as the setting for the ultimate clash of Armageddon) — has shown that ancient Israelites were prominent horsemen as long ago as the eighth century BCE, long before the classical period in Greece. “At Megiddo was likely the largest horse-training center in the Iron Age period,” she said, noting that the Bible and ancient historical texts claim Israelite King Ahab had the largest chariot fleet in the Middle East at the time.
Cantrell, a horse-breeder who has been friends with Shimoni for eight years and gave him his primary horse, Glenstern, said that Shimoni’s Olympic quest is even more significant because of the history it echoes. “Getting Israel in the Olympics for the first time ever to me is exciting,” she said. “It’s really something that should happen, because in antiquity, the best horsemen in the world were from Israel.” | <urn:uuid:4dac2158-895c-4724-9af3-5d467cb2fa92> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://forward.com/articles/6341/israeli-horseman-saddles-up-for-summer-olympics/ | 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 | 0.974074 | 1,384 | 1.75 | 2 |
What is Child Therapy?
It is entering the child's world of play in a safe, accepting environment where the child is free to express whatever feelings he or she is experiencing. Since play is the language of the child, play therapy can help children release pent-up emotions that they cannot put into words. It can facilitate problem-solving. The child can deal with their concerns by playing it out in the presence of a therapist who is a mental health profession trained in play therapy.
Research has shown play therapy to be effective and beneficial with children experiencing social, emotional and behavioral problems. It can also be helpful to children coping with life stresses such as divorce, death, hospitalization, illness, physical/sexual abuse, domestic violence, disasters and relocation.
At Veridian we have a variety of staff providers who can help children. Please call us if your child is needing help. Our psychiatrists and therapists specializing in child and adolescent work are available to offer care to your family. | <urn:uuid:f9564011-ba04-4044-b154-288dac818627> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.veridianbh.com/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=23517 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963981 | 198 | 2.5625 | 3 |
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Georgian architecture is the name given in English-speaking countries to the classic architectural styles current between about 1720 and 1840, named after the four British monarchs named George. The Georgian styles succeeded the English Baroque of Sir Christopher Wren, Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor. Among the first architects to promote the change in direction from baroque were Colen Campbell and the engravings in Vitruvius Britannicus, Lord Burlington and his protegé William Kent, Thomas Archer and the Venetian Giacomo Leoni, who passed his career in England.
The styles that resulted fall within the broad categories of Palladian— and its whimsical alternatives, Gothic and Chinoiserie that were the English-speaking world's equivalent of European Rococo styles— and, from the mid-1760s, the range of Neoclassical modes associated with the British architects Robert Adam, Sir William Chambers, James Wyatt, Henry Holland and Sir John Soane. Greek Revival was added to the design repertory, after about 1800. See also: Adam style, Georgian Dublin.
Georgian architecture was disseminated as much through the medium of engravings as it was through the direct experiences of the apprenticeship system. The Georgian styles were also assimilated into an architectural vernacular.
- Victorian architecture
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April 27th, 2011
Apple, Google Summoned to Senate Hearing On Mobile Device Privacy
Senator Al Franken (D-Minnesota) has called upon Apple and Google to participate in a hearing with the Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law in order to discuss consumer privacy. The hearing will take place May 10 at 10 a.m. EDT in Washington, where witnesses from the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, Center for Democracy and Technology and others will talk about what the latest mobile technology means for privacy and the law.
“Recent advances in mobile technology have allowed Americans to stay connected like never before and put an astonishing number of resources at our fingertips,” Franken said in a statement. “But the same technology that has given us smartphones, tablets and cell phones has also allowed these devices to gather extremely sensitive information about users, including detailed records of their daily movements and location. This hearing is the first step in making certain that federal laws protecting consumers’ privacy — particularly when it comes to mobile devices — keep pace with advances in technology.”
Device privacy has been an increasingly important topic to lawmakers in recent years, but discussion came to a head last week when two researchers revealed that the iPhone and 3G iPad keep a log file of every location the user has ever been, whether the iOS Location Services are turned on or not. The discovery was neither new nor hidden (and it turns out Google also does some level of location logging as well), but the announcement sparked a deeper look into how technology companies track and store our personal data.
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The graduate Mathematics Education program at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke is designed to provide an opportunity for teachers of mathematics in the public schools to extend their ongoing professional development in mathematics. The graduate program nurtures the development of teachers who desire to increase their knowledge in mathematics, to keep abreast of the current trends, curricula and instructional design, and to learn new methods of student and program evaluation. Administratively, the program is housed in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science in the Oxendine Science Building. Governed by the Teacher Education Committee and the Graduate Council, the Mathematics Education graduate program is guided by an advisory committee comprised of representatives from the department of Mathematics and Computer Science faculty, the School of Education, public school teachers and administrators, graduates, and current candidates. Dr. William Truman coordinates the graduate program.
In order to be an effective teacher of mathematics the student should have a solid foundation in mathematics content. The mathematics content courses selected for our program were chosen to be those that relate to the content of the present or anticipated future content of secondary mathematics curriculum.
The program is designed to extend the student's knowledge in how mathematics programs are developed, taught, maintained and evaluated. Our undergraduate major's focus is on becoming effective teachers of mathematics; our desire for our graduate students is to become effective leaders of their local learning environments.
In order to become more effective teachers, the students must be aware of the issues affecting mathematics instruction nationwide. They should be aware of the standards and principles on the teaching, learning and evaluating of mathematics which are advocated by the various professional organizations. They should be aware of and participate in research associated with mathematics instruction.
Updated: Monday, November 15, 2010
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It'll only take a moment — you just need to grab a quart of milk. It's a safe neighborhood and nice weather. Your two-year-old will be okay in the car for a minute, right?
Absolutely not. Never. Not for a minute, not under any circumstances. Even during mild weather, the temperature inside a parked car can quickly climb to temperatures that can cause life-threatening heat exhaustion in a small child. General Motors studied 175 cases of heat exhaustion in young children from 1996 through 2002 and found that all those children died after being left unattended in a parked car.
In some cases, the child had gotten into a car without supervision and didn't know how to get out, so it's just as dangerous to let youngsters play near parked cars. In other cases, the child was intentionally left behind during a quick errand or was forgotten and left behind accidentally.
The results can be devastating. A small child's body temperature can increase three to five times as fast as an adult's, possibly causing permanent organ damage. About 40 children die from heat-related illness each year in the United States after they're left unattended in parked cars.
You might think that this could never happen in a family like yours, but it does. These situations typically arise when parents or caregivers alter their daily routine, such as unexpectedly taking their child to day care on the way to work. In fact, some safety advocates recommend putting a stuffed animal or other soft toy on the passenger seat beside you as a reminder that you have a child passenger in the backseat, or placing your briefcase or purse in the backseat to avoid forgetting. | <urn:uuid:454a1be9-22b4-4f3a-b378-b3866f0f15bb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ivillage.com/beat-heat-protect-your-kids-heat-exhaustion-car/6-a-145040 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978109 | 335 | 2.328125 | 2 |
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Power Stone 2
Power Stone 2 is a multiplayer fighting game that built on the innovative gameplay introduced by its predecessor. A la Super Smash Bros. Melee (SSBM), Power Stone 2 allows the player to choose between multiple characters and use the environment around them. However, while SSBM relies on a 2D point of view, Power Stone takes it a step further and makes it 3D. Note that Power Stone came first, and one could argue that the formula worked better.
Power Stone 2 originated as an arcade game, like many others on the Dreamcast. The Dreamcast served as a testing ground for successful arcade games. Despite relative popularity, Power Stone 1 and 2 would remain the only ones in the series.
- Fokker - Pilot
- Ayame - Geisha
- Gunrock - Big Pirate
- Ryoma - Samurai
- Wang-Tang - martial artist
- Galuda - Strong Native American
- Rouge - Beautiful woman
- Jack - Spider Mummy
- Pete - Schoolboy
- Julia - Princess
- Gourmand - Cook
- Accel - Cowboy
An innovative addition to Power Stone 2 was the adventure mode, which is much akin to an Action-RPG layout. Players can get coins and items which they can then in turn transform into other things, allowing for much replayability.
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South African Special Forces Operators are known internationally by their nickname of "Recces" . This is the abbreviated form of the original name of the Special Forces Regiments - the Reconnaissance Regiments.
In 2002, the South African Special Forces community celebrated the 30th anniversary of the establishment of a Special Forces capability in South Africa.
the conclusion of the war in Angola in 1988, out of the more than 100
000 persons who had applied to attend the Pre Selection interviews to
attempt the Special Forces Operators Training Cycle, fewer than 480 had
Qualified as Special Forces Operators. Out of this number, more than 80
Operators were killed in action during the Angolan war.
the beginning of 2003, fewer than 900 persons had ever Qualified as
South African Special Forces Operators - fewer people than have ever
successfully climbed Mount Everest. Out of this 900, more than 200
Since the inception of Special
Forces in South Africa, retired and serving Special Forces Operators
observe the Saint Michael ceremony every September. Saint Michael is
the protector and Patron Saint of Paratroopers, (every Qualified
Operator is also a qualified Paratrooper), and this ceremony holds a
special significance for Operators - especially during times of war.
its history, the South African Special Forces has been a non-racial
entity, and always had approximately equal numbers of black and white Qualified Operators.
most highly decorated Special Forces Operator to date is a black
Operator from 5 Reconnaissance Regiment, who was awarded the Honoris
Crux Gold in 1980.
the fact that Special Forces Operators are held to a much higher
standard than the rest of the military when it comes to the awarding of
medals, the South African Special Forces Operators is still the most
highly decorated military entity in South Africa in respect of Bravery
Medals since the end of the Second World War.
South African Special Forces Operators are highly qualified in all
aspects of Land, Airborne and Seaborne skills, tactics, operations and
deployments; and are able to and have Operated in virtually all
possible terrain and climatic conditions.
Forces Operators usually wore beards because they were unable to shave
during their deployments. Shaving would waste precious water, and the
enemy would be able to smell the shaving cream or soap if it was used. The
beards also helped with camouflage of the face for both black and white
Operators, as the sun would not reflect off a beard like it would off a
shaven face. Similarly,
the long hair as seen in some photographs of the Recces is as result of
the long periods the Operators spent behind the enemy lines on
operations, where they could not cut their hair.
war, Operators could expect to be physically deployed in actual
operations against the enemy - primarily behind enemy lines - for an
average of 9 to 10 months per year. Many Operators did this for 10 to
war, the average weight of kit carried by Special Forces Operators is
60kg to 80kg. For long-distance deployments or Small Team operations,
the average weight of kit carried is 100kg. The heaviest kit carried by
Small Teams or Long deployment Operators is 130kg.
An unofficial form of achievement within the South African Special Forces is when an Operator has completed a " Gunston
500" - named after the Surfing Championship. In the South African
Special Forces context, a "Gunston 500" entails conducting an operation
behind enemy lines, where one walks for 500 kilometres or more with
full kit. Many Operators, and most who took part in the Angolan war, have completed at least one or many
" Gunston 500's" .
the Angolan war, 95% of all Special Forces operations were carried out
behind enemy lines - over distances of anything from 10 km to 2000 km
behind the enemy lines.
reconnaissance of enemy targets and fixed positions, Special Forces
Reconnaissance Teams usually comprise 2 to 4 Operators. They conduct
reconnaissance on enemy bases from direct line of sight positions right
on the edge of the bases, and would penetrate inside the bases. These
bases comprised and can comprise anything from several hundred up ten
thousand plus enemy soldiers.
the Angolan war, Special Forces Reconnaissance Teams who entered into
contact with enemy forces during reconnaissance missions, or during
infiltration or exfiltration, had to conduct Escape and Evasion to
escape capture or death. The distances over which E&E was applied
in such situations - on foot - has varied from 20 km to over 1000km.
more than 55% of all Operators were at one time or another Wounded in
Action - some on multiple occasions. Very often, they dressed and
treated their wounds themselves, and seldom left the field or
operations for treatment.
South African Special Forces have the highest statistical Killed in
Action ratio of any South African military unit since the battle of
Delville Wood during the First World War. During the Angolan war, an
Operator had statistically only a one in five chance of long-term
survival, due to the nature, frequency and number of operations which they conducted.
first South African soldier Killed in Action at the beginning of the
Angolan / former South West Africa war was a Special Forces Operator,
and the last South African soldier Killed in Action at the end of the
Angola / former South West Africa war was a Special Forces Operator.
During the entire
Angolan war, the total strength of all the Special Forces Regiments
combined was never more than 200 to 250 Operators at any one time, due
to their Killed in Action and Wounded in Action statistics, retirements
Forces Operators have never had equal of superior numbers to the enemy
when attacking enemy fixed positions, and have always been heavily
outnumbered in all their engagements.
the Angolan war, amongst the Soviet and Warsaw Pact forces against
which South African Special Forces Operators worked were Russians,
Ukrainians, East Germans and others. Also present were Cubans, North
Koreans, Vietnamese, and various other Soviet-aligned forces. These
included Regular Army, Air Force, Navy and Special Forces elements of
During the later stages of the Angolan war, the Soviet Union diverted much of its war materiel meant for Afghanistan to Angola -
including the most sophisticated Russian arms outside the Soviet Union
itself. Angolan airspace became classified as the most hostile airspace
in the world, with the Soviets having total air superiority for
virtually the whole war. This meant that Special Forces Operators never
had the possibility of re-supply, support or evacuation on the majority
of their operations, and once they were in, they were completely and
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History is always a fascinating subject to me, especially when I have questions like:
Who invented the Lipstick?
"Lipstick is known to have been used around 5000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, when semi-precious jewels were crushed and applied to the lips and occasionally around the eyes. Women in the ancient Indus Valley Civilization applied lipstick to their lips for face decoration. Ancient Egyptians extracted purplish-red dye from fucus-algin, 0.01% iodine, and some bromine mannite, which resulted in serious illness. Cleopatra had her lipstick made from crushed carmine beetles, which gave a deep red pigment, and ants for a base. Lipsticks with shimmering effects were initially made using a substance found in fish scales called pearlescence.
During the Islamic Golden Age the notable Arab Andalusian cosmetologist Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis) invented solid lipsticks, which were perfumed stocks rolled and pressed in special molds, and he described them in his Al-Tasrif. Lipstick started to gain popularity in England the 16th century, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, who made piercing red lips and bright white faces a fashion statement. By that time, lipstick was made from a blend of beeswax and red stains from plants................................................." (reference:Wikipedia)
The article goes on, thanks to Wikipedia encyclopedia.
Two important points worth to be noted:
1.Indus Valley Civilization (make me proud)
2.Islamic Golden Age (make me proud)
By the way,I searched this history about lipstick because I saw this article:
"The Hottest Lipstick Colour Is"............surprisingly!
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Xeroderma or xerodermia, derived from the Greek words for "dry skin," is a condition involving the integumentary system, which in most cases can safely be treated with emollients and/or moisturizers. Xeroderma occurs most commonly on the scalp, lower legs, arms, the knuckles, the sides of the abdomen and thighs. Symptoms most associated with xeroderma are scaling (the visible peeling of the outer skin layer), itching and skin cracking.
Xeroderma is a very common condition. It happens more often in the winter where the cold air outside and the hot air inside creates a low relative humidity. This causes the skin to lose moisture and it may crack and peel. Bathing or hand washing too frequently, especially if one is using harsh soaps, may also contribute to xeroderma. Xeroderma can also be caused by a deficiency of vitamin A, vitamin D, systemic illness, severe sunburn, or some medication. Xeroderma can also be caused by choline inhibitors. Detergents like washing powder and washing up liquid can also cause xeroderma.
Since the development of Nivea Skin Creme by German pharmacists in the late 1800s, a huge array of topical skin moisturizers have been introduced on the worldwide market. Today, many excellent creams and lotions, commonly based on vegetable oils/butters, petroleum oils/jellys, and even lanolin are widely available. As a preventative measure, such products may be rubbed onto the affected area as needed (often every other day) to prevent dry skin. Use a pat towel technique when drying off to prevent removal of natural lipids from the skin.
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Repeated application (typically over a few days) of emollients and or skin lotions/creams to the affected area will likely result in quick alleviation of xeroderma. In particular, application of highly occlusive barriers to moisture, such as petrolatum, vegetable oils/butters, and mineral oil have been shown to provide excellent results. Many individuals also find specific commercial skin creams and lotions (often comprising oils, butters, and or waxes emulsified in water) quite effective (although individual preferences and results vary among the wide array of commercially available creams). Lanolin, a natural mixture of lipids derived from sheep's wool, helps replace natural lipids in human skin and has been used since ancient times (and in modern medicine) as among the most powerful treatments for xeroderma. However, pure lanolin is a thick waxy substance which, for many individuals, proves difficult and inconvenient for general use on dry skin (especially over large areas of the body). As a result, many formulated lanolin products, having a softer consistency than pure lanolin, are available (see external links below and or consult a pharmacist for recommendations concerning commercially available speadable formulations comprising lanolin).
- Information and introductory article on wrongdianosis.com
- Entry on medterms.com
- Overview of Lanolin Basics at www.lanicare.com/lanolin.html
- Lee, Doctor. "Dry Skin Prevention". Retrieved 18 August 2011.
- Overview of Important Lanolin Facts and History www.lanicare.com/history.html
- External Site Offering Formulated Lanolin Products www.lanicare.com
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U.S. Department of Energy - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Solar Energy Technologies Program – News
DOE's Solar Decathlon to be Held October 9-18 on the National Mall
June 9, 2009
Visitors to the 2007 Solar Decathlon enjoyed generally favorable weather. On average, more than 100,000 people have visited each of the three previous Solar Decathlons. Enlarge this photo.
Credit: Kaye Evans-Lutterodt/Solar Decathlon
DOE announced on June 9 that the 2009 Solar Decathlon will be held from October 9-18 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The Solar Decathlon is a biennial competition where 20 teams of university students develop fully-functional houses that draw all their energy from the sun. After spending two years developing their homes, the students ship their partially completed homes to the National Mall, finish building the homes, and then compete in 10 contests that measure the team's skills in architecture, home design, and communications. The solar homes must produce enough electricity and hot water to perform all the normal functions of a home, including powering the lights and home electronics, washing clothes and dishes, showering, and cooking, all while maintaining a comfortable temperature. Teams can also earn bonus points if their homes produce a surplus of electricity. Opening ceremonies for the 2009 Solar Decathlon will be held on October 8, and the event will be open to the public on October 9-13 and 15-18.
The 20 teams include universities from 15 states, as well as Puerto Rico, Canada, Germany, and Spain. The teams include Cornell University; Iowa State University; the Ohio State University; Penn State; Rice University; Team Alberta (the University of Calgary, SAIT Polytechnic, Alberta College of Art + Design, and Mount Royal College); Team Boston (Boston Architectural College and Tufts University); Team California (Santa Clara University and the California College of the Arts); Team Missouri (Missouri University of Science and Technology and the University of Missouri); Team Ontario/BC (the University of Waterloo, Ryerson University, and Simon Fraser University); Technische Universität Darmstadt; Universidad de Puerto Rico; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid; the University of Arizona; the University of Illinois; the University of Kentucky; the University of Louisiana at Lafayette; the University of Minnesota; the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; and Virginia Tech. See the DOE press release and the Solar Decathlon Web site. | <urn:uuid:d5acb7d6-1699-4469-afed-13c75e916d56> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www1.eere.energy.gov/solar/sunshot/printable_versions/news_detail.html?news_id=12567 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912149 | 510 | 1.96875 | 2 |
+ Super bright LED bulb with over 50,000 hours’ lifespan
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LED Daytime running lights are a low-cost method to reduce crashes. They are especially effective in preventing daytime head-on and front-corner collisions by increasing vehicle conspicuity and making it easier to detect approaching vehicles from farther away.
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The European Commission has announced plans to make it mandatory for all new cars to be fitted with daytime running lights (DRLs) as standard from 2011, and on trucks and buses one and a half years later. Despite widespread opposition from carmakers, the issue was raised once again on the back of research conducted by the EU that shows daytime running lights could potentially help reduce fatal accidents by 3-5%.
LED Daytime running lights are a low-cost method to reduce crashes. They are especially effective in preventing daytime head-on and front-corner collisions by increasing vehicle conspicuity and making it easier to detect approaching vehicles from farther away. Most cars sold after the late 80's are equipped with daytime running lights kits. This means that the low beam headlights are kept on all the time.
2 LED lamps (L&R) with 5 non replaceable LED light sources each, to be placed at grating below car front light
Each lamp consists of circuit board, parabolic reflector, lamp body, lamp-chimney and cable.
Each circuit contains 5 super-powers LED and a set of ECU.
1. High-voltage protection: when the power voltage is greater than or equal to 15.5V, the control part will automatically separate. LED lamp works via electricity of external power, in order to protect controlling module.
2. Low-voltage protection: when the power voltage is less than or equal to 9V, the LED lamp automatically turn off, and the system will be protected.
3. Frequency protection: when the control frequency is abnormal, it auto turns off LED lamp to protect controlling module and LED lamp.
4. Misconnect protection: when the three cable of LED lamp (VBB, VSS, and VC) is misconnected, the circuit will not be damaged. The LED lights when connected right, do not light when misconnected. It can also be dimming controlled, which is very convenient to install.
2. Water-tolerant and corrosion resistance
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The BioTECH Quarterly
Student Research Spotlight
By Heather Pressler, '07
Despite medical advances, 50% of the women diagnosed with ovarian cancer today will die within 5 years. Current treatment is limited to invasive and painful procedures such as chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery. Targeted cancer therapeutics have been proposed as a viable, less invasive treatment for ovarian cancer. Previously published studies on N-2-hydroxypropylmethacrylamide (HPMA) copolymer-bound Doxorubicin (DOX) or Mesochlorin-e6-monoethylene-diamine disodium salt (Mce6) show that these chemotherapy agents induce both necrosis and apoptosis.i,ii Necrosis is an unfavorable method of causing cell death because necrosis causes inflammation, leading to great discomfort in patients. A specific, improved polymer conjugate system with the potential to increase the efficacy accompanied by a reduction in the amount of necrosis following therapy may afford a promising treatment for ovarian cancer. In this study, a novel drug-targeting strategy was applied for the first time to target DOX to the nuclear subcompartment of ovarian carcinoma cells. This strategy is based on the strategy devised for Mce6 by Vaikunth Cuchelkar at the University of Utah. In this method DOX and cortisol are attached to the HPMA copolymer via a glycylphenylalanylleucylglycine (GFLG) linker.
The HPMA polymer backbone passively accumulates in tumor tissue by the Enhanced Permeability and Retention (EPR) effect, allowing endocytosis into tumor cells. The GFLG linker is degraded in the lysosomes by Cathepsin B which releases the cortisol-DOX from HPMA. Once released, cortisol totes the drug into the nucleus via interaction with the glucocorticoid receptor.
Targeting the nucleus with certain anticancer drugs increases the likelihood of inducing apoptosis and achieving a favorable clinical outcome. In addition, cytotoxicity tests show almost a four-fold increase in the efficacy of the cortisol-targeted Mce6 over the non-nuclear-targeted Mce6. Similar results can be expected with DOX. Cells transfected with green fluorescent protein (GFP) tagged glucocorticoid receptor (GR) demonstrated that the Cortisol does in fact use GR to enter the nucleus. Our results suggest that cortisol targeted DOX could become an efficacious technique to achieve nuclear targeting and thereby enhance the potency of DOX not only in ovarian cancer, but also in various other cancers.
i Minko T, Kopeckova P, Kopecek J. Efficacy of the chemotherapeutic action of HPMA copolymer-bound doxorubicin in a solid tumor model of ovarian carcinoma. Int J Cancer. 2000 Apr 1;86(1):108-17.
Engineering Society of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. All
Webmaster Connie Yee and Kenny Yan | <urn:uuid:5630c684-5322-44b0-9647-0fa12933c329> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://web.mit.edu/bmes/www/thebiotech_vol4no6_studentresearch.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903122 | 637 | 2.265625 | 2 |
If you have a business selling to moms memorize this statistic developed by BabyCenter®:
MOMS ARE 18% MORE LIKELY THAN AVERAGE TO HAVE A SMARTPHONE, and 51% of moms say they are “addicted to their smartphone!
And what has motivated these moms to buy a smartphone? Having a baby! Over HALF of moms surveyed say they bought their smartphone immediately after starting a family.
This is a mega trend connected to another mega trend.
Moms or “Concerned Caregivers” number 26 million in the U.S. and they are leadership consumers of wellness and green products. They are in a continuous search for products that enables the wellness of themselves and their families.
The Top 5 Things EcoAware Moms are Using More Often:
- Chemical-free cleaning products – 47%
- Organic foods and beverages – 45%
- Plant-based cleaning products – 40%
- Water filter – 38%
- Resealable plastic bags – 38%
The Top 5 Things EcoAware Moms are Using Less Often or Don’t Use:
- Plastic wrap – 50%
- Disposable cups or plates – 49%
- Bottled water – 40%
- Single serve beverages in plastic bottles – 46%
- Chemical pest controls – 45%
Now think about how this buying behavior of Concerned Caregivers stands to further accelerate with the Smartphone App! Goodguide is just one of a growing number of smartphone apps where a mom can scan a product’s bar code and receive a real time green, health and safety product rating. Similar apps are available for home energy management and home security.
Moms and their smartphones are revolutionizing product marketing. It is a sea-changing opportunity for businesses selling products that align value with values.
Bill Roth is founder of Earth 2017 that focuses upon the emerging smart, healthy and green economy. His book, The Secret Green Sauce, profiles best practices of businesses making money going green. | <urn:uuid:47bf45d2-c62b-4ed0-9851-ed9dee6cb99a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.earth2017.com/best-practices/moms-concerned-caregivers-going-green-using-smartphones/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917625 | 421 | 1.78125 | 2 |
UAE ranked 5th in order and
The United Arab Emirates is ranked fifth in the world in terms of order and security, according to the latest Rule of Law Index released by the World Justice Project.
The UAE was ranked number one in the region in half of the eight main categories that contribute to the overall rankings.
The Rule of Law Index said that in the region, the UAE ranked number 1 in terms of 'Absence of Corruption', 'Order and Security', 'Regulatory Enforcement' and 'Criminal Justice'.
The WJP Rule of Law Index is a quantitative assessment tool designed by the World Justice Project to offer a comprehensive picture of the extent to which countries adhere to the rule of law, not in theory, but in practice.
The WJP Rule of Law Index is derived from a set of principles that constitute a working definition of the rule of law. Adherence to these principles is measured by means of a large set of performance indicators that provide a comprehensive and multidimensional picture of the status of the rule of law in each country.
The report said that the United Arab Emirates leads the region in several dimensions of the rule of law.
"Public institutions in the country are relatively well-developed and free of corruption, and government officers are held accountable for misconduct.
"The country is safe from crime and violence (ranking fifth in the world) and the civil court system is efficient and relatively independent," it said. | <urn:uuid:ef687740-ec72-41b8-9ef5-3c22cdbfc5e3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.firesecuritymagazine.com/news/news02.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957442 | 293 | 1.875 | 2 |
The river and the vegetation along its corridor (the riparian zone) are highly interconnected. Flooding and sediment transport influence habitat for vegetation through erosion and accretion, and affect soil characteristics including grain size, oxygen availability and nutrient content. Vegetation provides many ecological services that maintain the health of the river, such as shade, which lowers water temperatures, as well as habitat and food for wildlife. Native plant species provide the most desirable ecological services, because they are best adapted to creating diverse complexes of plants. The presence of a given plant community depends on physical characteristics including soil conditions, the availability of light, water, and nutrients, as well as biotic interactions such as herbivory and competition with invasive exotic species. Invasive species like Japanese knotweed tend to crowd out the native species, replacing diverse complexes with monocultures. Strategies for characterizing and controlling invasive species will evolve as groups like NYS DEC’s Invasive Species Task Force research and debate the necessity and efficacy of various invasive management activities.
Download the Bronx River Riparian Invasive Plant Management Plan
Vegetation Monitoring Work
The table below provides links to some of the vegetation monitoring work that has been conducted by the Natural Resources Group, the New York State DOT, and the Army Corps of Engineers.
|Parkland||Urban Riparian Wetland Vegetation Monitoring||NRG||2002-2004|
|Parkland||Bronx River Forest Floodplain and River Channel Rehabilitation Project - Vegetation Monitoring||NRG||2004-2005|
|Parkland||Bronx Forest and Shoelace Park Natural Areas Entitation||NRG||2005|
|Estuary||Starlight Park Invasive Species||NYS DOT||2005|
|Estuary||East River Lagoons Entitation||NRG||1990|
|Estuary||Soundview Park Vegetation Mapping||ACOE| | <urn:uuid:7f64411c-f882-40a4-939f-23a9513c1264> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nycgovparks.org/greening/natural-resources-group/bronx-river-wetlands/vegetation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907961 | 384 | 3.890625 | 4 |
Maputo — The Mozambican government on Tuesday lifted the red alert that was activated in January due to the floods crisis in river valleys in central and southern Mozambique.
The decision was taken at a meeting of the Council of Ministers (Cabinet). The government spokesperson, Deputy Justice Minister Alberto Nkutumula, said that the government is maintaining a lower level of alert, an orange alert, in these areas.
Nkutumula said the red alert was lifted because the level of all the rivers has dropped substantially, and the trend is for a continued reduction in their level.
But an orange alert remains in place “because the situation still needs to be monitored”, je added, although for the time being there is no risk of further flooding.
The known death toll from the torrential rains and flooding of the current rainy season is 117, according to the latest statistics released last week by Mozambique’s relief agency, the National Disaster Management Institute (INGC).The INGC put the number of people affected by the flooding at 246,966.
The Council of Ministers also approved a decree on new statutes for the Legal Aid Institute (IPAJ), which seek to make its structure more adequate to its task of ensuring that citizens are not deprived of legal merely because they do not have the money to pay for a lawyer. | <urn:uuid:d78ce678-2583-4707-9c46-c5165ae06b42> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://allafrica.com/stories/201303131384.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00064-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970636 | 280 | 1.976563 | 2 |
So what happened with the Internet in 2011? How many email accounts were there in the world in 2011? How many websites? How much did the most expensive domain name cost? How many photos were hosted on Facebook? How many videos were viewed to YouTube?We’ve got answers to these questions and many more. A veritable smorgasbord of numbers, statistics and data lies in front of you. Using a variety of sources we’ve compiled what we think are some of the more interesting numbers that describe the Internet in 2011.
via Internet 2011 in numbers | Royal Pingdom.
Much as Im tempted to talk about Facebook privacy, Im going to resist. Plenty has been written about Facebook and privacy, Facebook and “forced” sharing, Facebook and sharing by default, Facebook this and Facebook that. And Im sure much more will be written about it.Tim OReilly has been supportive of Facebook. The company has frequently been clumsy, but its also been willing to push the limits of privacy in ways that might be potentially creative and in ways that might potentially create more value for us than we give up.
via The end of social – OReilly Radar.
After a series of one-sided hearings, luxury goods maker Chanel has won recent court orders against hundreds of websites trafficking in counterfeit luxury goods. A federal judge in Nevada has agreed that Chanel can seize the domain names in question and transfer them all to US-based registrar GoDaddy. The judge also ordered "all Internet search engines" and "all social media websites"—explicitly naming Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Bing, Yahoo, and Google—to "de-index" the domain names and to remove them from any search results.
The case has been a remarkable one. Concerned about counterfeiting, Chanel has filed a joint suit in Nevada against nearly 700 domain names that appear to have nothing in common. When Chanel finds more names, it simply uses the same case and files new requests for more seizures. (A recent November 14 order went after an additional 228 sites; none had a chance to contest the request until after it was approved and the names had been seized.)
via US judge orders hundreds of sites “de-indexed” from Google, Facebook.
“What I’m about to show you,” Jeff Bezos says, “is the culmination of the many things we’ve been doing for 15 years.”
The CEO of Amazon.com, in regulation blue oxford shirt and jeans, is sitting in a conference room at his company’s spiffy new headquarters just north of downtown Seattle. It is mid-September, exactly one week before he will introduce a new line of Kindles to the world. He has already shown me two of them—one with a touchscreen, the other costing just $79—but that’s not what’s truly exciting him. It is a third gadget, the long-awaited Amazon tablet called the Kindle Fire, that represents his company’s most ambitious leap into the hearts, minds, and wallets of millions of consumers.
via Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think | Magazine.
I am on a mission to help Fortune 500 companies answer the question, “What is a social media and how can it help our company?”
Senior executives and managers can not make decisions or allocate budget to something they know very little about. You are at a competitive disadvantage if you do not embrace the power of social media and understand how it applies to the enterprise. Your competitors are already there. Your incoming digital native workforce is there. In fact, 2012 is the year companies will move from social media to social business.
via Beverly Macy: Social Media — 4 Trends to Watch in 2012.
A página da EDP no Facebook já não está disponível. “Na última semana, a página deixou de cumprir os requisitos para a qual foi lançada pelo que decidimos a sua suspensão temporária para reavaliamos a nossa estratégia nas redes sociais, nomeadamente com a introdução de novas ferramentas”, justificou ao M&P fonte da empresa.
EDP suspende página do Facebook para reavaliar estratégia nas redes sociais | Meios & Publicidade.
How fast is the average virtual infrastructure growing? Would you believe that 80% of them are adding 10-50 VMs annually? And that 63% of those surveyed are handling cloud computing installations. IT management provider Solarwinds interviewed 120 of their customers and came up with this infographic. It also includes five tips for making better cloud choices.
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Middle East travellers to Sri Lanka surge by 24% in 2008
Bucking global economic recession and a downward spiral in the tourism industry worldwide, Middle East travellers visiting Sri Lanka surged by 24% in 2008 according to Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau’s (SLTPB) Middle East Office.
“The year 2008 has been one of promising growth, driven by heightened consumer awareness in the Middle East, and the growing desire for culture and adventure among regional travellers,” said Heba Al Ghais Al Mansoori, Middle East Director of SLTPB.
She noted that the strongest growth markets included UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Lebanon and Iran. “Sri Lanka’s tourism industry is anticipated to make rapid strides, owing to increased travels related to wellness and spas, culture and adventure purposes,” said Ms. Al Mansoori
“Declining costs of travel, changing lifestyle patterns, consumer friendly travel facilities, and good child care and maid facilities for Arabs travelling with families have been key growth drivers,” Ms Al Mansoori observed.
Cultural attractions, entertainment, shopping, and dining are some of the factors that draw modern day Arab travellers to their preferred destinations and Sri Lanka offers a good product that scores on all counts and is less than four hours flying time away from the Gulf.
The Middle East has outperformed all other regions of the world, by becoming the fastest growing source market for Sri Lanka. Other travel origin markets for Sri Lanka that had positive growth included France, Switzerland, Russia, Singapore and Thailand among others.
“Sri Lanka is one of the best kept secrets in the world as a travel destination, especially for Middle East travellers. The food is exotic and wonderful, the people are gracious and friendly, the accommodation options are first rate and many of the sights are unparalleled anywhere in the world,” said Ms. Al Mansoori.
SLTPB’s Middle East office is responsible for all tourism promotional activities in the Arab markets including exhibition participation, marketing visits, presentations and road shows, advertising, brochure distribution, public relations, as well as familiarization visits to the island for influential business and travel journalists.
Factors such as government support for the tourism sector, and expansion of low-cost carrier services are also contributing to the growth of the industry. The tourism industry is one of Sri Lanka’s economic pillars and is keen to develop business from the Middle East region by enhancing its position as a tropical paradise.
- Middle East Tourists Flock To Sri Lanka As H1 2010 Tourist Arrivals Surge 102%
- SriLankan Airlines records 33% growth in leisure travel to Far East from Oman
- Middle East tourism sector posts impressive growth in 2004
- Cyprus Airways teams with Allied Lanka Travels for marketing and sales support
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Ho, ho, ho, if you traveled up to Santa’s North Pole workshop and home, what window blinds do you think you would see? Every room at the Claus homestead has a need for light control, privacy and a splash of color or warm wood tones to keep that good cheer going year round.
Mrs. C knows beauty and function and keeps Santa happy with blinds that can take the heat and cold like the faux wood blinds she had installed in Santa’s Workshop. Plus, the faux wood blinds keep the Top Secret work that goes on there safe from prying eyes. To solve the problem of 20 hours of sunlight a day during the summer, the clever Mrs. Claus has decorated their bedroom windows with pleated blackout shades. Santa needs his sleep all year long to keep the toy factory going. Adding blackout shades in the elves’ rooms helped keep them focused on their work too.
In Santa’s Study, you will find his trophy sailfish (from his beach house in Acapulco of course), a mini fridge, and his favorite recliner with ottoman. For this manly retreat, Mrs. Claus selected wood blinds to bring a warm, natural look to the room. Wood blinds also provide excellent cold weather energy efficiency and remind him of Christmas trees all year long.
And what could be sweeter for The Doll Room than cellular blinds? With their unique structure, Mrs. Claus knows the pleats in these delicate-looking but sturdy cellular shades provide year-around energy efficiency, and come in a rainbow of decorator colors. For safety’s sake and ease of operation, she upgraded to the free cordless lift for windows near the baby doll cribs.
She selected roman blinds, of course, for the toy soldiers at The Guardhouse. The reindeer almost opted for roman blinds, too, but Mrs. Claus talked them into roller shades because they are easier to use for those without opposable thumbs and easy enough, well, for even Donner and Blitzen to use (there’s a reason they are last in the sleigh lineup).
However, the Most Famous Reindeer of All wanted something a bit different. So Rudolph chose sheer honeycomb blinds– to let his famous glow shine through, why else? And, being Numero Uno, he pulled rank to get a skylight installed for viewing the Northern Lights. So for his stall, Mrs. Claus ordered specially designed honeycomb blinds, which operate on sloped or totally horizontal windows like skylights.
It is not always all business at the Pole. The Clauses do manage to leave the ice and snow behind after the busy season, sneaking away on vacation to some place warm, usually their condo in Acapulco. It is rumored that Santa likes to catch a few rays without his suit, so privacy is a must. This is why Mrs. Claus thoughtfully chose top/bottom roman blinds for seclusion, while letting the sun shine in through the tops of the windows. For their large picture windows, the Claus’s chose solar shades to keep the sun glare out and their ocean view in. | <urn:uuid:fd5ee456-68f3-48e9-b7a1-438493fea4e7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.blindsaver.com/2010/12/10/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955948 | 659 | 1.523438 | 2 |
If this is the first time you have ever embroidered, have a practice of the stitches on leftover felt scraps before you do it on the actual heart. Remember nobody dies because you do not get it right first time but your friends will be impressed because embroidery is not passed on like it used to be. I learnt at home and at my primary school, I still remember a little blue book from Anchor... The Little Book of Anchor Embroidery Stitches... I could not wait to try out and master new stitches. In fact when my mother died I found some of my original binca mats which I embroidered for my my mum when I was six, how I wish I still had that book.
You will need:
9x9" square of felt
A skein of embroidery thread
An embroidery needle with a nice big eye and a very sharp point
A small amount of wadding
A water soluble pen
A glass, ruler, paper and pencil
Pins and scissors
|The robin tin was my mum's silks tin and I can remember when it actually contained Peek Frean biscuits over 45 years ago!|
Take a piece of paper, draw a line down the middle and another across the middle, pop your glass so that the you draw a semi circle, with one side touching the line down the middle and repeat on the other side. I used a glass with a 3" diameter, I then marked 3.5" below the centre line and drew a line from the semi circles to create the heart design, you can make it longer or shorter to vary the look of your heart.
Cut out your pattern and pin it to the felt, cut around two hearts - remember felt does not have a warp or weft (the grain and direction of fabric) so it does not matter where you place the heart on your felt - set them aside.
Now think about the pattern you want to create... we will be using six stitches, not as scary as it sounds as two are variations on a theme.
- Running stitch - this is where all sewing begins
- Pekinese stitch - a woven stitch, worked through running stitches for decorative purposes
- Chain stitch - super for writing words
- Lazy Daisy or Detached chain - used for working flower petals and leaves
- French knots - a raised stitch often used to create the centre of flowers and to give depth to your work
- Blanket stitch - to join the pieces together
Now, take your skein of embroidery thread and cut off about 18" which is about the same as you pinching the thread between you thumb and fore finger and letting it drop to your elbow and cutting it there. Longer thread will create a problem as it will knot and tangle as you are working and I will not be responsible for you swearing when you are meant to be having fun! You will see that embroidery thread has six strands, you only want to use three, so take three in one hand and three in the other and pull them apart, like the tractors on Levi jeans. Thread up your needle and you are ready to start.
Try to work in natural light, best of all is to be in front of a window so you can get a good look at what you are doing.
Don't put a knot in your thread, whenever you are embroidering you do not sew in or sew off unless you can tuc the thread behind other stitches and we will start with a simple running stitch. Leave a tail of about 1/2" on the back of your work then look at the diagrams below:
Come up to the front from A and then back through the felt at B, if you are happy with the size of your stitch come back up the same length away to the front at C. Continue like this all the way around the heart to make a border.
Using our chain stitch we are going to write a message, as this is a pin cushion and I am going to pop it onto my Pinterest boards, I am writing Pin It!
Come up from the back of your work at point A, form a little loop, then go from the front of your work through to the back as close to point A as you can so that A and B are next to each other. Without letting the loop tighten, come back to the front at point C, this will catch the loop to form your first chain, now go back through to the back as close to point C as you can and come up at point C, repeat this for your chain. Then the next spot to come back up at is Point D.Chain stitch is very versatile and will accommodate curves which is why it is so good for embroidering letters.
As you have mastered Chain stitch, Lazy Daisy or Detached Chain will be a doddle. Come up from the back of your work at point A, form a little loop, then go from the front of your work through to the back at point B as close to point A as you can. Without letting the loop tighten, come back to the front at point C, catching the loop, take your thread over the loop and sew through to the back as close to Point C as you can.
From Point C, go back to Point A at the centre and move your work around a little to create your next petal in the same way. Remember most flowers have an odd number of petals.
Next is the French knot, which is what is know as a raised stitch as it sits well above the fabric to give it texture. You will probably notice that the centre of your flower looks a little bit messy so we will use the knot to hide this.
I thought that the running stitch looked a little plain, so we are going to do a simple weaving stitch, akin to Pekinese stitch. Bring your silk up from the back of the work, under a stitch, now weave the stitch under each bar and when you run out of thread make sure you take it back to the reverse side under a stitch on the surface and bring your next piece of silk up from under the same stitch.
We are now going to work Blanket stitch, which is used to hem fabrics or applique and even button hole fabrics as it is applied directly to raw edges. Starting inside your heart front and about 3/8" from the raw edge, bring your silk through to the front, holding the two pieces of felt together and place your needle at the back of your front embroidered piece come up at point A and bring the thread over to the back of your plain backing fabric and bring it through both pieces to join them together, do this twice for the start of your work, now slip your needle under the stitch so it is on the right of your work.
Continue in this to create your blanket stitch seam.
Work around the heart with blanket stitch leaving a gap of 3", use this gap to stuff your heart, pin the gap together and finish off with blanket stitch. If you are hanging your heart, then sew a little bow to hide the stitches you used to hold the ribbon in place.
Now go hang it up. or start using your pin cushion and go take a look at the very first Handmade Monday of 2012
Finally, if you wash any piece of work with embroidery, always wash it by hand and when you iron it do so from the back of your work so that your embroidery stands proud of your fabric.
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Posts tagged forced evictions
Paolo Roberto Ferreira Mezes, known by all as Barrão, moved to Vila Autódromo sixteen years ago. After learning to fish and dedicating himself to the craft, he brought his wife and two young children to the peaceful, lakeside favela in Rio’s West Zone to turn the craft into a living. He decided to swap his home in Vila Valqueire for his brother’s abandoned waterfront property in Vila Autódromo. That way, Barrão was able to fish from his own backyard. In the years following the move, Barrão and his wife welcomed two more children, and they began fostering a loyal client base More >
Right now in Rio, favela residents across the city are being forced out of their homes and communities. Tens of thousands of families are having to leave their self-built homes, often of decades, due to direct state intervention where residents are told they are being removed for mega-event developments or because they are in “risk areas,” or due to the more subtle forces of real estate speculation and gentrification whereby residents can no longer afford to live in their own communities. Both types of eviction mean residents must move out to peripheral, underserved areas of the city, where land is cheaper, new favelas More >
“Here we are, abandoned in the sewage!” two Manguinhos residents exclaimed, pointing to the flooded, mosquito-ridden streets encircling their homes that had been that way for over a year. They recounted that government programs such as the federal Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) and PAC II had promised infrastructure improvements to the community, but none of them had addressed the urgent sewage situation. “I have six children (including a newborn). Where I am going to go?” one woman explained, exasperated.
These complaints were voiced More >
Since winning the bids for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympic Games, the City of Rio de Janeiro has embarked on a colossal campaign to enhance its international image. However, this has come with a high price tag for those living in Rio’s favelas, particularly their most vulnerable residents who find themselves being forcefully removed from their homes More >
In 1986, the newlywed José Arimateia moved to Vila Autódromo to buy his first home and to start a family. He moved from his parents’ house in a neighboring community, Vila Sapê, though he was born in Paraíba. He and his wife, Maria das Dores Catanduba de Andrade, were the first of their families to move to Vila Autódromo, a small favela in Rio’s West Zone, which they chose for its safety and peacefulness. Now, 27 years later, their success and happiness have drawn a dozen family members to move to their beloved community.
When José first moved to Vila Autódromo, he More > | <urn:uuid:02dde05e-5e0c-4c94-8227-66369f8d3f63> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://rioonwatch.org/?tag=forced-evictions | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981537 | 626 | 2.203125 | 2 |
By Ken Steinken for the Havre Daily News
If the legal appeals don't work, two of the nation's three largest grasslands will become home to the biggest railroad project since Abraham Lincoln was president. Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad plans to build a 260-mile line through Buffalo Gap National Grassland in South Dakota and Thunder Basin National Grassland in Wyoming. The line would connect to the railroad's existing track to create a 900-mile network designed to haul low-sulfur coal out of the Powder River Basin in Wyoming.
I wish I could do something to protect these grasslands, to help people understand they are treasures more scarce here than forests or mountains. But how do you save a grassland? What do you say to help people understand it needs to be preserved? A grassland doesn't help. It doesn't do itself any favors by what it is. A grassland is subtle; not like the Grand Canyon that threatens to devour you if you fail to give it the honor it is due. Nor is it like Devil's Tower, which suddenly erupts out of the prairie and then mesmerizes you as you draw close to it. It's nothing like the boiling mud pots, geysers and mineral terraces of Yellowstone that make you wonder what planet you accidentally landed on.
Think of this grassland as open. To some, that means the same as empty or void, characteristics which imply a need for corrective measures: That which is empty should be filled. Perhaps that is why some are all too obliging to fill that void with what they call progress or development. A grassland is vast. It creates the feeling that it is abundant. It's sheer volume suggests that there is plenty. Certainly it wouldn't hurt to use just a little. At the same time its expanse frustrates. It is too big to take in, to get a grasp of its meaning. It sprawls before the eyes incomprehensible. It surrounds, cutting off hope of escape. A grassland is unsettling. One does not know what to make of all that space. It lies there untamed, uncommercial, uncivilized. If man has not mastered it, it might unleash some unseen danger. In its blank state, it may reflect the one who looks. It may stir a sudden awareness of one's discontent, of the pressure man exerts on the natural order, of the distance one regularly keeps between oneself and something greater, be it nature or God. And as one becomes aware of this even at some subconscious level, the grassland inspires flight, the need to get away from a possible life-altering awakening. That is, unless one lingers to experience what is not obvious, letting in this great expanse that we don't manipulate or control.
Three of the five cooperating agencies that have authority over the land and water that lie in the path of the project realized the problems that the railroad would create. The Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management and the Bureau of Reclamation all recommended that it not be built. Nonetheless, in its final environmental impact statement, the Surface Transportation Board approved the route through the grasslands. As part of its approval the board required the railroad to meet 147 conditions designed to "mitigate its impact."
I never heard the word mitigate before I started following this project two years ago. Initially, I thought it meant to resolve issues or concerns that individuals or groups raised. But the word's definition acknowledges that the intended action will create a situation that cannot be resolved. It means to cause to become "less harsh or hostile," to make "less severe or painful." Building the railroad causes problems. Mitigation doesn't make them go away. It only lessens them.
So why build the railroad? Simply put, the rationale goes like this: Electric companies need coal, people need electricity, therefore the railroad must be built. For the sake of providing electricity to populated areas hundreds of miles away, one fourth of the National Grasslands' 4 million acres will be transformed into just another avenue to get the goods to market. The change will sacrifice the subtle wonder of these rare treasures. And isn't it ironic: These semi-arid lands have returned to their fragile balance after misguided pre-Dust Bowl attempts to convert them to croplands.
They've recovered from the last bad idea. They don't need another.
Ken Steinken is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News in Paonia, Colo. (hcn.org). He teaches English and journalism at Stevens High School in Rapid City, S.D., and is working on a book about the railroad's expansion through the grasslands. | <urn:uuid:75a8e043-f17e-469c-be07-989e6c2b15c8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://havredailynews.com/cms/news/story-98762.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954962 | 955 | 2.578125 | 3 |
National Library Week, a time to celebrate the contributions of libraries, librarians and library workers in schools, campuses and communities nationwide — and the perfect time to discover how you can join the circle of knowledge @ your library. First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April.
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Creating custom content types
Although Orchard includes the Page and Blog Post content types by default, it is very easy to create a custom content type (or even extend the definition of an existing content type) using the admin panel. By default, the Content Types feature is enabled. This feature must be enabled to create a custom content types. If needed, you can manually enable the feature in the Manage Features page.
To create a content type, select the Content Types link in the admin panel.
On this screen, you can see the available content types in the system. Notice that it is possible to create and list content items of some of these types (such as "Page"), whereas others only allow you to edit the definition of the type here (such as Comments and Widgets, since these have a dedicated/custom admin experience for creating and listing these items instead).
If you click "List Items", to list the items of the "Page" type, you can see the available content items of this type ("Page") in the site, similar to the "Manage Content" screen in the admin menu).
You can also edit the definition of the Page type by clicking "Edit" for this type.
A content type in Orchard is made up of fields and parts. An good overview of these concepts is described in Basic Orchard Concepts. A field is something specific to the type; for example, a Product type might have SKU and Price fields. A part, however, is a reusable component that can be attached to one or more types. For example, the Route part gives a type the ability to be addressed on the front-end via a route/url. In some ways, you can think of a type as having fields, and being made up of one or more parts. This is actually reflected in the underlying code in Orchard as well. To treat a blog post as a RoutePart and access it's RoutePart.Slug property, you would write something like this: post.As<RoutePart>.Slug. Fortunately you don't have to write code to have fun with types and parts. We are going to look at this in more detail by way of example in the next section.
Defining a New Content Type
Let's define a custom content type. Suppose you wanted to define an "Event" type, for listing events with location and date fields. To do this in the Manage Content Types screen, click on Create new type.
Type the name "Event" for the content type. The Content Type Id field is automatically populated with "Event" which you can keep.
Click Add to add a field.
Currently Orchard only includes a single field type (TextField), but more can be created as extensions to Orchard (for example, CheckBoxField, EmailField, TextAreaField, DateTimeField, etc), and a number of additional fields are available under Gallery > Modules as optional downloads. Type "Location" for the name of the field, and click Save.
The field is now listed in the Event type screen.
Go ahead and repeat the previous two steps to add a second field named "Date".
To add a part to your type, click "Add" in the "Parts" section of the Event type.
Here you can see the available parts in Orchard (as of the current release). For our Event type, we want to be able to comment on the event ("Comments" part), tag the event ("Tags part"), access the event from the front-end via a URL/route ("Route" part), add the event to the main menu ("Menu" part), and be able to publish the event immediately, on a schedule, or as a draft ("PublishLater" part).
Also add the "Common" part so that your items can appear in lists of content items.
Types, fields and parts can have settings as well. The specific settings that are available on the fields or parts is determined by the features that are activated in Orchard. If we have enabled the "Indexing" feature, there is a setting to "Index this content type for search" and on each field, a setting to "Include in the index". Select these options for the "Location" field of the custom "Event" type. This will enable visitors of your site to search by location on the front-end (when the "Search" feature is enabled). Hit Save.
Now that we have defined our custom content type, let's create a new item of this type. Notice the "Create New Event" link in "Manage Content Types".
Similarly, there is a new admin menu link entitled Event under New. Click either one of these links to create a new "Event" content item.
We can see that the editor for our "Event" type has all the fields and parts we defined. It has a Title and Permalink because of the RoutePart, a Location and Date because of the fields we added, a Tags input from the Tags part, a Show on main menu checkbox from the Menu part, and the ability to enable comments from the Comments part. The fact that we can Publish Now, Publish Later or Save As Draft is given by the Publish Later part. Once you have filled in these fields, go ahead and publish the event.
Looking at the "Manage Content" screen in the Orchard admin panel, we can see our event item listed among the pages in the site!
On the site's front-end notice the event has been added to the main menu (as expected), and that our fields and parts are being displayed correctly here as well.
It is possible to customize the way the event appears and template its rendering. See Template File Syntax Guide for more information on how to do that.
Let's try out the Search capability against our new content type. Make sure you have first enabled the Indexing, Search, and Lucene features in the Features admin screen. Now visit the Search Index page to view the available fields that are indexed. You should see the event-location field in the index as expected (if not, just rebuild the index and you'll see it).
We can tell the Search feature to query this field by going to the Settings admin screen and adding this field to the Search settings.
On the front-end type a keyword that matches the location of your event.
Search indexing has indexed our Location field and our event appears in search results as expected!
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Q&A on Enbridge oil spill - complete cleanup "not feasible"
It’s been more than a month since an estimated 800,000 gallons of crude oil spilled into the Kalamazoo River. Enbridge Energy Partners, the company responsible for the pipeline leak, says it has cleaned up about 700,000 gallons of that oil.
But there’s still a lot of work to be done. The EPA is just now starting to find out how much oil is at the bottom of the river.
The Environment Report's Rebecca Williams talked with Peter Adriaens about the spill. He's an expert on oil spill cleanup, and has consulted on the cleanups of the Exxon Valdez and first Gulf War oil spills.
Here's their Q & A:
Williams: Dr. Adriaens, how long do you think it’ll take to clean up this spill?
Adriaens: So assuming that the 700,000 gallons that they’ve taken out, that that is a correct estimate because clearly what they had was a water oil mixture, so there were some uncertainties in the estimate. Now the cleanup of all the visible oil is probably pretty much completed. So now we get to the point of finding the oil in the sediments and finding where the oil constituents are in the water before that it’s cleaned up. So I mean this could take years.
Adriaens: Yes, months to years.
Williams: The EPA has issued an order to Enbridge. They have until September 27th to clean up all the oil. Is there any way they can possibly meet that deadline?
Adriaens: I would say that is not feasible. Anything that is visible can probably be cleaned up by the 27th but that is not all the oil.
Williams: How is it decided that the cleanup is done?
Adriaens: It is a negotiated condition. Cleanup does not mean that everything will be removed from the environment. It means that all the exposure to toxic constituents of the oil has been stopped. And because we will not be able to find necessarily all of that oil I mean people will and kids might at some point in the future find some of these hot spots. We are finding hotspots from spills from a long time ago.
Williams: Kids might be digging in the sand and turn up oil even five, ten years from now?
Adriaens: That is correct, yes.
Williams: So what does that mean for the safety of recreation on the river?
Adriaens: After all the visible oil has been cleaned up and after they’ve done the analysis in the water that most of the concentrations of oil, if they can find them in water, are sufficiently low for our exposure, we can probably resume our activities on the river, the boating on the river, the swimming in the river and whatnot. But, anybody who is on the river has to bear in mind that not all the oil is gone, that there will still be some residue even after EPA and the Department of Environmental Quality and everybody else has agreed that the site is cleaned up or contained. There is still residue.
Williams: EPA is still, and probably for a few months at least, assessing the damage to the ecosystem. What’s your sense on what damage has been done?
Adriaens: Clearly there was impact on wildlife. There was impact on birds. Once the oil sits in the sediments, in the sand of the river, now you start looking at something called bioaccumulation. Every time you go from organism to organism in the whole food chain, there is an accumulation of oil so we don’t know yet what the long term accumulation of that residual oil in the sediment and how that will build up in the local food chain what that will be. We don’t know that yet. | <urn:uuid:b6ab1aa7-4391-4b9f-85da-63ae088cf0c1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.michiganradio.org/post/qa-enbridge-oil-spill-complete-cleanup-not-feasible | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969442 | 815 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Ireland’s Holy Wars, by Marcus Tanner
Like Ireland's religious history itself, books about religion in Ireland provoke controversy. One reviewer found Marcus Tanner's book "plodding and dense, full of turgid prose and cluttered with detail." But that's not the book I read. I found it one of the best-written things about Irish history and culture I've come across. Tanner is a journalist working for The Independent who took off more than a year to research and write this book. He combines the sense of history that comes from the study of complex sources with the insight of a journalist who can rivet readers with a telling anecdote or aside.
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"And God said, Let the earth bring forth" ("Tadshe ha-areẓ"). "Why," asked R. Phinehas, "did God decree that grass and herbs and fruits should grow upon the third day, while light was not created until the fourth? To show His infinite power, which is almighty; for even without the light He caused the earth to bring forth [while now He creates all manner of trees and plants through the operation of the light]."The name of the author occurs twice (ed. A. Epstein, pp. xxi., xxxi.), and the midrash closes with the words "'ad kan me-dibre R. Pineḥas ben Ya'ir." No other authors are named. This midrash is peculiar in several respects, varying in many statements from other midrashim, and, although written in pure Hebrew, it contains numerous expressions which are not found elsewhere, such as חג העומר and חג השופרות and ככבים שרועים (= "planets," p. xix.). The structure of the midrash is very loose.
Analogies with the Book of Jubilees Edit
The Midrash Tadshe is in the main symbolic in tendency, and it plays much on groups of numbers. Section 2 contains a symbolization of the Tabernacle, and, according to A. Epstein, the central idea of the midrash is the theory of three worlds—earth, man, and the Tabernacle. Section 10 contains a mystic explanation of the numbers mentioned in connection with the offerings of the princes (comp. Num. vii. 12 et seq.). Combinations and parallelisms based on the number ten are found in sections 5 and 15; on seven, in 6, 11, and 20; on six, in 20; on five, in 7; on four, in 20; on three, in 12, 18, etc. Desultory expositions of Gen. ii. 17; iii. 3, 14 et seq.; Ex. vii. 12 et seq., 83 et seq.; Lev. xiii. 2, xiv. 34; Lam. i. 1 et seq.; Num. iv. 3, xxvii. 7; and Deut. xxxii. 12, are contained in sections 7, 10, 17, 20, 21, and 22.
Especially noteworthy is section 8, on "the ages of the pious," the Patriarchs, the Matriarchs, and the twelve sons of Jacob, giving also the dates of their births. In this list the months are not designated as Nisan, etc., but as "the first," "the second," etc. The dates for Zebulun and Benjamin are lacking in the present text, but are given in a citation by Baḥya and in the Yalḳuṭ, where, however, the months are named and not numbered. The length of life ascribed to the sons of Jacob agrees with that given in the Seder Olam Zuṭa, but only the Book of Jubilees gives the days and months of their births, and even it does not state the length of their lives (comp. Jubilees, xxviii. and xxxii., where, however, some dates differ from those given in the midrash).
On the other hand, section 6 of the Midrash Tadshe is in entire agreement with the Book of Jubilees (ii., iii., iv., vii., x., xii., xiv., xv., and xxxiii.) in its statement that twenty-two varieties of things were created in the world—seven on the first day; one on the second; four on the third; three on the fourth; three on the fifth; and four on the sixth—and that these twenty-two varieties correspond to the twenty-two generations from Adam to Jacob (and to the twenty-two letters of the alphabet).
Epstein has drawn attention to other striking analogies between this midrash and the Book of Jubilees, especially to the strange theory of Rabbi Phinehas ben Jair (p. xxxi.) that Adam was created in the first week, and that Eve was formed in the second week, from his rib; this serving as the foundation for the rule of purification given in Lev. xii. 2 et seq., with which Jubilees, iii. 8 is to be compared. On these grounds, Epstein advances the hypothesis that in this and many other passages the author of the Midrash Tadshe used the Book of Jubilees, which existed at that time in Hebrew and was much larger in scope than at present, and was ascribed, "on account of its Essenic tendency," to Rabbi Phinehas b. Jair, who was famous for his great piety.
It is hardly probable, however, that the present Book of Jubilees is incomplete, and a much more plausible view of Epstein's is that which regards the Midrash Tadshe as the work of Rabbi Moses ha-Darshan. Either on account of its beginning, or for some other reason, R. Phinehas ben Jair was regarded as the author of this midrash, and Num. R. xiii. 10 and xiv. 12, 18 contain several expositions and maxims from it cited under the name of that tanna. The midrash, from which Yalḳuṭ excerpted several passages and which has been cited by various authors, has been edited according to manuscript sources by Adolf Jellinek (B. H. iii. 164-193) and by A. Epstein (Beiträge zur Jüdischen Alterthumskunde, Vienna, 1887).
The Midrash Tadshe must not be confused with another baraita bearing the title Baraita de-Rabbi b. Jair, which deals with gradations of virtues, the highest of which causes its possessor to share in the holy spirit (comp. Soṭah, end, and parallels).
Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography Edit
- Zunz, G. V. p. 580;
- Rab Pe'alim, pp. 114 et seq.;
- Adolf Jellinek, B. H. iii., pp. xxxiii. et seq.; vi., p. xxix.;
- A. Epstein, l.c. pp. i.-xiv.;
- idem, Le Livre des Jubilés, Philon et le Midrasch Tadsche, in R. E. J. xxi. 80 et seq., xxii. 1 et seq.;
- Isaac Hirsch Weiss, Dor, iv. 216;
- Emil Kautzsch, Apokryphen, ii. 37;
- W. Bacher, Ag. Tan. ii. 497, 499;
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The United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (UN-NGLS) is an inter-agency programme of the United Nations mandated to promote and develop constructive relations between the United Nations and civil society organizations.
To avoid the risk of a new economic crisis and address global imbalances, it is imperative to focus on a much more job-intensive recovery, stronger social protection and higher wages for average workers. This was one of the key conclusions of an international conference, entitled "The Challenges of Growth, Employment and Social Cohesion," organized by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in collaboration with the Norwegian Government, held in Oslo on 13 September. A similar message was delivered by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in its Trade and Development Report 2010, which was discussed that same week at UNCTAD’s annual Trade and Development Board (TDB) in Geneva.
IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, in explaining why he wanted to join forces with the ILO, said “As we venture into an uncertain post-crisis world, finding sources of strong, inclusive, growth and stable employment will be our key challenge. Everything is secondary to this over-riding objective.” Beyond economic considerations, failure to meet the challenge of unemployment and social protection could lead to a “lost generation” of discouraged youth who would have less faith in public institutions and democracy. In low-income countries, he added, it is “about life and death. We could witness instability, a breakdown of democracy, or even war.”
ILO Director-General Juan Somavia said the global financial crisis has led to highest level of unemployment ever recorded – 210 million people. “This has sharpened prior international concern about the failure of the global economy to generate enough decent work opportunities in all countries.” He said the purpose of the conference — which brought together a number of world leaders in government, international organizations, trade unions and civil society — was to think together on how to address problems of rising inequalities, a growing informal economy, job-weak growth patterns, stagnant wages, absence of social protection, and many other factors linked to the global decent work deficit, which he described as “the crisis before the crisis.”
One concrete outcome of the Oslo conference was a commitment of the two organizations to work together on (a) how to build a social protection floor “within a context of a medium- to long-term framework of sustainable macroeconomic policies and strategies for development;” and (b) “policies to promote employment-creating growth.” The two institutions also agreed on the central role of effective “social dialogue” in crises responses and will deepen their collaboration in support of the G20’s Mutual Assessment Process aimed at ensuring “strong, sustained and balanced global growth.”
The ILO and IMF will approach these issues from different angles and different tools, reflecting their respective constitutional mandates. Mr Strauss-Kahn defined this as a “historic moment” for the two bodies, which had never decided to work together in such a fashion in the past. “The IMF is concerned with jobs, like the ILO is concerned with macroeconomic sustainability,” he said. “We will of course disagree on plenty of issues, but that is the whole purpose of such discussion.”
The Oslo conference, like the UNCTAD TDB discussions focused on whether the rush to “fiscal consolidation” or “fiscal austerity” could undermine the recovery and on how closing the decent work deficit is a key macroeconomic objective, including to deal with the root causes of “global imbalances” between trade deficit and surplus countries, which if not corrected, could lead to new instability and crises.
Fiscal austerity or a job recovery?
Most participants in Oslo were concerned that the solid consensus displayed among the G20 leaders in 2009 in favour of strong counter-cyclical measures (expansionary fiscal and monetary measures to counter the collapse of private sector demand) was now crumbling. Many European countries were bending to the pressures of financial markets to “restore confidence” through drastic deficit cuts. A minister of a European country about to embark voluntarily in very significant spending cuts defended this position by arguing that “it is all very nice to call for more jobs, but the reality is that we need to bring down these deficits into line, even if it means cutting public sector jobs, which in any case are crowding out good private sector jobs, where growth will come from.”
In contrast to this view, which many described as ideological, the joint IMF-ILO paper for the Oslo conference warns that “premature fiscal retrenchment could damage growth and lead to even larger deficits and debts. Abrupt shifts in fiscal policy stances, in many countries at the same time, could destabilize recovery and weaken future growth.” The UNCTAD report goes further by saying that fiscal austerity spreading throughout Europe could lead to a “double-dip recession” or even a “deflationary spiral.”
One of the breakout sessions drew out the following conclusions on the fiscal consolidation issue:
1. Moving away from an ideologically driven approach to fiscal consolidation implies a new understanding of the role of fiscal policy in stimulation and sustaining growth and development. The relationship between growth and development is not a one-way street, but a mutually reinforcing cycle in which the proactive role of the State, notably through fiscal policy, is essential.
2. In the current conjecture, timing (a much longer term framework for balancing the budget) but also content (what needs to be cut) is of the essence. There are strategic spending areas that should be ring-fenced from future cuts and even strengthened to ensure a quicker and more job-rich recovery. These include social protection, education, active labour market policies and financial mechanisms to support entrepreneurship, especially among small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) where the largest volume of jobs are being created.
3. Fiscal consolidation means looking not just at the spending but also at the revenue side of the equation. As the Greek Prime Minister indicated in an earlier session, collective efforts need to be stepped up to close tax havens and loopholes. New and fairer sources of tax revenue must be put in place. These would include green taxes and most importantly, a financial transaction tax (FTT), which some 60 Member States have been advocating for in the build-up to the September 2010 “MDG Summit.” It was noted that the leadership of one of the European countries promoting the most drastic self-imposed austerity measures is also among the most opposed to the idea of an FTT.
4. Giving in to the pressures of financial markets for strong austerity does not necessarily pay off even in the short term. Another European country that earlier undertook stark fiscal cuts in response to bond market pressure is still suffering from bad ratings — not least because the resulting poorer growth prospect seem to trump the so-called “confidence” argument for rapid fiscal consolidation. It is essential to develop new instruments to counter the vagaries of the current bond market, including through international insurance mechanisms funded from public sources.
This last point was also emphasized by Heiner Flassbeck, lead author of the UNCTAD report, in his presentation to the UNCTAD TDB. He said countries facing balance of payments problems may face difficulties in sustaining counter-cyclical measures without external support, which should take the form of a “international lender of last resort.”
A great concern expressed in both meetings is that the premature exit from demand-stimulating macroeconomic policies in an effort to reduce budget deficits and regain market confidence means that these countries have to rely on “exporting their way out of the crisis,” which in other terms means “exporting their unemployment to the rest of the world.” If all countries try to do this, it causes a race to the bottom in wage competitivity and labour flexibility — a key feature in the build up to the current crisis — which ultimately is self-defeating as all exports minus imports have to add up to zero.
Aligning macroeconomic and social policies with the decent work imperative
As explained by both ILO and UNCTAD, a major mistake of conventional economic theory and practice is to treat labour as only a cost of production, where unemployment is due to “labour market rigidities.” This idea that job creation requires lower wages is erroneous because wages and livelihood incomes are also the main source of mass purchasing power, the main source of aggregate demand. Evidence suggests that it is precisely expectations of rising aggregate demand and favourable financing conditions that drives investments in productive capacities (which condition the scope for more quality employment creation) rather than reductions in unit labour costs, the UNCTAD report says.
Treating labour only as a production cost has led many countries to pursue export-led growth strategies based on wage compression, which according to UNCTAD did not generally overcome persistent unemployment problems for two reasons: (1) exports did not grow as expected; and (2) productivity gains were used to lower export prices rather than to increase wages and therefore domestic demand.
The widespread phenomenon of stagnant or declining real wages (expressed also in terms of a growing share of national income going from labour to capital but not reinvested in productive employment but in speculation) is a key source of growing inequalities worldwide. The joint ILO-IMF paper notes that: “In the wake of the current crisis there is an emerging view about the importance of growing inequality as one of the causes of global crises past and present.” These “internal imbalances” due to inequality and extreme concentrations of wealth have led to a deficiency in global aggregate demand, which was sustained for a while by increased indebtedness by average consumers in the United States whose wages had been stagnating, and more recently declining in real terms. The housing bubble was one expression of this phenomenon which when it burst triggered the current global crisis.
Looking forward, unless “internal balances” are dealt with — real wages in all countries should begin rising again in line with productivity growth to rely more on internal demand — there is a real risk that the “global imbalances” will be dealt with through a further recessionary spiral. More austerity to cut demand in net importing countries would be matched by cutting output (and jobs) in net surplus countries. French finance Minister Christine Lagarde expressed grave concern about this possible scenario at the Oslo meeting.
The IMF section of the Oslo conference paper suggests that: “What is needed is for emerging markets with large external surpluses to adopt policies that nurture domestic demand so as to offset the loss of demand from fiscal policy actions in advanced countries.” This echoes the call in the UNCTAD report for developing countries to become less reliant on exports and strengthen domestic demand for growth and employment creation (although sustaining enough export earnings to continue financing required imports, especially capital goods).
For countries like the United States, the IMF argues that “wage moderation” (often advocated as a means to limit unemployment losses) would “either add to deflationary pressures or lower aggregate demand, neither of which is desirable at present.” Many regard this as a significant departure from the Fund’s usual stance. Where UNCTAD and IMF clearly diverge, as Heiner Flassbeck emphasized at the TDB, is IMF’s position on wage moderation for more export-oriented economies which, according to the IMF, could “impart a boost to competitiveness and thus spur greater external demand,” which is “particularly appealing for countries that are part of a currency area [such as the Eurozone].” This goes the opposite direction of an employment-centred way of dealing with the Eurozone’s “internal imbalances,” where wage moderation in one successful exporting country in practice pressures others to do the same, which in turn just contributes to more stagnant growth and employment creation.
Rebalancing growth patterns in favour of more and better jobs requires a combination of economic and social policies that mutually reinforce each other and coordination among countries around these policies. According to UNCTAD, these include a range of policies, many of which are also advocated by ILO:
• Counter-cyclical fiscal policies to stabilize demand, but not only in times of crisis;
• Providing infrastructure and State services to enable profitable investments in productive capacity;
• Employment-friendly monetary policies to keep credit costs for job-creating productive investments low;
• Exchange rate policies that maintain the ability of domestic firms to compete against imports by avoiding currency over-appreciation;
• Institutional arrangements for collective bargaining among workers’ and employers’ associations;
• A legal minimum wage and its augmentation over time in line with productivity growth;
• Public employment schemes; and
• Measures to raise incomes of agricultural producers in line with overall productivity growth.
Among others, the ILO would add the construction of a “social protection floor” (which could include public employment schemes, but also cash transfers and a basic health package) as a key dimension, not only to protect individuals and families against external shocks, but also to stabilize aggregate demand.
Finally, many participants at the Oslo meeting emphasized that reforms of the international financial system should not stop at measures to prevent or limit future crises and instability. The present financial system has created a culture of high short-term rewards for investors through financial arbitrage and intermediation that does not produce value-added and productive employment in the real economy. Reforms must now begin to seriously explore ways to direct finance to long-term productive investments capable of generating sustained decent employment.
More information on the Oslo conference is available online.
To access the Joint ILO-IMF conference paper "The Challenges of Growth, Employment and Social Cohesion," click here.
For UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Report 2010, click here.
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St. Louis Promotional Products
St. Louis promotional products have been popular since the city (and surrounding areas of Shaw, Lafayette Square and Old North St. Louis) was first founded in 1764. In fact, people who lived in St. Louis during the early 20th century would have seen many products promoting large events throughout Lafayette Square, Near North Riverfront, Shaw and other parts of Missouri. In 1904, St. Louis was home to both the World's Fair (held in Forest Park) and the Olympic Games, with visitors arriving from well beyond St. Louis County, St. Charles County, Madison County, or any other county in the region. Around this same time period, a large influx of immigrants arrived in The Hill, Old North St. Louis and other parts of Missouri, mainly from Italy and Germany. St. Louis was thus referred to as the Gateway City and a Gateway Arch was built as part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in during the 1960s. Today, the Gateway Arch in Near North Riverfront serves to symbolize St. Louis County and visitors can still find many St. Louis souvenires imprinted with the "Gateway to the West" slogan and image.
St. Louis at the Gateway Arch
In addition to picking up some mementos, tourists can learn a lot about the history of Jefferson County, the St. Louis region and the country as a whole by visiting the Museum of Westward Expansion, located under the Arch not far from the Near North Riverfront neighborhood. The museum houses exhibits about Lewis and Clark while the nearby Historic Old Courthouse teaches visitors about slaves' plight through the trial of Dred and Harriet Scott. Other activities in the St. Louis riverfront neighborhoods include a trip to the top of the Arch, riverboat cruises, and fine dining. Tourists will also find other architecturally significant buildings and parks across the city, including the Citygarden sculpture park, the Missouri Botanical Garden in Shaw, and the Mullanphy Emigrant Home building in Old North St. Louis, all of which offer products such as t-shirts, calendars and magnets. Lastly, tourists should complete their visit to St. Louis with a trip to Forest Park, located near Southhampton and Central West End.
St. Louis Forest Park Attractions
With attractions including the St. Louis Zoo, the McDonnell Planetarium, the St. Louis Art Museum, and The Muny outdoor amphitehatre, it's no surprise that Forest Park offers many souvenires. The park was first dedicated in June of 1876, with St. Louis County residents arriving from Shaw, Old North St. Louis and Southampton to attend the ceremony. Then, in 1904, buildings were erected throughout the park to house exhibits for the World Fair. Although many of the buildings were demolished when the Fair closed, images of the fairgrounds can be seen on mementos. In addition, they laid the foundation for buildings that are still seen today, including the zoo and the art museum. St. Louis Zoological Park, in Forest Park, is one of the country's leading animal conservatories. While admission is free, visitors can give back to the zoological society by purchasing gifts with pictures of the famous Flight Cage and animal imagery. | <urn:uuid:ca666313-ddc7-4015-bd63-0153d893ce5e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pinnaclepromotions.com/resources/geography/279/st.-louis-promotional-products | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966191 | 659 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Virtually every industrial building in the USA has an air receiver installed
somewhere in it. The usual function of an air system is to transmit energy
generated at a single source to different areas of a facility. The air
receiver stores and delivers air pressure when the compressor is not running,
and also serves as a pulsation damper and moisture trap.
Vacuum receivers act in a similar manner, except that the system
imparts suction at the point of usage. Bottling and canning plants
are examples of facilities where vacuum handling systems are used.
Vacuum receivers do not need to be built to meet the ASME pressure
vessel code. However, if code construction is required by the
user, vacuum testing is required at extra cost.
Because of its compressibility, air can store large amounts of energy
which can be dangerous if released suddenly, for example if a vessel ruptures.
The rules for the design and construction of air receivers are therefore
very stringent, and Hanson air receivers are built and tested strictly
to the ASME pressure vessel code.
Most smaller air receivers are made with a platform on top for the compressor
and motor to mount on. These are known as "Pump Mounts", and are built
to withstand the vibrations of the pump and motor. Some are made for two
compressors, with supports that extend to the ground. These are known as
Air receivers that are installed separately from the compressor, are
called "Remote" units. These are usually bigger in size, and part of a
system that can include a dryer and other equipment. To save floor space,
they are usually vertical. They can range in size from 30 gallons to 15,000 gallons and larger. However, 240 gallons thru 2000 gallons sizes are more
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Then he gave them this charge: "Since I am about to be taken to my kindred, bury me with my fathers in the cave that lies in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
the cave in the field of Machpelah, facing on Mamre, in the land of Canaan, the field that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite for a burial ground.
There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, and so are Isaac and his wife Rebekah, and there, too, I buried Leah--
the field and the cave in it that had been purchased from the Hittites."
Now that their father was dead, Joseph's brothers became fearful and thought, "Suppose Joseph has been nursing a grudge against us and now plans to pay us back in full for all the wrong we did him!"
So they approached Joseph and said: "Before your father died, he gave us these instructions:
'You shall say to Joseph, Jacob begs you to forgive the criminal wrongdoing of your brothers, who treated you so cruelly.' Please, therefore, forgive the crime that we, the servants of your father's God, committed." When they spoke these words to him, Joseph broke into tears.
Then his brothers proceeded to fling themselves down before him and said, "Let us be your slaves!"
But Joseph replied to them: "Have no fear. Can I take the place of God?
Even though you meant harm to me, God meant it for good, to achieve his present end, the survival of many people.
Therefore have no fear. I will provide for you and for your children." By thus speaking kindly to them, he reassured them.
Joseph remained in Egypt, together with his father's family. He lived a hundred and ten years.
He saw Ephraim's children to the third generation, and the children of Manasseh's son Machir were also born on Joseph's knees.
Joseph said to his brothers: "I am about to die. God will surely take care of you and lead you out of this land to the land that he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob."
Then, putting the sons of Israel under oath, he continued, "When God thus takes care of you, you must bring my bones up with you from this place."
Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten. He was embalmed and laid to rest in a coffin in Egypt.
Give thanks to the LORD, invoke his name; make known among the peoples his deeds!
Sing praise, play music; proclaim all his wondrous deeds!
Glory in his holy name; rejoice, O hearts that seek the LORD!
Rely on the mighty LORD; constantly seek his face.
You descendants of Abraham his servant, offspring of Jacob the chosen one!
The LORD is our God who rules the whole earth.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 10:24-33.
No disciple is above his teacher, no slave above his master.
It is enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher, for the slave that he become like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!
Therefore do not be afraid of them. Nothing is concealed that will not be revealed, nor secret that will not be known.
What I say to you in the darkness, speak in the light; what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops.
And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
Are not two sparrows sold for a small coin? Yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Father's knowledge.
Even all the hairs of your head are counted.
So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
Everyone who acknowledges me before others I will acknowledge before my heavenly Father.
But whoever denies me before others, I will deny before my heavenly Father.
“What you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops”
It is not I who undertook this work, but it is Christ the Lord who commanded me to come to be with these Irish pagans for the rest of my life, if the Lord shall will it and shield me from every evil… But I do not trust myself “as long as I am in this mortal body” (2P 1:13; Rm 7:24)… I did not lead a perfect life like other believers, but I confess to my Lord and do not blush in his sight, because I am not lying; from the time when I came to know him in my youth, the love of God and fear of him increased in me, and right up until now, by God’s favour, “I have kept the faith” (2Tm 4:7).
What is more, let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent, nor am I hiding “the signs and wonders” (Dn 6:27) that were shown to me by the Lord many years before they happened, he who knew everything, even before the beginning of time. Thus, I should give thanks unceasingly to God, who has frequently forgive my folly and my negligence, in more than one instance, and has never been angry with me, who am placed as his helper, though I did not easily assent to what had been revealed to me, as the Spirit was urging. The Lord “took pity” on me “thousands upon thousands” of times, (Ex 20:6) because he saw within me that I was prepared to serve him… Many were trying to prevent this mission; they were talking among themselves behind my back and saying, “Why is this fellow throwing himself into danger among enemies who do not know God?” Not from malice did they say this; as I myself can testify, they perceived my rusticity. And I was not quick to recognize the grace that was then in me; I now know that I should have done so earlier.
Now I have put it frankly to my brothers and co-workers, who have believed me because of what “I have proclaimed and still proclaim” (2Co 13:2) to strengthen and reinforce your faith. I wish only that you, too, would make greater and better efforts. This will be my pride, for "a wise son makes a proud father". (Pr 10:1)
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Staff willingness to change and adapt is important when implementing electronic pharmacy systems
Research Activities, December 2009, No. 352
Electronic pharmacy systems can do much to improve patient safety and reduce medication errors in hospitals. Implementing these systems requires putting into place a number of facilitators as well as overcoming identified barriers. A new study points to the willingness of hospital employees to change and adapt to the system as factors critical to success.
These insights come from Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, a two-hospital pediatric health care system that began implementing an electronic pharmacy system in 2005. Information was gathered from pharmacists and clinical managers at approximately 3 months prior to the system being introduced and then again at 3 months after implementation. While interviewed pharmacists believed the system's implemen-tation would mainly affect pharmacists, clinical managers felt that frontline nurses and respiratory therapists would be most affected.
Both pharmacists and clinical managers generally agreed that the three main goals for implementation were to improve patient safety, increase job efficiency, and update the existing hospital system. Staff readiness-to-change was the most significant facilitator of adoption, according to the pharmacists. On the other hand, clinical managers identified system training and education as their most significant facilitator. Other identified facilitators included having an effective implementation plan and having a user-friendly, flexible system. Pharmacists cited the most important barrier as staff concerns with the usability of information in the pediatric drug file. Clinical managers, however, felt that adjusting to new work processes was the biggest barrier. Other barriers included staff apprehension and resistance, potential problems transferring active orders, and poor communication and feedback.
The researchers recommend that hospitals implementing an electronic pharmacy system consider training super users, providing formal feedback mechanisms, and understanding how implementation may affect various hospital staff groups differently. The study was supported in part by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (HS15236).
See "Implementing a pharmacy system: Facilitators and barriers," by Steven D. Culler, Ph.D., James Jose, M.D., Susan Kohler, R.N., M.P.H., and others, in the Journal of Medical Systems 33, pp. 81-90, 2009. | <urn:uuid:a894daf1-9606-4dc1-90cb-ba5ce32b342b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/research-activities/dec09/1209RA23.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00051-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950682 | 446 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Interactive Bulletin Board
Inspired by a post that I referenced last November regarding transliterate QR codes, I decided to experiment with the idea myself. My GT 4th graders were working on poetry, and they are always glad to incorporate art into their projects. They created pictures to represent their poems, and I recorded them narrating their poetry. After posting the narrations on my website, I created a QR code for the unique URL for each narration. On our hallway bulletin board, I posted their art and poetry. However, I did not match them together. I challenged viewers to try to figure out which art accompanied each poem. They could then check their answers by scanning the QR codes in the corner of each artwork to hear the correct poem being narrated. In addition, I created two online polls, which also had QR codes posted on the board, so participants could vote on their favorite artwork and poetry.
As not every classroom has a device for scanning QR codes, I invited the other teachers in my wing to borrow our iPads so their students could participate. Today was the first day, and the students seemed to be enthusiastically scanning the board. My 4th graders are excited that others are taking such note of their work, and can’t wait to find out the results of the polls.
The one glitch we have encountered so far is that a teacher was using a community area for testing, and the noise of the narrations was distracting. A quick addition of headphones to the iPad fixed that, though.
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The author of the Book of Genesis is not identified. Traditionally, the author has always assumed to have been Moses. There is no conclusive reason to deny the Mosaic authorship of Genesis.
Date of Writing: The Book of Genesis does not state when it was written. The date of authorship is likely between 1440 and 1400 B.C., between the time Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt and his death.
Purpose of Writing: The Book of Genesis has sometimes been called the "seed-plot" of the entire Bible. Most of the major doctrines in the Bible are introduced in "seed" form in the Book of Genesis. Along with the fall of man, God's promise of salvation or redemption is recorded (Genesis 3:15). The doctrines of creation, imputation of sin, justification, atonement, depravity, wrath, grace, sovereignty, responsibility, and many more are all addressed in this book of origins called Genesis.
Many of the great questions of life are answered in Genesis. (1) Where did I come from? (God created us - Genesis 1:1) (2) Why am I here? (we are here to have a relationship with God - Genesis 15:6) (3) Where am I going? (we have a destination after death - Genesis 25:8). Genesis appeals to the scientist, the historian, the theologian, the housewife, the farmer, the traveler, and the man or woman of God. It is a fitting beginning for God's story of His plan for mankind, the Bible.
Key Verses: Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
Genesis 3:15, "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."
Genesis 12:2-3, "I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."
Genesis 50:20, "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives."
Brief Summary: The Book of Genesis can be divided into two sections: Primitive History and Patriarchal History. Primitive history records (1) Creation (Genesis chapters 1-2); (2) the Fall of man (Genesis chapters 3-5); (3) the Flood (Genesis chapters 6-9); and (4) the dispersion (Genesis chapters 10-11). Patriarchal history records the lives of four great men: (1) Abraham (Genesis 12-25:8); (2) Isaac (Genesis 21:1-35-29); (3) Jacob (Genesis 25:21-50:14); and (4) Joseph (Genesis 30:22-50:26).
God created a universe that was good and free from sin. God created humanity to have a personal relationship with Him. Adam and Eve sinned and thereby brought evil and death into the world. Evil increased steadily in the world until there was only one family in which God found anything good. God sent the Flood to wipe out evil, but delivered Noah and his family along with the animals in the Ark. After the Flood, humanity began again to multiply and spread throughout the world.
God chose Abraham, through whom He would create a chosen people and eventually the promised Messiah. The chosen line was passed on to Abraham's son Isaac, and then to Isaac's son Jacob. God changed Jacob's name to Israel, and his twelve sons became the ancestors of the twelve tribes of Israel. In His sovereignty, God had Jacob's son Joseph sent to Egypt by the despicable actions of Joseph's brothers. This act, intended for evil by the brothers, was intended for good by God and eventually resulted in Jacob and his family being saved from a devastating famine by Joseph, who had risen to great power in Egypt.
Foreshadowings: Many New Testament themes have their roots in Genesis. Jesus Christ is the Seed of the woman who will destroy Satanís power (Gen. 3:15). As with Joseph, Godís plan for the good of mankind through the sacrifice of His Son was intended for good, even though those who crucified Jesus intended it for evil. Noah and his family are the first of many remnants pictured in the Bible. Despite overwhelming odds and difficult circumstances, God always preserves a remnant of the faithful for Himself. The remnant of Israelites returned to Jerusalem after the Babylonian captivity; God preserved a remnant through all the persecutions described in Isaiah and Jeremiah; a remnant of 7000 priests were hidden from the wrath of Jezebel; God promises that a remnant of Jews will one day embrace their true Messiah (Romans 11). The faith displayed by Abraham would be the gift of God and the basis of salvation for both Jew and Gentile (Ephesians 2:8-9; Hebrews 11).
Practical Application: The overriding theme of Genesis is Godís eternal existence and His creation of the world. There is no effort on the part of the author to defend the existence of God; he simply states that God is, always was, and always will be, almighty over all. In the same way, we have confidence in the truths of Genesis, despite the claims of those who would deny them. All people, regardless of culture, nationality or language, are accountable to the Creator. But because of sin, introduced into the world at the Fall, we are separated from Him. But through one small nation, Israel, Godís redemptive plan for mankind was revealed and made available to all. We rejoice in that plan.
God created the universe, the earth, and every living being. We can trust Him to handle the concerns in our lives. God can take a hopeless situation, e.g. Abraham and Sarah being childless, and do amazing things if we will simply trust and obey. Terrible and unjust things may happen in our lives, as with Joseph, but God will always bring about a greater good if we have faith in Him and His sovereign plan. ďAnd we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purposeĒ (Romans 8:28).
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McCauley's play to premiere at Emerson
January 19, 2012
Performing Arts Professor and renowned theater artist Robbie McCauley will premiere her one-woman show Sugar at the Jackie Liebergott Black Box in the Paramount Center on Friday, January 20. McCauley wrote and performs the play, which runs through January 29. The show is directed by Performing Arts Professor Maureen Shea.
Set against the backdrop of McCauley’s own life as an internationally acclaimed performance artist, Sugar delves into the pains and triumphs of living with “a little bit of sugar”: diabetes, a disease that affects many Americans, and many more African Americans. It examines diabetes and the African American experience, from slavery to colonialism to American mythologies about diabetes. McCauley used material not only from her own experience, but also from interviews with other diabetics, their families and friends, and health care providers.
Robbie McCauley premiere's her play Sugar on January 20.
Sugar is “as much about race as it is about diabetes, because Robbie also explores the history of sugar cane, and the sugar plantations, and the idea of being slaves to sugar,” Shea told the Boston Globe. McCauley concurred: “For me it’s as much about the African American experience as it is about the diabetic experience.’’
McCauley has been an active presence in American avant-garde theater for more than three decades. Her early work in New York included performances in plays by Lanford Wilson at Cafe Cino and by Adrienne Kennedy at the New York Shakespeare Festival. On Broadway, she appeared in the original cast of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange. In the 1990s, she received both an Obie Award (Best Play) and a New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) Award for Sally’s Rape, which she wrote, directed, and performed in many locations across the country and abroad. Among the other important works she has written and directed are a number of community-based theater productions exploring issues of race and class in this country and in the Czech Republic.
Sugar is produced by ArtsEmerson in collaboration with the Performing Arts Department and was created in collaboration with Artists In Context. A talkback with McCauley will follow each performance. Pianist Chauncey Moore wrote music to accompany the piece and will play live at the performances.
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The plastic you see and use every day is killing endangered birds, sea turtles and seals by the hundreds of thousands. Every year animals get tangled up in plastic, or eat it, with fatal consequences.
Plastic makes up 60 percent to 80 percent of ocean debris; there are 3 million tons of it in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. In parts of the ocean this means there is six times more plastic than plankton, the base of the marine food web. The same durability we value in plastic makes it a persistent pollutant.
Plastic doesn't belong in our oceans; it doesn't belong in the diet of baby sea birds like this Laysan albatross chick; and it doesn't belong wrapped around endangered seals.
Please sign the petition asking the Environmental Protection Agency to curb plastic pollution on our beaches and in our oceans.
Sign also the petition here:
Deadline is December 31, 2012.
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Socialism by Teodoro Petkoff in Tal Cual
Chavez placed in orbit his concept of “socialism for the XXIst. Century”, after
a number of years of his frenetic political relationship with Cuba, he could
not help but awaken in some Venezuelans-including many of his supporters among
the common people-the strong apprehension that his idea about the matter approximates
to what exists in Cuba. When the everyday Venezuelan hears the word “socialism”
he inevitably associates the term with Cuba
and with the USSR and not
Nobody knows better the negative weight of the anti-communist prejudices than
the democratic people on the left and how much it costs to dissipate the
equating that many people make between totalitarian dictatorships like the
soviet and the Cuban ones and socialism. .
if in a game of word associations you say “socialism”, the other responds
without thinking “Cuba”.
with its long life-time dictatorship, which has already lasted 46 years and
with its overwhelming economic and social failure, no longer gets anyone enthusiastic
about it. Nobody in good mental health, unless he is a fanatic that does not reason,
could look to Cuba
for a project for social change of an advanced nature. In fact, Chavez himself has
been forced, once in a while, to say that neither the USSR nor Cuba are models to be copied. But
words can do little in the face of facts and what is being perceived is that
the relationship with the island is so close that it seems that it is in Cuba that Chavez
is thinking when he speaks of “socialism”.
But as if
this was not enough, in his most recent speeches he is adding fuel to the fire,
when he gets involved in the rugged paths of socio-economic digressions. As if
the famous polemic in Cuba, between “moral incentives” and “material incentives“
for the workers, as mechanisms to stimulate production, had not been resolved
by reality, in favor of those like, against those like Che Guevara, held that
need for the second option. Chavez now pretends that members of coops forget
about earnings, because “production can not become part of the mercantile
bloodstream” but that earnings have to be devoted to pay society back, “even
with donations”. If these criteria whose ingenious faith matches well the ignorance
that they are impregnated with, imposed themselves, coops would go straight to
bankruptcy and the ruin of its members.
Chavez complains about collective bargaining and of those union leaders “ that
are looking for a few bucks” as well as the exaggerated salary demands of the
state companies, he suggests the idea (of which Lenin laughed at in his time)
that the working class, that is revolutionary in itself, can not have contradictions
with his state employer and that in the name of the revolution, unions should
represent the state and not the workers. “XXIst Century socialism“ supposes
then, as far as we can see, the elimination of autonomous unions and the
absolute subordination of the workers movement to the designs of the state, the
Government and the party. That is the way it was in the USSR that is the way it is in Cuba and, is that what Chavez is proposing for Venezuela?
There are reasons
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By Brad Friedman on 9/10/2004 1:02pm PT
The state of California has decided to sue Diebold, the nation's largest manufacturer of electronic (touch screen) voting machines because the company lied about the machines' security. The machines have a special feature that creates fake vote totals when a secret 2-digit code is typed in. The LA Times article about the lawsuit does not specify whether there are separate codes to fake a Bush victory and fake a Kerry victory or whether one candidate's victory has been programmed in advance or whether election officials can enter any result they want. However, Diebold's CEO, Walden O'Dell, has said he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes for the president." The suit comes 6 months after the machines failed in the March primary. The machines are used in 19 California counties and many states nationwide. | <urn:uuid:260ddbdc-7a76-4cc2-a0ed-997526bbeb77> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bradblog.com/?cat=3&paged=37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939049 | 177 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Are you curious as to what a Mobile Tracker is? If you are, then you might find reading this article useful. In here, I will provide you with some insights as to how it can actually help you get rid of any doubts and fears – as well as some tips that you can follow to make it possible. So, read on!
Mobile Tracker – Introduction
Mobile gadgets are everywhere. Currently, almost everyone in the world has his very own mobile phone – which is not really surprising, considering the fact that having these phones will mean easier access and easier communication on your part.
However, it is also fact that because of this easy access, there are some unscrupulous and malicious people who may take advantage of this innovation. Hence, if your children and loved ones have their own phones – then they may be at risk as well.
Fortunately, there is a way to protect them. And you can do this through the use of a mobile tracker. What is it? Here are some of its features that you might want to know about:
What Is A Mobile Tracker?
A mobile tracker is actually a program that one can use to keep track of a phone, its whereabouts, text messages, outbound and inbound calls made from the same phone – and other features that will help a person to stay safe from any kind of dangers that others may bring.
But how do you use it? Here are some steps that you can take to use it:
1. Browse the Internet. Look for reviews of mobile trackers and try to find one which you believe has the highest efficiency rate.
2. Download the tracker on your phone.
3. After the download is completed – install and launch the program. Afterwards, some instructions will appear to help you make the installation successful. Follow them intently.
4. Restart your phone. This will help configure the new settings for the target phone.
5. To start the tracking process – go to the account that will be provided to you after installation. With this, you will now be able to do check on the SMS and call logs of the target phone, contact lists, videos, pictures, and even the location of the phone.
Track Your Phone Or Your Loved Ones Through A Mobile Tracker Computer Program
Now, if you really want to make sure that you and your loved ones are safe – then it is highly suggested that you get a computer software to help you. With it, you will be able to track your phone or anybody else’s – easily, conveniently and with minimum expenses on your part.
Why don’t you take a look at this software program? Visit: Mobile Tracker Software
With this program, you will be able to track your loved ones anywhere and at anytime.
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What Is Parallel Stereo 3D?
To recap, a stereographic image or video actually consists of two images or videos displayed side-by-side: one image or video represents the left eye’s view, and the other is the right eye. A Parallel stereographic image or video means the left view is on the left, and the right view is on the right.
Parallel viewing may be the easiest and most familiar way to experience stereo 3D. It’s very similar to the way you would view those Magic Eye autostereograms you used to see everywhere. The basic principle is to align the left eye with the left image and the right eye with the right, thus your eyes are in “parallel”.
How To View Parallel 3D With The Naked Eye
Recall that when an image or video is taken for each eye, the center of the image is the center of the eye’s view. Therefore in order to view 3D in parallel, each eye must be looking at the center of each side of the image: left eye looking at the center of the left, and right on the center of the right.
We’ll use a picture of Victoria as a guide. You can click to enlarge. Notice the two black dots beneath each picture. First, place yourself directly in the center of the stereographic image. Now move back if needed, until you feel your each of your eyes can comfortably look directly at the center of each side of the image.
Focus your vision on the center of the image. To assist you, look down towards the bottom of the picture where the two black dots are. Focus your attention at the space in between the two dots.
Now relax your focus. You can do this by picturing yourself looking at something behind the screen. Another way to do this is to daydream or let your mind wander – notice how your vision focuses outwards and farther whenever you daydream. You’ll know you’re doing it right when the two dots begin to move closer together in your vision. Keep bringing those two dots together until they become one. If you feel your eyes straining to do this, it means you are sitting too close so move a little farther back.
The two dots will eventually “snap together” and your eyes are locked into parallel vision mode. Look above the now single dot and you’ll also see a 3D picture of Victoria.
Parallel 3D viewing has a very short learning curve so after a few tries, you’ll be able to do this without the aide of any guides such as the black dots. Just remember to face directly in the center of the image and move farther back if needed.
More Parallel Stereo 3D Picture Samples
Because your eyes can only uncross so far, you may find yourself having to stand very far away in order for your eyes to align correctly if the image is very large. This also means the two halves of a stereo 3D image can’t be too wide (for example, a panoramic shot) – forcing your eyes to uncross fairly far.
Because of this, you’ll often be farther away from a stereo 3D image than you normally would be looking at a picture in front of you. This creates a smaller-looking image in your field of view that could feel like you are looking at a 3D miniature of whatever the subject is. The finer details are lost and any immersive qualities of 3D are completely lost.
This is why it is important when presenting stereo 3D images for this type of viewing, unnecessary parts to either side of the main subject, should be trimmed as much as possible. For example, a photograph of a person should be focused on that person and not all that’s going on to the left and ride of him/her. You will see we do this with many of our pictures of people on this website. | <urn:uuid:65ea48d7-b3ef-4271-9ecd-a8c2e8e9b07d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hotgirlsin3d.com/2010/04/how-to-view-stereo-3d-in-parallel/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920732 | 814 | 2.921875 | 3 |
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image by Martin Grieve and Christopher Southworth, 17-18 September
Source: Specification Sheets by Christopher Southworth
The flag has a Union Jack in chief, defaced with a
five-pointed crown, the field is wavy white and blue with a rising sun. Adopted
20 July 1960. ratio 3:5. Civil and state flag on land.
Željko Heimer, 16 July 1996
I thought I'd just contribute this little explanation of the BC Flag I found at the website of the BC Government. (You can find it yourself at http://www.parl-bldgs.gov.bc.ca/almanac/armhist.htm.)
The designs seen on the British Columbia flag are called the Arms of the
Province. The wavy blue bars symbolize the Pacific Ocean, and the sun
represents the glory of the province. The Union Jack, with the antique golden
crown at its centre, reflects the Province's colonial origins. The 1906 Royal
Warrant, which granted the Province's official Arms, allowed for them to be
used "on Seals, Shields, Banners, Flags, or otherwise according to the
Law of Arms." The design for the flag was prepared at once, and the
display officially authorized in 1960 by Order-in-Council.
Michael Tillmann, 11 June 1998
I went to the British Columbia government site and
read this same account. Another interesting version I learned in school here was
that the setting sun symbolised the fact that we were the western most part of
the British Empire.
Steve Zillwood, 11 June 1998
Another account of the sun on the British Columbia
flag (perhaps supplementary to the others) is that it relates to the motto on
the province's arms, "splendor sine occasu," or something like
"splendor without setting (i.e. of the sun)."
Nick P., 11 June 1998
According to "The Arms, Flags and Floral Emblems of Canada/Les Armoiries, Drapeaux et Emblèmes Floraux du Canada" (1967; Department of the Secretary of State of Canada/Ministère du Secrétariat d'État du Canada, Toronto):
The arms of British Columbia are "Argent, three bars wavy azure, issuant from the base of a demi-sun in his splendor or, on a chief of the Union Device charged in the centre point with an antique crown or. ... the motto 'SPLENDOR SINE OCCASU' ('SPLENDOR WITHOUT DIMINISHMENT')."
The display of the provincial flag was authorized by Order in Council dated June 20th, 1960. The Union Jack is symbolic of British Columbia's origin as a British colony and of its continued links with the United Kingdom. The crown in the centre of of the Union Jack represents the sovereign power which links, in free association, the British Commonwealth of Nations.
The sun setting over the Pacific Ocean is symbolic of British Columbia's
position as the most westerly province of Canada. Proportion is 5 units wide
by 3 units deep.
Dave Martucci, 13 June 1998
When British Columbia became a province of Canada, its first proposal for a coat-of-arms and flag was a half-sun representing BC's western location) in the top half and a Union Jack in the bottom half. When the design was sent to the heralds in the United Kingdom for approval, the heralds were appalled when they realized that the design could be interpreted as "the sun setting on the British Empire." The design was quickly reversed so the sun was on the bottom, giving the flag used today.
If you look carefully, there are still a few examples of the original
design decorating the legislature in Victoria.
Dean Tiegs, 16 December 1996
I've never seen an illustration of the BC badge
that had the sun above the Union Jack. I wonder if it was a real badge or just a
good story. Any idea of the significance of the 'ancient crown'?
D Prothero, 21 December 1997
It did indeed exist: I recently saw it,
incorporated into a multi-province shield, on an old bank note on display at a
coin-collector's shop. I have also seen it in a stained-glass window in the
Legislative Building in Victoria, B.C.
Dean Tiegs, 4 January 1998
The flag of British Colombia is indeed a banner of
arms and was adopted on 27 June 1960. The lion on the crest wears a collar of
three Pacific dogwood flowers (the Provincial flower of BC) to differentiate it
from the Royal Crest. The arms were granted on 31March 1906 by Edward VII (with
supporters, etc granted on 15 October, 1987 by Elizabeth II) and replaced an
earlier unofficial version which the College of Arms found unacceptable. These
older arms can still be seen in a stained-glass window in the Legislative
Building in Victoria, BC. They were similar to the modern arms but had the Union
Flag in the base, with the setting sun above it. The reason given for swapping
the two elements around was that "the sun never sets on the British
Empire" which is what the heralds felt the old arms symbolized!
Graham Bartram, 06 August 2000
image by Marc Pasquin and Mario Fabretto
The official website of the Lieutenant Governor presents the flag as follows:
"The Lieutenant Governor’s Flag is a royal blue flag with the shield of arms of British Columbia in its centre, surrounded by a circlet of 10 gold stylized maple leaves representing the 10 Provinces of Canada. Above the shield is a St. Edward’s Crown, signifying the Sovereign’s representative in the Province. The flag was approved by the Governor General on behalf of Her Majesty The Queen on February 1, 1982. When the Lieutenant Governor is present, the flag is flown at public buildings, Canadian Forces’ establishments, the Parliament Buildings, on Her Majesty’s Canadian Ships and at Government House."
The flag is registered on the Public Register of Arms, Flags and Badges of Canada, 15 March 2005, Vol. IV, p. 466, as follows: "Azure the shield of Arms of the Province of British Columbia ensigned with the Royal Crown proper and encircled by a wreath of maple leaves Or."
Ivan Sache, 6 August 2010
Perhaps this is normal protocol the world over-related to admirals' having their special flags flown when they were (are?) aboard their flagships - but when British Columbia's Lieutenant Governor sails on a BC Ferries vessel - common enough, given the geographic constraints on commuting between the province's capital and largest city (Victoria and Vancouver respectively, of course), the Lieutenant Governor's ensign is flown in place of the BC Ferries house flag. This practice also conforms, I suppose, with that of flying the Lieutenant Governor's flag on his limousine, which I have also seen.
I saw this with my own eyes once in the summer of 2003, having
just disembarked from a ferry in Victoria. Upon the ship's getting
ready for the return voyage for back to Vancouver, the Lieutenant Governor's flag
had been raised in place of the house flag. My curiosity piqued, I
called BC Ferries the next day to ask about this, and the gentleman I
spoke to confirmed that yes, this is the normal protocol.
Stefan Ewing, 28 December 2006
image contributed by Jan Mertens, 11 October 2008
One of the “edwinart” offers recently mentioned was eBay no. 200252428489 (end 12 Sep 2008), an item measuring approx. 8 in. x 12.5 in. described as a “vintage British Empire (meaning “Columbia”, jm) Governor’s flag OR Lt Governor’s flag, probably for use on the antenna (of a car, jm) during a parade or for use on a small stick. (…) Double cloth.”
There is the obligatory remark about the flag museum selling out in the early 80s, not yet naming the Tumbling Waters Museum of Flags.
On a blue field, the BC arms proper
(including gold) and the provincial motto below it on a wavy line, in gold,
‘SPLENDOR SINE OCCASU’ which I found means “Splendour without diminishment” or
more simply “Beauty without end”.
Jan Mertens, 11 October 2008
It is most likely to be just a souvenir item for tourists. This flag
is simply unfit for any official use: The UJ in on the shield has the
St. Patrick's Cross in the wrong position, and the St. George's Cross
without the Eastern Crown; above it is what looks like a mural crown,
rather than the Royal Crown as you would have expected from a
Miles Li, 17 October 2008
Miles thinks the crown looks like a mural crown, but I'm wondering if it's an
antique crown like the one depicted on the shield. As far as I can tell, there is no crown on
the shield, so I'm wondering if there was an error based on a verbal
Dean McGee, 22 October 2008
image contributed by Valentin Poposki, 29 November 2005The British Columbia Conservation Officer Service has a flag, coat of arms and badge. Information is at the BC govenrment's website.
Valentin Poposki, 29 November 2005
July 13th, 2005
BC's Lieutenant Governor Presents Armorial Bearings to the Conservation Officer Service
In mid-July, 2005, the Conservation Officer Service, along with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and the Canadian Wildlife Service of Environment Canada, hosted the 24th annual convention of the North American Wildlife Enforcement Officer's Association (NAWEOA), in Penticton, British Columbia.As part of the opening ceremonies, British Columbia's Lieutenant Governor, the Honourable Iona Campagnolo, presented the COS with their own armorial bearings consisting of a unique badge, coat of arms and flag.
Flags through the ages and across the world by Whitney Smith shows the following ensigns for the provinces of Canada :
British Columbia - Blue Ensign with shield and scroll below
Chris Pinette, 30 June 1998
Columbia government page shows the 1895 proposed arms, the 1906 assumed arms
and the 1987 granted arms. All with supporters, crest etc. The 1906 grant of
arms was the shield only and the crest and supporters were assumed unofficially.
Even before the official grant in 1987, the full achievement of arms was usually
used, sometimes in silhouette on images as small as a letterhead logo. Use of
the shield by itself is rare, but it shows up at the top of the page I've
referenced, as well as the highway signs. One of the main identifying logos for
the Province of British Columbia since 1982 has been the Flying-Flag logo which
appears in the centre of our license plates.
Dean McGee, 6 December 2005
Around 1983, the British Columbia Government began using a stylized flag as its main logo, although some letterheads, etc., continued to use a silhouette of the Coat of Arms inside a square with rounded corners. Beginning in May '85, the old-style, non-reflectorized licence plates were replaced with plates like the ones in the picture, so that all of the plates were replaced by the opening of EXPO 86 in May '86. There hasn't been a full reissue since then, so drivers who kept the same car, or transferred their plates, can have the same plates for 20+ years.
The most recent variant is the Olympic plate which bears no resemblance to the standard plate. On the top left of the Olympic plate is the new logo, introduced with no fanfare in about 2005 or 2006.
The stylized flag logo was used through two changes of government, even though it was originally associated with the party in power in the '80s (Social Credit Party). The new logo, seen on the top of the main page at http://www.gov.bc.ca uses the curved shape on the bottom for some reason, resembling the shape of the old logo.
The old logo was used with the letters "BC" (no periods, no spaces; other than
on the license plates),
and the new is usually used with the name "British Columbia", often with the tourist slogan "The
Best Place on Earth".
Dean McGee, 8 October 2007
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SCORE is looking for inspirational school stories and wants to hear from Tennessee students! Students in grades 4 - 12 are invited to participate in a one-to-two page essay contest and share their inspirational experience from the classroom. Check out the details below.
Chadwell Elementary School hosted its first Academic Vocabulary Bee for the second, third and fourth grade students. Students prepared by studying the State Academic Vocabulary word list for Reading and Math. Chadwell teachers and literacy coaches planned rigorous activities to help students learn definitions and the origins of words. The Bee included a written test followed by two rounds of oral testing.
Congratulations to the winners and participators. All winners received an Apple iPod!
Cole and Kirkpatrick Elementary Schools participated in the first-ever debate championship May 10, at the Estes Kefauver Building in downtown. The debates were held in federal courtrooms, with five teams from each school debating. Each school’s debate team consisted of 4th grade students with one 3rd grader.
The topic of the debate was “Parents should not be held legally responsible for their children’s poor choices.” Kirkpatrick argued the affirmative and Cole the negative. Kirkpatrick Elementary took home first and second place and Cole placed third. This was only the second debate between these two schools. This was the first year for each team of elementary students, coaches and principals.
Congratulations to both teams!
It’s not a science fair. It’s a STEM Fair, the first of its kind in our city, and it’s changing the face of Nashville.
Metro Nashville Public School students compete against one another individually and in teams using videos, presentations, and on-site demonstrations to see which of their projects has the best potential to improve the city.
Don’t come expecting to find science fair stand-bys like plaster volcanoes and three-panel display boards. The Metro Schools STEM Competition is a district-wide high school event. Students have worked with Nashville’s top STEM professionals to share their ideas, investigations and recommendations to “Change the Face of Nashville.” At the competition, individuals and teams will use videos, presentations, and on-site demonstrations to showcase the project with the best potential to improve the city in any of five categories: Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, STEM Career.
Stratford STEM Magnet High School will host this inaugural competition on May 16.
More information about registering to compete and other contest details can be found here. The deadline to register is Tuesday, May 1, 2012.
High school students got a crash course in running a business from Junior Achievement and a team of business professionals acting as mentors.
Teams from Antioch, Cane Ridge, Glencliff, Hillwood, McGavock, and Maplewood took part in the JA Titan Business Challenge presented by Catepillar Financial. The team from Cane Ridge came out on top, besting teams from Metro schools and some from out of county. McGavock was close behind in second.
Congratulations to all who took part!
From a full Junior Achievement press release:
Academy at Hickory Hollow student Grecia Esparza knows her languages! She won two national awards by taking two very difficult foreign language exams.
Grecia won first prize in the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese level 5 bilingual exam and 3rd place in the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese level 4 bilingual exam contest. She even earned a bit of prize money for the 1st place honors.
Grecia entered the exam at her previous school (Hume-Fogg Magnet High School), but is current a student at the Academy. The exams are a national competition assessing knowledge of vocabulary & grammar.
Way to go, Grecia!
Cole Elementary School fourth grade debate team will participate in a debate on Saturday, April 28, at 10:00 a.m. in Vanderbilt University’s Calhoun Building. Cole’s debate team has had a successful year, competing in various debates with Kirkpatrick Elementary School. Cole's three teams will debate against three teams from Kirkpatrick Elementary School. The top three teams will go on to compete in the finals on Thursday, May 10. The topic of the debate will be “Parents should not be held legally responsible for their children’s poor choices.”
Good luck to all teams from both schools!
Congratulations to two Croft Middle School eighth grade language arts students for winning the Tennessee Law Enforcement Officers Associations Essay contest!
Zoe M. and Naba A. both received one hundred dollars for their essays on Tennessee Law Enforcement, with both students writing in the subject on “Why I will say No to Alcohol and Drugs.” Zoe and Naba were two among six Metropolitan Nashville Davidson County student winners. Croft Middle Principal Juana Grandberry surprised to the students with their checks during the morning announcements live on WCMS television broadcast.
Three students from John Early Museum Magnet Middle represented their school at the State Tennessee History Day last Saturday.
La’Charsha W., Mitchell M. and Noah R. competed with six other districts in the state competition. La’Charsha won first place in individual performance category and will compete at the National History Day competition in Washington, D.C. in June. This is a huge honor as she not only had to write and perform her script about a topic in history, but she also had to create a bibliography of primary and secondary sources, complete a process paper, and complete an extensive interview with the judges. Mitchell M. won third place for his website and will be an alternate at the National History Day competition.
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new delhi: the union cabinet on thursday approved a bill to set up a petroleum refining and marketing regulatory board with sweeping powers to check profiteering and ensure availability of products throughout the country. the bill, cleared at the cabinet meeting chaired by prime minister atal bihari vajpayee, gives the government the powers to lay down the policy framework, intervene in "public interest" and "issue directions" to the regulator, sources said. till such time that the bill is cleared in parliament, the petroleum ministry will function as the regulator. the board will "protect consumer interest by fostering competition and fair trade, prevent profiteering by entities and ensure adequate availability of petroleum products." it would authorise entities to market petroleum products, lay down service obligations for retail outlets and marketing service obligations, and monitor product prices, they said. the board, which shall have the powers of a civil court, would arbitrate on disputes among entities and consumer groups, levy fees and impose penalties. any investor in the sector would have to register with the board, which will issue authorisation for marketing and building of common carrier pipelines, sources said. the board will monitor the setting up of dealerships and distributorships of petrol, diesel, kerosene and lpg without "encroaching on the retail networks of existing marketing companies." | <urn:uuid:a221e829-0439-4a23-815b-55e126512f16> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2002-04-19/news/27333888_1_petroleum-marketing-companies-entities | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932676 | 267 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Federal regulators say if DTE Energy built a new Fermi 3 nuclear power plant next to its existing Fermi 2 reactor, it would not harm the environment.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s four-volume Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) issued earlier this month concludes that the site near Newport could support another plant “without adverse impact on the human environment.”
The EIS is the result of months of studies, reports and citizen concerns.
The company has not committed to building such a plant but has been proceeding toward having that option by applying for a federal license for it.
It is looking to build a GE-Hitachi Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor, a design that has not been approved yet by the federal government.
The EIS indicates approval of that design is expected sometime this year after issues are resolved concerning the steam dryers in the ESBWR.
Nonetheless, the EIS approval put the utility another step closer to getting the license.
“This is a major milestone in the Fermi 3 licensing process,” said Guy D. Cerullo, a DTE spokesman.
“We’re pleased that the NRC staff has completed the Final Environmental Impact Statement that supports issuance of the combined license. Our initial application included exhaustive environmental analysis, which was reviewed by the NRC, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other state and federal agencies,” he said.
But Michael Keegan, an anti-nuclear activist from Monroe, said advocacy groups still have various contentions about the environmental impact of the plant before the federal Atomic Safety Licensing Board, including those regarding destruction of wetlands and Eastern Fox snake habitat.
“But the NRC approval is a foregone conclusion,” he said. “There is nothing they don’t approve.”
Mr. Cerullo emphasized that the utility has not decided to build a plant yet.
“We have not announced or committed to building a new unit, but we are keeping that option open, given the long-term environmental and economic advantages of nuclear power,” he said. | <urn:uuid:885c2438-b225-4d03-b0a7-a034c4247684> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/jan/18/proposed-new-reactor-moves-ahead/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955321 | 443 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Concerns that children do not get enough sleep are widespread -- and longstanding. In the article, "Never Enough Sleep: A Brief History of Sleep Recommendations for Children," in the March 2012 Pediatrics (published online Feb. 13), study authors track more than a century's worth of advice regarding children's sleep, comparing it to data on how much children actually slept over the years.
On average, age-specific sleep recommendations declined about 0.71 minutes per year between 1897 and 2009. The rate of decline is almost identical to the decline in actual sleep duration of children, about 0.73 minutes per year. Actual sleep was consistently about 37 minutes less than recommended sleep. Throughout the study period, concerns were expressed that modern life and overstimulation prevented children from getting the sleep they needed. Study authors noted that most guidelines specifically acknowledge the lack of empirical evidence regarding how much sleep children need.
The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 60,000
primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists and
pediatric surgical specialists dedicated to the health, safety and
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Re: One-element vs two-element design
Last year, a Boeing in flight over the middle of the pacific ocean had its entire glass cockpit system go dark. After frantic conversation with the air traffic controllers a decision was made to toggle the circuit breakers for the TRIPLE-REDUNDANT computer system onboard, which brought back the displays. Even with a 2+1 setup, things can still go wrong...This is why commercial airliners have multiple engines even though the system is less reliable overall than a well designed single engine craft the failure of a single component does not entail the catastrophic failure of the entire system. (there are exceptions to this but the overall concept does work). | <urn:uuid:06665596-7280-4a71-b345-1a829583c6a9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nanog.org/mailinglist/mailarchives/old_archive/2004-01/msg00442.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950711 | 166 | 2.109375 | 2 |
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Resolver One 1.2: Spreadsheet Modularity
Resolver One 1.2 has been released!
As always, Resolver One is free to try and to use non-commercially and for open source projects. Even better, there is now no need to register on the website in order to download it.
As always the updates in the new release are a combination of standard spreadsheet functionality, bugfixes and features that build on the unique programmability of Resolver One. This time there is a special feature, which I think has great potential for changing the way spreadsheets are used.
The headline new features are:
- Referencing cells in other Resolver One spreadsheets in formulae (you have been able to reference cells in Excel spreadsheets for a while)
- Creating dropdown lists populated from cellranges, Python lists or other iterables from user code
- Paste special: control over pasting formulae / values / formatting / comments
- Drag fill - auto-incrementing dates, numbers and formulae where appropriate
- Percent formatting of cells and use of % in formulae and constants
- Cached worksheets that retain data across recalcs
- Header lookups on worksheets and cellranges with any type (not just strings)
- Ability to freeze first few rows / columns
Minor new features:
- Slicing of .Rows and .Cols on worksheets and cellranges
- RepaintGrid function to update display whilst a button handler is executing (a wait cursor will also show whilst a button handler is executing - both are useful for long running button handlers)
- An API to access cells / rows / cols / worksheets / cellranges by index (this bypasses headers where you might have integers as headers and want to lookup by index number)
- Custom numeric types (those that define __abs__) in cells will be treated properly as numbers (right aligned in the grid etc)
- A host of new spreadsheet function
- Improvements to the bloomberg integration for the Financial Edition
The important bugfixes:
- Button click handlers swallow exceptions
- Formulae not visible or editable in cell when it is marked with an error cross (previously you had to use the formula bar)
- Inserting / deleting rows did not always update locations of names
- A few rare crashers fixed
The most important new feature is missing from these lists: RunWorkbook.
There are lots of problems with spreadsheets, largely because they are so successful and get used everywhere. Some of the problems include the need to input data into several different places to keep complex spreadsheet systems in sync, and duplicated spreadsheet logic in multiple places to perform similar operations on different datasets.
Some of the problems can be solved by backing data in a database and using spreadsheets for analysis and reporting. Resolver One works very well with databases, but now offers a new solution - spreadsheet modularity through the RunWorkbook function.
RunWorkbook (which can be used from formulae or user code) allows you to load up (as an object) another Resolver One spreadsheet. As well as referencing values in the loaded workbook, you can pass in values to override data in the workbook. These values will be used for the calculation, allowing you to treat spreadsheets as functions. You can use it to create multiple different reports that share the same data (contained in a single spreadsheet), or create data-analysing spreadsheets where you pass data in to the RunWorkbook call.
This will probably be easier to understand if I show you some simple examples. The basic way to call Runworkbook (a user code example) is:
some_sheet = new_workbook['Some Sheet']
value = some_sheet.A1
data = CellRange(some_sheet.Cells.A1, some_sheet.Cells.ZZ10)
Runworkbook returns a workbook instance that you can use in the same way as the standard Workbook.
As the workbook, or the worksheets it contains can be put in cells you are free to access them from formulae. You can also use the CopyRange function to copy blocks of data out of the loaded workbook.
data_sheet = new_workbook['Data']
source = CellRange(data_sheet.Cells.A1, data_sheet.BottomRight)
CopyRange(source, workbook['Loaded Data'].Cells.A1)
You can pass in values, either by specifying the location or by using names you have defined in the spreadsheet, and then pull values back out. This allows spreadsheets to act as functions. The values you pass in are set in the workbook, the calculation is then done and you can pull out the results. You can even pass in whole blocks of data (cellranges).
If the loaded workbook defines any names (through the 'Edit Names' dialog) then you can access those names as attributes on the loaded workbook: for example new_workbook.result.
- You can also pass in overrides that will be used when the workbook is calculated. There are several ways to pass in overrides, but the easiest is to define names that either point to a cellrange or a single cell. You can then use those names as keyword arguments in the call to RunWorkbook:
- result = RunWorkbook('spreadsheet.rsl', input=23, source_data=some_cellrange).result
As well as passing in single values (for names that point to single cells), you can pass in whole blocks of data as cellranges. Cellranges are copied into the workbook before being calculated.
This makes spreadsheet modularity much easier (it makes it possible!) - complex spreadsheets can be broken down into smaller spreadsheets, which are then simpler to understand and can be reused. It also allows you to test your spreadsheet logic by passing in test data and checking that the spreadsheet produces the correct results. We are building systems on top of this to makes spreadsheet testing even easier.
We've already started work on version 1.3, and hope that the release cycle will be much quicker this time. We're building some custom solutions for customers on top of Resolver One. Using your product doesn't half concentrate the mind on what features you need to add!
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[SOLVED]QUdpSocket & broadcast & Windows7
I am sending a request (broadcast: 255.255.255.255) by UDP to determine who is where in the network. The program works fine under WinXP, Ubuntu but under Windows7 sent to any address other than broadcast (255.255.255.255). Other programs written in C # and VB work.
Maybe you can post some sample code, so that someone with a Win7 box can try it.
Also make sure that neither a firewall nor a virus or malware scanner is in the way. Additionally you might need to have higher privilges for sending broadcasts, but I’m not sure about this, I might be wrong.
According to QTBUG-13516 [bugreports.qt.nokia.com] there has been an issue with UDP broadcasts on Vista. | <urn:uuid:fe166437-70f7-45eb-a993-1d87590f2d64> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/11072/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940378 | 183 | 1.625 | 2 |
Heavy Duty Fleet and Transportation in Iran the Past, the Present Condition, the Future Perspectives and its Interaction with Economy
Nader Ale Ebrahim
University of Malaya - Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering
The Society of Iranian Industries & Mines - Research & Development Centers
October 6, 2006
FISITA 2006 World Automotive Congress, Yokohama, Japan
Since the ancient times Iran has always played a significant role in the Transportation Industry due to its strategic position in the silk road that connected Asia to Europe and Middle East to Ancient. Iranians are believed to be the pioneers of land transportation in the world and transportation has always been considered as one of the most ancient and historical Industries in Iran. Nowadays in the third millennium Transportation Industry experts believe that Iran is once more located in a strategic and geopolitical position in the world in which, according to the economic analyses, the Transportation Industry brings over three hundred billion dollars revenue annually. Iran's share out of this considerable revenue is just 1 percent, statistically 30% of Iran's transportation market is captured by Turkey and Azerbaijan Trucks and Trailers, In addition to this Iran has approximately no share in the freight transportation from Europe to Middle Asia. In this paper we first picture current condition of transportation fleet in Iran then we elaborate on the reasons contributing to this loss of market all according to statistical analysis of the up to date facts and figures, gathered through the survey we recently conducted in Iran. As the next step we go through a SWOT (strength weaknesses opportunities and threats) analysis of one of the biggest commercial vehicle manufacturers in the Middle East, ending up with highlighting and analyzing some of the strategies that can be or have been devised with the purpose of capturing a larger proportion of market share in the Transportation and becoming the market leader as a change around in the recent years, and their economic impacts.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 12
Keywords: Heavy Duty Fleet, SWOT Analysis, Iran's Transportation Future Perspectives, Trucks, Truck Trailers
JEL Classification: L1, L11, L7, Q32, Q31, M11, M12, M1, M54, O1, O3, O32, P24, P42, P23, L17Accepted Paper Series
Date posted: April 10, 2011
© 2013 Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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The way zoning variances are handled will be changed once Tuesday's vote is certified.
The three charter amendments pertaining to the Board of Zoning Appeals all passed, although one was not as close as the others.
Issue 17, probably the most controversial of three, passed 5,161 (59.23 percent) to 3,552 (40.77 percent), according to the final, unofficial results from the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections.
With its passage, City Council now has the ability to review commercial variance decisions within 30 days of a BZA vote. The idea is that it gives the concerned parties a chance to air their grievances before taking legal action.
Mayor Sam Alai was pleased with the result on that issue.
"There's no hidden agendas," he said. "It gives the city a little latitude to get the proper zoning we want."
Issue 18 passed 5,012 (66.18 percent) to 2,561 (33.82 percent).
It is now clarified in the City Charter that the BZA only looks at practical difficulty standards (area variances), as opposed to undue hardship standards (use variances).
Issue 19 passed by the largest margin, 6,025 (77.09 percent) to 1,791 (22.91 percent).
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Stress test your application stack and expand your toolset with Windows versions of popular Unix/Linux-based command-line utilities with this month’s tools.
Stress testing isn’t just for developers. You need to understand the impact each user has on your application stack. Relying on recommendations and capacity planning isn’t enough to make educated decisions on hardware and software requirements.
There are a number of stress- and load-testing tools out there, ranging from simple single-instance tests to multi-machine synchronized load generation that can test numerous systems and application types. One easy-to-use load test tool for HTTP applications is StressStimulus from Stimulus Technology. StressStimulus runs as an integrated component within the Fiddler Web debugging proxy tool.
Fiddler has been a staple tool for years. It helps you create, analyze and debug HTTP traffic. (In fact, TechNet Magazine has covered Fiddler in this column.) The product was recently purchased by the company Telerik, which has committed to keeping it available for free.
StressStimulus runs as an integrated component of Fiddler, so you’ll need to install Fiddler first. After running through StressStimulus installer, launch Fiddler and you’ll notice a new tab adjacent to the inspectors, composers, filters and other standard Fiddler tabs. The StressStimulus tab has a tree-based navigation section along with two detail panes. Navigation is logically presented as Test Case, Test Configuration and Test Results.
The easiest way to create a test is to use the built-in Test Recorder. The Test Recorder launches a browser instance and records your Web requests (though you could generate requests through another medium) along with a relevant query string and form-post data to create a test sequence.
If you need to, you can provide authentication credentials for running the test as well as data sources for test parameterization. This gives you distinct request patterns. For example, you can provide different form data for testing a registration system or query strings for the different method signatures provided by a Web service API. You can also provide custom response validators as raw text or regular expressions to ensure that a particular request gives an appropriate response above and beyond a standard HTTP 200 result.
Within Test Configuration, you set up the more general test structure, including how long your test should run, how many virtual users to use, how to apply the load of virtual users over time (constant or step loaded), the browser mix to apply and the simulated network connection types. For larger tests, you can add multiple StressStimulus load agents (machines configured to act as test drones to increase the load against particular endpoints beyond what one test machine could handle in terms of CPU, memory and NIC). You can also configure settings for particular weighting and step-load pattern.
StressStimulus lets you record tests to a SQL Server Compact Edition or a custom SQL Server instance. Once you’ve run your test, you can crunch the numbers within the Test Results section. Here you’ll find graph and chart tools along with data tables showing you performance metrics on requests, response times, errors, user load and so on.
StressStimulus is available in three editions: free, Pro and Enterprise. The free edition is limited, but does let you spin up a single 100 virtual user test. You can’t save the test and it’s of limited duration. The Pro edition is more full-featured, but limits you to one test case, one load generator, and 500 virtual users. The Enterprise edition gives you up to 100,000 virtual users across multiple load generators, as well as distributed load testing and cloud-based load testing. There’s also a seven-day free trial.
Pricing for StressStimulus is based on the number of virtual users. The Pro edition is $296 for 100 virtual users or $450 for 500. The Enterprise edition starts at $640 for 100 virtual users or $1,400 for 500, with additional discounts as you increase virtual user volume. There are other increments and time-based subscriptions are also available. So the next time you’re looking to spin up and roll out that new HTTP/Web-based application, consider load testing before purchasing hardware or releasing it into the wild with a tool. It could save you a few headaches, wasted time and money.
There have always been a few command-line goodies in the *nix world I wish I had in Windows. Fortunately, there are a few native Windows port projects out there. The open source and free GnuWin project has been around since 2001 and provides more than 160 utilities and toolsets as native 32-bit ports to Windows. Project development has faded, but the tools are still quite viable.
Each of the utility packages is available as a standalone installer you can download from the project Web site, so you only have to install what you need to install. If you want the whole gamut, though, rather than grabbing each package one-by-one, use the GetGnuWin32 project.
The GetGnuWin32 project maintains a digitally signed master update file containing the tools (along with their versions and dependencies), so you can download and update them all in one shot. The program hashes are verified on download as well. Here’s an overview of some of the tools to whet your appetite.
The first thing you’ll want to dig into is the CoreUtils project. This has basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities. The file, text and shell utilities include things like:
There are numerous compression and archiving tools such as gzip and arc. There are also image tools like Fax2Png, Gif2Png, or Bmp2Png. Other packages include hits such as which, to show you the full path of shell commands; wget to retrieve files over HTTP/HTTPS and FTP; and the super pattern matcher grep.
There are quite a few useful and fun tools in the GnuWin32 set. So if you find yourself yearning for a few of those oldie-but-goody *nix-based command-line utilities, check out the GnuWin project to see if has what you need.
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23 Lessons for Problem Solving - aligned to the Common Core!
by Don Balka and Ted Hull
Aligned to the Common Core Standards!
"Visible Thinking Activities" provides teachers with rich opportunities to motivate and engage students in learning mathematics using high-interest problems designed to make students' thinking "visible."
Each of the 23 lessons are aligned to the Common Core Standards and present a problem with multiple variations for a deeper conceptual understanding of the underlying mathematics.
For each problem, a section called "Making Student Thinking Visible" discusses the pitfalls students may encounter, suggestions for teachers as they listen to and observe students, and a variety of questioning strategies.
Appropriate for all middle-grade math teachers, the activities in the book also provide excellent opportunities for mathematics leaders to foster rich conversations with teachers concerning strategies that support student understanding and learning.
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|Confederate Veteran Honored: William M. Granberry
By Rebecca Blackwell Drake
On May 15, 2004, William Massengill Granberry, whose death in 1942 marked
him as the last Confederate soldier in Hinds County, was honored once again,
this time with a memorial ceremony praising his service in the Confederate army
. The highlight of the event was the unveiling of a Confederate headstone order
d by Jerry McWilliams and placed in his memory. The poignant ceremony was
0rganized by the Mississippi College Rifles , S.C.V., along with Jerry and Kay McWilliams, owners of Southern Cedars plantation, the former home of William Granberry.
The guest speaker for the event was Grady Howell, Mississippi author and historian. Re-enactors assisting in the military ceremony were: Madison Artillery, Moody’s Battery (cannon) from Tallulah, La.; 3rd Co. Washington Artillery; Lowry Rifles & Washington Artillery; Lowrey Rifles, Co. E., 46th Miss Infantry; and Stanford’s Battery. Jerry McWilliams unveiled the newly erected Confederate headstone while Henry Dennis Granberry III laid the wreath. Family members present to receive the presentation of Confederate flags were: Mary Nell Taylor, Helen O’Keefe, and Henry Dennis Granberry III, the great grandchildren of William Massengill Granberry.
William Massengill Granberry, born at what is now known as Southern Cedars, enlisted as a private in Co. A., Withers Regiment, 1st Mississippi Artillery, on July 31, 1862. The enlistment record described Granberry as 18 years old, 5’ 5” in height, fair complexion, and gray eyes. Pvt. Granberry served under Captain Samuel J. Ridley and fought in the Battle of Champion Hill on May 16, 1863. During the battle, Captain Ridley was killed while single-handedly firing his cannon, an act that later won him the Confederate Medal of Honor. After the Confederate’s defeat at Battle of Champion Hill, the survivors of the 1st Mississippi Artillery rushed to defend Vicksburg. Pvt. Granberry stood in the line of defenders.
After the siege that ultimately ended with the fall of Vicksburg, Granberry and other Confederate prisoners were sent to parole camp at Enterprise, Mississippi, and Demopolis, Alabama. The company reorganized and William Ratliff was elected captain. Once again, the men returned to duty, bearing their beloved flag that had been presented to them by the ladies of Jackson in 1862. William Granberry and William Ratliff would follow the flag throughout the remainder of the war until the final surrender in 1865. The flag of the 1st Mississippi Artillery now hangs in the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
In 1865, as the veterans of the 1st Miss. Light Artillery sadly furled their flag, they adhered to the Final Order affectionately given to them by Colonel William Percy: “Go home and make as fine and loyal a citizen of the United States as you have a soldier in the Confederacy.” Granberry returned home and followed the Final Order to the best of his ability. He attended Business College in New Orleans, then returned to Midway and became a successful operator of a cotton gin in the community. In 1901, after the death of his wife, he moved to Terry and became a member of the firm of Granberry Bros. & Company.
William Massengill Granberry passed away on March 14, 1942, at the age of 97. The funeral was held at the Terry Baptist Church with interment in the Terry Cemetery. Rev. R. L. Wallace of Raymond, a former pastor and close friend of the deceased, conducted the service. Beautiful flowers filled the auditorium around the casket. Among the floral offerings was a bouquet of homegrown blossoms from the garden of Miss Mary Ratliff of Raymond, daughter of Granberry’s former commander, Capt. William Ratliff. The Jackson Daily News publicized Granberry’s passing stating: “There is no longer a thin gray line in Hinds County. It has wholly vanished.”
William Massengill Granberry and other Confederate soldiers who fought for the Southern Cause will always be remembered for their valor: “O ye, in silent comradeship asleep, in the long bivouac of the martyred dead; Ye are not yet forgotten – nor can be while in this fair magnolia land there blooms a fragrant flower with which to deck your grave.”
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Could conserve as much as 100-billion litres of water annually, according to company
Atlanta—Coca-Cola has developed and tested an innovative beverage process water recovery system to produce high-quality water for use in non-product processes.
The system expands the range of manufacturing applications for recovered process water and sets precedent for conservation and reuse in the beverage industry, according to the soft drink giant.
The water quality meets and/or exceeds drinking water standards, Coca-Cola claims, and is used for bottle washing, among other non-product applications.
By reusing the water used in bottling facilities, the company said it can reduce operational water needs and improve water use efficiency by up to 35 per cent.
“Because responsible water management is at the heart of a sustainable future, overcoming today’s water challenges calls for extraordinary action,” Coca-Cola chief sustainability officer Bea Perez said in a statement. “We’ve assumed an active role in advancing innovation that conserves and sustainably manages water resources for the benefit of all.”
In the absence of global reuse standards for the food and beverage industry, Coca-Cola “pursued a scientifically rigorous, widely applicable water recovery and reuse approach.”
The system takes highly treated process water and further treats it using proven, state-of-the-art technologies, including biological treatment in a membrane bioreactor, ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis, ozonation and ultraviolet disinfection.
In the Coca-Cola system alone, this new water reuse approach could save as much as 100-billion litres of water annually if implemented across all bottling plants.
Coca-Cola is currently reviewing internal plans to roll out this technology to its bottling partners and align plans for implantation across bottling facilities in 2013 and beyond.
The technology has been recognized with the ‘Innovation in Small Projects Award’ by the International Water Association (IWA) at its Asia Pacific Regional Innovation Awards.
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Signal processing and neural computation have separately and significantly influenced many disciplines, but the cross-fertilization of the two fields has begun only recently. Research now shows that each has much to teach the other, as we see highly sophisticated kinds of signal processing and elaborate hierachical levels of neural computation performed side by side in the brain. In New Directions in Statistical Signal Processing, leading researchers from both signal processing and neural computation present new work that aims to promote interaction between the two disciplines.
The book's 14 chapters, almost evenly divided between signal processing and neural computation, begin with the brain and move on to communication, signal processing, and learning systems. They examine such topics as how computational models help us understand the brain's information processing, how an intelligent machine could solve the "cocktail party problem" with "active audition" in a noisy environment, graphical and network structure modeling approaches, uncertainty in network communications, the geometric approach to blind signal processing, game-theoretic learning algorithms, and observable operator models (OOMs) as an alternative to hidden Markov models (HMMs).
About the Editors
Simon Haykin is University Professor and Director of the Adaptive Systems Laboratory at McMaster University.
José C. Príncipe is Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida, Gainesville, where he is BellSouth Professor and Founder and Director of the Computational NeuroEngineering Laboratory.
Terrence J. Sejnowski is Francis Crick Professor, Director of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Professor of Biology at the University of California, San Diego.
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For decades, gravel and sand have been mined from river deposits in California. This has changed the course of rivers, making them straighter and faster, and leaving giant empty gravel pits near the banks.
Brian Cluer studies river flows for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
CLUER: "We've got several hundred acres of potential aquatic landscape, we've got an important river flowing by it. How might we reshape those several hundred acres, re-contour, move a lot of earth around, to create the optimally ecologically beneficial landscape."
For this project, Cluer is looking at how to smooth out and reincorporate several hundred acres of gravel pits back into the Russian River. That would create bends and wetland areas for salmon.
CLUER: "The reason wetlands are so important is that when they flood up in the winter that becomes an incredibly rich feeding opportunity for juveniles."
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Zambia Training Weekend
On Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd of March the Year 11 and Sixth Form Zambia group travelled to East Dean in the South Downs for a weekend of camping and hiking. We met our Leader ‘Lorraine’ who will be travelling with us to Zambia in July. We did many team building exercises that taught us how to work together as a group to complete a task. On the first day we walked across the South Downs learning how to read maps and navigate effectively. Our team skills were also pushed to the limit when trying to cook dinner outside for 16 people in the dark! After a successful meal we then headed to the tents for an early night. A frost soon covered the tents and temperatures plummeted!
The group survived the cold night and were rudely awoken by some very loud birds in the trees above the campsite! The promise of porridge and pancakes in the morning lifted spirits and prepared the team for the long day ahead. During the morning trek the Zambezi River almost became a reality (!) when we hit a very large flowing stream heading down the footpath. We successfully managed to climb across bank and make a path across the water using branches to prevent us getting too wet. The team then headed back to camp with soggy shoes and muddy trousers for yet more food.
The weekend was very successful, all though a little cold and we all learnt a lot. Most of us improved our navigational skills and we all work a lot better as a team now.
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