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|My 3-year-old loves "reading" my Bible.|
Today we made a doll to rest with God.
Self Portrait Doll
cardboard (prevent the markers from bleeding through the fabric)
sewing machine or you could hand sew it
|Draw a self-portrait on the fabric. (I drew my 2-year-old's for him)|
|Drawing her own self-portrait.|
|It was hard for me not to tell my oldest how to draw herself. But glad I didn't help her because this is truly her own illustration of what she thinks she looks like.|
|When they are finished with the picture, cut around it leaving space for sewing.|
Trace a cut another piece of fabric for the back of the doll.
|Sew the 2 pieces of fabric together like a pillow, leaving a hole to stuff.|
|Stuff the pillow with pillow stuffing, then sew the hole together.|
|Write your child's age and name on back for a keepsake.|
|I can't express enough how much they love their new doll!|
I did this last year with my nieces. It's fun to see the age difference with their details of drawings.
Notice their hands, eyes, and legs. I am hoping I do this every year!
|"Napping" with their doll.|
Tune of "Are You Sleeping Brother John"
Then God rested. Then God rested.
From His work. From His work.
That was on the seventh day. That was on the seventh day.
All was good. All was good.
Snack idea- marshmallows as pillows
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Signs and symptoms of drug overdose:
May not awaken when roused
May not respond to painful stimulation
May exhibit blue or purple lips, face and hands
May have cold, clammy skin
May snore or struggle for breath
May complain of elevated body temperature
May behave irrationally or seem confused
Emergency dos and don’t in case of possible drug overdose:
Do call 911
Do tell medical professionals everything the person consumed
Do stay with the person until help arrives
Do not allow the person to sleep it off
Do not put the person in a bath or shower
Do not inject the person with anything
Do not leave the person alone
Do not treat the victim with home remedies
Source: Narcotics Overdose Prevention and Education
The room was silent when Sgt. Mark Dabney unfolded a crinkly sheet of plastic in front of about 30 students at Florida Gulf Coast University.
When a person overdoses, he explained, the medical examiner places the body inside and zips the bag closed.
"And that generally is the last sound that a parent or family member ever hears," said Dabney, a sergeant with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office and state licensed funeral director and embalmer. "And ladies and gentlemen, they'll hear that sound for the rest of their lives. Sometimes in their sleep."
There was no clapping or laughter in the auditorium for the two-hour-long presentation last week, aptly titled "Sometimes, You Never Sleep It Off." The tone was somber, and understandably so — 99 people died of accidental pill overdoses last year in the four-county region that includes Collier, Lee, Hendry and Glades, an increase of about 15 percent from 2010.
Those are only deaths that were directly caused by prescription drugs, said Gary Martin, the vice president of the Narcotics Overdose Prevention and Education (NOPE) task force. That means they don't include fatalities like the September death of FGCU student Sean Cavanaugh, an 18-year-old who died after attacking his roommate and jumping off a third-story balcony in a drug-induced rage, according to friends.
The presentation, hosted by the NOPE task force, was meant to help prevent those deaths on college campuses. Perhaps most notably, the presenters spoke of a Florida law that went into effect Oct. 1 that allows people to call 911 and get medical assistance for their friends without fear of being arrested.
When detectives ask the friends of a recently overdosed person why they didn't call for help, the "cliché answer we get" is that they didn't want to get in trouble, said Martin, who also is a psychotherapist, Palm Beach County homicide investigator and associate dean for student wellness at Lynn University.
The so-called 911 Good Samaritan Law specifically addresses that, he said.
"That's how severe this issue is," Martin said. "We want you to pick up the phone."
Flashing pie charts across a projection screen, Martin showed students that in nearly all cases of overdose fatalities, a person consumed at least two different substances. Popular mixes included alcohol and illicit drugs, alcohol and prescription drugs, and prescription drugs and illicit drugs.
"Rarely does anyone die because they took a massive amount of any one of these drugs. The reason people died, the reason they end up on these posters," he said, motioning to faces of young dead people mounted behind him, "is because they naively mix or combine some of these drugs ... even in small quantities."
"They have the perception that they know how much they can take," he continued. But "your lethal threshold changes and evolves."
A person who is passed out to the point where he or she can't be wakened is a medical emergency, Martin said.
Dabney, the sergeant and funeral director, said there typically is a window of a few hours in which a person with a toxic amount of drugs in their system can still be helped.
"Life is about choices. You know that," he said. "But I want you to know something about the choices that you make. The choices you make do not always affect just you. The choices you make affect the people you love, and the choices you make affect the people that love you."
Joel Breneman, an FGCU student who overcame substance abuse and now is sober, said his addiction led him to prison, then the St. Matthew's House at 28. That was the breaking point.
"I did not think I was going to be partying until I was homeless," he said.
People with addiction problems should be approached with tact and concern, Breneman said.
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Colorectal Cancer Highlighted In The March GIE: Gastrointestinal EndoscopyMain Category: Colorectal Cancer
Article Date: 22 Mar 2013
In recognition of National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy has published a special issue for March on colorectal cancer. The issue includes a practical guide for approaching and managing serrated colon polyps, one of the most common types of polyps, and a study on reducing postpolypectomy bleeding with prophylactic clip closure. GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy is the monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE).
"The cutting edge of serrated polyps: a practical guide to approaching and managing serrated colon polyps"
Colonoscopy with detection and removal of colonic polyps is the foundation of colorectal cancer screening and surveillance programs. However, different types of colonic polyps have different malignant potential and recommendations for removal and follow-up surveillance varies depending on the type of polyp.
The most common colonic polyps include the conventional adenomas (tubular, tubulovillous, and villous adenomas which are precancerous polyps) and serrated polyps. Serrated polyps account for as many as 36 percent of colonic polyps. Initially the hyperplastic (benign) polyp was the only recognized serrated polyp. Today, the term serrated polyp is recognized as a general term describing a heterogeneous family of polyps with distinct molecular underpinnings, clinicopathologic features, and a varied capacity for malignant potential. In this review article from Christina A. Arnold, MD, Ohio State University, Columbus, and colleagues, the salient clinicopathologic features of serrated polyps and practical management recommendations are discussed.
The location and size of the serrated polyp are extremely helpful in determining the type of serrated polyp for the clinician and pathologist, therefore both should be documented. As conventional endoscopic techniques alone are unable to reliably diagnose polyps, histologic evaluation remains the criterion standard for accurate diagnosis. The most important type of serrated polyp is the sessile serrated adenoma/polyp (SSA/P). The prevalence of SSA/Ps ranges from one percent to nine percent of all colonic polyps. SSA/Ps are most commonly found in women, unlike the male-predominant conventional adenomas. Risk factors for SSA/Ps (and conventional adenomas) include older age, sex, smoking, and obesity; the latter two risk factors also independently predict large (>10 mm) SSA/Ps. Importantly, patients with SSA/Ps are more likely to have a greater polyp burden and synchronous and metachronous neoplastic lesions than patients without SSA/Ps. In addition, the progression from SSA/P with cytologic dysplasia to invasive carcinoma (cancer) may be relatively rapid. Complete removal of polyps, particularly small, flat, right-sided polyps (such as SSA/Ps) is challenging and associated with the development of interval carcinoma, likely through missing or incompletely removing the precursor lesion.
In September 2012, the U.S. Multi-Society Task Force on CRC (colorectal cancer) released updated guidelines for colonoscopy surveillance with a much-needed expansion on the management of serrated polyps. In addition to the U.S. Multi-Society Task Force guidelines, an expert consensus opinion was separately published in 2012 based on an expert panel discussion and review of advancements and insights in the serrated polyp literature. The 2012 guidelines have placed serrated polyps >10 mm or with cytologic dysplasia in the same surveillance category as high-risk adenomas with a three-year surveillance interval. The guidelines also advise a one-year surveillance interval for serrated polyposis (formerly "hyperplastic polyposis") a phenotypically variable condition associated with increased serrated polyps and an up to nearly 40 percent risk of colorectal cancer.
The expert consensus opinions recommend at least five-year endoscopic surveillance intervals for first-degree relatives of patients with serrated polyposis, starting at age 40 or 10 years younger than the age at diagnosis of the affected relative. Among the key management recommendations discussed in the guide for approaching and managing serrated colon polyps is the removal of serrated polyps. Given the malignant potential and that SSA/Ps are most often flat with indistinct borders, complete endoscopic resection (removal) is critical. When SSA/P margins cannot be fully resected, residual tissue can be removed by cold forceps or burned by argon plasma coagulation, and close endoscopic follow-up is advised at less than one year per the updated guidelines.
"Prophylactic clip closure reduced the risk of delayed postpolypectomy hemorrhage: experience in 277 clipped large sessile or flat colorectal lesions and 247 control lesions"
Hemorrhage (bleeding) is the most common major complication of colonoscopic polypectomy (polyp removal). The risk of hemorrhage is associated with large polyp size, proximal location, and the use of anticoagulation. One approach to prevent delayed hemorrhage after colonoscopic polypectomy is closure of polypectomy sites with clips. No controlled study has yet been reported of the value of prophylactic clip closure for the group of polyps at highest risk of complications, namely, large sessile or flat colorectal lesions.
This retrospective report from Douglas K. Rex, MD, FASGE, and colleagues at the Indiana University Hospital, Indianapolis, describes the impact of prophylactic (preventive) clip closure on complications, primarily delayed postpolypectomy hemorrhage, in 277 large polypectomy sites that were completely or partially prophylactically closed, and 247 control polypectomy sites that were not closed with clips. These lesions were removed from 463 patients who had telephone follow-up at least 30 days after colonoscopy to ensure complete capture of complications.
This study's objective was to evaluate the effect of prophylactic clip closure of polypectomy sites after resection of large (≥ 2 cm) sessile and flat colorectal lesions. The study was performed at the tertiary care endoscopy unit at Indiana University Hospital. Patients with lesions 2 cm or larger who underwent endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) performed by using low-power coagulation current between January 2000 and February 2012 participated in the study. Beginning in June 2006, polypectomy sites were prophylactically closed with clips when possible.
The main outcome measurements were delayed hemorrhage, postpolypectomy syndrome and perforation. There were 524 lesions 2 cm or larger in 463 patients, of which 247 (47.1 percent) were not clipped, 52 (9.9 percent) were partially clipped, and 225 (42.9 percent) were fully clipped. There were 31 delayed hemorrhages, two perforations, and six cases of postpolypectomy syndrome. The delayed hemorrhage rate was 9.7 percent in the not clipped group versus 1.8 percent in the fully clipped group. Multivariate analysis showed that not clipping, location proximal to the splenic flexure and polyp size were associated with delayed bleeding.
The researchers concluded that prophylactic clipping of resection sites after endoscopic removal of large (≥ 2 cm) colorectal lesions using low-power coagulation current reduced the risk of delayed postpolypectomy hemorrhage. A randomized, prospective trial of clipping large polypectomy sites is warranted.
Also in the issue is the updated guideline "The role of endoscopy in the assessment and treatment of esophageal cancer."
Original article posted on Medical News Today.
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One of my fondest memories in while submerged in waters of the Northwest was an encounter with an angel. I was snorkeling around San Juan Island when I shifted my focus from the awesome seaweed and invertebrate life on the rocky outcrop, to the plankton mere inches in front of my face. There floated one of the loveliest and most graceful creatures I had ever encountered (it would be a few years yet before I cast eyes upon my wife). The sea angel (Clione limacina) gets up to 3″ long, though the one I shared the water with was smaller. During late winter, sea angels populations can explode in the plankton, though chance encounters can happen any time.
It seems I’m not the only one smitten with Clione. It has apparently reached cult status in Japan where sea angel figurines have even been packaged and sold with beer.
Of course, Clione‘s not the only angel in the plankton. Sea angels actually like to eat sea butterflies (Limnacina helicina). In fact, the sea angel’s species name is the same as the sea butterfly genus (limnacina). This is one of the many cases where taxonomists (people who identify things) name name creatures in a way that tells us something about them or their relationship to their environment.
Like the sea angels, sea butterflies are also planktonic gastropods, though in the case of butterflies you can actually see the shell through their clear tissue. Their wings (a snails foot that has evolved into two large parapodia [translation: near foot]) can beat rapidly, and since they have to compensate for the added weight of their shell, their wings have to keep busy when they’re close to the surface. They are minute fishermen (only 1/2″ long),
stringing up mucus nets 4 times their size to capture tiny copepods and other microscopic plankton. When the net is full, they reel it in, gobble it up and spit out a new one.
While on the Bremerton Marina docks recently, I was able to get a few blurry shots of a winged sea slug (Gastropteron pacificum). It only reaches half the size (1.5″) of a large sea angel, but is such a pleasure to watch swim. It’s opaque, darker color and graceful swimming make it easier to spot from the surface than a sea angel. When not swimming, it often curls up on the bottom to rest.
All these species are not directly related, though they’ve evolved away from their snail, sea slug (nudibranch), limpet, and chiton cousins. They have left the sea floor to take advantage of the bounty of the plankton. Here’s to the angels in our lives! JEff
Jeff Adams is a Washington Sea Grant Marine Water Quality Specialist, affiliated with the University of Washington’s College of the Ocean and Fishery Sciences and based in Bremerton. You can follow his Sea-life blog, email to firstname.lastname@example.org or call at 360-337-4619. | <urn:uuid:4d8df8c8-c406-438d-8519-9767da2ff037> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://pugetsoundblogs.com/sea-life/tag/gastropteron-pacificum/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947018 | 659 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Posted by Michael P. | Posted in Books | Posted on 06-08-2012
Tags: Arthur Conan Doyle, Guy Adams, Holmes, London, Moreau, Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes, Watson
First of all, I will start by saying this is a pretty loose review. That’s because I hate spoiling a book. And spoiling anything in a Sherlock Holmes novel seems twice as bad.
Secondly: It might not be for you. Playing with an iconic character is like playing with fire. Some handle it very carefully. With gloves they use the character to tell a story both befitting in content and in style that everyone associates with the character. Some chose to use the fire to re-mold the character or the world they are envisioned to be a part of. With that being said, I admit that I am normally not a fan of Sherlock Holmes novels. I usually want more from the characters than what the novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did with them. To me they always felt as if Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was just using them as an intellectual exercise of designing a mystery as intricate as possible. Only to then use Holmes as the only character capable enough to unravel it. All to show off both the mystery and Holmes’ amazing skills of deduction. Great characters, but in many ways the material of that era comes across as a bit dry. Understandably those that prefer their Sherlock Holmes written in that Victorian style will probably not like this book.
Ok, on to what I thought of the book: It was a grand adventure. Adams is clear about his goals in his “Medical Notes” section at the end of the book. And this section was both a refreshing and informative way for the author to explain that this book was not a rewriting of Conan Doyle’s Holmes and Watson. But rather, Adams aims for The Army of Dr. Moreau to entertain by telling a fast paced adventure with mad scientists, monsters, and many special guests.
Having not read his previous novel, Sherlock Holmes: The Breath of God. I had no idea what type of book I was about to read. As already stated, Holmes can be an intimidating name to hear in a title. But, Adams deftly handles Holmes as more neurotic than simply eccentric. And Watson as one of the few people who can stand to be around him. Watson is also a great character here and his military exploits and bravery holds him in high regard with many characters that couldn’t care less that Holmes is even standing next to him. Adams using the character of Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock’s brother, as the leader of a relatively new covert agency for the government makes a lot of sense as well. This agency involvement lends credibility to Holmes and Watson’s involvement well beyond the cases typically seen in a Sherlock Holmes novel. These cases cross into areas where Holmes’ intellect is probably not enough. That in itself is great. Holmes is in need of others to complete his mission. In that respect, Adams does something very interesting. He borrows some other notable literary characters who would fit into the timeline. As this story revolves around the monsters created with the misguided science of Dr. Moreau, Adams brings in some of fictions great scientists to assist Holmes and Watson. Abner Perry from Edgar Rice Burroughs’ At the Earth’s Core, Professor Challenger from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, Professor Cavor from H. G. Wells’ The First Men in the Moon, and Professor Lindenbrook from A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Vern. These characters add a vitality and color often missing from a Holmes novel as well as the sense of scope. These characters mixed with that of a secret agency imply adventure not only of London but with worldly implications that take Holmes and Watson quite a bit out of their element.
In conclusion: By doing all of these things, Adams has opened the door for larger and larger adventures which may entwine other iconic fictional characters. The specific story here is as fast paced and energetic as the recent films starring Robert Downy Jr. Holmes is a genius that would lose himself in his own mind if it wasn’t for being grounded by Watson’s humanity and friendship. And this tale is not a Calabash pipe tapping war of wits with an always present archenemy. It is an adventure with scientific heroes and monsters whose outcome would change much more than the city of London. Adams aims for you to have fun reading Sherlock Holmes: The Army of Dr. Moreau. It is my opinion that without a doubt you will. Unless, of course, you are not a fan of where he has taken this character. If you don’t enjoy it, please remember how much easier it would have been for Adams to have Holmes and Watson to solve a murder or fight Professor Moriarty…again.
Now I’ll have to pick up Sherlock Holmes: The Breath of God.
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The Hyde Marine Separator uses a proven method for gravity separation of oil from bilge water to less than 15 ppm. The separator exceeds all performance requirements of USCG 46CFR 162.050 and IMO Resolution MEPC.60(33) and is certified by the USCG and the British Department of Transport.
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Several years ago, we came across this interesting artifactat one of our local electronics surplus shops, and couldn’t really make heads or tails of it. But after the passage of the aforementioned several years– along with several dozen interesting suggestions from our readers –we haven’t been able to get much closer to an answer.
But then, at this month’s Electronics Flea Market, we came across what appears to bea related chunk of hardware:
While we do not have the original “artifact,” the thickness and hole size of this new board are reasonably consistent with that of the other board. Certainly, the layout pattern is the same, suggesting that they serve the same purpose, if maybe not the same brand or manufacturer.
The visible markings on the different sides of the board are as follows: Chassis series No 62800 #279, 24930-101916-5, AMP-53, AMP 397503-4 8128. Amp is the manufacturer (they still exist, as a brand of TE Connectivity), and 8128 (week 28 of 1981) appears to be the date code.
The elements installed on the board– clearly some kind of electronic patchboard –come in a few different varieties. First, there are binding posts, anchored semipermanently into certain locations, with electronic components such as resistors, capacitors, and permanent wiring, soldered between them. There are also movable “patch” cables (the ones with the plastic rings on the ends) that can be moved from point to point.
Every binding post and cable inserted from the top sticks all the way down through the bottom, with a gold plug showing through on the other side. The blue patchboard itself is just a passive chunk of plastic– there’s no internal wiring. So it’s clear that this whole assembly itself actually plugs into something else: some kind of backplane that connects the electronics together in a prescribed manner, and can be reconfigured with the movable patch cables.
If you look a little closer at the back, you might notice that the holes appear to be D-shaped. It turns out that the hole is circular until the very bottom, where there’s just that little lip on one side. This lip provides a little snap-action detent when inserting or removing a patch cable, and probably also prevents the semipermanent components from rotating. You might also notice why those binding posts are “semipermanent”: each one is held in place with a little snap ring.
In a sense what we’ve found looks like the military-grade version of the common electronic breadboard. But some of the big questions still remain. What kind of instrument or machine did this come out of? What did this board actually plug into? Was its “backplane” the interface to a complex system, or just a simple block that connected together the four pins in each checker-square together? And, why so rugged?
Armed with the manufacturer name and the new certainty that this is some kind of patch panel, we did some more searching and turned up what appears to be an actual usage example of one of these panels, at the scale of our original artifact:
This patchboard cartridge– this one consisting of two of these AMP panels together in a frame with a handle –is one of ten created for a set of art and engineering performancesin the mid 1960′s. The engineers devised a way to quickly reconfigure stage wiring between different acts going on stage, all of whom needed different wiring.
For each act, they configured the stage wiring appropriately the patchboard: Mike 1 goes to Effects Processor 3 to Amp 2 and so forth. Once the wiring for a given act was complete, all that they had to do was remove the front panel– as a cartridge — and set it aside for later use. Because the custom wiring is attached to the removable cartridge, it’s easy to quickly switch between customized setups. And with the rugged design, it will survive repeated insertion and removal without dislodging the patch wires or any semipermanent electronics installed on board.
(Photo: Éric Legendre. From The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering fonds.
Now, to revisit our original mystery object.
This one was made of modern injection molded plastic. These things often show their age, and those didn’t appear to date back even as far back as 1981. The design is in the style of those older patch panels, and it is very likely that it was used in the same way– as an interchangeable faceplate for a patch bay of some sort.
There are some differences, however. For one thing, the holes sizes and spacing don’t appear to be an exact match with the Amp panels. Perhaps more importantly, the holes are circular all the way through, without any D-shaped retaining lip. The retaining lips are necessary in the Amp boards, because there is significant insertion force when the patchboard cartridge was plugged in and all those pins (including the movable patch cables) need to make contact with the corresponding pins in the backplane– and not pop out in the process. But these don’t have that feature– so it’s reasonable to suppose that the insertion force from swapping cartridges was much lower.
So what does it all add up to? Here is our conclusion: This a fiber optic patch panel, part of an interchangeable faceplate system, that allows the operator to quickly switch between different fiber optic “wiring” configurations. The faceplate brings the fibers up to the backplane, which they butt up against, rather than insert into. An old solution to the modern version of an old problem.
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We mostly take the ready availability of electricity for granted, turning off the radio alarm in the morning, switching on the bedside lamp, pouring a cup of coffee from the machine that automatically started brewing it a few minutes before the alarm went off, tuning in to the morning news show on TV. Yet without the building of myriad power plants and the stringing of countless miles of wire, without the constant monitoring of the electric power grid and the juggling of supply and demand, that ready surge of electrons would not exist—nor would the modern world as we know it. Without a reliable supply of electricity, we couldn't use the lightweight, powerful electric motors that make elevators possible; without elevators, skyscrapers wouldn't exist—and the dramatic skylines of the world's major metropolises would be considerably more modest. Without a reliable supply of electricity, kidney dialysis machines and other life support equipment would be useless to the many patients who depend on them. Without electricity to power traffic lights, the commute to and from work would be mayhem—or maybe not. Without electricity to power automobile factories, we wouldn't have streets and highways full of automobiles either. Indeed, more than half the engineering achievements celebrated in this book would not have been possible without the widespread electrification that occurred in the 20th century, not only in the United States but also in other industrialized nations around the world.
The story of electrification in the United States is a story of public and private investment and of the engineers whose innovations moved the industry forward. Early in the century the distribution of electric power was largely concentrated in cities served by privately owned utility companies (known today as investor-owned utilities, or IOUs). After Thomas Edison's work led to the first commercial power plant in 1882, these companies played a dominant role in constructing an advanced and complex electrical system that would become a model for the world. As the 20th century dawned, capacity expanded rapidly while continuous innovation improved the system. In 1903, for example, the first steam turbine generator, pioneered by Charles Curtis, was put into operation at the Newport Electric Corporation in Newport, Rhode Island. In 1917 an IOU known as American Gas & Electric (AG&E) established the first long-distance high-voltage transmission line-and the plant from which the line ran was the first major steam plant to be built at the mouth of the coal mine that supplied its fuel, virtually eliminating transportation costs. A year later pulverized coal was used as fuel for the first time at the Oneida Street Plant in Milwaukee. All of these innovations, and more, emerged from engineers working in the private sector. By the end of the century, IOUs would still account for almost 75 percent of electric utility generating capacity in the United States, even as they came to be outnumbered by other types of utilities and nonutility power producers. In 1998, for example, the country's 3,170 electric utilities produced 728 gigawatts of power-530 gigawatts of which were produced by 239 IOUs. (The approximately 2,110 nonutilities generated another 98 gigawatts.)
Successful at building plants to service large concentrated markets, IOUs in the first third of the century made relatively limited forays into rural America, where scattered farm families were isolated by distance from urban generating plants. As the inhabitants of New York, Chicago, and other cities across the country enjoyed the gleaming lights and the new labor-saving devices powered by electricity, life in rural America remained difficult. On 90 percent of American farms the only artificial light came from smoky, fumy lamps. Water had to be pumped by hand and heated over wood-burning stoves. Virtually every chore required manual labor; for many farm wives the most tiresome of all was the seemingly endless backbreaking drudgery of washing and ironing the family's clothes and linens. | <urn:uuid:f6b3fdab-647e-4622-8bd2-095537753dc0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://greatachievements.org/?id=2988 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966295 | 792 | 3.390625 | 3 |
When do I know what job I
will be doing for the Air Force as
You will compete in a
selection process much like the one
of an enrollment allocation as an
officer candidate. The factors to be
used will include your Air Force
Officer Qualifying Test (AFOQT)
scores, your camp performance
rating, your Grade Point Average (GPA), your
academic major, your Physical Fitness Test (PFT) score, and the Detachment
Commander's rating. You will know
your specific Air Force job category
approximately six months before
have to become a pilot or navigator?
No. The vast majority of Air
Force jobs do not involve flying at
all. In the civilian world there are
thousands of jobs and careers -
doctors, lawyers, law enforcement,
engineers, financial careers,
food-service management - the list
is endless. For almost every
civilian out in the work force,
there is an Air Force officer
counterpart performing a similar
job. For more information about the
many careers available, check out
our Careers section.
Can I fly?
Possibly - you must qualify
by passing a physical exam, passing
a Physical Fitness Test and
earning certain scores on the Air
Force Officer Qualifying Test (AFOQT).
Also, available pilot and navigator
slots will be increasing in numbers
over the next few years.
When do I actually
receive my commission as an Air
Cadets normally get
commissioned in a special ceremony
the same day they graduate. You can
expect to enter active duty about 60
days after graduation.
Must a student go on
active duty in the Air Force
immediately following graduation and
Not necessarily. You may
request an educational delay if you
desire to attend graduate school at
your own expense before going on
active duty. If approved, the Air
Force will postpone your active-duty
tour. Delays are routinely provided
if you select to attend dental or
medical school. Scholarships also
exist for students accepted to
Can I continue my
education beyond the baccalaureate
Yes. The Air Force offers
several opportunities to do so. In
many cases you can request an
educational delay. This delay
between the time of commissioning
and reporting for active duty will
be of sufficient length to allow you
to fulfill the requirements for a
professional or master's degree. You
will assume all financial
obligations. There are also Air
Force Institute of Technology
programs where the Air Force pays
for your graduate school education.
These programs are explained in
detail in Air Force ROTC.
I don't have 20/20
vision. Can I still fly?
It depends. Check out the Flying Requirements for more
Do I have to major in
Aeronautical Science to become a
pilot or navigator?
No. Your academic major plays
a minor role in pilot and navigator
selection. You can major in any
degree program and compete to
receive a pilot or navigator slot in
Air Force ROTC. You can even be on
an Air Force ROTC scholarship in an
engineering or science major and
compete on an equal basis for a
What are the age limits
for a cadet to compete for a pilot
or navigator position?
To compete for the pilot or
navigator categories, you must be
able to complete your bachelor's
degree and be commissioned through
Air Force ROTC before you are 29
How much do I get paid?
Upon commissioning, you will earn approximately $40,000 per year. This figure includes your base pay as a new second lieutenant (military pay grade of O-1) as well as several other non-taxable allowances including more than $200 per month for food/subsistence and a generous housing allowance that adjusts to your duty location and even increases when you get married or start caring for dependents! For more information about housing rates and allowances across the US for officers with and without dependents, check out the Department of Defense’s Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) Calculator.
You may also earn an even higher annual salary if you live and work in select overseas locations or geographic areas throughout the US that qualify for additional Cost of Living Allowances, or if you qualify for any special pay or career incentives such as flight pay or foreign language proficiency pay. And by the time you finish a typical 4-year active duty commitment, you will be earning more than $60,000 per year.
Will I be behind my fellow
nonmilitary graduates after I
complete my service obligation and
decide to get out?
No. In fact, many companies prefer
to hire former officers over new
college graduates (even those with
master's degrees). Your Air Force
experience, the management skills
you've gained on active duty and
your active-duty educational
benefits can give you the
competitive edge you need.
And starting in 2012, we have partnered with the Kelley School of Business
to provide graduating AFROTC cadets a chance to secure delayed entry into a
Kelley MBA program with a class slot reserved for up to 5 (and in some cases
even 6) years after graduation! This exciting new program allows cadets to
complete their undergraduate studies, earn their commission, and serve out
their first active duty service commitment as any other newly minted Air Force
officer. During that time, you'll gain operational, management, and leadership
experience in our nation's Air Force, but then have the option to return to a
guaranteed slot in one of Kelley's world renowned MBA programs to begin a new
advanced academic degree program and open up a whole new world of professional
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'Hundreds of selves': the British Library's Katherine Mansfield letters
IN January 1920, Katherine Mansfield 'escaped' (as she declared in a letter to her husband, John Middleton Murry) from the 'hell of isolation . . . the loneliness and fright' of the past few months, which had been spent at Ospedaletti on the Italian Riviera. She was ill with tuberculosis, and her doctors had advised against another English winter. Alone with her ever-faithful companion, Ida Baker-on whom she was forced to depend completely, but who provoked in her an irritation which occasionally exploded into hatred-she found herself leading the dufl, restricted life of an invalid.
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Callisto has developed a number of bespoke simulators for testing ground equipment prior to a satellite launch.
The METEOSAT series satellite are spin stabilised and are equipped with Electrically De-spun Antennas, for the communication links to the ground stations. The switching elements in the Electrically De-spun Antennas cause phase and amplitude ripples at the satellite spin rate to be introduced on the communication links. In order to test the effect on the ground reception equipment Callisto was asked to design and develop simulators to produce parasitic AM and PM ripple on data-modulated RF signals. RF voltage variable attenuators and voltage variable phase shifters were used, driven by a programmable waveform generator. The simulator includes software running on a PC which allow the User to control the parameters of the waveform generator; frequency, amplitude, phase and waveform type. In addition complex waveform generation from file sources can be used.
Many satellite missions start with an In Orbit Test (IOT) prior to the start of operations. Dedicated IOT equipment is installed in ground stations to undertake these tests. However, how can the ground IOT equipment be verified and the test procedures validated before satellite launch? In the case of the MSG satellite, Callisto was asked to design a transponder simulator for this purpose. The unit was specified with an uplink at 2.1 GHz and a downlink at 1.7 GHz. Inside the simulator there was down-conversion of the input 2.1 GHz signal to an IF of 110 MHz IF, followed by an up-conversion from 110 MHz to 1.7 GHz. The unit included filters to simulate the transponder characteristics, step attenuators to simulate the link losses and amplifiers to simulate non-linear behaviour.
Verification that ground station equipment can operate with Doppler effects due to satellite motion is important, particular for LEO missions when Doppler shifts and rates of frequency change can be high. Callisto has designed and developed equipment which can accurately simulate the change in frequency on a downlink RF signal as if coming from a satellite pass.
The simulator, which works for either an S band downlink or an X band downlink, calculates the Doppler profile for a pass based on the operator selecting a few orbital parameters for the mission to be simulated (orbital height, inclination, maximum elevation angle). The calculated Doppler profile is then used to drive a synthesised Local Oscillator, which produces a frequency shift on test signal connected to the IF input of the ground station receivers.
The Doppler profile is updated in real-time to simulate a satellite pass. Care has been taken in the design to ensure that the frequency changes are phase continuous, as will be the case with a real satellite signal.
It is sometimes important to test a ground segment telemetry chain with real satellite telemetry data, rather than simulated data. In the case when a satellite suitcase is not available, then a solution is to record telemetry from the satellite at the satellite integration facility, then playback the data at the ground station. Callisto has developed a TM Recorder based on a PC. The unit can record either a video signal (modulated sub-carrier for example) or a PCM serial data stream. The length of data recording is limited only by the amount of free space on the PC hard drive. | <urn:uuid:edee926a-d886-4877-9286-9f7b56e0ac69> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.callisto-space.com/en/research-and-development/test-simulators.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929279 | 704 | 2.75 | 3 |
Sweet basil is extremely easy to grow from seed, and the seeds stay viable for a long time. I found out the hard way this spring when I took a couple of old packs sprinkled them in a flat and ended up with seven flats of basil to show for it. In some instances it will even self sow, as I have several plants to show for it this year. You can start the seeds inside in the early spring to get a head start. Just use a soilless mixture (I recommend coconut coir), put them in a bright sunny window, and keep them moist, not wet. In 7-10 days you’ll see your plants begin to emerge.
Plant basil outside after all danger of frost is past as it is not tolerant of frost even a little bit, even temperatures near freezing can do it in. Once planted basil is an easy care plant. Just water regularly and fertilize as you would any other annual. It is recommended to use organic fertilizers, since you are going to eat it. I’ve never had a pest problem with basil, and I’ve lived in several different states, and climates.
You can start to harvest basil at almost any stage, but definitely start harvesting when it gets to its sixth set of leaves. That is when it will start to flower. You want to harvest before it flowers if possible, as the taste is better. I never manage to make it all the time, but keep up with it if possible.
You will not need a lot of basil plants even 3 or 4 can provide you with all the fresh and dried basil you’ll need for the coming year. I had sixteen plants last year and have enough basil for several years!
Harvesting involves cutting the leaves and either using them fresh or preserving them for later use. Fresh cut basil should be put in a container with water and set on your counter. DO NOT put it in the refrigerator or you’ll come back to find a glass full of black slimy leaves. On the counter it can last as much as two weeks. I’ve even had it root in the glass and stay fresh even longer, but don’t count on that.
To preserve basil you can dry or freeze it. If you dry it, try to use a dehydrator with temperature control. Set the temperature at 90°F, place the leaves on the racks spread out in a single layer and allow them to dehydrate overnight. Doing it at a low temperature preserves some essential oils that are lost when dried at a high temperature. Your basil will taste just like fresh!
If you want to freeze it you will need to put it in a carrier oil to keep it from turning to slime when thawed. You can use any oil, but olive is typically used. Place basil in a food processor and chop it into fairly large pieces. Drizzle just enough oil on them while they are being chopped to coat the leaves. Put spoonfuls into ice cube trays and put in the freezer. Once frozen you can pop them out and store them in a bag. One cube will be enough to flavor a soup, salad dressing, or any main dish.
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The school follows the Montessori Method of teaching at the pre-school and pre-primary stage. The tiny tots learn in an informal way with the help of specially designed apparatus under the supervision and guidance of trained and experienced teachers. Special attention is paid to facilitate the physical, mental, emotional and social growth of the child through a series of well coordinated activities.
The students of the primary department are gradually exposed to formal education. Emphasis is given not only on acquisition of new knowledge but also on concept formation and application of knowledge in practical life situation. Stress is laid on "learning by doing". Children are given personal attention. They are exposed to pictorial books, audio-visual programmes which excite their interest in learning.
Students are not unduly burdened with home work and are evaluated through their day-to-day work and performance in studies and various curricular and co-curricular activities.
Middle and Secondary Department:
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A self described "rugged hockey player," Cal Gardner knew his share of on-ice combat. late in the 1947 season, he precipitated what has been described as biggest, longest brawl in hockey history. The last place Rangers were playing the league-leading Canadiens in Madison Square Gardens. Kenny Reardon of the Habs was clipped by Gardner's errant stick, resulting in a bad and bloody cut.
On his way to the infirmary, Reardon exchanged pleasantries with players and even spectators. He ended up involved in a tussle with a fan. The entire Canadiens team leaped off the bench and skated across the ice to rescue Reardon, but a pitched battle with fans and police resulted in the corridor.
Reardon vowed revenge on Gardner, signaling the beginning of a bitter feud. The dispute climaxed in November, 1949 when Gardner, by now a Toronto Maple Leaf, had his jaw shattered by Reardon. Desperately hoping to end the feud, NHL president Clarence Campbell forced Reardon while he was on the ice to post a $1,000 bond against future violence!
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|Barrel length (m)||2.946|
|Projectile weight (kg)||2.3-2.7|
|Fire rate||1-2 per minute|
A gun for all seasons
Built to last, this amazing Saker was originally cast during the reign of Elizabeth I in about 1601. However, in the Far East in about 1800 the barrel was inscribed in Chinese recording its fine quality and ‘intimidating power’. The Saker was captured from the Chinese by the Royal Navy during the First Opium War (1839-42), being returned to Britain and entering the Royal Armouries collection.
Sakers were guns used on ships and on land: heavy enough to be useful at a siege and light enough for use on the battlefield.
This saker demonstrates the capabilities of a muzzle loading gun. Made in London, it found its way to China where, over two hundred years later, its power remained awesome.
The saker was named after a bird of prey, perhaps suggesting the gun’s elegance and deadliness. This one was cast in London by Richard Phillips whose foundry was at the ‘Sign of the Fireball’.
Bronze guns lasted well, justifying their high initial cost in materials and workmanship. This gun probably travelled to China as part of the armament of a merchant ship. Captured by the British at Chusan (now Zhoushan), during the First Opium War, it was brought to the Tower of London In 1842. The carriage is a replica.
The Chinese inscription on the barrel praises its quality. When tested in 1800 it was:
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The re-election of United States President Barack Obama could mean the signing of a free-trade deal with the US, an Asia specialist said today.
Speaking on TV ONE's Q+A programme, Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington specialist Mike Green said he was "very confident" the impact of the US presidential election on New Zealand would see a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal signed within the next four years.
"I don't think it will be finished this year, which is the goal," he added, "because I think Japan will start to come in and it will be worth accommodating Japan, that's a huge economy.
"And I think countries like Vietnam and so forth are going to have some political difficulties, but in the next four years yes.
"I think the President knows that this is, in many ways, the meat that would make the pivot or rebalance."
He said he believed the Obama administration would "move smartly" on TPP, because the "concept of focussing on Asia has strong bipartisan support" in the US.
Green said New Zealand's role in the Asia-Pacific region was more important now than 10 or 20 years ago, describing the country as a "big player" for its size.
"There's going to be a lot of expectations and a lot of challenges frankly for a New Zealand government to be playing with us - because we have a huge government, a huge military and a huge aids system - on all of these different issues, but I think it's a good thing," he said.
In only a couple of weeks time around 500 representatives from all of the countries involved in the free-trade deal will descend on Auckland to complete the latest round of negotiations.
New Zealand ambassador to the US Mike Moore, added he was "hopeful" the highly-anticipated TPP free-trade deal would be signed by the end of 2013.
"This is not easy for anyone, there are certain sensitive products that America has to face, issues like sugar that's not important to us but it is to our friends in Australia, and we all have to work this through," the former New Zealand Prime Minister said.
"And we're hopeful that we can tie the negotiation up by the end of next year."
He added: "Great national interests do not change with a change of government, at either end."
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Short Course #4 Atomic Force Microscopy for Energy Research Applications and Electrochemistry
Keith Jones, Instructor
Please visit the Toronto meeting page for registration information. Early-Bird Registration rates are in effect until April 12, 2013. See a list of all Short courses offered at the Toronto meeting.
This course is intended for chemists, physicists, and materials scientists that want to understand how Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) can be used to characterize materials and to probe electrochemical processes and ionic transport in solids for a broad range of applications for energy generation and storage ranging from batteries to fuel cells. A new technique called Electrochemical Strain Microscopy (ESM) will be introduced. ESM, developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is an innovative new AFM/SPM technique that is capable of probing electrochemical reactivity and ionic flows in solids on the sub-ten-nanometer level. Students will learn the science behind the technique, how it works, and the advantages of this technique over other methods. Current ESM results will also be presented and general AFM tips and tricks for electrochemistry applications.
Introduction to AFM
Instrumentation and scanning modes
Challenges in battery/energy research characterization
Introduction to the ESM technique
Advantages of the technique over others
Current research and image examples
Tips and tricks for AFM electrochemistry measurements
About the Instructor
Keith Jones has over 14 years of AFM experience and is currently an Applications Scientist at Asylum Research, Santa Barbara, CA focusing on AFM and the electrical characterization materials and general material science applications. Previously, he was an Application Scientist at Veeco (Bruker), where he developed AFM application modules used to electrically test and characterize semiconductors, conductors and insulators in materials and devices. He has held various Research Assistant positions at Virginia Commonwealth University in both the Electrical Engineering and Physics departments. He received his MS in Applied Physics from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2000. Mr. Jones has been published in peer-reviewed journals for papers on AFM and materials topics. | <urn:uuid:867fd778-35b7-43d7-94e5-90bc633f48b5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://electrochem.org/education/short_courses/223/sc4/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909593 | 429 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Apple recently announced the passing of their beloved co-founder and chairman of the board, Steven P. Jobs (1955 – 2011), sparking an unstoppable flow of tributes coming from all corners of the world. This touching logo tribute, simply named “Thanks, Steve.” was created by Jonathan Mak Long, a 19-year-old designer living in Hong Kong. Jobs’ face appears to be taken from the cover of ‘Inside Steve’s Brain’, a book about Steve Jobs written by Leander Kahney.
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Work (Art Of Living (McGill-Queen))
Work is one of the most universal features of human life; virtually everybody spends some part of their life at work. It is often associated with tedium and boredom; in conflict with the things we would otherwise love to do. Thinking of work primarily as a burden - an activity we would rather be without - is a thought that was shared by the philosophers in ancient Greece, who generally regarded work as a terrible curse. And yet, research shows that it prolongs life and is generally good for people's physical and mental health. This is perhaps why work is increasingly recognized as a crucial source of meaning and social identity. And our attitudes to work have been changing significantly in the last decades, with an increased demand for meaning and self-realization in the workplace.In this book, Lars Svendsen argues that we need to complete this reorientation of our feelings about work and collapse the differences between leisure and work. Work, like the poor, is always with us. But to overcome the sense of being burnt out, we must think of work as not only productive but recreative - in other words, a lot more like leisure.
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One of our great pleasures, as readers discovering authors new to us, is coming upon references to the writers that they themselves read and admired. Performing a sort of literary archaeology, we can then dig deeper, encountering the minds who influenced our writer of the moment. You might, for example, have first encountered mention of Henry Beston in a biography of Rachel Carson, who said that The Outermost House was the only book that influenced her while writing The Sea Around Us. Later, reading Beston, you find a reference to the writings of H.M. Tomlinson, and seek him out. On you go, author by author, deeper into the minds of your mentors.
In the case of Henry Beston, we know that he read widely in history, poetry, the natural sciences, American Indian lore, anthropology --- and we learn from Elizabeth's Maine Memories that a favorite Beston pastime, before the fire on frigid winter nights, was reading Shakespeare aloud. Henry himself recommended the King James Bible as a model for stirring prose, and Robert Finch has observed that Beston's prose, its great rolling periods and heroic, stately rhythms, has much in common with John Donne, Thomas Browne, and other masters of the Jacobean Age.
We can assume that Beston's thought was influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose first book, Nature, and whose subsequent essays Beston surely read. Emerson argued that man had arisen from nature, and might transcend his narrow, societally-imposed limits through a studied immersion in the natural world, a closer communion with it and with his own mind. In Emerson's Oversoul and other essays, Eastern philosophies --- offering the prospect of universal, endless, natural cyclings of creation, growth, fruition and decay ----- were introduced to American audiences, opening their imaginations to concepts such as what we would call "deep time," and presaging much of the thought of Henry David Thoreau.
We have seen, elsewhere in this website under "Beston and Thoreau," that Beston minimized his links with and debt to Thoreau. Still, there are unmistakable allegiances in the writing itself, and although Beston may indeed have found Thoreau lacking in human sympathy, he had in fact studied, and assimilated, much of Thoreau's thinking.
Elizabeth Coatsworth, introducing the Beston anthology Especially Maine (now in print under the title The Best of Beston), tells us that, "Henry had a remarkable memory. By the time he came to the Cape it was well stocked on many subjects, including the writings of W.H. Hudson, Thoreau, Tomlinson, Conrad, and Jefferies, whom I name last because it was his work that Henry most admired." Joseph Conrad, of course, is well known and easily accessible; but modern readers may be less familiar with the other names on Beston's personal litany. Briefly then, in the hope that you'll seek them out for yourself:
W.H. Hudson, 1841-1922, was born of American parents, and raised on a cattle farm in Argentina. Stricken by rheumatic fever at 15, Hudson never fully recovered. He emigrated to London in 1874, and published more than 20 books, of which Green Mansions, a romantic nature-fantasy of the Venezuelan jungle, was most successful. Henry Beston was likely a devotee of Hudson's Idle Days in Patagonia, a brooding meditation on time and nature in a stark and desolate landscape.
H.M. Tomlinson, 1873-1958, was an English journalist and novelist whose best-known work, The Sea and the Jungle, influenced both Henry Beston and Rachel Carson. It is the story of a voyage Tomlinson made aboard a steamer just before the First World War, crossing the Atlantic and traveling 2,000 miles up the Amazon to deliver a load of Welsh coal. "This is a travel book for honest men," said Tomlinson; and, for both Beston and Carson, Tomlinson's narrative ease and descriptive ability were worthy of admiration.
Richard Jefferies, 1848-1887, another English writer of the Victorian period, was a journalist and essayist whose ruminations on nature, within the confines of a small region, began to fuse close observation with poetic expression and mysticism. Reading him --- and we suggest a recent anthology of his (mostly out-of-print) writings, At Home on the Earth --- you are carried along on what seems a fairly pedestrian, descriptive plain, a sort of walking tour of the English countryside that suddenly shifts; and in the course of a few more sentences, you are vaulted unforgettably into the very gulfs of space and time.
We recommend all three of these writers, and hope that reading them will enrich your own world, and give you a better sense of Henry's.
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Digital photography has stimulated the desire of photography enthusiasts to be able produce images with different types of special effects applied to the images.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
For a detailed description of exemplary embodiments of the invention, reference will now be made to the accompanying drawings in which:
NOTATION AND NOMENCLATURE
Certain terms are used throughout the following description and claims to refer to particular system components. As one skilled in the art will appreciate, computer companies may refer to a component by different names. This document does not intend to distinguish between components that differ in name but not function. In the following discussion and in the claims, the terms “including” and “comprising” are used in an open-ended fashion, and thus should be interpreted to mean “including, but not limited to . . . .” Also, the term “couple” or “couples” is intended to mean either an indirect, direct, optical or wireless electrical connection. Thus, if a first device couples to a second device, that connection may be through a direct electrical connection, through an indirect electrical connection via other devices and connections, through an optical electrical connection, or through a wireless electrical connection.DETAILED DESCRIPTION
The embodiments disclosed herein relate to a special effect in which a reflected version of an input image is generated.
In at least one embodiment of the invention, the mechanism that takes an input image and permits a user to generate a reflected version of that input image is provided in an image acquisition device such as a digital camera.
The fixed non-volatile storage 104 comprises software 108 that is executed by processor 102. Storage 104 is fixed in that, in at least some embodiments, storage 104 is not readily removable from the camera 100 by a user. Non-volatile storage 106, however, is removable. In some embodiments, non-volatile storage 106 comprises a removable storage device such as Secure Digital (SD) card, Compact Flash card, etc. on which images captured by the image capture module 120 are stored. The software 108 causes the processor 102 to perform various actions. Such actions include, for example, activating the image capture module 120 to acquire an image per user input via one or more of the input controls 126, causing the previously captured images that are stored on the removable non-volatile storage 106 to be viewed on display 130, and performing the methods described herein to generate a reflected image.
The method for generating a reflected image described herein can be implemented in software. In other embodiments, hardware or a combination of hardware and software are possible as well to implement the method. For software-based implementations, the software can be stored on any of a variety of storage media such as volatile memory (e.g., random access memory), non-volatile storage such as fixed non-volatile storage 114 (or a hard disk drive, compact disc read only memory (CD ROM), etc.), and combinations thereof.
Volatile storage 114 comprises random access memory (RAM) in accordance with at least some embodiments of the invention. Volatile storage 114 is used as a temporary scratchpad memory for the processor to use while executing software 108. Further, in some embodiments an image to be processed for reflection first is copied from non-volatile storage 106 to volatile storage 114 and the copy of the image on the non-volatile storage 106 is then processed. Following generation of the reflected image, which is stored on the volatile storage 114, the reflected image is copied to non-volatile storage 106.
Method 200 processes an input image to generate an inverted version of at least a portion of that image. The input image may be an image acquired using the image capture module 120 of camera 100 or the input image may have been acquired or generated via another mechanism in the past. The image may have been acquired or generated by a variety of sources.
While viewing, on display 130, the image to which the user desires to apply the reflective effect, at 202 (
The reflection effect permits a user to select a portion of the input image. In the embodiments disclosed herein, the selected portion comprises a rectangular portion of the input image. In at least some embodiments, the rectangular portion has a width that is one-half of the width of the input image and has a height that is one-half of the input image's height (i.e., one-quarter of the input image). The width and height of the images and image portions are measured in terms of number of pixels defining the images and portions. The selected one-half width, one-half height portion is then inverted as described below to create the reflected image.
The input image in at least some embodiments is stored on removable non-volatile storage 106. Accessing data in volatile memory 114, however, is generally faster than accessing data from the removable non-volatile storage 106. Accordingly, at 204 the image is copied from removable non-volatile storage 106 to a first buffer 115 in volatile memory 114 for further processing therefrom. At 206, a second buffer 117 is created in the volatile memory 114 into which the reflected image is stored. The first and second buffers are of the same or comparable size.
At 208, the user presses the left/right/up down cursor segments 126b-126e to select the one-half width, one-half height portion of the input image for inverting. In accordance with at least some embodiments, 25 different image portions are selectable by the user-five along a horizontal axis and five along a vertical axis.
By pressing the left/right/up down cursor segments 126b-126e, any one of the 25 possible image portions can be selected. In some embodiments, the user, however, is not presented with a direct visual indication as to which center point the user has selected. In some such embodiments, the initial default image portion is portion 242 which is centered about outermost point 251. From there, the user can change the selected center point up, down, left and right. Each time the user selects a new center point and corresponding image portion, method 200 processes the selected portion to apply the reflected effect as explained below. The camera 100 is generally able to apply the reflected effect fast enough (in less than about one second in some embodiments) so that the user can promptly see the result of the effect.
In other embodiments, the user is shown a graphical image of a box on the display 130, the box corresponding to one of the 25 possible portions. The user can move the box around on the screen by selecting different center points via cursor control 126a. The user will then select the Menu/OK button 126f once the desired box location is selected to have the reflected effect applied.
The example described below assumes the user has selected image portion 244 centered about point 253 (
At 212, the image portion 244 in the upper left-hand quadrant of the second buffer is inverted about an edge 260 of portion 244. The edge 260 represents, in at least some embodiments, the bottom edge of image portion 244. Inverting the image portion 244 about edge 260 results in image portion 244 being copied into the lower left-hand quadrant of the second buffer while at the same time inverting the image about horizontal edge 260. The result of the inversion is illustrated in
At 214, the two left-hand image portions, representing the initial portion 244 and the inverted image portion 244a, are inverted about an edge 262. The edge 262 represents, in at least some embodiments, the right-hand vertical edge of image portions 244 and 244a. Edge 262 is orthogonal to edge 260 in this example, although in other examples, the two edges need not be orthogonal to one another. Inverting the image portions 244, 244a about edge 262 results in image portions 244b and 244c as shown in
The reflective effect has been applied to the image copied to the first buffer 115 at 204. In some embodiments, the image may have been the “full” image acquired by the image capture module 120. In a camera having a resolution of, six megapixels, for example, the full image would comprise 6,000,000 pixels of image data. Processing that much data, however, may take more time than a user of the camera 100 is willing to wait. The display 130 of the camera has a lower resolution than the resolution of the image capture module 120. For example, the display 130 may have a resolution of 320×240 pixels (76,800 pixels of image data). The full image is down-sampled to show the image on display 130. In the embodiment of
Each time the user presses the left, right, up, or down arrow cursor segments 126b-126e (of
At any time while viewing a reflected image, the user can press the Menu/OK button 126f, as determined at 216 in
In accordance with another embodiment of the invention, the image portion being reflected is offset before the two inversion actions 212 and 214 (and corresponding inversion actions for the full image) are applied. The option for implementing this feature is selectable by a user via input controls 126. The user can specify the amount of offset via the input controls 126. The effect may be to move the image left or right or up or down as desired.
In some embodiments, the initial image portion is inverted about two axes. In other embodiments, the image portion can be inverted about only a single axis (e.g., a horizontal axis, a vertical axis, or an axis at another angle), or about more than two axes.
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A Hard Lesson
If there's any lesson that parents should learn from the death of her son, Trayvon Martin, Sybrina Fulton wants it to be that vigilance is necessary...even in places where you wouldn't expect it to be.
ABOVE PHOTO: AP photo.
By Denise Clay
The death of a child is something that most would agree is a tragedy.
Because of the pain it can cause in a family, some families don't make it through. Parents who are allowed to mourn privately find it rough, especially if the child is taken under a circumstance like the one that Trayvon Martin found himself in.
But Sybrina Fulton has not had the luxury of privacy. America has watched her and Trayvon's father, Tracy Martin, mourn their child and talk to whomever will listen about the justice they are seeking for his death. George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watchman who shot Trayvon will be going on trial soon for second-degree murder.
Fulton was in town last weekend as part of the International Caucus of Women of the African Diaspora, Greater Philadelphia Caucus-sponsored Trayvon Martin Project SOS (Saving Our Sons And Daughters). She was one of the keynote speakers for the conference and says that while she's still very much in pain over her loss, she's looking at a much bigger picture.
"I take it one day at a time and I know that God is in control," she said. "The support I receive and the encouragement I'm able to give others helps me out a lot. I want people to see Trayvon's death as a lesson; to know that things are serious. I don't want what happened to me to happen to someone else."
Much of the conference focused on ways to keep other parents from having to ever know that pain. Activists, community leaders and others came together to discuss some of the issues that have led to some of the violence seen in the streets, the impact of Stand Your Ground laws like the one in Florida that the Zimmerman is basing his defense on, and what solutions the community can come up with to stem the tide of violence.
The conference started with a Town Hall meeting held at Zion Baptist Church in North Philadelphia. Moderated by Clear Channel's Lorraine Ballard Morrill, panelists included Benjamin Crump, the attorney representing Trayvon Martin's family, activist Dick Gregory, local attorney and activist Michael Coard, former City Council candidate Sharif Street and State Sen. Shirley Kitchen.
That this conference was being held in Philadelphia at this time allows the community to focus not only on the tragedy that is Trayvon Martin's death, but to also look at the deaths that are becoming commonplace among the city's young black men, said The Rev. Carl A. Prince, pastor of Zion Baptist Church, one of the conference sites.
When Black boys are killed before they're allowed to fully become Black men, the community, if not the country, feels the impact, Prince said.
"All of our institutions are in jeopardy, from the Black Church to HBCUs," he said. "The Black Family is impacted because of this. This is not just a black problem, it's an American epidemic. All of America's institutions are in jeopardy because of this."
But while there are things that can be attributed to white supremacy and societal norms, Gregory refused to allow the audience the luxury of placing the fault for the current spate of murders on that particular doorstep.
"Death is final," he said. "Some of the strongest voices in America are the Black Woman and the Black Church. There are certain things that you can't blame on white people. Kids are a reflection of their parents."
In addition to having a series of workshops that addressed a variety of things including education and social services, organizers also gave Fulton a check for the Trayvon Martin Foundation.
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The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news.
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PepsiCo is once again learning the risks of celebrity partnerships after an ad for Mountain Dew was criticized for portraying racial stereotypes and making light of violence toward women. The soda and snack food company said it immediately pulled the 60-second spot after learning that people found it offensive.
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America's blacks voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the white turnout for the first time, reflecting a deeply polarized presidential election in which blacks strongly supported Barack Obama while many whites stayed home.
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Chris Kelly, half of the 1990s kid rap duo behind one of the decade's most memorable songs, "Jump," has died at an Atlanta hospital of an apparent drug overdose, authorities said. He was 34. Kelly, known as "Mac Daddy," and Chris Smith, known as "Daddy Mac," made up the rap group Kris Kross...
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Drug wars and the balloon effect
Why have billions of dollars and thousands of anti-narcotics agents around the world failed to throttle the global traffic in cocaine, heroin and marijuana? Blame wrong-headed policies, largely driven by the United States, and what experts call the balloon effect.
Squeezing a balloon in one place makes it expand in another. Destroy drug crops in one region and cultivation moves to another. Cut a supply route in one place and another one springs up. Take the example of Colombia and Mexico, at present a focus of U.S. attention because of large-scale violence that threatens to spill across the border.
In the 1970s and early 1980s, almost all the cocaine consumed in the United States was grown in Colombia and shipped to South Florida along a variety of sea and air routes. Colombian traffickers fighting for market share turned Miami into a city where shootouts, contract killings and kidnappings became part of daily life.
That began to change when enraged citizens appealed to the federal government for help to crack down on the “cocaine cowboys.” Then President Ronald Reagan established a special force to cut the cocaine pipelines and end the violence. “The Mexicans must rue the day the South Florida Task Force was set up,” said Peter Reuter, a scholar at the University of Maryland. “That was the beginning of the problems it faces today.”
Within weeks of its formation in 1982, the task force scored several spectacular successes. A string of seizures of large quantities of cocaine and marijuana prompted Colombian trafficking organisations to shift their smuggling routes to Mexico, where they partnered with criminal networks.
By 1988, the balloon effect had become obvious: The Mexican Defence Ministry reported it had discovered 4.8 tonnes of cocaine in a cave in Chihuahua near the U.S. border. It was then the world’s biggest seizure of the drug. Its Colombian origin was not in doubt — Mexico produced no cocaine of its own.
Now, two decades later, the U.S. State Department estimates that as much as 90 percent of the cocaine consumed in the United States comes through Mexico, which is also a major source of heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana. The State Department’s estimates speak volumes about the failure of policies that emphasised crop eradication, interdiction and punishment for drug users.
FARTHER AWAY THAN EVER
As a Latin American commission led by three former presidents (of Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil) put it recently: “Prohibitionist policies based on the eradication of production and on the disruption of drug flows as well as on the criminalization of consumption have not yielded the expected results. We are farther away than ever from the announced goal of eradicating drugs.”
If it were possible to seal the border, there would be no reason for Mexico’s drug mafias to wage war against each other. They are fighting for access to the main gateways into the U.S. In one border city alone, Ciudad Juarez, more than 1,000 people have been killed in the first two months of the year.
There has been growing criticism of the war on drugs, and not only from advocates of legalization who argue that drugs should be sold and regulated in the same way as alcohol and tobacco is now regulated.
On a visit to Mexico this week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that “our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade.” Though it was a statement of the obvious — the drug trade is driven by the laws of supply and demand — officials of previous administrations have not been nearly as blunt.
Discussing the drug problem as a presidential candidate, Barack Obama he said he believed in “shifting the paradigm, shifting the model so that we can focus more on a public health approach.”
The public health approach, know as “harm reduction” in a global dispute over drug strategies, means treating drug addicts not as criminals who participate in an illegal market but as patients who deserve care in the public health system. Most of Europe favors harm reduction over filling the prisons with drug abusers, the standard procedure in the United States.
On any give day, about half a million people are behind bars in the United States for drug offences. Obama’s choice of drug czar, Seattle police chief Gil Kerlikowski, signals a new direction, at least in the drug war at home. Seattle has been on the forefront of drug reform developments, including a needle exchange program for addicts. And for Seattle police, marijuana arrests have been the lowest law enforcement priority.
The drug czar heads the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, a 130-member group which sets anti-drug policy. “The success of our efforts to reduce the flow of drugs is largely dependent on our ability to reduce demand for them,” Kerlikowske said after his nomination.
Reducing demand for illicit drugs in the United States, the world’s largest market, is an ambitious goal. Earlier attempts have failed, including Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign. A program still active called DARE — Drug Abuse Resistance Education — aimed at high school students is drawing mixed reviews.
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Fall roof care tips
- Look for signs of fatigue: splits and cracks along stacks, vents, expansion joins, walls and perimeters which are the hardest hit by your house's movement as temperatures rise and fall.
- Remove all debris and leaves from all drains, scuppers and gutters. (Blocked drains are the biggest source of roof leaks so attend to them before the rain storms hit.)
- Make sure all skylights are not broken or cracked due to falling limbs and debris
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Same Day Teeth
The All-on-4 or All-on-6 techniques are procedures in which a complete arch of permanent teeth can be replaced on just four or six dental implants depending on how far back the teeth extend in the arch. The implants are placed at specific angles in order to utilise the available bone in order to make it possible to provide teeth further back within your mouth.
With All-on-4 or All-on-6 there is far less likelihood of requiring bone-grafting prior to placing the implants. The great benefit being that we can place the implants and give you a functional dentition on the same day.
As our population is generally living longer and leading more active lives the premature loss of teeth can be upsetting. Tooth loss creates both a cosmetic and functional issue which can compromise your quality of life. Following tooth loss the surrounding bone atrophies or shrinks due to lack of fuction or stimulus. Accidents, gum disease, tooth decay and many other factors can be cause of tooth loss. As we age, the chance of tooth loss increases dramatically.
The bridges used in All-on-4 or 6 concepts are functionally stable and can be treated just like normal teeth. The "Same Day Teeth" procedure relates to having your failing natural or missing teeth replaced with dental implants and fully functional bridgework fitted on the same day. The procedure can be used for full mouth rehabilitation including both upper and lower jaws.
Furthermore if you are wearing removable dentures which you are finding difficult to tolerate because they are either unstable or uncomfortable then a fixed dentition retained on dental implants using "Same Day Teeth Concept" will contribute to you confidence and quality of life.
It is always necessary to have an extensive examination plus any necessary X-rays first to ascertain if your mouth is suitable for the Same Day Teeth procedure. Please contact the team at 32 Whites to make an appointment for a consultation. At this appointment all options will be discussed with you in order that you can make an informed choice.
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Sadducees, who deny that there is a resurrection, came to Jesus and asked,
"Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies, leaving a widow but no children, the brother must marry the widow and raise up children for his brother.a20
Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman; when he died, he left no children.
The second married her and died without leaving any children. The third did the same.
None of the seven left any children. Finally, the woman died.
At the resurrection, when they all rise up, whose wife will she be? All seven were married to her."
Jesus said to them, "Isn't this the reason you are wrong, because you don't know either the scriptures or God's power?25 When people rise from the dead, they won't marry nor will they be given in marriage. Instead, they will be like God's angels.26 As for the resurrection from the dead, haven't you read in the scroll from Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God said to Moses, I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?b27 He isn't the God of the dead but of the living. You are seriously mistaken." | <urn:uuid:708ef577-d0cf-483a-8bc6-2daea36f41b9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.biblestudytools.com/ceba/mark/passage.aspx?q=mark+12:18-27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97926 | 269 | 1.929688 | 2 |
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Summer Learning Experiences Enrich Faculty
Faculty return to campus renewed and reinvigorated after the summer, but for many, summer was not all fun in the sun. Many faculty use the valuable time for professional development.
For instance, academic dean and math faculty member Jackie Bonenfant attended a four-day conference at the Harvard Graduate School of Education called the "Future of Learning." It featured Howard Gardner, David Perkins, and a host of other researchers and practitioners. The focus of the conference was how three major societal changes—mind/brain research, the digital revolution, and globalization—will shape the future of teaching and learning.
“Howard Gardner outlined ‘Five Minds for the Future’ that we should foster: the disciplined mind, the synthesizing mind, the creating mind, the respectful mind, and the ethical mind,” says Jackie. “As he said, ‘The world will not be saved by high test scores… . More than ever, a laser-like focus is needed on the kinds of human beings we are raising and the kinds of societies—indeed, in a global era, the kind of world society—that we are fashioning.’”
English faculty member Tarim Chung immersed himself in postmodern literature based on a syllabus from a graduate course at Harvard. This included among others, Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, Nabokov’s Speak, Memory and Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.
“Family realities kept me from taking the actual course, but I have been reading and taking notes on what I've read as I try to brush up on a genre of literature that I know less about but feel a real affinity for,” says Tarim. “Somewhere between reading for sheer pleasure and reading--pen firmly in hand--toward converting a book into immediate classroom material is a really blissful region of imaginative thought, and I tried to surf along that region as long as I could during this stimulating little foray. Next summer I am contemplating taking onThe Russians!”
Pam McArdle of the performing arts faculty attended the Broadway Teachers' Workshop. This workshop is sponsored by Musical Theatre International for theatre and drama teachers, and is held in New York City. Pam said these workshops are great opportunities to work with theatre industry professionals. She has participated during two previous summers.
“One of the highlights was a workshop on puppetry led by Tony Award nominee,
John Tartaglia of Avenue Q. Definitely something I will introduce in my classes!” says Pam. “The element I most value from these workshops is the sharing of ideas, tactics, problem-solving, suggestions, and play resources with others who do what I do everyday in the classroom or on a stage.”
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Looking for ways to improve the sustainability of your bulk bags?
How about reducing their size?
How do you do that?
Do a better job of densifying your product so that it takes less volume for a given weight... and use a shorter bag!
Ideally, the product you put in your bulk bag should be at its maximum packed bulk density when it leaves your bulk bag filler. If it's not you are using a larger bulk bag than necessary and, more importantly, it may not be safe.
Not all bulk bag fillers do the same job when it comes to compacting or densifying your product.
At Control and Metering we use a 'rule of thumb' that for every 10% you can reduce the height of your bulk bag, the cost reduces by 5%.
So if you can do a better job of densifying your product while it's being filled you're not only lowering your packaging costs you're also improving your packaging sustainability.
A VERY nice win-win!
Unfortunately, Dusting is a Common Problem
While bulk bags can be the most economical package for shipping semi-bulk quantities of dry bulk solids, they often get a bad rap from end-users because the process of unloading them can be dusty.
Excessive dusting during discharge obviously causes a mess requiring additional clean up labor. However, it can cause significant profit reduction because every pound of product that lands on the floor reduces ingredient yield and increases input costs.
Dusting Can Be Costly!
We know of a food manufacturer whose bulk bag discharging stations create a lot of dusting during unloading. A plant visit confirmed the mess made during bulk bag discharging, but curiously their floors are always spotless!
The plant has hose bibs EVERYWHERE, which encourages cleaning. Seemingly a good thing.
However, a thorough analysis of their ingredient yield showed that they were losing approximately $300,000.00 annually due to poor yield: TONS of product - along with a good chunk of profit - were being washed down the drain!
While it's true that not all of that waste was directly attributable to dusting from bulk bag dischargers, most of it was.
So, not only is dusting during bulk bag unloading a nuisance and housekeeping issue, it can quickly affect - negatively - the bottom line.
What can be done?
- Training. The biggest issue we see with the use of bulk bag dischargers is that operators are not following the manufacturer's operating instructions. Regardless of the equipment used to unload bulk bags, if it is not used properly optimal dust containment cannot be achieved. Left to their own devices operators will quickly figure out the easiest way to get product out of the bag - and that often leads to unecessary dust emissions. Easy operation sounds like a good thing, but the reality of discharging bulk bags is that they require some effort to use properly. Work with your bulk bag discharger vendor to fully understand how their equipment should be used to best effect and then train and supervise your operators accordingly.
- Bulk bag design. We often see situations where fine product sifts through the fabric of bulk bags. If that sounds familiar your ingredient vendor should be willing to work with you to provide a bulk bag that eliminates this problem. The easiest solution is to used coated bulk bags that feature a film of polypropylene bonded to the inner surface of the bag fabric. This should cure most sifting problems. However, if a coated bag isn't enough your vendor should be using a separate polyethylene liner.
- Bulk Bag Discharging Equipment. Bulk bag dischargers come in many configurations. Some are better than others when it comes to dust containment. Look for designs that allow easy and safe access to the bag outlet spout while keeping it enclosed in a hopper that can be connected to a vacuum dust collection system. However, not all of these designs are created equal! If the hopper that is under negative pressure is filled with product during discharging, dusting will still be a problem when the hopper door is opened and product that has adhered to the inside of the door drops on the floor. Ideally, the outlet spout of the bulk bag should protrude out of the hopper during discharge so the only time the hopper sees dust is during the initial stage of product flow and perhaps at the end of the discharge cycle. Ergonomics are also a key criteria when selecting a bulk bag discharger. As mentioned above, you don't want your operators circumventing Standard Operating Procedures and creating excessive dusting because the bulk bag discharger is too difficult to use properly. Carefully evaluate dust containment features and ergonomic design when selecting a bulk bag discharger. | <urn:uuid:4687b5d1-62b1-4f46-9f9e-29a0ac6d733c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.controlandmetering.com/bulk-bag-filler-discharger-blog/?month=4&year=2009 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946951 | 978 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Orientation and Transition
We understand that starting university is an adjustment for students on many levels. By getting involved in our orientation and transition programs, you will be better equipped for Brescia’s academic structure and requirements – and you'll get introduced to the wide array of social activities offered on campus!
To help you get acquainted to the Brescia community, there are a number of orientation and transition initiatives throughout the year, specifically for new students:
Brescia’s Orientation Program is designed to welcome new students to the Brescia community and support them with their transition to their new academic, physical, social, and cultural environment. This program is held in conjunction with Orientation events at The University of Western Ontario, King’s University College, and Huron University College. Participation in the Orientation program will help first year students meet new friends, get involved in a week of exciting activities, and get to know the campuses before classes begin!
- O-Week 2013: More information will be available in the spring of 2013
- For information about Residence, please contact the Residence Manager, Jacqueline DeLeebeeck at: email@example.com
Brescia’s Soph Team
When you arrive on Brescia’s campus this fall for Orientation Week, you will be greeted by enthusiastic, friendly, and helpful student volunteers called ‘Sophs’.
What is a Soph?
Sophs are upper-year students who have dedicated themselves to welcoming first-year students to Western and the Affiliate University Colleges (Brescia, Huron and King’s). Between the Affiliate University Colleges and Western there are approximately 800 ‘Soph’ volunteers divided into Residence, Affiliate, Faculty, Off-Campus, Charity, and Info teams.
Sophs are carefully selected and trained to ensure the positive orientation and transition of each first year student. Your Brescia Sophs are your leaders, resources, and friends throughout Orientation Week and throughout the rest of the year.
Welcome Message from Emily Bamford, Brescia's 2012 Head Soph
"Welcome first year Brescia students and CONGRATULATIONS on making the best decision of your life: attending Brescia University College! I understand this may be a scary time of change and growth. To ease your sentiments I would like to tell you about a little something that happens during your first week of university. This little something is called ORIENTATION WEEK!
My name is Emily Bamford and I will be your Head Soph this year! Myself, and the other 32 Brescia Sophs are so excited to meet each and every one of you in September! If you were wondering, a ‘Soph’ is an upper year student who volunteers in order to help you feel welcome and comfortable here at Brescia and Western. Each constituency at Western has their own Soph team, and as I mentioned before, Brescia has a fabulous group of ladies that cannot wait to meet you! This O-Week we want to share with you our passion and love for what Brescia has done for us. We want to introduce to you the community of Brescia and help you discover your own path and story. We want to show you that this is a supportive, comfortable, inclusive, inspiring place to call home.
This September, when you arrive to Western you will be entering Western’s Imaginarium and here at Brescia you will have the opportunity to be Breaking Barriers. The theme for Brescia’s O-Week, Breaking Barriers was inspired by all the opportunities university has to offer. Whatever you dream is possible here. Don’t be afraid to push your own limits and break barriers as you discover your own path and goals. This already sounds amazing doesn’t it? There is more!!! O-Week is jam packed full of exciting events from Concerts, Affiliate events and Faculty day to the Midway Carnival, Diversity day and your first UWO Mustang’s Football game! Did I mention that Western has the best Orientation Week in Canada? The Orientation Kit is your key to Western’s Orientation Program...make sure you get your O-Kit early!
Any questions can be directed to firstname.lastname@example.org."
'Bridging’: Brescia’s International Student Orientation Program
All international and out-of-province students are invited to join this orientation program designed to allow you to adjust to campus and your new city before our regular orientation week. You will receive guidance about academics, accommodations, shopping, eating, entertainment, classrooms and other facilities, transportation, and thriving in the Canadian culture.
Summer Orientation Days
From June to August, Brescia’s Summer Orientation Days (SOD) will prepare you for the transition from high school to university.
At your SOD, you will have the chance to learn about academic choices, financial aid, select your courses with an Academic Advisor, and map out your timetable. You will also register for some of your courses, have the option of taking a campus tour, and meet some current Brescia students! | <urn:uuid:e2de700b-bcac-42b4-95b6-58686326c37b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.brescia.uwo.ca/campus_life/student-life/orientation.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942001 | 1,089 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Who is responsible for suicide in human rights era
Background: In our day to day clinical mental health practice, we make a number of decisions for the patients in their best interest. We are accountable for our actions and held responsible for the outcomes. Death of psychiatry patients both by suicide is a serious incident that has significant impact on the mental health of the professionals. The 21st Century is described as the era of human rights. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (CRPD) has given considerable rights to the mentally ill patients. The States like Australia and NZ who are signatories for the CRPD, are bound to honor the rights of people with mental disability. Where is the balance between duty of care and the rights of the persons with mental disability? Where should the accountability and responsibility of mental health professional end, when working in human rights oriented services? Objectives/ Methods: We bring an international human rights perspective that has long lasting influence on national mental health strategy, mental health legislations and mental health framework. We give some real life examples of patients completing suicides, to illustrate these issues. Findings: The international human rights perspective has addressed the issues that mentally ill people experienced such as, inequality, discrimination, lack of opportunity, and has moved clearly towards social inclusion and citizenship. However, this has shifted the human rights balance towards patients autonomy, through influencing mental health legislation and guardianship legislations. However, when patients commit suicide there are a number of complex investigations, such as root Cause Analysis, departmental level and many more ultimately leading to Coroner investigation. The process is quite stressful for mental health professional and patients family alike and cause symptoms suggestive of PTSD. Conclusions: There is a fine balance between duty of care principle that mental health professionals follows and human rights framework that the legal professional works on. Anything said and done, the best interest of the patients counts. At the end, the question remains: Who decides the best interest-lawyers and judges or mental health professionals.
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In his classic paper, ‘Dionysius Areopagites in the Works of St Gregory Palamas: On the Question of a “Christological Corrective” & Related Matters’ (here), Bishop Alexander (Golitzin) of Toledo first called my attention to a passage in Palladius’s Lausiac History when he played the ultimate trump card against those who say St Dionysius derived his teaching on the cœlestial hierarchy from the 4th-c. Platonists. First, Bishop Alexander quotes the Areopagite, Cœlestial Hierarchy 8.2 (240D): ‘The divine source of all order has established the all-embracing principle that beings of the second rank receive enlightenment from the Godhead through the beings of the first rank. This has been asserted frequently by the scripture writers, as you may discover.’
Then His Grace quotes the ‘Letter to Lausus’ appended to the beginning of Palladius’s monastic history: ‘The first order of beings have their learning from the most high Trinity, the second learns from the first, the third from the second, and so on down to the least. Those who are higher in knowledge and virtue teach the lower.’ Finally, having set these two side by side, Bishop Alexander observes:
Given this passage, might we not say that the lines which I quoted above from Celestial Hierarchy 13, and which both Professor Ritter and I cited from Celestial Hierarchy 8.2, are no more obviously a paraphrase of the pagan Neoplatonism of, for example, Iamblichus than they are of the Christian monk and predecessor of Dionysius, Palladius? The passages are so close as to argue for a match, down to and including an even more explicit expression of the triadic form, so dear to Dionysius, than we found in the latter's texts cited above, together with the language of ‘firsts’ (prota), ‘seconds’ (deutera), and, here, ‘thirds’ (trita).
But Robert Meyer’s translation of Palladius has an endnote to this passage—remarking the similarity to St Dionysius—that I found puzzling. He writes, ‘Palladius’ angelology is similar to that given in St John Damascene, De fide orthodoxa 2 f., and John Damascene (De cael. hier. 8.1) attributes a like opinion to Dionysius the Areopagite; but apparently there is no literary connection between the three writers.’ First of all, why wouldn’t the first comment concern the similarity to St Dionysius, by most accounts a near-contemporary of Palladius, rather than to St John Damascene, who lived hundreds of years later? Second, if St John ‘attributes a like opinion’ to St Dionysius, then doesn’t it seem as though there is at least a literary connection between the latter two?
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, I had some difficulty finding this passage in St John, or even making sense of the citation of ‘De fide orthodox 2 f.’ in comparison with Frederic Chase’s translation of this text. My first thought was that the ‘2’ signified ‘Book 2’, a fairly large portion of text, but nothing at the beginning of Book 2 resembles this idea of hierarchy. I noticed in the table of contents, however, that each chapter number is followed by a chapter number in parentheses. The first number begins again at one at the beginning of each ‘Book’, but the numbers in parentheses are continuous throughout the Books, suggesting to me that these are an older system. At any rate, Chapter (2) also happens to be Chapter 2 of Book 1, but I saw nothing in this chapter that corresponds to St Dionysius or to Palladius.
Of course, it occurred to me that the likely place to look for the ‘angelology...given in St John Damascene, De fide orthodoxa’ would be the chapter ‘On Angels’—Chapter 3 (17) of Book 2. And there indeed, is the closest thing I can find to the other two Fathers: ‘They [the angels] illuminate one another by the excellence of their rank or nature. Moreover, it is evident that the more excellent communicate their brightness and their knowledge to them that are inferior.’ So, Meyer’s citation is just very nonspecific, but furthermore, I do not find St John exactly attributing ‘a like opinion to Dionysius the Areopagite’. There is indeed a reference to St Dionysius in this chapter, but it is not directly connected to the passage just quoted at all. Here is what St John writes about the Areopagite:
As the most holy and sacred Dionysius the Areopagite, who is very well versed in theology, says, all theology, that is to say, sacred Scripture, has given the heavenly substances as nine in number. The divine initiator divides these into three orders of three. He says that the first of these is ever round about God and that to it has it been given to be united directly and immediately to Him. This is the order of the six-winged Seraphim and the many-eyed Cherubim and the most holy Thrones. The second order is that of the Dominations and the Virtues and the Powers. The third is that of the Principalities and the Archangels and the Angels.
The closest this passage comes to attributing a ‘like opinion’ on the cœlestial hierarchy to St Dionysius is the comment that to the first order ‘has it been given to be united directly and immediately to Him’. But there is nothing about passing on the light to those below. Of cource, Chase has given us a couple of citations of St Dionysius in the footnotes. Footnoting St John’s ‘hierarchy’ passage, he has ‘Cf. Pseudo-Dionysius. Celestial Hierarchy 3 (PG 3.164ff.).’ Footnoting St John’s reference to St Dionysius, he has ‘Pseudo-Dionysius, op. cit. 6.2 (PG 3.200D-201A).’
So the first footnote gives us all of chapter 3 of CH—slightly more than two pages in Luibheid’s translation—in which the closest comment to St John’s ‘hierarchy’ passage is ‘It [hierarchy] ensures that when its members have received this full and divine splendor they can then pass on this light generously and in accordance with God’s will to beings further down the scale.’ As for the second citation, St John has essentially just paraphrased CH 6.2 (I would simply compare the Greek of the two passages to see if it is actually more a quotation than a paraphrase, but unfortunately, while I have the Greek text of the rest of the Fount of Knowledge, I am missing De fide orthodoxa).
At any rate, there is certainly a connection here between these three texts, but Meyer has rather dropped the ball in more ways than one in his footnote referring to this connection. Still, one wonders if that footnote wasn’t enough to give Bishop Alexander the idea of the monastic tradition behind St Dionysius’s notion of hierarchy. His Grace at least cites Meyer’s translation in his footnote (n. 35) to the quotation from Palladius. For more on this issue of hierarchy, with reference not only to Bishop Alexander, but to Tolstoy, C.S. Lewis, and St Augustine, see this post from two years ago.
St Dionysius the Areopagite, Pseudo-Dionysius: The Complete Works, tr. Colm Luibheid & Paul Rorem (NY: Paulist, 1987), p. 168.
Palladius, The Lausiac History, tr. Robert T. Meyer, No. 34 in Ancient Christian Writers (NY: Paulist, 1964), p. 21.
This passage is in CH 13.3, 301C—p. 178 of Luibheid’s translation.
Palladius, pp. 168-9, n. 11.
St John Damascene, Writings, tr. Frederic H. Chase, Jr., Vol. 37 of The Fathers of the Church series (Washington, DC: Catholic U of America, 1999), p. 207.
Ibid., p. 208.
Ibid., p. 207, n. 3.
Ibid., p. 208, n. 7.
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"Kurien died a natural death due to his age," GCMMF MD said. Kurien's body will be kept at Anand for public to pay tribute. Kurien was 28 when he came to Anand, Gujarat in 1949, and was soon working hard to help a budding cooperative to grow. For him the dairy farmers were the rightful owners of the milk business.
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An excellent all-round variety giving an exceptionally generous crop right through the season. A bush variety, so plants are large, robust and vigorous but stay compact without sprawling. The fruit are uniform and straight, with a rich dark green colouring and a fine flavour that's delicate and sweet enough to eat raw, straight off the plant.
- Growing Instructions:Sow two seeds to a 10cm pot in a greenhouse or on a sunny windowsill. Pot on seedlings as they grow, keeping them well-watered and warm, then harden off and plant out in rich soil in a sunny, sheltered spot after all threat of frost has passed. Protect plants from slugs and water thoroughly in dry spells. Pick fruits regularly at around 10cm long to keep the plants productive.
- Sow: April-May
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David Eagleman: The Subconscious Mind
David Eagleman, Ph. D. is a neuroscientist and a New York Times bestselling author. His lecture "The Subconscious Mind: What Are Our Deep and Secret Thoughts?" is delivered as part of the 2013 Brain Awareness Series presented by the OHSU Brain Institute. Eagleman directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action at the Baylor College of Medicine, where he also directs the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law. He has so many accolades, studies, projects, and appearances (from numerous TED talks to NOVA to the Colbert Report) to his credit it's impossible to list them all here, but suffice it to say that when NPR quotes him as saying "most of what we do and think and feel is not under our conscious control," you know he's got a lecture worth showing up for. | <urn:uuid:eea3e02e-de66-4fc3-a2ee-13dd28a9abbc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/events/david-eagleman-the-subconscious-mind | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962712 | 171 | 1.578125 | 2 |
International Schools in Hungary
The International Baccalaureate Organizations Diploma Programme
was created in 1968. It is a demanding pre-university course of study
that leads to examinations. It is designed for highly motivated secondary
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rigorous assessment, giving IB diploma holders access to the worlds
leading universities. The Diploma Programmes grading system is criterion-referenced,
which means that each students performance is measured against well-defined
levels of achievement. These are consistent from one examination session
to the next and are applied equally to all schools.The IBO has shown,
over the course of 30 years, that students are well prepared for university
work. They are accepted by universities in more than 110 countries.
Application to University
According to the LXXX/1993 Act on Higher Education, institutions of higher
education are entitled to determine their own requirements of admission.
As a result, the Ministry of Education has no right to prescribe exemption
from entrance examinations.
Institutions of higher education are fully autonomous in Hungary and as a result, the Ministry of Education has no right to influence their decision-making. Students are recommended to contact individual institutions in this matter.
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Because they had such cables in stock at the moment? Maybe they were able to buy them cheaply. Some manufacturer may have overproduced them and was looking to get rid of the stock or they were designed for another product that turned out to be a failure. They may have same power supply case for several products and just change the electronics inside. Some of them may require more power than others.
Also note that 300 V insulation isn't that much. It could be more expensive to look for cable with lower insulation ratings. For example ALL professionally made serial port cables I have have 300 V insulation and we all know that 300 V isn't anywhere near the voltages used in RS-232 ports.
Another point could be the bulkiness of the cable itself. While the cable may be overkill for electricity transmission, consider usual environment in which the cable would be used. You can't assume that the user of the cable will be able to handle the thin cable well and that the environment may will be friendly to thin cables. Remember there are pets that may want to eat the cables, someone may trip over the cable, the cable may be bent many times during it's lifetime and so on. In such cases it may be better to provide a good quality cable and just using one which is thicker may be the cheapest solution.
Another point is the appearance of the product itself. You didn't mention the exact camera model, so I can't dig up any information about it, but sometimes the sufficient cable may look and feel cheap or weak and that may leave bad overall impression of the product. It's certainly cheaper to just put in a good quality cable in order to impress the customers a bit more.
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Job analysis is a systematic and analytical process used in a number of fields to understand, describe and classify jobs. Most job analysis methodologies in rehabilitation provide detailed information concerning major tasks, environmental conditions and the physical, cognitive and emotional capacities required for the average worker to perform a job (Keyserling et al. 1991; Lysaght 1997). While the purposes of job analysis in the rehabilitation field are grounded in primary and secondary prevention of disability, rehabilitation planning and disability accommodation, the technique is applied in other fields for very different purposes. Human resource specialists analyse jobs as a basis for employee hiring, training, supervision, appraisal and/or establishing fair compensation rates (Brannick, Levine & Morgeson 2007). Governments classify jobs as a means of describing and monitoring workforce activity. Organizational psychologists rate job characteristics and demands as a means of studying and understanding issues such as job satisfaction and workplace behaviour. All of these fields contribute philosophically and methodologically to the practice of job analysis.
In rehabilitation, job analysis is used for a number of practical purposes including:
Defining rehabilitation goals
For individuals who are working and have sustained injuries on or off the job, a key focus of rehabilitation is restoration of work capacity. Rehabilitation programs that are funded by government or private insurers often have an explicit goal of returning the injured party to previous or comparable levels of employment. In such cases, it is important to identify required job tasks and expected performance levels. Such information creates targeted outcomes for the rehabilitation program. The overall rehabilitation process is guided by the job analysis through a process wherein assessed levels of current functional capacity are compared to the required job performance demands (Loisel et al. 2001). Identified gaps between worker capacity and job demands are then addressed through restorative programs and/or job modification.
Work transition planning
In rehabilitation the job analysis is used to provide information to match the injured worker with tasks that can be safely performed on initial resumption of duties following an absence or time away from regular duties. The job analysis information serves as the foundation for a graduated work resumption process that optimizes productivity and compliments the rehabilitation program and injury recovery. Regular review of the job analysis is used to identify job demands that are suitable to the worker's capacities throughout the recovery process until the worker resumes the pre-injury job or reaches an optimal level of performance in a different job.
Persons with disabilities who have never worked, or are seeking new careers following catastrophic injury are typically assessed to determine work interests, employment –related skills, and work habits. Analysis of the physical, cognitive, and behavioural demands of the identified jobs of interest allows for matching of interests and capacities to the job requirements, and helps to establish reasonable goals for vocational training and job search.
Job analyses offer detailed descriptions and identify demands of both essential and non-essential work tasks. This information can be used to help identify the essential and non-essential tasks that a person with a limitation can safely and competently perform, and those tasks that can be performed with modification to the job process or through use of adaptive devices or procedures.
Primary injury prevention
Analysis of jobs from an ergonomic and/or psycho-social demand perspective can be used in a proactive manner to identify potential areas of risk, and to modify jobs as a means of injury prevention (Keyserling et al. 1991, Domanski, Gowan and Leyshon, 2008).
Secondary disability prevention
Analysis of jobs from an ergonomic and/or psycho-social demand perspective can also identify potential areas of risk. Based on this information, jobs can be modified prior to a worker with an injury or disability resuming job tasks to prevent re-injury or new injuries when returning to work.
Fair hiring practices
Job analyses that identify basic skill requirements for safe and competent job performance can serve as a legal and defensible means of screening employees applying to new positions. By clearly establishing job performance requirements, applicants who lack required skills can be denied positions on objective grounds. This may serve to prevent injury, and also establishes clear criteria for job qualification (Rosenblum and Shankar, 2006). Workers with disabilities who satisfy job requirements as identified through the analysis can thereby not be denied employment on grounds of incapacity.
Approaches to Job Analysis
Job analyses in rehabilitation are typically completed by specialists who have education and/or experience in job analysis procedures. A 2002 study revealed that job analysis was used as a tool in rehabilitation service delivery by 87% of American rehabilitation facilities surveyed, and conducted by a range of professionals (Lysaght, 2004). Occupational therapists use task analysis as a fundamental practice skill, and most also receive training in applying task analysis principles to comprehensive job analysis. They also have a broad background in understanding the physical, emotional and behavioural components of activity (Lysaght and Wright 2005). Ergonomists are trained to perform job analysis from a human performance perspective, and apply engineering and human kinetics principles to the analysis of jobs (Keyserling, 1991). Other rehabilitation professionals who conduct job analyses include physical therapists, vocational rehabilitation specialists and occupational health personnel who have a specialized practice in work rehabilitation. Often an inter-professional rehabilitation team will contribute to the conduct or interpretation of a job analysis.
Data collection for a job analysis is done systematically, guided by a job analysis framework. A wide variety of approaches are used in rehabilitation, and the focus will vary depending on the nature of the job and the purpose of the analysis. Data sources include worker interviews, interviews with supervisors, on-site observations of jobs being performed, trialling selected aspects of a job, and review of government and company descriptions of jobs (Lysaght 2004; Shaw & Lysaght 2009).
Job Analysis Components
The goal of the job analyst in rehabilitation is to identify key job demands and requirements to satisfactorily perform work as stipulated by the employer (Shaw and Lysaght 2009). Although individual worker abilities have an impact on how jobs are performed, it is important that the analysis address the job requirements, and not individual worker skills or differences, as these are considered in other stages of the rehabilitation process.
Most job analysts use a structured format for recording and rating jobs, and a number of evidence based and more informal formats exist. Typical components of job analyses in rehabilitation include:
- Essential and non-essential task description.
- Equipment used, including tools, machines, and product components.
- Physical demands, including size and weights of materials handled, required movements, coordination of movement, postures, as well as duration and repetition of movements, postures and handling.
- Cognitive demands, including information acquisition and processing, analytical skills, creativity, memory, perception, communication, technological skills, and academically-related functions such as literacy and numeracy.
- Behavioural demands, such as providing supervision, dealing with conflict, adhering to safety procedures, problem solving, social interaction skills, multi-tasking and decision making.
- Work context, including structural aspects, ground characteristics, layout and relationship of work areas, exposure to coworkers, supervisors and the public, and environmental factors such as noise, light, and temperature, chemicals, vibration, air quality and allergens.
- Required competencies, such as safety certifications or training in use of specific equipment or software.
- Safety sensitive demands and pressures, such as security or deadline pressures, exposure to physical or emotional risks and distractions.
Rehabilitation professionals also consider aspects of the work that may be potentially challenging or put workers at risk, and thus will include information on potential ergonomic or psycho-behavioural risks, and areas of the job that could be modified (Shaw and Lysaght 2009).
Challenges in Conducting a Job Analysis
Jobs are complex by nature. Because they are performed by a range of individuals who work within changeable environments, it can be difficult to accurately define job demands and the human requirements to perform them. Even if there are defined outputs and expected performance levels for a job, the actual approaches and nuances associated with executing the job demands may result in very different actions, depending on the worker and how he or she gets the job done. The job itself may vary in terms of demand levels or activities performed, depending on workload, workflow, teamwork, and variances in the services, products or activities that are the focus of the job at any point in time. As Fine, et al. (1999), note, it is important to describe jobs holistically, considering the requirement of workers to perform both instrumentally in executing work tasks, and latently, in adapting to situations in which work takes place.
A number of factors associated with the measurement process can challenge the validity and reliability of job analyses. One of these is the properties of the rating scales in use, including content validity across job types, definitions used for the scale items, and clarity of the rating procedures (Lysaght et al. 2008). Another lies in the quality of information gathered through worker or supervisor report based on ability or willingness to provide accurate descriptions. Observational data may be compromised through lack of rater familiarity with the job type or milieu, or inability to observe sufficient and representative time samples of the job, especially one that is highly variable. Finally, raters themselves present with different training and levels of experience in performing job analysis, a factor that may compromise both validity and reliability of the report.
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This course introduces students to American history from the early settlement of North America in the 16th century to the conclusion of the Civil War. Lectures and discussions emphasize the political, social, economic, religious, and territorial development of society as well as the experiences of daily life. Special attention is paid to topics such as the comparisons among the Spanish, French, and British empires in the New World, the first and second Great Awakening, the American Revolution, the formation of the Constitution, the development of political parties, the nature of slavery, the changing roles of women and families, the war with Mexico and territorial expansion, the growing sectional conflicts, and the Civil War on the battlefield and at home. The required readings will include both primary and secondary sources and will be examined in the sections.
Grades will be based upon your discussion ans short quizzes in section meetings, a mid-term examination, and a final. The midterm will be 20% of the grade; the final will be 40% of the grade (and covers the entire course); and participation and short quizzes will be 40% of the grade. There will be four unannounced quizzes (the lowest quiz score will be dropped from the grade calculation).
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NEW YORK, May 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ – The Conference Board Employment Trends Index™ (ETI) declined 0.6 percent in April to 100.5, down from March’s revised figure of 101.1. This is the largest monthly decline since April 2009. The April figure is up 6 percent from a year ago.
Says Gad Levanon, Associate Director, Macroeconomic Research at The Conference Board: “While employment is growing at the fastest rate in years, the leading indicators for employment are decisively flashing yellow. In April, the Employment Trends Index experienced the largest monthly decline in two years. It is unlikely that the current pace of job growth can be maintained in the months ahead.”
This month’s decline in the ETI was driven by negative contributions from five out of the eight components. The weakening indicators include Initial Claims for Unemployment Insurance, Percentage of Firms With Positions Not Able to Fill Right Now, Number of Temporary Employees, Part-Time Workers for Economic Reasons and Job Openings, which is a forecasted component.
The Employment Trends Index aggregates eight labor-market indicators, each of which has proven accurate in its own area. Aggregating individual indicators into a composite index filters out so-called “noise” to show underlying trends more clearly.
The eight labor-market indicators aggregated into the Employment Trends Index include:
- Percentage of Respondents Who Say They Find “Jobs Hard to Get” (The Conference BoardConsumer Confidence Survey ®)
- Initial Claims for Unemployment Insurance (U.S. Department of Labor)
- Percentage of Firms With Positions Not Able to Fill Right Now (© National Federation of Independent Business Research Foundation)
- Number of Employees Hired by the Temporary-Help Industry (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
- Part-Time Workers for Economic Reasons (BLS)
- Job Openings (BLS)
- Industrial Production (Federal Reserve Board)
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Room Divider — With varied storage capacity on both sides and distinctive layouts with endless display possibilities, our Step Chests are perfect room dividers.
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History of the Step Chest
The most recognizable piece of Japanese furniture is the Kaidan Dansu or Step Chest. It first appeared in the late 1700s in stores and homes with loft spaces.
The idea was simple -- why not have a staircase that could actually act as storage space as well?
These giant pieces (usually about 7 ft. high) would be constructed by the local carpenter who would build it to the owner’s specifications.
The chests would usually consist of a combination of sliding doors and drawers and different-sized storage spaces.
Then the next clever idea was spawned. Since the government at that time taxed owners on their livable floor space, someone thought of making the step chest in pieces.
The idea was be that when the tax inspector came around, you would simply disassemble your staircase and claim that your loft was only storage and had no permanent access. This worked for a while until, predictably, that loophole was closed.
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Who Should do an Advance Directive?
- All of us over the age of 18
- It is not about being older, Terry Schiavo was 27!
- With all of the talk about advance care planning only 25-30% of people have an advance directive
- For young healthy adults-
Have one for the purpose making decisions in an accident or trauma (examples could include a car accident, boating accident, snowmobiles, motorcycles, etc.) A sudden accident or injury could leave you unable to make your own decisions. This planning tool can help you for an unexpected event.
- For the chronically ill-
It is important to understand what life supports may be needed at a certain point to treat your illness.
- For the terminally ill-
It is needed to explore comfort and quality at this time of life
Why should I do an Advance Directive?
- 80% of deaths happen in a health care facility
- 50% of people are unable to make their own decisions at the time of death
- When there is no advance health care directive, well-meaning providers will often “treat”
- Your loved ones may not be able to predict what you would want without talking with you
- Of the thousands of people who die each day, two-thirds of those cases will involve elements of a decision that the family will need to make
Health Care Agent-Considerations for Choosing the Best Person
One of the most important factors in formulating an advance directive is choosing your health care agent. An appropriate healthcare agent may not be the person who loves you the most, but someone who understands your beliefs and views. These are some of the important factors to consider when making your selection:
- Is the person really willing to take on this responsibility?
- Are they able to respect and follow your wishes, even if they disagree?
- Is this person someone who can withstand stress and emotionally charged conversations?
- Is this person able to be assertive and withstand disagreement with a physician, if necessary?
- Is this person able to make necessary, difficult decisions?
- Is this person readily accessible--does not need to be geographically close.
Which Document Do I Use?
There are many types of Advance Directive documents- here are a few examples:
Power of Attorney for Health Care-POAHC. All states now recognize some type of POAHC. The State of Wisconsin has its own state document. http://dhs.wisconsin.gov/forms/Advdirectives/F00085.pdf
- Living Will- An older document which ONLY deals with a person in a persistent vegetative state or a terminal condition (misses many other conditions such as Alzheimers Disease.)
- Five Wishes, this document is valid in 40 states agingwithdignity.org
- Durable POAHC-drafted by attorneys. These documents are valid documents that will meet all legal requirements. These are good documents, however you may want to talk to an advance care planning facilitator or someone else, so you truly understand the medical terminology and the choices regarding medical care that are included in this document.
Additional resources for documents:
caringinfo.com has all states’ documents
Advance Care Planning and Advanced Directives
Medical technology has influenced the way health care is delivered. Very important to good advance care planning is choosing an appropriate health care agent (a person who can make health care decisions for you if you become unable to do so) and having a meaningful discussion with them so they are able to know your health condition, your values and your choices regarding future health care.
Advance care planning is a process, and will need to be done over time, and changed as your health or quality of life changes. Once you have expressed your feelings and chosen an agent you will be ready to formulate a plan and make a legal Advance Directive document.
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
So often when we discuss advance health care planning people make the general comment that “I don’t want to be kept alive if I am a vegetable.”
While this lets people know a general idea of the condition that people are talking about it does little to actually guide the type of care wanted by that person. Let’s define PVS, or persistent vegetative state. It is a specific clinical diagnosis indicating that higher brain function is gone but that brain stem or lower brain function is still in tact. The intact brain stem allows for the coordination of basic body functions like heart beat and respiration but higher functions such as thinking, feeling or hearing do not work. It might be helpful to consider these questions: are there times when you would rather die than be supported by medical interventions, life supports? Do you want to try any or all interventions that may be available? And how do you want to live at the end of life? Regarding medically assisted nutrition and hydration, the Catholic Church teaches that, while they are not morally obligatory in cases when they become excessively burdensome, in principle, they should be provided to patients who need them, even those in PVS. For detailed information on the US Bishops teaching go to:
Self Determination Act-Why the Hospital Asks for your Advance Directive
Why does the hospital always ask me if I have an advance directive?
Because it is the law.
Advance directives are grounded in "Patient Self Determination Act". This law has to do with a person's right to their own decisions, respect for person and the right of informed consent. This law went into effect in 1991 and requires the following of hospitals:
- Inform all patients of their right to formulate an advance directive.
- Provide written information to patients concerning their health care decision making rights, including the right to accept or refuse treatment.
- Compliance with state laws regarding advance directives
- Education for staff and public about advance directives
- Documentation of advance directives in the medical record.
From an Ethic of "rights" to an Ethic of "care"
Although advance directives are a patient "right" good advance care planning is about good ethics of "care." Planning for advanced age, frailty, or incapacity is something that we all need to be thinking about. The ethic of care centers on boundaries and roles and relationships. As the daughter who enters into being a care-giver and decision-maker asks, "How do I care for my mother at this time in her life, and this time in my life?" "What help and resources do I need?" "What will living well at the end of life mean to my mother and how can I honor the commitments I am making?" "How can I be a good caregiver, family member, and employee all at the same time?" These are the types of important questions that good advance care planning can help you formulate answers to. "Caring" is much more than the decision to start or stop life-support treatment.
Cultural and spiritual issues in advance care planning
There are lots of factors that go into good advance care planning and one is to consider spiritual and cultural issues that effect end of life decision-making. It is of value to seek out a spiritual advisor or clergy to assist in these conversations. What religious beliefs influence the type of decisions that need to be made? What cultural issues are present in who a person trusts with this type of decision making, or how people make decisions, who is included -one person or a whole extended family? What does my faith tradition believe about when life begins or ends? Does my natural heritage value independence or are there other factors we need to consider?
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South America is a region of spectacular contrasts with rich culture, sandy beaches, lush rainforests, snow-capped mountains and vibrant cities. From the ancient Incan ruins of the Andes and the palm-fringed beaches of Brazil, to the blue-white glaciers of Patagonia, South America is one of the most intriguing and beautiful regions on earth.
Despite all its natural riches, the reality is that a vast portion of South America's population lives below the poverty line. Major issues affecting South American countries include the inability to afford education past the primary level, limited access to healthcare, and large populations of children who live and work on the streets. There is also a need for more environmental and wildlife conservation programs, as well as initiatives that provide effective tools to help communities lift themselves out of poverty.
In response to these issues, Planeterra has partnered with communities across South America to support local efforts and help break the cycle of poverty. | <urn:uuid:79e3b800-3e08-427c-8240-ae1c9a346fb1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.planeterra.org/south-america-projects-pages-46.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947153 | 194 | 2.640625 | 3 |
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House to Vote on Effort to Preempt EPA Regulation of Coal Ash
The U.S. House of Representatives will vote Thursday on a measure to urge the Transportation Conference Committee to strip the U.S. Environmental Protections Agency (EPA) of the ability to designate toxic coal ash as a hazardous waste. This spring, the House approved H.R. 4348, the Surface and Transportation Extension Act of 2012. In this bill the House included an amendment by West Virginia Republican Representative David McKinley, that would prohibit the EPA from ever setting federally enforceable safeguards for the disposal of toxic coal ash. Now McKinley and the coal lobby are fighting to keep his amendment from being stripped out during House-Senate conference committee negotiations.
According to the EPA, the waste from coal burning plants contains concentrations of arsenic, boron, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury, and other metals that has been known to seep into ground water supplies. Thursday marks the two year anniversary of when the EPA first proposed minimum safeguards for coal ash disposal.
As reported by the Center for Media and Democracy, McKinley’s amendments reflect a resolution by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) -- an organization that brings together corporations and right-wing state legislators to vote on cookie cutter "model" legislation behind closed doors. Negative publicity about ALEC's extreme agenda in recent months has resulted in the departure of 19 major American corporations, including WalMart, and over 50 state legislators. ALEC has a multi-pronged approach, including providing talking points on coal ash to legislators, to reports and PR campaigns geared towards weakening the EPA.
McKinley, who's top campaign donors are from the coal industry, called opposition to his bill a battle in the larger "war on coal" during a hearing on the provision on Wednesday, while Massachusetts Representative Ed Markey said that the bill's efforts to weaken environmental standards would launch the U.S. into an "era of Charles Dickens."
Coal Ash, The EPA, and Those Impacted
The EPA is amidst a two-year evaluation on whether to classify coal ash as a hazardous waste. The EPA affirmed that toxins in the ash can seep into the ground and reach drinking water sources. The Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) recently found that groundwater at 33 coal ash waste sites across the country were contaminated with levels of toxins that may violate a federal dumping ban. According to EarthJustice, a non-profit environmental law firm, people living near unlined coal ash ponds have a 1 in 50 chance of developing cancer -- more than 2,000 times what the EPA considers acceptable. Toxins found in coal ash have been linked to organ disease, respiratory illness, neurological damage, as well as developmental issues. Despite documented hazards, coal ash is still considered a municipal solid waste, in the same ranking as household trash. U.S. power plants produce over 400,000 tons of toxic coal ash per day.
Coal ash came under increased scrutiny after a 2008 spill in Tennessee, which left some 300 acres of land covered in 1.1 billion gallons of the sludge. During the clean up, some three million tons of the waste where removed from the largely white community that had endured the initial disaster, and dumped on a community in Perry County, Alabama which is 90 percent African American and forty-five percent of the residents live below the poverty line. Fifty-four of the county’s residents filed a civil rights complaint with the Alabama Department of Environmental Management for recourse. The EPA announced on June 14 that it will investigate the complaint. Last year, a power plant collapsed in Milwaukee, WI sending 200 dump trucks worth of coal ash into Lake Michigan, which serves as a primary source of water for millions.
Illinois Representative Bobby Rush argued at Wednesday's debate on the amendment that those in favor of the provision want "the American people to think that fly ash is as healthy to them as can be. That they can go to their local drug store and ask for a bottle of fly ash to sprinkle on their dinner meal like salad dressing.... this bill will take advantage of some of the most vulnerable communities in America."
ALEC Resolution Does Bidding of Coal Companies
ALEC passed a resolution in early 2010 that supports a decade-old "EPA determination that coal combustion residuals do not warrant federal regulation as hazardous waste and concludes that states are best positioned to serve as the principal regulatory authority for CCRs as non-hazardous waste." In various degrees, including with coal ash, House Majority Leader and ALEC alumnus Eric Cantor has worked to push ALEC's agenda at the federal level. As previously reported by CMD, Cantor and other ALEC alums in Congress have had their campaign coffers padded generously by ALEC corporations.
ALEC’s latest report on the EPA: “Economy Derailed: State-By-State Impacts of the EPA Regulatory Train Wreck” reiterates ALEC’s commitment to deregulation of coal ash saying that an EPA designation would have “significant consequences for electricity generation and the robust recycling industry in the United States” -- toxic coal ash is used in consumer products like kitchen cabinets, wallboard products and bowling balls. Those in opposition to the bill have argued that efforts are not to prevent the recycling of coal ash, but to ensure that proper regulations are in place so that it does not seep into water supplies and contaminate air.
Not surprisingly, ALEC funders include a number of coal companies, including Peabody Energy, which is the largest private-sector coal company in the world.
Environmental Groups Urge Action
Environmental watchdog groups like Earth Justice and Clean Water Action are asking citizens to reach out to their Representatives to oppose the amendment. Clean Water Action is launching a Twitter Blitz Thursday, asking people to use the hashtag #KickCoalAsh when urging Congressional members to protect communities from coal ash.
The transportation bill has been under negotiation for over a month. The funding authorization for road, bridge and rail transit projects expires at the end of June. Without the passage of a comprehensive bill, Congressional leaders are expected to seek a temporary extension of transportation programs, which could also include the coal ash provision.
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The New York Times—July 6, 2009
Vijay Vad, MD, a sports medicine physiatrist at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, wrote the book "Golf Rx" after he did a clinical study of PGA Tour players with bad backs. Now, nearly half the patients he sees - about 400 to 500 people annually - are golfers.
"People would be shocked to know how common golf injuries are, especially to the back," Vad said. "It comes from overuse, it comes from bad technique and it comes from a lack of core fitness. The perception that you don't need to stretch or prepare yourself for golf as you would another physical activity is maybe the biggest part of the equation."
The reasons for golf injuries are varied, but decidedly not as obvious as ones in other, more active sports.
For example, according to Vad's PGA Tour study, lower-back problems might actually be caused by a lack of hip flexibility. Examining pro players, he discovered that those with less flexibility in their lead hip, the left hip in a right-handed golfer, had more back problems than those with limber hips.
Here's how that makes sense: successful golfers have to swing a club about 80 to 110 miles per hour and you have to bring that high-speed swing to a stop in about a second. As Vad wrote, "Try asking your car to do that."
Various shock absorbers in the body handle the deceleration forces, but for those who do not have much flexibility in their hips, the forces tend to work themselves out in the lower back. Do it 100 times, or 300 times counting practice swings, and you've got a strained back.
There are ways to avoid strained backs and stiff joints for golfers who are serious about their sport, but they are not necessarily practicing more. Instead, Vad advises adding a training regimen that strengthens the core and increases flexibility of the joints all around, not just those used directly in swings.
Vad developed golf-specific exercises to help prevent injury and to add distance to your drives. They can be as simple as lying on your back with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor. Then alternate bringing one knee to your chest. Another begins standing upright, with the feet shoulder-width apart. Twist to touch the fingertips of your right hand to your left ankle. Do the same with the left fingertips to the right ankle.
"Ten to 15 minutes of core exercises done two to three days a week can accomplish a lot for your golf swing," Vad said. "Even leaning against a wall and stretching your hamstrings before you play will help. Drinking plenty of fluids can prevent a back injury."
Dehydrated muscles are fatigued, which makes them more likely to strain and tear under the stress of a golf swing, Vad said.
Preventative measures like these may not improve your swing, but they will certainly go far in terms of staying away from otherwise avoidable injuries and strains during the game.
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Today, it’s web pioneer Dave Winer, a man key to the evolution of many of the publishing technologies we use online today, currently a visiting scholar in journalism at NYU, and half the team behind the Rebooting the News podcast.
When people in the news business try to figure out how to make news pay after the Internet, it seems analogous to the French, after being invaded by Germany in World War II, trying to figure out where to put the new Maginot Line.
The Maginot Line would have been a perfect defense in World War I. It didn’t help much in the second war.
Analogously, there was a perfect paywall in the pre-Internet news business, the physical product of a newspaper. There is no equivalent in the new distribution system.
Howard Weaver’s latest post put this into focus for me. That, and the recent attention on Groupon, which it seems to me has usurped, again, one of the big roles that local news organizations could have played, obviating the need to find the new paywall.
It isn’t really a question if you’ve created something worth paying for. It might be very good, and expensive to create. What matters is if there’s a market for it.
The people in the business of creating fixed fortresses might have asked the same question after WWII. We could make a much better Maginot Line now, we know so much more and technology is so much more advanced. Wouldn’t matter, because France wasn’t in the market for a new Maginot Line.
That’s the question news people never seem to ask. How can we create something that has a market? If they asked that question instead, they would restructure their activity. Because there are things similar to news that have generated huge wealth. Not hidden, in plain sight.
The first usurpage was of course Craigslist. It wasn’t so obvious then that this was the natural domain of the press, because Craigslist made a small fraction of the money the news industry used to make from classifieds. It looked like CL was just undermining the press, not competing with it. But Groupon — this is the fastest-growing company of all time. The founder says what they do is find ways for people to get out and enjoy their city. And they make a boatload of money doing it.
Here’s one way of looking at what both Groupon and local news organizations do — they put smart hard-working people into the field to keep tabs on what people in the community are doing. Some of what they are doing is robbing and killing each other — that’s what news is interested in. Another part of what they’re doing is buying from and selling to each other. Groupon is making huge bucks on that.
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4. Frank Warren
What: Online artist
Got a secret? Write it on a homemade postcard and send it to PostSecret, Frank Warren's ongoing community art project. Since its inception in 2005, the project has collected and displayed upward of 250,000 original pieces of art on its blog. Audiences have fallen for the formula: A 2008 survey by market research firm Youth Trends showed it was the 10th most popular site on the Internet among female college students. Four books of collected confessions have been published to date, most recently, A Lifetime of Secrets. As for Warren, he's hardly been keeping quiet: He's appeared on Today, 20/20, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, Fox News and more. | <urn:uuid:f9b9d72d-3cb4-4f0f-a556-eec087f8c6a6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/29/web-celebrities-internet-technology-webceleb09_0129_top_slide_5.html?thisspeed=25000 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949213 | 146 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Naughty ladies, immigration officials and police officers came in for some gentle chiding last week from Alec Jeffreys, the ebullient professor of genetics at Leicester University whose work has enabled paternity, nationality and guilt to be assessed from a sample of DNA. Jeffreys was at the Science Museum in London to open an exhibition entitled DNA Fingerprinting, the first in a series of exhibitions, known as Science Box, devoted to current issues and ideas.
Jeffreys was at pains to counter the view of his technique as just another tool in the armoury of law and order. In one of the technique's earliest courtroom appearances, he recalled how his evidence in a paternity suit revealed that a man who had wearied of paying maintenance could not possibly have been the father of the plaintiff's child.
In another case, the technique confirmed that a Ghanaian woman living in Shepherd's Bush, London, was ...
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The prophet Micah opens the door to a courtroom for us, and we hear the bailiff’s announcement: “Rise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.” The Lord has a controversy with his people, and the passionate words of accusation we hear come from a broken heart:
What have I done to you? In what have I wearied you? Answer me!
There is no answer, no response.
I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of slavery, didn’t I?
O my people, remember now what happened every step of our way together, remember my saving acts, remember my faithfulness, remember me – why do you act like you don’t know me?
Now the people reply, and their testy answer reminds me of bad courtroom tv.
What is it you want? Can we ever even the score? What do you expect in return? Burnt offerings? Thousands of rams? Rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression? What will it take to get you off our backs?
The people get defensive and ugly, as though God were a pesky contractor complaining that he hadn’t been paid. Thank God for voices like Micah’s to remind us that God doesn’t redeem people to keep them indebted for the rest of their lives like credit card slaves. God doesn’t wake us every morning, “Get up, and remember, you owe me.” That’s not our God. Our God frees people to live in covenant with them – and solely because in this covenant relationship life will flourish.
“He has told you, O mortal, what is good,” and what is good and necessary doesn’t resemble a divine wish list in some cosmic exchange of goods and services. More and bigger things play a prominent role in our dreams of a good life, but God requires that we do justice, and love kindness, and walk humbly with our God. The focus of God’s commandments is on actions, but not actions that can be checked off a list, “Done that, done that, so now I can finally do what I want.” What is good, and what God requires, translates into a way of life, into covenant-shaped doing, loving, and walking. This is much bigger than occasional acts of lavish piety measured in thousands of something or in rivers of something else: what God requires is a walk that reorients our feet, our desires, and our hope toward the reign of God. Nothing, of course, is harder than this dailiness, this not-just-on-Sunday-ness of faith.
We hear God’s passionate plea before the mountains and the hills, “What have I done to you? In what have I wearied you? Answer me!” We don’t know what to say – until we think about justice, kindness, and humility.
You, Lord, have been faithful to us. You have done nothing wrong. You have not wearied us. It’s what we do to each other, that breaks our hearts. It’s the ways we weary one another that griefs our spirits. Justice seems so far out of reach, kindness and humility are so easy to forget. Like you, we mourn the absence of righteousness and peace around us, between us, and within us. But we are like birds that have forgotten their song. Our hope is small and has no wings. We are broken-hearted, poor in spirit, and our souls are thirsty.
A couple of years ago, a mother described a familiar scene. They were in the kitchen, she and her 9-nine-year-old daughter, the little girl eating her cheerios and mom packing her pink Tinker Bell lunchbox into her book bag. The radio was playing in the background, the news was on, and suddenly the child said with great sadness, “Mom, is that war still not over yet?”
The mother wrote, “I could feel my soul draining through the soles of my feet.”
You know that feeling. The little girl gave voice to God’s grief, and you want to protect her, you want to make things right, and in the same instant you realize that you can’t. And so you go to her, and you hold her, and you tell her that it breaks your heart too, and you hold her a little longer before you kiss her on her forehead and say, “It’s gonna be OK, pumpkin, it’s all gonna be OK.”
And off she runs to catch the bus.
And you long for someone who knows all this and gets it. You look up, and there is Jesus, looking right at you, saying, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Oh yes, he is talking to you, and your thirsty soul soaks up his words. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” You mourn, you belong to that community that doesn’t resign itself to the present condition of the world as final. You lament that God’s reign has not yet come in fullness, and you dare to believe that the way of Jesus is the path to abundant life. “Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.” Not the proud, the arrogant, or the violent – not those who always seem to bear it away; the meek will inherit the earth. It’s all gonna be OK, because God has vindicated the way of Jesus. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.” You are blessed because your desire and God’s desire are one in your hunger and thirst for strong and close relationships between you and God and those around you and all of creation.
Jesus’ words of blessing are not the old kind of wisdom that identifies blessing in fortunate circumstances, like, “Blessed is the husband of a good wife, the number of his days will be doubled.” That kind of wisdom is based on observation and experience. I have an appointment with my dental hygienist tomorrow, and I know she will welcome me saying something like, “Blessed is the man who flosses daily, for he will keep his teeth.”That’s good advice with plenty of evidence to support it, but Jesus’ words of blessing are not that kind of wisdom; he’s not telling us something others simply hadn’t noticed yet about how the world works. Jesus is working about the reign of God. He announces that the kingdom of heaven has come near, and he blesses those who otherwise have no reason for hope or cause for joy. They are blessed, you are blessed because the kingdom of heaven has come near and it bears the face of Jesus. In his healings and teachings, in his compassion for the poor and his meals with sinners, the joy of heaven embraces the earth; the future of fulfillment infiltrates the present and transforms it.
The present conditions of the unfortunate – their poverty, their pain, their lack of status, their hunger and thirst – are all variations on an ancient theme: those who seek to walk humbly with God will suffer, and yet they trust in God to vindicate them.
Words from the prophets and the psalms resonate in the beatitudes of Jesus:
Those who have clean hands and pure hearts … will receive blessing from the Lord, and vindication from the God of their salvation. Psalm 24:3-4
Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath … for the wicked shall be cut off, but … the meek shall inherit the land. Psalm 37:8-11
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God? Psalm 42:2
In the life of Jesus these threads of humility and strands of hope all come together; he weaves them into a royal robe and he wears it faithfully throughout his mission. He wears it as he enacts the justice of God’s mercy. He wears it as he embodies the kindness of God’s compassion. He walks humbly all the way, proclaiming with a pure and undivided heart the kingdom of heaven – fearless, because the final word would be God’s.
Soon we find ourselves not at the foot of the mountain where Jesus blesses and teaches, but at the foot of the hill where he has been executed. And again we hear God’s passionate plea before the mountains and the hills:
What have I done to you? In what have I wearied you? Answer me!
We have no answer. We only see what we do to each other in the name of justice and for the love of power, and we know that it breaks the heart of God. We look into the face of the man on the cross, and we have no answer. After we have done all that we are capable of doing to each other, the final word must be God’s.
We believe and proclaim that God’s final word has been spoken. God spoke into the darkness and chaos of our guilt, our proud amnesia, and our shame. God spoke into our helplessness and hopelessness. God spoke and raised Jesus from the dead. The end is not our doing, just as the beginning never was. The first and final word is God’s, and because of Jesus we trust that the word is life – beautiful, abundant life.
When we say to the little girl, “It’s all gonna be OK,” we comfort her in her mourning, and we teach her to trust in the God whose face we see in the face of Jesus. We teach her and we remind ourselves that God is faithful beyond anything we do or fail to do. With a simple gesture of healing and a prophetic word of promise we encourage her to live in the company of Jesus, to learn to do justice with him, learn to love kindness from him, and to walk humbly with him – or perhaps run with him. In the words of Barbara Kingsolver, “The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. The most you can do is live inside that hope, running down its hallways, touching the walls on both sides.” May it be so. | <urn:uuid:ecc29b32-dffb-4af7-ae9b-581a87b5e526> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.vinestreet.org/blog-thomas-kleinert/2011/1/31/its-all-gonna-be-ok.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966201 | 2,220 | 1.71875 | 2 |
- Afghanistan & Pakistan
- Kevin Gosztola
To show solidarity with the people of Waziristan in Pakistan, who have experienced and been victims of US drone strikes, thousands of Pakistanis marched in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan led the march. Thirty-one American peace activists affiliated with CODEPINK participated in the march as well.
The motorcade, which left Islamabad on October 6, took a route that ended in Dera Ismail Khan (DIK) on the first day. There was a rally in DIK at the end of this phase of the march. Then, on October 7, the motorcade continued onward and passed through Tank, a city nearby Waziristan, where tens of thousands of people met the march as it arrived.
Then, according to Khan, the convoy continued toward South Waziristan. “Police hurdles delayed” the march for “three hours.” The “fifteen-mile” convoy managed to make it to the border of Waziristan, but the Pakistan army told those at the head of the convoy there was “serious danger” ahead in Waziristan. Khan and those at the front of the march had no intention of challenging any security or military forces to get into Waziristan and turned around for a rally in Tank to conclude the march.
Despite being turned around, there was a breakthrough, and for the first time, the Pakistan government permitted foreigners into FATA, something that had not happened in nearly a decade.
The delegation with CODEPINK was disappointed they did not get to South Waziristan but admitted the march was a clear success because the issue of drone warfare had garnered international attention because of the action. One delegate, Judy Bello from Rochester, New York, concluded it had shown there were Americans who cared about the “plight” of Pakistanis.
According to DAWN, the “US peace campaigners left the convoy before it reached Tank with their spokeswoman saying they felt they had achieved their goals.”
Upon conclusion of the first day, it was reported by the Frontier Post that the march might not go much further than Dera Ismail Khan, where it will be stopping overnight. The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government was reportedly unhappy with the march and the “provincial government” had raised the issue “of over hundred foreign media personnel and human rights activists coming with Khan,” who “possess visas but did not obtain [a No Objection Certificate (NOC)] to enter DI Khan or SWA.” Without proper permits, the personnel, activists and any foreigners were not likely to get into South Waziristan.
During the end rally, Khan told the crowd the US government “tells American people one thing and Pakistanis the other,” according to DAWN.
“Are these people (civilian drone victims) not humans?” Khan asked. “Who are these ‘nameless’ people who are killed in the name of collateral damage?” He noted the current government in Pakistan under President Asif Ali Zardari had shown little to no resistance to US drone operations
Khan also took advantage of the moment to celebrate the youth who were there as participants. He said, “When these youngsters can go to Waziristan, wait until they march to Islamabad.”
Incidentally, the march came to its conclusion on the eleven-year anniversary of the Afghanistan War. The Obama administration’s surge in Afghanistan in 2009 involved around 9,000 Marines being positioned in “small Afghan towns” near the Pakistan border “to stop Taliban soldiers and supplies” from entering Afghanistan from Pakistan, according to the Christian Science Monitor.
The drone war in Pakistan could be said to be an expansion of the Afghanistan War, as the government would likely say the drones attack terrorists or militants seeking “safe haven” who may have even fought in the war in Afghanistan. And of course, drones are used in the Afghanistan War.
A recent report from Columbia Law University and the Center for Civilians in Conflict highlighted:
In Afghanistan, drone strikes and targeting operations utilizing drone surveillance have resulted in mistaken targeting, leading to civilian harm in circumstances that are the same or lower-risk to civilians than covert drone strikes by the CIA and JSOC in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. In Afghanistan, experienced military personnel benefit from a longer-standing US presence and its attendant advantages, including a greater understanding of the local cultural context and the corroboration of intelligence by ground forces. Nevertheless, drone strikes in Afghanistan have caused significant numbers of civilian deaths, sometimes due to mistaken identity. To reduce civilian casualty rates in Afghanistan, US military forces began restricting airstrikes in 2009.
One example of how targeting can go wrong was included in the report. Drone pilot Matt J. Martin targeted a truck in Afghanistan of “insurgents.” Two young boys Martin had not expected appeared after he had fired a missile. All he could do is watch as the two boys were killed along with those in the truck.
All of which is to call attention to the reality, which the US government remains committed to concealing and suppressing: the reality that drones kill civilians and are not some innovative tool of warfare that now makes it possible for a government to only kill its enemies and protect others from becoming collateral damage.
Finally, there are the journalists, pundits and think tankers of the world that have and will continue to smear the march as one that enables the Taliban and other militant groups to commit violence.
Today’s bearer of this message is Cyril Almeida. When commentators, who preach the gospel of drones as the Least Bad Option get a hold of this column, they will be singing its praises:
… Taliban Khan’s antics won’t provide comfort to the enemy, his lies in South Waziristan and on Fata will not swell the enemy’s ranks, and there isn’t going to be a surge in militant violence because Khan wants to play politics with Fata.
But Khan’s march today will have pernicious effects. Complex effects that the glib Khanistas will try and swat away with high-sounding pabulum.
Stripped of the hype — and the lies — Khan’s antics amount to buttressing and mainstreaming resistance to a modern and progressive Pakistan…
Which is to say that the thousands of people, city to city, who greeted the convoy as it wound its way toward South Waziristan were manipulated. They have not generally been outraged toward drones until Khan whipped the people into a frenzy, even though a Pew Global Attitudes project found 17% support for drone strikes.
This same poll also found, “Roughly three-in-four Pakistanis (74%) consider the U.S. an enemy, up from 69% last year and 64% three years ago. And President Obama is held in exceedingly low regard. Indeed, among the 15 nations surveyed in both 2008 and 2012 by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, Pakistan is the only country where ratings for Obama are no better than the ratings President George W. Bush received during his final year in office.” (How is that for repairing America’s image?)
Do the critics think people should not be allowed to engage in self-determination and challenge the United States and how the Pakistani government enables the US war on terrorism, a great recruiting tool for militant or violent radical groups in Pakistan? Why do they incessantly repeat their belief that drones are the Least Bad Option and the world’s people must accept it as such, even though those with political imagination can most certainly develop other solutions beyond the false choice presented of Terror or Drones?
Recent reports, like the Columbia Law/Center for Civilians in Conflict report or the Stanford/NYU report, bust open the morally bankrupt arguments of numerous commentators. That is why they ignore people power or snidely offer up criticism.
Like one Pakistani youth eloquently stated just a day ago, “Our government has defaulted on this most basic of its duties – safeguarding the lives of its citizens – and we look towards the youth to lead the effort to put an end to this undeclared and illegal war.” And hopefully this effort drowns out the shrill cacophony of those conflating drone opposition with support for the Taliban.
Judy Bello, a member of the CODEPINK delegation who was part of the march, left a comment on this post. It is worth highlighting.
She clarifies the quote I used from her saying, “Our presence let [Pakistanis] know that somebody out there cares whether they live or die.” People came out on the street to greet the delegation with smiles and peace signs. They lined the roads in some cases and waved their hands to greet the delegation, which fell behind. They were out there for the delegation, not the political party in general.
“Being randomly targeted for death as a PR stunt for a foreign country is terrible abuse of their basic human rights,” Bello writes. “However, these people have all kinds of problems due to the fact that their government continued British colonial policies towards them. It has failed to find ways to integrate them as fully empowered regions of the country and to provide the necessary resources for them to improve their standard of living.”
She reacts to a quote I included in this post on Imran Khan:
It is true the government blocked the last leg of our journey, but it was the Taliban who distributed flyers accusing us of being infidels and threatening to attack the rally. Our hosts were the tribal leaders in the region. This issue is not clearly understood. The tribal leaders are not the Taliban. Where the Taliban are a broad group with no particular territory, the tribes and their leaders are rooted to their ancestral lands. They are not the same. Accusing these people is a matter of mistaken identity. Imran is not beloved by the Taliban though he has good relations with the tribal leaders. In fact, he is a threat because he promises to make them stakeholders in the central government and the mainstream of society. | <urn:uuid:c74f5200-0430-4a5a-bd95-f8078478a93f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php/features/afghanistan-pakistan/7998-peace-march-against-drones-in-pakistan-ends-with-rally-after-convoy-stopped-by-army | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96612 | 2,142 | 1.804688 | 2 |
How to Overcome a Habit
"Anderson Live" welcomed guest Tangela, who is addicted to technology and says she can't stop checking her smart phone and surfing the net on her laptop. She admits to being on her gadgets up to 8 hours a day, and said her fiancé broke up with her because of this addiction.
Psychologist and habit expert Kelly McGonigal, PhD., explained that sometimes people are drawn to popular social networking sites like Facebook because it gives them a sense of importance. Kelly shares three simple tips to overcome a habit.
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2.2-4 Defendant's Option to Testify
Revised to December 1, 2007
The defendant has not testified in this case. An accused person has the option to testify or not to testify at the trial. (He/she) is under no obligation to testify. (He/she) has a constitutional right not to testify. You must draw no unfavorable inferences from the defendant's choice not to testify.
General Statutes § 54-84 (b) provides that "[u]nless the accused requests otherwise, the court shall instruct the jury that they may draw no unfavorable inferences from the accused's failure to testify." Section 54-84 (b) reversed prior Connecticut case law that held that a defendant who did not testify at trial was not entitled to have the jury instructed that his or her choice not to testify should not be considered against him or her. See State v. Nemeth, 182 Conn. 403, 409-10 (1980); State v. Miller, 34 Conn. App. 250, 255-61, cert. denied, 230 Conn. 902 (1994). The statute imposes a definite duty upon the court, without a request from the defendant, to instruct the jury that it must not draw any unfavorable inferences from the defendant's constitutional privilege of silence. State v. Hicks, 97 Conn. App. 266, 271, cert. denied, 280 Conn. 930 (2006). The omission of a "no adverse inference" instruction is plain error and due to its constitutional magnitude can never be subject to harmless error analysis. State v. Suplicki, 33 Conn. App. 126, 130 (1993), cert. denied, 229 Conn. 920 (1994); State v. Cruz, 59 Conn. App. 426, 428-30, cert. denied, 254 Conn. 947 (2000).
Although the instruction need not recite the statutory language verbatim, it must accurately convey the substantive meaning. See State v. Yurch, 229 Conn. 516, 322 (1994), cert. denied, 513 U.S. 965, 115 S.Ct. 430, 130 L.Ed.2d 343 (1994) (improper to use the word "unreasonable" instead of "unfavorable"); State v. Vega, 36 Conn. App. 41, 48 (1994) (the use of "unfair" rather than "unfavorable" was reversible error).
In State v. Casanova, 255 Conn. 581, 600 (2001), the Supreme Court held that it was not improper to use the "arguably negative" statutory phrase "failure to testify," because "the charge as a whole . . . was neutral in substance," in that it contained the neutral phrases "option to testify," "no obligation to testify," and "constitutional right not to testify." It also held that the trial court was not required by § 54-84 (b) to use the defendant's requested language. While this case establishes that a reference to a defendant's "failure" to testify does not constitute a constitutional or statutory violation, the cautious approach is to use consistently neutral language.
A defendant does not have "a
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instruction; counsel for the defendant, acting on the defendant's behalf, may
request that the court omit the instruction from its charge. State v.
Stewart, 64 Conn. App. 340, 351, cert. denied, 258 Conn. 909 (2001).
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It’s hard to stay grounded in the wake of Egypt’s uprising: there are too many issues demanding attention, too many dissonant energies and unfortunate events, sectarian violence the most disturbing among them. In recent years, scandals have emerged surrounding Christian women who allegedly left their husbands and converted to Islam, having fallen for Muslim men. The details are never clear: ask a Christian, and they will say the woman was kidnapped and forced to convert. Ask a Muslim, and they will say the woman was imprisoned by her family and priests before the romance could be consummated. Such stories are fuelled by rumour and a penchant for melodrama – a titillating combo of taboo sex, viral machismo and religious pride.
It happened again in May. The protagonist’s name, Kamelia, echoed throughout the nation, heralding another distraction from more urgent matters, including the parliamentary elections scheduled for September, where religious factions are manœuvring for position. The polemic approached the danger point with angry protests by Muslims, demanding the woman be allowed to convert, and Christians (a minority in Egypt) saying she never wanted to in the first place. I discussed the matter with a group of well-heeled Egyptian friends. ‘Who cares about Kamelia, or who she sleeps with? We never bothered with such things before,’ said one woman. ‘No siren,’ I remarked of Kamelia’s nondescript appearance. ‘And yet,’ one man noted, ‘this was the face that launched a thousand beards.’ The situation wasn’t funny, but we all laughed like mad. The next day 15 people were killed in a poor Cairo neighbourhood, where purportedly fundamentalist Muslims attacked a church in Kamelia’s name.
I’ve since asked friends and strangers to share their thoughts on the increase in sectarian strife: a church bombing in Alexandria on New Year’s Eve, lethal religious riots in another poor quarter of Cairo in March, and now this. They mostly said the same thing: haram, the Arabic word for ‘forbidden’ but meaning in this case ‘for shame’.
Everyone wondered how this could happen. True Egyptians would never do this – launch a murderous rampage on their compatriots. It’s ignorance, some said; people are too easily influenced by rumour. It’s the media, said others; extremists should not be given column space/air time. It’s the army (currently overseeing an interim government), for failing to protect us properly. It’s the old regime, sowing discord from behind the scenes. Some blamed the undercurrent of anger the uprising has brought to the fore, and were themselves angry that this has proved to be the case. Many were frightened about how things might go, should Egypt miss its shot at a secular democracy. I felt detached from this insidious reality where religious divisiveness overcomes custom and common sense.
A ‘true Egyptian’ would never do this, so what is a true Egyptian? Someone who would never wantonly attack another human on the basis of faith or anything else; someone who shoulders their burdens, and expects nothing from the state but ineptitude and belligerence. ‘True Egyptians’ are aware of personal and societal shortcomings; indeed, accepting to a fault. Having accepted their exclusion from power for so long, they are uncertain how to use what little the uprising has given them, unacquainted with the responsibilities that power entails. Swept along by events, people have little time to spare for self-questioning. Virtually every aspect of institutional and civic life demands revision. Where to begin?
It is enough to attend a demonstration in Liberation Square to see how desperately focus is needed. The last one I went to was conducted in typical fashion, with ear-splitting rants issuing from five stages at once. There were at least as many people there for the outing (children in tow) as with the intention of taking a stand on a particular issue or making a show of collective strength. Local media reported attendance in the tens of thousands, an optimistic exaggeration reminiscent of the state’s flubbing of figures (GDP, unemployment, etc) to make things seem better than they were. In the afternoon, news of former first lady Suzanne Mubarak’s detention swept the crowd, making Kamelia and the killing of Christians old news. Here was yet another distraction, something to wave a flag about. Buffeted by the winds of change, Egypt is awash in emotions – anger, fear, pride – and sailing blindly into the future.
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If you know Charlie Brown, you know “Good grief!” Charlie Brown was the main character – a little boy that never grew up (got older) – in the Peanuts comic strip (picture stories that appear in newspapers). Even if you didn’t see the comic strips in a newspaper, you might have seen the Peanuts comic books, television programs, or movies.
When Charlie Brown said, “Good grief!” he was using it as an exclamation, a sound, word, or short sentence that you say suddenly, and sometimes loudly, because you are surprised, angry, or excited. Charlie usually said it because he was both surprised and annoyed (a little angry).
Some people might call “good grief” an oxymoron. An oxymoron is a combination of two words that seem to mean the opposite of each other. Here are some examples I found online: seriously funny, pretty ugly, old news, and Microsoft Works. Some say “intelligent blonde” (a person with pale yellow hair) is an oxymoron, but I might disagree: I married one!
The reason some people might call “good grief” an oxymoron is because grief is the extreme sadness we feel when someone we love has died. Not many people would call that good.
My brother, sisters, and I felt a lot of grief when our mom passed away (died). It was a difficult time, but we discovered that remembering and telling stories about Mom helped reduce (make less) our grief. Mom was a hard-working, warm (friendly and relaxed), loving, funny, and creative woman. And many of the stories we told were about her humor (ability to think that things are funny) and creativity. Let me tell you a few.
When I was young, Dad didn’t receive a large salary (monthly payment from work). As a result, we often had to scrimp (save as much money as you can). One Christmas, Mom didn’t want to spend money on a Christmas tree, so she found a tumbleweed, which was easy where we lived. A tumbleweed is a round weed (undesirable plant) that grows quickly, dies quickly, and after it dies, tumbles (rolls in an uncontrolled way) across the ground wherever the wind blows. She brought the tumbleweed into the house, flocked it (covered it with a white powder) and turned it into a Christmas tree. No one had a Christmas tree like ours that year!
My second story comes from a photo we found of a snowman sitting in a chair at a snow-covered table on Mom’s deck (wooden floor behind the house). He was wearing a cap and enjoying a plate of peppernuts (I wrote about these in The Wanderers) – one of our favorite Christmas treats. What’s interesting about this is she did it for her own enjoyment. It doesn’t get very cold where she lived, and I’m sure that this scene disappeared a short time after she took the picture when the sun came out and melted the snow. She didn’t care! She was just enjoying herself in a creative way. And I imagine she probably chuckled (laughed quietly) to herself while she did it.
Finally, the story of the bear in the picture at the top of the page. Several years ago Mom called to say that she had been cleaning out the closets (small room where clothes are stored). She said she had found some things of mine and had sent them to me in a box. She told me that I could keep them or throw them away, whichever I wanted to do. When the box came, I opened it and found a quilted, stuffed bear wearing my first pair of overalls (pants held up by cloth straps that go over your shoulders). A quilt is a blanket made from pieces of cloth. The pieces of cloth Mom used to make this quilt had come from shirts and dresses she had made for us when we were young. One of the pieces even came from the dress she wore to the hospital when I was born! I discovered later that she had made five of these bears, one for each of us children.
Good grief! Not fun, certainly, but good for us because it gave my brother, sisters, and me a reason and opportunity to remember a wonderful woman and mother.
~ Warren Ediger – creator of Successful English, where you can find clear explanations and practical suggestions for better English.
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In May 2012, during M.E. Awareness Week, Action for M.E. announced that it had awarded a total of £61,000 to three biomedical pilot research projects at Newcastle, Northumbria and Sheffield universities.
The charity’s initial October 2011 call for proposals announced that, thanks to a generous gift from an anonymous private donor, a research fund of £50,000 would be available. However, following independent scientific review, Action for M.E. decided to fund three projects at a total cost of more than £61,000, drawing on funds provided by our Supporting Membership for research purposes.
Awarded £25,000, the study Understanding muscle dysfunction in M.E./CFS: developing a drug pre-testing system will be led by Dr Phil Manning and Prof Julia Newton at Newcastle University.
Dr Jason Ellis at Northumbria University will lead on A case controlled study exploring the qualitative experience of sleep, the roles of sleep architecture and diurnal patterns of salivary cortisol in M.E./CFS, awarded £11,550.
An award of £24,832 was made to Prof Annalena Venneri, University of Sheffield for Uncovering the biological correlates of cognitive impairment associated with fatigue in M.E./ CFS: a pilot study of cognition and functional connectivity pre and post-exertional malaise.
Prof Derek Pheby, Trustee, Action for M.E., commented, "These three pilot projects have great potential for identifying underlying disease processes in M.E. They fit well with the UK scientific research agenda agreed by the Medical Research Council M.E./CFS Expert Group. Importantly, they also extend the number of universities involved in research with Action for M.E." | <urn:uuid:a425eaf6-58f8-4d3f-bb52-639184d41cde> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.actionforme.org.uk/get-informed/research/our-research-related-activity/three-biomedical-studies | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941778 | 364 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Once in Royal David’s City
“205: Once in Royal David’s City,” Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, no. 205
1. Once in royal David’s city
Stood a lowly cattle shed,
Where a mother laid her baby
In a manger for his bed:
Mary was that mother mild,
Jesus Christ her little child.
2. He came down to earth from heaven,
Who is God and Lord of all,
And his shelter was a stable,
And his cradle was a stall;
With the poor, and mean, and lowly,
Lived on earth our Savior holy.
3. And our eyes at last shall see him,
Through his own redeeming love;
For that child so dear and gentle
Is our Lord in heav’n above,
And he leads his children on
To the place where he is gone.
Text: Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818–1895
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Most Mukwonago Area Schools 'exceed expectations' on new state report cards
As Mukwonago Area School District schools received their first grades from the new school report cards on Oct. 22, district officials are generally pleased with the performance of all schools: Every school but one exceeded the expectations of the rigorous new Common Core State Standards. The lone exception, Park View Middle School, meets expectations, according to the report cards.
"The standards you see there set a very high bar," Director of Student Learning Mary Koski told School Board members. "This is a very, very high bar; only 3 percent of the schools in the state significantly exceed expectations."
Thirty-percent of schools in the state exceed expectations and 43 percent meet expectations. All MASD report cards are listed on the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction website, which is linked on the MASD website.
Schools received scores calculated from a point system. Schools exceeding expectations received a score of 73-82.9 points, while schools meeting expectations received scores of 63-72.9 points. Significantly exceeding expectations scores ranged from 83-100.
The district will use the information to see where schools are strong and look for areas needing improvement to help move the scores up, according to Koski.
"These new state report cards are not an end; they are a beginning. They provide information we can use to help make our schools even better," Koski said. "They will serve as a foundation for the review of multiple new forms of data about our students' current achievement, projected growth, and readiness for careers and postsecondary learning."
The bottom of the school report cards shows student assessment with recalculated Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Examinations (WKCE) for reading and math.
Every year students in grades three through eight and 10 take the WKCE for math and reading. While the results provide information for students, parents and teachers each year, starting with the 2012-13 school year, the achievement bar has been raised for Wisconsin students. New college and career readiness proficiency levels, based on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), provide tougher benchmarks for students, resulting in fewer students attaining a ranking of proficient or advanced on state tests, according to the DPI.
NAEP is sometimes called "the Nation's Report Card" because it is the only measure of student achievement in the United States that allows comparison of students' performances across the country.
Recalculated scores this fall show a lower percentage of MASD students achieving at a proficient or advanced level.
Where 90 percent or more scored proficient or advanced in reading and around 80 percent or higher in math in the past, according to Director of Student Learning Mary Koski, recalculated scores show reading proficiency between 60 and 38 percent and math between 77 and 64 percent.
The new state tests, the Smarter Balanced assessment system will be piloted in the spring of 2013-14. As new state student assessments roll out, the message to MASD parents will be, "your child's score on WKCE will look different," said Koski. While scores may appear lower, it is not a reflection of the abilities of students or teachers, but of the higher expectations, Koski stressed.
According to the DPI, the "difficult step is part of the state's transition to the next generation of student assessments that will help parents and teachers get a more complete picture of each student's learning more quickly." Wisconsin will continue to use the WKCE tests for two more years, switching to the Smarter Balanced assessment system in 2014-15, according to the DPI.
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Claret jugs where produced from about 1830 to 1920 and are nowadays very collectable. The vast majority were made of cut (sometimes frosted) glass. The silver mounted tops incorporated hinged lids, and handles that extended down halfway or to the base. The mounts were often engraved or chased, and the glass bodies were found in many different shapes and varying ornamentation. Some earlier examples were made entirely of silver. The level of craftsmanship and their aesthetic qualities determine their value. Unusual jugs, such as made by Charles Edwards or Christopher Dresser, or examples with fine engraved scenes may command high prices. History and Origin :
In the 18th century there flourished a wide production of silver mounted cruet stand bottles. They were sized from 15-18 cm, but no taller or larger bottle suitable to serve wine was manufactured! The first examples of "wine" bottles were made in the 1830s and among the first were those manufactured in London by Reilly & Storer. Although glass was used for drinking vessels since the earliest times, only the 19th century saw the development of the "Claret Jug". Silversmiths began "modifying" glass decanters used in the 18th century by the addition of simple bands of silver and replacing glass stoppers with silver hinged lids. In the second quarter of the century, silver handles and larger mounts were added, although, in most cases, the glass maintained "bottle" shape and restrained design. From the middle of the century, old rules were abandoned and Claret Jugs became one of the preferred methods for artists to display their skill on the production of fabulous and often bizarre designs. Claret Jugs were produced throughout Europe and, although France had a large production of fine silver and glass jugs, most of the diverse and often beautiful designs that we can now treasure are of British manufacture. British Claret Jugs have a wonderful glass body and perfect silver decorated mounting, as do the Russian pieces, especially those made by Gratchev or Faberge, attaining the highest levels of quality. French manufacturers, perhaps as a consequence of the great tradition existing in wine production in their country, displayed creations characterized by highly functional shapes The British silversmiths, less conditioned by the "culture" of wine, demonstrated broader creativity, stronger innovation and frivolous attitudes in their manufacture.
Since the 1850s, many of the leading British manufacturers were producing fabulous hand engraved glass bodies. As many of their factories were located in the north of the country, the majority of their silver mounts were hallmarked in Birmingham and Sheffield Assay Offices. As the European "grand tour" was in great fashion among the "wealthy minority", the demand of more fanciful models grew and designers researched their inspiration in the styles found in Europe; from geometric Grecian patterns to classical scenes in the "romantic" style of contemporary French painters. By the third quarter of the century, jugs of the most bizarre form were in great fashion and in many cases the glass bore little resemblance to the early "bottles". The mounts were often chased in perfect symmetry to the glass. Curiously, this was also the period characterized by some of the most delicate items and several prominent silversmiths created rare and unusual jugs in "naturalistic" form. Flowers, such as roses, crocuses and water lilies, were copied perfectly to silver mounts and glass decoration which then were assembled to perfection. From 1875 the forerunners of the Art Nouveau period were experimenting with the re-discovered Japanese art and the Aesthetic period became hugely popular. In Germany and Austria the Art Nouveau period lead to the production of Claret Jugs with wonderfully decorated glass body but also, and often, to plain body artifacts. Claret Jugs became for the artist the perfect medium to reproduce the delicate forms used for centuries in the Far East. Butterflies and birds, but also plants and flowers, became a common engraving, often with the addition of other small subjects in Japanese taste (a delicately engraved fan was often added amidst birds and foliage). The 1880s saw the start of the manufacture of the rarest jugs even produced, in the form of animals, birds and fishes. These magnificent creations were made in very limited quantity and by a restricted number of silversmiths, presumably because they required the highest craftsmanship level to attend to their manufacture. The most stunning of these forms had the glass realistically cut and engraved to simulate the texture of the model in minute and intricate details (feathers of a duck or the hair of a monkey). A lot of highly unusual, unconventional and extravagant examples can be seen in the website "www.claretjugs.com", a collection formed by Richard Kent. More common Claret Jugs, but also showing a wide range of variety, can be seen also in my little collection at www.karaffensammler.at . At the end of the 19th century the production of these beautiful objects ceased for a variety of reasons. The vivacious market of exotic Victoriana was replaced by the austerity of the Edwardian period, and this, coupled with the high cost of producing fine glassware, marked the end of 75 years of fine design and beauty. From the 1920s no more remarkable Claret Jugs were produced.
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This news is part of an extensive piece of research carried out by the IGD for Freedom Food, to help better understand shopper attitudes to farm animal welfare and shape its future marketing strategy.
Nearly nine in ten (86%) of those aware of Freedom Food understand that it represents higher animal welfare standards – far more than the other schemes evaluated
Over four in five (81%) of Freedom Food shoppers are attracted by the higher animal welfare standards it offers
Almost two thirds (63%) buy Freedom Food products because of its association with the RSPCA
Egg laying hens followed by meat chickens and beef cattle are the animals about which people are most concerned
Thirty five per cent of chicken and pork buyers would be prepared to pay extra for knowing that the farm inspections were conducted by independent experts like Freedom Food assessors
As demand for higher welfare food has grown so has the number of different labels claiming higher welfare credentials with at least eight just for chicken. According to Leigh Grant, chief executive of Freedom Food, this plethora of labels can be confusing for shoppers:
“Our research clearly reinforces that people are caring more and more about the animals that produce our food. But with so many different labels now on offer claiming higher welfare credentials, it can be confusing to know what to choose and which ones meet the RSPCA’s higher welfare standards.”
In response, Freedom Food is launching a new online advertising campaign to clarify what its label means and tackle consumer concerns about the way animals are farmed.
Leigh continues: “The message we want to get across in the ad is that Freedom Food is the only label backed by the RSPCA. This means you can be sure that the food you are buying has come from animals whose lives have been independently inspected at every stage, not just on the farm, to the RSPCA’s higher welfare standards.”
The advert will focus on chicken, as the most commonly farmed animal, and will run from the 10 October across popular news, lifestyle, food, and women’s websites. This follows print ads earlier this month in titles including My Weekly, Pick Me Up, Chat and Take a Break. If successful the campaign will be rolled out across other species as part of a three year strategy.
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Hopes were high for California’s Citizens Redistricting Commission last December, when nearly 30,000 applications poured in from all over the state for a seat on the 14-member board that is to draw up new boundaries for state assembly, senate, and board of equalization districts. By April 22, a few days after the final deadline, the state auditor had announced that almost 9000 of the initial applicants had submitted supplemental application packages and letters of recommendation, required to qualify for consideration. The commission, created by the passage of Prop 11 in November 2008, is to be made up of 5 Democrats, 5 Republicans, and 4 members of neither party. A 3-member applicant review panel will narrow the number of finalists to 60. Legislative leadership can cut 24 of those at will; from the remaining list, the state auditor will choose 8 members at random, and those 8 will then pick the final 6 members.
Some of the applications include lengthy essays recounting past glories. Mesa College professor Carl Luna, who declined to state his political party, recalled a 2002 project he’d undertaken to make peace between Russia and its breakaway province Chechnya. “After months of effort, regrettably, the project foundered when the Russian participants — probably under pressure from the Russian government — withdrew from the process.” Luna also cited his role in Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial. “I wrote a legal brief of the argument and forwarded it to Professor Laurence Tribe of Harvard, who then connected me with Greg Craig, the lead counsel on President Clinton’s impeachment defense team. Mr. Craig ultimately used my brief in his closing arguments on the floor of the United States Senate on January 21, 1999.”
Democrat Ardyth Shaw, former executive assistant to ex–San Diego Union-Tribune editor Jerry Warren, responded to a question about impartiality by recalling an experience she’d had hosting a radio program. “One example would be the witch I booked over the phone for a Halloween show. When she showed up, my engineer and I were so frightened we made a promise to support one another through the show. I’d like to think having a live, one-hour, serious discussion, on the radio, with a witch, would be a good example of impartiality.”
Jeffrey Schwall of Rancho Santa Fe, retired president of Time Warner Cable San Diego and another “decline-to-state,” said he lived in South Africa following the Soweto riots. “At one point I was asked by a tribal council of elders to be the judge in a violent dispute between my housekeeper and her boyfriend. I had to find a solution that would keep one or both of them from being subjected to severe physical punishment. I found that solution.”
Asked to describe his “appreciation for California’s diverse demographics and geography,” Republican Charles Rosen of San Diego, a retired electrical engineer, wrote: “One winter day, my wife and I drove to the mountains for breakfast in historic Julian. By forenoon we dropped down into the desert at Borrego Springs to enjoy the warmth and sunshine. By mid afternoon we were tromping in the snow atop Mount Palomar. The evening ended with a meal at a favorite Mexican restaurant on the beach at Cardiff-By-The Sea. Where else could this be done except in San Diego County!” | <urn:uuid:aec1a41d-4bae-4a2b-b2fd-126dce447a22> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2010/apr/28/under-the-radar-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968569 | 708 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Responds to comments on geology of Florida.
Discusses coral reefs and paper by John Murray ["On the structure and origin of coral reefs and islands", Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 10 (1880): 505–18].
Comments on AA's paper ["Paleontological and embryological development", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 29 (1880): 389–414].
Down | Beckenham Kent
My dear Mr Agassiz.
It was very good of you to write to me from Tortugas, as I always feel much interested in hearing what you are about, and in reading your many discoveries— It is a surprising fact that the penninsula of Florida should have remained at the same level for the immense period requisite for the accumulation of so vast a pile of debris—
You will have seen M
Pray—forgive me troubling you at such length,. but it has occurred to me
that you might be disposed to give after your wide experience, your
judgment. If I am wrong, the sooner I am knocked on the head and
annihilated so much the better. It still seems to me a marvellous thing
that there should not have been much & long continued subsidence in
the beds of the great oceans.— I wish that some doubly rich millionaire
would take it into his head to have borings made in some of the
Pacific and Indian Atolls; and bring home cores for slicing from
a depth of 500 or 600 feet. Believe me my dear M
Yours very sincerely— | Charles Darwin.
P.S. I read with much interest your address, before Am: Soc: Adv: of Sc: However true your remarks on the genealogies of the several groups may be, I hope & believe that you have overestimated the difficulties to be encountered in the future.— A few days after reading your address, I interpreted to myself your remarks on one point (I hope in some degree correctly.) in the following fashion.
``Any character of an ancient generalised or intermediate form
may & often does reappear in its descendants after countless
generations & this explains, the extraordinarily complicated
affinities of existing groups''. This idea seems to me to throw a flood of light on the lines, sometimes used to represent affinities, which radiate in all directions, often to very distant sub-groups.—A difficulty which has haunted me for half a century— A strong case could be made out in favour of believing in such reversion or ??version after immense intervals of time— I wish the idea had been put into my head in old days— for I shall never again write on difficult subjects as I have seen too many cases of old men becoming feeble in their minds, without being in the least conscious of it— If I have interpreted your ideas at all correctly I hope that you will reurge on any fitting occasion your view— I have mentioned it to a few persons, capable of judging and it seemed quite new to them— I beg you to forgive the proverbial garrulity of old age. | <urn:uuid:28ffbd2f-d2bc-4d26-98b6-c1f4118aff69> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-13145 | 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 | 0.956752 | 639 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Data loggers using wireless communications for measuring temperature and humidity, ideal for larger sites/applications.
This Tinytag wireless data logging system consists of a receiver which is connected to a PC and a number of radio loggers (or wireless data loggers). Each radio logger is a self-contained, battery powered unit that can receive, log, store and transmit data to other radio loggers, as well as the central receiver.
Each radio logger (or wireless data logger) has a line of sight range of up to 200 metres, but there is no limit to the number of loggers you can have, or to how far away you have them. Data will always find its way back to the PC because it can be relayed from one logger to another logger in range, until it finds its way back to the receiver. The loggers will dynamically adjust to deal with obstructions. If a logger is unable to find a path back to the receiver, its data is stored locally until such time as a path becomes available.
This combination of features delivers a very robust radio network which ensures that data is never lost during transmission. The radio software provides mechanisms for third party integration using Modbus or http accessible CSV files. This software is also fully compatible with 'wired' Tinytag products and existing users will find the interface familiar. Data from the receiver can be accessed over a network.
- Radio licence-free and frequency, 869.8 MHz (EU version)
- Self-configuring and easy to set up
- Self-contained and battery powered
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A rotation is an isometric transformation: the original figure and the image are congruent. The orientation of the image also stays the same, unlike reflections. To perform a geometry rotation, we first need to know the point of rotation, the angle of rotation, and a direction (either clockwise or counterclockwise). A rotation is also the same as a composition of reflections over intersecting lines.
There are 4 types of transformations one of which is rotation. Rotation is an isometry which means the beginning image and the new image are going to be congruent. You need to know 3 key things when you're performing your rotation.
First thing is a point of rotation otherwise you're just going to be rotating in space. Secondly, you need to know an angle of rotation that tells you exactly how far to rotate and last you need a direction, either clockwise or counterclockwise, so to make this little more spefic, I've drawn a little diagram here that shows rotating point a to a prime about point p x degrees counterclockwise, so again the f8need to know is if you have an image or a point where you're going to rotate it about because this distance between your point and where you're rotating needs to be constant or congruent to your new image.
Second thing that you need to know is how many degrees? So you're not going to have x you're going to have a number like 30 so this will be about a 30 degree rotation and last the counterclockwise. If I'd say clockwise we would have rotated it not in this direction but it would have been over here so I guess I could call this a double prime. So a double prime would have been a clockwise rotation x degrees about point p. So again the 3 key things that you need to know when you're performing rotation; the point that you're rotating it about, how much you're rotating and in what direction. | <urn:uuid:dc7b4cc7-a3d7-4601-aa5f-573aea3b9b58> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.brightstorm.com/math/geometry/transformations/rotations-problem-4/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955751 | 398 | 4.375 | 4 |
Transitioning to Minimalism
Quick tips and a range of shoe options
1) GET NEW SHOES
To get the full benefits of natural running or a barefoot style of running, look for minimalist shoes with a few key characteristics. First, the shoes should be lightweight, low to the ground and flexible, have a limited heel-to-toe drop and have a thin layer of medium-firm cushioning under the forefoot. (Some minimalist runners prefer a slightly more cushy shoe for longer runs, but even a thin layer of soft foam under the midfoot and forefoot will dampen the foot's ability to feel the ground and respond accurately, particularly for faster-paced efforts and races.)
By nature, minimalist shoes offer little to no support and no stability control, based on the belief that the foot in an efficient gait can naturally off set much of the rolling (pronation/supination) that would occur after a heavy heel-strike gait. Essentially, minimalist shoes offer just enough protection from the pavement while letting the foot move naturally through a stride cycle.
Many traditional training shoes put the foot 22-24mm off the ground in the heel and 10-15mm off the ground in the forefoot, and the difference between the two -- typically 12-14mm in traditional training shoes -- creates a forward-leaning slope, designed to reduce stress on the Achilles. Minimalist shoes trend toward being much more level (a 2-10mm slope) with the assumption that the runner will land on the midfoot and use the natural cushioning of the arch, thus the built-up heel only adds weight and gets in the way of an efficient stride.
But understand that there are varying degrees of minimalist shoes. For example, a Pearl Izumi Streak has a 10mm heel-toe drop (20-10mm), a Brooks Green Silence has an 8mm drop and the Newton Gravity Trainer has a 3mm drop. Other current shoes within the minimalist realm include the New Balance 100, ASICS GEL-Hyper Speed 4, adidas adiZero Ozweego 365 CLIMACOOL, ECCO BIOM A, and K-Swiss Ultra-Natural Run II S.
2) TRANSITION SLOWLY
Even if you're a veteran runner who is used to running in lightweight shoes, you should take caution when transitioning to a more minimalist type of shoe. You're bound to engage muscles in your feet, lower legs and core differently than you're used to, partially because you'll be landing less on your heel with a braking angle and more near your midfoot with a more level landing. Th at will require a period of adjustment, especially if you haven't been doing general strength or dynamic strength exercises, says Mark Cucuzzella, M.D., a 2:24 marathoner and family practice doctor and faculty member of West Virginia University who has done running gait analysis to study running injuries.
Plus, while your core will no longer be working so hard to keep your upper body balanced because you'll be running in a more natural position without a built-up heel, your body will have to adjust slightly for the newfound positioning. Elite coaches and Running Times contributors Jay Johnson (runningdvds.com) and Greg McMillan (mcmillanrunn ing.com) have both produced strength exercise videos geared toward distance runners. Michael Yessis' Explosive Running presents many resistanceband exercises targeted at improving elements of your stride. A regular dedication to general and dynamic strength is crucial for anyone running in minimalist shoes.
Should you eventually be running all of your miles in minimalist shoes? Purists will say yes, of course, but contrarians argue that this can lead to injuries for runners who are larger or not optimally fit. As you transition, consider using your minimalist shoes for short and fast workouts and wait until you're strong enough to crank out that 14-mile negativesplit marathon simulation run. | <urn:uuid:2a928619-3090-4db9-b455-113794d23489> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.runnersworld.com/barefoot-running-minimalism/transitioning-minimalism | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930051 | 812 | 1.710938 | 2 |
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Shutterstock photo of Gotland, Sweden
The proposal is designed to address the dual concerns of rising unemployment and pollution of the Baltic, resulting from the leakage of money and jobs from the import of fertilizers and the leakage of nutrients from the soil into the sea. Gotland is the largest island in the Baltic.
The Foundation is concerned that the ecology of the Baltic will collapse if phosphorous emissions are not brought under control. At the same time they feel that it is high time to address the risks associated with the potential depletion of phosphorus supplies that may give us as little as 30 years to change practices to recycling rather than mining as our main source of fertilizers.
- Wednesday, 01 May 2013 | Submitted by Scott Perret
We already have all the knowledge we need to answer this question, and efforts are under way to do just that. Have a look at this clever response to Joel Makower's GreenBiz article "What Is Sustainability Anyway?", co-authored by The Natural Step Canada board member Bob Willard (the well-known author and sustainable business guru) and The Natural Step Canada executive director Chad Park.
- Thursday, 25 April 2013 | Submitted by Isabella Oriani
At The Natural Step International, we are working hard to craft TNS 2.0 with an inspiring business and organizational strategic direction. We’re very excited as we look forward! At the same time, we celebrate the excellent work TNS offices, associates and partners are already doing around the world. This issue of Stepping Stones is dedicated to all the practitioners doing good work—within TNS and in the broader FSSD community. As we look towards the future, it is good to know we are resting on such a solid and valuable foundation.
Soon we will announce a subtle but powerful change to the way we talk about our mission. We want to make it clear that “sustainability” in itself is not the endgame. Rather, we think of sustainability as simply forming a set of baseline design constraints that we can all use to create exciting, positive futures together. Getting the design constraints right is of course critical, and this is where the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD, a.k.a. The Natural Step Framework) can help. But the goal is a great world, not a merely sustainable one—that’s something people can get excited about. And when we say it’s something we do together, that’s because we know that in complex systems the kind of shifts we hope to see can only happen through collaboration.
- Thursday, 25 April 2013 | Submitted by Scott Perret
Compiled by Scott Perret and Kelly Baxter
In this issue of Stepping Stones, we celebrate our Natural Step family by presenting a snapshot review of our latest projects.
With a network of offices, associates and strategic partners that spans the globe (13 countries and counting), sometimes it's hard to keep track of the full scope and rich detail of all the great work everyone in our TNS network is doing. From tackling sustainable beef to defining a gold standard for sustainable business, to translating strategic sustainable development for the indigenous Māori context, the breadth and depth of collaborative engagement our people have with all sectors of society is breathtaking.
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Last name: Yushachkov
This notable surname is of Ancient Greek origins, although for very obscure reasons, the patron saint of England.. Deriving from the Greek name "Georgios" meaning a farmer, the name was used in Europe throughout the early Christian period, being associated with a martyr of the 3rd century, supposedly killed at Nicomedia in the year 303. The popularity of the name increased greatly at the time of the famous Crusades in the 11th and 12th centuries, when it became the practice for returning crusaders and pilgrims to name their children after biblical figures from the Old Testament. (St) George figured largely in this revival, and when King Edward 111rd of England founded the Order of the Garter in 1348, he did so under the assumed patronage of St. George. Since the 12th century a.d., and the begining of the introduction of surnames, the surname has developed over two hundred spelling forms ranging from George, Jorg, Georgius, Zorzi and Hurche, to Gerge, Horick, Jorat, Yegorov, Djordjevic, Yegorchenko, and Gyurkovics! Early examples of the surname recording taken from authentic registers and charters include, Everadus Georgii of Hamburg, Germany, in the year 1256, and William George, in the London registers, dated 1412. William Georgeson was a landholder in Scotland, having the tenancy of Coupar Grange, in 1471, whilst Henry George, aged 19 yrs., was one of the first settlers to the New World, being recorded in Virgina in 1635. The first known recording of the family name anywhere is that of Hugo Georgii, of the county of Norfolk, England, in 1222 a.d.
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India’s finance minister is optimistic the country’s economy is reviving after a disappointing slowdown in the past year. But there are fears a government weakened by recent electoral losses and unreliable coalition allies may not be able to return the economy to a high-growth path.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said India’s economic performance in the past fiscal year was disappointing, with growth likely to be about 6.9 percent instead of the expected nine percent.
But he says recent data suggests the worst is behind and growth will bounce back to 7.6 percent in 2012-2013. Minister Mukherjee was unveiling the country’s annual budget.
"Numerous indicators pertaining to this period suggest that the economy is now turning around," he said. "There are signs of recovery in coal, fertilizer, cement and electricity sectors. These are core sectors that have an impact on the entire economy. India’s manufacturing appears to be on the cusp of a revival."
Cut in subsidies planned
As concerns grow about the country’s high fiscal deficit, Mukherjee promised to cut the government’s huge bill on subsidies, mainly for food, fuel and fertilizer.
He says it will be cut from 2.5 percent of gross domestic product to 1.7 percent. He said capping subsidies will help bring down the fiscal deficit to 5.1 per cent from 5.9 per cent last year. Several economists called that too modest, while others questioned whether the government could achieve its target.
Mukherjee also emphasized the need to speed up economic reforms and policies to reinvigorate investment and consumer demand.
"We are now at a juncture where it is necessary to take hard decisions. We have to improve our macro-economic environment and strengthen domestic drivers to sustain high growth. We have to accelerate the pace of reform," said Mukherjee.
But there are doubts about the government’s ability to actually take those hard decisions and push reforms, which have been stalled in the past by its coalition partners.
One of its most fractious allies, the Trinamool Congress, has already demanded a rollback in a recent proposal to hike rail fares, highlighting the government’s difficulties in implementing unpopular steps.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh admitted there were problems in achieving political consensus on contentious measures such as cutting fuel and fertilizer subsidies.
"These are compulsions of managing the coalition," he said. "There will be difficulties, there have been difficulties, but ultimately if the government is to govern, it must have a sustainable strategy for managing the economy."
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Despite the report of record "Black Friday" and weekend sales to kick off the holiday shopping season, the White House Council of Economic Advisors warned Monday that the tax hikes due to take effect on January 1 could slow the holiday shopping spree unless Congress and the president agree on a way to avoid going over the much anticipated "fiscal cliff."
Retailers nationwide amassed a record $59.1 billion in sales from Thanksgiving Day through Sunday, a nearly $7-billion increase over the $52.4 billion of a year ago, according to estimates from the National Retail Federation. But the report of the White House panel, consistent with forecasts from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office and many private economists, is that the anticipated tax hikes may yet cast a pall over the remainder of the shopping season and have the potential to cut consumer spending by about $200 billion throughout 2013. Overall economic growth would likely be reduced by 1.4 percent, according to the report, a significant drop in an economy that has been growing by barely two percent since the less-than-robust recovery began in the middle of 2009. Recent modest increases in housing prices and jobs growth have contributed to renewed optimism on the part of consumers, the report said, while warning that "the hard-earned rise in consumer confidence will be at risk if the middle-class tax cuts are not soon extended with a minimum of political drama."
The "political drama" refers to the standoff thus far between President Obama and congressional Republicans over tax policy. Republicans favor extending the lower rates for all income levels, while Obama is insisting on a rate increase for household incomes of $250,000 or more and individual incomes of $200,000 or more. Recent remarks by some key Republicans have indicated a softening of their anti-tax stand, however, citing a need to raise revenue as well as make adjustments to entitlement programs in order to stem a tide of red ink that has produced annual deficits exceeding $1 trillion in recent years and pushed the official national debt above $16 trillion.
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Don’t tell your Republican friends about THIS; it’ll only confuse them:
When it comes to most of the major political disputes in Washington, congressional Republicans insist Democrats focus on reducing the debt Republicans built up during the Bush/Cheney era. It underpins everything from the budget fight to the debt ceiling to efforts to expand public investments.
What the debate tends to ignore is the debt reduction that’s already happened. Michael Linden and Michael Ettlinger reportedyesterday that since the start of 2011 fiscal year, President Barack Obama “has signed into law approximately $2.4 trillion of deficit reduction” over the next ... | <urn:uuid:b8ecdfd7-8494-453e-891c-8be6f87a6f84> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130109/BLOGS/301099995/0/highlight | 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 | 0.927655 | 134 | 1.710938 | 2 |
For those of you interested in macro or nature photography, it’s worth your time to check out the video below which chronicles the work of award wining photographer, Barbara Leven and her series of nature photographs, Enchanted Earth. The video, filmed at photography superstore, B&H, features Leven herself as she shares with viewers some of her best work and, as an added bonus, describes the process she took behind making the photographs. There’s certainly a lot to be learned from the seminar, so you may want to block out an hour of your time to watch it, which you can do right here:
The majority of the photographs shown are flowers and other assorted plant life, however, many of the tips she shares can easily be transferred over to photographing wildlife as well. Leven has been using and studying Photoshop for over 20 years and her presentation delivers us an in-depth look at all sorts of useful tricks and creative editing techniques.
Well aware that good photography doesn’t happen in Photoshop, Leven also imparts a wealth of details about her thought process and how she has trained her eye to compose a photograph. At one point, she shows us a photograph of a wilting flower to prove how vital and enriching thinking outside of the box can be.
“I like to photograph the whole life cycle. It’s not just the instant of maturity when the flower is absolutely perfect. I like to photograph the beginning, the seeds, the buds, the perfection, and the decline as well.”
As a very devoted Nikon user, Leven takes us on a walk through of her camera back as she describes the equipment she has found to work best for her throughout her 30 years working in photography. Yes, equipment is very much a matter of personal preference, but her outspoken devotion to Nikon and Tamron is nearly enough to convince us all that it’s the only way to go. | <urn:uuid:728547c1-f891-488e-9c81-57c6645ce5f3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thedreamwithinpictures.com/blog/how-to-take-close-up-photos-of-nature | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96944 | 399 | 1.75 | 2 |
From Honolulu, Hawaii, USA:
My five year old son takes NPH and aspart injections before breakfast and dinner daily. He also takes extra shots of aspart when he's running high. Over the last week, he's been running very low, between 33 mg/dl [1.8 mmol/L] and 65 mg/dl [3.6 mmol/L]. We've backed off of his insulin dramatically and try to give him juice and such to bring up his blood sugars. A snack of 50 or 60 grams of carbohydrates has only been raising him 10 or 20 mg/dl [0.6 to 1.1 mmol/L]. Do you have any idea what might be causing this? Normally, his body is very sensitive to carbohydrates and make his blood sugars skyrocket.
I suggest you ask your pediatric endocrinologist about having your son switch to glargine, a non-peaking insulin, instead of NPH. Then, your son should be checked for celiac disease and to see if he his still in his honeymoon.
[Editor's comment: Has your son recently started an exercise program or joined a sports team? If so, you need to consider reducing his insulin a small amount and/or providing a snack 30 minutes before the activity. Increased activity can cause low blood sugars. You can find more information at our Sports Corner. BH]
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A pet is certainly a great friend. After a difficult day, pet
owners quite literally feel the love.
In fact, for nearly 25 years, research has shown that living
with pets provides certain health benefits. Pets help lower blood pressure and
lessen anxiety. They boost our immunity. They can even help you get dates.
If you have high blood pressure, you may experience erectile dysfunction.
For a healthy young man, erectile dysfunction is typically not a problem. As you age, however, you may notice some changes. Maybe it takes more coaxing to get erect than it used to. Sometimes it may take more direct stimulation of the penis, whereas merely a daydream or the suggestion of sex was once enough. Or perhaps your erection isn't quite as firm as it once was, but it's still good enough. These are normal changes.
"The old thinking was that if your family had a pet, the
children were more likely to become allergic to the pet. And if you came from
an allergy-prone family, pets should be avoided," says researcher James E.
Gern, MD, a pediatrician at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
However, a growing number of studies have suggested that kids
growing up in a home with "furred animals" -- whether it's a pet cat or
dog, or on a farm and exposed to large animals -- will have less risk of
allergies and asthma, he tells WebMD.
In his recent study, Gern analyzed the blood of babies
immediately after birth and one year later. He was looking for evidence of an
allergic reaction, immunity changes, and for reactions to bacteria in the
If a dog lived in the home, infants were less likely to show
evidence of pet allergies -- 19% vs. 33%. They also were less likely to have
eczema, a common allergy skin condition that causes red patches and itching. In
addition, they had higher levels of some immune system chemicals -- a sign of
stronger immune system activation.
"Dogs are dirty animals, and this suggests that babies who
have greater exposure to dirt and allergens have a stronger immune system,"
Dogs are great for making love connections. Forget Internet
matchmaking -- a dog is a natural conversation starter.
This especially helps ease people out of social isolation or
shyness, Nadine Kaslow, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at
Emory University in Atlanta, tells WebMD.
"People ask about breed, they watch the dog's tricks,"
Kaslow says. "Sometimes the conversation stays at the 'dog level,'
sometimes it becomes a real social interchange."
Dogs for the Aged
"Studies have shown that Alzheimer's patients have fewer
anxious outbursts if there is an animal in the home," says Lynette Hart,
PhD, associate professor at the University of California at Davis School of
"Their caregivers also feel less burdened when there is a
pet, particularly if it is a cat, which generally requires less care than a
dog," says Hart.
Walking a dog or just caring for a pet -- for elderly people
who are able -- can provide exercise and companionship. One insurance company,
Midland Life Insurance Company of Columbus, Ohio, asks clients over age 75 if
they have a pet as part of their medical screening -- which often helps tip the
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October 2, 2011
First-known Hitler Writing on ‘Jewish Question’ Displayed
Ten months after the end of World War I, a 30-year-old German army veteran wrote a two-page letter in which he explained the Jewish question on what he called a “rational” and “scientific” basis.
“An anti-Semitism based on reason must lead to a systematic combatting and elimination of the privileges of the Jews,” he wrote. “The ultimate objective must be the irrevocable removal of Jews in general.”
The letter was signed “Respectfully, Adolf Hitler” and got high marks for the author from his superiors in a military propaganda unit bitterly opposed to the newly established Weimar Republic as the perceived handiwork of Bolsheviks, socialists and Jews.
As the first written political statement of the future fuehrer, the letter is considered a document of immense historical value and was shown to the public for the first time on Oct. 4 by the Simon Wiesenthal Center at its Museum of Tolerance.
Noted UCLA historian Saul Friedlander, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of a two-volume analysis of the Nazi regime, observed that “In his very first written statement about the Jews, Hitler shows that [hatred of Jews] was the very core of his political passion.”
At the behest of his superiors, Hitler wrote the letter to a fellow soldier propagandist, named Adolf Gemlich, and the document is known as the Gemlich letter. In contrast to his later public rants, Hitler assumes an almost professorial tone in the letter.
For instance, he expounded that “anti-Semitism is too easily characterized as a mere emotional phenomenon. And yet, this is incorrect. Anti-Semitism as a political movement may not and cannot be defined by emotional impulses, but by recognition of the facts.”
What are the facts? According to the letter, one is that “Jewry is absolutely a race and not a religious association.”
Throughout, Hitler never tires of the old stereotype of the Jew as a money-grubber bent on world domination. “Everything man strives after as a higher goal, be it religion, socialism, democracy, is to the Jew only means to an end, the way to satisfy his lust for gold and domination,” he wrote.
Hitler’s advocacy in the letter of “the irrevocable removal of Jews” has led to discussions among scholars as to whether the terms anticipate his later extermination campaign.
The German word for “removal” used by Hitler is “entfernung,” which is more commonly translated as “distance” or “withdrawal.” Taken in context, most experts believe that Hitler’s thinking at the time focused more on “segregation” or “expulsion” than a full-fledged Holocaust.
“Not even Hitler was capable of imagining in 1919 what could be done,” British historian Ian Kershaw told The New York Times.
Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Wiesenthal Center, who was instrumental in acquiring the letter for the museum and raised $150,000 for its purchase, draws two key deductions from the letter, one historical, the other applicable to our time.
“Apologists for Hitler and Holocaust deniers always cite the fact that no one has found a document, signed by Hitler, ordering the destruction of European Jewry,” Hier said. “Perhaps such a document was destroyed, or Hitler gave his orders verbally.
“In any case, the Gemlich letter proves his obsessive hatred of Jews more clearly than in his later book, ‘Mein Kampf.’ It is fair to assume that when Hitler wrote about ‘the removal of the Jews’ he wasn’t thinking about just throwing a few thousand Jews in jail.”
The second important lesson Hier draws from the letter is that we cannot afford to ignore or ridicule the demagogues of our day, like Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
“If in 1919, someone had warned that a man like Hitler would become a menace to the world, such a person would have been labeled as crazy,” Hier said.
As part of the permanent exhibit in the museum’s Holocaust section, the letter will be complemented by an interactive time line tracing the year-by-year spread of Hitler’s power and his ultimate defeat between 1919 and 1945.
To this reporter, the letter with Hitler’s slanted signature brings back some personal memories of growing up as a Jewish boy in Berlin.
I saw Hitler in person two times. The first was in 1934, when I was 9 and living in an apartment on the Reichsstrasse, a main avenue radiating out from the nearby central square, the Reichskanzler Platz (Chancellor Square).
Looking down from our window, we saw a procession of limousines, flanked by SS men, and in the middle was the fuehrer, riding in an open car, returning the straight-armed salute of the masses with his typical sloppy bent-armed wave. Perhaps he was returning from the Reichskanzler Platz, which had just been renamed Adolf Hitler Platz.
Much later, when Lee Harvey Oswald shot President John Kennedy, it occurred to me that the distance and line of sight in the Dallas assassination was similar to the positions between Hitler and me in 1934.
My second encounter was in 1936, when Italy’s Benito Mussolini paid a visit to Hitler in Berlin, and the two dictators rode down Unter den Linden in the same car. I went to see the show amid masses of jubilant Berliners.
A final association with Hitler occurred on April 20, 1939, the day my mother, sister and I took a taxi to Tempelhof Airport to fly from Berlin to Croydon Airport in London, a big deal at the time.
On the way, every pole and public building was festooned with huge, streaming swastika flags, and I thought that my Aryan countrymen might be celebrating our departure from the fatherland. I was a bit disappointed to learn that in reality the city was celebrating Hitler’s 50th birthday.
I think the first thing that struck me on arriving in America was the flag. I had left behind the blood-red banners with the ominous black swastika in the middle, a symbol of ruthless force. By contrast, the American flag, with its colorful stars and stripes, seemed playful, a child’s banner in a make-believe parade.
Back to reality. The Gemlich letter was found by an American soldier among scattered papers at an apparent Nazi party archive, near Nuremberg. The soldier brought it back to America, and decades later the letter came into the hands of a California dealer in historical documents.
When the letter first came on the market in 1988, Hier was skeptical of its authenticity, partly because of numerous instances of forged Nazi documents.
Since then, experts in Germany, Britain and the United States have vetted the letter and have concluded that it is, indeed, the original version, written and signed by Hitler, although 100 percent certainty might require chemical tests of the age and composition of the stationery.
Hier, for one, has no doubt that he has the real thing. “This is the most significant document ever acquired by the Wiesenthal Center, with historical significance not only to the Jewish people, but to the entire world,” he said.
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In the mid-1930s, at a time when Congress was in the process of abolishing excise taxes on some goods, sportsmen groups and other conservationists saw an opportunity to use the excise tax on guns and ammunition to fund wildlife restoration projects. Ammunition companies supported the proposal, and Carl Shoemaker, former chief of the Oregon Department of Fish and Game, drafted the legislation. Shoemaker enlisted the support of Senator Key Pittman of Nevada to introduce the bill in the Senate, and approached Congressman A. Willis Robertson for support in the House of Representatives. The Pittman-Robertson (P-R) Federal Aid to Wildlife Restoration Act sailed through Congress. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the bill into law on September 2, 1937, turning a deaf ear to protests that earmarking funds from excise taxes was not in the country’s best interest. Today, on its 75th anniversary, the program has proved without a doubt that it has been in the very best interest of the country.
From the outset, P-R projects included the purchase of land for wildlife restoration; improvement of wildlife habitat; and wildlife research projects. For example, Connecticut acquired nearly 10,000 acres of land, including key wetlands along Long Island Sound and the Connecticut River. The P-R program also gave birth to scientific wildlife management in this country. It has turned into one of the most successful federal-state-conservationist-sportsmen partnerships in history.
Following the success of the P-R Program, sportsmen and other conservationists sought to establish a stable and secure mechanism to fund the restoration of America’s fisheries. In 1950, the United States established a Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Act that generates funding for fisheries research, habitat restoration, recreational boating access, construction of fish hatcheries, and aquatic education.
Sportsmen have contributed more than $12 billion to conservation through license revenues and the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Programs (WSFR), annually providing more than 80% of the funding for most state fish and wildlife agencies. For 75 years, WSFR has been driving the restoration and management of our fish and wildlife resources. It has been justly called the most successful conservation management program in the world. America’s hunters, shooters, anglers, and boaters should be proud that they have held the program on their shoulders for 75 years.
Regulations in red are new this year.
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Four Super-Filling Foods
Last week, I cracked open the September issue of Glamour and discovered a story I’d written—and totally forgotten about! Luckily, it’s a topic near and dear to my heart: yummy, decidedly un-diet foods that fill you up. Of the eight included in the story, here are the four I personally turn to regularly to stave off hunger and keep my portions in check:
For just 70 calories, an egg delivers more than 6 grams of protein, says Shelley McGuire, Ph.D., a spokesperson for the American Society for Nutrition. One study found that women who ate eggs for breakfast lost more weight than those who had bagels with the same number of calories, possibly because all that protein kept their hunger in check. The egg eaters reported more energy too!
Studies show that foods containing a lot of water can keep you feeling full. And when you start a meal with soup, you activate brain signals that begin to tell you you’ve had enough to eat—so that by the time you finish your second course, you’ll be satisfied. “Go for a broth-based bowl with fiber-rich veggies like celery and spinach,” says Amy Jamieson-Petonic, R.D.
Seventeen grams of protein in a 6-ounce container (that’s more than you get in four slices of turkey!) means major hunger control.
All that filling fiber (4 grams per half-cup serving in the old-fashioned variety; 3 grams in the instant) helps this breakfast stick to your ribs. It also provides a surprising 4 to 7 grams of protein (the steel-cut kind typically has the most)—and that’s before you add milk. For extra staying power, toss in blueberries, which have 4 grams of fiber per cup.
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Mexico's Capital City
Mexico City is truly one of the most interesting and diverse cities in the world, and as the capital city of Mexico is sure to provide its guests with equal measures of thrill, culture and traditional Mexican sunshine!
Travellers to Mexico often overlook this city because most of the country's tourism promotion is directed toward Mexican beach resorts. The worlds largest city, the financial, political and cultural center of México, the nightlife capital of México, what more do you need?
You will need more than one vacation to fully enjoy the many activities available in the world’s largest city. Mexico City is the cultural center of Mexico and is home to a seemingly endless array of cultural activities. An entire vacation could be devoted strictly to the more than one hundred museums, and you would probably still not have time to visit them all. The floating gardens of Xochimilco are an attraction that has been in operation since Aztec times.
Find the most active nightlife scene of all Mexican cities! Guests have an almost endless choice of options. The music scene boasts jazz clubs, loud all-night discos, Mariachi music, Flamenco, Cuban and salsa clubs, classical concerts, opera, philharmonic orchestras, romantic trios, chamber music and more.
Where to Stay
lowcostholidays.com offers a fantastic selection of hotels and apartments in Mexico City. Choose from over a 100 properties to make sure your stay is stress free and comfortable.
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September 28, 2012
Click here to view a video about this year's speakers.
The 2012-2013 16th Annual Southern Colorado Economic Forum
The Southern Colorado Economic Forum brings together
local experts from the public, private, and academic sectors to report
on our economy. Thought of by many as our region’s economic “State
of the Union,” the Forum offers the community an annual snapshot
of local economic activity and provides forecasts to help businesses
plan for the upcoming year.
This valuable research about where our community has been and where
we are headed is made possible through a cooperative effort between
UCCS and local business sponsors. This long-standing partnership between
the academic and business communities has produced timely, accurate,
and objective economic data to guide local businesses for nearly a decade.
Benefits of Attending the Forum
The Southern Colorado Economic Forum is the premier resource
for local economic information. This information is provided for—and
supported by—local businesses.
The Forum is an opportunity for you to learn about the trends
and dynamics occurring nationally, statewide, and in our community,
and how they will impact your business.
Experts from UCCS and the Community will present objective forecasts
about key economic indicators such as population, employment, wages,
prices, retail trade and housing that your organization can use in planning
future business strategies.
The Forum is a tremendous networking opportunity; you’ll
have the chance to meet experts from a variety of industries, UCCS and
other businesses that have an interest in the local economy.
who attend the Forum will receive a comprehensive report filled with
data, statistics and trends. The content can help you uncover new opportunities,
make better business decisions, deliver more compelling sales presentations
and position your business as experts who are “in the know.”
Attending this year’s Economic Forum and obtaining the
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Information Density, Mathematical Identity, Set Stores and Big Data
Performance when executing queries for transactions and analytics remains a universal concern for those supporting data warehousing, high-volume web sites, business intelligence and cloud computing. One factor has been growth and the sheer volume of data being stored and retrieved puts a strain on computing resources. The term Big Data has become a convenient handle to label software that operates with very large data sets and the data access technology that's necessary.Two of my previous blog postings discussed David Childs' work on extended set theory (XST) providing a mathematical foundation for managing data. Extended sets could be an important solution to the data management challenges of Big Data applications.
Childs' research has focused on a mathematical identity for data and the use of mathematical expressions for behavior. The desirability of an algebraic approach for operations with various data types has been explored by other notable researchers. David J. DeWitt and Scott L. Vanderberg of the University of Wisconsin published "Algebraic Support for Complex Objects with Arrays, Identity, and Inheritance".
DeWitt and Vanderberg describe a viable algebraic query processor for an advanced data model, with databases of "completely arbitrary structure, multisets, arrays ... and a form of object identity that allows (but does not force) any part of a structure to have identity separate from its value."
SQL databases emerged as a result of applying set theory to data management, but using data operations on sets doesn't tie us to the relational model. For example, data types such as graphs and rings are defined as sets with various properties. The operating method for users of a CODASYL network model database is to define set ownership and membership and then traverse through links when accessing data.
Extended set theory is an augmentation of classical set theory. Instead of set operations with ordered pairs, extended set theory involves operations with n-tuples. In a seminar at Microsoft Research, Childs expressed this as
"In extended set theory, n-tuples are just sets with integer scopes (superscripts on element values)."
Today Big Data and scalability have captured the imagination of system architects and database designers. Web sites such as Facebook and Flicker present a unique scalability challenge, but many organizations are doing analytics with gigabyte-sized and larger data sets. Sharding, a process that distributes rows for a single table across multiple partitions, has been used for very large web databases with high transaction volumes. This partitioning and distribution of data across multiple servers permits the use of a shared-nothing architecture to provide scalability.
Techniques for partitioning data have become an area of interest for database designers and system architects. Besides sharding, other approaches include hash partitioning, range partitioning and list partitioning but extended set theory can play a role.
The advantage of the Childs' set-theoretic data model is it enables us to model data at a logical level and dynamically restructure it to match query requirements. Childs describes this advantage of extended set theory as adapting the data to the query instead of adapting the query to the data. That means a query can operate with an informationally-dense data set, requiring fewer I/O operations to deliver excellent performance against gigabyte-sized data sets, such as those generated for the Transaction Processing Council's TPC-H queries.
Benchmarks have shown extended set theory offers some performance advantages when processing large data sets. Indeed some of the execution times for decision-support queries have been startling when compared to IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.
Many researchers and developers concerned about Big Data and cloud computing scalability have accepted Brewer's CAP Theorem and the need for partitioning data for performance reasons. XST treats all data representations as mathematical objects and provides a mathematical foundation for operations with data that's been partitioned.
Analytics and business intelligence typically produce longer-running queries than a online transaction processing (OLTP) mix, but performance and response times can still be an issue, particularly with complex ad hoc queries. A sharding scheme may provide efficiency for OLTP but it can induce a performance penalty if a complex query spans partitions.
Childs' XST might prove to be an important tool for addressing data partitioning problems, assuming more developers and architects are willing to investigate a mathematical foundation for managing data. That was done by a generation of developers and architects who accepted Codd's relational model and the SQL databases that followed.
Childs has been researching set-theoretic operations for decades and most recently published "Set-Store Data Access Architectures". It compares mechanical and mathematical data models and explores column-store, row-store and set-store architectures. The paper explains a benefit of mathematical data access strategies:
" 9.3 Mathematical DAMs Since with mathematical data models updating is always a constructive process and no modifications to existing data are required, the only database design concern is to make sure all data required to support application data access requirements, is that all the data is actually loaded.
9.4 DAM Strategies This is not meant to imply that use of mathematical data models do not require considerable work and design intelligence to support high performance I/O data access, but only that the effort is less predictive and more adaptive in nature."
Childs has said the recent paper is ";an attempt to remedy forty years of set-theoretic obfuscation.";
One wonders whether this will re-kindle interest in data management based on a mathematical foundation or whether there's simply more energy going into building something new based on different objectives.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison quite succinctly summed up the problem of capturing and sustaining mindshare for technology:
"The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion."
It will be interesting to watch whether set-store data access architectures become high fashion for processing large data sets.
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In his 1963 essay “The Critic’s Credentials,” Stanley Edgar Hyman made this claim: “Our world is a multiverse and complex one, and our literature accurately reflects it. Unless the critic’s equipment is similarly multiverse and complex, he will be turned away at the door of literature.” Fifteen years earlier, in a meticulous work of criticism called The Armed Vision, Hyman distinguished between the “Ideal Critic,” who would possess the highest degree of knowledge in the humanities—Coleridge and Arnold were his Ideal Critics—and the “Actual Critic, poor fellow,” who would limp along as best he could.
Hyman’s requirement that critics be intellectuals stemmed from his recognition of a now little-recognized fact: imaginative literature does not happen in a vacuum. One doesn’t have any business writing about literature unless one’s business is literature, because every important poet and novelist has predecessors informing, shaping his vision, and if a critic has no engagement with those predecessors, he can have no sustained and substantive engagement with the poet or novelist under review. To borrow C.K. Chesterton’s insult against Swinburne, the critic would be all self-expression and no self-assertion. Self-assertion necessitates a steady poise in the mingling of knowledge and intellect.
At a time when many American publications employ pedestrian reviewers to scribble personal-pronoun-obsessed book reports, Adam Kirsch remains a blesséd throwback to the great poet-critic-intellectuals of yore—T.S. Eliot, Robert Penn Warren, Randall Jarrell, Conrad Aiken, R.P Blackmur, Yvor Winters—who brought to bear in every essay what Hyman nicely dubbed “a fearful assumption of personal capacity.” A poet of impressive range, Kirsch writes prose with a baffling prolificacy. Each week you can find him opining for several top publications on nearly every aspect of literary thought. An Ideal Critic of the Coleridgean mold, he possesses a swift command of how history, philosophy, sociology, and psychology inform works of imaginative literature. His Benjamin Disraeli is an expert, emotionally astute study of the complicated Jewish-English statesman and novelist, and The Wounded Surgeon and The Modern Element, his two books on English-language poets, rise to Dr. Johnson’s criterion for lasting criticism: the conversion of mere opinion into universal knowledge.
In Why Trilling Matters, Kirsch has turned his considerable gifts to the mind he most resembles in comprehensive literary and cultural understanding. When Lionel Trilling died in 1975, he was as prestigious and influential a critic as one can be. Jacques Barzun, Trilling’s friend and colleague at Columbia, noted that in the wake of Trilling’s death the “chorus of recognition” experienced “scarcely a moment’s hush.” The first Jew ever to earn tenure in Columbia’s notoriously Anglophilic English department, Trilling taught a graduate seminar so renowned among aspiring intellectuals and critics that many clamored to gain acceptance, Cynthia Ozick among them.
What makes Trilling such a complex subject is not his outstanding intellect that insisted on complexity and pluralism, but his steadfast resistance to being pigeonholed and his seeming contradictions of character. A career academic and critic, he was also, in Barzun’s words, “the very negation of an academic critic” in his freedom from Eliotic dogmatizing and method-making. A cloistered, lifelong New Yorker who got itchy whenever he left the five boroughs, he deigned to speak for all of human society in his infamous use of “we.” An unbelieving Jew reared in a conservatively Jewish household, Trilling held that being Jewish was a social rather than religious or cultural enterprise. An apolitical citizen who walked the middle road because “between is the only honest place to be,” he was a powerfully political reader and writer who contended that literature offered badly needed political and moral instruction. And, most splitting of all, Trilling the Apollonian critic of refinement yearned to be a Dionysian artist up to his elbows in the sweet blood of creativity.
Kirsch puts to rest decades’ worth of speculation that Trilling was made miserable by his inability to become a successful novelist, by his organic inclination toward literary comment and not literary creation (his only published novel, The Middle of the Journey, failed to win many admirers; one reviewer sniped that it “reads at times as though it were first serialized in PMLA”). Like so many of his generation, Trilling envied the raw creative genius of Ernest Hemingway, and indeed believed that “novelists as a class have made the most aggressive assault upon the world.” He looked upon the Byronic energies of his student Allen Ginsberg with a kind of brooding envy, never mind that Ginsberg was start to finish a second-rate poet, his celebrated “Howl” the sophomoric and technically inept rant of a solipsist (Kirsch quotes Trilling’s indefatigable wife, Diana, comparing the Beats to “children in a progressive kindergarten”).
The speculation about Trilling’s private misery began in 1984 when Diana Trilling published in Partisan Review selections from his journals that appeared to describe a rabidly dissatisfied man who had shunned his deepest ambition to be a novelist: “Suppose I were to dare to believe that one could be a professor and a man! and a writer!—what arrogance and defiance of convention.” But Kirsch reads these journal entries more carefully than others and finds no evidence of a bitter man stymied by the sublime forces of creativity. Rather, Trilling welcomed what he was, and understood what Harold Bloom would later champion with such gusto: that the critic must be every bit as creative—as downright dynamic—as the novelist and poet he assesses. Trilling’s critical dynamism helped make Partisan Review the peerless literary/political outfit it was in the 1940s and 50s.
Matthew Arnold, E.M. Forster, and The Liberal Imagination—the three books that secured Trilling’s place in the American pantheon—are masterworks of discerning critical sensibility, of what Kirsch calls “an individual mind engaged with the world and with texts.” Kirsch rightly singles out sensibility as the vital, defining characteristic of any necessary writer—comprehend James’s storytelling sensibility or Dickinson’s poetic sensibility and you are halfway to comprehending their artistic achievement. Trilling’s work, argues Kirsch, amounts always to more than just criticism because it is “primary” and “autonomous”—it is “literature itself.” If Trilling’s coiled prose style lacks the aphoristic flair of Oscar Wilde or the come-hither bombast of Bloom, it nevertheless perfectly serves the complex, almost paradoxical sensibility of a first class mind that delighted in dialectic and knew there are no easeful answers to the most pressing inquiries of humankind.
If Trilling’s coiled prose style lacks the aphoristic flair of Oscar Wilde or the come-hither bombast of Bloom, it nevertheless perfectly serves the complex, almost paradoxical sensibility of a first class mind.
The reason Trilling matters now has less to do with his status as the saint of liberalism—a troubled status, at best; like Arnold, Trilling had a love/hate relationship with the liberal tradition—than with his doggedness in proclaiming the primacy of literature as a means of ascertaining the individual and the individual’s relation to society. Trilling’s friend and fellow critic Alfred Kazin titled a short memoir Writing Was Everything, but for Trilling reading was everything. The literary life was not only an occupation but a way of being in the world, a personal and social commitment to understanding who we are and how we fit. “The permanent value” of Trilling’s work, writes Kirsch, “is as a record of the way literature generates a self.” Trilling “speaks directly to our current loss of faith in literature—which is, as he understood, fundamentally a loss of faith in a certain ideal of selfhood.” In other words: We cannot become ourselves without literature. We have a “moral obligation to be intelligent”—the title of Leon Wieseltier’s superb edition of Trilling’s essays, borrowed from Trilling’s teacher John Erskine—and for Trilling, as he wrote in his final book, The Last Decade, intelligence is “connected with literature” and “advanced by literature.” If he was never naïve enough to believe in the Arnoldian notion of literature as social corrective and replacement for religion, Lionel Trilling, like Adam Kirsch himself, illustrates that reading deeply and wisely is not a credential for critics only, but everyone’s last best hope of being better. | <urn:uuid:8671b0a8-4e92-4ead-87f9-da9415d90d47> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/11/30/adam-kirsch-s-why-trilling-matters-reminds-us-of-power-of-reading.print.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959222 | 1,942 | 2.1875 | 2 |
"The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics, 1955.
Presented herein is a compilation of a variety of suggestions for programs that can be carried out by college right-to-life groups. Of course, other types of pro-life groups may find some of these ideas useful, but these ideas are addressed first and foremost to those on college campuses. Many of these ideas have been tried and found successful by college groups. In addition to brief descriptions of the program ideas I have tried to include comments on the utility of these suggestions.
This listing cannot be exhaustive. There are plenty of fresh, new ideas to be discovered. If you can't find an idea that strikes your fancy, get together with several of your group's members and have a brain-storming session. Something new is bound to come up. But it may first help to look over what others have done before you.
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"The life of every human being is sacred as the creation of God, and is of infinite value because he created each person including the unborn child." - Mother Teresa of Calcutta, India.
The following ideas are primarily concerned with building up the number of folks in your group, and keeping them active.
As in any small campus organization, membership is a fundamental responsibility of your officers. They must devote time and effort to getting new people involved in your college right-to-life group, and they must also give some thought to their own replacements. Who will take over when they graduate? Remember that college groups have a complete turn-over in membership every four years meaning that they will die off unless new members are sought out.
The president has the responsibility to see that this does not happen, but it also should be a concern of all the other members. Students should encourage their friends to join. All prospective members should be welcomed in a friendly manner - never discourage any interested person. And there should be several events each year aimed at gaining new members. In addition, the officers should pay some attention to encouraging the more active and interested new members to run for offices in the group. Generally, an active group gets the new members, and reciprocally, more members create a vital and busy group, so plan away!
Freshmen. Freshmen are your best bet for new members. They are generally highly enthusiastic, and at the beginning of the school year they have not yet committed themselves to any organization. Open to new experiences - and with fewer prejudices against the pro-life movement - they are eager to get involved. They are literally looking for you, but they won't join your group unless specifically invited. You must encourage them.
The Group Brochure. Your group can design a brochure specifically aimed at gaining new members. It should briefly tell people what your group is all about - give a short statement of purpose. List some of your more interesting activities. Take an upbeat approach. Don't disclaim or preach. The brochure is meant to attract interest in your group, so take care to emphasize your positive aspects. Marches, good will efforts, speakers, parties, and fund-raisers for charities generally make favorable impressions. It should list a couple of students' names and telephone numbers as contacts. Above all, it should contain an invitation to your first meeting of the school year.
The First Meeting. That first meeting, by the way, should include a discussion of an interesting topic, with an interesting speaker, and plenty of time to socialize afterwards. Food and drinks will make things more relaxed and invite new folks to feel at home. Usually, it will be necessary for the president to have a short speech prepared to explain the purpose of the group and whip up enthusiasm. One or two of those present for the first time will probably run you through the gamut of questions about where you stand in regard to contraception, rape, capital punishment.... Answer the questions truthfully and directly with brief explanations of why you take a particular position.
Don't forget to get everyone's name, address and phone number; a person who puts his name down on your list begins to feel involved. This may be the proper time to get new and old members to fill out membership forms, interest surveys, hand out membership cards, and collect dues if your group does these things (see below). Sign them up and keep them involved. Remember, it is important that your group strive to make a positive first impression.
Before The Semester Begins. It may be possible to contact freshmen before they arrive on campus. Remember the reams of information you were sent by the school after you were accepted? Check with your school's Office of Admissions to see if they will allow your group to put an invitation to your first meeting of the year in one of their mailings. You can even offer to stuff the envelopes for them. Or they may let you have a list of addresses; sending out your own letters can be expensive, but it is sure to get results.
Orientation Materials. Your Office of Student Activities will also be providing new students with some type of orientation materials. Make sure they have lots of your group's brochures to include with their regular materials, and that they are aware of the time and place of your first meeting, as well as the name of a person in your group to contact for more information. Make it a phone that answers, one with people to take down names and phone numbers.
Note:You should also make sure that any packets of information given to freshmen include a list of phone numbers to call for help with problem pregnancies - phone numbers of groups such as Birthright or your local Crisis Pregnancy Center. This is one of the most important things your group can do, not that you will gain any members from it, but it may be the difference between life and death by abortion for dozens of unborn children.
Campus Ministers. Your campus ministers can also be of great help in contacting incoming freshmen. Sometimes they too send out information to freshmen before the school year begins, and you can get them to let you enclose a brochure of your own in their mailings. Also, they frequently have their own weekly bulletin, and will be happy to put a notice in it for you if you ask them. Talk to them - they are usually among the most helpful people on campus.
The Freshman Orientation Fair. Our school, Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has an "Activities Fair" at the beginning of the Fall semester. At the Fair, each campus organization sets up an information table and tries to recruit new members. If your campus has a similar event be sure that your group makes a good showing. Freshmen are shy, in general, so have plenty of friendly and talkative people at your table. You may have to do almost all the talking, but be warm and outgoing, and smile, smile, smile!
This is a great opportunity to show off your group. A slide show or photo album of your past activities would be a nice touch. Select some of your best pieces of literature to hand out, being sure to include a written invitation to your next meeting or event (which shouldn't be more than two weeks away if you wish to keep people interested in your group - which you do), and be sure to get the name and address of anyone interested in the purposes of your group. Other possibilities for your group's table include displaying fetal models (borrowed from a local pro-life group) or showing video cassette tapes of pro-life movies such as The Silent Scream. You should be aware that the planning for any event like this will probably be done during the previous semester, so your group will have to think ahead if they want to be sure to be included.
Pro-Life Legacies. The adult members of the regular pro-life groups in your area may have sons or daughters that go to your school. Get their groups to put a notice in their mailings to their membership asking them to tell their sons and daughters about your group.
Younger brothers and sisters of group members are a legacy which you should not overlook. Be careful though. Younger siblings often resent being called "so-and-so's little brother" or "so-and-so's kid sister." Try to make them welcome in their own right.
Most of your new members will come from among the freshman class. Our group started out as nearly half freshmen. Don't neglect older students, though.
Upperclassmen. Many will come to your group because their friends bring them. Group members should feel free to invite their friends to meetings, trips to Washington, D.C., work sessions, and other activities, especially your group's parties. When prospective new members meet your group in a relaxed, informal atmosphere they can begin to see that pro-lifers aren't at all stodgy and rigid old nannies. You are ordinary folks, good ordinary people, and new members should have a chance to get to know you personally.
I recommend that every college right-to-life group have at least two strictly social events per year. Parties build group morale and give members a chance to get to know each other better. Try to get one of your members to agree to host a party in their apartment or house. Christmas is a good time. And make it a fun party, don't just sit around and drink. At some of our pro-life parties, we've sung Christmas carols, shown old Marx Brothers' and W.C. Fields' movies, danced, and made Tom McGinnis' world-famous rum eggnog. Use your imagination - I'm not about to try to tell college students how to throw a party!
Another way to attract upperclassmen to your group is to send notices of your activities to other organizations, like the College Republicans or the Philosophy Club, whose members are likely to become interested in your group.
Other than the above notes I don't have any special ideas to attract upperclassmen but you should put up posters, and put notices in the campus newspaper on a regular basis informing all prospective new members that they would be welcome at your next meeting. Keeping a high profile on campus will draw in new members, as will interesting activities. Theoretically, at least, the size of your group is limited only by the number of students at your school.
The more activities your group has, the more active members it will attract. This is true not only because it takes a lot of people to run a lot of activities, but because a lot of activity draws attention to your group and builds group spirit. Folks will feel that they belong to your group if they take part in its activities, not if they just happen to be on your mailing list. Keeping your members busy with interesting and useful programs will keep them active in your group.
All activities in your group should be planned with your membership in mind. This means not only that you must avoid programs which you do not have adequate manpower, but that you must keep in mind the interests of your group's members. Forcing an activity upon your folks about which they are unenthusiastic can hurt your membership and your esprit de corps. Your programs must be appealing to college students, which means they cannot be on the children's level. Nor can they consume too much time; college students are very busy folks. As I just mentioned, an occasional social event can work miracles to improve group morale. Top-notch programs and interested, active members are the hallmark of the successful organization. And there is always room for improvement.
The Group Newsletter. Sending out information on a regular basis is important. It keeps the group present in the minds of its members. Your group should have a well-written biweekly or monthly newsletter. The newsletter should tell of upcoming events both on- and off-campus which may be of interest to college pro-lifers. (This includes talks sponsored by pro-abortion groups - it is good to have some pro-life people show up at these things - as well as talks on topics such as medical ethics, genetic engineering, or care of the handicapped.)
You can make the newsletter a responsibility of your group's secretary, but it should normally contain comments by the president of your group as well. It can also tell what is happening on the state and national levels of government: What did the Supreme Court say today? How did your Congressman vote on this bill? Even if it appears that nothing is happening at the moment you can always send out copies of interesting essays or articles on right-to-life issues. When your newsletter contains timely material, such as the time and place of your next meeting, it is important that you get it out on time. If you can't get it typed on time, hand print it. It's better to have a sloppy newsletter than to have one arrive too late.
This, of course, requires keeping an up-to-date mailing list for your group - another responsibility for the secretary - and a good membership form can help. Postage costs can be cut on many campuses by taking advantage of free on-campus mail delivery, and by folding newsletters into blank sheets of paper, and taping them shut, instead of using envelopes. You can save time addressing the letters if you use photocopied mailing labels. Don't limit your mailings to just your membership. You should also keep your alumni, your donors, and other local right-to-life groups posted of your activities, as well as anyone else you think might be interested.
Sending out newsletters and information should continue even during summer break (which means you'll have to get summer addresses). Summer is an excellent time to provide your members with some of the longer articles to read, ones they might not have time to read during the school year. It is also a good time to make suggestions of positive activities that individuals can do, such as writing letters to their Congressmen or reading pro-life books. This keeps people thinking about your group, even in the midst of a lazy summer at the beach.
The Calendar of Activities. At the beginning of each semester your officers should draw up a calendar of activities scheduled for that semester. When planning a semesters activities, they should take care to avoid schedule conflicts. Stay away from big football weekends and holidays. You might also check with other organizations such as your program council and your campus ministers.
A copy of your group's calendar of events is a must for distribution to your membership. You can even make the calendar attractive enough to get people to want to hang it on their wall (where it will remind them of your upcoming activities). It could also include reminders of important dates such as the anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade and Doe vs. Bolton decisions (January 22nd), or quotes by famous pro-lifers such as Mother Teresa of Calcutta, India. Have an art major from your group design it for the best results.
Trips and Conventions. One excellent way to spark enthusiasm of new members and keep old members interested is to send them to pro-life conventions, trips, and meetings, especially youth and student conventions. The national March for Life is excellent for this. American Collegians for Life (ACL) ordinarily has a convention in Washington, D.C. in conjunction with the March for Life. And there are others. Send some of your members to these affairs. There they will meet other young folks who hold to the same beliefs that they do, and they will almost always come back refreshed and brimming with enthusiasm.
The Telephone Calling Tree. Setting up a telephone calling "tree" to contact members is not only a fast way to remind members of upcoming events, but helps members get to know each other. Another way to assure that everyone is contacted by phone is to establish a telephone calling committee, that is, a committee whose members are each responsible for calling so many of your group members.
Officers should feel free to phone or visit members in order to keep in touch. If you, as an officer, drop by a member's room you can personally ask them for help with the groups' next project, or personally ask them for ideas about what they would like the group to be doing, and they in turn will feel a greater sense of belonging to your group. Personal contact is the best way to keep members active.
Membership Forms. A well-designed, complete membership form can provide a resource for information about your members, it can help in setting up your mailing lists and phone-trees, and it can help to give your members a sense of belonging. Another important resource is the interest survey, which gives your officers an idea of the abilities and interests of the members. It takes a bit of work to keep them up to date, but the effort is usually worth-while.
Membership Cards. Some groups, such as Penn State Students for Life, have membership cards. This is a nice touch, and it lends to the "official" aura of the group. At the very least, it helps to establish group identity.
Dues. This also brings up the idea of charging a nominal dues, that is, charging dues one or two dollars a year as a way of making people feel that they have a stake in the group. The idea is not that you will make money off your members, but rather that, if they have donated a few dollars, they will feel committed to the group. Personally, I think that this is a good idea, especially if combined with the membership card idea, but the effort you may have to put into it may not make it worth-while.
The Group T-Shirt. Another way to build your group's identity would be to design a t-shirt for your group and sell it to the members. I haven't seen this one tried by a college right-to-life group yet, but I'm sure it would work out well if the shirt was well-designed. John Hinterlang of the University of Pittsburgh suggests that a tastefully designed t-shirt would give your group a sense of "presence" on campus and improve your public image.
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When the UFC purchased Strikeforce, we discussed how the transaction did not create a monopoly, and when the Culinary Union implored the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Zuffa, we examined the not-so-finer points of their letter. Therefore, the Economist’s article today on these things is ground we’ve already tread upon. But when it comes to holy gospel, it goes from God to the Economist to us (and sometimes God just lifts stuff from the Economist to give to us), so it’s worth talking about it all again.
Titled “Competition in Mixed Martial Arts: Ultimate Trust-Busting Championship”, the article starts off by mentioning the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act, which was enacted in 2000 to curb some of the evils that plagued the boxing industry from within. Of course, MMA is not boxing, and currently the Muhammad Ali Act doesn’t apply to our beloved sport. (Cue dramatic music crescendo.) Yet.
The article then produces the dirt!
[The] UFC has been known to “lock out” fighters over contractual disputes. In 2008, for example, [the] UFC cut Jon Fitch, an MMA welterweight, who complained about having to sign a lifetime contract for the use of his likeness in video games. He was only brought back into the fold after accepting the company’s terms.
But wait, there’s more!
In fact, [the] UFC may already be the subject of an FTC antitrust investigation. Although the commission does not acknowledge its investigations until they have been completed, rival fight promoters say they have answered requests from the FTC for information about [the] UFC. The $40 million Strikeforce deal fell below the $66 million threshold for an FTC investigation. But the commission could have launched one retroactively if it found evidence of abuse of monopoly power. Mr. White has ducked questions about antitrust concerns, saying only that “there are a lot of people coming after us and taking shots at us.”
Good heavens, this “UFC thing” might be evil! Quick! Kill it with fire! Or, short of fire, kill it with a modification of the Muhammed Ali Act.
If [the] UFC’s many rivals fail to weaken it through the executive branch, they can always turn to the legislature. It would take just a slight tweaking of the Muhammad Ali Act to expand it to MMA as well, which would give fighters like Mr. Fitch more leverage in dealing with the company. John McCain, the senator who sponsored the Muhammad Ali Act, remains in office. He should probably expect a call from anti-UFC lobbyists sometime soon.
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The pattern and philosophy of teaching within the middle school ministry is to systematically expound the Bible.
For the majority of our meetings we will systematically work through a particular book in the Bible, verse by verse and chapter by chapter. Usually we will be in both an Old Testament and a New Testament book. We believe that the most relevant thing we can say is sourced from the Bible.
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Real-time project management
Saharsh Rao Davuluri, president of contract research at Neuland Laboratories
On-time execution of API project development is a challenge for manufacturers. Neuland Laboratories has designed its GuarD
project-management system around the principles of critical chain project management (CCPM), a concept developed by Eliyahu
Goldratt, a prominent management consultant, who introduced the theory of constraints business model. Unlike other project-management
systems, CCPM emphasizes flexible start dates and shared project resources. CCPM also uses buffers as a shared project resource
rather than an individual task resource, thus enabling the overall project to be completed on time without requiring the individual
tasks to be completed on time.
Process and organization.
Neuland is an API and contract manufacturer based in Hyderabad, India. Almost 80% of the company's products are sold into
the US and European markets, and these product must meet strict regulatory standards. In a typical year, Neuland scientists
complete 30–40 projects ranging from complete API development, production of starting materials, and development of alternate
processes for new molecular or chemical entities, as well as a variety of contract-manufacturing assignments for pharmaceutical
ingredients and peptides. Depending on their complexity, projects may require process chemistry, analytical chemistry, technology
transfer, production, developmental quality assurance, supply-chain management, regulatory affairs support, and project-management
Figure 1: (Neuland). A screenshot illustrating how a project’s progress can be tracked and how a user can participate directly
through the GuarD web portal. (FIGURE 1 (NEULAND) IS COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR)
Organizational framework and real-time monitoring.
Under GuarD's CCPM approach, each project is broken down into its basic tasks by a cross-functional team. The project has
a designated team leader, usually an experienced scientist from the process-chemistry department, and a project manager responsible
for managing timelines and communications. The team leader is the technical head of the project and responsible for overall
Once the project has been divided into the basic tasks and sub-tasks, the details are transferred to a Microsoft project software
template. This ensures that all the dependencies, resource requirements, and tentative start and end dates are recorded. The
project is not considered "live" until the cross-functional team signs off on the detailed project plan. The finalized project
document is uploaded to a web portal, and managers update respective tasks and sub-tasks as the project progresses. Managers
can make qualitative updates detailing how tasks are proceeding, or quantitative updates to help respective task managers
track how long a task will take to complete. Teams are encouraged to make at least one status update per day.
The ability to make both qualitative and quantitative updates in the GuarD project-management system is highly useful. Personnel
in downstream operations, and more importantly the client, get an accurate picture of progress upstream and can plan accordingly.
Neuland's customers also can track a project's progress and participate directly through the GuarD web portal.
A key advantage of the GuarD system is that its detail and interactive nature make it easier to promptly identify and manage
delays at any step, thereby facilitating on-time completion. For example, when the process-chemistry department requires more
time to complete their tasks, the project manager is immediately aware of the situation and can work with all task managers
to identify opportunities downstream to recover that time. Although it is important for the project manager to investigate
the reasons for the delay, the immediate focus is on finding ways to deliver a quality project on time. Solutions might include
running additional shifts or vessels or staggering batches. In most cases, customers are invited to join these discussions
and contribute to the solution based on their experience and priorities.
Neuland's project-management system helps its clients in several ways. It provides a platform of almost 100% transparency,
providing more insight than weekly calls or project reports. A smart phone app will soon allow customers to access their projects
real-time. It also enables higher on-time completion rates. Although the GuarD approach cannot promise 100% on-time completion,
it has enabled Neuland to make considerable progress towards this goal.
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Cacti / Desert Succulents
Cactus plants come in many shapes and sizes, have sharp spines, and showy flowers. They are found around the world but are native to the Americas. Some cacti may look like a pincushion; others a cow’s tongue or a beaver’s tail and some like a shrub or small tree. With nearly 2000 species of cacti in the world, a variety of shapes and appearances can be found.
The best habitats for most cacti are in hot, dry regions such as the desert southwest portion of the United States. However some cacti also thrive in mountains, rainforests, and even arctic regions.
The spines of a cactus can vary in size and shape. Some spines are long and rigid while others may resemble a fishhook. The spines grow from areoles (modified branches) in clusters, and prevent the plant from being eaten by animals.
All cacti produce flowers. Colors can range from white to yellow to red and may bloom for only a short time, some less than one day. The flower also originates from the areoles, and the bright blossoms attract birds, bats, and insects to pollinate them. Once pollinated, the cactus will produce a fruit filled with seeds, which can then be eaten and scattered by birds and other animals.
Zion National Park is home to number of different cactus species, including Purple torch, Claret cup, Pricklypear, and Cholla.
Did You Know?
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SECURE STORAGE OF ABS CURF MICRODATA
ABS CURF microdata must be stored in a manner that ensures unauthorised access does not occur.
The following are guidelines for storing the microdata and results of your analyses:
- any computer on which ABS microdata is stored must be kept in a locked room and/or have password protection to prevent access by others
- any information or results stored on a computer network must be kept in a directory with suitably restricted access
- any printouts or any physical medium containing microdata (such as a CD-ROM provided by the ABS) must be kept in a locked room or secured in a locked cabinet when the researcher is not present, and
- you must keep track of datasets and printouts that reveal microdata, so that they can be destroyed when they are no longer needed
Your organisation must also provide for a secure way to delete computer files so that they cannot be recovered by an unauthorised person.
Aggregate outputs of your research may be shared.
Examples of data that do not reveal microdata are:
- tabulations containing cells with 3 or more contributing sample units, and
- details of fitted models, such as regression parameters
Examples of data that must be kept secure:
- prints of unit records
- tabulations containing less than 3 contributing sample unit records, and
- details of unusual unit records that require special treatment in modelling
For more information on tabulations or 'keep secure' please refer to User Restrictions
chapter of the User Manual: ABS Remote Access Data Laboratory (RADL)
(cat. no. 1406.0.55.002).
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Judicial Independence Safe, Pryor Says
Violence, political criticism, budget cuts, impeachment, and legislation designed to constrain the judiciary are some of the threats that have existed for judges since the formation of the United States. Recently, several leaders in the legal community have voiced concerns that judicial independence is in jeopardy because these threats could influence judges to make biased decisions. The chorus, led in part by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, is pointing out problems that are non-issues, suggested Judge William H. Pryor Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit at the Ola B. Smith Lecture March 19. Thanks to Americans’ recognition of the importance of an independent judiciary, now and throughout history, judicial independence is safe, he said. Pryor’s talk was sponsored by the Student Legal Forum and the Virginia Law Review.
“I submit that the independence of the federal judiciary today is as secure as ever. The current criticisms of the judiciary are relatively mild and on balance a benefit to the judiciary,” Pryor said. Although there have been times in American history where judicial independence has been threatened, he added, now is not one of them.
Judicial independence, Pryor described, can be viewed in two parts; decisional independence and institutional independence. The ability of judges to decide cases impartially based on the facts and law represents the decisional component, while institutional independence, the ability of the judiciary to protect its institutional integrity, characterizes the other part. “As scholars have described this arrangement, we have both independent judges and a dependent judiciary,” he said.
Those who fear the judiciary is in danger have cited three primary threats: public criticism, constraining legislation, and an increasingly difficult and politicized selection process.
Criticism, although sometimes hard to swallow, is essential for progress and improvement. Often, the harshest critics of the judiciary are the justices themselves, Pryor argued. “I doubt any contemporary politician in America has been more flamboyant in criticizing than the federal judiciary.” In their dissenting opinions, for example, justices criticize decisions regularly. “Americans are more, not less, likely to respect judicial independence when they know that the law can be criticized and changed by ordinary political processes,” he said. “I am reminded of the adage our mothers taught us, ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me,’” he joked.
Claims that current criticisms of the judiciary are unprecedented “diminish the sacrifices that earlier giants of the federal judiciary endured,” Pryor asserted. Federal judges in the civil rights era suffered severe ostracism and abuse, more so than contemporary judges. The mother’s home of one judge was the target of a bomb, and the grave site of the son of another justice was vandalized. Violent attacks are rare today and it’s typically not the harsh critics who are performing these acts; it’s the disgruntled litigants or violent criminals who target judges. In response to judges’ recent safety concerns, Congress has provided federal judges with home security systems. “That appropriation suggests that the politicians and the public they serve still appreciate the need for an independent judiciary.”
Bills introduced in Congress that would limit the federal judiciary’s decision-making power, such as matters involving religion, flag burning, and the pledge of allegiance have all failed. Intense emotions after a Florida court ordered the removal of Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube, leading to her death, have already waned. Emotionally charged, controversial decisions rarely lead to the demise of the judiciary, Pryor explained.
Others have argued that the political circus surrounding federal judge appointments deters capable lawyers from seeking the position. “Many talented lawyers no doubt are not attracted to the difficulties of public service, including the lower pay and potential unpleasantness of a political contest as a prelude to holding office,” he said. “Are the potential nominees who are not attracted to the hardships of public service necessarily the best candidates to be independent judges? An independent judge must be willing to make difficult, unpopular, and even courageous decisions when the law so demands.”
Pryor considers election campaigns for presidents and senators much worse than having to respond to the questions asked in the confirmation process. “Given a choice between raising the funds, shaking the hands, traveling from city to city, speaking on the stump, eating the proverbial rubber chicken, responding to the attacks of an opponent, and filming the ads that are involved in a state-wide election campaign on the one hand and responding to the questions asked in the confirmation process on the other hand, I would choose the confirmation process every time.”
Pryor concluded his talk with this thought: “We must depend on the persuasiveness of our written opinions to command the respect of our fellow citizens. In that way we have the foremost responsibility of safeguarding our independence.”
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J.R. ('Jack') Goody by Eric Hobsbawm
Jack Goody (c.1918-)
is one of the major figures in British anthropology. He was William
Wyse Professor in Cambridge and has written many books on kinship,
literacy, culture and many other subjects. Here he talks to Eric Hobsbawm,
whom he had known since the 1930's, about his undergraduate education
in Cambridge and his first encounters with anthropology. Filmed at
his house in 1991. This is an extract from a 90 minute interview.
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Brussels, a city known for its chocolates, mussels, frites, Jean-Claude Van Dammes, waffles and a diminutive statue engaged in a never-ending public pee-pee exhibition, has recently instituted a "no naughty words" policy that carries a fine of up to 250 euros for people who take their unwholesome grouchiness out into the street. A spokesman for Socialist mayor Freddy Thielemans described the foul-language and bigoted insult ban thusly: "Any form of insult is from now on punishable, whether it be racist, homophobic or otherwise."
Even though the city is reasonably pleasant for a large, international metropolis (Brussels moonlights as the capital of the EU when its not slogging through its less glamorous day-job as the capital of the fractured, multilingual hodgepodge called Belgium) with an antiquated sewer system that emits the subtle but pervasive smell of poop (gotta keep it authentically medieval for the tourists!), the mayor wants to bring the hammer down on what the AFP calls "everyday unpleasantness," what New Yorkers call "character" and what Midwesterners call "New York." The city will also impose fines ranging from between 75 and 250 euros on petty theft and "rough jostling" (where physical harm is caused).
While punishing foul language isn't exactly a novel idea (sensitive ears in Virginia Beach, for instance, impose a fine of up to $86 for cursing), it's surprising that Brussels, with its candies, pastries, annual flower carpet and macabre army of marionette dolls would need such a fine, since it's pretty much the closest thing to a real-life Candyland city and, therefore, naturally devoid of any unhappiness.
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High Blood Pressure: Using the DASH Diet
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DASH is an eating plan that can help lower your blood pressure. DASH stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. Hypertension is high blood pressure.
The DASH eating plan focuses on foods that are high in calcium, potassium, and magnesium. These nutrients can lower blood pressure. The foods that are highest in these nutrients are fruits, vegetables, low-fat dairy products, nuts, seeds, and beans. Taking calcium, potassium, and magnesium supplements instead of eating these foods does not have the same effect.
The DASH eating plan is one of several lifestyle changes your doctor may recommend. Your doctor may also want you to decrease the amount of salt you eat. Lowering salt while following the DASH plan can lower blood pressure even further than just the DASH plan alone.
For more information on nutrition for high blood pressure, see:
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Taking calcium, potassium, and magnesium supplements will lower my blood pressure just as well as the DASH plan will.
Fat-free milk is an important part of the DASH plan.
Not eating enough potassium, calcium, and magnesium may help cause high blood pressure. These nutrients come from fruits, vegetables, and dairy products.
Researchers believe that it is the combination of 8 to 10 servings a day of fruits and vegetables and 3 servings of low-fat or nonfat dairy products that causes the DASH eating plan to lower blood pressure. Simply taking calcium, potassium, and magnesium supplements does not lower blood pressure.
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A balanced, low-fat eating plan that contains 8 to 10 servings each day of fresh fruits and vegetables and 3 servings each day of low-fat or fat-free dairy foods will help me lower my high blood pressure.
You'll have more success in changing your eating habits if you make a plan. The plan should include long-term and short-term goals as well as ideas for getting past barriers—things that might get in the way of changing your eating habits.
What is your long-term goal? A long-term goal is something you want to reach in 6 to 12 months. When you have high blood pressure, the long-term goal is to lower your blood pressure to a specific level. Talk to your doctor about what your specific long-term goal should be.
What are the short-term goals that will help you reach your long-term goal? Short-term goals keep you going day to day. They are usually goals you hope to reach tomorrow or next week.
Look at the DASH eating plan. Come up with a short-term goal that looks pretty easy. For example, you might decide that your first short-term goal will be to eat 4 servings of vegetables every day. As soon as you've made those extra vegetables a habit, you can add another short-term goal.
Eating with DASH
Here are some ideas for eating with the DASH plan:
Get more tips in the topic Quick Tips: Adding Fruits and Vegetables to Your Diet.
Many people find that it helps to write down everything they eat every day. That way they can easily see how much of each food group they've eaten and where they need to add or cut back tomorrow.
A registered dietitian can work with you to change your eating habits and help you plan menus that follow the DASH eating style. Ask your doctor to recommend someone. See a sample DASH menu.
For more help on starting a new healthy eating plan, see:
Dealing with barriers and slip-ups
Take the time to think about what things could get in the way of your success. These are called barriers. And by thinking about them now, you can plan ahead for how to deal with them if they happen.
An example of a barrier might be eating in restaurants. If you do that a lot, you may want to plan ahead for how you will stay on your DASH plan when you eat out. Possible solutions could include:
It’s perfectly normal to try something, stop it, and then get mad at yourself. Lots of people have to try and try again before they reach their goals.
For more help on dealing with barriers, see:
Having a lot of support can make it easier to change your eating habits. For example, if family members tell you that they love how you're getting healthier, you may be motivated to keep up the good work. Here are some other ways to get support:
For more information about getting support, see:
Staying with it
It can be frustrating to start a new project like healthy eating and then have to stop because something gets in the way—illness, travel, or even just boredom. Your goal is to get back in the habit and make it a routine part of your life.
Remember that you can't create a habit overnight. Keep at it, even if you slip up along the way. It can take as long as 3 months of repetition to form a habit, so every day is a step in the right direction.
When you slip up, don't get mad at yourself or feel guilty. Think of it as a learning experience. Figure out what happened. Why did you stop? Think of ways to get yourself going again. Learn from your slip-ups so that you can keep on toward your goal of healthy eating.
For more information on staying with a healthy eating plan, see:
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The best way to deal with barriers is to wait until they happen and then worry about how to get around them.
Now that you have read these tips on following the DASH eating plan, you are ready to change your eating habits to lower your high blood pressure.
For more sample menus and recipes for the DASH eating plan, contact the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
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There’s a film about a pivotal labor activist, and with a peculiar title, that tells a sad story within its title, “10,000 Black Men Named George.” Thousands of “nameless” African American men worked as porters on the railroads. The man was Asa Philip Randolph, although his first name is rarely spelled out.
This is Martin Luther King’s weekend. His birthday is on Jan. 15th, while we await Monday to celebrate his profound legacy. Next to the most publicized personalities of January and Black History Month – Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Thurgood Marshall, Langston Hughes and William E. B. Du Bois – Mr. Randolph might be the least known.
It’s remarkable that the most palatable icon, Martin L. King, has not yet had a biopic made about him. In 1992 Spike Lee gave us “Malcolm X.” Ten years later, Julie Dash gave us “The Rosa Parks Story” with Angela Bassett for cable. And then, also in 2002, Robert Townsend, brought Showtime TV and us A. Philip Randolph (portrayed by André Braugher) and the porters’ story of toiling to improve Sleeping Car Porters’ work lives. “10,000 Black Men” potently sheds light on a little known portion of American labor relations, at the crossroad of African-American history.
The film’s first scene shows how their work might go, illustrating a common sort of clash with a client: when a porter sees a woman steal and stow Pullman towels into her luggage, he diplomatically reminds her not to do that. He tells her that the porters are charged for items, that end up missing. “Stunned,” she insists on telling his boss, the conductor, of this daring, uppity offense. When the conductor arrives, the porter stands there and take the situation.
While Rev. King deserves our reverence, he’s one of a small cadre of comet-bright icons – out of the 100s and 1,000s who deserve as much recognition. It’s an irony that so many activists in that list, above, had no films made in their names, save for Justice Marshall with CBS’ “Separate But Equal” in 1991. One worthy question is “why so few the movies have been made about even that set of almost 10?”
“10,000 Black Men” is a delight to watch, sneaking history lessons into a great story. The under-recognized André Braugher’s portrayal of Randolph is key. Late in the film there are pivotal scenes that highlight loyalty and betrayal. One climactic scene has a kindly elder porter, zealous about the movement, found out as a Judas, a double-agent. And then we see the hardship that Mrs. Randolph, an entrepreneur, endures when protests against on her husband force her to shutter her salon.
According to an excerpt of “Marching Together,” from google books, “the porter [union] election results forced the Pullman Company to recognize the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters as the porters’ and maids’ legitimate representative. More than two years passed before contract negotiations were completed,” 12 years to the day after they began their struggle.
In the 1920s and 1930s the porters were paid such meager respect that the patrons and Pullman Company didn’t care what the porters’ mothers had named them. It was easier to call “them” George, after George Pullman, the company’s founder. According to Rising from the Rails, a website that honors the porters, “They were hired…because they epitomized Pullman’s vision of safe, reliable, and invisible servants.”
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Miracle Dog Survives Near Drowning on Christmas
Grit fell through the ice on a pond and was tended to by Animal Emergency Care.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: The following was submitted by Animal Emergency Care.)
On Christmas afternoon, Grit, a 2-year-old Labrador Retriever, came up missing. When found by her family several hours later, she had fallen through the ice covering a shallow pond.
Her legs could barely touch the bottom, enough to keep her head above water initially, but her core body temperature began to drop. She couldn't get any traction on the slippery ice to pull free. If she lost consciousness, she would slip below the surface.
Her owners waded out to rescue her, which took some time. While her rescuers were being attended to by paramedics for their own hypothermia, family members rushed her to Animal Emergency Care in Acton. Dr. Janice Barnhart began treatment immediately.
"Grit's temperature was so low that it wasn't registering on the thermometer." she said. "The cold water had constricted her veins so that it was difficult to place an IV catheter, a necessary component in her treatment."
Veterinary technicians began working to raise her body temperature, initially using their own body heat to warm her while blankets were being heated and IV access was obtained to administer warm fluids. Grit's uncontrollable shivering soon progressed to severe seizures.
According to Dr Barnhart: "Hypothermia cases like Grit's can be very tricky to treat. The body temperature obviously needs to be raised as quickly as possible, but doing so too quickly can be harmful as well. We needed a delicate balance so as to not go too far in the opposite direction."
Grit's recovery was faster than any of the hospital staff expected. It wasn't long before the seizures were under control and she began responding to her name.
"We have seen cases which seemed less severe than Grit's do poorly" said Hospital Administrator Jim Sheehy. "We were all very worried for her when she first arrived. So many people came together on Christmas to bring about this good outcome. Her family was great, and they didn't panic, an important thing to do in an emergency situation."
All of the veterinarians and staff dropped everything to help Grit. Some attended to her family, others warmed fluids, grabbed drugs and supplies, massaged her and of course treated her.
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On October 28, 2011, I recharged my creative batteries at the DIY Days event at UCLA. DIY Days bills itself as a roving conference for those who create, and it takes usually place twice year, once on each coast. Jam packed with workshops, project demos and talks, the day was a non-stop whirlwind of meeting new people and learning of new approaches to funding, production & distribution. There were several great keynote addresses, including Henry Jenkins’s “If It Doesn’t Spread, It’s Dead.” Here are some brief insights from the panels I attended:
A transmedia sci-fi thriller whose first chapter, Zombie Alarm #1, ran in Amsterdam earlier this year. There are three main narratives: (1) Teenagers who start to display illness, (2) Zombie hunters who try to alert the public, and (3) Society’s reaction to the threat, which includes SWAT teams as well as a rogue officer. Ian called this “participatory storytelling” to differentiate it from an ARG. There were multiple live events with heavily made-up zombie packs roaming public locations, while genre fans tried to raise the alarm, appeared at the events to shoot “evidence” and spread the word about the infection. However, several media outlets found the zombie events to be inflammatory and criticized the project, which only brought more interest to it online. As for online mediums, they found that Facebook was best because people are used to responding to posts there, but they also had webisodes, zombie hunter blogs & twitter, user created content, a zombie wikileaks, fictional news broadcasts and a poster campaign. All these efforts were marked with a logo to try and tie them together and offer a sign that it wasn’t reality. More Zombie Alarms are planned for Europe, then TV and finally 3D features.
A found footage feature about a doomsday cult that believes a passing comet conceals the ship coming for them. The film itself is just a part of a much larger transmedia world, which includes location-based apps, character diaries & webisodes, documentary material on real astronomical events and websites related to the cult itself. But what really excited me about Mark’s presentation were the more hypothetical ideas concerning user experience — such as streaming video where the monster/scare is added or removed so as to make watching a film a surprise each time. Or maybe a viewer sees a scare, but rewinds the player to find it is no longer there. Or even a way to follow one character’s POV through a film by shooting coverage of all events during principal photography. In this manner one could generate multiple viewings of the same film and encourage audiences to share their experiences by comparing notes on what they saw. Desperate Comfort
I’ll link to her slideshow, but the gist of the presentation was to explain transmedia to traditional media executives in layman’s terms and ask for the transmedia team to be brought in early with the marketing team. It is important to identify who your collaborators will be as well as technologists while developing the storyworld and its narrative threads. Also, listen to what fans like & dislike.
Another case study, this time of a film + transmedia project revolving around a billboard sitting contest. This project was presented really quickly, so let me try to explain it as best I can: Phase 1 of the project is an online radio station featuring real bands, WTYT960.com. The second phase is an actual billboard sitting contest, the winners of which will appear in the resulting film and related webisodes. When the film is completed, a “mad art dash” live event will take place in 15 cities to coincide with theatrical release, which will be followed in 2 weeks by VOD, etc. in order to pay for marketing only once. Here’s Zeke’s website with more detail. Funding of the film is still underway, with Zeke wanting to approach brands and Effie wanting to take a more traditional find the actors, then raise money from investors approach.
I’ve been a fan of Jon Reiss for the past year and have both his books: Think Outside the Box Office and Selling Your Film Without Selling Your Soul. Besides indie distribution techniques, one of his best recommendations is to identify your target audience & start marketing your film to them as earlier as you possibly can, before you even shoot a frame of film or pixel of video. Figure out how this audience consumes media (consumers want convenience – get it on all platforms), identify the niches that will lend you the most ardent supporters and be realistic about the value or experience you provide them. If you’re doing a theatrical release, create a sense of event that will be unavailable anywhere else, such as Kevin Smith’s Red State tour. Connect with Fans + Reason to Buy = Make Money | <urn:uuid:f66837ae-ba90-4703-b796-22f307a99d81> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.susanbellfilm.com/2011/11/diy-days/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960853 | 1,008 | 1.78125 | 2 |
In the debate about ACC, those on the left consistently refer to the policy of opening ACC up to competition as "privatisation".
Yet these are two very different things. A government owned entity can remain state owned and face private sector competition without it being privatised.
How? Let's take some of the major deregulations in recent years.
- Until 1982, trucks were banned from hauling freight further than 150km (with some exceptions), with rail having a monopoly. Was opening up long haul freight to competition the privatisation of New Zealand Railways?
- Until 1983, Air New Zealand had a statutory monopoly on domestic airline routes, in that competitors were only allowed by and large if Air New Zealand granted permission. Was the removal of this monopoly the privatisation of Air New Zealand?
- Until 1989, TVNZ had a monopoly on television broadcasting, and in 1991 the television market was fully opened to anyone who wished to purchase frequencies, satellite capacity or lay cable. Was this the privatisation of TVNZ?
- Until 1998, it was illegal for anyone other than NZ Post to deliver mail for less than 80c. Was opening up the postal market the privatisation of New Zealand Post?
So why talk about opening up the ACC market to competition as privatisation?
It's simple - it is the manipulation of language for political effect.
You see most people would not disagree with allowing competition. Prohibiting competition seems to be a bad thing, as it means a monopoly can take advantage of you, can underperform, and you have no choice. It doesn't even have to expect the threat of potential competition.
The left cannot attack ACC reform based on the word "competition", because most people will go "So what? I like competition, I don't like monopolies."
Privatisation is a bogey word. It brings up images of an "asset" being sold for less than it "might be worth", of control transferring to those horned devils called "foreigners" (spit) and it not "being our's anymore", even though people complained about it when it was.
So that is why they lie, explicitly, about the proposal. To have people think it is about selling ACC - which, sadly, would not happen in this term of the government, rather than opening it up to competition, which might.
So it should be challenged, repeatedly. NZ Post has NOT been privatised, neither has TVNZ, just because both are fully exposed to competition. Why should ACC be described as privatised if it is also subject to competition?
UPDATE: Both Frog Blog and the Standard repeat the lie, blatantly.
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The ANTARCTIC left Gothenburg on October 16, 1901 and arrived at Buenos Aires on December 15. It was here that the expedition was joined by an American artist, F. W. Stokes, and an Argentinean naval officer, Lieutenant J. M. Sobral. The Argentinean government offered Nordenskjöld free food, fuel and help if their officer could join the wintering party...an offer too good to refuse. The ship left for the southern latitudes on December 21 and arrived in the South Shetlands on January 11, 1902. They landed, spending a short time on one of the islands, and then proceeded on south to explore the Orléans Strait. Nordenskjöld wrote in his diary, "We were now sailing a sea across which none had hitherto voyaged. The weather had changed as if by magic; it seemed as though the Antarctic world repented of the inhospitable way in which it had received us the previous day, or, maybe, it merely wished to entice us deeper into its interior in order the more surely to annihilate us. At all events, we pressed onward, seized by that almost feverish eagerness which can only be felt by an explorer who stands upon the threshold of the great unknown".
Soon Nordenskjöld made what he considered to be his most important geographical discovery of the expedition: contrary to popular belief, they soon saw that Louis-Philippe Land was connected to Danco Land and that the Orléans Strait ran into Gerlache Strait. He wanted to continue on but time was short so they turned around and headed back until the sound between Louis-Philippe Land and Joinville Island was reached. French explorer Dumont d'Urville originally discovered the sound but since no ship had ever sailed through, he named it after the ANTARCTIC. Once they made it across the sound, they landed on Paulet Island and from there crossed Erebus and Terror Gulf and made a depot on Seymour Island. The ship then steamed southwest towards the unexplored region of eastern Oscar II Land Coast. They made it as far as 60°10'S before running into a line of ice. They followed it eastwards until reaching 63°30'S, 45°7'W on February 1 at which time the ship was forced to turn back. By February 9 they spotted land again and for his winter campsite Nordenskjöld chose Snow Hill Island, southwest of Seymour Island. He and five others were put ashore with equipment, supplies and sledge dogs after which the ANTARCTIC headed north for the Falklands.
The first project the men completed was a small magnetic observatory which served as shelter until the prefabricated hut could be built. A group of strong storms rocked the camp which gave them an idea of what was to come. By the beginning of March the weather had started to improve. Nordenskjöld made a number of trips by boat and dog sledge to establish depots. When spring arrived, Nordenskjöld, Sobral and seaman Jonassen set off for the eastern part of Oscar II Coast again with the men towing one sledge and the dogs the other. On a good day they could travel 30 miles but this was the exception as the terrain was filled with crevasses, one of which nearly cost Nordenskjöld his life. They finally reached their goal as Nordenskjöld wrote, "We did not make much ado about choosing our camping-ground (October 18) but pitched our tent on the ice at the foot of a projecting, brown, weather-worn, rocky headland, torn by the frost into a mass of mighty blocks. The reader can easily imagine with what feelings I hurried forward to these rocks, the first spot trodden by human foot on the whole of the eastern coast of the mainland of West Antarctica". Bad weather hounded them, Jonassen hurt his arm, the tent was torn to shreds in a storm and the dogs found their sack of food which they promptly ate, consuming it all along with part of the sack, some harness and the whip; it was time to go home. The three men made it back to winter quarters on October 31 having covered 380 miles in 33 days.
The Sinking of the ANTARCTIC
The ANTARCTIC headed back to the Falklands after dropping Nordenskjöld and his party off at Snow Hill Island. They spent the winter of 1902 there and picked up Gunnar Andersson. They left the Falklands on November 5, 1902 for the return trip to pick up the wintering party. The first sign of trouble came on November 9, at a latitude of only 59°30'S, when pack ice was encountered. Within two days the ship was held tight. Carl Larsen was able to ram his way forward but on November 17 a storm hit that put the ANTARCTIC in jeopardy as Andersson wrote, "At 2:30 am on 21 November I was awakened by loud orders from the captain's bridge, and I dressed myself hurriedly and hastened on deck. Three or four ship's lengths on our larboard lay an iceberg which was considerably higher than our mainmast and about three times as long as the vessel...We were in evident danger of being carried by the pack which lay close around the ANTARCTIC, right on to the ice-mountain. To add to our difficulties we were in the midst of a blinding snowstorm. The engines were going full speed, and we had the jib and fore-sail set. For a long time the vessel moved slowly forward a few yards, only to be pressed back by the floes, but after a while the pieces of ice gave way before the united pressure of steam and sail, and the ANTARCTIC glided past the iceberg into the lead which had been formed in its lee". When the storm let up, the ship was able to move into open waters around the South Shetlands and eventually make landfall at Deception Island. After leaving Deception Island efforts were focused on an attempt to correctly chart the Orléans and Gerlache Straits since the BELGICA EXPEDITION, led by Adrien de Gerlache in 1898, had failed to do so. The charting was completed on December 5 and the ANTARCTIC then steamed for Antarctic Sound which would lead them to Nordenskjöld's winter quarters. Unfortunately, as the ship approached the sound, the lead between the ice became narrower and narrower and by the time the ship reached the vicinity of Mount Bransfield, the way was completely blocked. Andersson went ashore at Louis-Philippe Land in order to get a better look at the ice in the sound. Andersson reported back that Erebus and Terror Gulf was a complete sheet of ice but Larsen decided to try and ram his way through anyway. Many days later found them no better off. Larsen gave up on his idea and decided they would try to reach Nordenskjöld by sledge party. The ship finally broke free from the pack ice and Larsen headed once more for Antarctic Sound. On December 29 Andersson, Duse and Toralf Grunden were put ashore at Hope Bay. The men immediately established a depot for the wintering party in case the ship was not able to reach the winter quarters. They then set off on the 200-mile journey to Snow Hill Island. Larsen and the rest of the men on the ANTARCTIC tried again to make their way to the southeast. She was still caught in the pack ice as a fierce storm blew her southwards... first bow first, then sideways, then stern first. This event continued until they reached the vicinity of Paulet Island. In his diary on January 10, 1903, scientist Carl Skottsberg wrote, "During the afternoon the pressure on the sides of the vessel--which had begun yesterday--could scarcely be marked, but after dinner, just as we sat down to a hand at cards, the ship began to tremble like an aspen leaf, and a violent crash sent us all up on deck to see what the matter was. The pressure was tremendous; the vessel rose higher and higher, while the ice was crushed to powder along her sides". The ship was able to rise above the pressure of the ice but later that night the ANTARCTIC began to list to starboard. Everyone prepared to abandon ship but fortunately the pumps were able to keep up with the leak. Nearly two weeks went by like this as the ship drifted southeastwards in the ice. On January 16 the ice opened up to the point where the ship was able to right herself and on February 3 the pressure from an ice floe at her bow shook the stern loose and for the first time in weeks she was afloat. Unfortunately, this only worsened the leak so in an act of desperation, Larsen decided to try and beach the ship on Paulet Island. By February 12 the ship had managed to drift into a large lead that had opened in the direction of Paulet Island. The engine was started and the sails hoisted in a furious attempt to reach the island. But, this only made the leak unmanageable and, as the water rose, the order was given to abandon ship. "We stand in a long row on the edge of the ice", wrote Skottsberg, "and cannot take our eyes off her...The pumps are still going, but the sound grows fainter and fainter...she is breathing her last. She sinks slowly deeper and deeper...Now the name disappears from sight. Now the water is up to the rail, and with a rattle, the sea and bits of ice rush in over her deck. That sound I can never forget, however long I may live. Now the blue and yellow colours are drawn down into the deep. The mizzen-mast strikes against the edge of our floe and is snapped off; the main-mast strikes and breaks; the crow's nest rattles against the ice-edge, and the streamer, with the name ANTARCTIC disappears in the waves. The bowsprit--the last mast-top---She is gone!" The ANTARCTIC sank 25 miles from Paulet Island and the shipwrecked party now began the nightmare journey to it across the ice.
Andersson wrote, "We stand silent and perplexed and gaze at the new and wonderful scene. Mile upon mile of snowy plain, such as we have never seen before, meets our eyes. One can actually imagine that a gigantic snow-clad city lies before us, with houses, and palaces in thousands, and in hundreds of changing, irregular forms--towers and spires, and all the wonders of the world. At first sight it appears incomprehensible, but it must be, after all, a bay covered with a frozen-in mass of numberless icebergs". The men set off across the bay on skis for Vega Island and, after 15 hours, reached the island and set up camp. The men thought for certain they were on James Ross Island and therefore would soon be able to reach Admiralty Sound. They climbed a peak on the island and to their dismay discovered their way blocked by an expanse of open water which they immediately recognized as Sidney Herbert Sound. But....they could see open water to the south so they assumed the ANTARCTIC had experienced little difficulty reaching the winter quarters on Snow Hill Island that summer. This final reasoning sealed their fate for the coming winter. Before Larsen dropped Andersson and the other two men off at Hope Bay, plans had been made between them that entailed the following: whoever was the first to arrive at winter quarters on Snow Hill Island was to gather the winter party and make for a rendezvous with the trailing group back at Hope Bay. After seeing all the open water to the south of them, Andersson and his men took it for granted that the ANTARCTIC had already arrived at Snow Hill Island and were proceeding to Hope Bay to pick them up. They gave it no further thought and were back at their depot at Hope Bay on January 13 where they settled down to await arrival of the ship to pick them up.
The story of Captain Larsen and the stranded men from the ANTARCTIC is another story of incredible courage. They had existed in a makeshift hut on Paulet Island throughout the long winter months of 1903. The marooned men spent their first full day ashore on Paulet Island on March 1, hunting penguins and seals to supplement their food supplies for the coming winter. By the end, 1100 penguins had been killed. Work was also started on a stone hut which was not a job for the weak at heart. Stones had to be gathered and carried long distances to the site where the double-walled structure was built. When it was finished, it measured 34 feet by 22 feet with most of it taken up by the living quarters; twelve feet was used for the kitchen. Two stone beds were built along the walls of the living area, each measuring seven feet wide and accommodating 10 men each. By mid March, storms were quite violent and soon one of them blew the kitchen roof off. The winter days dragged on as the cycle continued: sleeping, cooking penguin (and occasional seal or fish), hunting and evenings spent talking or reading out loud from one of the few books that survived the sinking of the ANTARCTIC. From time to time they would have a sing-along but the men acutely feared what their final outcome would be. Skottsberg wrote, "Many hundred dreams have been dreamed in our island but I do not know if they helped to brighten our existence. They grouped themselves around two objects--food and rescue. Why, we could dream through a whole dinner, from the soup to the dessert, and waken to be cruelly disappointed. How many times did one not see the relief vessel in our visions--sometimes as a large ship, sometimes as nothing but a little sloop? And we knew the persons on board; they spoke about our journey; took us in their arms; patted us on the back...". But the reality of the situation was far different as food supplies dwindled away. On June 7, Ole Wennersgaard died. They buried him in a snowdrift until they could properly bury him in the spring.
The months dragged on until October arrived along with a breakup of the sea ice in the gulf which was a clear indication that the sea was clear for a ship to try and reach the three men they had left at Hope Bay. Carl Larsen took five crewmembers from the ANTARCTIC and headed off for Hope Bay at dawn on October 31 in hopes of contacting a rescue ship. They fought the weather all the way but on November 4 they finally reached Hope Bay. To their dismay they found the depot and stone hut but no sign of the men. Attached to the hut was a board on which a note had been written informing anyone who found it that Gunnar Andersson, Lieutenant Duse and Toralf Grunden had wintered there. A sketched map was found in a flask that showed Larsen the route the three men were taking in their attempt to reach Snow Hill Island. Larsen realized he would have to make the same journey but for him it would be by water. Bad weather delayed them for three days before they were able to launch their small boat into Antarctic Sound. Larsen wrote, "We broke up at 4 am and then rowed the whole day in the direction of Sidney Herbert Bay. Only here and there did we meet with scattered ice. The fine weather continued the whole of the next night, and we were making rapid progress towards our goal when, just as we passed Cape Gage and came into Admiralty Sound we met with a hinder which could not be forced by the boat. We found the ice extending in a straight line right over the bay towards Cockburn Island and Cape Seymour, and inwards across the whole of the sound. So at 2 am we drew the boat up on the ice and retired to rest". As Larsen and his companions struggled across the gulf, close by was a rescue ship working it's way through the ice around Joinville Island. The folks back in Sweden and Argentina had become very concerned with the fate of the ANTARCTIC when she didn't return. After all, both the British (DISCOVERY) and German (GAUSS) expeditions had barely escaped the unusual ice conditions that summer. So, arrangements were made for France, Sweden and Argentina to send rescue ships to the vicinity of Snow Hill Island the following spring. Lieutenant Julian Irizar, the Argentinian naval attaché in London, was chosen to lead the Argentinean rescue expedition aboard the corvette URUGUAY. Meanwhile, as rescue preparations were being made, Nordenskjöld returned to Hope Bay along with Andersson, Duse and Toralf. On October 26, Nordenskjöld, Andersson and Sobral undertook a journey to Seymour Island and left an inscribed message on a boathook which was raised as a signal on a cairn of rocks. November 7 became a day of great excitement: on this day Larsen and his men began their epic row across Erebus and Terror Gulf; as they were doing this, two more members of the wintering party, Gösta Bodman and Gustaf Akerlund, left winter quarters for Seymour Island; and finally it was on this date that Lieutenant Irizar and the URUGUAY reached the ice shelf off Seymour Island. A small party of men were put ashore to explore the region and that very afternoon discovered the boathook previously planted by Andersson and Sobral. Irizar slowly inched his ship along the edge of the ice until a tent was visible on the shore. Irizar and Lieutenant Yalour landed, walked to the tent and proceeded to wake up the two men inside--Bodman and Akerlund. The two officers then followed the Swedes across the ice to the winter quarters. Nordenskjöld may have been consumed with delight but this was quickly tempered when the Argentineans informed him that they had not seen any sign of the ANTARCTIC. They quickly agreed to abandon the camp so that the search for the missing ship could start. All of a sudden the dogs started barking and when they went outside, to their astonishment was Bodman greeting Larsen and his party who had just completed the 15-mile journey across the ice. Nordenskjöld wrote, "No pen can describe the boundless joy of this first moment...I learned at once that our dear old ship was no more in existence, but for the instant I could feel nothing but joy when I saw amongst us these men, on whom I had only a few minutes before been thinking with feelings of the greatest despondency". All the men had finally been reunited.
Antarctica, or, Two Years Amongst the Ice of the South Pole, by Otto Nordenskjöld.
Antarctica; the Extraordinary History of Man's Conquest of the Frozen Continent, by Reader's Digest.
Antarctica, the Last Continent, by Ian Cameron.
Antarctic Conquest, the Great Explorers in Their Own Words, by Walker Chapman.
The White Continent, by Thomas R. Henry.
Antarctica; the Extraordinary History of Man's Conquest of the Frozen Continent, by Reader's Digest, Second Edition.
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To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you. Unknown
It’s any wonder why someone would choose darkness when light is just a decision away. A decision to incorporate new thoughts of wellness and peace into one’s mindset, thereby overriding thoughts of disease and hate. A decision to view another person as capable of making mistakes and in need of as much mercy as you or I. In other words, decisions to move out from under the shadows and into the sun.
It’s any wonder, too, that someone would choose punishment over forgiveness. Punishment denotes a jurisdiction of authority over a particular offense, or a perceived power over another person. No amount of accolades or credentials gives anyone enough vindication to punish someone else for any action. What might be justice in your eyes might be torture in another pair. We as humans cannot even agree on forms of punishment, debating whether the death penalty or 5 years in jail is suitable for a count of child molestation. So, is it safe to say that punishment is in itself a subjective decree?
Another matter of subjectivity—subject to personal opinion—is determining what warrants forgiveness.
Every decision you make ultimately boils down to how the result will make you feel. You prefer one feeling over another, so you act to achieve the desired feeling. You don’t want to lose something, so you decide to protect it. You don’t want to go somewhere, so you decide to stay. Every decision is a decision made for your benefit.
So the decision to forgive someone is completely up to you and what feels better. But not everyone recognizes what might feel better. Before we delve into this conundrum, let’s look at what forgiveness isn’t.
What Forgiveness Is Not
We’re all guilty of it. Of making mistakes. Of alienating others. Of chastising the ‘wicked’… We’re all guilty of writing the terms of forgiveness. (Terms on which we seldom agree.)
We’ve perpetuated an image of forgiveness that is completely false. And we’ve deemed ourselves the authority to decide under what circumstances clemency will be granted. We think it a kind action toward an enemy or a person who’s wronged us. Sure, it’s a kind gesture, indeed. But toward a wrong-doer? Who says what’s right and wrong?
Forgiveness isn’t about redemption, justification, or any kind of retribution. It shouldn’t be used to garner a sense of power over a weaker person—to make anyone cower down at your feet and beg your pardon. Truth is, one need not even have to understand why the person in question did what they did. Any rationale or excuse would be an effort to convince you that they deserve forgiveness, and that’s not your call. Forgiveness also shouldn’t be viewed as an effort to change or make up for the past. And it certainly doesn’t mean rehashing the sins of the world into perpetuity in order for absolution to take hold.
Some good news? Forgiveness doesn’t mean that you have to hang out with those you forgive! Who you choose to surround yourself with is your decision as well. Once you forgive, there is no obligation to form any new attachments to the acquitted. No lunch date needs to be planned. No meeting of the parents, or weekend trip away together is necessary! What a relief.
Where does this news leave us exactly?
What Forgiveness Is
Forgiveness is the process of concluding resentment, indignation or anger as a result of a perceived offense, or ceasing to demand punishment or restitution, as defined by Wikipedia. We may feel a need to forgive as a result of feeling betrayed, physically injured, emotionally hurt, criticized, angry or vengeful. It’s easy to feel these emotions. They spring on us as if without our permission. But these are all emotions self-inflicted. We allowed them in and gave them a place to stay. Which is why a feeling of betrayal can ultimately feel really comforting because we’ve settled in a fictitious power play by withholding our love and attention from another. (However, more accurately, the mere fact that we’ve been unable to forgive means we continue to give them our power and attention–whether they know it or not.)
This game of ‘weak vs. strong’ keeps you stuck in victimhood where you’re without any power; your strength being derived from someone’s confession and remorse. Suppose even that’s not enough to rid you of bitterness, then where are you? Hopeless.
Why do that to yourself?
Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself. The releasing of pain, physical and emotional. The effects of forgiveness not only improve your health, stress-levels, countenance, physical, psychological and spiritual well-being, but it will improve relationships and attract more gracious people into your life.
This all might sound selfish to you. You might conclude it very selfish to forgive. And I’d agree with you. But consider the alternative. Grudges held for years are the causes of war. Pent-up bitterness can cause ulcers, weight-gain, energy depletion and stress. Fortunately, there are benefits for the forgiver and the forgiven, creating a win-win situation. There’s an allowing of wellness for a person previously convicted. There’s a releasing of further contempt. There’s accepting we’re human and capable of mistakes. Forgiveness is a state of mind, a freeing of blame and resentment. Once we are free of such consuming emotions, joy is free to flourish within us. We’re given a chance to start anew.
Choosing not to forgive someone is a form of darkness, in that it keeps you from clarity and peace. Once you forgive, you feel a lightness become you, you see with new eyes, you feel brand new. You’ve been washed clean, and all along you thought you were seeking to wash someone else clean of all your judgments and grievances toward them. Well, both are the result of forgiveness.
Forgiveness is the single most powerful movement we could incite in our lifetimes and the most transformative. It is testament to unconditional love, and a demonstration of grace. It is a vow of peace and a treaty of hope. It strips us down to our most innocent, humble selves. It reconstructs prior judgments into compassion. It confesses a love for ourselves and others. And it doesn’t require altering another person to become someone you find agreeable again. The act of forgiving isn’t about the other person. It is always about you, and will remain an issue to be worked out inside. Forgiving another, forgiving yourself, forgiving God, forgiving destiny…all takes place in your mind. It’s a lesson in changing our perspectives, changing our minds, changing ourselves.
This should feel empowering! Knowing your emotions are within your control and no one else’s. Knowing no one is capable of doing anything to you that you didn’t allow them to—because what anyone did to ‘hurt you’ was subject to your interpretation of her/his actions in the end. Can you be sure of anyone’s intentions? By you requiring an apology or recompense to move forward is allowing the situation and the person to control you instead of you controlling your life and your move forward.
Oftentimes, just knowing what forgiveness means is enough to change someone’s life into a more loving, albeit powerful, forgiving vessel. A few of us might need more time to process this concept of forgiveness because we let someone negatively influence our lives for too long and find it hard to dislodge the acrimony.
Below is a meditation that will help us find that place of peace found in forgiveness.
Meditation on Forgiveness
Get to a place of solitude and silence. Be mindful of your breath, in and out. Sit for 5 minutes setting the intention to release animosity and pride. Envision the person (or entity) you struggle with forgiving. Now, begin the process:
- With your eyes gazing upon this individual, just as you know s/he to be, allow your feelings about this individual to fill you.
- Recognize and honor those feelings as they are your internal alarm system.
- Aloud, tell this individual how s/he hurt you and how it made you feel. Run down the list of grievances. Be brutally honest—this is for you to come clean.
- As you reveal hurt after hurt, release each one, allowing it to float away—detaching from this individual completely.
- With an exhale, let go of each emotion that entered your body and mind when thinking of this individual.
- As it exits, thank that feeling/emotion for serving you.
- Thank the individual for whatever s/he did to you to hurt you that might have brought new growth or opportunity to your life (even if it’s just that his betrayal made you come to know your worth as a person, or her abuse made you stronger physically). Place a smile on your face.
- Tell the individual you forgive her/him—with a deep breath in and out.
- Tell the individual you release her/him from all bitterness and anger, knowing what he might have done to you was only his cry for love and attention.
- Now, place upon this individual a cloud of white, brilliant, cleansing light.
- While the individual is enveloped in white light, remember the good memories you have of her/him, and get in that state of reflection.
- Like puzzle pieces, place these new memories all over this individual, so it covers her/him. Quantity is of no concern. If you have just one piece to offer up, make sure it’s a big enough piece to cover the body entirely.
- Take a look at this individual, now covered in your smiles, laughter, tears of joy and images of fond memories, still basking in white light.
- Tell the individual you love her/him.
- Breathe five (5) full, slow, delicate, enjoyable breaths in and out, expanding this feeling of love and completion.
- Visualize this individual being absorbed into the white light, until the light is all you see.
- Take a deep breathe in, inhaling this white, cleansing light, letting it fill you with a bountiful glow.
- Seal this process with a closing phrase such as, “And it is done.”
- Smile, and slowly open your eyes.
- Repeat this process until being around this person is a peaceful experience, one in which you tie no label of ‘evil-doer’ around their neck.
After this process, you should see them with clearer, compassionate eyes, no longer keeping them stuck in old, irrelevant judgments. What comes next is up to you. Forgiving them in-person isn’t integral to the process, but optional, because you’ve already done the necessary work to move forward. If the person is still alive, what we can trust is that if it’s a relationship in your best interest, your love and forgiveness will attract them back to you in a more wholesome, enlightening way. However, you must stay in this place of love or you’ll fall back into playing victim. And, like attracts like.
Once you live a life of forgiveness, you’ll start to notice you forgive before someone even has a chance to do you ‘harm’. In hindsight, you’ll realize their apologies were never factors in your deciding whether to forgive—it was always your compassion. Needing an apology was only your attempt at feeling better, when feeling better was within your control all along.
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Memories of Old Town’s Peerless printer
Shirley Bonds, owner or co-owner of the Peerless Graphics printing company from the 1940s to the 1970s and a contributor in recent years to the volunteer Old
Colorado City Historical Society (OCCHS), was honored at a recent meeting of the OCCHS board.
According to society co-founder and continuing member Dave Hughes, $10,000 in grants from Bonds have helped the OCCHS to “digitize” its holdings (which means to preserve them in computer format). In return, the board presented Bonds with a 65-page collection (including a CD), with images digitized from 220 aging negatives and prints that she'd donated to the society.
According to Bonds, she'd obtained the collection during her Peerless days when she bought the darkroom of photographer A.E. “Tex” Davis, whom she actually never met.
After the board meeting, Bonds took time to talk with the Westside Pioneer - although not with excess enthusiasm. “You aren't really going to write about me, are you?” she asked later.
Growing up on North Prospect Street (where she still lives), Bonds had never dreamed of being a printer. “For women back then, there wasn't much you could do, outside of working at Woolworths or being a secretary or a nurse,” she said.
But around age 20 she met two brothers from Cripple Creek (Melvin and Robert Ericksen), who owned a hand-fed press and type cases. World War II was on, and the three of them wound up in the same car pool for the Aircraft Mechanics plant in the old Alexander film facility on North Nevada Avenue, where workers were making parts for the war effort.
The brothers taught her what they knew about printing. It appealed to a side of her that's “mechanically inclined,” as she put it.
In 1945, the year the war ended, the trio joined to purchase Peerless Printing. (They later had to change the name to Peerless Graphics because there already was a Peerless Printing in Denver, Bonds noted.) It was a one-man business downtown. “The man who owned it insisted we also buy his house and goat,” Bonds remembered with a grin.
A year later, Bonds and the Ericksens moved Peerless to Old Colorado City, in conjunction with their purchase of the weekly Colorado Springs Independent newspaper and printing business at 2526 W. Colorado Ave. This was the original Independent. It was an offshoot of Colorado City's Iris newspaper, which started in 1889, and it finally folded around 1950 (Bonds could not recall the exact year.)
There was no political motive for owning a newspaper. “None of us really liked newspaper work,” Bonds said, and there wasn't enough money for reporters anyway - although the owners did hire “Westside kids to put headline type back in the cases,” she said.
The only member of management who was mentioned in the Independent's staff box was Melvin's wife Elizabeth, who was chiefly a proofreader. “The rest of us didn't want our names out there,” Bonds said.
So what was the main reason for buying the Independent? “We just wanted a bigger press,” she said. “It had two or three hand-fed presses. It was a going business.”
As for big Westside stories in those years, there really weren't any, as Bonds recalls it. “Things had a different rhythm then,” she said.
Later in the '50s, for about three years, Peerless printed another prominent newspaper - the daily Free Press, which went on to become the Colorado Springs Sun (later bought out by the Gazette for $30 million in 1986).
The Free Press job came about after the Gazette's union crew went on strike. Both the Gazette (lacking a crew) and the union (lacking equipment) asked Peerless to print their publications. The decision was pretty easy. Bonds and both brothers were all union printers themselves.
Over the years, as one of the larger printers in the city, Peerless handled a variety of jobs. Among the major customers were different schools (“we did an awful lot of school work”), greyhound racing forms (“it was a tough job and took all night long, but it paid the bills”) and Colorado College ('we printed their newspaper and whatever they needed”).
Adding to the work challenges was the need to transition to modern offset printing, which required the purchase of new equipment, and to slowly expand the business. After finishing buying Peerless, the partners bought the building at 2526 W. Colorado, and later 2528 and 2530 as well.
Bonds finally closed Peerless in 1978. Her partners had died or moved on by 1974, and she ran it the last four years by herself.
She decided it was time to try other things. “I was trapped in the print shop,” she said. At times, “I was printing day and night.”
Afterward, Bonds helped start a bookstore (the Kinnikinnick) that operated for several years in the western end of the space where her print shop had been. She has since sold the buildings that had housed Peerless. Now 86, she's enjoying a retirement that's included travel and golf.
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up to Mike Wolfberg's Scrabble Page
Although you can see some word lists here, you can make your own lists of Scrabble® words using Mike's WHAT program, which is available for sale. There is also a free demo form of the same program, named someWHAT, which includes OWL2 words up to six letters in length.
Included on this web site are some lists of words of particular aid to folks learning useful words for competitive play in North America and other places using the same lexicon, such as Israel. All these words are found in the "Second Official Tournament and Club Word List" or "OWL2" (available only to NSA members at the NSA web site), published by Merriam-Webster. This book is the only reference for words played which are less than 10 letters in length. This list is based on the Fourth Edition of the Official Scrabble® Players Dictionary, but it also includes words which are deemed offensive; these are omitted from the OSPD4, since it is used for school play.
The Dictionary Committee of the NSA has produced updates to both the Official Scrabble® Players Dictionary and the Official Word List. The Fourth Edition of the OSPD is now being sold, and the updated OWL has been available from the NSA since late January, 2006. There are many typos in the OSPD4. There are some typos in the printed OWL2:
The Fourth Edition is sold in book stores, but since it is intended for school and recreational use it is missing the swear words and ethnic slurs which where present in previous editions. The OWL continues to include those nasty words. The OWL2 may contain some words which are not nasty and are not included in the new OSPD4, such as trademarks, such as KLEENEX.
Before June 16, 2003, words of length greater than 9 letters may also have come from the longer word source dictionary, which was the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary Tenth Edition. Since then, Merriam-Webster has produced the Eleventh Edition. This book is used for words longer than length 8 for School Scrabble® competitions.
The Official Long Words List has been compiled and created by the Dictionary Committee of the NSA. As of June 16, 2003, this list became the ONLY acceptable official long word list for use at sanctioned NSA Clubs and Tournaments. These are words of length 10 - 15, as a supplement to the OWL. A second edition of the long words is planned.
Also see Steven Alexander's Scrabble® FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) for more details about word sources.
Here are the OWL2 word lists found at this site:
More lists will be included here, as time permits. I expect to produce OWL2 lists which will be updated versions of the TWL98 lists I have had available here on my site for many years. Please let me know if there is something you would like to see. Here is a significant start of this work: | <urn:uuid:204b2345-a26c-4372-90a8-6fede7ad1c7a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wolfberg.net/scrabble/wordlists/owl2/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966533 | 631 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Activities at the July 15 Strategy Lunch chaired by Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation & House Majority Whip Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX).
Fred Goldman, father of Ron Goldman (one of two murder victims in the O.J. Simpson trial), and Greg Facchiano of the staff of Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ), discussed Salmon's HR 4258, the "No Second Chances for Murderers, Rapists or Child Molesters Act of 1998," and distributed a fact kit. If approved, the bill would hold states financially accountable if they release violent criminals and murderers from prison too early. It would do so by withholding some federal moneys from a state if one of its violent ex-convicts commits a violent crime in another state after release from prison. Goldman said the No Second Chances bill would "make it financially undesirable for a state to release murderers, rapists and child molesters" because if a state did so and the ex-convict then committed a similar crime in another state, the first state would be required to pay the court and incarceration costs of re-institutionalizing the criminal, and also compensate the victim or victims in the amount of $100,000. The money would come from a deduction in federal aid given to the first state, which would then be given to the second state by the federal government. Many states, said Goldman, say they release violent prisoners now for financial reasons, so this bill would help eliminate a state's financial motivation for releasing violent criminals back into the general public.
Several statistics were cited. Goldman said there are "20,000-25,000 murders every year in this nation [and] 40% of the murderers committed murder or a violent crime before. 60% of the crime in this country has been committed by someone who has committed a crime before." The fact kit says 100 people are murdered, 445 people are raped and 1,200 people are sexually assaulted every year by violent ex-convicts who cross state lines to commit crimes again. It also notes that the average actual time served in the U.S. for homicide is just 5 years, 11 months; by men for rape is 4 years, 9 months; for sexual assault, including on children, 2 years, 9 months. For information contact Fred Goldman and Greg Facchiano via Greg Facchiano in Rep. Matt Salmon's office at 202/225-3121 or read National Policy Analysis #205 at http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA205.html.
Preston Noell of the international lay Catholic organization Tradition, Family, Property (TFP) updated participants on the progress of the protest against the play "Corpus Christi," which is under production at the federally-funded Manhattan Theatre Club in New York. (Funding is via the National Endowment for the Arts, which, in addition to other moneys for the club, authorized a $31,000 grant specifically for the play "Corpus Christi" in 1996.) Objections to the play include the fact that in it, the character portraying Jesus Christ has sex with his apostles and is referred to as "King of the Queers." TFP president Raymond Earl Drake wrote to the author of "Corpus Christi" on May 12, asking him to confirm that the production "will not contain anything injurious to the honor and memory of Our Lord Jesus Christ or offensive to the Catholic faith." Drake has not received the courtesy of a reply from anyone associated with the production.
Noell said TFP has distributed over one million flyers protesting the play so far, is recruiting local government officials and bodies to pass resolutions opposing taxpayer funding of blasphemous material, and is planning a protest at the theatre when and if the play debuts. He asked concerned citizens to take several steps, including the following: 1) Contact the Manhattan Theatre Club at 212/399-3000, fax 212/399-4329, e-mail [email protected], to express your indignation about their decision to produce a blasphemous play; 2) encourage friends, family members and associates to do the same; 3) contact local government officials and encourage them to enact local resolutions expressing opposition to government funding of art which depicts Jesus Christ in an offensive manner; 4) write letters to the editor; 5) call talk shows; 6) ask the pastor of your church to speak out against this and to include information about the issue in the church bulletin; 7) order lots of free "Stop Blasphemy Now" flyers from TFP at 717/225-7147 or [email protected] (http://www.tfp.org). Contact Preston Noell at 703/539-9880 or [email protected].
House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-TX) reviewed with participants conservative portions of appropriations bills that will soon be voted on in the House. He said that it would be valuable for the grassroots to express an opinion on these provisions to the Congress because some Members will challenge these provisions on the floor in an attempt to get them removed. Some of the provisions he mentioned included: A ban on abortion funding for federal prisoners; a ban on Legal Services funds going to organizations engaging in abortion-related litigation; a conscience clause for prison employees regarding arranging abortions; a reduction in the U.S. assessment to the United Nations from 25% of the UN budget to 22% (Commerce/Justice/State appropriation); a parental notification requirement before minors are given federally-funded contraceptive services; a ban on federal funding of human embryo research and human cloning; a clarification of the Hyde Amendment to include federal trust funds; a provision ensuring that hospitals may participate in Medicare+Choice without having to commit abortions; freezing Title X funding at last year's level of $203 million; a ban on federal funding of needle exchange programs; cutting the appropriation for Goals 2000 in half; reforms to emphasize teaching English as a priority in bilingual public school programs (Labor/HHS appropriation); zero funding for Americorps; a ban on using federal funds to implement the Kyoto global warming treaty unless and until the U.S. Senate ratifies the treaty (VA/HUD appropriation); a ban on abortion coverage in the Federal Employees Health benefits plan -- with a possible exception for rape and incest; ban on mandatory diversity training if not relevant to job performance (Treasury/Postal); level funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities; eliminate the increase in funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (Interior). Contact Rep. DeLay via Autumn Hanna at 202/225-0197.
Lisa Dean of the Free Congress Foundation summarized continuing efforts to prevent the Administration from mandating national ID cards. Contact Lisa Dean at 202/546-3000 or [email protected] (http://www.freecongress.org).
Myron Ebell of Frontiers of Freedom announced that his group will convene a working group to study presidential executive orders. He also announced that Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) has said that he want to place parts of Senator Dirk Kempthorne (R-ID)'s faulty Endangered Species Act Bill, which has almost no chance of passage otherwise, on the Interior appropriations bill. Contact Myron Ebell at 703/527-8282 or [email protected] (http://www.ff.org).
Kenneth Brown, author of the new book "Scandalgate: Exposing
America's Moral Deficit Disorder," described his book, published
by Legacy Communications. Contact Kenneth Brown via Legacy Communications
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The numbers emigrating from Ireland are completely exaggerated, a leading academic has claimed.
Prof James Wickham, director of the Employment Research Centre at Trinity College, said the number of 1,000 a week leaving Ireland was not correct, as many leaving were foreigners returning to their own country according to the Irish Times.
“During the election we were told every day how 1,000 Irish people were leaving the country every week. The only problem with that is that a substantial number of them are returning immigrants,” Professor Wickham.
However, his view clashes with official figures showing from the Central Statistics office who said that 27,700 of the people who left in the first four months last year were Irish born.
Prof Wickham said there was a very real danger of a “media, moral and public panic.”
“The rhetoric that is being used in the current discussion of this in the media is that of the emigrant wake like the 1950s. The emigration we are experiencing is much more like the emigration of the 1980s rather than the 1950s. The 1980s represented a turning point for Ireland, and many of these educated people returned in the 1990s bringing new skills and money,” he said.
“We should learn lessons from the recent mass emigration from Poland, when people were treated as traitors for leaving. This created dissatisfaction. But I’ve seen no sign of that in Ireland, which has a good record of welcoming back emigrants,” he said.
Prof Wickham it was not a “brain drain” but “brain circulation,” meaning many returned home when times got better.
He also claimed “There has been a huge growth in so-called love miles, people following their girlfriend or boyfriend and living in their country,” he said.
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