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Each user is free to choose whichever desktop environment feels the best. The end result is that, if you use an all-kde or all-gnome system, the look and feel of the environment is very consistent; and your applications all interact between them pretty nicely. This just wasn't possible when we had apps written in a hodgepodge of different toolkits. The range of facilities provided by modern desktop environments under Linux also enable some other niceties, like component architectures (KDE has Kparts and GNOME uses the Bonobo component framework), which allow you to do things like having a live spreadsheet or chart inside a word processing document; global printing facilities, similar to the printing contexts found in Windows; or scripting languages, which let more advanced users write programs to glue applications together and have them interact and cooperate in interesting ways.
Under the Unix concept of "desktop environment", you can have programs from one environment running in another. I could conceivably use Konqueror within GNOME, or Gnumeric under KDE. They're just programs, after all. Of course the whole idea of a desktop environment is consistency, so it makes sense to stick to apps that were designed for your particular environment; but if you're willing to cope with an app that looks "out of place" and doesn't interact with the rest of your environment, you are completely free to do so. | <urn:uuid:99504da7-264b-4756-91da-5c3561c6ea52> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/XWindow-Overview-HOWTO/fit-together.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95764 | 280 | 1.90625 | 2 |
When we look at objects in the night sky, we often do not know how far away they are. For example, although the stars look like they are on the inside of a sphere of very large radius that surrounds the Earth, they are all at vastly different distances from our Solar System. This makes it hard to judge the actual size of celestial objects.
The angular diameter of an object is the angle the object makes (subtends) as seen by an observer. This is demonstrated in the diagram below, where the angular diameter of the object appears larger to an observer at A (closer to the object) than to an observer at B. Angular diameter can also refer to the distances between two objects, measured on the celestial sphere.
For an observer on the Earth, the angular diameter of the Moon and the Sun are quite similar ( ~ 0.5o = 30 arcmin). In reality, the Sun’s physical diameter is 400 times bigger than the Moon, while the Moon is ~ 400 times closer to the Earth. | <urn:uuid:10bec275-89e3-4904-b2e5-e42d27e473c1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/A/Angular+Diameter | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948434 | 210 | 4.125 | 4 |
What to do first
Non religious services
Save a fortune
Before it happens
How to complain
A Humanist view
What to do?
Of mice & men
Are they qualified?
Does it matter?
Things we say
A funny thing
Value for money?
Do it yourself
A - Z
Unfortunately, the larger
companies now appear to be moving firmly towards taking an aggressive sales
stance. The soft spoken funeral arrangers, while genuinely concerned to
provide you with the best service and to help you through this difficult
time, are also having to work to strict guidelines on sales targets and
techniques, laid down by their
"When selling a
- Present the coffin range
to it's advantage.
- Direct the attention of
the family to the highest quality item on display....
- Do not judge the ability
of a family to afford a particular coffin or casket by their appearance.
Prejudging could mean you talk yourself out of a higher priced item and
your selling technique will reflect this."
And on dealing with
understand your concern about the price but let me explain the difference
in design and manufacture, again." Or, for example, "Yes, I can
see your point about them just going into the ground, but we need to
provide an extensive range like this in order to suit everyone's
Guardian", February 27th 1996
"The press release followed the ITV ‘World in Action’ programme that was produced across the nations screens. The
programme revealed that an ... employee had offered the hospital patients’ officer of the Royal Free Hospital, London, £500 towards his annual holiday. The employee later resigned from
.... Later on ... admitted to having offered inducement payments to nursing homes."
Gentle but persuasive
suggestions can easily be fed into the arrangement interview and lovingly
stroking a coffin (!) can seem to emphasise it's quality thereby making it
a desirable item. There are
several areas that are particularly lucrative to the funeral company,
floral tributes, printed order of service, extra limousines, cremated
remains caskets, memorials.....
Of course they are in
business to make money and this has to be recognised, but what must also
be understood is the extreme vulnerability of the majority of clients to
any high pressure selling at a time like this.
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Eminent domain mural
Wed February 16, 2011
Fed. appeals court hears city sign ordinance case
The constitutionality of St. Louis city's sign ordinance was the topic of debate today in front of a three-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.
The case centers around activist Jim Roos, who in 2007 painted a large mural on a South City building he owns protesting the use of eminent domain for private development. The city ordered him to remove the sign, saying it was too big and located in the wrong place. Roos applied for an exemption, calling the mural a work of art. City officials denied the exemption, a decision Roos appealed.
Last March, a federal judge ruled for the city, saying that Roos's mural fell "squarely within the Code’s definition of "sign." The denial of the permit was based solely on the limitations specifically detailed in the Code."
That's the argument city attorney Matt Moak made in a courtroom this morning at the Washington University School of Law
"It could have said I hate the Chicago Cubs or I love the St. Louis Cardinals, it didn’t matter what it said. The fact was it was too big and it was in the wrong location," he said.
Roos's attorney, Michael Bindas with the libertarian Institute for Justice argued that the code on which the city based its decision is, in fact, unconstitutional.
"The same sign, the same size, and the same location would be perfectly permissible if it had certain other content," he said. "For example, if it had a large crest, or a seal of the city of St. Louis."
Those exemptions for things like flags or advertising signs, he says, mean the city's ordinance is based mostly on the content of the sign and is therefore unconstitutional. | <urn:uuid:e19500a4-7486-4b74-8bd1-94236f3fd144> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/fed-appeals-court-hears-city-sign-ordinance-case | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972312 | 374 | 1.695313 | 2 |
[Beowulf] MorphMPI based on fortran itf (was: MPI ABI)
ashley at quadrics.com
Wed Oct 12 14:06:54 EDT 2005
On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 10:42 -0700, Greg Lindahl wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 12:05:13PM +0100, Ashley Pittman wrote:
> > Thirdly is the performance issue, any MPI vendor worth his salt tries
> > very hard to reduce the number of function calls and library's between
> > the application and the network, adding another one is a step in the
> > wrong direction. This may not matter so much for ethernet clusters but
> > certainly for some people the software stack accounts for a surprising
> > percentage of "network" latency.
> OK, so that's a new item for the Technical List Of Things To Do:
> measure the overhead. I suspect it'll turn out to be small, even for
> interconnects that care about 50 nanoseconds of additional overhead.
As it turns out I'm in a position to measure this fairly easily, our MPI
sits on top of a library called libelan, this does all the tag matching
at a very low level, all MPI does is convert the communicator into a bit
pattern, calculate the length from the type and count and convert from
lrank to grank, passing the call on. Using tping to measure libelan
directly I get 1.24 uSec for a zero byte message, using mping I get 1.34
for the same message. The only difference is the MPI layer of the
stack. 8% is worth caring about.
Of course you could argue that our MPI library is actually doing a fair
amount of work but I'm not sure that it is, a couple of array lookups,
some bit shifting and a few multiplies. Even with today's processors
code isn't free and it seems to be that this is amplified when you have
to jump between library's to get at that code.
Regardless of the numbers this is a *high performance* industry and
doing this would be a step in the wrong direction.
If you want figures for shared vs static vs function pointer lookup
tables there was a paper about it at the MPI conference earlier this
month, IIRC the conclusion was (the paper is at my house so not to hand)
that it made little difference but as I said before apples and oranges,
that was for function redirection.
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Amanuensis Monday is a blog theme started by John Newmark on his blog Transylvanian Dutch, in which he is transcribing letters, newspaper articles, audio tapes, and a war diary etc., concerning his family.
John explains Amanuensis as “a person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another”.
The Will I am transcribing today is that of my 8 x great grandmother Katharine Read (nee Lovjoy). She was born in Caversham, Oxfordshire in 1649, married John Read in Caversham in 1669 and they had 8 children. Katharine was buried in January 1713 also at Caversham, so she spent all her 64 years in the one place!
The Will of Katharine Read
Inventory of the Goods and Chattells of Katherine Read – 1715
Transcript of the Will of Katharine Read - 1713
In ye name of God Amen I Catherine Read of the parish of Caversham in the County of Oxon widdow being weake of body but of sound and perfect memory praised be God And to avoid all difficulty that may happen to Arise amongst my Children after my decease concerning my Goods and Chattels which I shall leave be-hind me do make this my last Will and Testament in writing forsaking all other Wills whether written or nuncupative heretofore by me made And this is my last Will as followed. ffirst I comend my Soul to Almighty God who gave it Trusting and hopeing for Everlasting salvation Through the merits of Jesus Christ my Redeemer and my Body to be Buryed by my Executors herein-after mentioned ffirst my will is that my Executor herein-named shall pay the several Legacies following within Two Years after my decease; ffirst, I give and bequeath to my son John Read the sum of Ten Pounds of Lawfull money of Great Brittain. Item I give and bequeath to my daughter Katherine Glover wife of Will: Glover the sum of Ten Pounds Ittem I give and bequeath to my daughter Rachel Butts wife of John Butts the sum of one shilling Item I give and bequeath to my son Will: Read the sum of one shilling. Item I give and bequeath to my daughter Mary White wife of William White the sum of one shilling Ittem I give and bequeath to my daughter Ann Read the sum of Ten Pounds of like Lawfull money And I doe make my son Edward Read ffull and Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament And I doe give and bequeath unto my said son Edward Read all my Goods and Chattles of which nature and kind soever besides what is as above disposed of In Witness whereof I ye said Katherine Read have hereunto set my hand and seal the 16 day of December 1713 and in the Thirteenth year of Queen Ann of Great Brittain.
Signed sealed published and declared by the sd Katherine Read to be her last Will and Testament in ye presence of All ye Blanks first filled up
Probat 21 May 1715 …
and the transcript of the Inventory for Katharine Read – 1715
An Inventory of the Goods and Chattells
of Katherine Read widdow lately deceast
of the Parish of Cavarsham alias Casum
in the County of Oxon Taken & apraised
by us whose names are hereunto subscribed
Imprims Her Apparrell 05 – 00 – 00
Item in money 00 – 07 – 00
05 – 07 – 00
Exhibiter 21 May 1715
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The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The
Rise of the Politics of Fear, is a BBC documentary film series,
written and produced by Adam Curtis.
Its three one-hour parts consist mostly
of a montage of archive footage with Curtis's narration. The series
was first broadcast in the United Kingdom in late 2004 and has
subsequently been broadcast in multiple countries and shown in
several film festivals, including the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
The films compare the rise of the Neo-Conservative movement in the
United States and the radical Islamist movement, making comparisons
on their origins and claiming similarities between the two.
More controversially, it argues that the
threat of radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organized force of
destruction, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda, is a myth
perpetrated by politicians in many countries - and particularly
American Neo-Conservatives - in an attempt to unite and inspire
their people following the failure of earlier, more utopian
The Power of Nightmares has been praised by film critics in both
Britain and the United States. Its message and content have also
been the subject of various critiques and criticisms from
conservatives and progressives.
Curtis has also been quoted in such
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Rest in Peace Rocket . . .
Rocket, our Bearded Dragon, passed away on January 23rd after living a long and healthy life. Donated to EARTHS as a mature bearded dragon, Rocket lived the average life span for a bearded dragon in captivity. He was cherished by students, staff, families and Dolly. He will be missed. | <urn:uuid:77114628-1f96-4688-91b0-146fa5db9015> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.conejo.k12.ca.us/earths/Facility/LifeScienceLab.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976872 | 72 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Onboarding: How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time
Copyright © 2009 George Bradt and Mary Vonnegut. All rights reserved.
Author(s): George Bradt, Mary Vonnegut
Published Online: 29 NOV 2011 09:10AM EST
Print ISBN: 9780470485811
Online ISBN: 9781118256145
About this Book
About The Product
A guide to getting new employees recruited, oriented, and productive-FAST
"Onboarding," a growing trend in the business community, is a focused methodology that gets people in new roles up to speed quickly and efficiently. This book guides you through a process that enables you to recruit, orient, and enable your new employees to get the job done. Learn how to inspire and encourage your new employees to deliver better results faster.
George Bradt and Mary Vonnegut's Onboarding helps ensure that your new employees are productive and efficient from day one. You'll learn how to help them assimilate into your corporate culture and accelerate their learning.
- Onboarding is one of the hottest trends in business
- This is the first book about onboarding
- George Bradt is a leading speaker and consultant, and the author of The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan
For business leaders and managers who want well-trained, responsive, efficient, and effective employees, Onboarding helps you get the best from your new employees. | <urn:uuid:5411a4e9-53a1-4537-b4e2-a01784e21b82> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118256145 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900647 | 296 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Israeli president Shimon Peres has said that the row over the protection of Jewish and Muslim heritage sites by Israel is being incited by extremists and Hamas.
Hamas’s leader in Gaza has called on Palestinians to attack Israel over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to include the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, and the site of Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem, in a £69m restoration plan. Both are also important Islamic shrines.
Ismail Haniyeh called on the Palestinians to launch a third intifada against the decision. He said: "Jerusalem is ours, the land is ours, and God is with us. We will not accept these decisions and they will have no ramifications."
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called the planned investment in two heritage sites “a serious provocation which may lead to a religious war."
This week, Israeli soldiers clashed with stone-throwing protesters in Hebron.
At a meeting with UN Special Co-ordinator for the Middle East, Robert Serry, President Peres said: “We don’t need to produce artificial conflicts. Israel will continue to grant freedom of worship to every religion in every holy place.”
“Israel plans to invest significant amounts in infrastructure that will increase the accessibility of holy sites to all worshipers. By doing so it aims to honour and allow freedom of worship to all, irrespective of their faith, and protect the holy sites.
“There is no violation of Muslim or Christian religious rights in any holy place.”
He also asked that UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon should be told that “there are parties in the debate who wish to incite unnecessary conflict.”
The Tomb of the Patriarchs is where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are said to be buried.
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Tynan, a very great supporter of Welles during much of the 1950's, who saw him as breath of creativity in the smoky London air, may have been trying to adopt American slang, chic at the time, not realizing that his essentially anti-racist American counterparts would not have used the epithet, which was a crude Southern regionalism.
In his use of the N-word, a second factor came into play. The British, at least many of them in my experience, because of their Colonial underpinnings, perhaps, used the word in everday life for the color black.
This usage was certainly racist, but in many cases innocent of bigotry.
I remember that, in 1955, the U.S.Army Anti-Aircraft in Britain, as a gesture of good will (and a deal somewhere?) insisted that the troops use for footlocker inspections Tuxsan(sp) shoe polish, which had an artillery red can. Tuxsan's black polish was named "N*gger."
Two black Military Policemen on TDY came into the Lakenheath Base PX, asked for shoe polish, were shown the Tuxsan display, and they went berserk. The two were courtmarshalled , as I remember it, but just before, I came home, the regulation was changed.
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Apple has removed a third-party application that was gathering user-submitted lock-screen passwords for what its creator claims were research purposes.
The software, dubbed "Big Brother Camera Security," was created by developer Daniel Amitay to serve as an alternative to Apple's lock-screen security. Users could run it when leaving their iPhone or iPod Touch unattended, and the application would require an iOS-style passcode to resume. If a user entered the incorrect password, the software would take a photo of that person, and if the app was exited, an alarm would sound.
A side feature, added by Amitay in the most recent software update, began sending him user-entered passcodes, which were anonymized. Amitay on Monday posted the results of that data, which was made up of 204,508 recorded passcodes, to show what some of the most common passwords were. The move did not go over well in Cupertino.
"Got a call from Apple last night regarding the removal of Big Brother from the App Store," Amitay wrote in a blog post today. "Apparently, Apple believed that I was 'surreptitiously harvesting user passwords,'" Amitay wrote.
Amitay says he's appealing the company's decision on the grounds that the application was only gathering data from his own app, and not the phone's lock screen, which Apple does not provide an API for, nor would it likely to be approve as part of its review process. Amitay added that that app was anonymizing that user data, and putting it toward "improving effectiveness of future updates."
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The British Columbian, July 15, 1865
ROYAL CLEMENCY has been exercised in the free pardon of Lutas, the Chilicoaten Indian who was found guilty of murder in the third degree at the late Special Assize. Lutas and Achpickermous, the Indian who has been held in durance vile during the last ten months, as an important witness in the matter, will proceed to Victoria in the Enterprise to-day, and accompany Mr. Moss to Bella Coola, for which place they will start from Victoria in a canoe in the course of next week.
Source: "Royal Clemency," The British Columbian, July 15, 1865.
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Baton Rouge: Louisiana's health care history marked a milestone as the Department of Health and Hospitals finished the initial implementation of its new Medicaid delivery model, BAYOU HEALTH.
The majority of Louisiana's 1.2 million Medicaid and LaCHIP recipients will now have their care coordinated through a Health Plan network. Of the nearly 900,000 recipients who are part of BAYOU HEALTH, nearly 40 percent proactively chose a Health Plan for their families.
"For years, we have talked about getting Louisiana off the predictable path to poor health outcomes. This achievement marks one of the most meaningful steps on that journey," said DHH Secretary Bruce D. Greenstein. "BAYOU HEALTH is the first fundamental transformation of Louisiana's Medicaid program since it was created in the late 1960s. More importantly, it was carefully designed to ensure better, more coordinated care for those who depend on us."
"Our Medicaid team has done tremendous work in the past four years to examine similar programs in more than two dozen states. Based on their extensive research and own experiences, we created in BAYOU HEALTH what is not only the right model for Louisiana, but what I believe will become a national model for Medicaid health care delivery."
BAYOU HEALTH is the State's new approach to coordinating care for most Medicaid and LaCHIP recipients. Its focus is on improved access to quality health care and better health outcomes for recipients. Under BAYOU HEALTH, DHH contracted with five Health Plans - Amerigroup RealSolutions, Community Health Solutions, LaCare, Louisiana Healthcare Connections and UnitedHealthcare Community Plan -- that are responsible for coordinating health care for recipients and working with them to address issues and empower them to take a more active role in their health.
BAYOU HEALTH Enrollment
BAYOU HEALTH was implemented for eligible Medicaid and LaCHIP recipients around Louisiana in three phases that each encompassed multiple parishes, known as a Geographic Service Area, or GSA. The New Orleans and Northshore-area parishes, GSA A, were the first parts of the state to go live with BAYOU HEALTH on Feb. 1. On April 1, GSA B, which included the Capital Area, Acadiana and South Central Louisiana parishes, implemented BAYOU HEALTH. The final go-live date for GSA C, which included the parishes in Southwest, Central and North Louisiana, was last Friday, June 1.
Statewide, nearly 40 percent of all eligible Medicaid and LaCHIP recipients chose their own Health Plans, either selecting a Plan before their GSA's go-live dates or switching later to a Plan of their choice.
For the 878,035 Louisiana Medicaid and LaCHIP recipients who are part of BAYOU HEALTH, the breakdown of their Health Plan choices as of June 1 is:
- Amerigroup Real Solutions - 143,590
- Community Health Solutions - 185,504
- LaCare - 155,789
- Louisiana Healthcare Connections - 168,736
- UnitedHealthcare Community Plan - 222,010
There were 2,406 Medicaid and LaCHIP recipients whose enrollment in BAYOU HEALTH was voluntary and elected to remain in the fee-for-service program, which is less than 1 percent of all BAYOU HEALTH-eligible enrollees.
In GSA C alone, nearly 33 percent of eligible recipients chose their own Health Plans. Those who did not choose a Plan were assigned to one to begin receiving services through a BAYOU HEALTH Plan on June 1.
Of the 297,882 eligible Medicaid and LaCHIP recipients in GSA C, the breakdown of BAYOU HEALTH Plans they were enrolled with for the June 1 go-live date is:
- Amerigroup Real Solutions - 51,031
- Community Health Solutions - 64,075
- LaCare - 55,170
- Louisiana Healthcare Connections - 61,927
- UnitedHealthcare Community Plan - 64,887
There were 792 recipients in GSA C who chose to stay in the Medicaid fee-for-service program.
"The most rewarding part of implementing BAYOU HEALTH is the positive feedback we've heard from Medicaid and LaCHIP recipients," said Ruth Kennedy, incoming Medicaid Director and BAYOU HEALTH Project Director. "Many of them have indicated they enjoy being part of a network and having care coordination, and we've gotten several stories of how Health Plans have helped members get prescriptions filled, make appointments or find a ride to their doctor's office. We know any change can be intimidating, so we're pleased to see many recipients are adapting well to this new model."
Some examples of positive comments recipients and providers have shared with DHH since BAYOU HEALTH began:
- In the Hammond area, prior to BAYOU HEALTH, there was only one primary care provider who would take new adult patients on Medicaid through the previous CommunityCARE program, and four other providers who would only see adult Medicaid recipients if they had been a patient before becoming eligible for Medicaid. After BAYOU HEALTH, with the Health Plans' work to establish networks, there are 30 primary care providers in Hammond taking new adult Medicaid patients.
- An adult recipient who has diabetes contacted the nurse care management hotline for her Health Plan, saying it had been more than 12 years since she had a working blood glucose monitor. She also needed new eyeglasses and had an updated prescription, but she was unable to afford the glasses. The Plan's care management staff contacted the recipient's primary care provider to get her a new blood glucose monitor, which is covered through the Health Plan. The Plan's care management staff also contacted a local nonprofit organization and arranged for them to assist the recipient with purchasing new eyeglasses so she could see well enough to use her new blood glucose monitor effectively. The member told care management, "This new managed Medicaid program with a nurse [available via phone] is the best thing Louisiana could have ever done."
- An adult Medicaid recipient who has hypertension and diabetes had scheduled a checkup with his primary care physician in January, but didn't have any transportation to get there and skipped the visit. As a result, he didn't get updated prescription refills and went without medication he needed for these conditions for six weeks. This recipient is in GSA A and joined a BAYOU HEALTH Plan on Feb. 1, and he contacted his Plan's care management staff on a Friday evening to advise that he had been without medication and might need emergency treatment for his health issues. The care management staff contacted the member's primary care physician and arranged for an urgent refill prescription to help the recipient avoid winding up in an emergency room. The care management staff then contacted the recipient's pharmacist to call in his prescription, and followed up with the recipient to let him know his medications would be available for pickup Friday night. The recipient told the care management staff he "would never have been able to get medicine refilled in a matter of 45 minutes without the assistance from a care management nurse," and was very appreciative.
- A provider for a LaCHIP recipient was trying to receive a quick approval for inpatient rehabilitation services to treat her patient. The provider indicated she had previously encountered "frustrations and roadblocks" in trying to get similar services, but when she reached the recipient's Health Plan, she received a same-day authorization for the inpatient rehabilitation. The provider told the Plan's staff they were very easy to work with, and said she was "pleasantly surprised" with the fast turnaround on her request.
Eligible Medicaid and LaCHIP recipients had numerous opportunities and methods available to choose a Health Plan for themselves and their families. BAYOU HEALTH outreach staff scheduled "Choose Health" meetings throughout each GSA leading up to that area's go-live date, which gave recipients a chance to meet with representatives of the Plans in person and work with an enrollment specialist to choose a Plan.
DHH used a broad strategy including direct mail, social media, television and radio appearances and phone calls to reach as many recipients as possible and make them aware of the coming changes with BAYOU HEALTH as well as their options for choosing a Health Plan.
Recipients who are unsure about which BAYOU HEALTH Plan they are in can contact the BAYOU HEALTH enrollment hotline at 1-855-BAYOU-4U (1-855-229-6848).
Recipients will receive a confirmation letter from the BAYOU HEALTH Enrollment Center listing which Health Plan they are linked to, and will receive membership cards from their Plans in addition to their DHH-issued Medicaid cards. Members have an opportunity to select a primary care provider from their Health Plan's network. If the member does not choose a primary care provider, the Health Plan will automatically assign one.
Any Medicaid recipient in GSA C who had surgeries or other medical procedures scheduled before June 1 was pre-authorized for these procedures under BAYOU HEALTH.
Recipients in GSA C, and many of those in GSA B, still have a chance to choose a Health Plan if they decide their current Plan is not a good fit. Medicaid and LaCHIP members have 90 days from the time they are enrolled in a Health Plan, either by choice or by auto assignment, to switch to another Plan. After that, a recipient can change Health Plans anytime with a good reason, such as their primary care provider leaving the network or if they move to a different area of the state. Medicaid and LaCHIP recipients will have an annual opportunity to change Health Plans. BAYOU HEALTH recipients who wish to change Health Plans can call 1-855-BAYOU-4U (1-855-229-6848) to speak with an enrollment specialist or change Plans online at www.bayouhealth.com.
"We will continue to work with those who become newly eligible for Medicaid to educate them on the importance of choosing a Health Plan," Greenstein said. "But while we welcome a new era of unprecedented choice, access and assistance for Medicaid recipients, we also want to emphasize the importance of personal accountability. Owning your own health means not only choosing a Plan, but also taking the steps to eat better, get more exercise and live well. BAYOU HEALTH is an important piece of the puzzle, but everyone has a role in improving our state's health."
DHH has worked closely and collaboratively with medical providers throughout the transition to BAYOU HEALTH, and will continue offering resources to provide information and assist providers as needed.
Medical providers can see which BAYOU HEALTH Plan a Medicaid or LaCHIP recipient they treat belongs to through the online Medicaid eligibility verification system, eMEVS. This information tells providers which BAYOU HEALTH Plan to bill for services or obtain authorizations as needed. Providers should consider the Medicaid eligibility database the ultimate source of information for BAYOU HEALTH Plan assignment. A patient may think he or she is in a different Plan or have a letter or membership card from another Plan, but the eMEVS information takes precedence.
Providers can e-mail email@example.com for assistance with any issues or questions that arise. BAYOU HEALTH staff are typically able to address any emailed questions or concerns within one business day. Medicaid staff will continue holding a BAYOU HEALTH call for providers each week day from noon until 1 p.m. Representatives from each of the five BAYOU HEALTH Plans also participate in the call to answer questions and address concerns. The toll-free number to call is 1-888-278-0296, and the Access Code is 729-9088#. It is not necessary to pre-register for the call, and any interested provider can participate.
DHH's BAYOU HEALTH website, www.MakingMedicaidBetter.com, contains abundant information about the program, including specific information for providers. This site is updated daily to provide the latest details on BAYOU HEALTH implementation. Medicaid staff members who are implementing BAYOU HEALTH have developed a series of numbered Informational Bulletins for providers and stakeholders, which answer frequently asked questions about the initiative and/or consolidate information from each of the five BAYOU HEALTH Plans into a single document. These are available on the website, and BAYOU HEALTH emails an alert whenever staff add a new Informational Bulletin or update an existing one. Providers who wish to be on the list to receive these email alerts can sign up through www.MakingMedicaidBetter.com, clicking the "Subscribe to Newsletter" link, or emailing firstname.lastname@example.org and requesting to be added to the BAYOU HEALTH email list. | <urn:uuid:01f0bcfa-b05e-4dfe-ac39-e60820c4f519> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wwwprd1.doa.louisiana.gov/LaNews/PublicPages/Dsp_PressRelease_Display.cfm?PressReleaseID=3141&Rec_ID=5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962123 | 2,634 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Will Uninsured Drivers Still Be Able to Buy Gas?
Uninsured driving is a serious matter in the eyes of the government, but perhaps none more so than for UK officials. In fact, some government authorities from across the pond would like to prohibit gas stations from letting those people fill up their tanks.
Under the proposed plan, video cameras currently in place that capture license plates to discourage people from driving off without paying would also be used to scan plates and confirm whether or not motorists have car insurance.
The screenshots would be cross-referenced with a national database — and if a car is flagged as being uninsured, the system would lock down the fuel pump, making it impossible for the driver to buy gas.
UK officials say it’s a necessary move since one in 25 of their drivers don’t have mandatory insurance, and government estimates indicate 160 people are killed and another 23,000 injured by uninsured motorists every year.
Still, gas station owners and insurance sellers are wary of the no-gas plan. Station owners are worried it could put employees at risk, with one saying, “Staff are already getting [grief] from motorists for high fuel prices. This proposal will increase the potential for conflict. Our cashiers are not law enforcers.”
In addition, the head of the British Insurance Brokers Association pointed out that after someone buys coverage, there’s often a seven-day delay before the driver is added to the national database — and those people may need to fill up their tanks in the meantime. But the question now on our minds is, Will this law be coming to the US? | <urn:uuid:bcad413d-2040-4e1d-b9d0-f41d6410055b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wibx950.com/uninsured-drivers-buy-gas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967026 | 335 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE)
The Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE) program helps communities address multiple sources of toxic pollutants in their environment. This page provides information about the CARE program, including the following topics:
- CARE Description
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Contact Information
- The Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE) program is a competitive grant program that offers communities an innovative way to address the risks from multiple sources of toxic pollution in their environment.
- Through CARE various local organizations, including non-profits, businesses, schools and governments create partnerships that implement local solutions to reduce releases of toxic pollutants and minimize people’s exposure to them.
- CARE educates and supports communities by helping them assess the pollution risks they face. We provide access to EPA's and other voluntary programs to address local environmental priorities and improve the environment through local action.
- CARE has provided financial assistance by funding cooperative agreements with communities annually since 2005.
Goals of the CARE Program
- Reduce exposures to toxic pollutants through collaborative action at the local level.
- Help communities understand all potential sources of exposure to toxic pollutants.
- Work with communities to set priorities for risk-reduction activities.
- Create self-sustaining, community-based partnerships that will continue to improve the local environment.
Why a Community Should Consider CARE?
- If your community wants to reduce levels of toxic pollution, the CARE program can help! CARE assists communities by providing information about the pollution risks they face and the funding to address these risks.
- CARE promotes local consensus-based solutions that address risk comprehensively.
- Through CARE, EPA also provides technical assistance and resources, thereby helping communities to identify and access ways to reduce toxic exposures, especially through a broad range of voluntary programs.
- As communities create local stakeholder groups that successfully reduce risks, CARE helps them build the capacity to understand and address toxics in their environment.
Why Should Businesses Consider CARE?
The Environmental Protection Agency's CARE Program believes that local businesses are a necessary piece to a successful community partnership and virtually all CARE communities have local business and often local business organizations as active members of their partnership. These businesses contribute time, money and in-kind donations to the partnerships.
How the CARE Program Works
CARE offers two different types of Cooperative Agreements: Level 1 and Level 2. These can be thought of as grants and, respectively, amount to approximately $90,000 and $275,000.Level 1 Cooperative Agreements help communities:
- Join together to form a broad-based partnership dedicated to reducing toxic pollutants and environmental risks in their local environment. Partners could be non-profit groups, community organizations, businesses, schools, and state, Tribal and local government agencies, EPA, and others Federal Agencies.
- Identify problems and solutions. Working together, this stakeholder group assesses toxics problems in their community and considers options for reducing environmental risks. Many of the emission and exposure reductions will result from the application of EPA partnership programs. EPA technical assistance is available to support this process.
Level 2 Cooperative Agreements are for communities that already have established broad-based collaborative partnerships and have completed environmental assessments. (The successful completion of a Level 1 Cooperative Agreement is not required.)
Level 2 Cooperative Agreements help communities:
- Implement solutions and reduce risks. The partnership identifies the combination of programs that best meet the community's needs. EPA funding helps to implement these projects. The community begins improving its environment.
- Become self sustaining. The community develops local solutions and ways to continue their environmental work long-term (e.g. increased partnerships and sustainable practices). CARE funds pay to implement the local actions and solutions that are identified. These solutions will reduce risks within their community. The result: communities will build self-sustaining, community-based partnerships that will continue to improve human health and local environments into the future.
Frequently Asked Questions about CARE
- How is CARE different than other voluntary programs?
- Why can't a community just implement a voluntary program?
- Where can I find out more information about the CARE Funding and Cooperative Agreements?
- What is a Cooperative Agreement?
- How do I apply to the CARE program?
- What are the two types of cooperative agreements communities can apply for?
- How long does CARE funding last?
- When is the partnership expected to be self-sustaining?
- Does CARE funding make a community ineligible for other EPA funding programs?
- Are states eligible for CARE cooperative agreements?
- Is there a requirement for matching funds?
- What does the CARE program mean when it uses the term toxics?
- What does the CARE program mean when it uses the term risk reduction?
- What does the CARE program mean when it uses the term community?
- How long does CARE funding last?
- Which communities currently receive CARE funding?
CARE supports communities by providing tools, technical support, and funding to enable them to use other voluntary programs to reduce the emissions and exposures that the communities choose. In addition, unlike other programs, CARE is focused on all types of exposure (air, water or land both indoor and outdoor). The CARE program can help a community choose which voluntary programs best fit their needs.
A community can implement many voluntary programs. However, CARE does more than just implement a specific program. CARE brings the community together to build a consensus to select the most useful programs to implement. In addition, CARE provides funding and EPA assistance.
The CARE Web site has a section with more detailed information on the CARE Cooperative Agreements and the Request for Proposals.
A cooperative agreement is a form of grant. Like other grants, it provides funding to a recipient. Cooperative agreements are used in those circumstances where EPA plans to be substantially involved in the project. EPA expects to be a part of the partnerships created in a CARE community. The cooperative agreements are awarded nationally using a competitive process, which ensures diversity in the types of communities and environmental problems addressed. The cooperative agreements will be managed by EPA’s Regional Offices.
Get more information on our application procedures or call 1-877-CARE-909.
There are two levels of cooperative agreements. With a Level I Agreement (about $90,000) communities organize and create a collaborative partnership to reduce toxics in their local environment. These partnerships work on steps 1 and 2 in the CARE process and, if possible, they begin step 3. With a Level II Agreement (about $275,000), the community already has a collaborative partnership and focuses on steps 3 and 4 of the CARE process.
CARE cooperative agreement funding is spread over two years. Level 1 grantees may apply for Level 2 funding during the second year of their project; however, there is no guarantee that they will receive a Level 2 award.
Upon completing a Level II CARE Cooperative Agreement, the community stakeholder group is organized and able to raise money from other sources.
No, communities in the CARE program are encouraged to explore other ways to add resources to support their communities’ projects. This includes applying for other EPA grants.
State governments or their agencies are not eligible to apply. EPA hopes to work with State agencies as partners to support CARE communities where appropriate.
No, but communities are encouraged to find other funds. In addition, the ability to leverage additional resources is considered by EPA when communities apply for CARE Level II cooperative agreements.
When the CARE program uses the term "toxics" it means those chemicals, pollutants or other substances in the environment that can cause negative health or environmental impacts. We are trying to use an expansive common sense definition of the term. We are specifically not limiting it to a legalistic definition where only those chemicals that are specifically listed in or covered by a piece of legislation are considered toxics.
When we use the term risk reduction, we mean a decrease in the possibility of a person(s) suffering harm to their health or to the quality of their environment. While risks can often be quantified scientifically, these assessments are very resource intensive. The CARE program is designed to focus its resources on quick screening level assessments and actions that reduce the levels of toxics that people or the environment are exposed to. We are assuming that reducing exposure to toxics will reduce risks of harm. Where possible we will use available, measurable data to quantify the specific risks reduced.
The CARE program is not strictly defining the term community. Generally speaking a community is a group of people living in the same area sharing the same environment. It often is a relatively small area, but it can be a larger area such as a watershed in rural locations. For purposes of CARE, the New York City metropolitan area or the entire Missouri River watershed are too large to be considered CARE communities.
CARE cooperative agreement funding is spread over two years. Level 1grantees may apply for Level 2 funding during the second year of their project; however, there is no guarantee that they will receive a Level 2 award.
Please visit the CARE communities page on this website which lists all the CARE community projects both current and completed at http://www.epa.gov/care/community.htm.
Contact InformationCall toll free at 1-877-CARE 909
Or write to
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Fraud and deceit in debt settlement
GAO investigation finds litany of abuses by companies that claim they can settle your debt for pennies on the dollar.
You’d have to be living on Mars not to have seen or heard the ads: Settle your debt for pennies on the dollar. Get out from under credit card bills you can’t pay.
It sounds too good to be true.
It is, the U.S. Government Accountability Office reported last week, saying an investigation found rampant fraud, abuse and misrepresentation in debt settlement. In a report to a Senate committee, the GAO wrote:
While we determined that some companies gave consumers sound advice, most of those we contacted provided information that was deceptive, abusive, or, in some cases, fraudulent. Representatives of several companies claimed that their programs had unusually high success rates, made guarantees about the extent to which they could reduce our debts, or offered other information that we found to be fraudulent, deceptive, or otherwise questionable.
For its report (.pdf file), GAO investigators, posing as consumers with credit card debt, called 20 debt-settlement companies. The GAO monitored those calls for quality-control purposes, and you can hear some of the misrepresentations its agents found, such as companies claiming to be government-approved or part of the economic stimulus program.
Complaints about debt-settlement companies have risen during the recession as the number of companies offering to negotiate settlements with credit card companies for consumers has skyrocketed.
- Bing: Debt-settlement scams
But few of the companies, which charge hefty fees up front before they begin the negotiation, get results. While there are no definitive statistics, the GAO said state and Federal Trade Commission investigations have found that fewer than 10% of the people who work with such agencies actually settle their debt for pennies on the dollar. The industry claims a higher success rate, but even the most optimistic industry claim is that only about 34% of customers complete the programs.
Sen. John D. Rockefeller, D-W.Va., chairman of the Senate
Commerce Committee, summed up the issue in a news release: “… these companies keep the fees, but don’t keep their promises. In reality, signing up to work with these companies usually makes struggling consumers’ financial situation much worse. They fall farther behind on their debts, they see their credit scores plunge, and they get sued by their creditors.”
Rockefeller told the story of Mark Spaulding of West Virginia, who owed $23,000 in credit card and hospital bills. The Spauldings paid a California company more than $2,400 in fees and followed the company’s advice for 14 months.
The result, according to Rockefeller: Spaulding owes 40% more than he did when he started, his credit is ruined, he has two court judgments against him, and he has been advised to think about bankruptcy.
"It is appalling beyond words," Rockefeller said. "These debt-settlement companies are kicking people when they are down."
John Ansbach, legislative director for the U.S. Organizations for Bankruptcy Alternatives, an industry group, said there are problems in the industry, The Washington Post reported. His organization and another industry group, the Association of Settlement Companies, support proposed FTC regulations that would require more disclosure and ban some types of advertising.
"This is not a rosy picture," Ansbach said at the hearing. "There are absolutely issues in this industry that must be addressed."
The FTC has no timetable for imposing new rules. In the meantime, some states have banned advance fees, including Arkansas, Hawaii, Kentucky, New Mexico and Wyoming, the Post reported.
Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., is planning to introduce a bill that would ban advance fees and cap total fees.
Steve Rhode at Get Out of Debt reported that the legislation would limit upfront fees to $50, ban monthly fees, cap fees at 5% of the debt actually settled and allow customers to get full refunds. Oh, and it also would prohibit claims of settlement success unless they were verified by an independent audit.
Rhode has an interesting post about his efforts to determine the success rates of debt-settlement programs.
Debt settlement might work for a small number of people in specific circumstances, while others would be better off declaring bankruptcy.
When considering debt settlement, it’s important to be extremely careful, cautions MSN Money columnist Liz Pulliam Weston. She writes:
Some companies offering debt settlement are fly-by-night scams, eager to take big upfront fees and then disappear. Others are too inept or inexperienced to negotiate effective deals. Either way, the result is the same: money down the drain at a time when you can ill afford the loss.
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The Social and Economic Context of Black Women Living with HIV/AIDS in the US: Implications for Research (WP-08-06)
Celeste Watkins-HayesIn this essay, I argue for increased analyses of the social consequences of HIV/AIDS for infected black women in the United States, including examinations of the various ways in which their social and economic experiences are impacted by the interplay between their health statuses and racial, gender, and class locations. I frame the discussion by chronicling and critically assessing the body of work highlighting multiple explanations for the increased infection rates among black women, revealing the relative dearth of work that focuses on the everyday lives of women who are currently living with the disease. To begin to address this lacuna, I consider how researchers might tease out the various ways in which HIV-infected black women formulate, sustain, and interweave their economic survival strategies and intimate relationships. First, I recommend bridging the gap between the US-based HIV/AIDS scholarship that focuses on the labour market experiences of primarily men and the employment and social policy research that has gleaned critical insights about the work lives of black women. Second, I caution against constructing the intimate lives of HIV-positive black women solely in a context of risk or against the backdrop of the highly publicised "down low" debate about black men who fail to disclose same-sex sexual behaviours to female partners. These foci have shaped the conversation about black women living with HIV/AIDS in distinct ways, hampering fuller portraits of how they create, maintain, or go without intimate relationships. Third, I explore new ways of thinking about the intersection of women's economic and intimate lives using three case studies presented in this essay. Social scientific approaches have the potential to help explicate how HIV/AIDS is not simply a medical epidemic, but also a social and economic phenomenon that shapes a variety of individual-, family-, and community-level outcomes.
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Brian Malley is the author of How the Bible Works: An Anthropological Study of Evangelical Biblicism (AltaMira, 2004), and a key player in the midst of some innovative new anthropological studies examining Bible-reading communities. In a recent article, “Understanding the Bible’s Influence,” Malley discusses the dynamics of evangelical Christian Bible-reading. In particular, he explains how issues that may not even appear in the content of the Bible are explained by evangelical Christians in terms of “what the Bible says on the matter.” By utilizing the broader concept of “God’s word,” many evangelical Christians are able to pronounce on what the Bible says about even entirely novel issues, such as global warming or stem-cell research. Malley observes that this concept of “God’s word” becomes ”a placeholder in a community’s authoritative discourse” including but not limited to the actual content of the Bible.
At the core of Biblicism is a fundamental tension between the relatively fixed text of the Bible and the ever-changing demands of authoritative discourse. In my lifetime I have seen, among evangelical Christians, a new emphasis on environmental awareness, on physical fitness, on community formation, and changes in gender ideology. All of these changes reflected trends in the larger cultural environment, but all were incorporated into evangelical Christians’ authoritative discourse by being expounded from the Bible, as what the Bible had always said.
- Brian Malley, “Understanding the Bible’s Influence,” pages 194-204 in James S. Bielo, ed., The Social Life of Scriptures: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Biblicism (Rutgers, 2009), 202-203.
This focus on the ideological and material social circumstances of the community of readers represents a refreshing change from the focus on the text and consequently on maintaining an inherent textual polyvalency – which represents the usual critical approach to the same phenomenon within contemporary biblical studies. If the community of readers is generative of the most important trends in biblical interpretation, then that community of readers may well be recognized as the Bible’s main author. Such a shift thus requires a focus towards the whole social matrix in which this “author” is embedded.
The ethnographic studies contained in The Social Life of Scriptures examine a range of reading communities, including charismatic Northern Ireland Christians, Rastafarians, evangelical Christians from a Tzotzil-speaking Mayan village, readers of the evangelical magazine (or “Biblezine”) Revolve, and Anglicans dealing with potential schism over the inclusion/exclusion of LBGT clergy.
What I would really like to see from this interesting group of anthropologists is an ethnographic study of biblical scholars. I suspect that very similar questions arise in respect of some of the recent trends visible in biblical studies. Why is there, for example, a current trend in New Testament studies to read the texts as subversive of empire? why are many biblical scholars currently concerned to establish a deeply ecological concern within either the Hebrew Bible and New Testament or both? Are their “symptomatic” readings really picking up on “excluded voices” neglected in the text, or is this reading phenomenon more productively approached as a refraction of contemporary voices and concerns passed through the pages of the Bible – a text which the vast majority of biblical scholars today consider to be ”authoritative” in some manner? I wonder if Malley’s observations above would hold for these communities of Bible-readers, too. William Bartley, for one, would believe they do:
The method of contemporary theologians can often be reduced to three rather simple steps: (1) Run through the Bible picking out profound ideas about certain contemporary problems. (2) Run through contemporary secular literature picking out superficialities concerning these same problems. (3) Match the two in a book, thus providing an easy demonstration of the superiority of the Bible and the Christian tradition to contemporary secular culture….Much of the appeal, as well as the apparent novelty and profundity, of theological commentary depends on its talent for bestriding two horses at once—sometimes even when they are galloping in opposite directions.
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Some Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Disaster Assistance Recipients Have Unpaid Federal Taxes
GAO-08-101R, Nov 16, 2007
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Since February 2004, we have issued a series of reports detailing how some organizations and individuals, including defense, civilian agency, and General Services Administration (GSA) contractors; tax-exempt (not-for-profit) organizations; and Medicare physicians, abused the federal tax system at the same time they were doing business with or receiving benefits from the federal government. While we performed this work it came to our attention that some organizations and individuals that were recipients of federal grants and other direct assistance were also abusing the tax system. Thus, Congress asked us to perform additional work and report specifically on organizations and individuals that abuse the federal tax system at the same time they receive federal grants or other similar types of federal assistance, known as direct payments for specified use (direct assistance) programs. Based on Congressional request, we completed a forensic audit and related investigations of unpaid federal taxes owed by recipients of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Individuals and Households Program (IHP) following hurricanes Katrina and Rita. IHP is a federal direct assistance program authorized by the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (Stafford Act), as amended by the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000. We conducted our audit of IHP concurrently with our broader audit of federal grant and direct assistance recipients that have unpaid federal taxes, which Congress also requested. We will be reporting the results of that work separately. The specific objectives of our work were to (1) determine, to the extent practical, the estimated magnitude of federal taxes owed by individuals receiving IHP disaster assistance benefit payments following hurricanes Katrina and Rita and (2) provide illustrative examples of abusive or criminal activity related to the federal tax system by IHP recipients with unpaid federal taxes.
While about 95 percent of all IHP recipients of disaster relief assistance following hurricanes Katrina and Rita paid their federal taxes, tens of thousands owed federal taxes at the time of the disaster. We identified about 80,000 of the 1.5 million individuals (about 5 percent) who received disaster assistance benefits for hurricanes Katrina and Rita and owed over $700 million combined in unpaid federal taxes prior to those hurricanes. However, our estimates of the taxes owed by these recipients is understated in that we did not include amounts owed by individuals who have not filed tax returns or who have failed to report the full amount of taxes due (referred to as nonfilers and underreporters) and for whom IRS has not determined that specific tax debts are owed. FEMA officials stated that they do not screen disaster applicants for tax debts. FEMA officials stated that there is no law or regulation that requires FEMA to screen IHP applicants prior to providing disaster assistance. The five IHP recipients with which we chose to illustrate abusive and criminal activity related to the federal tax system had tax debts ranging from about $400,000 to over $2 million. Our investigation found that a number of these individuals had a history of failing to file tax returns for several years prior to the hurricane disasters. We also found instances in which IHP recipients attempted to transfer property to avoid IRS seizure. For example, one IHP recipient in the oil and gas industry forged a third party's signature to illegally transfer land. Another IHP recipient, a lawyer, transferred a large quantity of stock to a family member while IRS was taking collection actions against the lawyer. We received written comments on a draft of this report from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In its written comments, DHS stated that FEMA's administration of disaster assistance programs to victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita with tax liabilities was consistent with federal law and policy. As recognized in our draft report, DHS is not required to screen applicants for tax debts. We have reprinted DHS's written comments in their entirety in the enclosure. In addition, IRS and DHS provided technical comments on the draft report, which we incorporated as appropriate. | <urn:uuid:60b5b005-5fde-4ac4-9614-df1e593a18d7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-08-101R | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00048-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97201 | 809 | 1.828125 | 2 |
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For the uninitiated, MFLs — or minimum flows and levels — is beginning to hold water.
In the past year, some county residents have been embroiled in a point-and-counterpoint debate with officials with the Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD) over water flow levels at two of the county’s seven rivers.
It culminated in a compromise of sorts by SWFWMD’s governing board.
The water district board rejected the staff’s recommended levels of flow, reducing the proposed minimum flow for the Chassahowitzka River from an initial recommendation.
The board voted to set the MFLs for each river at 3 percent. The SWFWMD staff recommendation was initially for 3 and 9 percent respectively for the Homosassa and Chassahowitzka rivers.
The board also instructed SWFWMD staff to develop the framework for a “water use cautionary area” for Hernando and Citrus counties and present it to the board in June 2013. Cautionary areas require more stringent water withdrawal permit rules.
The “compromise” also requires MFLs be reviewed every six years rather than the usual 10 years.
Many locals and environmental advocates are not pleased.
Brad Rimbey, who is with SOS NOW, an umbrella group of disparate environmental organizations, said last week their attorney is preparing a petition letter to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to ask for the agency’s intercession in the matter.
“What we want is for them (SWFWMD) to follow the law,” Rimbey said.
He said his group would like to see the law as called for by the rules of the Outstanding Florida Waters designation. An Outstanding Florida Water (OFW) is a water designated worthy of special protection because of its natural attributes. This special designation is applied to certain waters, and is intended to protect existing good water quality.
“We feel like they are failing to follow what that law says. What we need is restoration, certainly not further degradation,” Rimbey said.
Rimbey applauded the board’s decision to broach the issue of designating the river systems as possible cautionary areas.
SWFWMD officials have insisted the OFW rules do not apply in this case and that agency staff members have worked fastidiously since 2005 to fashion the best recommendations for the rivers.
While officials acknowledge degradation at the rivers, they blame it on other factors, such as poor rainfall amounts — a 20 percent to 30 percent drop — rising sea levels and nutrient levels.
They insist the agency came up with the most protective regime for these rivers — stronger than for all other rivers except one.
This year SWFWMD is expected to begin work on setting MFLs for the Crystal River and King’s Bay. Setting MFLs is mandated by state law.
The Southwest Florida Water Management District has scheduled a public hearing to give affected persons an opportunity to present evidence and argument on the rules proposed by the district to establish minimum flows for the Homosassa and Chassahowitzka River Systems.
District staff will be available to respond to questions or comments regarding the proposed rules.
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THE TABLET THE I NTERNATIONAL CATHOLIC WEEKLY
Founded in 1840
SOMETHING GOOD FOR ALL OF US
Acommon charge made by people hostile to religion is that it is harmful rather than beneficial. This has become a popular misperception. In fact, a growing body of evidence points the other way. The latest report from the think tank Demos confirms previous findings that people with a declared religious belief are more likely to engage in voluntary service to the community, more likely to be open-minded on race and immigration, and indeed more likely to donate time and money to good causes. The main thrust of the report was an attempt to show that progressive-minded secularists were hurting their own cause by ignoring a substantial sector of the population who shared many of their values. Clearly, too many British secular commentators base their generalisations on their distaste for American fundamentalists, who as a mass movement have no real counterpart in the UK.
There is a similar body of evidence, surveyed in this edition of The Tablet by Mark Vernon, that religious faith can also be personally beneficial in that it appears to improve psychological well-being and even longevity. Thus governments interested in making their populations happier should want religion itself to prosper, any religion being presumed better than none from this strictly instrumentalist viewpoint. But the present British Government has no coherent strategy in this regard. The latest Budget, for instance, threatened to impose VAT on church renovations, provoking protests from church leaders.
Even more significantly, it threatened to place a limit on the extent to which charitable donations are exempt from income tax. Many important church projects – the visit of Pope Benedict
XVI to Britain in 2010 is a good example – are possible only because of generous gifts from donors. As the Catholic philanthropist John Studzinski explained in a recent article in The Tablet, 174 charitable donations of more than £1 million were made in 2009-2010, 80 of them by individuals. This is a substantial proportion of the whole. The voluntary sector, the promotion of which the Government has claimed to favour under its Big Society banner, needs more of this, not less.
On the one hand the Government says it wants to encourage philanthropy. On the other, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, appears to have confused this philanthropic generosity with disreputable forms of tax evasion, usually done by individuals trying to line their owns pockets.
That is indeed a scandal that needs addressing. But someone who gives money to charity is not thereby personally enriched – at least, not this side of heaven. The losers from imposing a cap on the amount qualifying for tax exemption are the recipient charities, who have been complaining loudly. If the donor wanted to make good that loss, he would have to increase his donation by the amount of tax that Mr Osborne wants to take out of it. That is a big discouragement.
The former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who is engaged in philanthropy both personally and as head of a charitable foundation, has urged the Government to separate the issue of tax exemption for charitable donations from the issue of tax evasion. He is right. Someone who earns £1 million and gives every penny of it to charity will pay no income tax. But to label such a public benefactor a tax evader is quite unfair.
COMMON SENSE ON HUMAN RIGHTS
It is an important principle that the United Kingdom should not condone or in any way cooperate with torture. That has been the issue in several high-profile human-rights cases, ranging from the Government’s desire to deport the Islamist preacher Abu Qatada to Jordan, to the accusation – denied – that the former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw permitted the rendition to Libya of opponents of Colonel Gaddafi’s regime, where torture was practised. Such cases have become entangled in the controversy over the Human Rights Act, and the role of the European Court of Human Rights in frustrating the way in which governments may want to treat terror suspects.
Britain currently occupies the rotating chairmanship of the Council of Europe, the parent body of the European Court of Human Rights, and has taken the opportunity to convene a meeting of all 47 members of the council to discuss ways to improve its operation. The backlog of unheard cases, some 150,000, is horrendous.
A further layer of complication is added by the disagreement between the partners in the Coalition as to whether to scrap the Human Rights Act and replace it with something else, which the Conservatives have grandly called a Bill of Rights. It is assumed that such a bill would have to be fully compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights, which is reproduced word for word in the present Human Rights Act. So the point of this operation – apart from placating backbenchers in the Tory party – is somewhat obscure.
The Human Rights Act has had a bad press, not least because some of the decisions are widely regarded as having got the balance wrong – between, for instance, an individual suspect’s right to freedom of movement and the general population’s right not to be blown up by a suicide bomber.
At the same time, the concept of human rights has been brought into disrespect by the way in which rights seem to multiply in response to special interest groups.
It is not a bad idea to look at how the Human Rights Act is working, nor to question whether a convention drafted 60 years ago in different circumstances is suitable for its purpose today. The fact remains, however, that many of the abuses the convention sought to outlaw, such as detention without trial and torture, are still widespread if not in Europe itself then not far from Europe’s borders. Disgracefully, the United States has been implicated in some of these cases, and there is evidence that Britain was drawn into them too, though more marginally. What is hard to register in any court of law is the degree of risk – the likelihood that, for instance, Abu Qatada might still be tortured on return to Jordan despite undertakings from the Jordanian authorities that he will not. The same difficulty applies to the work of British intelligence officers. How strongly do they have to suspect that someone held in a foreign jail is liable to be tortured, before they withdraw from the process of questioning him?
The standard to be applied in all such cases should be a strict one, but stopping short of infallibility. Human-rights legislation that sets the bar unreasonably high, or leads to decisions which defy common sense, will erode public support. That is precisely what has been happening.
2 | THE TABLET | 21 April 2012 COLUMN
5 CL I F FORD LONGLEY
‘Consummation is never discussed. Is this embarrassment, or is there a wider significance?’
9 SARA MAITLAND
‘The poem’s Jesus is a Saxon-style Lord who does not passively accept his doom’
1 2 CHRISTOPHER HOWSE’S
PRESSWATCH ‘Techno is not really my genre, indeed I’d almost prefer listening to Professor Sandel’
1 3 PARISH PRACTICE 1 4 NOTEBOOK 1 5 L ETTERS 1 6 THE L I V I NG S P I R I T 1 7 PUZZLES
S PRING BOOKS
1 8 CHARLES POWELL
Reagan and Thatcher: the difficult relationship Richard Aldous
LYNN ROBERTS The Coward’s Tale Vanessa Gebbie
T IMOTHY BR I TTA I N - CATLIN Freemasonry and the Enlightenment: architecture, symbols and influences James Stevens Curl
2 3 F EATURE
Laura Gascoigne Damien Hirst
THEATRE Mark Lawson Misterman
T E L EV I S I ON John Morrish 9/11: The Lost Tapes
C I NEMA Francine Stock Marley
2 1 APRIL 2 0 1 2
COVER STORY 4 Why religion is good for you Mark Vernon
Recent studies have suggested that people with faith are happier than non-believers. But the reports are missing one key component
6 As the guns fall silent, the people dare to hope
Kari Mariska Pries A fragile peace has been brokered by the Church between El Salvador’s warring gangs
8 On the offensive Peter Jones
It should take more than a tendentious claim of ‘offensiveness’ to justify a ban on free expression, says a leading political philosopher
1 0 Spies need scrutiny, too Conor Gearty
The Government is considering allowing closed court proceedings in terrorism cases, but is it to save the blushes of the security services?
1 1 Holy birds of the heavens Mary Colwell
Swifts will soon be arriving on Britain’s shores, but many of their traditional nesting sites are disappearing
2 7 THE CHURCH I N THE WORLD
Kuwait passes law imposing death penalty for blasphemy 3 0 L ETTER FROM ROME 3 1 NEWS FROM BRITAIN AND I RELAND
Nichols criticises VAT on church renovations
COVER ILLUSTRATION: DANI JIMENEZ
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Name of Piano Brand:
Bosendorfer, named after Ignaz Bösendorfer, an Austrian musician who founded this piano manufacturing company.
Ignaz Bösendorfer was granted a trade license number on July 25 1828. This enabled him to start a piano manufacturing company in Vienna.
Early Awards Won:
1839 - Received the "Imperial and Royal Court and Chamber Piano Manufacturer" award from the Austrian emperor.
1839 - Won the gold medal and first prize at the Industrial Exhibition in Vienna for their grand pianos.
1845 - Once again won the gold medal and first prize at the Industrial Exhibition in Vienna for their grand pianos.
1927 - Won the Grand Prix in Geneva for their grand piano.
1936 - Won first prize on a competition held by the British Broadcasting Company. Thus, the BBC ordered pianos from Bosendorfer for use in all their British studios.
Notable People Who Used a Bosendorfer Piano:
They are famous for their grand pianos and their Imperial grands. Also notable are the Bosendorfer Model 170 and Model 200.
Bösendorfer 290SE, a computer grand was introduced in 1986, the Model 225, designed by Hans Hollein, was unveiled in 1990. You can see this model at the Westin Grand Bohemian Hotel in Orlando, Florida. In 1996 a limited number of their Millennium I model were created to celebrate the "1000 Years of Austria". In 1998, they introduced their special model in honor of the great composer Frederic Chopin
. Another notable model is the 280 Concert Grand.
When Ignaz Bösendorfer died in 1859, his son, Ludwig Bösendorfer, took over the business. Ludwig was also a gifted musician. In 1860. the Bosendorfer piano company moved to Neu Wien, Vienna. In 1869, the company once again moved to Graf Starhemberg-Gasse, this is where they manufacture pianos to this day. In 1870 the company expanded, offering their pianos to Rio, Stockholm, Hong Kong and Japan. Carl Hutterstrasser, a composer and friend of Ludwig, took over the company in 1909. Ludwig died in 1919.
Did You Know?:
In 1873, the Austrian Emperor ordered a Borsendorfer grand piano for Empress Elisabeth. Other notable owners of Bosendorfer grands at that time were the Czar of Russia, the Emperor of Japan and Empress Eugenie of France.
In 1966, the president of Kimball International Inc. (maker of Kimball pianos), Arnold F. Habig, bought the Bosendorfer piano company. In 2002, the BAWAG-P.S.K. Group, an Austrian company, bought Bosendorfer from Kimball. They still own the company to this day. | <urn:uuid:fa148876-4785-485a-bb6d-a068fb470e66> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://musiced.about.com/od/musicinstruments/p/bosendorfer.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9484 | 587 | 1.859375 | 2 |
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Work and play in Queensland, Australia: Fruit Picking
The hostels and farms in Australia often have strong relationships wherein the hostels work has employment brokers by assisting travelers in finding Specified Work. I was invited to visit one of Queensland's many banana farms and got a tour of their operations. Staffed primarily by backpackers, the farm provides travelers with Specified Work for visa purposes. I was also fortunate enough to visit a hostel - operated by the farm's owner - where many backpackers live while they are fruit picking.
Bananas are delicious. Bananas are healthy. Bananas are hard work. Contempree Banana Farm in Innisfail, Queensland, Australia is a prime example of a working banana farm that employs backpackers to pick, sort and box fruit. The days are long, the climate is hot and humid and it's good, old-fashioned manual labor. By no means am I trying to dissuade anyone from endeavoring to take on such a job, but even the farm's owner made a point of telling us that he wants people to know what they are getting themselves into before they arrive in Innisfail. Farms can be dangerous places when properly staffed by people who are well-skilled and want to be there. So, the last thing any farmer wants is employees who are in over their heads.
That said, if you don't mind getting your hands dirty, fruit picking is significantly more desirable than other Specified Work, such as mining. Since farms like Contempree are staffed primarily by backpackers, they provide opportunities to meet fellow travelers while you work outdoors in the fresh air. Sitting on more than 100 acres of land, Contempree is a sprawling farm with thousands upon thousands of bananas that are ripe for the picking. Well, some needed a few more weeks but you get my drift.
Most fruit picking jobs in Queensland pay a respectable wage of around $16 to $20 AUD per hour (about $12.81 to $16 USD). Considering that the minimum wage in the United States is $6.55 (increasing to $7.25 on July 24, 2009) and no US state's minimum wage exceeds $8.55, the standard Australian fruit picking wages are fairly generous and are viewed quite favorably by backpackers seeking to subsidize their trips.
Jobs vary on a banana farm but none involve air conditioning and reclining. One of the more physically taxing chores is humping the bananas. Are you done giggling now? Humping is the process of actually removing the banana cluster from the tree. Meanwhile, other employees work in the sorting area and boxing areas of the farm. While still tiring, jobs like these provide more cover from the elements than humping with significantly less machete work.
Fruit picking jobs involve long days and are typically located in rural areas where nightlife is not exactly plentiful. As I looked towards the horizon while at Contempree, all I saw were more banana farms and plenty of sugar cane. However, most backpackers understand that their three months of Specified Work are less about partying and more about making money. So, they work hard, save their earnings and sleep when they can. The hostels provide opportunities for socializing and are designed for extended stays. This makes them comfortable and homey, something you want after a long day of banana humping.
Codge Lodge Hostel
Also located in Innisfail and only a short drive from Contempree Banana Farm is Codge Lodge. A renovated 100-year-old house, Codge Lodge caters to backpackers who are working in this area of Queensland. Like many such facilities, it assists travelers in securing work. Unlike many hostels I have seen in Australia and other parts of the world, however, Codge Lodge was spacious and didn't pack people into dorm rooms like prisoners. Since it caters to backpackers who plan to stay for several months while they are working, Codge Lodge chooses to provide an environment that can feel like a home.
The rooms are spacious and there is a pool as well as a large restaurant/bar complete with karaoke and, oddly, a go-go cage. So, if you're not completely exhausted after a day humping bananas, you can blow off some steam with a cold XXXX or Bundaberg and cola while belting out the greatest hits of Men at Work.
When I visited Codge Lodge, I met young people from France, Italy, Korea and Japan who were all mingling on the porch enjoying some lunch, making calls home and enjoying an off-day from work. They all spoke highly of their Specified Work jobs while qualifying their praise with some comment along the lines of "I'm looking forward to getting my second visa and beginning my travels." While fruit picking may not be the highlight of their trips, they all seemed to appreciate the opportunities that it afforded and the stories that it would provide upon their return home.
Know before you go
If you're considering heading to Australia for some fruit picking, be sure to have your visa paperwork in order before you arrive to avoid any problems. Be prepared to get dirty and work hard, but also to have a fair amount of money burning a hole in your pocket when you're ready to start traveling solely for leisure. For three months, you will be working, not traveling as if you are on a proper holiday.
Before you arrive, it pays to research hostels in areas where you will be traveling and contacting them to see if they will be able to assist you with employment opportunities once you arrive. It may turn out to be the toughest three months of your life, but if you can hump bananas, imagine what you can do once your real travels begin!
Mike Barish spent a week in Queensland, Australia on a trip sponsored by Backpacking Queensland to see how backpackers find employment and entertain themselves down under. He'll be sharing what he learned about the logistics of working in Australia's Sunshine State and the myriad activities that young travelers have at their disposal. Read other entries in his series HERE. | <urn:uuid:53f4de2b-8576-44fe-8f9e-6a8102990375> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gadling.com/2009/06/16/work-and-play-in-queensland-australia-fruit-picking/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970441 | 1,255 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Play On! Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on Video Game Sales to Minors
In a 7-2 vote, the US Supreme Court ruled Monday that it’s unconstitutional to ban kids from buying or renting violent video games, saying that despite fears the games may prompt children to emulate what’s seen in them, the government has no right to “restrict the ideas to which [they] may be exposed.”
The decision in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association upholds that of the 9th Circuit federal appeals court, which previously tossed out a California ban on the sale or rental of such games to minors.
Never ones to agree on much, left-leaning Stephen Breyer and arch-conservative Clarence Thomas were the lone dissenting votes, but even their reasons for disagreeing with the majority differed.
Breyer felt the ruling creates conflict in the First Amendment since the court had previously upheld bans on the sale of pornography to kids and violent video games often contain nudity. Thomas simply said the court’s majority overextended the meaning of the First Amendment, adding, “The practices and beliefs of the founding generation establish that ‘the freedom of speech,’ as originally understood, does not include a right to speak to minors (or a right of minors to access speech) without going through the minors’ parents or guardians.”
Not surprisingly, video game makers and sellers are pleased with the court’s decision, saying they now hold the same legal rights enjoyed by other forms of entertainment. “There now can be no argument whether video games are entitled to the same protection as books, movies, music, and other expressive entertainment,” said Bo Andersen, president and CEO of the Entertainment Merchants Association.
The video game industry already marks games considered violent with an “M” in an effort to alert parents to mature content.
“It’s disappointing the court didn’t understand just how violent these games are,” said child psychologist and California state senator Leland Yee, who wrote the video game ban. He said he’s reading the court’s dissents and hoping to find a way to re-introduce the law in a way that would be constitutional. | <urn:uuid:1de2fe4f-9f99-4a2f-a4ce-0527b58191c8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kixs.com/play-on-supreme-court-strikes-down-ban-on-video-game-sales-to-minors/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947344 | 462 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Collecting things might be part of an innate human desire to own stuff---to gather physical evidence of our lives and the natural world around us, and for thousands of years, people have collected and brought back stuff from their travels. But in 1837, something was created that was easy to collect and gave the collector the sensation of having traveled. It was the first postage stamp. Today, there are over 200 million stamp collectors. Burt Wolf looks at the history of stamp collecting, the most popular stamp ever printed, the most valuable stamp (over one million dollars), and the great forgeries. Then Burt travels to China to find out why the government has an official policy encouraging stamp collecting.
Visit the Website: http://www.BurtWolf.com
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Programs for school students
Vocational Education and Training (VET) in Schools Program
CQ TAFE is the key to your future!
High school students - you have the opportunity to study through CQ TAFE via a range of training options. Options can include attending TAFE one or two days a week during the school term over one or two years, or some programs can be studied externally.
Schools' program guide
Get a head-start with your career aspirations! Achieve a nationally-recognised qualification while still studying at school. The skills acquired while participating in these programs could give you the credit points you need towards your apprenticeship or traineeship.
Schools program selection form and new student personal details
How do school students apply to study?
- Read the course information above and select the program you want to study (and also an alternative if you wish)
- Complete the program selection form and the new student personal details form (PDF, 257KB)
- Have your parent or guardian sign both forms
- Provide completed forms to your School VET Coordinator
- An enrolment pack will be sent to you, via your School VET Coordinator
- You should arrange to enrol and pay your fees as soon as possible after receiving your enrolment pack
Financial Services Pathways - Rockhampton Campus
This is a new pilot program (for Years 10 to 12) run by CQ TAFE working together with the local accounting and banking industry in Rockhampton. It is all about giving students a taste of working in a cutting edge simulated business environment (one day per week) and it is supported by the local accounting and banking industry who are offering scholarships to eligible applicants. Students get to complete the Certificate II in Financial Services (pending registration) while they work - no additional work is required outside the enterprise.
Expressions of Interest are being taken, please contact your VET Coordinator to register your interest - places are limited.
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Definition of administrator :
1. A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority.
2. One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.
custodian, supervising director, head of the department, president, guardian, bureaucrat, consul, executive secretary, chief executive, trustee, producer, bursar, chairman of the board of directors, chief controller, the brains, minister, pencil pusher, Chief Executive Officer, divisional supervisor, front office, impresario, vice-president in charge, chairman, over, person in authority, department head, secretary, premier, registrar, comptroller, executive director, CEO, principal, key person, treasurer, person in charge, provost, district manager, vice-president, commissar, chair, ambassador, director-general, head, inspector, organizer, official, exec, big shot, controller, administrant, decision maker
director (part of speech: noun)
executive, manager, commander, superintendent, dean, king, boss, mayor, commandant, warden, band master, governor, captain, chief, supervisor, queen, foreman, taskmaster, Lord, overlord, general, overseer, leader, baron, director, conductor, ringleader, ringmaster, officer, master, ruler
judge (part of speech: noun)
- That one found in 1895 very little disposition among the white settlers to grumble at the administration seemed chiefly due to the great personal popularity of the genial Administrator, Dr. L. S. Jameson. - "Impressions of South Africa", James Bryce.
- Preferable even to this are the piping times of peace, when the German administrator, with rare exceptions, singularly unhappy in his dealing with the chiefs, would not hesitate to thrash a chief before his villagers, and condemn him to labour in neck chains, on the roads among his own subjects. - "Sketches of the East Africa Campaign", Robert Valentine Dolbey.
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Why are the "seven deadly sins" so deadly?
Why are the "seven deadly sins" so deadly? You got your gluttony, envy, greed, etc. Those things, while not admirable, will not kill you. I mean, there's no commandment in the Bible against pigging out. Of course your lust kind of fits in with the neighbor's wife commandment, but still, what's the deal with anger?
They don't mean deadly in the sense of putting you in physical danger, muttonhead, they mean destructive of your immortal soul. But it's not hard to imagine scenarios in which gluttony, envy, greed, and so on could get your literal butt in a bight, too. I can think of any number of parties (rap artists, oppressed high school students, assorted NFL players) who might have benefited from a course in anger management. You raise a good point, though. I mean, how did sloth make the list? In a world of slaughter, fanaticism, and pain we're worried because somebody is taking too many naps?
The seven deadly sins go back a long way, having gotten their start in Eastern monasticism. The fourth-century Egyptian monk Evagrius Ponticus defined eight deadly sins, which were later reduced to seven, presumably for the same reason there are seven sacraments, seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, and seven dwarfs. (In case you're wondering, they condensed eight to seven by combining pride and vainglory.) But it hasn't always been the same seven. The current heptad (pride, envy, anger, sloth, avarice, gluttony, and lust) was fixed by Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century. Earlier, instead of sloth, there was accidie, often translated as sadness or listlessness. You're thinking: Sadness? It isn't bad enough I'm depressed in this life, I'm going to rot in hell for it in the next? I can only point out that the list was developed by desert monks living lives of Survivor-type privation. You got some slacker who's not doing the dishes, you want that bastard to pay.
To be strictly accurate, the preferred term isn't seven deadly sins but seven capital vices, which better conveys the thought that the seven aren't sins in themselves, merely habits or predilections disposing one thereto. This point was made by Saint Gregory the Great in the sixth century AD and later restated by Aquinas. But the term seven deadly sins survives for obvious reasons — it sounds a lot snappier.
In current thinking the seven really bad things do not loom very large. I notice in the official Catechism of the Catholic Church, consisting of 2,865 numbered sections published in 1994 by order of Pope John Paul II, the capital sins warrant exactly one paragraph. The principal codification of moral transgression for Christians continues to be the Ten Commandments, upon which the catechism confidently excogitates, much as the Supreme Court finds guidance for cable TV regulation in a document written in 1789.
Still, you can understand the impulse to find gradations in these things. Even now Catholics distinguish between mortal and venial sin. A mortal sin is one "whose object is grave matter and which is also committed with full knowledge and deliberate consent." If not repented, it condemns the sinner to "exclusion from Christ's kingdom and the eternal death of hell." Surely such punishment must be reserved for the most infamous crimes. Yet the catechism also tells us that "on Sundays and other holy days of obligation the faithful are bound to participate in the Mass." Deliberate failure to meet this obligation is a "grave," presumably mortal, sin, same as if you were Pol Pot.
Dante tried to address this by positing nine circles of hell, with the minimum security, wear-a-security-bracelet-around-your-ankle-and-sleep-at-home part reserved for pagan poets, Sunday late sleepers, and the like while the real badasses had to go farther down. This was strictly a literary conceit, but the catechism does retain the belief in purgatory, where the faithful do time for their nonmortal failings pending reunion with the communion of saints. I personally feel this is inadequate and think the "seven deadly sins" angle could stand revisiting. Not that we want to stick with the same seven. Your greed, your gluttony, your lust, and so on — maybe those ancient monks considered these great evils. I'm seeing the ingredients of an incentive program that works. | <urn:uuid:2b0e4ece-5a58-4cad-bd5f-446c9fb3e9a9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2307/why-are-the-seven-deadly-sins-so-deadly | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960029 | 965 | 2.1875 | 2 |
…not that we know each other, or anything.
Alyssa Rosenberg – who is, by the way, far too smart and sensible about SF/fantasy material to be on ThinkProgress* – asks the question Should there have been any women at all in the Hobbit? - and her answer is doubly surprising. First, because her answer was “No;” second, because I don’t entirely agree with her.
The first part is easily-enough understood; Ms. Rosenberg takes the reasonable view that there’s nothing inherently wrong, per se, about a movie that has what she calls “[a]ll-male spaces and social circles” as its background**. And if there’s a movie out there that would have an excuse to do that, it’d be The Hobbit, which is of course based on a 1930s child adventure story written by an English academic who had probably never really considered the issue in the first place***. And that’s fine, and most people would agree that that’s fine.
But at the same time? The Hobbit was released in 2012, and it’s brought in $251 million domestic, $765 million worldwide, in the last three weeks. On a practical level you have to expect that Jackson and del Toro are going to want to have a few women in the cast. It’s a lot like the Captain America flick: spoiler warning, but we didn’t HAVE an integrated military in World War II. But such a thing bothers us today, so if you’re not trying to make a point about that… you don’t. And if you’re not trying to make a point about early 20th Century gender roles, you just stick some women into the plot wherever you can manage it (I fully expect to see a couple of characters added along those lines in the next two movies, too)****.
And if the purists object… well, they grumbled at no Tom Bombadil and no Scouring of the Shire, so they’ll probably sit still for this as well.
*I note this despite the fact that in this case she’s writing for Slate.
**That I find such a view as startling as I do refreshing is either a reflection on me, contemporary feminist writers, or (probably) both.
***The argument over whether JRR Tolkien did or did not have a problem with strong female characters is the subject for another post, which I will not write.
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$99 Supercomputer, Goes to KickstarterYou might think that supercomputers, powerful machines with lots and lots of processors, are out of the average person's reach. But if a new project succeeds, that might not be the case.
Using low-power, cheap and simple processors, much like the Raspberry Pi does, one team is hoping to release a small supercomputer for $99. While it won't be able to compete with a university-run machine, the mini-behemoth does operate at 13 Gigahertz and 26 gigaflops across 16 cores. For comparison, an Intel Core I7 is capable of 96 gigaflops if you opt for the top of the line, but costs significantly more and drains a lot more power.
The project's initial Kickstarter goal will be $750,000. If that goal is reached, the next one will be $3 million, and will be to make a better 45 GHz and 90 gigaflops. That will cost $199 instead of $99, however.
While the boards are being shipped as complete computers, with a gig of ram and a n operating system, their true power lies in clustering. The company notes that a cluster of 10 of these machines would have been considered a supercomputer as little at 10 years ago, so imagine going even further with these.
Okay, so this board isn't going to match the raw power of a quad-core processor. The thing is, there are many tasks better suited for multiple cores than for fewer. In addition, the hardware design of these will be completely open, so anyone can redesign them to their needs.
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Publisher description for South Korea in the fast lane : economic development and capital formation / Young-Iob Chung.
Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog
Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding.
After having been a Japanese colony for more than 35 years until 1945, the miraculous economic development in the southern half of the Korean peninsula has multiplied the nation's output nearly 38 times and expanded per capita income by 16 times from $778 to $12,422 (in year 2000 prices) and
transformed from basically an agrarian economy to that of a major industrial power, which is now considered one of a dozen or so of most industrialized countries in the world, during the 43-year period between 1953 and 1996. This book is a study of development of the South Korean economy from the
time of the cessation of the Korean War to date, based on available data with minimal historical description, focusing on investment, the sources and means of capital formation, which is one of the most critical factors that contributed to economic development, and the government role of in them for
economic growth and structural changes. The approach in this study is more analytical (without being mathematical, statistical, or technical, but with supporting quantitative data) than historical.
There are a number of studies on some aspects of capital formation and economic development in short articles, but there is no comprehensive study/analysis/book of capital formation and economic development of South Korea since the Korean War, other than this authors comprehensive study of capital
formation and economic transformation of Korea before 1945 (1876-1945). Not only this book fills the void of study of the subject after the Korean War but it also complement my first volume.
This study reveals a number of significant, though perhaps not all unique, patterns and characteristics of capital formation and economic development of South Korea. The combination of circumstances, approaches, and experiences in the country was in many respects unique in comparison to many
developing and developed countries, including many Asian countries, such as Japan and China.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
Korea (South) -- Economic conditions -- 1948-1960.
Korea (South) -- Economic conditions -- 1960-
Korea (South) -- Economic policy.
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This week, I've been working on a related topic that I had missed entirely in my initial proposal: serialization.
Developers will obtain aware datetimes from Django when USE_TZ = True. We must ensure that they serialize correctly.
Currently, the serialization code isn't very consistent with datetimes:
I've hesitated between converting datetimes to UTC or rendering them as-is with an UTC offset. The former would be more consistent with the database and it's recommended in YAML. But the latter avoids modifying the data: not only is it faster, but it's also more predictable. Serialization isn't just about storing the data for further retrieval, it can be used to print arbitrary data in a different format. Finally, when the data comes straight from the database (the common case), it will be in UTC anyway.
Eventually, I've decided to serialize aware datetimes without conversion. The implementation is here:
Here are the new serialization formats for datetimes:
This fix is backwards-incompatible for the JSON and XML serializers: it includes fractional seconds and timezone information, and it uses the normalized separator, 'T', between the date and time parts. However, I've made sure that existing fixtures will load properly with the new code. I'll mention all this in the release notes.
Unrelatedly, I have switched the SQLite backend to supports_timezones = False, because it really doesn't make sense to write the UTC offset but ignore it when reading back the data.
On 17 sept. 2011, at 09:59, Aymeric Augustin wrote:
> This week, I've gathered all the information I need about how the database engines and adapters supported by Django handle datetime objects. I'm attaching my findings.
> The good news is that the database representations currently used by Django are already optimal for my proposal. I'll store data in UTC:
> Currently, Django sets the "supports_timezones feature" to True for SQLite. I'm skeptical about this choice. Indeed, the time zone is stored: SQLite just saves the output of "<datetime>.isoformat(), which includes the UTC offset for aware datetime objects. However, the timezone information is ignored when reading the data back from the database, thus yielding incorrect data when it's different from the local time defined by settings.TIME_ZONE.
> As far as I can tell, the "supports_timezones" and the "needs_datetime_string_cast" database features are incompatible, at least with the current implementation of "typecast_timestamp". There's a comment about this problem that dates back to the merge of magic-removal, possibly before:
> SQLite is the only engine who has these two flags set to True. I think "supports_timezones" should be False. Does anyone know why it's True? Is it just an historical artifact?
> Finally, I have read the document that describes "to_python", "value_to_string", and r"get_(db_)?prep_(value|save|lookup)". The next step is to adjust these functions in DateFieldField, depending on the value of settings.USE_TZ.
> Best regards,
> On 11 sept. 2011, at 23:18, Aymeric Augustin wrote:
>> Given the positive feedback received here and on IRC, I've started the implementation.
>> Being most familiar with mercurial, I've forked the Bitbucket mirror. This page that compares my branch to trunk:
>> I've read a lot of code in django.db, and also the documentation of PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite regarding date/time types.
>> I've written some tests that validate the current behavior of Django. Their goal is to guarantee backwards-compatibility when USE_TZ = False.
>> At first they failed because runtests.py doesn't set os.environ['TZ'] and doesn't call time.tzset() , so the tests ran with my system local time. I fixed that in setUp and tearDown. Maybe we should call them in runtests.py too for consistency?
>> By the way, since everything is supposed to be in UTC internally when USE_TZ is True, it is theoretically to get rid of os.environ['TZ'] and time.tzset(). They are only useful to make timezone-dependant functions respect the TIME_ZONE setting. However, for backwards compatibility (in particular with third-party apps), it's better to keep them and interpret naive datetimes in the timezone defined by settings.TIME_ZONE (instead of rejecting them outright). For this reason, I've decided to keep os.environ['TZ'] and time.tzset() even when USE_TZ is True.
>> Best regards,
>> On 3 sept. 2011, at 17:40, Aymeric Augustin wrote:
>>> The GSoC proposal "Multiple timezone support for datetime representation" wasn't picked up in 2011 and 2010. Although I'm not a student and the summer is over, I'd like to tackle this problem, and I would appreciate it very much if a core developer accepted to mentor me during this work, GSoC-style.
>>> Here is my proposal, following the GSoC guidelines. I apologize for the wall of text; this has been discussed many times in the past 4 years and I've tried to address as many concerns and objections as possible.
>>> Definition of success
>>> The goal is to resolve ticket #2626 in Django 1.4 or 1.5 (depending on when 1.4 is released).
>>> Design specification
>>> Some background on timezones in Django and Python
>>> Currently, Django stores datetime objects in local time in the database, local time being defined by the TIME_ZONE setting. It retrieves them as naive datetime objects. As a consequence, developers work with naive datetime objects in local time.
>>> This approach sort of works when all the users are in the same timezone and don't care about data loss (inconsistencies) when DST kicks in or out. Unfortunately, these assumptions aren't true for many Django projects: for instance, one may want to log sessions (login/logout) for security purposes: that's a 24/7 flow of important data. Read tickets #2626 and #10587 for more details.
>>> Python's standard library provides limited support for timezones, but this gap is filled by pytz <http://pytz.sourceforge.net/>. If you aren't familiar with the topic, strongly recommend reading this page before my proposal. It explains the problems of working in local time and the limitations of Python's APIs. It has a lot of examples, too.
>>> Django should use timezone-aware UTC datetimes internally
>>> Example : datetime.datetime(2011, 09, 23, 8, 34, 12, tzinfo=pytz.utc)
>>> In my opinion, the problem of local time is strikingly similar to the problem character encodings. Django uses only unicode internally and converts at the borders (HTTP requests/responses and database). I propose a similar solution: Django should always use UTC internally, and conversion should happen at the borders, i.e. when rendering the templates and processing POST data (in form fields/widgets). I'll discuss the database in the next section.
>>> Quoting pytz' docs: "The preferred way of dealing with times is to always work in UTC, converting to localtime only when generating output to be read by humans." I think we can trust pytz' developers on this topic.
>>> Note that a timezone-aware UTC datetime is different from a naive datetime. If we were using naive datetimes, and assuming we're using pytz, a developer could write:
>>> which is incorrect, because it will interpret the naive datetime as local time in "mytimezone". With timezone-aware UTC datetime, this kind of errors can't happen, and the equivalent code is:
>>> Django should store datetimes in UTC in the database
>>> This horse has been beaten to death on this mailing-list so many times that I'll keep the argumentation short. If Django handles everything as UTC internally, it isn't useful to convert to anything else for storage, and re-convert to UTC at retrieval.
>>> In order to make the database portable and interoperable:
>>> I don't intend to change the storage format of datetimes. It has been proposed on this mailing-list to store datetimes with original timezone information. However, I suspect that in many cases, datetimes don't have a significant "original timezone" by themselves. Furthermore, there are many different ways to implemented this outside of Django's core. One is to store a local date + a local time + a place or timezone + is_dst flag and skip datetime entirely. Another is to store an UTC datetime + a place or timezone. In the end, since there's no obvious and consensual way to implement this idea, I've chosen to exclude it from my proposal. See the "Timezone-aware storage of DateTime" thread on this mailing list for a long and non-conclusive discussion of this idea.
>>> I'm expecting to take some flak because of this choice :) Indeed, if you're writing a multi-timezone calendaring application, my work isn't going to resolve all your problems — but it won't hurt either. It may even provide a saner foundation to build upon. Once again, there's more than one way to solve this problem, and I'm afraid that choosing one would offend some people sufficiently to get the entire proposal rejected.
>>> Django should convert between UTC and local time in the templates and forms
>>> I regard the problem of local time (in which time zone is my user?) as very similar to internationalization (which language does my user read?), and even more to localization (in which country does my user live?), because localization happens both on output and on input.
>>> I want controllable conversion to local time when rendering a datetime in a template. I will introduce:
>>> I will convert datetimes to local time when rendering a DateTimeInput widget, and also handle SplitDateTimeWidget and SplitHiddenDateTimeWidget which are more complicated.
>>> Finally, I will convert datetimes entered by end-users in forms to UTC. I can't think of cases where you'd want an interface in local time but user input in UTC. As a consequence, I don't plan to introduce the equivalent of the `localize` keyword argument in form fields, unless someone brings up a sufficiently general use case.
>>> How to set each user's timezone
>>> Internationalization and localization are based on the LANGUAGES setting. There's a widely accepted standard to select automatically the proper language and country, the Accept-Language header.
>>> Unfortunately, some countries like the USA have more than one timezone, so country information isn't enough to select a timezone. To the best of my knowledge, there isn't a widely accepted way to determine the timezones of the end users on the web.
>>> I intend to use the TIME_ZONE setting by default and to provide an equivalent of `translation.activate()` for setting the timezone. With this feature, developers can implement their own middleware to set the timezone for each user, for instance they may want to use <http://pytz.sourceforge.net/#country-information>.
>>> This means I'll have to introduce another thread local. I know this is frowned upon. I'd be very interested if someone has a better idea.
>>> It might be no longer necessary to set os.environ['TZ'] and run time.tzset() at all. That would avoid a number of problems and make Windows as well supported as Unix-based OSes — there's a bunch of tickets in Trac about this.
>>> I'm less familiar with this part of the project and I'm interested in advice about how to implement it properly.
>>> Backwards compatibility
>>> Most previous attempts to resolve have stumbled upon this problem.
>>> I propose to introduce a USE_TZ settings (yes, I know, yet another setting) that works exactly like USE_L10N. If set to False, the default, you will get the legacy (current) behavior. Thus, existing websites won't be affected. If set to True, you will get the new behavior described above.
>>> I will also explain in the release notes how to migrate a database — which means shifting all datetimes to UTC. I will attempt to develop a script to automate this task.
>>> Dependency on pytz
>>> I plan to make pytz a mandatory dependency when USE_TZ is True. This would be similar to the dependency on on gettext when USE_I18N is True.
>>> pytz gets a new release every time the Olson database is updated. For this reason, it's better not to copy it in Django, unlike simplejson and unittest2.
>>> It was split from Zope some time ago. It's a small amount of clean code and it could be maintained within Django if it was abandoned (however unlikely that sounds).
>>> The following items have caused bugs in the past and should be checked carefully:
>>> - caching: add timezone to cache key? See #5691.
>>> Finally, my proposal shares some ideas with https://github.com/brosner/django-timezones; I didn't find any documentation, but I intend to review the code.
>>> About me
>>> I've been working with Django since 2008. I'm doing a lot of triage in Trac, I've written some patches (notably r16349, r16539, r16548, also some documentation improvements and bug fixes), and I've helped to set up continuous integration (especially for Oracle). In my day job, I'm producing enterprise software based on Django with a team of ten developers.
>>> Work plan
>>> Besides the research that's about 50% done, and discussion that's going to take place now, I expect the implementation and tests to take me around 80h. Given how much free time I can devote to Django, this means three to six months.
>>> Here's an overview of my work plan:
>>> - Implement the USE_TZ flag and database support — this requires checking the capabilities of each supported database in terms of datetime types and time zone support. Write tests, especially to ensure backwards compatibility. Write docs. (20h)
>>> - Implement timezone localization in templates. Write tests. Write docs. (10h)
>>> - Implement timezone localization in widgets and forms. Check the admin thoroughly. Write tests. Write docs. (15h)
>>> - Implement the utilities to set the user's timezone. Write tests. Write docs. (15h)
>>> - Reviews, etc. (20h)
>>> What's next?
>>> Constructive criticism, obviously :) Remember that the main problems here are backwards-compatibility and keeping things simple.
>>> Best regards,
>>> Annex: Research notes
>>> Relevant tickets
>>> #2626: canonical ticket for this issue
>>> #2447: dupe, an alternative solution
>>> Relevant related tickets
>>> #14253: how should "now" behave in the admin when "client time" != "server time"?
>>> Irrelevant related tickets
>>> #11385: make it possible to enter data in a different timezone in DateTimeField
>>> Relevant threads
>>> 2011-05-31 Timezone-aware storage of DateTime
>>> 2010-08-16 Datetimes with timezones for mysql
>>> 2009-03-23 Django internal datetime handling
>>> 2008-06-25 Proposal: PostgreSQL backends should *stop* using settings.TIME_ZONE
>>> 2007-12-02 Timezone aware datetimes and MySQL (ticket #5304)
>>> Relevant related threads
>>> 2009-11-24 Why not datetime.utcnow() in auto_now/auto_now_add
>>> Irrelevant related threads
>>> 2011-07-25 "c" date formating and Internet usage
>>> 2011-02-10 GSoC 2011 student contribution
>>> 2010-11-04 Changing settings per test
>>> 2009-09-15 What is the status of auto_now and auto_now_add?
>>> 2009-03-09 TimeField broken in Oracle
>>> 2009-01-12 Rolling back tests -- status and open issues
>>> 2008-08-05 Transactional testsuite
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Joint is the name of the game on the battlefield and at LandWarNet, as Lt. Gen. William T. Lord, USAF, chief of warfighting integration and chief information officer for the U.S Air Force gave the final address of the conference this afternoon. The general said that he believes all future operations will be joint because the services are too small now to operate on their own. Everyone needs the synergy of the combined force to carry out their operations. To enable these partners, the military must continue to improve cyberspace operations. An Air Force study titled "A Day Without Space" examined what would happen if capabilities from space such as GPS and ISR were disabled. Gen. Lord said that type of catastrophe would take the military back to the days of World War II. Without cyberspace, experts estimate the military would be back to World War I capabilities, Gen. Lord stated. Faced with those situations, the military would have to return to a larger standing force, which current budgets would prohibit. After sharing some success such as the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node, which can provide real-time data exchange between different tactical systems, Gen. Lord turned his attention to the cybersecurity problem. He described the "yin and yang" of securing networks versus making them usable. To find solutions, he said people must look for nontraditional answers to problems, because this is a nontraditional age. Improving operations also entails bringing in partners such as civil engineers who understand certain issues. To drive home the importance of protecting networks he asked the audience how to clear the room. Would a bomb be necessary? No. All an enemy would have to do is take down the systems required for the lights, audiovisual equipment, air conditioning and escalators. For allies to band together to protect networks, a new type of training must take place, Gen. Lord explained. Young men and women must be trained to think differently about processes and how to counteract problems. The Air Force recently sent its first officers to a 29-week course at Keesler Air Force Base to become cyberspace-trained warriors, the general said. He also cited joint training programs taking place in the military. The general ended his speech on a note that emphasized both the jointness of those in uniform and reminded them of their unique position. "Those of you in uniform," Gen. Lord said, "you are part of the most powerful force on the face of the planet since the beginning of time. You ought to be proud of that." | <urn:uuid:a42b7d41-70e3-481d-8fb8-0db48ac8fa4d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.afcea.org/content/?q=2010/08/05/7845 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972366 | 513 | 1.984375 | 2 |
How to assemble a full house for the upcoming concert? How to attract additional of visitors to your booth? How to make your candidate wins the election? Definitely print posters. Poster Perfect for when you are targeting the mass consumer, Advertising on the poster, like no other, extremely effective in places where your potential customers. Despite the fact that making a poster a little more than booklet or leaflet, a poster as advertising medium completely justifies itself, as hundreds of people daily see. An attractive poster design might be a difficult job. For this need we have compiled 30 brilliant poster design tutorials, this collection will make you inspire and meet all your needs hopefully.
This tutorial is thanks to a suggestion from one of our community members. If you want to see your suggestion made into a tutorial then please feel free to suggest an idea here..
Creating a retrograde look is nothing new, but there are some things to keep an eye out for when mimicking Graphic Design from any decades past. We’ll be drawing inspiration from Poster Design from the 1960s, particularly Boxing Posters from that era. Let’s get started!
Super sweet tutorial that explains in detail how to create a futuristic looking portrait poster. Learn how to combine a good set of techniques to create a crisp piece of art ready to be printed!
In today’s tutorial you will learn how to create an abstract light streaks poster from scratch using Lighting effects, Noise, and Wave Photoshop CS5 filters. Layered PSD file included. Let’s get started!
In this tutorial, I will show you the processes involved in creating this Horror Looking, Extreme Grungy Style Poster in Photoshop.
Follow this step by step Photoshop tutorial to create a modern, clean, travel poster design for Swissair, and then learn how to transform into vintage poster design. We will use useful techniques related to patterns, visual organization with Photoshop guides, grunge texture to give a distressed look to the composition and adjustment layers for final retro touch.
Movie posters are often amazing pieces of art. What we see as a seamless design however is often a combination of several different images carefully blended and manipulated to produce a desired result. In today’s tutorial, we will demonstrate how to create the key art for a romantic comedy movie poster using a handful of photographs. Let’s get started!
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a poster design inspired by an art movement called Russian Constructivism. We will cut up some images and paste them together to create a stylized revolutionary design. We’ll then tie it all together by overlaying some texture to give it a vintage feel.
Last week I came across a great set of geometric posters. Soon, I thought of documenting the process of creating a similar poster and share this tutorial..
In this tutorial you’ll be learning several Photoshop tools and techniques, as well as a couple of Illustrator techniques to create a trendy, retro/abstract style Hippy Van poster from scratch..
In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to use shapes and other objects to create a unique fashion poster scene. Utilizing Adobe Photoshop shapes is an awesome means for improving your designs and they can easily be used without spending too much time on them..
In this tutorial we are going to create a movie poster based closely on the movie poster from The Last House on the Left. This tutorial will show you how to create a simple yet effective movie poster with a photo and some typography..
In this tutorial we are going to turn a flat, artificial poster into something that looks as if it’s been hanging around on the wall for a long time.The initial poster was created using techniques that we have covered in previews tutorials. As you can see, it’s a brash image that looks nothing like a real poster..
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In this tutorial I will be showing you how to design an authentic looking poster for a rock band. The steps are reasonably simple but the result is really interesting. As with a lot of my tutorials I wasn’t totally sure how this would end up looking, but it came together nicely at the end..
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In this graphic design tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a stylish Old Western themed Wanted poster using some excellent Photoshop techniques such as how to weather paper, how to create realistic nail heads, and more..
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In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to create a retro 1960s psychedelic concert poster. This tutorial relies heavily on the use of the Warp Tool, but includes a few other techniques as well. Let’s get started.
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The original classic vampire tale, Bram Stoker's "Dracula," tells of the dangerous Transylvanian Count Dracula, the most infamous vampire of them all. Although "Dracula" is a classic that everyone should read, it is for more advanced readers, because of both the content and the style in which it was written.
Some of the more modern vampire books, appropriate for any reader are:
o "The Vampire Diaries" by L. J. Smith: A high school girl, Elena is torn between two vampire brothers, Stefan (the good boy) and Damon (the bad boy).
o"Vampire Academy" by Richelle Mead: Rose (a half-blooded vampire) must protect her best friend, Lissa (a full-blooded vampire princess), from the powerful Strigoi.
o "Morganville Vampires" series by Rachel Caine: Four young adult vampires who live fictional Morganville, Texas, and must survive all sorts of trials together.
o "Vampire Kisses: The Beginning" by Ellen Schreiber: The tale of goth-girl Raven's search for the truth about Alexander Sterling and his "haunted" home at the top of Benson Hill.
o "Mortal Instruments" series by Cassandra Clare: Four teens in New York City, who are Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to eradicating all the demons.
o "The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod" by Heather Brewer: Young half-blood orphan Vlad, the human boys who bully him at school, and the ever present threat of his parents' killers coming back to finish the job.
There are also several books that are better suited to an older audience, such as The House of Night series. Some of these modern and highly addictive books would be:
o Melissa De La Cruz's "Blue Bloods" series: Schuyler Van Alen turns into a vampire, a very special Vampire, who with her friends must fight off the dangerous Silver Bloods, Vampires she thought were her friends, and her family, just to survive.
o "House of Night" series by P.C. and Kristin Cast: Zoey Redbird is a fledgling vampire at the House of Night, a school where fledglings train to become adult vampires. But Zoey has special gifts, and has been marked as special to the goddess, Nyx.
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The Complete Sayings of Jesus, by Arthur Hinds, , at sacred-texts.com
A.D. 30. Age 33. Mount of Olives.
Matthew 25, 14-46.
Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents. And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two. But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money.
After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoned with them.
And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more. His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them. His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strewed: Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.
For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
¶When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: and before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was a hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee a hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: for I was a hungered, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee a hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
Then he shall answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
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Education News - May, 2013
A word from the editor
Welcome to the Term 2 edition of Ed News!
In the spirit of UN World Environment Day on 5 June, the theme for this edition is Environment and Sustainability.
In this edition, we explore the theme of sustainability through the Household Energy Use and Costs article from the Australian Social Trends, Sep 2012 publication. I thought this article might be a great way for teachers to start a conversation with their students about their opinions on environmental issues and energy conservation. In fact, in CensusAtSchool News, you will find 2012 CensusAtSchool data on this very topic.
Continuing our environmental theme, I thought this would be a great opportunity to give you some ideas for how you can incorporate this topic into your students' learning. In 'An Idea for the Classroom,' we are profiling CaSMa 11 Environmental Graphs. I have also found some resources that I hope will encourage students to start thinking about the relationship between maths and the environment. To find out more, check out the 'Resources for Teachers' section.
The ISLP Poster Competition is now closed and the winners of the national competition have been notified. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the teachers that encouraged their students to participate. More information about the winning poster can be found in the 'ISLP Poster Competition Update' section of this newsletter.
For additional ABS data, statistics and resources, check out our 'Interesting Publications' section. These publications offer a gateway into a range of recently published ABS products that I have found particularly interesting this month.
I hope you enjoy our May edition of Ed News. If you have any suggestions for articles or activities that you would like covered in the next edition of Ed News, please don't hesitate to contact Education Services on 1800 623 273.
1. CensusAtSchool News
Questionnaire closes 19 July! We have now officially passed the half way point of the 2013 CensusAtSchool Questionnaire cycle. I encourage all teachers, whose students haven't yet completed the questionnaire, to do so soon to ensure your students don't miss out.
What do Australian students think about environmental issues? Australian students have consistently demonstrated their awareness of environmental issues in the CensusAtSchool Questionnaire. Some interesting statistics from the 2012 questionnaire include:
These statistics are sourced from our 2012 Interesting Statistics. Our Interesting Statistics are a great entry point to CensusAtSchool data, providing a quick and easy analysis summary. Interesting statistics for previous CensusAtSchool questionnaires can also be found on our website.
Complete CensusAtSchool environmental data can be found in the Summary Tables and National Time Series Tables. The tables show data results at the State/Territory level as well as Australia as a whole. Alternatively, if you'd like your students to be more hands on and find their own data, why not try the Random Sampler? The Sampler is a fantastic tool that makes it easy for students to collect data samples according to their own chosen search parameters.
2. Australian Social Trends: Household Energy Use and Costs, Sep 2012
The environment, climate change, pricing carbon, and even the cost of electricity, have become topics of everyday conversation and importance for Australians in recent years.
In the CensusAtSchool Questionnaire students are asked what actions they take in their home to conserve the environment, and how they rate the importance of environmental issues. In 2012, 51 per cent of Australian students conserved power by switching off appliances at the power point. Reducing energy usage was consistently important to students across all States and Territories, with the ACT revealing the highest median level in the data.
So now that we know that students are interested in the environment, why not help them explore this issue further? The Household energy use and costs article from the Australian Social Trends (cat. no. 4102.0) publication offers an interesting insight into the way Australians are implementing energy saving practices, as well as other information such as current household energy use and costs.
How to find the article:
Image 1 - Using the Google Search Bar type 'Household energy use and costs' and click on the search button.
Image 2 - The article will appear as the first search result. Click the title to access the publication.
Image 3 - On the page you are directed to, you will be able to read the article in full.
Teacher Consultant: Ideas for the Classroom
3. An Idea for the Classroom: CaSMa 11 Environmental Graphs
In this edition of Ed News, we are profiling one of our lessons, CaSMa 11 Environmental Graphs.
In this lesson, students are introduced to the concept of deviation from the mean. Students use CensusAtSchool summary data from each state to compare environmental issues. Students then take the mean environmental issue from each state and territory to calculate how issues in each deviate from the mean. This activity will encourage students to broaden their data awareness and ability to analyse, interpret and evaluate statistical information.
Do you have a classroom idea that uses ABS data or ABS Education products? I encourage teachers to contact us at email@example.com so we can share your idea with schools around Australia.
4. Resources For Teachers
Education Services Datasets! Education Services' datasets have been updated. Accessible via our home page, the new datasets are organised into four categories: Economy, Society and Community, Population and Environment and Energy.
Education Services has also used this opportunity to improve resource accessibility for teachers. Datasets can now be either viewed directly on our web pages on a single, easy to navigate page, or downloaded as a single Excel file. Some datasets are linked to lessons or interactive graphs to enhance your students' learning, and Australian Curriculum codes are coming soon. These are just some of the things we are doing to make our resources as teacher friendly as possible.
Mathematics of Planet Earth! This exciting program is being run by the Australian Maths and Science Institute (AMSI) to spread the word about the role of maths and statistics in understanding the challenges of our world.
This program is a great opportunity for teachers to show their students the importance of Maths in understanding our planet. There are a number of Classroom Resources available that use real world examples for your students to sink their teeth into, such as pollution levels in Beijing. The website also hosts Classroom Activities from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Geoscience Australia and NASA, so planning lessons for your students will be a breeze.
Science Week (August 11-18) is still a little while away, but that doesn't mean you can't register your students for an exciting activity now! Over two thousand years ago a man called Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the earth. Now, two thousand years later, students across Australia will do the same in an experiment called 'Shadows of Eratosthenes.'
The experiment aims to measure the circumference of the earth using a pole, a spirit level, the sun and some trigonometry just like Eratosthenes did. To participate in the experiment, teachers will need to register their students. Schools from all around Australia will then be paired up to conduct the experiment during Science Week. This is an exciting opportunity for students to conduct a real experiment using Maths with their peers across Australia.
5. ISLP Poster Competition Update
The ISLP poster competition is now closed and the winner has been chosen! The successful poster from the junior division is going on to the international phase of the competition. Unfortunately no entries were received for the senior division.
And the winners are.... Isha Singh (Karratha SHS), Chani Guldenhuys (John Curtin College of the Arts) and Tim Cusens (Jurien DHS)!
The students submitted a poster titled 'Project Sunflower: How climate, water and fertilizer affects sunflower growth in Western Australia.' Students investigated how different variables affected sunflower growth.
The poster submitted by these students is even more impressive when you consider that they all attend separate schools and are separated by over 1,600 kilometres.
Congratulations once again to Isha, Chani and Tim for creating such a fantastic statistical poster.
ESU will be presenting at the AAMT Biennial Conference 2013 this year. Our specialist teacher consultant Vivienne McQuade will be presenting a workshop about the importance of teaching statistics and the Australian Curriculum. The workshop will profile ABS resources. The conference is being held at the University of Melbourne on 10-13 July 2013.
Keep an eye out for Education Services attending conferences in the second half of 2013. You can keep up to date between newsletters by visiting the Education Services home page.
7. Interesting Publications
Remember: all ABS publications are free to download from the ABS website.
8. Contact Details
How to contact ABS Education Services
Free Call: 1800 623 273
Mail: GPO Box 2796
Education News is a totally free resource that aims to assist teachers' use of ABS data in their classroom. When you subscribe you will be notified of each new edition as it is published.
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A TALE OF A MOTHER, HER
There are times when our
boasted, civilization, our organ
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ious reform associations seem
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of vthe city have been advanced.
Yet yesterday a mother died of
starvation in a dirty, dingy little
room on Halsted street.
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born in the hope of great things
and the suffering of the mother,
is critically ill of starvation in a
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nioiher and her iaby there are
-just a few lines in the papers
about the death of the mother,
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the persons responsible.
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died is at 208 North Halsted
street, in, a rooming house run by
Mrs. JHelen Weiss.
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dow. The furniture isfa bed, a
chair arid a soap box. The bed is
'moth-eaten and incredibly dirty.
There is no carpet on the floor.
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vation mthe midst of prosperous
Chicago was Mrs. Julia Miller.
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deserted by her husband. She had
a little money then, and good
BABE AND STARVATION
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up and look for work. For weeks
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opened the door and went in.
The mother was lying- on the
bed, a rosary clasped in her hands.
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announced an exhibition of new works by Francesco Clemente, Mandala for Crusoe, the artists first London show in seven years. This recent series brings together 14 paintings which continue Clementes singular pictorial language, gathering together myriad cultural references and merging timeless symbols, iconic imagery and philosophies. Inspired by the symbolism of the originally Buddhist and Hindu Mandala, this form, combined with allusions to more classical and mythological tropes, becomes apertinent description of the world as a whole, now and throughout history.
Eastern spiritual traditions identify the mandala as a conduit to a deeper level of consciousness, allowing the meditator a sense of oneness with the cosmos. Conversely, at the centre of Clementes mandala is the empty, mundane life: a man smokes as he reads a newspaper, while another busies himself with digital technology. However, it is from this emptiness that a world of imagination arises. Indeed, the artist affirms the objectivity of the imagination not as sentimental fantasy, but as a function of the mind that leads to a harmony with both the self and others a necessity for life. The group of exhibited paintings are thus Clementes tools; like Crusoe shipwrecked in isolation, he composes and narrates a belief in a common experience free of cultural divides or contemporary materialism.
Since the 1970s, Clemente has divided his time between New York and Varanasi in India, feeling a nomadic affinity with the contemplative visual tradition of both the East and West; while the roots of his painterly vision are in the frescoes of the Italian Renaissance, historical Indian imagery and the Romanticism of William Blake are equally pervasive. This is particularly evident in works such as Candy and Chloe at the gate (2012), which portrays a scene where the Warhol starlet, Candy Darling, performs alongside the modern-day actress Chloë Sevigny, and The Ark (2012), where a chorus of animals from Noahs ark sit atop an ancient Greek temple and float upon a sea of Sanskrit text.
Clementes use of materials is equally heterogeneous, utilising raw linen, milk paint, verdigris, silver pigment, mica, oil sticks and lithographic ink, which are combined in different permutations. They create a variety of painterly surfaces, which mirror his notion of the self as a fragmentary experience where the only constant is the continuity of discontinuity, which in itself reflects the principle of the Mandala, which states that what is here is elsewhere, what is not here is nowhere.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue with an essay by Sir Norman Rosenthal, who writes: To analyse Francesco Clemente's paintings is inevitably to look into the world of modern dreams and desires. But they are dreams that have a history and a culture both personal and general [that is] intentionally poetic. | <urn:uuid:4991164b-7012-4ef8-8235-78341e98ed0e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=59227 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938278 | 586 | 1.945313 | 2 |
A recent sales history of Royal Terrace with today’s listing occupying the far right end-terrace (above); an 1868 image from a similar vantage point reveals only minor changes occurred over the past 150 years, save for the c1880s addition of urns and rosettes to the parapet in an attempt to “modernise” the simple Regency facade during extravagant Boom Time Melbourne (below).
Royal Terrace, the largest pre-Boom Time row of terraces found in Melbourne, has seen one of its 10 addresses listed for sale this week. Number 50, an end terrace fronting both Nicholson and Gertrude Streets, is listed through Greg Hocking agent Tony Robins with $3m+ hopes. The vendors are likely riding a tide of recent $3m+ sales in Fitzroy, a suburb long associated with working class that’s seen recent shifts and an influx of money. That said, the historical significance of a residence in Royal Terrace has consistently driven $1m+ figures in the past 10 years, long before neigbhouring residences in Fitzroy saw the 7-digits. The unique double exposure of #50 (to the south and west), places the terrace at a premium; however it’s bland and fatigued interiors reveal much work needs to be done.
An 1854 map shows the recently planned streets of Fitzroy and the more established CBD, East Melbourne, and Carlton. Royal Terrace is situated north of Gertrude Street across from Carlton Gardens.
Despite Fitzroy’s long-held reputation for working class housing, at the time of Royal Terrace’s construction there was no indication of such a future. In 1853, two years after the discovery of gold in Victoria, timber merchant and builder John Bryant commissioned an architect (likely John Gill) to design a row of 10 terraces unified by a simple, but imposing rusticated bluestone edifice in the Victorian Regency style. Royal Terrace was owned wholly by the Bryant family who rented the prestigious residences to Melburnians newly minted from the Gold Rush. In 1853, Fitzroy had only recently seen its streets surveyed. Residential precincts were firmly established in both East Melbourne and the present-day CBD, but Fitzroy was effectively untouched. Bryant, no doubt, was attracted to the city fringe location and the barren land that was situated across the street. This chunk of land had been reserved for a park as early as the 1830s, but it wasn’t until the City of Melbourne formally acquired the land in 1856 - the same year Royal Terrace finished construction - that it engaged Edward La Trobe Batman for its design and named it Carlton Gardens. This new park, albeit in quite rough shape for some 25 years, no doubt helped establish Royal Terrace as the domain of the professional class.
A late-1850s or early-1860s view of Royal Terrace, Nicholson Street, and Carlton Gardens (from right to left).
However, by 1880, at the dawn of Melbourne’s famous boom decade, the northern suburbs of Fitzroy and Collingwood were established as the industrial - and accordingly working class - belt of Melbourne. But one major building addition to Melbourne constructed that year allowed Royal Terrace to remain a landmark streetscape henceforth: The Royal Exhibition Building. Such a prominent neigbhour ensured the value of Royal Terrace buoyed above the rest of its suburb for the following century; and now that Fitzroy is beginning to stake claim to an upwardly-mobile demographic, Royal Terrace and its 10 residences are once again highly-prized Melbourne real estate.
50 Nicholson Street will be counting on its size and exterior bones for a big ticket sale. The interiors, if in vaguely original condition, are depressing at best. However, the 6.2m frontage, unusually large 55m depth, rear lane access for 2 cars, three storeys, and corner position make it a tempting offer for a piece of Melbourne real estate history.
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A year ago this month, Jordan Miles, an 18-year-old music student at Pittsburgh's Creative and Performing Arts High School, was walking to his grandmother's home in the city's Homewood neighborhood when three undercover police officers in an unmarked white car decided he looked "suspicious." Officers Richard Ewing, Michael Saldutte, and David Sisak, all white, would later say in police reports that Miles, who is black, seemed to be "sneaking around" and had a bulky object protruding from his coat that appeared to be a gun. It turned out to be a bottle of Mountain Dew—which, curiously, was never taken into evidence.
Upon seeing the men heading toward him, Miles quite understandably ran. But after a few steps, he slipped and fell. The police officers say they identified themselves upon exiting their car. Miles says they said only, "Where's the money? Where's the gun? Where's the drugs?"—questions that could signal a robbery. Even if the three men had identified themselves as police officers, it isn't hard to see why Miles would run. Three white men jumped from an unmarked car and began running toward him. At night. Given what happened to Miles next, he would have been justified in fleeing even if he had known the three men were cops.
The three officers severely beat the unarmed viola player, who is five feet, five inches tall and weighs 150 pounds. They hit him with multiple punches to the face and a knee to the head. They also tore off a large clump of his hair. The end result was the picture you see here.
Once he was out of the hospital, Miles, an honors student with no prior criminal record, was arrested and charged with loitering, aggravated assault, and resisting arrest. The police claimed that earlier in the evening they had spoken with Monica Wooding, who lives in the neighborhood, and were responding to her complaint that Miles was loitering on her property without her permission. But Wooding later testified that she made no such complaint. In fact, she testified that she has known Miles, a friend of her son, for years.
Citing Wooding's testimony and the possibility of false statements in the police reports, Pennsylvania District Court Judge Oscar Petite Jr. dismissed the charges against Miles last March. Miles has since filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Ewing, Saldutte, Sisak, and the city of Pittsburgh. The three officers were initially taken off undercover duties, then suspended with pay pending an investigation. The city halted its investigation when the FBI announced it would also look into the case (although the city was not required to do so). The federal investigation is still open, but it does not seem to be making much progress. Last August, federal investigators reportedly told Miles' family that charges against the officers were unlikely, because it was their word against a teenager's. In theory, the investigation could drag on for five years, after which the statute of limitations for federal civil rights charges would bar prosecution.
Under its charter, Pittsburgh's Citizen Police Review Board is not allowed to look into the incident until all criminal investigations are completed. So while it took just a few hours to falsely charge Jordan Miles with assaulting three police officers, more than a year later federal and local officials still can't decide whether the officers who beat him should be charged, removed from the force, or, as the local police union recommends, praised for their heroism. Two of the three officers who beat Miles, Saldutte and Sisak, are accused of using excessive force in other civil rights lawsuits and complaints to the review board. One lawsuit says Saldutte beat a suspect so severely that he fractured his eye socket, dislodging his eyeball.
Meanwhile, the Pittsburgh City Paper reports, the three officers are not only collecting their salaries while on suspension but are also getting the overtime pay they likely would have received had they remained on duty, thanks to a generous contract the police union negotiated with the city. As of the end of 2010, according to the paper, the city had paid the officers a total of $233,882 for 11 months of not working.
This month it all got even stranger. The week of the anniversary of Miles' beating and arrest, someone put out a hoax press release under fake letterhead from the city's Fraternal Order of Police (FOP). The release said the union had changed its mind and was now calling for prosecution of Ewing, Saldutte, and Sisek. The local press quickly determined that the statement was fake, and the FOP was not amused. "This is just totally outrageous that this occurred," President Dan O'Hara told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. "If we catch anyone with regard to this, it's going to be multiple felonies, and that will set the example in the future."
Felonies? The press release was not an attempt to make money off the organization's name, so it wasn't fraud. It was either a poorly executed satire or a clumsy attempt to protest the FOP's support of Ewing, Saldutte, and Sisek. Either way, it is speech that would almost certainly be protected by the First Amendment.
But sure enough, last week Pittsburgh police raided the offices of Dreaming Ant, a local DVD rental store, and seized computer equipment allegedly connected to the fake press release. A detective told the City Paper that the author could be charged with trademark counterfeiting and identity theft. The business announced on its website that it is temporarily closed.
That's some swift action. If the Pittsburgh police department was as aggressive in disciplining its own officers as it is in determining who made fun of the local police union, maybe it wouldn't still be dealing with the fallout from the actions of three cops who beat a kid over a bottle of Mountain Dew. As for Miles, he is attending Penn State, where he is studying crime scene investigation. He wants to become a cop.
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When Words Are Called For
A Defense of Ordinary Language Philosophy
Aims and Scope
A new form of philosophizing known as ordinary language philosophy took root in England after the Second World War, promising a fresh start and a way out of long-standing dead-end philosophical debates. Pioneered by Wittgenstein, Austin, and others, OLP is now widely rumored, within mainstream analytic philosophy, to have been seriously discredited, and consequently its perspective is ignored.
Avner Baz begs to differ. In When Words Are Called For, he shows how the prevailing arguments against OLP collapse under close scrutiny. All of them, he claims, presuppose one version or another of the very conception of word-meaning that OLP calls into question and takes to be responsible for many traditional philosophical difficulties. Worse, analytic philosophy itself has suffered as a result of its failure to take OLP’s perspective seriously. Baz blames a neglect of OLP’s insights for seemingly irresolvable disputes over the methodological relevance of “intuitions” in philosophy and for misunderstandings between contextualists and anti-contextualists (or “invariantists”) in epistemology. Baz goes on to explore the deep affinities between Kant’s work and OLP and suggests ways that OLP could be applied to other philosophically troublesome concepts.
When Words Are Called For defends OLP not as a doctrine but as a form of practice that might provide a viable alternative to work currently carried out within mainstream analytic philosophy. Accordingly, Baz does not merely argue for OLP but, all the more convincingly, practices it in this eye-opening book.
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The conference, of course, was dominated by the specter of Iran and its rapid progress to having a nuclear weapon. President Obama, and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres, devoted their remarks to the peril faced not only by Israel but by the world if Iran should go nuclear. The impending arrival of Purim – in which the Jews were saved from annihilation in the land then known as Persia and now as Iran -- was an important part of the atmosphere as we listened to the speeches. As important as the world leaders’ remarks were, it was the presence and attitudes of the various OU components that most influenced my thinking.
Joining me were 40 NCSYers, who had a chance to hear from many important speakers. They included Howard Tzvi Friedman, past President of AIPAC, past Chair of the OU’s Institute for Public Affairs, past Chair of the NCSY Youth Commission, and now Honorary Vice President of the OU. The group also heard from Jarrod Bernstein, President Obama’s Outreach Director to the Jewish Community.
We had more than 400 attendees at an OU reception for the Orthodox community, who heard from Senior Rabbi Efrem Goldberg of the Boca Raton Synagogue. Earlier that evening, Efrem gave the invocation at AIPAC’s gala event. In addition, AIPAC hosted a luncheon for rabbis and other clergy. It was profoundly meaningful to sit in a room in the midst of such passion. The speaker was Susan Rice, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. At many points in her speech she quoted the posuk, “Hinayh nah-tov umah na-im, shevet achim gam yachad – How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony. “ At the conclusion of her speech the crowd rose to its feet, clapped their hands and burst into song with her. I don’t know if she was crying, but many people in the room had tears in their eyes.
I want to emphasize the word “yachad,” which of course, is the name of one of the OU’s most respected programs – Yachad emphasizes full Inclusion of those with disabilities into the Jewish community. At the AIPAC conference, there was full inclusion as well – inclusion of 13,000 in a group in which we were all one. There are differences that divide us in the Jewish community – even within the Orthodox community. But in Washington at AIPAC conferences there were no differences at all, no daylight, in the profound belief that Iran must be stopped – whether by Israel, the United States, or by both together.
That voice included our NCSYers. They had the opportunity to meet with their elected officials and to emphasize to them that there must be no wavering in the cause of Israel. Rabbi Aryeh Lightstone, the Director of New York NCSY, supplied the following message for us upon his return, exhausted, at 4:00 a.m. from the conference. This, in part, is what he wrote:
“Our teens, all of whom have attended or will be attending our “The Jerusalem Journey” or “Jerusalem Ambassador” programs, were smart, articulate, polite, charismatic and passionate. However those are not the middot I would like to speak about. The midda I would like to address is that of being CONNECTED. They came, they saw, the belonged. In a world (especially for teens) it is so easy to multi-task, check your phone while talking to someone, to be there, but not really there. For the past three days our teens have been connected to one another, to the Jewish people, to Israel and the United States, and perhaps most importantly, to themselves.
“In speaking to their congressmen and women, they articulated clearly and coherently the danger of a nuclear Iran and how it affects and threatens the entire world and that because of the unique time and place in history that they have been fortunate to be placed in, not at all unlike Esther, they were able to explain and then firmly demand that as Jewish Americans they cannot and will not sit on the sidelines as they have been blessed with a vote, a voice and influence.
“Indeed this is the very meaning of our upcoming holiday of Purim, connecting those who are disconnected, doing everything that we can do to improve the world and our lot in it, but also with a tremendous belief and devotion to Hashem. There is a world of Esthers out there and we are experiencing our inner Hadassah.”
When Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke, he held up a letter sent by the World Jewish Congress to the United States Department of War during the Holocaust, asking the military to bomb Auschwitz and the tracks leading there, a plea which was turned down – because it might rile up the Nazis. Today, the Jewish people have a state which can defend itself.
The Orthodox Union and NCSY wish to express their deepest gratitude to Prime Minister Netanyahu and AIPAC for both protecting and inspiring the Jewish future. I am so proud that the OU and AIPAC work hand in hand on this two-part mission. I am so proud that our young people and our shul leadership joined together with 13,000 others at the conference. And we all know the message of Purim.
Following the conference, I had the opportunity to deliver the invocation before the Maryland State Senate in Annapolis. I said, “As a member of the Jewish people, who have endured hardship and persecution throughout our history, I join this Senate in a prayer of profound gratitude and deep appreciation for the protections, privileges, and blessing that we, the people of the United States of America and the State of Maryland, enjoy.
“This week the Jewish Nation will celebrate the Holiday of Purim. It commemorates the plot and plan of a wicked man named Haman who manipulated the government of Persia to agree to wipe out and destroy the Jewish people. We were saved almost 2,000 years ago by a miracle from God. Today you, the members of the Senate, are our miracle. You safeguard our physical and spiritual wellbeing.
“Master of the Universe – Protect our courageous armed forces, watch over our elected leaders, grant peace and prosperity to this State of Maryland, the United States of America, and the entire world, and let us respond, Amen.”
Upon completion of my remarks, the President of the State Senate, Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr., leaned over and told me that his mother’s name was Esther. I was truly moved by that remark.
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By Leo Shane III
Enquirer Columbus Bureau
COLUMBUS - Hours of criticism from mainstream scientists and several legal threats didn't discourage the state Board of Education on Tuesday from approving new lesson plans on how to teach evolution in Ohio schools.
The science-model curriculum, an optional set of classroom lectures and activities for science teachers, includes a chapter titled "Critical analysis of evolution" that recommends 10th-graders debate several common critiques of the theory.
Supporters maintain the document simply fulfills a board compromise from 2002 to include critical thinking about evolution in science classes.
But opponents label the section a cleverly disguised way of introducing public-school students to intelligent design, which states that a higher power played a role in the creation of all life.
"The reason this is being picked out for scientific questioning is not because it is more controversial than other science; it's because some people object to evolution for religious reasons," said the Rev. George Murphy, a Lutheran pastor from Akron and a former biology teacher.
"But this (lesson) encourages students not to take evolution seriously. I'm concerned about this, as a scientist and a theologian."
Critics say the lesson plan includes hints of intelligent-design arguments - in the examples it uses to challenge evolution and in the print and Internet resources used to craft the language.
Catherine Callaghan, a linguistics professor at Ohio State University, said arguments included in the curriculum should be ignored, because they come from unscientific sources.
"If you're teaching geology, you don't want to include a little bit of evidence from the Flat Earth Society," she said.
But the board approved the chapter by a 13 to 5 vote after rebuffing efforts to replace it with compromise language put forth by opponents.
Several members said revised versions of the curriculum excluded a number of Internet links and literary references that took care of any perception that the chapter had religious influences.
"You've never heard me argue for intelligent design, because I don't want it in there," said board member Michael Cochran. "But I don't see it in there."
He also criticized opponents' assertions that controversies surrounding evolution are fictional, and took exception to one biologist's characterization of evolution critics as "cartoons."
"It's clear, after today, the scientific community is not all of one mind on this," he said.
Faculty councils from five universities, including Ohio State, and the Ohio Academy of Science all voiced opposition to the plan. But a number of individual academics also spoke in favor of the controversial lessons Tuesday, saying it encourages healthy scientific debate.
"Critical analysis is part of science," said Thomas Marshall, an environmental science professor at Ohio State University.
"Withholding this evidence would be a disservice to students."
The lesson plans approved Tuesday are one set of several model curriculums schools can use to teach science classes. Individual districts can choose to teach intelligent design.
Last year Patrick Henry School District in northwest Ohio decided to include it in science lessons.
Board members who voted against the document predicted the state would be sued for introducing religion into public schools.
Board member Martha Wise said she would consider filing such a suit herself.
Steven Gey, a law professor from Florida State University who attended Tuesday's meeting, said prior federal rulings have kept any sort of religious teachings out of public-school classrooms.
"No one has won one of these cases yet," he said.
"Once the courts are convinced it's some form of creationism, you're going to lose."
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World's Most Successful Environmental Treaty Turns 25
Montreal Protocol saves ozone layer while reducing major climate threat
Washington, DC 14 September 2012 – The world’s most successful environmental treaty turns 25 this week on September 16th. The treaty is the Montreal Protocol and its success has avoided one of the most severe global environmental threats the world has ever faced—the destruction of the stratospheric ozone by chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).
“The Montreal Protocol has phased out nearly 100 kinds of CFCs and related fluorinated gases by 98%, an astonishing record by any measure,” stated Durwood Zaelke, President of the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development. “The treaty’s success has put the ozone layer on the path to recovery by 2065 or later, and has avoided millions of deaths from skin cancer and trillions of dollars in health costs.”
At the same time, because the CFCs and other chemicals that destroy the ozone layer also cause global warming, the Montreal Protocol has provided nearly 20 times more in climate mitigation than the Kyoto Protocol climate treaty has done in its first commitment period.
“Including the earlier consumer boycotts of CFC-filled spray cans and the early national laws in the US and Europe to cut these chemicals, the combined efforts to address CFCs and related chemicals has solved a part of the climate problem that otherwise would be as big as the part caused by carbon dioxide today. (Carbon dioxide causes more than half of the warming.) Put another way, the global temperature above pre-Industrial average would be 50% again as high as it is today.”
“The Montreal Protocol is successful because it has universal membership of all UN countries. And it has universal membership because all countries consider the treaty to be fair,” Zaelke noted. “They consider it fair because it fully implements the principle of ‘common but differentiated responsibility,’ by providing that the developed countries that first used CFCs start their phase outs first, followed by a grace period of ten years, before the developing countries have to start.”
Developed countries also provide a dedicated funding mechanism to pay the full, agreed incremental costs to the developing countries for making the transition out of the banned chemicals. There also is funding to pay for national ozone officers in all 147 developing countries, and to provide for regular training. “These boots on the ground have made a tremendous contribution to the treaty’s success,” added Zaelke.
Today a coalition of developing and developed countries are proposing to amend the treaty to phase down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) that have high global warming potential. A group of 108 countries are now supporting this, although India and China are not yet on board.
“The reluctance of these two countries is blocking the world’s single biggest and fastest bite out of the climate problem,” added Zaelke. “Both China and India have always joined the Montreal Protocol consensus over the past 25 years, and we fully expect that they will join the consensus to phase down HFCs as well. They don’t want to be blamed for increasing the near-term climate impacts that the Montreal Protocol can avoid.”
“Phasing down HFCs now is especially important,” Zaelke continued, “because the climate treaty is on a deliberate schedule, aiming for an agreement by 2015 on new mandatory commitments in a treaty that would go into effect by 2020. This is too late to avoid the catastrophic impacts that are getting closer each day.”
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Today we celebrate the birthday of he-who-cannot-be-played, Bach! To celebrate the natal day of the Jesus of Western Music, I offer you a few thoughts on that master of counterpoint that I have collected (read: stolen) from my colleagues and counterparts.
1. “Buxtehude is like Bach without the genius.”
This was my own thought when I first heard the work of John the Buxtehude in Music History. The style and forms seemed to remind me so much of Bach, but it just wasn’t as brilliant, not as piercing, it was like eating at Olive Garden after coming back from Italy. (Or Carrabba’s for that matter.)
2. “I feel like we adore anything that has Bach’s name on it.”
This was shared as we pondered one of the sinfonias in Form & Analysis. Not a fan of that particular piece, this student shared a concern for an over-zealousness in our praise of the savior. She later admitted that she hated puppies and that she found cake disgusting. Another student expressed that Bach’s work was not something he readily appreciated, although he liked the Cello Suites. (Chump.)
3. “Humming ‘Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring’ will get any song out of your head.”
This nugget was shared with us by our Music History teacher. The only problem is, you then have “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” stuck in your head. Aren’t we all stressed out enough?
4. “People should fear Handel the way they fear Bach!”
Bach. He’s one of the scariest mofo’s to ever don a powdered wig (if you’re a musician). People don’t take performing his work lightly, because they know it’s hard. But Handel, he is loved and admired and badly played the world over! (So is Bach, but it’s a little different – less songs about trees.) My friend thinks we should fear Handel’s runs just as much as we fear Bach’s periods.
5. The Swingle Singers!
This makes all the places in my brain happy.
Bach to you,
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Replacing line in a text file
anthra.norell at vtxmail.ch
Fri Sep 22 22:45:13 CEST 2006
CSUIDL PROGRAMMEr wrote:
> I am trying to read a file
> This file has a line containing string 'disable = yes'
> I want to change this line to 'disable = no'
> The concern here is that , i plan to take into account the white spaces
> I tried copying all file int list and then tried to manipulate that
> But the search is not working
> Any answer
>>> s = '''Folks! I am trying to read a file
This file has a line containing string 'disable = yes'
I want to change this line to 'disable = no' ...'''
The second line is the one to change. Okay?
>>> import SE
>>> Translator = SE.SE ('"disable \= yes=disable \= no"')
>>> print Translator (s)
Folks! I am trying to read a file
This file has a line containing string 'disable = no'
I want to change this line to 'disable = no' ...
Did it! - I don't know if it 'takes into account the white spaces' as I don't exactly understand what you mean by that. If need be, just change the substitution definition that makes the Translator to suit your needs. In an IDLE window you can work trial-and-error style five seconds per try. If you want to do other translations, just add more substitution definitions, as many as you want. It will do files too. No need to read them. Like this:
>>> Translator ('file_name', 'translated_file_name')
If this approach seems suitable, you'll find SE here: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/SE/2.2%20beta
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How to start your own apartment garden
Locally grown food just got closer. If you crave the flavor of home-grown carrots or cucumbers, the taste can be yours, even if you don’t have a backyard. You can grow a garden just as delicious (if not as plentiful), with no more space than your apartment provides. Take advantage of that balcony you never use or that empty corner in your living room and start growing your own edible garden.
The benefits of growing your own food are endless, says Ramona Clark, executive director of Boulder-based gardening organization Growing Gardens.
“When you grow your own food, you know exactly what went into it and you develop a relationship with the plant,” Clark says. “You harvest it at its best, and you get all the nutrition. The store’s food might be two or three days old, and when you make your own, you’re eating it that day. It’s the healthiest food you can put into your body.”
And luckily, almost everything you can grow in the ground can be grown inside — just not all at the same time.
WHERE TO START
Creating a miniature garden begins with containers, which range from 6-inch pots to gigantic whiskey barrels. Selecting the proper barrel size all depends on the plant. Alison Peck, owner of landscape design company Matrix Gardens, suggests choosing the biggest container possible.
“Life will be easier if you plant in large containers,” Peck says. “To be healthy, plants need a healthy root system, and it will be easier if they have a lot of soil to stretch their roots out into. Smaller containers stress plants out. A small container can dry out in two hours on a sunny balcony.”
Choosing the right vegetable depends on the microclimate of your garden, Peck says. Southernfacing decks and windows get the most sunlight, so hot weather plants like tomatoes, squash and peppers will flourish. But if your apartment is shrouded in darkness, plant vegetables like lettuce, which do better in the shade.
Get creative with different plants, like citrus dwarf trees, which, Peck says, grow to be about 3 feet tall, have long lives and are resilient to changing temperatures. Also, the citrus scent will leave your home smelling delightful.
PREVENTING THIRSTY PLANTS
Container gardens do require more babysitting to maintain the delicate balance of temperature and hydration.
“You need to keep an eye on your container, because you have to make sure the soil doesn’t get too dry or too hot or too cold,” Peck says. “When you’re gardening in the earth, you have all this soil, and the roots can reach out to get water, but in a container the plants depend more on you.”
Remember, the sometimes scorching Boulder sunlight will require watering multiple times a day.
“If you have a lots of hot-weather plants like tomatoes, basil and rosemary, since they have less soil, they need a lot of water, and, so they don’t roast, that might require watering twice a day,” Clark says.
For that reason, self-contained watering containers come in handy. Julie Hauser, owner of Indigo Landscape Designs, recommends getting creative and making your own. Line your container with a piece of string or candle wick, then drill a tiny hole in a bucket and string the yarn through. Fill the bucket with water and hang it like a potted plant. The water will run down the string, keeping your plant moist all day, or for a weekend away.
But don’t forget to include drainage holes in your container. Otherwise, you’ll drown your plants.
“The roots of the plant will sit in water,” Hauser says. With soil closer to the air, there’s more evaporation and the soil appears dry, “so you’ll water it again, but the roots are drowning. ”
UTILIZING YOUR SPACE
Balconies, apartment corners or window sills might only give you a few feet of area to work with, but don’t fret; there are plenty of ways to work around a lack of space. Instead of branching out, why not branch up, with vertical gardening? You can drape plants like tomatoes, squash, cucumbers and beans on a tall trellis, saving you valuable floor space.
Also, choose plants that take up less room. Instead of planting tomatoes that grow on vines, plant a tomato bush, says Peck.
Companion planting will save you room, too. Tomatoes and basil don’t just work well together on pizza; they also love sharing the same pot. Hauser suggests getting a container big enough to handle more than six plants. But choose plants that will get along.
“You want to make sure you plant plants that are compatible and have similar requirements in terms of heat and watering,” says Ashley Giles, manager of garden center Sturtz & Copeland. “You can’t plant Mediterranean herbs, which like it drier and hotter, with tender leafy herbs that need more water.”
Ask for some guidance before selecting your seeds or seedlings.
GROWING INSIDE ADVANTAGES
Growing a garden in your apartment is usually a decision made out of necessity, but there are some ben efits that make up for it, including an extended grow season. Colorado’s schizophrenic weather cuts the growing season down to only a few months, but luckily, gardening inside can trick a plant into thinking it’s spring all year long.
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Oklahoma Panhandle State University
Campus History : Hughes-Strong Hall
Construction began on Panhandle Agricultural Institute’s Hughes-Strong Hall on the day before the Fourth of July in 1925. By the end of the spring semester 1926, the new auditorium building was ready for occupancy. Senator W. G. Hughes of Guymon and Representative W. A. Strong of Boise City worked to win state approval and appropriations for this building project, so the new edifice was named in their honor. During construction, one workman suggested that light and telephone wires be placed in alleyways on campus and in Goodwell rather than be unsightly strung across campus. This brilliant idea caught the attention of the State Department of Agriculture, and representatives from that agency came to campus to plan this innovation which allowed for greater forethought for landscaping and construction.
Initially, Hughes-Strong Hall contained an 800-seat auditorium, 5 classrooms, 2 studios, 3 practice rooms, the president’s office, the registrar’s office, and “girls’ and boys’” dressing rooms and showers. In 1938, the No Man’s Land Museum moved into the north side of the building with a total of 15,000 items in its collection. On the first and second floors of Hughes-Strong, the Oklahoma Panhandle’s natural history, art, pioneer history, geology, and anthropology could be seen and better understood. In addition, the area housed the museum’s library, curator’s office, storeroom, and workshop. One year later, as fine arts classes took up the first floor space, the museum moved to the second floor.
After being refurbished and renovated in 1999 to remove asbestos, Hughes-Strong Hall currently houses three classrooms, the choir room, the band hall, the music theory lab, the music library, two music practice rooms, the KPSU-FM radio station studio and manager’s office, a stage scene shop, the auditorium and its original white oak stage floor, and six faculty offices. The auditorium remains the most public space on the OPSU campus as it hosts high school music contests, pageants, campus student activities, FFA meetings, funerals, traveling performers, dance productions, concerts, and OPSU theatrical productions—at least two per year. The auditorium was dedicated as Centennial Theater in 2009 in honor of Oklahoma Panhandle State University’s 100th birthday. Although it remains as one of the oldest buildings on campus, the auditorium still possesses impressive acoustics and historical ambience.
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GeneSilencer™ reagent offer high siRNA transfection efficiency, as well as functional gene silencing post siRNA delivery. This sirna transfection reagent is compatibility with diverse growth conditions (with and without serum), has low cytotoxicity, and comes with easy-to-use protocols for both adherent and suspension cells
RNA interference (RNAi) has become an important tool for studying gene functions because it allows sequence specific gene suppression in a variety of organisms and cultured cells. RNAi is characterized by targeted mRNA degradation after introduction of sequence-specific double stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) into cells. Several studies indicate that RNAi is an evolutionarily conserved defense mechanism directed against invading viral genomes or aberrant transcription products. In vitro studies using Drosophila lysates revealed that 21-25 nucleotide small interfering RNA duplexes (siRNAs) are the mediators of gene silencing. These siRNAs are derived from processing of the dsRNA by an RNase III-like enzyme. The mechanism involves the recruitment of siRNAs into a multi-protein complex known as RNA Induced Silencing Complex (RISC), which interacts with the target RNA to mediate cleavage in a catalytic fashion.
Complex pools of siRNAs can be produced by incubating in vitro transcribed long double stranded RNAs (~500bp) with recombinant RNase III or recombinant human Dicer enzyme. These pools compare favorably with chemically synthesized siRNAs in terms of their effectiveness and off-target effects and they have been successfully applied to both large scale screens and functional studies of individual proteins.
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Safer Water and Sanitation for the World
The United Nations General Assembly declared 2008 the
"International Year of Sanitation," highlighting the
crucial need for countries worldwide to have safe drinking water
and sanitary places to wash up and use the bathroom.
The initiative came during a year when Zimbabwe endured the
largest outbreak in its modern history of cholera, a serious
diarrhea-causing disease that's often spread through
contaminated food or water. The illness killed hundreds and
sickened tens of thousands. Most types of diarrheal infections
aren't serious and go away after a few days, but others can be
deadly when diarrhea leads to dehydration. According to the United
Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) 5,000-plus tots under age 5
die each day because of diarrheal diseases that many contract
because of contaminated drinking water or a lack of fundamental
sanitation facilities, like bathrooms with flushable toilets.
In the battle against diarrheal illnesses that are killing 1.5
million kids each year, more than 70 countries in five continents
participated in the first ever Global Handwashing Day during the
end of 2008. Efforts like these have helped to put the number of
people worldwide without improved drinking water below the 1
billion mark for the very first time (with more than half of the
people in the world getting piped water in their homes). But a 2008
report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF shows that
2.5 billion still don't have access to better sanitation - and
1.2 billion of those don't have any sanitation facilities at
What to Watch:
Global health officials still have a long way to go before most
countries are able to enjoy safe sanitation facilities and healthy
drinking water for all of its communities. But the simple act of
washing hands can cut deaths from diarrheal illnesses by as much as
50% (or almost 2 million people). In fact, hand washing is the most
effective - and cheapest - way to prevent diarrheal infections.
That's because dirty hands carry infectious germs into the body
when kids bite their nails, suck their thumbs, eat with their
fingers, or put any part of their hands into their mouths.
On the homefront, parents can help keep many infectious
illnesses at bay by making sure kids understand how to wash their
way. They need to learn how to use warm soap and water to scrub
(both sides of the hands, the wrists, between the fingers, and
around the nails), then wash for at least 10 to 15 seconds (about
as long as it takes to sing "Happy Birthday" nice and
kids wash is important, too. Kids should always lather up before
after using the bathroom, blowing their nose, coughing, touching
animals, and playing outside or with other kids. In a pinch, hand
sanitizers can help fend off most of these nasty germs, too.
What Are Germs?
What's the Big Sweat About Dehydration?
Why Do I Need to Wash My Hands?
Why Do I Need to Wash My Hands After Using
Gastrointestinal Infections and Diarrhea
How Can I Wash My Hands Without Spreading Germs?
Dehydration Instruction Sheet
What Are Germs?
Why Is Hand Washing So Important?
View the entire list of
Issues to Watch
Note: All information is for educational purposes only. For specific medical advice,
diagnoses, and treatment, consult your doctor.
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"When the LORD your God cuts off the nations whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses, you shall set apart three cities for you in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess. You shall prepare the roads, and divide into three parts the area of the land which the LORD your God gives you as a possession, so that any manslayer can flee to them.
"This is the provision for the manslayer, who by fleeing there may save his life. If any one kills his neighbor unintentionally without having been at enmity with him in time past - as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies - he may flee to one of these cities and save his life; lest the avenger of blood in hot anger pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and wound him mortally, though the man did not deserve to die, since he was not at enmity with his neighbor in time past. Therefore I command you, You shall set apart three cities. And if the LORD your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers - provided you are careful to keep all this commandment, which I command you this day, by loving the LORD your God and by walking ever in his ways - then you shall add three other cities to these three, lest innocent blood be shed in your land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, and so the guilt of bloodshed be upon you.
"But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and attacks him, and wounds him mortally so that he dies, and the man flees into one of these cities, then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die. Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may be well with you.
"In the inheritance which you will hold in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess, you shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set.
"A single witness shall not prevail against a man for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed; only on the evidence of two witnesses, or of three witnesses, shall a charge be sustained. If a malicious witness rises against any man to accuse him of wrongdoing, then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days; the judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely, then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother; so you shall purge the evil from the midst of you. And the rest shall hear, and fear, and shall never again commit any such evil among you. Your eye shall not pity; it shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
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White ash covered the area around Te Maari crater on the northern slopes of Mt Tongariro as the volcano continued to vent steam yesterday afternoon, after it blew ash into the air about 1.30pm.
Local Constable Aaron Owen said he was awestruck seeing the crater blow as he travelled through the Tongariro National Park. He did not hear anything as the crater blew but watched the spectacle for a couple of minutes.
A tour operator from Walking Legends on Lake Waikaremoana told the Chronicle he was heading to Ketetahi, close to the crater, to pick up six Australian tourists who were walking the Tongariro Alpine Crossing. Department of Conservation Whakapapa area asset manager Neil Ranford said the eruption was "just a burp". He waited at the roadblock on the intersection of State Highway 47 and Mangatepopo Rd for tourists who had driven up the road, to come off the mountain. Mr Ranford said he understood there were about 200 people on the crossing.
"A helicopter saw a group of people running down the track just after the eruption," he said, but he did not think anyone was in danger.
Further along the highway at the SH47/SH46 junction, Downer worker Tirra George from Turangi had set up a roadblock at 2pm. Only locals and tour operators were allowed to go down SH46.
Mr George said he had driven along SH46 and there was no ash "like last time".
Ash and gas blasted 2km into the sky, authorities said, prompting police and DoC staff to close the Tongariro Alpine Crossing at Ketetahi and Mangatepopo roads, where the track starts and finishes.
All those on the crossing were thought to be safe and were making their way off the track, DoC community relations manager Kim Alexander-Turia said.
"The difference between this eruption and the last eruption is there's no volcanic rocks coming out, so we're just letting people quickly and safely come off in their own time, calmly."
The eruption prompted an aviation alert increase to orange.
Sara Page from GeoNet said the alert was upgraded because the eruption was under way with "significant ash in the atmosphere".
Air New Zealand said there may be delays or cancellations on domestic services to airports east of the mountain.
But the airline said it would adjust flight routes and altitudes if required, ensuring aircraft remained clear of any ash.
GNS Science duty volcanologist Nico Fournier said there was one eruption - "essentially one explosion, and it was not sustained".
Dr Fournier said the eruption was not very loud and was smaller than an earlier eruption in August.
Last week, GNS Science increased the likelihood of neighbouring volcano Mt Ruapehu erupting, following increased activity on the mountain.
Dr Fournier said there was "quite a bit of gas" but it was quietening down.
Staff and students from Tamatea Intermediate in Hawke's Bay are safe and well after being on the Tongariro Track at the base of the volcano during the eruption.
About 100 staff and students were about two hours into the track when the eruption occurred.
A school spokesman said the staff and students were okay and were coming down the mountain.
The Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management issued a national advisory just under an hour after the eruption.
It said "minor volcanic activity" at Tongariro's Te Maari crater could be hazardous in the immediate vicinity.
Light volcanic ashfall was anticipated downwind of Tongariro and could fall in Waikato, Hawke's Bay, Gisborne and Bay of Plenty.
People living in or near the affected areas were advised to stay indoors and close windows and doors if ash fell. People who were outdoors should seek shelter.
Civil Defence said ash could be a health hazard, especially for people suffering breathing difficulties.
People affected by ashfall should wear a dust mask over their nose and mouth and protect their eyes.
Robyn Bennett, who lives 6km from the mountain, said she could see the plume of ash rising into the sky and sulphur-smelling ash had been raining down on her home.
"It's sitting under some cloud and that's why it's pushing down on to us," she said. "It smells worse than rotten eggs."
Ms Bennett did not think she and her husband would need to leave their home, "not unless she starts spewing out a whole lot of red rocks", but they were waiting to hear from Civil Defence or DoC.
James Perry, who works at the Lake Taupo Hole in One attraction on the resort town's lakefront, had a clear view of the mountains of the central plateau and saw the ash as soon as the eruption occurred.
"It basically went straight up and did the mushroom cloud, and then the wind's just spread it from there," he said.
Tongariro, in the centre of the North Island, erupted in August for the first time in 115 years, sending ash as far east as Napier.
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The graduate program in environmental science (GPES) offers M.S., M.P.S. and Ph.D. degrees. GPES was created in the early 1970s as a unique response to the emerging institutional and analytical challenges of developing environmental problems. The program, which draws upon faculty from throughout the College, emphasizes a multidisciplinary social and natural science approach to environmental understanding and stewardship. It maintains a strong academic orientation, facilitating student and faculty engagement of fundamental environmental challenges such as resource utilization and sustainability, the uses and limits of scientific prediction, risk and sustainability, the uses and limits of scientific prediction and risk analysis, and a holistic concern for the health of the environment.
The mission of GPES is to provide interdisciplinary education, research and public service to prepare students to comprehensively address environmental concerns and problems, investigate practical solutions to them and foster effective environmental stewardship. The program provides for the following:
The program’s internal structure incorporates a common core that provides a broad policy-oriented foundation for the focused areas of study. Students applying to GPES must select which area of study they intend to pursue.
The academic requirements of the graduate program in environmental science are designed to provide graduates with a sound preparation to meet the rapidly evolving challenges of the field as leading scholars and professionals. Programmatic requirements constitute a framework which includes a comprehensive core foundation emphasizing theory, issues and methods; extended knowledge within an area of study; and a synthesis experience.
Entering students should be adequately prepared to engage graduate level work in the program. The following undergraduate courses are pre- or co-requisites for all master's students: statistics, ecology and microeconomics or environmental economics. Courses in political science are strongly recommended.
In addition, students should have an academic background and/or work experience related to the selected area of study. Wherever possible, deficiencies should be made up prior to matriculation.
Relationship to Syracuse University
SUNY-ESF and Syracuse University (SU) share a campus. ESF students have access to all SU libraries and other facilities and may take courses from SU at no additional cost. Similarly, SU students have access to ESF facilities and courses. Environmental Studies students benefit from the broad range of courses ESF offers as well as from the many offerings at SU in political science, communication and rhetorical studies, arts, geography, anthropology, philosophy, etc. Graduate students have the opportunity to pursue several concurrent degree programs with SU.
Graduate Program in Environmental Science
134 Baker Lab
1 Forestry Drive
Syracuse, NY 13210–2787 USA
GPES OFFICE CONTACT:
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Building a home business can be an interesting experience. It has created a wonderful avenue for individuals to benefit from building such business. What are some of the ways that individuals can benefit from building a home business?
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WASHINGTON — Tempers were aflame in 1861 as the nation's capital prepared for war. So officials gave the secretary of the Smithsonian guns and 240 rounds of ammunition "for the protection of the Institute, against lawless attacks."
The current secretary of the Smithsonian must sometimes wish for a similar arsenal, even if the weaponry dates back more than 100 years.
For The Record
Los Angeles Times Sunday June 16, 2002 Home Edition Sunday Calendar Part F Page 2 Calendar Desk 1 inches; 42 words Type of Material: Correction
Misspelled name--In a June 2 Smithsonian Institution story, Dolley Madison's first name was misspelled.
Brought in 21/2 years ago to improve the bottom line and the buzz at the Smithsonian's 16 museums and galleries, eight research centers and one National Zoo, Lawrence Small--a banker by profession and a collector by avocation--has instead provoked his own civil war.
Since Small's arrival, markers of an institution in turmoil have popped up almost monthly: Directors of six museums submitted their resignations. Congress had to step in to save pioneering scientific research. A benefactor withdrew $38 million after her ideas were ridiculed by staffers. And more than 200 academics protested the "commercialization" of the Smithsonian--even faulting its decision to award the cafeteria contract at the National Air and Space Museum to McDonald's.
"It's a turbulent time," said Paula DePriest, a scientist at the National Museum of Natural History who is chairwoman of the Smithsonian Congress of Scholars Council. "It's unlike anything in our history."
Small--who declined a request to be interviewed for this story--is the only secretary in the Smithsonian's history who is neither a scientist nor an academic. Formerly president of Fannie Mae, the nation's largest mortgage lender, and before that a vice chairman at Citibank in New York, Small, 60, said in a speech shortly after his arrival that "modernization and money" were his twin goals.
"In a nutshell, I want to modernize everything of consequence at the Smithsonian," he told the 6,300 Smithsonian staff members via videotape. Few would deny that the 156-year-old institution needs a facelift and funds, but Small's business strategies and his brusque demeanor jarred many on the staff.
"His mistake was not building a coalition," said one former museum director, who asked not to be identified. "Maybe imposing decisions from the top works in a corporate setting, but not in academia. The Smithsonian is like a university. You have to work with the faculty."
A Natural History Museum scientist says research isn't Small's priority. "The message we got was that he cared about bricks and mortar and shiny buildings and lines around the block," said the scientist, who asked not to be identified.
Discontent at the museums is now so great that his critics talk with their doors open. "Dump Small" bumper stickers have been spotted on the Mall, outside the Smithsonian's "Castle" headquarters. Staffers gleefully log on to commercialalert.org, a Ralph Nader production with a link to track the debate over Small's tenure.
In the end, the combatants argue, the battle for the heart, soul and budget of the Smithsonian is all about mission. Does the Smithsonian exist to educate or to entertain? Should it make discoveries or profits?
Or, perhaps, can it do it all?
From the beginning, James Smithson's $508,318.46 bequest was a headache. The illegitimate son of a British duke, Smithson never forgave his class-conscious country for its treatment of children born out of wedlock. A scientist, he left his fortune to the people of the United States, which he never actually visited, to fund "an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men."
The first thing Congress did with the money was lose it. It invested Smithson's bequest in bonds issued by the new states of Michigan and Arkansas, which promptly defaulted. President Andrew Jackson was inclined to write off the misfortune but Congressman John Quincy Adams lobbied to make good the appropriation with taxpayer funds. In 1846, the Smithsonian was born.
The institution grew based on personal interests of the men at the top--and major contributions. So many live animals were donated that a zoo was started. A Detroit industrialist donated his American and Oriental art, and presto, the Smithsonian had the Freer Gallery of Art.
Over the years, the only theme at the institution seems to have been the marvel of eclectic discovery--its holdings add up to 142 million items and counting. It contains, for example, the world's largest collection of primary source documents on the visual arts in America. It owns Dolly Madison's dance slippers, the "cursed" Hope diamond (which arrived by regular mail), and the Woolworth's lunch counter where civil rights protesters demanded to be served in the 1960s. Among its science centers is the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, including 12 miles of undeveloped shoreline on the Chesapeake Bay and a Tropical Research Center in Panama staffed by 30 scientists. All of which demonstrates that the question of mission has long been thorny. | <urn:uuid:a0580549-896b-469e-b2f2-cc279bfe562c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://articles.latimes.com/2002/jun/02/entertainment/ca-neuman2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957884 | 1,062 | 1.625 | 2 |
Pension Tax in India
According to pension act pension is defined as a periodical allowance or stipend granted on account of past service, particular merits etc. The three main components of pension are:
- Pension is a compensation for past service
- It owes its origin to a past employer-employee or master-servant relationship
- It is paid on the basis of an earlier relationship of an agreement of service as opposed to an agreement for service. This relationship terminates only on the death of the concerned employee.
Pension received from a former employer is taxable as 'Salary'. Hence, the various deductions available from salary income, including relief u/s 89(1) for the arrears of pension received would be granted to pensioners who receive their pension from, a nationalized bank, by the bank and in other cases their present Drawing & Disbursing Offices. Similarly, deductions from the amount of pension of standard deduction and adjustment of tax rebate u/s 88 and 88B shall be done by the concerned bank, at the time of deduction of tax at source from the pension, on furnishing of relevant details by the pensioner.
Pension to officials of UNO is exempt from taxation.
Under family pension a regular monthly amount is paid by the employer to a person belonging to the family of an employee in the event of death. Pension and family pension are qualitatively different. The former is paid during the lifetime of the employee while the latter is paid after his death to surviving family members. However, in case of family pension, since there is no employer-employee relationship between the payer and the payee, therefore, it is taxed as ' Income from Other Sources' in the hands of the nominee(s). In respect of family pension,deduction u/s 57(iia) of Rs. 15000 or 1/3rd of the amount received whichever is less, is available.
Under the Income Tax Act, a senior citizen is a person who at any time during the previous year has attained the age of 65 years or more. There are certain benefits available to senior citizen under the Income Tax Act:-
Tax rebate u/s 88B: Upto assessment year 1997-98, rebate on tax payable by a senior citizen was allowable provided the income was below a certain limit(for assessment year 1996-97,98-99,40% tax rebate was available to a senior citizen provided his income was below Rs. 1.2 Lakhs).Form assessment year 1998-99, the tax rebate is available to all senior citizen to the extent of the entire tax payable or Rs. 10000 whichever is less without any ceiling on the income. This rebate has been further enhanced to Rs. 15,000 from A.Y. 2001-2002 onwards. Rebate under this section has now been increased to Rs.20,000/- form A.Y. 2004-05 by the Finance Act 2003. This rebate is available to all senior citizens whether they are pensioners or self employed or traders etc.
The 1 out of 6 criteria for filing of income tax return under proviso to Sec. 139(1) shall not be applicable in case of senior citizen. However, if a senior citizen meets any of the four criteria, other then ownership of immovable property of subscription to a telephone, then return will have to be filed by him.
Other Benefits: The deduction available u/s 80D for medical insurance premium paid is to be increased to Rs. 15,000 for senior citizens. Secondly , the deduction available u/s 80DDB in respect of expenditure incurred on treatment of specified diseases is tobe increased to Rs. 60,000 for senior citizens. The above provisions shall come into effect from assessment year 2000-2001 onwards. | <urn:uuid:dda70bf6-7667-41f1-a122-31bdb566d565> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://theindiaeconomy.blogspot.com/2008/06/pension-tax-in-india.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969695 | 773 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Reporting Sean Adams
WCBS 880′s Sean Adams On The Story
But they were stunned after a meeting last week with a top advisor to the governor. It was the first time a member of the governor’s staff told the plant operators face-to-face.
“If we’re alarmed by anything, it was by, kind of the cavalier attitude of the staff up in Albany who don’t seem to appreciate how important it is to have a reliable, clean, inexpensive supply of electricity in New York,” says Entergy spokesman Jim Steets. “They were dismissive of the benefits and only committed to shutting down the plant. We’re not entirely sure what the motivation was.”
The Cuomo administration has made it clear it wants Indian Point shut down, saying there is simply too much at stake with two nuclear reactors just 35 miles north of New York City.
The governor also has new leverage in this fight — legislation that streamlines the process for building new power plants.
Indian Point provides 25 percent of the electricity for New York City and Westchester County. Replacing that supply is a massive challenge.
WCBS 880′s Rich Lamb With Reaction From Mayor Bloomberg
Meanwhile, New York City Mayor Bloomberg is saying the equivalent of hang on a minute when it comes to closing the facility.
“Well, if you closed Indian Point down today we’d have enormous blackouts. There is no alternative to the energy that we get from Indian Point. Four or five years from now that probably is not going to be true,” said Bloomberg on Wednesday. “All types of power generation have risks and nuclear hasn’t killed anybody. The difference is that nuclear, in theory, has a much greater potential for a big problem. But I think when you really look at it, it’s not going to be an easy decision.”
His Honor added that you certainly can’t do anything overnight. | <urn:uuid:c838fa8b-b435-4d0f-a518-f90084d81690> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/06/29/entergy-stunned-as-gov-cuomo-continues-push-to-close-indian-point/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00072-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966233 | 411 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Crack down on war memorial vandals
MP Jo Swinson welcomed the announcement of tough new penalties brought in to crack down on those who steal or sell stolen metal, including from war memorials.
Crime Prevention Minister, Jeremy Browne warned that, as of next month, new powers will take effect to stop cash paid for metal and give the police stronger powers to target rogue traders.
The plaque on the war memorial at Baldernock was stolen last year, and Ms Swinson said: “Last Sunday, as I attended Remembrance Day events, I was once again reminded of all the selfless sacrifices made by members of our armed forces, from both World Wars and conflicts right up to the present day.
“In Baldernock, the war memorial was a dignified focal point for the tributes with its new stone plaques but it made me so angry that this had been necessary because metal thieves had stolen the previous metal plaques.
“It beggars belief that anyone could commit such a crime, disrespecting our fallen war heroes.”
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It’s true the governments are not the ones that are going to radically influence a movement towards transparency in mutual funds carbon footprints. Consumers are starting to put the pressure on, but where it is going to matter most is when stockholders finally stand up and put the pressure on. Wind power and hydroelectricity is the way forward and it is encouraging to see that this is becoming an attractive option for investors, not willing to continually invest in the increasingly risky polluting companies. I know who I would invest my capital with for solid ROI and for the benefits of the environment! http://www.breezedryer.com/
Radiohead Sizes Up its Footprint
Radiohead, a well-known British rock-band, recently commissioned Global Footprint Network partner Best Foot Forward (BFF) to analyze the band’s Footprint and help reduce their tour’s carbon emissions. BFF’s report shows that transport, how fans get to Radiohead’s shows, is the most important lever for reducing the tour’s Footprint.
For example, if average car occupancy increased from 2.2 to 3 people per car, the CO2 output for the entire tour would drop by 22 per cent. Radiohead now chooses gigs based on proximity to city centers, public transit options, and the eco-friendliness of the venues.
Radioheads eco-criteria for venues is prompting many event organizers to think greener, and, hopefully, prompting more of their fans to carpool. The band also tries to freight their gear by ship rather than air, has stopped using charter planes, and travels by road and rail whenever possible.
I’m impressed. I hope all other musical groups that attract large crowds will follow suit. It will also be wise for festival organisers in the future to arrange public transport for party goers. I’m just wondering if there are any structures in place to manage the carbon footprint of South Africa 2010. Just for interest’s sake, i also want to know if investing in reducing carbon durin the football world cup in South Africa will qualify for Certified Emmission Reduction? I think if exceptions were made to allow for CER during this one month long showcase there would be significant carbon reductions. | <urn:uuid:2b7c059a-96c2-4b1f-a44c-eb11703b954e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/blog/radiohead_sizes_up_its_footprint | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945102 | 465 | 2.09375 | 2 |
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Toy Soldier Day & Other Curious Holidays
Do you prefer to write mysteries or romances, thrillers or fantasies, science fiction or historical fiction? Whatever genre you prefer to write in, I'm sure you can find a way to include one of these curious holidays that occur in March in your story. It will add a bit of something different to your story.
Do you know what Benjamin Harrison's claim to fame is? How much knowledge do you have about the Iditarod? Are you going to begin your scrapbook on International Scrapbooking Day? On National Grammar Day are you going to write to your high school English teacher and thank her profoundly for inspiring you to learn your grammar?
Benjamin Harrison Day - This day is set aside to honor Benjamin Harrison, the twenty-third president of the United States. This great man was also an Army general during the Civil War. Every year this holiday is celebrated at Harrison's home in Indianapolis.
How can you celebrate this day? You can learn about the life of this great man. Once you have done your research, you can teach others about him by writing an historical fiction story about some great event that happened during his life.
Courageous Follower Day - A follower is defined as a person who follows another in regard to his or her ideas or beliefs. Followers are often thought of as wimps and unable to stand up themselves for what they believe in. This is the day to get rid of that belief once and for all and show that it takes energy and courage, not passivity, to be a follower.
Try your hand at writing a story that show just how much courage it takes to be a follower of someone whose beliefs and ideals are not accepted as normal.
Iditarod - The Iditarod, known as 'the last great race', is a dog sled race that is 1,049 miles long from Anchorage to Nome. The number 1,049 is symbolic since Alaska was the 49th state to be admitted to the United States of America. The race actually covers closer to 1,200 miles, but even that depends upon the route taken. Even though the race starts on March 3 this year, it is always celebrated on the first Sunday in March. This year that happens to March 4.
You can learn more about this amazing race on your own, but I'm going to share some interesting facts about it with you.
>The very first Iditarod was run in 1973. Exactly 100 years before, the USA purchased Alaska from Russia.
>Since the race began in 1973, a total of 142 dogs have died during this strenuous race.
>Iditarod means “clear water”.
>The average number of dogs per team is 15.
>Many other states besides Alaska have been represented in this race, as have several countries.
International Scrapbooking Industry Day - Scrapbooking is one way of preserving memories that many people enjoy. Some enjoy it so much that they become obsessed with it. You can even hire 'custom' scrapbook artists to help you with your endeavors.
How do you celebrate this day? Well, my guess would be that you add memories to your scrapbook. As a writer, I would suggest that you write a story that includes scrapbooking as part of your plot. As is usual for me, I can see a great mystery or horror story develop around a scrapbook found in the attic of a house that a family moves into. See what ideas you can come up with.
March Forth – Do Something Day - This holiday is the creation of creativity coach, writer, and speaker Deborah Shouse. On this day, we are supposed to march forth in our lives and celebrate the things we have accomplished. Make a list of new goals for your life and begin working out how to reach them.
Have you always wanted to write a novel? This would be an awesome day to start on this goal. And you can vow to have it done by March 4th of next year, one year from today.
National Grammar Day - This is the day we celebrate our wonderful, confusing language and vow to learn how to use it better. Many people have trouble with homonyms, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling. If you are knowledgeable in these areas, why not offer to help those who are not? Learning is addictive. Some people do not take correction kindly, though, so first be sure your help is wanted.
On this day celebrating grammar, why not write a story where your characters are different marks of punctuation, capital letters, homonyms, antonyms, etc.?
Toy Soldier Day - This is the dream holiday for probably every little boy in existence, a day honoring the toy soldier! On this day, the goal is to have fun, fun, and more fun. So invite your friends over and have a blast playing with your toy soldiers.
In celebration of this day that also honors the real Army, I would write a story about one young child's toy soldiers who come to life. Why do they come to life? How does the boy react when he discovers this? Or do the soldiers manage to keep their new life hidden from him? Do these soldiers have a nice personality when they begin to breathe? Or are they terrible, mean soldiers, ones who are only out to destroy?
Hug a G.I. Day - In my opinion, this holiday is somewhat related to Toy Soldier Day, only now we are talking about flesh and blood soldiers. If you do not see a real live G.I. to hug, you can send them a virtual hug over the internet and tell them how much you appreciate how they work to protect our freedoms.
On this day, you should write a story that shows how much you appreciate the men and women who fight to protect our freedoms.
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Founder of Jamaica reggae, rocksteady trio dies
KINGSTON, Jamaica—One of the founders of a leading Jamaican reggae and rocksteady trio from the 1960s has died.
A bandmate says Barry Llewellyn of the Heptones died Wednesday at age 64. Lead singer Leroy Sibbles said Friday that Llewellyn died of unknown causes at Kingston Public Hospital.
Llewellyn founded the Heptones with Earl Morgan in the late 1950s. The group was considered highly influential during the island's rocksteady era in the 1960s.
The Heptones reunited in the 1990s after a nearly 20-year absence during a worldwide ska and rocksteady revival.
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The law is a code of rules that all people in a certain society must follow.
In the United States, the law is comprised of legislative acts creating statutes, court decisions, executive orders and rules and regulations promulgated by administrative agencies. In certain circumstances, censoring liberal activists have taken the position that the "law" also includes any action by government actors, including prayer by teachers in schools. It is through this flawed assumption that liberals have been successful in censoring prayer in schools. The position that the actions of a school teacher are tenuous at best, and had no basis in real law until liberal activist judges gave it substance in school prayer cases in order to further their ideological preferences. | <urn:uuid:53b8a10d-4c0f-478c-b5e3-386af14c493d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.conservapedia.com/Law | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977022 | 139 | 1.828125 | 2 |
3D functionality is becoming a more popular component in UI technologies and has been greatly improved in WPF 3.5 SP1. Upon hearing this some people (Niners even
) are known to
question "what is it good for?" My first answer is that the British Turning Pages application
just wouldn't be the same without 3D.
Marc Laroche stopped by to talk about another use of 3D in one of Xceed's new controls 3D Views for WPF
. Watching Marc move the camera to adjust the display of the data (around 5:25) can give you an idea
of where 3D can really be useful. Simply adjusting the position of the camera offers a new perspective rendered dynamically. There is no need to pre-render all of the desired views.
This is great stuff but it feels like just the beginning. The more accessible we can make 3D, the more we can become creative and effective with it. | <urn:uuid:1289b82a-2b2b-4e0e-bd11-07c81222ca69> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Continuum/3DViewControlsForWPF | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950205 | 194 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Salmonella in horses
Salmonellosis is a bacterial infection that affects humans, horses, most mammals, birds and reptiles. Though there are multiple types of the Salmonella bacteria, and while all can cause disease in horses, most equine infections are caused by S. Typhimurium. In adult horses, Salmonellosis is usually a gastrointestinal disease and may cause severe diarrhea. In some cases, usually foals, it can cause systemic disease (septicemia) as a result of movement of the bacteria throughout the body. Salmonellosis can cause abortion, though this is rare in horses.
Salmonella is transmitted via oral ingestion of contaminated fecal material. The bacteria are shed in the manure of infected horses, and then ingested by other horses as a result of environmental contamination. A horse can become infected with Salmonella by ingesting grass, hay, and other feeds that are contaminated with the bacteria. In addition, things such as boots, water buckets, tack, shared grooming tools, and unwashed hands can carry the bacteria from an infected horse to a susceptible one.
Most adult horses that are infected with Salmonella develop a fever and severe watery diarrhea. There is often a foul smell associated with the diarrhea, and it can sometimes be bloody. The horse is typically weak and lethargic and may stop eating. Foals that are septicemic with a Salmonella infection are usually dull and depressed and have a high fever. Such foals may also display signs of lameness and joint swelling.
Many horses may have Salmonella in their systems but do not shed it, and most of the time they are not ill. A United States Department of Ag study documented that 1% of US horses were found to be shedding Salmonella on farm. A study at a large veterinary hospital in the United States found that 13% of horses admitted for colic were shedding Salmonella. Other studies have showed lower prevalence (3- 9%), especially among horses admitted for reasons other than colic. At the Univ of Minn College of Vet Med, 1 to 5 horses are documented annually with Salmonella infections.
An infected horse sheds more bacteria when it is showing clinical signs of diarrhea. A horse is more likely to develop illness if it ingests a large amount of Salmonella organisms at once, or if the horse is already sick or stressed. There are some horses which shed Salmonella without showing the typical signs of infection. This usually occurs when the animal has a small amount of Salmonella present within its intestines and is then exposed to a stressful situation, such as trailering, movement to a new facility, illness, or surgery. Shedding decreases over time and many horses will cease shedding altogether.
People can, and do, become infected with Salmonella from horses. Salmonellosis is a zoonotic disease, meaning that it can be transmitted between animals and people. If a horse is shedding Salmonella, it can cause illness in people by the same oral ingestion of contaminated feces. Signs of Salmonella infection in people can include diarrhea, abdominal cramps, and fever. It is important to always use good hygiene practices, including hand-washing before eating and not touching objects with manure contaminated hands.
Shedding of Salmonella organisms can be stimulated by stress or illness. Hence, horses seen at veterinary hospitals are more likely to shed Salmonella than are horses seen in their own barns.
Due to this fact and the risk of people becoming infected with Salmonella from an infected horse, equine hospitals have personal and equine patient hygiene steps in place to help prevent disease transmission.
The UMN has an infectious disease group that monitors the environment and any potential problems. High risk animals are cultured on arrival and during their hospitalization. The staff is also responsible for routine sampling of the hospital facility, including the floors and walls of stalls, hallways, treatment rooms, and surgery suites. The hospital also has a separate isolation building. Horses that have Salmonella positive test results are moved to this isolation unit, where there are strict regulations regarding the use of disposable protective clothing and good hygiene practices to prevent spread. | <urn:uuid:d881fa09-b31b-47ff-8f50-5f1145c40fc1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www1.extension.umn.edu/agriculture/horse/health/salmonella-in-horses/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959952 | 858 | 3.65625 | 4 |
An article in the New York Times highlighted the concept of the “3 percent rule” in Italy. The process occurs when subcontractors overcharge the state by 3 percent, which is then passed on to organized crime groups.
In a trial to convict 22 Mafia members, prosecutors found various incidents of the “3 percent rule” where subcontractors working on a state highway used the process to enrich organized crime.
Source: Rachel Donadio, “Corruption Is Seen as a Drain on Italy’s South,” New York Times, October 7, 2012.
Law enforcement officials in Germany that between 2007 and 2012, there have been 25 prosecution cases against the Italian Mafia in the court system of Germany.
In the German state of Bavaria, police estimate that there are 65 active Mafia members working in the state.
Source: “Germany ‘hotbed’ of Italian organized crime: Experts,” PressTV, August 11, 2012.
A study published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, cocaine use in cities in Switzerland is among the highest in Europe.
Everyday, up to 1.5 grams of cocaine is consumed by every 1,000 citizens in the Swiss cities of Bern, Geneva, Lucerne and Zurich.
In other European cities such as Barcelona, London, Milan and Paris, between 0.5 to 1 grams of cocaine is used by every 1,000.
Norther European cities had the lowest reported levels of cocaine use, with Stockholm, Oslo and Helsinki registering 0.15 grams of cocaine use daily per 1,000 residents.
Across Europe, up to 356 kilograms of cocaine is consumed each day, which is 10 to 15 percent of the total global cocaine consumption.
Source: AFP, “Cocaine use in Swiss cities among highest in Europe: report,” Google News, August 6, 2012.
Mafia organizations in Italy earned over $19.6 Billion (16 Billion Euros) in profit from various environmental crimes within the country, according to a report by Legambiente.
Authorities in Italy detected over 34,000 incidents of environmental crimes during 2011, a rate of over 90 per day. Mafia organizations are believed to have been responsible for illegally dumping 346,000 tons of trash during the year.
Organized crime groups in Italy generate up to $204 Billion from their black market activities.
Source: Nick Squires, “Mafia making billions from environmental destruction ,” Telegraph, July 9, 2012.
The United Nations estimates that between 8,000 to 10,000 women from Nigeria are trafficked into the prostitution industry in Italy every year.
The Nigerian women are forced to have sex with customers at prices at low as $13 per transaction. In order to quit being a prostitute, women are forced to repay their pimps between $40,000 to $78,000.
(More human trafficking prices of victims.)
Source: Jill Craig, “Nigerians Become Most Trafficked Into Italy’s Sex Trade,” Voice of America, May 4, 2012.
The European Central Bank reports that over half of all counterfeit euro notes that are in circulation was made in the Campania region in Italy.
On average, a total of 550,000 to 800,000 counterfeit euro notes are detected and removed from circulation each year.Most of the fake money are in 20 and 50 euro notes.
Source: Rachel Donadio, “In Italy, Fake Euros That Even the Authorities Admire,” New York Times, April 30, 2012.
Tax officials in Italy recovered $16.9 Billion (12.7 Billion Euros) from tax evasion activities in 2011. The amount recovered in 20111 was higher by 15 percent from the amount of taxes evaded in 2010.
The Government of Italy losses an estimated $160 Billion (120 Billion Euros) to tax evasion each year.
Source: Catherine Hornby, “Italy recovers 12.7 billion euros from tax evaders in 2011,” Reuters, March 29, 2012.
Due to the role of organized crime in food production in Italy, a report has found that 80 percent of the olive oil produced in Italy and stamped with a “Made in Italy” logo was made with cheaper, lower quality oils from other countries.
(More Mafia News.)
Source: Leslie Clarula Taylor, “Italian olive oil part of organized crime probe,” The Star, January 27, 2012.
Financial enforcement officers in Italy estimate that up to $78 Billion (60 Billion Euros) was evaded in tax payments.
Source: Armorel Kenna, “Italy Estimates EU60 Billion in Tax Evaded Last Year, Sole Says,” Bloomberg, January 22, 2012.
A parliamentary investigation reported that organized crime controls $16 Billion (12.5 Billion Euros) worth of agriculture and food industries in Italy. The amount of revenue generated from the food businesses consists of up to 5.6 percent of all Mafia income generating activities.
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The Times’s widely praised safer cycling campaign has been picked up by an Italian newspaper.
The Gazzetta dello Sport is taking part after one of its journalists, Pier Luigi Todisco, died while he was cycling to work last October.
The title is urging professional sportspeople to join the roll call, and for ordinary readers to support the campaign as well. A Twitter hashtag, #salvaciclisti is being used to spread the word.
According to the paper, 2,556 cyclists have died on Italian roads in the past ten years – double the number of bike deaths in the UK (1,275).
The Times launched its campaign earlier this month, three months after Times journalist Mary Bowers was knocked down by a lorry while cycling to work. She is still not conscious and remains in a trauma unit.
Some 33 MPs have signed an early day motion in parliament praising the cycling campaign.
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Leadership books have a lot in common with the self-help genre. There are far more of them than we could ever possibly need—some 57,000 come up in an Amazon search—and all too many of them are filled with such mind-numbingly obvious advice that you’re better off leaving them alone.
Leadership, after all, is not really something you can learn in a book. It’s something that can only come from a strong moral compass, enough experience making the tough calls and doing the hard work, and plenty of good mentors found along the way.
Still, there are a few books on leadership I believe belong on the bookshelves of anyone interested in the topic. Some are classics, a couple are new, and one more isn’t typically found on the business book shelf at all. Or the self-help one, for that matter.
1) On Becoming a Leader, by Warren Bennis. There are many widely read books that most would consider classics of the leadership canon. Good to Great. In Search of Excellence. Built to Last. And while these are all worthy reads—especially so that you can understand your boss’s obsession with “Level 5 leaders”—they’re about what makes a great company, not a great individual. Bennis, a leadership sage that deserves to be called one, looks within instead, exploring how it is only through knowledge of oneself that good leadership can truly be practiced.
2) The Essential Drucker, by Peter Drucker. The father of modern management was incredibly prolific—he wrote 39 books in his nearly 96 years—and his writings have been compiled and convened (even daily calendarized!) in countless collections of his work. But The Essential Drucker is his own selection of his most important writings, pulled together in one place. While his focus has long been on the practice of management—the title of one of his most important books—the profound impact his writings have had on leadership in business, government and nonprofits is something every leader should know.
3) Up the Organization, by Robert Townsend. This irreverent and quick take on Corporate America from a man who knew it well has wisdom in it for any leader who must cope with the burdens of a bureaucracy. Its author, former Avis Rent-A-Car CEO Robert Townsend, offers up blunt and direct advice (“If you have a policy manual, publish the Ten Commandments”) that reminds readers that leadership is really about good common sense and simple moral values, until bureaucracies get in the way. First published more than 35 years ago, it’s a different sort of classic I’d missed until it was re-released by Jossey-Bass in 2007.
4) Questions of Character, by Joseph Badaracco. While I enjoyed Harvard Business School professor Badaracco’s well-written examination of the leadership insights we can take from literature, whether it be Antigone or Death of a Salesman, I think it’s worth a read mostly in the way it teaches leaders to look for lessons everywhere. Whether it be a look at one’s moral code in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart or courage and passion in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Love of the Last Tycoon,” Badaracco reminds us that leadership is not about making the numbers, but knowing oneself well enough to make the right call when presented with all the conflicts and complexities of the job.
5) Why Smart Executives Fail, by Sydney Finkelstein. Far too many business books traffic in success, breathlessly examining the career paths and decision-making of leaders on their way up. Dartmouth professor Syd Finkelstein takes a look at what causes them to fall down. Released in 2004, the book examines some of the headline-grabbing failures of the early part of the decade—Tyco’s Dennis Kozlowski and WorldCom’s Bernie Ebbers—but offers timeless lessons on how the delusions of power and the denial of change can lead to any leader’s fall from grace.
6) Drive, by Daniel Pink. Finally, someone made a persuasive case that the best way to motivate people is not by dangling carrots and sticks. Pink’s 2009 treatise may sound, at least on the surface, like the consultant speak being spouted by recession-era human resources gurus. But he supports it with plenty of scientific research, bringing the leadership practice of motivation, one hopes, out of a time when organizations treated people like assets and closer to a time when people are treated like people.
7) Team of Rivals, by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Yes, President Obama read it. And yes, it became a cliché as he nominated former opponent Hillary Clinton to be his secretary of state. But Doris Kearns Goodwin—one of the country’s preeminent historians—offers that rare historical book that is neither biography nor narrative, but an examination of leadership style and leadership tactics from which any stripe of leader, political or otherwise, can learn.
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Exposure to traffic pollution can increase a person’s chance of having a heart attack if they are already at risk, according to new research.
Scientists found that people exposed to traffic pollutants, specifically pollutant particles (PM10) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), were more likely to have a heart attack one to six hours later. However, no increase in risk was seen after this time. The scientists believe this suggests that car fumes don’t raise a person’s overall risk of a heart attack; rather pollution exposure may bring forward a heart attack (for example, by a few hours) in those already at risk of having a heart attack.
Dr Prerna Sharma at Bupa says, “The health risks associated with pollution have long been known, especially on respiratory health. This research sheds new light on the impact of traffic pollution on heart health. However, this study fails to take into account the environmental and emotional stresses people may experience when they are in, or around, traffic. This may have been as much of a trigger in causing their heart attack as the traffic pollutants themselves. It’s also worth noting that chronic lung conditions caused by pollution can also increase heart disease risk. People who know they are at risk of a heart attack, for example those with coronary heart disease, could try to avoid busy areas where there is heavy traffic. However, it would be far better to take action to try to reduce your risk of having a heart attack in the first place. Stopping smoking, following a healthy balanced diet, exercising, losing excess weight and knowing about any family history of heart problems, will all have a much greater impact on reducing your risk of heart attack than staying indoors.”
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WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Museum of African American History and Culture
will co-host two weekend programs to help northeastern Kansas-area residents identify and preserve items of historical and cultural significance tucked away in the attics, closets and basements of their homes. Presented in collaboration with Washburn University in Topeka, the event will feature presentations, hands-on activities and preservation tips.
The program will take place Saturday, Aug. 14, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday, Aug. 15, from noon to 5:30 p.m. at Washburn Universitys Memorial Union, at the intersection of SW 17th Street and SW Jewell Avenue in Topeka. Free and open to the public, the event is the seventh in a series from the museums signature program Save Our African American Treasures: A National Collections Initiative of Discovery and Preservation.
Participants from all over northeastern Kansas can reserve in advance to bring up to three personal items for a 20-minute, one-on-one professional consultation with experts on how to care for them. The specialists will serve as reviewers, not appraisers, and will not determine items monetary values. Objects such as books, paper and textiles no larger than a shopping bag can be reviewed. No furniture, carpets, firearms and paintings will be reviewed. Those wishing to have items reviewed must make reservations by e-mailing email@example.com or by calling toll free (877) 733-9599. Reservations are not required for those not wishing a one-on-one consultation. Additional information is available online at treasures.si.edu.
We are extremely proud to bring Save our African American Treasures to Kansas and Topeka in particular, said Lonnie G. Bunch, founding director of the museum. We encourage people to become aware of what they have, to protect it and to preserve it so the story of African Americans in this country can be told. Nineteenth- and 20th-century objectsfamily photographs, military uniforms, farm tools and wedding dressescan help tell this story for future generations; if we do not act now to preserve these items, the tangible evidence of a critical component of American history will be lost.
It is a privilege to host Treasures at Washburn University, said Jerry B. Farley, president of the university. The university was established in 1865 as Lincoln College. The choice to honor the nations 16th president reflected the progressive ideals of the schools founders who upheld the tenants of civil liberty and who were considered progressive at the time by admitting African Americans and women as students. I am pleased Washburn will have a role in this effort to preserve a part of American history.
Kansas contribution to African American history is significant. As a free state it played a major role in the abolitionist movement and was the site of the Pottawatomie Massacre of 1856, led by John Brown. That was followed by the Exodus of 1879, also known as the Kansas Exodus, the mass migration of blacks to Kansas from southern states after reconstruction. These migrants were called Exodusters. In the 1880s blacks bought more than 20,000 acres of land in Kansas, and several of the settlements founded at the time still exist today, such as Nicodemus, founded in 1877. In the 20th century, Kansas City was instrumental in the development of Americas classical musicjazz, and Treasures host city, Topeka, became known worldwide for the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education. It is the artifacts of this rich history that Treasures seeks to preserve.
The Treasures program includes the following sessions:
Preservation Presentations: Informal basic preservation sessions will take place during the day. One will focus on textiles, a category that includes cloth dolls, flags, hats, clothing, lace, quilts, needlework and table linens. The session on photographs and paper will inform participants on simple inexpensive techniques to keep their family Bibles, historic pictures and important documents such as diplomas and wedding licenses safe from deterioration.
Hands-on Preservation: Participants are invited to learn how to properly store letters, pack garments and prepare photographs for preservation storage and presentation.
Oral Histories: Participants may record a brief personal memory, a family story or a memory of a historical event. Family members are encouraged to interview each other.
Future events will be held in Detroit; Jackson, Miss.; and New York City. Treasures has been made possible by a grant from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation. The grant also supports the pre-design and construction of the museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., scheduled to open in 2015. | <urn:uuid:80ed4037-e8cb-49d0-84cf-6a320f9100fb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.artdaily.org/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=39513&int_modo=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944823 | 967 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Correction appended: March 12, 2013
The headline was too good to resist. When Noma, the Copenhagen restaurant that for the past three years has held the top spot on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list, was discovered to have suffered a norovirus outbreak, the media response — both mainstream and social — was vast, immediate and nearly gleeful. “Poisoning at ‘World’s Best Restaurant,’” reported France’s Le Point. “World’s Best Restaurant Hit by Vomiting Bug,” said Huffington Post. “Restaurant Leaves Bad Taste with Guests,” giggled the Financial Times.
Norovirus is a global epidemic, an easily transmissible disease that is rarely fatal but that causes millions of cases of severe gastroenteritis each year. Yet what mattered in this case was not the virus’ ubiquity but its particularity: it had struck the restaurant that, at the moment, is perhaps the most acclaimed in the world, a restaurant that — not incidentally — is expensive, hard to get into and known for its unusual, innovative cuisine. As a result, its much heralded chef, René Redzepi — who was among TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2012 — got a quick, brutal lesson in the flipside of being a media darling. Call it Top Chef: The Schadenfreude Edition.
The facts are these: during the week of Feb. 12–16, 63 of the 435 people who dined at Noma became ill. First word of the problem came on the night of Feb. 14, when a Danish couple e-mailed the restaurant to inform them that they had become sick after eating there. The e-mail was opened by an office staff member the following morning, but because she did not speak Danish, she forwarded the message to a floor manager, who in turn did not read it until returning on Feb. 18 from his day off. That same morning, the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, which had also received notification of the problem, contacted the restaurant. Laboratory results confirmed the norovirus diagnosis. “It was our worst nightmare,” says Redzepi. “We’re in this business to make people happy, so when we first found out about it and announced it at the staff meeting, the entire team — all 80 people — just went white.”
The news was especially hard for a restaurant that takes health so seriously that it annually brings in a doctor to administer flu shots to staff who want them. But norovirus is a tough rival, both notoriously easy to transmit and notoriously difficult to kill. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the bug causes about 20 million cases each year in the U.S. alone, and this year looks to be especially bad thanks to the introduction of a new strain called GII 4 Sydney. Already, the U.K. has reported a 63% increase in the number of cases this season (norovirus is more prevalent from November to April) over last, for a total thus far of 1.2 million affected. In 2012, Denmark had 22 restaurant-based outbreaks, sickening 800 people. Although thorough hand washing is the most frequently prescribed preventative measure, tests have shown that norovirus can survive both soap and hot and cold temperatures. A study published in December 2012 in the scientific journal PLOS One found that even professional dishwashing — using detergent and machines set to 49ºC — failed to eradicate the virus.
In Noma’s case, health authorities believe the virus was likely introduced by a staff member who had perhaps consumed infected shellfish. One staff member reported feeling sick after he got home from service on the night of Feb. 15 and was told not to go to work the following day, but it wasn’t until the following Tuesday that food he had touched was thrown out. Two other staff members also fell ill.
On Feb. 28, the health authority reduced Noma’s previously perfect rating (the “big smiley face” in inspection symbology got cut to a less broad smile), and as required by law, Noma posted its latest inspection report on both its website and at the restaurant door, on March 1. “They made some mistakes at the time of the outbreak,” says Danish Veterinary and Food Administration outbreak investigator Morten Lisby, who led the inspection. “But from the moment we got in touch with them, they have collaborated fully with us and done everything properly. We could not have conducted this investigation had it not been for their collaboration.”
It wasn’t until a week later that Danish paper Politiken got word of the incident, but once it did, the news raced around the world. “By lunch service on Friday, there were two television crews outside, and someone else was trying to sneak in a hidden camera,” says Redzepi.
The media coverage was frenzied — with predictable results. In several reports, the 40 seats in the restaurant’s main dining room shrank to 12; the 35-year-old Redzepi grew younger by three years. More seriously, the inspector’s finding that one of the four sinks that staff use to wash their hands lacked water of a high enough temperature morphed into widely repeated reports from Food Safety News that the entire restaurant lacked hot water.
Innovation is one of the hallmarks of fine dining today, and Noma’s willingness to use unusual, locally foraged ingredients in its quest to develop an authentically Nordic cuisine is one of the reasons that its reservation book fills months in advance with diners more than willing to pay $260 for the chance to try its tasting menu. But in a culture that has only recently begun to think of food as both art and entertainment, the same elements can also inspire mistrust and even mockery. Witness Gawker’s headline: “‘Best Restaurant in the World’ Offers Ants, Roe, and Horrible Diarrhea Illness.”
Redzepi says he understands the edge he walks. “We’re a restaurant that’s known for perfection, and suddenly there’s a stain on us. It’s like a prize fighter who only has knockouts to his name suddenly finding himself on the floor. I know that it’s news.” And yet, if according to the CDC, restaurants are the second most common location for norovirus outbreaks, most never make the news. One notable exception was the Fat Duck, in Bray, England, where in 2009, 240 diners fell ill after eating oysters that had been contaminated at their source. At the time, the restaurant was No. 2 in the 50 Best ranking (it had been No. 1 in 2005), and the numerous articles that came out around the world — the news made the front page of major papers in Spain, France, Japan, the U.S. and the U.K. — tended to highlight both that status and chef Heston Blumenthal’s avant garde style of cooking.
“What people have to realize is that this could happen to any restaurant in the world,” says Ferran Adrià. “But the more well known you are, the more you become a target.” He should know. During the five years when his restaurant el Bulli was ranked best in the world, he received outsize attention after another prominent Spanish chef accused him, without substantiation, of “poisoning” his diners with some of the additives that the restaurant used to achieve dramatic effects on the plate. “It’s crazy that this kind of thing gets more attention than when you win a major prize or have a significant accomplishment,” Adrià says. “But that’s the way things work these days. That’s the price of fame.”
On Saturday night, Noma’s website was besieged with hits, slowing it to a crawl. Concerned, Redzepi logged into Twitter to see if there was some new twist in the saga. “I immediately saw that I had 50 new followers in the last hour and I thought, Oh no, what are they saying now?” But this time, norovirus had nothing to do with it. Noticing that his new followers had names like Smile Justin and Team Biebs, Redzepi kept reading backward in his timeline until he found the culprit: a tweet from Dan Kanter, guitarist for Justin Bieber. Noting that he was going to Denmark, Kanter had written, “I really hope I get to experience the world-renowned cooking of @ReneRedzepiNoma!” to his 822,000 eager followers. And just like that, Noma moved on to its next big thing.
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im looking at RMIT Marketing course,
- The Bachelor of Business (Marketing) prepares students for the global marketplace and a career in marketing. The marketing degree at RMIT is multidisciplinary and involves a broad range of business courses.
or UOL business
- This degree combines established core management subjects with comtemporary business subjects, giving students a thorough grounding for a career in business.
The degree provides a solid understanding of the different functional areas of business and a good foundation for a career in management.
The degree is designed to develop excellent analytical skills which are invaluable to the decision making role of management.
or UOL managment
-The degree provides you with the skills to analyse management issues critically and enables you to pursue a range of career opportunities in commerce, industry and education.
This programme gives students the opportunity to study the activities of management and the environment which the manager operates in. The degree offers an opportunity for critical and theoretical study, particularly in economics.
i want to study business in marketing and currently i am confused which of this two school to choose.
RMIT offer the course that i wanted which is Bachelor of Business (Marketing), but UOL only offers Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Business and Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Management both offer degrees however RMIT do not give out honors, unlike UOL.
UOL school fees is also slightly cheaper than RMIT, approx 5 -6k, and yet they give out degree with honors.
I am in a serious dillemma, any good advice anyone?
The University of London is definitely more recognised worldwide than the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne. And the degree is awarded by University of London in association with the world famous, globally renowned London School of Economics and Political Science(commonly referred to as LSE, and its Economics programs are ranked #1 in the world), so I daresay the University of London degree will be more worthwhile. And its an Honours degree too, which will carry more weight in the eyes of a potential employer or university admissions officer, should you plan to study further later on. Astonishingly, it works out to be cheaper too. What more reasons could you possibly want?
by: The Answerer
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USB 3.0, completed in 2008, has extremely fast transmission speeds of up to 5 Gbit/s.
USB 2.0, by comparison, could only use 480 Mbit/s.
Additionally, USB 3.0 has significantly less power consumption, is backwards compatible with 2.0 drives, and offers huge performance increases in every way.
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Daguerre and Daguerreotypes at Prices4Antiques.com Everyone wants to know what's the latest thing in the antiques marketplace and this week at Prices4Antiques.com, we're seeing searches for daguerreotype photographs!
News-Antique.com - Nov 18,2011 - November 18, 2011 – This week marks the 224th birthday of Louis Daguerre, inventor of the daguerreotype, a photographic process that allowed images to be captured on silvered copper plates, a revolutionary process that permitted people for the first time to capture exact replicas of what they saw before them. These images remain popular with collectors today and at Prices4Antiques.com, we see regular searches for them. The most common searches this week have been for a portrait of little girls by Jesse Harrison Whitehurst, an image of John Cabell Breckinridge by W.R. Phipps, a stereo daguerreotype portrait by Jules Duboscq, an occupational portrait of a fireman in uniform, and a photograph of a young woman whose family wanted to capture a final image as she is clearly near death. The ability to retain the faces of loved ones long after they were gone was an amazing gift, and it’s wonderful to see that so many years later, the results of Daguerre’s invention continue to be treasured for the remarkable objects they are. These gorgeous, poignant photographs are just a few of the thousands of photographica records in our database and just a few of the records viewed by searchers this week at Prices4Antiques.com!
Prices4antiques.com, an online subscription database of auction prices founded in 1999, contains data from over 140 U.S. auction companies. Subscribers can search over 1200 categories and related types to identify and price antiques and collectibles sold at auction. The only online price database in which every record has at least one full-color photograph of the specific item sold, p4A also has industry experts who review all records for accuracy and completeness. Subscribers have access to coverage that includes antiques, Americana, historical and pop cultural ephemera, collectibles, and more, in addition to thousands of reference notes providing additional content in the form of biographies, company histories, and other marketplace-related articles. | <urn:uuid:239fcdef-222b-46ae-bd04-16a012131896> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news-antique.com/?id=801143&keys=antiques-auctions-daguerre-daguerreotypes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932583 | 489 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Montreal - the technical requirements 06 Jun 2008
Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve is a stop-start, temporary circuit. The long straights mean plenty of heavy braking, while numerous slow corners put the emphasis on strong traction and good engine torque to launch the cars out of them. A competitive car will give the drivers confidence to brake late, while also looking after the rear tyres on a circuit where teams will be running the softest of Bridgestone's 2008 compounds. Here Renault reveal how they plan to set-up the R28 to find maximum performance out on track in Canada...
Montreal will see the team run with a 'low downforce' aerodynamic package. The circuit can be considered as including no high-speed corners, as Turn Five is taken comfortably at full throttle in fifth and sixth gears. The primary focus is therefore on minimising drag levels in order to achieve competitive straight-line speeds (with a maximum of over 320 km/h), while the downforce will assist vehicle stability under heavy braking. The low downforce levels mean the car feels light to drive, and nervous under braking, and so the drivers need to be more delicate with their steering inputs, and when applying the brakes and throttle.
The cars need a responsive change of direction in the chicanes while maintaining good stability under braking and traction out of the slow corners. Brake locking must also be taken into consideration when tuning the suspension, as excessive locking at front or rear will cost lap-time.
Along with Monza, Montreal is the most demanding circuit of the year for the brakes. Overheating is not the primary concern, as the discs and pads have ample time to cool on the straights. However, the braking energies are very high, with four braking events from over 300 km/h - and the other two from above 250 km/h. Basic wear is therefore our primary concern, and we monitor this in real time during the race. The driver may be asked to adjust the brake balance if wear levels become alarming at front or rear, and some of our work in practice will focus on ensuring that brake wear levels are under control on representative race fuel loads.
The temporary nature of the circuit means that the circuit begins the weekend very 'green' and grip levels improve constantly throughout the weekend - just like we see at similar venues such as Melbourne or Monaco. The track surface is not particularly abrasive, and the absence of high-speed corners means that tyre energies are among the lowest of the season. Consequently, the teams will be using the Soft and Super-soft compounds from Bridgestone's 2008 range, as was the case for the last race in Monaco.
Traditionally, Montreal has been a race with strategies ranging from one to three stops although a two-stop strategy is likely to be the most competitive solution under the 2008 tyre regulations. The absence of high-speed corners means the fuel effect (the time penalty for carrying fuel weight) is relatively low at this circuit, and combined with low fuel consumption, this means there is relatively little penalty in qualifying for carrying extra fuel. Teams will also need to consider the ever-present threat of a safety car period, and so a flexible strategy could reap rewards come Sunday afternoon.
The engine is used in a very stop-start fashion around the Montreal circuit, which is essentially compromised of six extended full throttle bursts separated by chicanes. The engine spends just under 60 percent of the lap at full throttle, which is not a particularly high percentage, but the longest full throttle section last for 14 seconds - a more demanding value, which puts the circuit at the higher end of the scale for engine severity. Cooling is not normally a problem thanks to the long straights, but cut grass and other debris are potential hazards. We monitor temperatures closely, and debris can usually be removed at the pit stops. | <urn:uuid:43880778-b4ea-4147-ac34-c23dbc8b1cfa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.formula1.com/news/features/2008/6/7882.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953817 | 783 | 1.640625 | 2 |
3 Things You Should Never Do for Your Kids
Do not sit over him while he is doing his homework, as he will be inclined to ask for further assistance repeatedly. After all of the work is completed, glance over the assignment for any glaring errors. When you find mistakes, have your child redo the problems until they are correct. While it's fine to show examples, brainstorm and encourage, do not -- and we repeat -- do not do the work for him. Doing reports, projects and homework independently will actually increase your child's self-confidence and self esteem. Nothing compares to the sense of accomplishment your child will have knowing that he earned that "A" on his own.2. Speak for them - It's far too easy to put words in your child's mouth. Children are works in progress. As they get older, they come into their own.
However, being a child can often be intimidating. Children are often insecure and, at times, unable to properly express themselves. In many cases, he may expect you to be his spokesperson.Whether it's asking a neighborhood child to play or requesting a cup of water at a restaurant, always encourage your child to use his voice. | <urn:uuid:fed79ae5-0b22-4feb-924b-dbb45efab75d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mydailymoment.com/moms/parenting/3_things_you_should_never_do_for_your_kids.php?cpage=10&page=5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979556 | 242 | 2.515625 | 3 |
For a brief hiatus from city life, duck into this garden. It is the oldest of the five Honolulu Botanical Gardens. The ... More
Foster Botanical Garden
For a brief hiatus from city life, duck into this garden. It is the oldest of the five Honolulu Botanical Gardens. The mission of the organization is "to plan, develop, curate, maintain and study documented collections of tropical plants in an aesthetic setting." Highlights include a palm collection, Lyon Orchid Garden, a prehistoric glen, and a number of trees rated "exceptional" for their beauty and rarity.
We spent about two hours walking around the garden and I took dozens of pictures. So many interesting trees - from the Baobob to the Earpod to the Kapok to our absolute favorite, the Talipot Palm. The one we saw was 40 years old and they bloom once in their lifetime and then die. We saw it blooming. It was incredible. The orchids and prehistoric garden were great also. It was hard to believe we were in the middle of Honolulu. SR
I was there in March, and so many flowers were blooming. It felt very tropical. There were many very strange trees that I had never seen before, even in movies. There is even a section that makes you feel like you're in Jurrasic Park. I took about 72 pictures while I was there, many of which are now hanging in my gallery. People who see them are absolutely amazed at the bizzare cannonball trees, among other things. I highly recommend a visit to this garden, as well as the Lyon Arboritum if you have the time.
Ocean is the place for Honolulu's beautiful people to meet and greet one another. The decor is ultra chic. The
dance floor is the biggest in town, with a comfortable seating area around the perimeter. Things don't really get ...
At this museum atop Mount Tantalus, six galleries feature changing exhibitions by renowned local, national and international artists. A separate
pavilion houses a permanent installation of David Hockney's striking sets for the Ravel opera 'L'enfant et les Sortileges'. The ...
This steel and concrete structure was constructed as a coastal artillery installation in 1911. It sits unobtrusively in the middle
of a lush beachfront park in Waikiki. The fort's Battery Randolph has been converted to an exhibit hall that ...
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- Opening Times and Session Times
- Our Ethos
- The Key-worker System Supports Each Individual Child
- Your Child's Learning Journey within the EYFS
- Learning Diaries
- Listening to Children
- Partnership with Parents
Opening Times and Session Times
We are open every day(including over the summer holidays) from 08.00 until 17.50 apart from bank holidays and over the Christmas and New Year period.
Our session times are:
08.00 – 12.50
09.00 – 12.50
13.00 – 16.50
13.00 – 17.50
We recognise each child and family is unique and aim to value, respect and celebrate this in all aspects of our work. We work from the understanding that children learn best through play with the support of caring and knowledgeable adults. We focus on child led activities, based on each child's individual interests and stage of development. We balance this with adult initiated activities that help children explore their interests further and expand their learning. Children enjoy being active and we ensure that we provide activities that are sensory, tactile and often messy such as digging in the garden or water play.
In all aspects of play, learning and development we work from the basis of what children can do rather than what they can't. By recognising their strengths, skills and abilities we enable each child to develop independence, self esteem and confidence in both themselves and their abilities.
We really enjoy being with the children, watching them grow and develop and sharing this very special time with them. We provide an environment which is safe, warm and nurturing in which children will learn, thrive and develop whilst having fun. Our aim is to help each child discover his or her enthusiasm for learning which in turn will help them lead a fulfilled and happy life.
The Key-worker System Supports Each Individual Child
Every child and family has their own key-worker. We understand starting nursery can be an anxious time so we ensure every child has a named key-worker from their first visit who will support you and your child in settling in and becoming familiar with the nursery environment.
Through interaction, observation and spending time with your child the key-worker will build up a good knowledge of your child's unique personality and their learning and development. The key-worker uses this knowledge to inform the activities and experiences they plan specifically for your child. Your key-worker will usually stay with you throughout your child's time in the unit. If your child moves to another room you will get a new key-worker who will meet with you and your previous key-worker to ensure that they start with a good understanding of your child.
Your Child's Learning Journey within the EYFS
All aspects of our planning for learning and development are based around the Early Years Foundation Stage framework and the six areas of learning which are;
- Communication, Language and Literacy
- Problem solving, Reasoning and Numeracy
- Knowledge and Understanding of the World
- Personal, Social and Emotional.
Observations, recorded by the key-worker, in your child's personal Learning Diary are organised in line with these learning areas. This helps you to see and understand your child's development in relation to particular areas of learning.
Your child will have his or her own Learning Diary that charts her or his learning journey throughout their time at the Centre. Your child's Learning Diary contains observations, photos and examples of your child's work.
The Learning Diary is normally kept at nursery but it does belong to you and your child and provides a way of bringing home and nursery together. It enables us all to share and reflect on each child's celebrations and achievements from both home and nursery. When your child leaves nursery we hope you will take the Learning Diary as a treasured reminder of your child's precious early years.
The Learning Diaries are always available in the room for you to look at anytime and we would love you to add your own observations, photos etc. Your input is really important and valuable to us and your child, so please don't be shy. Come and take a look!
Some parents wonder why some learning diaries are fuller than others. This is simply to do with how much time your child spends at nursery. If your child is here full time we have many more opportunities to record observations and to do activities with your child than if she or he is here for only one or two sessions per week.
Listening to Children
We prioritise listening to children. By listening to children we gain insight and understanding into their world. This helps us to build better relationships with the children and to provide a better service. We consult the children on important aspects of the Centre such as food, toys and books and also in relation to major projects and developments including, for example, the redesign of the garden. While we are often charmed and sometimes can't help smiling at the children's honest and playful view of the world there is an important side to this. Children gain in confidence and self esteem when their views are taken into account. They learn to express their opinion confidently and understand from an early age that what they think matters and can make a difference. They also learn to respect the different opinions of others and in turn become good listeners themselves!
Partnership with Parents
Throughout the Centre we recognise the important role Parents and Carers play as their child's first and fore most educator and understand children really benefit from parents, carers and practitioners working together.
Working in partnership as well as benefitting your child will also have benefits for both us and you as parents/carers. Listening to you and working together ensures we are up to date, knowledgeable and informed about your child. At the same time you can relax, confident in the knowledge that your child is being cared for by knowledgeable and trusted adults.
We have an open door policy and warmly encourage and invite you to take advantage of this and come and spend some time with us. This could be to join a specific activity such as a trip or fun day, to share a skill or just to join in the fun with us and your child. The door is always open and you are always welcome. | <urn:uuid:c251e649-e96f-456a-99d8-48b5628a00c5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.eastonccc.org.uk/index.php?id=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967459 | 1,263 | 2.046875 | 2 |
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
Show me someone who doesn't dream about the future and I'll show you someone who doesn't know where they are going
Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.
Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.
The future is purchased by the present
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now
Anxiety about the future never profits; we feel no evil until it comes, and when we feel it, no counsel helps; wisdom is either too early or too late.
Desire and hope will push us on toward the future
In this bright future you can't forget your past.
The future arrives too soon and in the wrong order
The future depends on what we do in the present.
The longer you will wait for the future, the shorter it will be
No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all your knowledge is about the past and all your decisions are about the future.
The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.
Effective managers live in the present -- but concentrate on the future.
The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be
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China’s path to steady growth
China’s GDP growth has slowed, but some investors may benefit
According to the latest government data, China’s economy was 8.1 per cent bigger in the first quarter of 2012 than during the same period last year.
While this is good when compared to the economies of the developed world, it is in fact the slowest headline pace for China in almost three years, and less than the 8.4 per cent forecast by market analysts.
Managers, economists and analysts have said that it has been difficult to evaluate Chinese economic data recently because of distortions related to Chinese New Year.
However, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s leading economic indicators were recently revised to show a strong pick up from the lows last summer.
Combined with strong new loans figures and the improving global backdrop, this suggests economic growth is unlikely to be as weak as many had feared.
Trevor Greetham, director of asset allocation at Fidelity Worldwide Investment, says: “Inflation is peaking and, if past monetary relationships hold, China could be in deflation by year end.
“With one eye on the upcoming leadership transition, policymakers could soon replace easing at the margins with outright stimulus. This would benefit global growth plays like commodities, the emerging markets and the Aussie dollar, which have all lagged lately on concerns that China is heading for a hard landing. The pick up in global growth should boost Chinese exports over the next two quarters.
“To stick with a hard-landing view, you have to argue either that the authorities are powerless to stimulate the economy or that global growth is collapsing. Neither seems a sensible base case.”
However, Chia-Liang Lian, manager of the Legg Mason Western Asset Asian Opportunities fund, argues that the current slowdown in economic momentum was expected by Beijing’s ministers, as it reflected the lagged effects of Chinese policy tightening over the past two years.
“In spite of some market worries of a Chinese hard landing, our sense is that the authorities remain unperturbed and in fact welcome the growth moderation currently underway. Discussions on hard-versus-soft landing run into the issue of definitions.
“We would argue that the current ‘not too hot, not too cold’ macroeconomic backdrop actually facilitates Beijing’s focus on longer term economic reforms, emphasising that reform efforts are the only way to ensure China’s growth sustainability over the medium-to-long term.
“There is ample ammunition to cushion any fallout from exogenous pressure. Unlike many developed nations, China has both the willingness and ability to engineer policy easing. That said, unless GDP growth falls significantly below the 7 per cent level, massive macroeconomic stimulus programmes, like the one undertaken at the end of 2008 shortly after the Lehman [Brothers] collapse, appear unlikely for now.” | <urn:uuid:f1f1ac2f-6b73-4394-afcf-a99835e1c755> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ftadviser.com/2012/04/30/investments/brics/china-s-path-to-steady-growth-orQ19zEilTtFLRCUhTNTeI/article.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947284 | 608 | 1.679688 | 2 |
MONTREAL — More smartphones and tablet traffic on wireless networks means an increase in antennas and cellphone towers, and now municipalities will be consulted on where this digital infrastructure will go.
Under a national protocol released Thursday, wireless carriers will be required to notify and consult with municipalities about every antenna system, including towers, that go up as they expand their networks.
Bernard Lord of the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association says the guidelines allow municipalities to give feedback on suggested locations in residential, industrial and agricultural areas.
Municipalities will also get a say on the look of the wireless antenna systems, says Lord, noting that in the past, some have been incorporated into lamp poles, for instance, to blend in with existing infrastructure.
Generally, antennas and cellphone towers can often be found on rooftops, along highways, near ski hills and in rural areas.
Lord says up to 50 per cent of data, used for email, surfing the internet and watching video on mobile devices is consumed at home. That means more sites need to be closer to where people live, even though it may result in citizen complaints about health or esthetic concerns, he said.
“The only reason that carriers want to set up more antennas and more sites is because there’s growing demand,” said Lord, president of the association that represents the wireless industry.
“Demand for data in Canada from mobile devices is growing at the rate of five per cent every single week.”
Consumers expect “21st-century, state-of-the-art” networks that are fast and allow them to do such things as watch live, high-definition television on their devices, Lord said.
Another reason for more wireless antenna systems in municipalities is to prevent gaps in coverage for 911 emergency service, he said.
More than half of 911 calls now come from mobile devices, according to the association.
Lord said the protocol, which was developed by the Ottawa-based association and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, will promote consultation, but does not give municipalities the ability to veto the location of a cellphone tower or a rooftop antenna. Telecommunications falls under federal jurisdiction.
He said electromagnetic radiation from wireless antenna systems meet federal standards applied by Industry Canada and citizens’ health concerns are unfounded.
In the past, large carriers like Rogers, Bell and Telus have all run into opposition from local citizens at times over placement of towers and antenna systems.
Karen Leibovici, president of the federation, said many municipalities receive concerns from their citizens about where cell towers go up.
“Upfront communications is important in letting people have input (on) where the towers are sited and why the towers need to be there, and hopefully you have less concerns being expressed by citizens,” she said.
Leibovici added that it will be up to municipalities to decide how they will consult residents on the matter.
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In light of Stone Soup's recent coverage and discussion of recent activist movements, we are pleased to publish an account of Occupy Boston from poet and past Stone Soup feature April Penn.
My personal story about Occupy Boston
by April Penn
What is it all about?
For those who don’t know what Occupy Boston is, let me explain in my own words: There is a public park in the middle of Boston’s financial center where protesters have gathered and set up a make-shift village of tents as a way to have an around-the-clock protest of the tremendous and growing economic inequality in this country and abroad. It was modeled off the movement in New York called Occupy Wall Street, inspired by Wisconsin’s occupation of the capital and the Arab spring which brought revolution in Egypt. Protesters in Boston, New York, and cities all over the country, also stand in opposition of corporate greed, corporate tax loopholes, special interests and lobbyists that buy out politicians. For example, CEO salaries have increased by 300 percent in the last 15 years, whereas the minimum wage has not been raised. Another issue is education. College students are graduating with an extreme amount of debt while there are fewer job prospects. Of those who are employed, many are under-employed (working part-time jobs) or being grossly underpaid. I myself am working two part-time jobs and am no stranger to minimum wage. I currently make about 20,000 dollars a year, for which I consider myself very lucky. I am also lucky that I don’t have any college debt due to the fact I was on scholarship. (I graduated third in my high school class and received numerous awards for writing.)
Getting back to the issues that Occupy Boston protesters and protesters in all the occupation movements are focused on, it is important to note that this is also an anti-war protest. On marches, protesters frequently chant: “How do you solve the deficit? End the wars and tax the rich! Other chants include, “What does democracy look like? This is what democracy looks like!” “Banks got bailed out. We got sold out.” “Who’s streets? Our streets!” “Money for jobs and education. Not for banks and corporations.”
What happened on Monday that resulted in Occupy Boston making national news?
I have been going to Occupy Boston marches and general assemblies (made up of the people who show up and vote on issues) since the movement kicked off in Dewey Square. I have been to several marches and numerous general assemblies as well as served as a sidewalk protester where I held a political sign (with the same kind of message as the chants previously noted). After going to the march on Columbus day, I had an appointment so I left for a few hours. On my way back home from the appointment, I got several text messages from comrades at Occupy Boston stating that we had an emergency situation. Police were planning to possibly shut down the latest expansion of the occupation into a field of grass across the street from the original occupation site. We had to expand because so many people brought tents and wanted to join the occupation movement that we were running out of room. In order to protect the occupation sight-- the meeting ground and heartland of the growing movement for economic change if not all out revolution—the general assembly met and we decided with a consensus that we would stay to occupy the sight of our peaceful protest. We locked arms in a circle around the tents while others with flags encircled us and many stood in front as another line of defense and look-out.
How did the police attack us?
The police came in and issued a warning saying that if we did not disperse we would be arrested. There were large trucks nearby which we knew were to clear all the tents and items on the greenway. We held our ground and repeated that our constitutional right to freedom of speech and assembly permitted us to be there. The police burst in from the rear of the greenway and knocked over many veterans for peace who were holding flags. They pushed those who were locking arms in the circle. When the police pushed me, I couldn’t help but step back and back because I would lose my footing. The line of people locking arms to my right fell so I was split from them. My comrade to my left was still locking arms with him but no one was on his other side because that is where the police broke the circle and began bringing down the tents. Police were manhandling someone further down the circle to my right. They arrested my comrade to the left and I was left standing on my own. The police officer put my hands behind my back and cuffed me with plastic ties. I walked out to the street with him without speaking or putting up any fight. He had me stand between what he called “paddy wagons.” I prefer to avoid such a racial slur against the Irish and instead say “police wagon.” Then he had me walk with him to the back of one police wagon. I was the first to get in so I had to scoot all the way to the back. Eight other women soon joined me. I quickly learned that the police had banded some of the other woman’s arms so tight they were losing sensation in their hands and fingers. When they asked a police officer to loosen it, the female police officer who began asking us for names, height, weight, birth date, said she didn’t care if it hurt. Fortunately, mine were on loosely so I didn’t have any trouble with loosing sensation. The police wagon was dark as we bumped along the road. We sang songs like Amazing Grace and talked about our backgrounds. We debated about whether the police were part of the 99 percent—the working class who are subject to the oppression of the ruling class state. I believe that the police may come from a working class background but the institution of the police sides with the ruling class. In New York, for example, the NYPD received millions of dollars in donations from JP Morgan before the police decided to arrest 700 protesters. Once we got to the police station, they kept us in a small cinder block holding cell. Our numbers in that one holding cell grew from nine to 18 women as more arrived at the station. In all about 140 peaceful protesters were arrested and dispersed to nearby jails. There was some writing on the cinder block wall that appeared to be scrawled in blood. Some of the women asked a cop about the mysterious handwriting on the wall. One said it must be menstrual blood. Another suggested it might be from a wound. A police officer told us it spelled out the name of a gang. He made a joke saying, “If I give you a hammer will you stop hitting yourself in the head with it?” I didn’t understand his joke but he thought it was funny and kept repeating it. They took a group of us out of the holding cell because we had enough cash on us to make bail. They moved us to another holding cell where we waited for hours to be processed and released. It turned out that Occupy Boston had already raised enough money to cover everyone’s bail so I didn’t have to pay out of pocket. They fingerprinted me and scolded me for not having an ID but said they’d let me go anyway. I didn’t have an ID because I knew about the risk of arrest and had given Brenda my purse. I only kept some money on me just in case. I got a court summons for Thursday morning with the charge being “unlawful assembly.” Then I was released.
What happened after I got out of jail? And Concluding Reflections
A few comrades from Occupy Boston greeted me with a cheer so I smiled real big. Brenda arrived a few minutes later after she had finished driving someone else home. I was happy to see Brenda and gave her a big hug. I have a mix of emotions. I feel very loved because so many people helped support me in this process. I am grateful to everyone at Occupy Boston for carrying on the movement even in the face of personal sacrifice and the adversity that comes with police brutality. However, I also feel deeply hurt and confused why we everyday people were not permitted to peacefully assemble. I do not know what awaits me at court. It isn’t considered a serious offense so I probably won’t have to do much but pay a fine. Many people in our community, especially people of color, have endured far worse consequences at the hands of police brutality. I am humbled at my privilege as a white middle-class looking female. I am appalled that I can even refer to myself as privileged because most Americans like myself are far from privileged, from problems with healthcare to employment, education to police states, we are not going to be okay unless this movement continues to strengthen and give voice to the oppressed. We must tear down the capitalist system and replace it with one based not on human greed and profit but on human need where community and democracy are the highest goals. | <urn:uuid:231729f3-2390-4ba9-9446-992e97ac3afe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://stonesouppoetry.blogspot.com/2011/10/in-light-of-stone-soups-recent-coverage.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983811 | 1,867 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Commission Agenda Item No. 3
Presenter: Ed Hegen
Seagrass Conservation Rules – Redfish Bay State Scientific Area
May 27, 2010
I. Executive Summary: This item presents for adoption a proposed amendment that would remove the expiration date from rules governing the protection of seagrasses in the Redfish Bay State Scientific Area. In addition, the proposal updates the proper names for two species of seagrasses to be consistent with the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
II. Discussion: In 2000, a large triangle-shaped area on the mid-Texas coast, encompassing all of Redfish Bay, was established as a state scientific area. The substantial meadows of submerged aquatic vegetation (seagrasses) within this area were receiving extensive boating pressure and subsequently the seagrasses were being uprooted and scarred by outboard motor propellers. The Commission reauthorized the Redfish Bay State Scientific Area for five years (July 1, 2005 through June 30, 2010) and subsequently prohibited the uprooting of seagrass within the area, effective May 1, 2006. Extensive efforts by Coastal Fisheries staff to educate boaters and conduct scientific research has proven that seagrasses are being protected by the current regulation. The Coastal Fisheries Division has determined that the expiration date in the current rule should be eliminated and that the proper names for two species of seagrasses should be updated to be consistent with the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
The Regulations Committee at its March 31, 2010 meeting authorized staff to publish the proposed rule in the Texas Register for public comment. The proposed rules appeared in the April 23, 2010, issue of the Texas Register (35 TexReg 3210). A summary of public comment on the proposed rules will be presented at the time of the hearing.
III. Recommendation: Staff recommends that the Commission adopt the proposed motion:
“The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission adopts an amendment to §57.921, concerning Redfish Bay State Scientific Area, with changes as necessary to the proposed text as published in the April 23, 2010, issue of the Texas Register (35 TexReg 3210).”
Attachments – 2
Commission Agenda Item No. 3
Redfish Bay State Scientific Area Map
Commission Agenda Item No. 3
Redfish Bay State Scientific Area
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) proposes an amendment to §57.921, concerning the Redfish Bay State Scientific Area (RBSSA). The proposed amendment would remove the expiration date for the effectiveness of the section.
Submerged seagrass meadows are a dominant, unique subtropical habitat in many Texas bays and estuaries. These communities of highly evolved marine flowering plants play a critical role in the coastal environment, including functioning as nursery habitat for estuarine fisheries, a major source of organic biomass for coastal food webs, effective agents for stabilizing coastal erosion and sedimentation, and major biological agents in nutrient cycling and water quality processes. Recent studies show that seagrasses are sensitive to nutrient enrichment and water quality problems, as well as physical stress from human disturbances.
Destruction of seagrasses in the RBSSA by boat propellers has been well documented. See, e.g., Montagna, Holt et al., Characterization of Anthropogenic and Natural Disturbance on Vegetated and Unvegetated Bay Bottom Habitats in the Corpus Christi Bay Natural Estuary Program Study Area (1998); Pulich et al., Current Status and Historical Trends of Seagrass in the Corpus Christi Bay National Estuary Program Study Area (1997). As a result, many Texas scientists, resource managers and environmentally aware citizens have concerns about the ecosystem health of these seagrass resources.
In January 1999, (TPWD), the Texas General Land Office and the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (the precursor agency to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality) published ’The Seagrass Conservation Plan for Texas.’ The Seagrass Conservation Plan recommends that these three agencies take measures within their jurisdictions to conserve this critical coastal resource. The Seagrass Conservation Plan identified propeller scarring as a factor in seagrass destruction.
In 2000, a large triangle-shaped area on the mid-Texas coast (encompassing all of Redfish Bay) was established as a state scientific area. The substantial meadows of submerged aquatic vegetation (seagrasses) within RBSSA were receiving extensive boating pressure and subsequently the seagrasses were being uprooted and scarred by outboard motor propellers. Initial efforts for five years (2000-2005) of establishing voluntary no-prop zones proved ineffective and unenforceable. Prior to renewing the state scientific area designation, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission directed staff to hold public hearings to discuss the concepts of mandatory no-prop zones and a prohibition on uprooting of seagrasses within the state scientific area. In 2006, the Commission reauthorized the RBSSA, effective until June 30, 2010 and prohibited the uprooting of seagrasses within the area. Scientific research, following extensive efforts by staff to educate boaters, indicates that seagrasses are being protected by the current regulation. Therefore the department believes that continuation of the Redfish Bay State Scientific Area without a term limit is warranted.
The proposed amendment also replaces taxonomic references in subsection (d) in order to be consistent with the scientific nomenclature.
2. Fiscal Note.
Jeremy Leitz, Program Specialist for the Coastal Fisheries Division, has determined that for each of the first five years that the rule as proposed will be in effect, there will be no fiscal implications to state or local governments as a result of administering or enforcing the rule.
3. Public Benefit/Cost Note.
Mr. Leitz also has determined that for each of the first five years that the rule as proposed is in effect:
(A) The public benefit anticipated as a result of enforcing or administering the proposed rule will be the continued protection of an important ecosystem enjoyed by the public.
Under the provisions of Government Code, Chapter 2006, a state agency must prepare an economic impact statement and a regulatory flexibility analysis for a rule that may have an adverse economic affect on small businesses and micro-businesses. As required by Government Code, §2006.002(g), the Office of the Attorney General has prepared guidelines to assist state agencies in determining a proposed rule’s potential adverse economic impact on small businesses. Those guidelines state that an agency need only consider a proposed rule’s “direct adverse economic impacts” to small businesses and micro-businesses to determine if any further analysis is required. For that purpose, the department considers “direct economic impact” to mean a requirement that would directly impose recordkeeping or reporting requirements; impose taxes or fees; result in lost sales or profits; adversely affect market competition; or require the purchase or modification of equipment or services.
(B) The department has determined that the proposed rule will not directly affect small businesses and/or micro-businesses. Therefore, the department has not prepared the economic impact statement or regulatory flexibility analysis described in Government Code, Chapter 2006.
(C) The department has not drafted a local employment impact statement under the Administrative Procedures Act, §2001.022, as the agency has determined that the rule as proposed will not impact local economies.
(D) The department has determined that Government Code, §2001.0225 (Regulatory Analysis of Major Environmental Rules), does not apply to the proposed rule.
(E) The department has determined that there will not be a taking of private real property, as defined by Government Code, Chapter 2007, as a result of the proposed rule.
(F) The department has determined that the proposed rule is in compliance with Government Code, §505.11 (Actions and Rules Subject to the Coastal Management Program) and §505.22 (Consistency Required for New Rules and Rule Amendments Subject to the Coastal Management Program).
4. Request for Public Comment.
Comments on the proposal may be submitted to Jeremy Leitz, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, 4200 Smith School Road, Austin, Texas 78744; (512) 389-4333; email: email@example.com.
5. Statutory Authority.
The amendment is proposed under Parks and Wildlife Code, §81.501, which authorizes the commission to create state scientific areas for the purposes of education, scientific research, and preservation of flora and fauna of scientific or educational value, and §81.502(c), which authorizes the commission to adopt rules necessary for the management and protection of scientific areas.
The amendment affects Parks and Wildlife Code, Chapter 81.
§57.921. Redfish Bay State Scientific Area.
(a) Purpose: The Redfish Bay State Scientific Area is established for the purpose of education, scientific research, and preservation of flora and fauna of scientific or educational value.
[(b) Term: July 1, 2005 through June 30, 2010.]
(b) [(c)] Boundaries:
(1) – (14) (No change.)
(c) [(d)] No person may move, remove, deface, alter, or destroy any sign, depth marker or other informational signage placed by the department to delineate boundaries of the Redfish Bay State Scientific Area or to designate specific zones within the area .
(d) [(e)] This subsection is effective May 1, 2006:
(1) In this section, "seagrass plant" means individuals from the following marine flowering plant species: Star Grass [Clover Grass] (Halophila engelmannii), Manatee Grass (Cymodocea [Syringodium] filiformis), Shoalgrass (Halodule beaudettei), Turtle Grass (Thalassia testudinum), and Widgeon Grass (Ruppia maritima).
(2) – (3) (No change.)
(e) [(f)] The penalty for violation of this section is prescribed by Parks and Wildlife Code, §13.112..
This agency hereby certifies that the proposal has been reviewed by legal counsel and found to be within the agency’s authority to adopt.
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Such are the sights of the Kinetic Grand Championship, a three-day event on the northern California coast that is equal parts inventors' showcase, artistic performance, and serious race. It's the Daytona 500 meets Burning Man. Using no motors, the picnic basket, the sea monster, and three dozen other human-powered absurdities will travel 42 miles between the cities of Arcata, Eureka, and Ferndale. Though they look like carnival floats on acid, the contraptions must be designed to drive over pavement, dirt, and sand dunes, and even to navigate moving waters. "Kinetics is about art, speed, and engineering," says Monica Topping, former president of the organization that puts on the race. "It's the triathlon of the art world."
There are nearly a dozen kinetic races around the United States, from Port Townsend, Wash., to Baltimore, and all were inspired by the Humboldt County event. It was launched in 1969 by local artists Hobart Brown and Jack Mays and first won by a turtle that belched smoke and laid eggs. The event begins at Arcata's main square, where thousands of spectators snap pictures and a marching band plays hits from the 1980s. A slice of cake creeps past a pod of dolphins. A gangster's getaway car moves beside the space shuttle Endeavour. The Heroes of Gloryopolis rolls slowly along with a team of Marvel Comicsesque superheroes patrolling a metropolitan skyline. Ten pilots below pedal bikes welded to the remains of a Ford Ranger chassis. The machine was engineered by resident Carl Mueller, who, like many kinetic racers, has an almost compulsive desire to tinker with everything from Legos to vintage steam locomotives. "I was born with a wrench in one hand and a gear in the other," he says.
On day two, Visualize Whirled Peas begins to traverse Humboldt Bay with the writer as a co-pilot. (Photo by Mark Peterson)
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Next Steps in Launching a Business
In last November's column I wrote about starting a business. Continuing on that theme I will give you a few ideas of what is necessary to start your business off and keep it operating on the right track.
Generally the basic motivation that causes people to start their own business is to control their own destiny, have more freedom and make more money. Most working people have this idea stuck in the back of their mind; usually it is a life-changing event, such as the loss of a job, which puts the idea into play. Whatever your reason is for starting it, the first year of operating a business is perhaps the most critical. In that time you will understand that all of the “back office” work that was previously handled by some department in your previous job, now becomes your responsibility. The simple fact is that you are now the “front” and “back” office of the business, and while the total value of the goods and/or service you provide might be a fraction of your former employer, you still have many of the same requirements and processes to keep the business operating and profitable.
There are several studies citing statistics related to business start-up failure rates that go as high as 90 percent of businesses fail within the first four years, however the latest statistics from the Small Business Administration (SBA) show that "two-thirds of new employer establishments survive at least two years, and 44 percent survive at least four years."
Rather than write about the obvious requirements for operating your business, such as having the proper business licenses, insurance, tax, financial processes, business plan, etc., I want to focus on a few of the perhaps more obvious, but rarely discussed rules of running a business.
Falling in love with your customer
I don’t mean this in the biblical sense, but it is a very common mistake made by people who venture out on their own, particularly with some type of consulting or service type business. The way it starts is that an employee leaves his or her employer (for whatever reason) and ultimately ends up in some sort of outside contractor relationship with that former company, usually performing the same type of work he did when employed there. The familiar case is the engineer working at a station is laid-off due to a reduction in workforce, but is brought back a contract engineer.
While having a key customer that can provide a steady stream of revenue is a great way to start your business, you want to make sure you are marketing, actively going after and securing other potential opportunities right away. Never sign any contracts or agreements that limit your ability to work with person or company.
Falling in love with technology
This is not about having all the latest toys it is all about your mindset when it comes to building a business. It is about chasing opportunity, not chasing technology. Confused? Let me explain as it is a particularly interesting trait we see with people in the broadcast engineering business as well as those in other technology sectors. I’ve been involved with the engineering side of the broadcast and wireless industries directly and indirectly for the past 35 years or so and in that time had the opportunity to meet many very interesting, intelligent and successful people. People in technology related business basically fall into one of two categories: Those who make it their life’s work to know everything about the latest cutting-edge technologies or standards and to make sure that everyone they come into contact with knows they have this above-average, almost super-human understanding of all things technical. Then there are the rest of us who have a good understanding (perhaps even some expertise) about certain core technologies, but are more interested in figuring out ways to turn the knowledge into an opportunity.
There is nothing wrong with having the ultimate knowledge of emerging technologies, especially if you live or work in the Silicon Valley or inside the 495 beltway in Massachusetts, but in general that knowledge doesn’t translate well into money-making opportunities. My advice, emerging technologies unveiled today will probably not be available for an end-user for five or more years down the road. Rather than becoming an expert on the latest creation, understand how it will impact your customers and position yourself (and your business) to deliver it when available.
Be in it to win it
Business isn’t just about delivering services, goods or having a particular expertise; it is about playing “smart”. It is knowing your customers and their specific needs. It is about knowing your competition; it is knowing how to price fairly. It is about providing a superior level of service. It is about building relationships outside the business framework. It is about networking and building future business, but at the end of the day it is about making a profit. Always keep this in mind when pursuing new business. We live in an economy where everything is expected to be discounted. Do not fall into that trap, especially if you are providing a service. Cutting your rate just to get the business never works. Build a reputation for quality of work, responsiveness and customer service as opposed to the cheap guy.
McNamara is president of Applied Wireless, Cape Coral, FL.
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Washington, D.C., architect Rula Jawdat, 44, used to drink both tea and coffee. But the caffeine got to be too much for her, so she dropped the bean. "Tea is more meditative," she says. And she knows it's supposed to be good for you. "I'm totally into that stuff."
Indeed, the popular press paints tea as a miracle worker--allegedly capable of curing or warding off cancer, heart attacks, high cholesterol, tooth decay, bad breath, osteoporosis, and, a study suggested recently, even Alzheimer's disease. Maybe that's why there are more than 1,200 U.S. tea shops, compared with almost none 15 years ago. In the same period, tea sales have more than doubled to $5 billion.
Wouldn't it be nice if tea lived up to the medical hype? Nutrition research has taken off in the past few decades, and scientists are eager to find out whether tea can cure your ills. The answer: well . . . maybe.
Black, oolong, green, and white tea all come from the tea plant and contain catechins, a kind of antioxidant. Antioxidant molecules, whether made in our cells or eaten in foods, skitter around, mopping up free radicals, which, left to their own devices, do things like cause DNA damage, which can lead to cancer. Tea leaves destined to become black and, to a lesser extent, oolong are rolled up and left to sit before drying so their enzymes work on the leaves' chemicals, creating the distinctive flavor. Green tea and white tea (made from the plant's white-haired leaf buds) don't sit out before drying. Trendy red tea, which comes from South Africa's rooibos shrub, is also high in antioxidants.
"If you're a rat, I'm telling you, you should be drinking lots of tea," says Jeffrey Blumberg, a nutrition scientist at Tufts University. Tea is great at curing and preventing cancer in rats; human research is less conclusive. Some studies show the more green tea people drink, the lower their chances of getting stomach cancer. "But just as you're getting excited, another study shows basically no effect whatsoever," says Roderick Dashwood, who has decreased rats' colon cancer risk by serving them white tea at Oregon State University's Linus Pauling Institute.
Tea seems better at protecting humans from diseases of the heart and blood vessels. In a study published last year, Taiwanese people who drank more tea were likely to have lower blood pressure. People who drink tea after a heart attack are less likely to have a second heart attack, and tea makes blood vessels work better.
Plant life. That's not to say that a little tea can counteract lousy genes and a couch-potato lifestyle. "I'm sorry to say, there are no magic foods," Blumberg says. But research supports a diet rich in fruits, veggies, whole grains, and other plants. "Remember, tea is a plant food. You infuse the leaves with hot water and drink what you've extracted."
Like any herb, tea could have unwanted effects. Some research suggests tea with a meal can block iron absorption; anemics might avoid tea within an hour or two of eating red meat or taking iron pills.
But in general, a cup of antioxidants isn't a bad way to start the day. Stirring the tea as it steeps gets more antioxidants from the leaves, as does steeping for three to five minutes. Milk, sugar, lemon, or honey shouldn't have any effect. Though green and white teas have more catechins than black tea, many researchers think our bodies can break black tea's larger molecules into useful antioxidants. Which would be good, because the grassy taste of green and white tea isn't for everyone.
"If the stuff doesn't taste good, you aren't going to drink it," says Joe Simrany, president of the Tea Association, who suggests picking any tea you like and sticking to it. Even the most exquisite green tea, correctly made with water just below the boiling point, can taste like brewed lawn clippings to the untrained palate. UCLA epidemiologist Zuo-Feng Zhang tried to persuade a friend with bladder cancer to take up green tea. "I gave him very good green tea. He said, 'I would prefer to die.'"...........................
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This tiny board is an easy way to use Toshiba’s TB6612FNG dual motor driver, which can independently control two bidirectional DC motors or one bipolar stepper motor. A recommended motor voltage of 4.5 – 13.5 V and peak current output of 3 A per channel (1 A continuous) make this a great motor driver for low-power motors.
The TB6612FNG (308k pdf) is a great dual motor driver that is perfect for interfacing two small DC motors such as our micro metal gearmotors to a microcontroller, and it can also be used to control a single bipolar stepper motor. The MOSFET-based H-bridges are much more efficient than the BJT-based H-bridges used in older drivers such as the L298N and Sanyo’s LB1836M, which allows more current to be delivered to the motors and less to be drawn from the logic supply (the LB1836 still has the TB6612 beat for really low-voltage applications). Our little breakout board gives you direct access to all of the features of the TB6612FNG and adds power supply capacitors and reverse battery protection on the motor supply (note: there is no reverse protection on the Vcc connection).
In a typical application, power connections are made on one side of the board and control connections are made on the other. All of the control inputs are internally pulled low. Each of the two motor channels has two direction control pins and a speed control pin that accepts a PWM input with a frequency of up to 100 kHz. The STBY pin must be driven high to take the driver out of standby mode.
The distance between the header rows on the PCB is 0.1" smaller than a standard 0.6" DIP package (e.g. the Baby Orangutan), but the pin spacing allows it to conveniently fit in 0.1" breadboards and perfboards.
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Real-world power dissipation considerations
The TB6612 motor driver used on the carrier board has a peak current rating of 3 A per channel. The peak ratings are for quick transients (e.g. when a motor is first turned on), and the continuous rating of 1 A is dependent on various conditions, such as the ambient temperature. The actual current you can deliver will depend on how well you can keep the motor driver cool. The carrier’s printed circuit board is designed to draw heat out of the motor driver chip, but performance can be improved by adding a heat sink.
This product can get hot enough to burn you long before the chip overheats. Take care when handling this product and other components connected to it.
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By: Mary F. Holley, M.D
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In this book I have provided a comprehensive description of what methamphetamine is, how it works, and why it is so destructive to the lives of our children. I have included a full color photo section with pictures of addicts and the destruction meth has caused, pictures of the drug itself and related paraphernalia, laboratory sites and the chemicals used, fires and explosions, law enforcement drug busts, and the clean up of the chemicals after a bust.
The book starts with the story of my brother Jim and his battle against the addiction that ultimately took his life. I summarize the history of methamphetamine from its development in Japan to its wild fire spread across the United States, the environmental impact of meth labs, the demographics of addiction, and the community impact of methamphetamine in this nation.
I have an extensive discussion of the biochemistry of this drug and how it relates to the behavioral and personality changes seen in addicts. The significance of the brain damage caused by meth is emphasized, with sections on the effects of meth on the rest of the body and on the unborn child of the pregnant user.
I cover the risk factors for addiction with emphasis on the culture we find ourselves surrounded by. The widespread use of alcohol, nicotine, and marijuana provides a social and biochemical backdrop for methamphetamine addiction.
There are also interactions with medical conditions such as ADHD, manic depressive or bipolar disorder, and post traumatic stress disorder which biochemically [predispose to methamphetamine addiction and make recovery more difficult.
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A newly-formed company, Deep Space Industries, has announced a plan to mine asteroids flying by the Earth.
The company intends to send small, lightweight modified cubesats (small, standardized, modular satellites) on missions to mineral-rich asteroids as they pass near Earth's orbit, returning small samples to Earth orbit for exploitation. Asteroids are often rich in valuable commodities like platinum, gold and more exotic materials that sell at high prices.
"The number of asteroids that are more energetically accessible than the moonis 1700. We can get to those asteroids easier than we can get to the moon," says Deep Space Industries.
The company plans two models of satellite. The smaller seeker vehicle, called Firefly, will be used for exploration and examination. The larger vehicles, called DragonFly, will return materials to Earth. The company hopes to launch the first Fireflies in 2015. Dragonflies, beginning in 2016, will launch at lower speeds, thus taking several years to return to Earth orbit, returning a maximum payload of 45kg (100lb).
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"Once we have the data that tells us which asteroids are valuable and how they're structured, we send out harvester missions to bring back a few hundred tons at a time, and 2020 we can get into commercial operation and start producing products for customers," says the company.
The vehicles will have components manufactured in low Earth orbit in an in-space manufacturing facility, and possibly be used to process materials recovered from asteroid as well. Some parts, the company proposes, could be built in orbit and sent back to Earth to quickly repair remote outposts or ships at sea.
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Additional sponsors include North Georgia Electric Membership Corp. and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development. Supporting partners include the Chambers of Commerce from Catoosa County, Chattooga County, Chatsworth-Murray County, Dade County, Gordon County, Greater Dalton and Walker County.
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MCLA Green Living Seminar Begins Thursday, January 26
NORTH ADAMS, MA -Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' (MCLA) spring semester Green Living Seminar Series will begin with a presentation on "Biodiversity and Conservation in New York State Parks," by George Robinson, associate professor of biological sciences at the University of Albany.
The lecture, which will take place on Thursday, Jan. 26, at 5:30 p.m. in MCLA's Murdock Hall room 218, is free and open to the public. The theme for this semester's lecture series is "Saving biodiversity: Protecting species in Berkshire County and Beyond."
The presentation is the first in a 12-week series that will consider issues of local and global biodiversity conservation.
"These presentations will inform both students and community members about the importance of biodiversity and efforts to protect ecosystems and species on the brink of extinction," said Elena Traister, MCLA professor of environmental science.
"Lectures address the issue from a wide variety of angles - from efforts to protect the New England cottontail and rattlesnakes in Berkshire County to the influence of landscaping on bird biodiversity to strategies for incorporating biodiversity conservation into land use planning," Traister continued. "I hope participants will come away with a greater awareness of the imperative to conserve global biodiversity and what we are doing at the local level."
The seminars will take place Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. from Jan. 26 to May 3 in Murdock Hall, room 218. Future Green Living presentations include:
Feb. 2, "Medicinal Plant Conservation," presented by Emily Mooney, assistant professor of biology at MCLA
Feb. 9, "Land Conservation and the New England Cottontail," presented by Doug Bruce, stewardship manager at the Berkshire Natural Resources Council
Feb. 16, "Saving Biodiversity in the Berkshires," presented by Jane and Bruce Winn of the Berkshire Environmental Action Team
Feb. 23, "Rattlesnakes in the Berkshires," presented by Tom Tyning, professor of environmental science at Berkshire Community College
March 1, "Landscaping and Bird Biodiversity," presented by Susannah Lerman, post doctoral research assistant at the U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station
March 8, "Biodiversity Conservation in Western Massachusetts," presented by a representative of the Nature Conservancy
March 22, "Massachusetts endangered species protection," presented by Jon Regosin, chief of Conservation Science for the Massachusetts Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program
March 29, "The Changing Biodiversity of the Northeast," presented by Peter Alden, naturalist and writer
April 5, "Integrating Biodiversity into Land Use Planning," presented by Erik Kiviat, executive director of Hudsonia
April 12, "Ocean Biodiversity: Medicine, Fisheries and Marine Conservation," presented by Kathleen Frith, managing director of the Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment
May 3, "How Manakin Birds Evolved the Ability to Produce Amazing Sounds," presented by Kim Bostwick, curator of bird and mammals at the Cornell University Museum.
Every semester, MCLA's Green Living Seminar Series hosts lectures by local, regional, and national experts organized around a central theme related to the environment and sustainability. The series is sponsored by Eos Ventures, Inc. and Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort, as well as the MCLA's Environmental
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Ozone in the lower atmosphere (troposphere) is toxic to human beings and to many other living things that breathe it. Before scientists began to track the global travels of ozone in the troposphere with satellite data and measurements made from aircraft, they assumed that much of that part of the atmosphere was relatively free of ozone. But after combining satellite observations with data-rich models that simulate the atmospheres chemistry and dynamics, they are finding tropospheric ozone in some unexpected places. Tropospheric ozone turns out to be an intercontinental traveler, crossing geographic and political boundaries. Where ozone forms and where it travels have become key concerns for international health and economic policy-making. On the stage of global change, ozone plays the role of both hero and villain.
Ozone in the stratosphere (upper atmosphere) protects us from harmful
ultraviolet radiation from the sun, but ozone plays a different role in the
troposphere, where we live, because it is toxic to living things. Ozone in the upper troposphere is also a greenhouse gas, meaning that its presence contributes somewhat to global warming. On the other hand, tropospheric ozone plays a role that is key to enhancing human health and well being, since it is involved in chemical reactions that cleanse the troposphere of some pollutants. Therefore considerable research is now underway to understand the conditions under which ozone forms and how ozone travels from its source.
|To learn more about good vs. bad ozone, read: Ozone in the Stratosphere|
Understanding the chemical and physical dynamics of ozone and other trace
gases is becoming increasingly urgent as world population rises and economic
activity increases among developing nations. Increased combustion of fossil
fuels, which produces chemicals that contribute to ozone formation ("precursors") accompanies that
economic activity. Asian economic development is proceeding particularly
rapidly, and most Asian governments do not strictly regulate emissions from
fossil fuel combustion. The lifetime of ozones precursors in the
troposphere is sufficiently long that they can produce ozone hundreds or even
thousands of miles away before further chemical reactions transform ozone into
oxygen and other chemicals. Of course, Asia is not the only problem area. Air
currents move pollution from all developed and developing nations to other parts
of the world. Governments need to adopt a global perspective when designing a
strategy to meet regional air quality objectives for limiting ozone.
Air currents bring ozone in the lower atmosphere (troposphere) from North America to Europe in this animation of observations made from July 1 through July 31, 1999. Values range from zero to about eighty Dobson Units, with high concentrations of ozone appearing in yellow and brown. Ozones intercontinental pathways cross political as well as geographic boundaries. (Data from EarthProbe/TOMS and IGARRS; Animation by Robert Simmon)
Since 1978 the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) instruments have been measuring global ozone levels from a variety of satellites. Beginning in 2003 the instruments aboard the Aura satellite will continue the long term monitoring of ozone.
A global perspective is one of the great gifts of satellites. Analysis of
global-scale data from sensors such as NASAs TOMS (Total Ozone Mapping
Spectrometer) and those aboard the Aura satellite to be launched in 2004 will allow scientists to study ozone chemistry as air masses move across continents and oceans.
|The last week of 2001 saw the worst levels of air pollution in central Israel for the year, as seen at this beach in Tel Aviv. Pollution transported from Europe mixes with local pollution in the populated area of central Israel. Burning fossil fuels in industries and automobiles results in higher aerosol concentrations (often visible, as in this image) and in higher ozone concentrations in the atmosphere (invisible) in many industrialized and populated regions of the world. (Photograph courtesy Yoram Kaufman)|
Scientists combine satellite data with data from observations made at the surface, from ozonesondes (meteorological balloons that carry ozone sensors), from aircraft and from models (simulations of the atmosphere on computers), to study ozone on a range of spatial scales and to ensure that satellite measurements are accurate. Atmospheric scientists began to recognize the extent of ozones travels relatively recently. Anne Thompson, an atmospheric chemist at NASA s Goddard Space Flight Center, explains, What were trying to do is to parse out what ozone comes from natural causes and what ozone comes from human activity. (Natural causes include lightning, production of methane from decomposition of organic materials, and some emissions from plantsisoprene and terpenes.) Its extremely hard to separate natural and manmade sources of gases. The precursors of ozone such as nitrogen oxides are not labeled I came from an aircraft engine, I came from the stratosphere, I came from the ground, or I came from lightning. You have to measure other related chemicals that fingerprint the source.
In the upper photograph, Anne Thompson and Agnes Phahlane prepare for a balloon launch during the SAFARI-2000 campaign in Zambia. The balloon carried both an ozonesonde to measure ozone and a radiosonde to measure temperature, pressure, and relative humidity–conditions that can affect ozone concentration and distribution. In the bottom photograph, a woodland burns in Zambia. Biomass burning of woodlands and croplands produces nitrogen and carbon compounds that are involved in ozone production. (Photograph of balloon launch preparation courtesy of Jacquelyn Witte, Photograph of fire copyright Peter G. H. Frost) | <urn:uuid:b3ca687c-6789-4ca2-a7c2-d7c1ae5d8e2b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.visibleearth.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalTraveler/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922072 | 1,126 | 3.84375 | 4 |
Cultural Enrichment & Orientation in Greece
"Studying in Greece changed my life."
- Megan Reynolds, University of Florida student who studied in Greece with Arcadia.
To actively participate in another culture you will need to acquire new learning techniques and survival strategies. You will need to look so that you really see things and then think about the things you have seen in order to make sense of them.
The Arcadia Center's Greek Key seminar aims to enable students to unlock the door to cross-cultural understanding through language learning, experiential activities and an exploration of the tools and theories of intercultural communication necessary to uncover the invisible values and assumptions that inform Greek society. This course forms the cornerstone of the Arcadia program in Greece and is facilitated by a team of faculty facilitators.
In addition to the field study, a fundamental component of all classes in Athens (except the Greek Key and Semester Internship), you are invited to take part in a full schedule of events, excursions and lectures - all designed to enhance your understanding of Greece.
Our Greek staff will discuss this in detail—including dates and how to reserve your place—during orientation. All Arcadia excursions attach great importance to the notions of safety, experiential learning and cultural understanding.
Many events are determined by the SSC (Student Services Council) at the Arcadia Center, which is comprised of program students. For details on some of our recent excursions, refer to the information below: | <urn:uuid:0f9dfc32-7c08-4f7b-9925-312c35f05f09> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://arcadia.edu/abroad/default.aspx?id=6780 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929655 | 303 | 1.8125 | 2 |
is a town in Logan County
, West Virginia
, in the United States
. The population was 1,211 at the 2000 census. Chapmanville was founded in 1800 and named for an early settler named Ned Chapman, who owned a store and ran the post office. It was incorporated
Chapmanville is located at (37.971615, -82.020017), along the Guyandotte River
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.8 km² (0.7 mi²). 1.7 km² (0.7 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it (2.90%) is water.
As of the census
of 2000, there were 1,211 people, 581 households, and 330 families residing in the town. The population density
was 697.9/km² (1,797.4/mi²). There were 658 housing units at an average density of 379.2/km² (976.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the town was 98.84% White
, 0.74% Asian
, and 0.41% from two or more races. Hispanic
of any race were 0.41% of the population.
There were 581 households out of which 23.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.8% were married couples living together, 13.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 43.2% were non-families. 40.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 20.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.08 and the average family size was 2.82.
In the town the population was spread out with 19.0% under the age of 18, 9.5% from 18 to 24, 26.5% from 25 to 44, 25.1% from 45 to 64, and 19.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females there were 77.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 76.4 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $23,077, and the median income for a family was $38,250. Males had a median income of $28,500 versus $20,769 for females. The per capita income for the town was $15,581. About 12.1% of families and 20.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 31.7% of those under age 18 and 16.4% of those age 65 or over.
Chapmanville is home to one High School housing grades 9-12, one middle school housing grades 5-8, and two elementary schools housing grades PreK-4. Chapmanville hosts the second largest student population in the county. All schools in the city use one mascot as their school identities. The mascot of choice is the Tiger and or Tiger cub. The high school in the city is one of very few regional high schools in the state. The student body consist of students from a consolidation agreement with the West Virginia Department of Education, West Virginia School Building Authority, Lincoln County Schools and Logan County Schools to consolidate Harts High School and Chapmanville High School to form the Chapmanville Regional High School. It opened on June 1, 2007 and is currently under the leadership of Terry Elkins. | <urn:uuid:521b178b-d8b8-45bb-9e0e-fc7cdfef1714> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.reference.com/browse/Chapmanville%2C+West+Virginia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985238 | 743 | 2.546875 | 3 |
By Megan Guza
Point Park News Service
The East Carson Street library closed in July 2011 to undergo the first major renovations since its opening in February 1909. It reopened last Saturday, September 8.
The renovations brought the library new shelves, computer pods, air conditioning and better handicap accessibility. Many of the original historic fixtures were kept, including most of the original woodwork and marble baseboards.
To celebrate its renovations and new historic landmark status, the library hosted a grand reopening celebration Saturday. Activities were held indoors and outdoors and included a magician, tours, refreshments and belly dancing.
Elaine Disioda, a clerical specialist at the library for more than 40 years, has watched more than the evolution the library, but the evolution of its patrons as well.
"Years ago, story time in the children's section would have 30 kids at a time," she said. "Now, maybe grandma lives on the South Side, so you take the kids so they can go to story time with her."
Ms. Disioda says families moved out of the area to the suburbs and took the younger population with them. In addition, nearly all seven of the schools the neighborhood once housed have closed over the years.
Ms. Scott said one of the reasons the library has been able to maintain such a strong base of patrons is it has updated its collection to include more than just books. DVDs, audio books and e-books have been added to the library's offerings.
Another big draw is the magazines.
"It's something so simple," said Ms. Scott. "People don't realize we have them and you can check them out. They're always so surprised."
The library's computers also bring in patrons of all demographics. A common misconception is thinking that everyone has a computer.
"Some people just don't," said Ms. Scott. "They come print résumés or check email on their lunch breaks. It's more comfortable here."
An addition that will be coming soon is new laptops, which will be available for visitor use anywhere in the library.
Both Ms. Disioda and Ms. Scott said the thing they like most about the library's history is the nostalgia it brings.
"Some people just come for nostalgic reasons," Ms. Disioda said. "We've had people here from Europe who just wanted to stop in and see what it looks like. They remember coming when they were kids. And it's always been the same."
"More people are noticing us," Ms. Scott added. "And we hope this will introduce even more people to the library." | <urn:uuid:5f53c78f-0a89-4454-ad36-2b3e4d52441b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sopghreporter.com/story/2012/09/11/news/south-side-library-celebrates-a-rebirth/11301.html?m=true | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98121 | 536 | 1.539063 | 2 |
June 8, 2008 - January 6, 2009
In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis explores the continuing relevance of the story of creation in Genesis Chapter I. For this exhibition, the Museum commissioned new installations by seven significant contemporary artists: Alan Berliner, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Ben Rubin, Matthew Ritchie, Kay Rosen, Shirley Shor, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles. These works, ranging from multi-media and sound installations to computer animations, projections, and wall drawings, are presented in a unique dialogue with a compelling array of historical works, some rarely seen in public, and never before seen together. Featured works include: illuminated manuscripts from the Medieval and Renaissance periods; 18th and 19th-century drawings by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and William Blake; modern and contemporary works by Auguste Rodin, Marc Chagall, Barnett Newman, Jacob Lawrence, Ann Hamilton, and Tom Marioni. The exhibition is uniquely designed to create a lively dialogue between the new installations by the contemporary artists and the historical representations of the story of creation.
In the Beginning is organized by the Contemporary Jewish Museum under the direction of
co-curators Director Connie Wolf, Deputy Director Fred Wasserman, and Assistant Curator Dara Solomon.
In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis will be on view at the Yeshiva University Museum in New York November 22, 2009 - February 28, 2010.
In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis is generously supported by The Shenson Foundation in memory of Ben and A. Jess Shenson; Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation; and the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from the Consulate General of Israel to the Pacific Northwest, celebrating Israel's 60th Anniversary. Funding for the video, Genesis Now, comes from the John Templeton Foundation with additional in-kind support from Pam Rorke Levy. | <urn:uuid:22721825-79aa-4385-ac84-d2d7d308ccc4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thecjm.org/on-view/in-the-past/in-the-beginning-artists-respond-to-genesis/about | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913367 | 381 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Do Jews Go to Heaven?
Question: Should Christians honor Jews? In the USA, many Evangelicals teach that all of the promises made to Abraham still apply to Jews and Israel today. Some on the other hand teach that the Church became the ‘new Israel’ when the Jews denied Christ. It is a very confusing subject. When Jesus said that ‘No one comes to the Father but through Me’ did he mean that even God's chosen Jews cannot enter Heaven unless they convert to Christianity?
Answer: Some Christians wrongly think that the Jews can be saved apart from faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God. A report by Catholic bishops on the Catholic-Jewish relations also reaches the same erroneous conclusion. They state that Catholics no longer wish to absorb the Jewish faith into Christianity; the Jews already dwell in a saving covenant with God; and Catholics should not seek the conversion of Jewish people to Christianity.
That is altogether different from the teaching of the New Testament.
The Jews are the natural descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob with whom God established a covenant. The apostle Paul asks: ‘What advantage then has the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?’ He answers: ‘Much in every way! Chiefly because to them were committed the oracles of God.’ Later on he adds that to the Israelites ‘pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises; of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, the eternally blessed God. Amen' (Romans 3: 1, 2; 9:4, 5).
The Jews are greatly privileged: they possess the Scriptures, and they are the natural heirs of the promises of God to the Patriarchs. But does that mean that the Jews are automatically in a saving covenant with God? No, for the promises made to Abraham are fulfilled in Christ Jesus, and the Mosaic covenant has been superseded by the New Covenant in the blood of Christ.
The apostle Paul further states that there is no distinction between Jews and the rest of us, the Gentiles, on two accounts. He says:
Jews and Gentiles have the same basic problem: sin. Jews and Gentiles have only one sin-bearer: Jesus. All must call on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation.
The apostle Paul did not believe that the Jews were in a saving covenant simply because they are Jews. He had great anguish and sorrow because on the whole the Jews had rejected Jesus Christ, and he prayed earnestly for their salvation. He preached the gospel to everyone – if anything he gave priority to the Jews:
Should we seek ‘the conversion of the Jewish people to Christianity’? Some Catholic bishops and some evangelicals say No! The Bible says, ‘To the Jew first’!
Christians owe a great debt to the Israelites. Our faith is a continuation and fulfillment of their religion. Jews wrote our Bible. We are partakers of the blessings promised to their forefathers. We have a Jewish Messiah! The least we can do is pray earnestly for them and share the good news of Jesus Christ with the hope that the Jews too may be saved.
If the reader is a Jew, I entreat you: consider Jesus! Read the entire New Testament; learn how he was born, how he lived and died, and how he was raised by the Father. He is the Messiah that the pious Israelites have waited for many centuries. In him you can find forgiveness and eternal life.
'However, this evangelizing task no longer includes the wish to absorb the Jewish faith into Christianity and so end the distinctive witness of Jews to God in human history.
Thus, while the Catholic Church regards the saving act of Christ as central to the process of human salvation for all, it also acknowledges that Jews already dwell in a saving covenant with God. The Catholic Church must always evangelize and will always witness to its faith in the presence of God’s kingdom in Jesus Christ to Jews and to all other people. In so doing, the Catholic Church respects fully the principles of religious freedom and freedom of conscience, so that sincere individual converts from any tradition or people, including the Jewish people, will be welcomed and accepted.
However, it now recognizes that Jews are also called by God to prepare the world for God’s kingdom. Their witness to the kingdom, which did not originate with the Church’s experience of Christ crucified and raised, must not be curtailed by seeking the conversion of the Jewish people to Christianity.'
(Reflections on Covenant and Mission. Consultation of The National Council of Synagogues and The Bishops Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, USCCB. August 12, 2002. Emphasis mine. Read Online.)
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