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Yes, most likely any rule that makes you happier is highly effective. :)
I agree with all what you said. I have a variation, too, I keep my phone off if I am busy, or with someone in a meeting -business or personal. I choose to do this because it doesn't give me the stress factor of the phone ringing. As you well said, if it's not good time for you, it's not good time for the call.
Plus, I said before, if you can have your call/messages issues any other time, why would you choose the time when you are with someone leaving the person just waiting?
I do find people prioritising their mobile phone stuff over their friends who are standing up right next to them. At that rate, such people may end up with their social media friends only!
When it comes to taking calls, I follow this simple and very effective rule with most my incoming phone calls: "When the phone rings, it is at the convenience of the caller not the callee." Therefore, if I am busy doing something or talking to a friend, I do not rush to answer the phone like Pavlov's dog. I pick up the phone when it is as convenient for me as it is for the calling person. You can always call the person at a more convenient time and nobody has a problem with it.
Let me tell you, this simple rule really helps me manage my all the phone calls I receive and it makes me much happier :) Highly recommended.
"...it can be rude to read or write text messages while walking with a friend who is trying to talk to you. Admittedly, we all do this every now, but if you are meeting a friend to socialize, I am sure forgetting about your mobile phone for an hour will do no harm, and your friend will appreciate it."
Yes, it's rude, and it has become to be an annoyance.
From all the points that one is the one I believe many people should work on improving. I have always been critical about people using their mobiles when being with someone else, unless what the person is doing on the mobile can't wait, which is not always the case.
Some people will be texting, or checking their social media when you come to meet them. They will not "be with you" for at least ten minutes until they finish whatever they were doing. The same kind of people you will find going with you to a café, and the first thing to do after ordering is taking their mobile out from their pocket to open Foursquare. After doing all the Fourquare thing without saying a word or listening to what you were saying, they will take the oppotunity to check their social media.
Intesting enough, those same people may complain about technology and how people are spending less time with real people. They should start respecting the person who is with them, forgetting about the mobile for the time the coffee break lasts, at least.
The manufacturers might be afraid of doing that except the law steps in. They might be thinking that might effect their sales because users might feel a bit constrained but the law steps in just like their is a warning on any cigarette park.
Mfbertozzi, I'm sure these other countries too will catch up in the end. It cost money and man power to legislate and implement new laws. It's possible that these countries too are looking for cheaper and convenient method to solve this never ending mobile device driving offences. Who knows?
@Kayode, You're right, that is the point I was making. It is a mannerism and common sense issue not for the manufacturer to deal with. However, it will be a good thing perhaps if manufacturers of mobile technologies can further invest in educational promotional advert to help educate discourteous users Lol!
@AK: yes, I agree with you, I am convinced, after all, it is an unconscious conduct from them, maybe as happened for Internet, it should be a possible approach, to try to define a sort of netiquette also for mobile, as Dr.Cagri did within his article.
EBN Dialogue enables and encourages you to participate in live chats with notable leaders and luminaries. Not only editors and journalists, but the entire EBN community is able to comment and ask questions. Listed below are upcoming and archived chats.
Thailand Stages a Comeback Join EBN contributor Jennifer Baljko on Thursday August 23, 2012, at 11:00 a.m. EST for a live chat on how electronic manufacturers in Thailand have shored up their supply chain to reduce the impact of future natural disasters.
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Peter Drucker famously said "Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window." Yet in the razor's-edge world of electronics—with a lean supply chain and just-in-time demands—the need to know the future is vital.
While no one really can accurately predict the future, we can take guidance from another Drucker saying which is the best way to predict the future is to create it.
You've heard the saying "the No. 1 supply chain risk is your people." That hasn't always been the case. But today's complex global supply chain requires a new type of multitalented employee. It's one who understands, finance, marketing, economics, is savvy with technology, graceful with relationships and can think analytically.
Where are these people? Are universities properly preparing the next generation supply chain professionals? How do train your existing workforce for these new, demanding positions?
Brian Fuller, editor-in-chief of EBN, will lead a 60-minute Avnet Velocity panel discussion that will ask and answer these and other questions swirling around today's supply-chain talent challenges. | <urn:uuid:4c957ac8-3276-48c9-bb33-3bf4fd668ef1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ebnonline.com/messages.asp?piddl_msgthreadid=253975&piddl_msgid=749388 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964446 | 1,315 | 1.71875 | 2 |
South Holland, Dutch Zuidholland, province (1994 pop. 3,313,200), c.1,085 sq mi (2,810 sq km), W Netherlands, bounded by the North Sea in the west. The Hague is the capital; other cities include Rotterdam, Dordrecht, Leiden, Delft, Schiedam, and Gouda. A fertile lowland, protected by dunes and dikes along the coast, its physical geography is similar to that of North Holland, with which it was united until 1840 as Holland. In 1953 a flood seriously damaged the province's soil.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) was recognized for his advocacy on behalf of economic development initiatives in Appalachia, receiving the 2013 Congressional Award from the Development District Association of Appalachia (DDAA) during a ceremony in Washington.
“Strong rural communities demand economic investment and development,” Brown said. “That’s why these local development districts throughout Appalachian Ohio are so important. By tapping into the revolving loan fund and federal grants, these organizations make a huge difference in the communities they serve. I appreciate the Development District Association of Appalachia’s work on behalf of Southeastern Ohio rural communities, and I am honored to receive this award.”
The Congressional Award is given annually to one or two members of Congress who have been identified as strong advocates and supporters of regional economic development in general and the work of the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) and its mission to improve the quality of life for residents of Appalachia. Past recipients include former U.S. Sens. Robert C. Byrd (D-WV), Bill Frist (R-TN), Hillary Clinton (D-NY), and George Voinovich (R-OH).
Brown has been a strong supporter of the ARC and its mission. As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Brown worked to ensure adequate funding for the ARC, and his office routinely attends meetings of the local development districts in Southeast Ohio. Brown, who is the first Ohioan to serve on the Senate Agriculture Committee in more than 40 years and who is the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Jobs, Rural Economic Growth and Energy Innovation, has also been a strong advocate for a five-year farm bill, which would save taxpayer dollars while creating jobs and boosting rural development.
Prior to serving in the United States Senate, Brown served as a United States Representative for the 13th District, Ohio’s Secretary of State, a member of the Ohio General Assembly and has taught in Ohio’s public schools and at The Ohio State University. An Eagle Scout, Brown is a native of Mansfield, Ohio, where he spent summers working on his family’s farm. He is married to Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Connie Schultz. They reside in Avon, Ohio, and have three daughters, a son, both a daughter and son-in-law, and two grandsons. | <urn:uuid:a4be8d2a-7da9-4762-bcc1-5c47d6544699> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mydailytribune.com/view/full_story_myown/21966908/article-Brown-receives-2013-Congressional-Award-from-DDAA | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968759 | 489 | 1.65625 | 2 |
There’s so much excitement about mobile phones and mobile apps. And, rightfully so.
Mobile devices are closing the gaps in under-served demographics faster than desktop computers ever could. In fact, smart phone penetration is higher among mobile users who are part of ethnic and racial minorities in the U.S., according to a Nielsen report released in February. They are helping lower income Americans get online and get access to information that can help them make better health and financial decisions.
And, the integration of mobile with social networking and health and wellness tools turns that phone into a mini behavior-change device, a powerful tool for helping make big health and lifestyle changes.
But, where should employers focus their efforts? But, there are three specific ways that employers can harness the power of mobile for their benefits—right now.
- Pick health, wellness and financial vendors who are investing in mobile technology and mobile apps. And, make sure the user experience is a good one. Limeade, for example, brings a whole new approach to wellness. Through the use of the web and mobile applications, Limeade helps people pursue work, life and health goals in ways that make sense. Some apps make wellness fun. Optumize Me lets you challenge friends, family, co-workers and even total strangers to contests designed to help everyone get healthy with challenges such as, “Who can walk the most steps?” or “Who can be first to run to 100 miles?”
- Optimize your own resources. If you have a benefits website, optimize it for mobile. Optimizing your site means making sure it is compatible with multiple devices, everything from an iPad to a Blackberry. You can do this multiple ways, including focusing on certain devices used by your employees, or changing your website format for an easier navigation experience. If you have online learning, make sure that works on mobile devices, including tablets like iPad. We also hope that your benefits website has some social media incorporated into it — a benefits blog is a great way keep your website fresh and up to date. Short articles and tips are perfect for viewing on mobile phones.
- Educate your employees about what’s available to them free of charge. There are some great products out there, such as BenefitsSync, which gives you access to all of your health information through your smart phone, or text4baby, which gives pregnant women timed messages about their health and tips. Another great free app is iTriage, which allows users to look up their symptoms, self diagnose and find the closest healthcare providers.
A lot of these ideas are covered in Employee Benefit News’ cover article, “There’s an app for that.”
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Before the automobile became popular, Gérard
Guay openned a blacksmith shop to service the
needs of the community. Back in those days, people
travelled by horse or by rail. The first roads existed
only as networks of trails, connecting communities.
Gérard found himself servicing more "horseless
carriages" than the tradition horse and buggies.
The futur of transportation was changing. High-tech
was the internal combustion engine.
association with the Ford Motor Company of Canada,
began in 1939, when a Ford factory representative
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For some time now it has been public knowledge (but not common knowledge, since the “mainstream” media is oddly silence on the staggering disease rates in the homosexual community) that Centers for Disease Control (CDC) figures show that 72% of male AIDS cases are associated with homosexual activity…while a survey commissioned by the pro-homosexual group Human Rights Campaign found that only 2.9% of the population is homosexual. The fact that homosexuals also have much higher infection rates from most other types of STDs, as well as hepatitis, anal cancer, depression, substance abuse, suicide and more.
But yesterday I learned from Americans for Truth of a new report out from the CDC which finds new HIV cases among homosexuals is more than 44 X that of heterosexual men and more than 40 times that of women.
From the March 10, 2010 CDC press release:
A data analysis released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention underscores the disproportionate impact of HIV and syphilis among gay and bisexual men in the United States.
The data, presented at CDC’s 2010 National STD Prevention Conference, finds that the rate of new HIV diagnoses among men who have sex with men (MSM) is more than 44 times that of other men and more than 40 times that of women.
The range was 522-989 cases of new HIV diagnoses per 100,000 MSM vs. 12 per 100,000 other men and 13 per 100,000 women.
The rate of primary and secondary syphilis among MSM is more than 46 times that of other men and more than 71 times that of women, the analysis says. The range was 91-173 cases per 100,000 MSM vs. 2 per 100,000 other men and 1 per 100,000 women.
While CDC data have shown for several years that gay and bisexual men make up the majority of new HIV and new syphilis infections, CDC has estimated the rates of these diseases for the first time based on new estimates of the size of the U.S. population of MSM. Because disease rates account for differences in the size of populations being compared, rates provide a reliable method for assessing health disparities between populations.
“While the heavy toll of HIV and syphilis among gay and bisexual men has been long recognized, this analysis shows just how stark the health disparities are between this and other populations,” said Kevin Fenton, M.D., director of CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention. “It is clear that we will not be able to stop the U.S. HIV epidemic until every affected community, along with health officials nationwide, prioritize the needs of gay and bisexual men with HIV prevention efforts.”
The statement from the CDC has the audacity to claim, “Preventing HIV and STDs among gay and bisexual men is a top CDC priority.” If preventing any other contagious disease was “a top CDC priority,” we would see nonstop PSA commercials on TV, radio and in newspapers warning people not to eat at certain restaurants, consume certain foods, or do whatever it is that is most closely connected with the transmission of that disease.
But since homosexual activists have cowed weak-minded and morally unanchored leaders into making homosexual behavior a politically correct behavior, with an AIDS/HIV epidemic where the infection rate is 44 X higher from one activity over another, we hear…silence. We hear the crickets chirp…even as more people become infected with this deadly disease. These people are too afraid of peer pressure, too afraid to be seen not traveling with the herd, to send the message that this dangerous behavior should be avoided at all costs–if not for moral considerations, certainly for health reasons.
Those who have engaged in homosexual behavior and contracted AIDS have done this to themselves, and they bear the bulk of responsibility for their illness. But those among us who are in positions of leadership and influence also bear a level of responsibility for their failure to warn about this danger.
The blood of many people is on the politically correct hands of the “mainstream” media, liberal leadership in our cities, liberal leadership in our state governments, liberal leadership in our federal government…and from liberal churches and church leadership that are more interested in being trendy than in saving people. Their hands are crimson from their deadly silence.
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Friday, May 24, 2013
- A criminal lawsuit against 1,500 former members of DINA, the secret police of Chile’s 1973-1990 dictatorship, is seeking to shed light on the most active player in the repression, which stretched outside the country’s borders.
“We are trying to get the DINA (Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional) investigated as a criminal organisation,” Boris Paredes, a human rights lawyer, told IPS.
“The conclusion reached is that DINA operated as an extermination group, and as such, we believe that all of its members were part of an illicit association,” he said.
The charges filed this month by the Agrupación de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos (AFDD – Group of Families of the Detained-Disappeared) is based on a memorandum that the office of the army chief of staff handed over to Judge Alejandro Solís on Aug. 28, 2008.
The memorandum, an official list of 1,500 names, was provided to the judge in connection with a case involving the victims of Villa Grimaldi, the largest torture and detention centre run by the 17-year military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.
The 1,500 names on the list are of official members, from the senior-most military officers and civilians to the lowest-ranking staffers, of DINA, which was dissolved in 1977 and replaced by the Central Nacional de Informaciones (CNI – National Information Centre), that operated until the end of the regime.
He said several judges have taken the position that “no one who belonged to DINA was unaware of what was happening, and each one was a gear in a large machinery set up to kidnap, torture and kill people.”
AFDD spokeswoman Gabriela Zúñiga told IPS that the courts in Chile have handed down sentences against the “poster boys” of the repression, like army General Manuel Contreras, founder and chief of DINA, and Álvaro Corbalán, CNI head of operations.
“But there are a large number of agents who we don’t even think of as belonging to (DINA),” she said, mentioning Rosauro Martínez, a lawmaker of the co-governing right-wing Independent Democratic Union (UDI), who she noted is “paradoxically” a member of the Latin American Parliament’s human rights commission; Cristián Labbé, mayor of the upscale Santiago neighbourhood of Providencia,; and Augusto Pinochet Hiriart, the son of the late dictator.
“In a healthy society, which wants to resolve the issue of human rights violations by means of state policies, it is unseemly for terrorists and perpetrators of crimes against humanity to be in public positions, without having been held accountable in the courts and before society,” Zúñiga said.
Cath Collins, director of the Observatory of Human Rights at the Diego Portales University, said DINA operated as an “extra-institutional apparatus purposely created outside the discipline of the armed forces, to enable the military to deny that they were institutionally involved in the human rights violations.”
According to the information that the AFDD has compiled, and the evidence presented in court, DINA was responsible for the deaths of all of the AFDD members’ lost loved ones, and was also responsible for coordinating the repression against opponents with the rest of the dictatorships of the Southern Cone of the Americas, in what was known as Operation Condor.
The Pinochet regime killed and forcibly disappeared 3,216 people, while another 38,254 survived prison and torture, according to the Interior Ministry’s human rights programme, which based its figures on the 2004 and 2011 reports by a commission presided over by Catholic Bishop Sergio Valech (1927-2010) until his death, and the 1991 truth commission headed by Raúl Rettig.
The Diego Portales University’s Observatory of Human Rights found that nearly 70 percent of the cases of those who were killed or “disappeared” are still being investigated by the justice system, 22 percent have never gone to court, and the rest have been concluded.
The report says that between 2000 and 2011, 824 former agents of the dictatorship faced prosecution, although 31 of them died during that period.
Of the 793 former agents who are still alive, 544 are still under trial or are awaiting sentencing or appeal, 177 have been sentenced but have never been imprisoned due to benefits they have received, 66 are in prison serving their sentences, and six have been convicted but are free due to reduction of sentence or because their sentences were commuted.
The report also indicates that 47 of the former agents behind bars are serving their sentences in the Punta Peuco prison and 10 in the Cordillera prison, which are both exclusively for military personnel, and have comforts that “border on luxury.”
Punta Peuco’s inmates include Contreras, who is serving 25 life sentences – more than 300 years in prison – and his second-in-command, former Brigadier-General Pedro Espinoza.
Another of the human rights violators held at the modern Punta Peuco prison is former Brigadier-General Miguel Krassnoff, who was sentenced to a total of 144 years in prison on charges of forced disappearance and murder.
A tribute was paid to Krassnoff in November 2011 by Providencia Mayor Cristian Labbé, a former army colonel.
Although Collins stressed the large number of people who have been convicted of human rights violations in Chile, she said the sentences were considered light in comparison to the gravity of the crimes, and pointed out that only around one-third of those who have been sentenced are actually in prison.
Another pending challenge is repealing or modifying the 1978 amnesty for human rights abusers, which is still in effect.
And while states have an international obligation to investigate human rights crimes, it was not until 2011 that cases were presented on behalf of victims of human rights crimes for whom no legal action had been brought.
In January 2011, Santiago prosecutor Beatriz Pedrals filed 726 new lawsuits which included, for the first time, legal action for the death of President Salvador Allende (1970-1973) in the Sept. 11, 1973 bombing of the La Moneda government palace during the coup mounted by Pinochet.
Previously, all of the lawsuits had been filed by survivors or by family members of victims.
“Progress has been made, but we have clearly not achieved full justice,” said Zúñiga. “Most of the perpetrators have got off scot-free.”
Paredes, meanwhile, said that in the last few years, “there have been important advances made in the courts, by magistrates who have courageously done important work…We have seen results with respect to unveiling the truth.”
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In the same way that the bold frontiersmen of the 19th-century gold rush were different from the era's staid urban patriarchs, today's American college graduates differ from their parents as they take their place in the "modern gold rush" economy. According to a report from CNN, an increasing number of college seniors are turning to the here-today, gone-tomorrow Internet world for post-graduation jobs, rather than exploring "safer" alternatives in advertising, banking and the law. Like the economy, today's graduates are a different breed than their predecessors. Unlike their parents, who sought long-term jobs and worked for one or two companies, most see themselves as modern-day guns for hire, putting in three or four years and then switching jobs, companies or even careers. In fact, most of them will probably switch careers three or four times a sharp contrast to the decades their parents have logged climbing the hierarchy at a single firm.
Adding to their enthusiasm for the Internet world is the fact that they are, in essence, staying in a field they already know. Raised alongside the fledgling computer industry, they practiced math with DOS-based "Number Munchers" and presented their senior theses as web sites rather than 100-page printouts. "By virtue of going to schools that are wired, they are trained in the language of today's economy," said William Saporito, business editor of TIME. "They'll be entering an economy custom-designed for them." | <urn:uuid:60b20b6a-e89a-43b1-a969-0e329b5b058f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,42646,00.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973327 | 305 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Digital Outputs for DVD-Audio?
Concerns regarding copy-protection have slowed the DVD-Audio rollout considerably and are at the root of the decision to not include high-resolution digital outputs on current players. But in an article dated March 28, the Times reports that the DVD Forum is planning to use the IEEE 1394 (aka FireWire) specification to connect DVD players with digital audio amplifiers and digital television sets.
The DVD Forum's Hideki Mimura is quoted as saying that "the principal mission is to create a 1394 recommendation for playback-only DVDs. After we finish this step for playback-only DVD, the next step is discussions for recordable DVD." Mimura adds that "before the 1394 specifications and the guidelines even become available, however, a practical digital interface implementation for DVD products has to consider various copy-protection schemes adopted for DVD."
The DVD Forum has adopted the "Audio & Music Data Transmission Protocol" (also known as the "A&M protocol") specification to enable the transmission of audio data and MIDI data on a 1394 bus. The A&M protocol is described as a plug-and-play type standard intended to allow the high-resolution DVD-Audio formats such as 96/24 and 192/24, as well as compressed audio formats such as AC-3 and DTS, to be sent from one 1394-equipped device to another.
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Walking and Climbing in the Rhine Valley
Hiking the Rhine Valley takes you through some of Europe’s most iconic landscapes, from alpine majesty to romantic, castle-strewn riverbanks and by snug farmhouses, centuries old, alongside windmills. Go up river or down, but don’t miss a step in Holland, Germany, Austria and Switzerland on their extensive and well-kept trails.
Holland is the perfect country to explore on foot. Literally hundreds of routes have been mapped out to show you the most beautiful spots, historical cities and magnificent nature. Walking along its beaches and through its dunes is always a sure path to calm, but did you know you can walk on the seafloor itself when the tide is out in the Waddensea? Ramble for hours over the extensive heath in the National Park De Hoge Veluwe. And yes! You can climb a hill in Holland. Go to the southeast corner of the country and enjoy the rolling hills, hilly forests, brooks, sunken roads and meandering rivers of South Limburg or near Nijmegen.
Walking and hiking in Germany are some of the best ways to reach the most breathtaking views and quietest corners of this history and scenery-rich country. The German hiking paradise caters to all levels, from alpinists seeking thin air and thick adventure on the Alpine heights to the multi-generational family group with youngest and oldest preferring easier paths, always in stunning natural settings. You have nearly 200,000 km of hiking trail network to choose from. Roam through the forests of Northern Hesse, find rare flowers or search out military history on the Moselle - stopping for some of the local wines, of course – but no matter where you wander, you’ll embrace with delight the perfect mix if nature, exercise, and sightseeing that happen when you walk and climb in Germany.
No manner of exploring and experiencing a destination that is as intimate and personal as enjoying it on foot; walking and hiking in Austria will get you close to nature, its people and wonderful traditions. If you’re looking for picture perfect scenery, fresh mountain air and crystal clear lakes, Austria offers an abundance of choices from remote alpine ascents to fascinating rambles through Austrian mountain life. The Cheese Route through the Bregenzerwald in Vorarlberg is the ideal way to explore the region and its close ties with cheese making, from dairy farms and inns specializing in cheese to alpine pastures where you can personally thank one of the gifted Austrian dairy cows.
Hike the Salzkammergut region, recognized for 4500 years of history by UNESCO, and explore ice caves and ancient salt mines!
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When you appeal a college’s financial aid award what happens to your request?
During the last admission season, The Chronicle of Higher Education provided an inside glimpse into how a financial aid appeal is handled internally in a fascinating article entitled:
A Chronicle reporter observed financial aid deliberations that took place among senior admission and financial aid staff at Occidental College, a liberal arts college in Los Angeles. Just like many other colleges and universities across the country, Occidental has seen the number of financial aid appeals increase since the recession. Last year half of the 1,600 families that applied for aid at Occidental appealed their awards.
I should mention that Occidental has excellent financial aid policy. It’s one of only about four or five dozen schools in the country that meet 100% of a family’s demonstrated financial need. There are many reasons, however, why parents won’t think the school, as generous as it is, has given enough.
One of the cases that the reporter observed involved a would-be freshman, who is a baseball player, who needed more money because his dad’s construction business went belly up after the aid application had been filed. The committee also reviewed a letter from a teenager who explained that both her parents have a gambling problem. Their gambling earnings were more than offset by their gambling losses. The college decided it wanted to help both students.
Merit Scholarship Deliberations
Affluent families seeking more merit money, however, experienced a much tougher time with the Occidental staff. The school rarely increases a merit scholarship that’s awarded to a student who needs no financial help. The staff, for instance, rejected the request of a wealthy student and recruited athlete, who had given Occidental proof of merit awards from other colleges. “This person should be ashamed,” said the director of financial aid, who added, “What this family paid in taxes last year would cover tuition all four years.”
One of the take-home messages of this article is that a teenager should apply to schools where he or she will be warmly welcomed. When a college accepts an applicant that it highly regarded, the staff is more likely to be generous. In other words, think twice before applying to a reach school. If you don’t know what a reach school is, here are posts that explains the concept:
The Wrong Way to Appeal a Financial Aid Award
The article also provides pointers from Maureen McRae, Occidental’s director of financial aid, on how not to file a financial appeal letter. Here is an excerpt:
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The parents of 24,000 children in northern Pakistan refused to allow health workers to administer polio vaccinations last month, mostly due to rumours that the harmless vaccine was an American plot to sterilise innocent Muslim children.This follows a similar controversy in Nigeria in 2004 and in India last year. Just this past January, a leading Muslim doctor was urging British Muslims not vaccinate their children as most vaccines contain some "haram" substances. The good thing is that these fanatics are still in very small numbers, and mainstream religious leaders have no problem with vaccinations. Indeed, some counter-fatwas by top clerics in Pakistan has improved the situation somewhat (lets hope there are no serious counter-counter-fatwas):
The disinformation - spread by extremist clerics using mosque loudspeakers and illegal radio stations, and by word of mouth - has caused a sharp jump in polio cases in Pakistan and hit global efforts to eradicate the debilitating disease.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recorded 39 cases of polio in Pakistan in 2006, up from 28 in 2005. The disease is concentrated in North-West Frontier Province, where 60% of the refusals were attributed to "religious reasons".
The North-West Frontier Province government made strenuous efforts to counter talk of an "infidel vaccine". Health workers fanning across the province last month were equipped with copies of a fatwa, or religious order, endorsing the vaccinations and signed by Maulana Fazlur Rehman and Qazi Hussain Ahmed, the leaders of Pakistan's most powerful religious parties.
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The human behavior known as cognitive dissonance is terrible stuff... or maybe I should say terribly human stuff. The background for cognitive dissonance occurs when we screw something up because we've acted stupidly, or because we have stupid beliefs. Instead of admitting our stupidity, and deciding instantly to behave more intelligently, cognitive dissonance comes into action when we decide to defend and justify our initial stupidity by adopting a new approach that's even more stupid still. It's a matter of pushing stupidity to the second degree, as it were, because our first-degree stupidity didn't work. It wasn't stupid enough.
Let me give you a personal example, in which the stupid guy at the center of the cognitive dissonance is me. At Gamone, there's an irregular spring, up behind the house, which isn't really a spring at all, but simple a resurgence of subterranean water from time to time, usually after rain higher up on the slopes behind Gamone. Now, the waters of my spring are captured by a small concrete tank, and I could normally use that stock of water around the house. But I tend to forget that this water exists. Worse still, a couple of years ago, I burned off grass and weeds in that corner of the property, while totally forgetting that there was a plastic hose there, running down from the spring. OK, that was a silly error, but hardly a catastrophe.
Recently, the mayor of Choranche and the municipal employee suggested that it would be a good idea for me to drain away excess water from my spring, because water had started to seep out of the hillside with the possibility of endangering the stability of the roadway. That's where my cognitive dissonance got turned on. Instead of saying "OK, I'll install a new hose and bring the water down to my house", I started to argue absurdly: "No, the water that's seeping out onto the roadway is certainly not the same water that's piling up from my spring. They're surely two completely different underground channels. In other words, even if I were to install a new hose, water from the other channel would still seep onto the road."
The truth of the matter, alas, was that I was too bloody lazy to get into overalls, drag a ladder and tools up to the spring, cut away all the weeds and saplings, and install a new hose.
Finally, over the last two or three days, I pulled my finger out, as the saying goes, and performed the necessary work.
The hardest part of the job was climbing up onto the embankment and cutting away all the thorny vegetation that prevented me from getting near the spring.
I always have the impression that Sophia is happy to see me working outside, manually, instead of sitting in front of my Macintosh.
Once the spring water started to flow in the newly-installed yellow hose, about a hundred meters long, I had to do something with it, so I decided to start out by sprinkling my lawn... which doesn't really need to be sprinkled at all.
Above all, I'm obliged to admit that, as soon as water started to arrive down here at the house, the seepage onto the road up in the vicinity of the spring was reduced substantially.
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Mark W. Geraci, M.D.
University of Colorado, Denver
Center for Geonomics
To provide excellence in genomic analysis for CMREF IPAH researchers.
Methods for genomic analysis have proven powerful tools for identification of potential new pathobiology, biomarkers, and drug targets. The field of genomics and its associated technologies is rapidly evolving. Initially, the use of expression arrays became a powerful avenue for hypothesis generation and discovery. More recently, the ability to perform high-throughput SNP analysis has also enabled investigators to explore the genome in disease states.
With such density of SNPs on an array, it is now possible to consider large-scale association studies, such as was done in patients with esophageal cancer. Complex traits can also be examined, as has been performed in inbred murine strains. Indeed, SNP analysis has been shown to increase information content compared to traditional microsatellite approaches.
With the density and content of these arrays increasing, the ability to perform powerful association studies and examining quantitative trait loci should possible. Affymetrix currently has available a 100k SNP set, with plans to release a 500k set within the year. As in the early days of microarray expression analysis, handling such data has proven to be complex, but newer algorithms, some freely available in the public domain, are becoming established.
As a further step to improve statistical power, clusters of SNPs can be evaluated en block, as haplotypes, which reduces the numbers of statistical tests performed and lessens the chance of type I errors due to false positives.
With the “state of the art” being, in fact, a moving target, we propose that establishing a compressive expression and SNP approach may provide the most information for future research. A general schema for the evaluation of tissues and blood by both expression analysis and SNP analysis is shown below in the figure to the left.
By providing a well-characterized control data set (as detailed in Specific Aim 2), annotated with clinical information, expression analysis and large-scale SNP determination, comparison to disease tissue is made much more meaningful and robust.
Micheala A. Aldred, PhD
Genomic Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland OH
Center for Geonomics
The major known genetic predisposition to Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) is a heterozygous mutation in the bone morphogenetic protein receptor-II gene (BMPR2), a member of the transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ) superfamily. BMPR2 mutations are identifiable in approximately 80% of patients with a family history and about 20% of idiopathic cases. Under the new WHO classification, all such patients are now grouped together as Heritable PAH (HPAH, group 1.2). PAH also occurs in families with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), a distinct vascular disorder caused by mutations in ALK1 or endoglin (ENG), two other TGFβ receptors.
ALK1 or ENG mutations are uncommon in PAH patients unless there is a personal or family history of HHT. However, several recent reports of mosaicism associated with these genes highlight the importance of screening them in all PAH patients using sensitive methods that will detect mosaic mutations. The fourth gene recently implicated in PAH is SMAD9, a downstream mediator of BMP signaling. The overall frequency of SMAD9 mutations has not yet been determined.
The goal of the Mutation Analysis Core is to perform comprehensive mutation analysis of these four genes and provide the results to the PHBI network for correlation with other clinical and experimental data. Initially we will perform standard Sanger sequencing of all coding regions and splice sites, with follow-up studies on RNA where needed.
Large genomic rearrangements (deletion or duplication of at least one exon) constitute a significant proportion of BMPR2 mutations and are missed by Sanger sequencing, so we will also perform gene dosage studies to identify copy number changes. Sequencing technology is evolving rapidly and the cost of massively parallel “next-generation” sequencing is reducing.
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...There are five of them, planted in January 2011. Tyhey flowered and some of them fruited last summer, but this year there hasn't been the faintest whiff of a flower. They were late coming into leaf, so I wonder if the cold weather in Spring meant that they just missed the boat this year? Any thoughts?
It's the weather, Bobby. I have nine assorted fruit trees and flowering/fruit set has been very erratic across the board this year. One apple didn't flower at all, one only flowered on the leeward side, one plum flowered but failed to set any fruit, the pear flowered, set fruit and then they promptly all dropped off!!
On the plus side it looks like a bumper crop of cherries again!!
All we can do is hope for better things next year.
The leafs look normal? Pruning was correct? It is free from pests? The nutrient level is ok? Teher is a few possibilities why not and if everything is ok blame weather. :)
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The Arizona Republic: While school districts cutting crucial educational programs claiming lack of funding, school officials have been ahrd at work creating their own pet programs proving that the education system is not about teaching anymore.
It has been a busy summer for our friends running the Tucson Unified School District.
As always, the annual Institute for Transformative Education summer seminar, hosted by TUSD's amply funded Mexican/American raza-studies program, was fun. So much racial bitterness to obsess over.
Tim Wise, the ultra-angry Tulane University poli-sci grad who has made a great living finding racism under every doormat, was the featured speaker. Everyone was wowed.
In a year in which hundreds of district teachers received pink slips, meanwhile, TUSD spent thousands on recruiting teachers from out of state.
And it hired a coordinator at $80,000 per annum to lead the effort.
The recruiting was prompted by what is fast becoming the consuming passion of the TUSD governing board and its allies - to establish a corps of teachers that precisely mirrors the racial make-up of its heavily minority student population.
You can argue the efficacy of such issues legitimately, certainly.
On a certain emotional level, it is a good thing for a minority student with few incentives to achieve much academically to see others who have.
But, as always, TUSD's race-obsessing board of governors is taking racial bean-counting to preposterous extremes.
This summer, the TUSD board adopted a "Post-Unitary Status Plan" that it expects will help the district escape a decades-old federal desegregation order.
The plan includes increasing the number of minority teachers - per the summer hiring spree, which netted 14 special-education teachers and one math-science teacher.
It also includes a vast expansion of the district's controversial Mexican-American studies program.
Despite the budget-enforced closing of school libraries, the shuttering of arts and music programs and the layoff of teachers and counselors in other disciplines, the Post-Unitary Status Plan calls for a vigorous expansion of the program run by TUSD's happy band of unrepentant political leftists.
The board's plan also calls for changes intended (however counterproductive those plans may be) to improving the lot of minority students.
It wants to see more minority students enrolled in advanced-placement programs, for example - a laudable goal, certainly. But consider one significant part of the plan for "improving" the academic status of TUSD's Black and Hispanic students:
The board is calling for a two-tiered form of student discipline. One for Black and Hispanic students; one for everyone else.
With the goal of creating a "restorative school culture and climate" that conveys a "sense of belonging to all students," the board is insisting that its schools reduce its suspensions and/or expulsions of minority students to the point that the data reflect "no ethnic/racial disparities."
From the section of the 52-page plan titled "Restorative School Culture and Climate," subhead, "Discipline":
"School data that show disparities in suspension/expulsion rates will be examined in detail for root causes. Special attention will be dedicated to data regarding African-American and Hispanic students."
The board approved creating an "Equity Team" that will oversee the plan to ensure "a commitment to social justice for all students."
The happy-face edu-speak notwithstanding, what the Tucson Unified School District board of governors has approved this summer is a race-based system of discipline.
Offenses by students will be judged, and penalties meted out, depending on the student's hue.
Certainly, from the point of view of a public-school administrator, such a policy is beyond insane.
TUSD principals and disciplinarians (assuming such creatures still exist) are being asked to set two standards of behavior for their students.
Some behavior will be met with strict penalties; some will not. It all depends on the color of the student's skin.
It is an invitation to chaos.
The students of the Tucson Public School District certainly deserve more.
They deserve a chance to excel academically.
Instead, they get this. Genuine apartheid.
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When some of Northeastern’s brightest young biology, biochemistry and behavioral neuroscience majors gather for the advanced introductory course, “Inquiries in Cell and Molecular Biology,” they’ll find Gail Begley armed with some new teaching tools that should make for a richer experience all around.
Begley, an associate academic specialist in biology, was one of more than a dozen biologists selected to participate in a prestigious year-long virtual residency program that enables scholars to increase their understanding and use of assessment tools, teaching practices and data analysis.
The inaugural Assessment Residency of the American Society for Microbiology/National Science Foundation Biology Scholars Program kicked off in June with a weeklong boot camp in Washington D.C., where Begley learned about the latest in education research and assessment development.
The program — which also includes online and face-to-face collaboration between professors, plus regular meetings with local fellows here in Boston — aims to help educators define learning objectives for their courses, then ensure that each assignment, activity or experiment brings students closer to understanding and mastering that objective. The residency, Begley said, will help her develop specific learning objectives and measure student progress by using a variety of assessments, such as in-class activities, papers, projects and exams.
Each biology scholar is applying what they’ve learned to one course, and Begley chose the “Inquiries” course, which is designed for students whose high school Advanced Placement test scores allowed them to skip the general biology course.
The seminar-style course relies less on traditional lectures and more on group discussions and problem solving. Rather than work from a textbook, students read journal articles and the latest news from scientific literature. The class also includes a service-learning component that requires students to teach biology to middle and high school students in Boston’s neighborhoods.
Begley hopes her students will learn more as a result of improved alignment of learning objectives and assessments and be better prepared for more advanced work in the classroom, laboratory and workplace.
“The overarching learning goals are the same as they’ve always been” Begley said. “But now it’s more about being able to take these big goals — which I’ve always had — and break them into bite-sized chunks which are very specific and can be measured.
“The hope is that, as the course progresses, I could give students data or an application that they had never seen before and they would have the skills and knowledge to know how to attack that new problem,” she said. | <urn:uuid:b42d20d9-2c0e-4bd8-9aca-8ad805764367> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.northeastern.edu/news/2011/07/begley/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00076-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956064 | 529 | 2.28125 | 2 |
It seems like every week or so Bitcoin moves further into the mainstream.
And on Thursday, the Internet Archive announced that it wants to collect donations, in Bitcoin, so that it can pay some employees, at their request—part of their salary, if they so choose—in Bitcoin. The online archive's mission is to store digital documents, including, most notably, previous versions of webpages.
If all goes well, wrote Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle, the move will start in April 2013. “We hope to make it a continuing option," he added.
The group's address is: 17gN64BPHtxi4mEM3qWrxdwhieUvRq8R2r.
Kahle wrote the day before that Bitcoin is the “local currency” of the Internet.
“There are local currencies like Ithaca Hours or Bernal Bucks that facilitate trading within a community. Bitcoins are kind of like that. It is for those of the Internet,” he wrote. “I found getting it going was an adventure which ended in my figuring out how to donate to the Internet Archive, which was fun. People have donated over $5,000 worth of bitcoins in the last 2 years to the Internet Archive.”
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December 02, 2010
Oyster Creek Generating Station Returned to Service
Workers replace two main power transformers, refuel the reactor and perform maintenance to advance equipment reliability
Operators at Exelon Nuclear's Oyster Creek Generating Station safely returned the station to service December 1 at 7:18 p.m. ET after a safe and successful refueling and maintenance outage. During the 30-day outage, workers replaced both of the station's main power transformers, refueled the reactor and performed a number of maintenance tasks that can only be performed while the unit is offline.
Oyster Creek prepared for the replacement of the main transformers for more than a year, a $33 million project that will ensure future reliable operations. In addition, workers set the stage for completion of the underground piping project by year's end, a $13.3 million plan to move pipes containing tritium above ground or into monitored vaults. In all, Oyster Creek spent about $50 million on capital improvements during the outage.
"This refueling outage helps make sure we prepare the plant to ensure that the unit will run safely and reliably during its next operating cycle, especially in the summer months when the region needs the plant's electricity the most," said Mike Massaro, site vice president.
Oyster Creek is located approximately 60 miles east of Philadelphia. The plant produces 636 net megawatts of electricity per hour, enough carbon free energy for approximately 600,000 homes, the equivalent of all of the homes in Mercer, Burlington and Ocean counties.
Exelon Corporation is one of the nation’s largest electric utilities with more than $17 billion in annual revenues. The company has one of the industry’s largest portfolios of electricity generation capacity, with a nationwide reach and strong positions in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic. Exelon distributes electricity to approximately 5.4 million customers in northern Illinois and southeastern Pennsylvania and natural gas to approximately 486,000 customers in the Philadelphia area. Exelon is headquartered in Chicago and trades on the NYSE under the ticker EXC. | <urn:uuid:4d2164c8-7235-47c3-a2df-55f3b7ae4afa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.exeloncorp.com/Newsroom/Pages/pr120210_OYC_RTS.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944523 | 430 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Eye Care Kenya
Past Eye Care Kenya Trips
- Spanda Inc., partnered with a local Rotary Club to raise money for a well for the village. The Clean Water is Medicine Program began and in the Spring of 2010 a well was drilled.
- Introduced an ultrasound machine and trained two staff memebers on how to use it. The machine will help increase maternal and infant outcomes.
- Introduced PlumpyNut to the area. PlumpyNut is a ready -to-use therapeutic food supply made from peanut butter, powdered milk, powdered sugar and vitamins/minerals to help combat malnutrition. It is unique because it does not need refrigeration or water and has a shelf life of two years. When given to severely malnourished children twice a day for four weeks, it can reverse the effects of malnutrition. (You can support the continuation of this project by adopting an "Angel of Comfort Doll").
- On April 10, Spanda, Inc. made it possible for an incinerator to be installed. There was a need for proper disposal of hazardous waste and contaminated needles due to the high risk of HIV/AIDS. The incinerator dramatically lowered the risk of spreading these diseases.
- September 27 through October 8, a team embarked on a second trip to Kenya. During this expedition, Spanda Inc., representatives attended the grand opening of the permanent 24’ by 48’ medical clinic in Kipkaren. The clinic was filled with additional equipment, computers, medical and dental supplies.
- Additional materials and training were provided to Julius.
- In September Spanda Inc., established a permanent clinic in Kipkaren with state-of-the-art equipment and supplies to provide eye exams, prescription glasses and ocular medications. During the first ten-day expedition, the team was able to provide assistance to approximately 300 patients in two Kenyan villages (Eldoret and Kipkaren).
- On behalf of Spanda Inc., Dr. Fitzgerald purchased a satellite and satellite feed for the native residents of Eldoret to facilitate communications with U.S. health care providers. This equipment has been vital in providing assistance with diagnoses for eye exams and to relay information needed to manufacture and ship prescription glasses.
- Native Kenyan Julius was sent, by Spanda Inc., for additional optometry education in Mombasa. He could then provide exams and was seeing almost 15 patients a day. | <urn:uuid:8420147a-5016-433b-a1aa-40bb337ceed9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.spandainc.com/eye-care-kenya-past.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948499 | 490 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Care & Cultivation
6. Care and Cultivation of Bare Root Plants
These are grown in nursery beds on open ground. This ensures that the young plants will have had the benefit of unrestricted root growth and so will have a more vigorous root system when you receive them than pot grown plants of the same age. They will, therefore, tend to grow away and become established much more quickly once replanted. Bare root plants are despatched when they are dormant. However, the roots will be strong and healthy and the plants will soon start into growth again once they are planted out, watered and the warmer weather arrives. | <urn:uuid:486d6285-a99c-43c3-bcf3-4002dbf3c00f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mr-fothergills.co.uk/care_cultivation/13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960906 | 125 | 2.9375 | 3 |
To commemorate Earth Day 2010, Mayor Fenty and the District Department of the Environment have released the Green DC Map.
The map highlights DC’s environmental resources, such as green buildings, community gardens, farmers markets, bike share locations, scenic walks, river restoration projects, and boat launch sites.
The Green DC Map is available in two versions, a print map and an interactive online map. The print version is available by request from DDOE and highlights high profile locations that are easy to visit. It also features information about Anacostia restoration initiatives, the Green DC Agenda and the District’s Climate Action Initiative.
The online version of the Green DC Map includes many more sites than the print version and provides more detailed information about each location. Online map users can customize the types of green venues and projects they would like to view and can create their own trails and tours by selecting specific locations. | <urn:uuid:f85309c7-d9c7-4af8-8688-250bdda9cdbc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://goinggreendc.net/2010/04/25/a-green-map-of-dc-from-the-ddoe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927027 | 185 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Kids Safe fair to be held this weekend
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JUNEAU - Bartlett Regional Hospital will be hosting a "Kids Safe" fair this Saturday at Centennial Hall.
The hospital will be joined by about 30 organizations for an event that will cover a broad range of topics, including dealing with strangers, bicycle safety, forest and wildlife safety, firearm safety, electrical safety, bully prevention and diabetes.
Booths will also be open to have fingerprint and identification cards made for children.
"We want to keep kids from being injured. We want to teach them safe behaviors," said John Wray, Kids Safe coordinator for the hospital.
The fair is designed to be an uplifting, fun environment and is scheduled to run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Between 400 and 750 children normally attend, said Wray.
Rocket launched to study aurora
DURHAM, N.H. - University of New Hampshire scientists launched a rocket over Alaska to photograph a pulsating aurora, a cousin of the better-known northern lights.
The 65-foot rocket was launched from the Poker Flat Research Range 30 miles northeast of Fairbanks, Alaska, early Monday morning and soared 460 miles above the Earth, returning within 15 minutes.
Pulsating auroras are harder to see than the northern lights and generally appear as a patch of light that blinks on for several seconds, then off. They tend to form and reform in the same area and are usually strongest between midnight and sunrise.
UNH physicist Marc Lessard, who also works with the university's Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, led the experiment, hoping to gather more evidence on what causes pulsating auroras. Scientists believe they may get their power from the Van Allen belts, areas of radiation far from the Earth.
The experiment was part of NASA's Rocket Observations of Pulsating Aurora program. Scientists from Dartmouth College; Cornell University; and the University of Alaska Fairbanks, which runs the Poker Flat Research Range, also worked on it.
Army high-tech gear could be on way out
FORT LEWIS, Wash. - A high-tech fighting system will be used by soldiers from Fort Lewis who are going to Iraq in April, but that could be it.
The Army's 2008 budget ends funding for the Land Warrior system, intended to help soldiers communicate better and make more use of data collected around the battlefield. It includes radios, cameras and other electronics that are built into helmets and body armor.
"Due to significant Army-wide resource challenges, the Army decided to not pursue further development and production of Land Warrior," according to a budget note submitted by the Pentagon last week.
General Dynamics has received about $500 million so far to develop the system. Company spokeswoman Fran Jacques said the Army's proposal needs congressional approval.
Congress, in considering the fiscal year 2005 defense spending bill, directed the secretary of the Army to merge the Land Warrior program with another future combat system and cut its budget by $15 million. It also recommended the Army incorporate the combined program's existing capabilities into its Stryker brigades.
The estimated $1 billion program was started in 1994, but has since been plagued with delays and ever-increasing costs. The weight of the equipment - about 17 pounds per soldier - has also been a major concern.
Despite the proposed cuts, it appears that a battalion with 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, a Stryker Brigade Combat Team at Fort Lewis, will deploy with the systems, Fort Lewis spokesman Joseph Piek said.
"It all goes to, you train as you fight," he said.
Soldier killed in Iraq explosion, family says
BETHEL PARK, Pa.- An Alaska-based soldier from western Pennsylvania was killed in an explosion in Iraq, his family said Monday.
Sgt. Russell Kurtz, of Bethel Park, Pa., who turned 22 last month, was a passenger in a Humvee that hit an improvised explosive device at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, said his mother, Jill Kurtz. Military authorities said they could not immediately confirm the death.
"He was doing what he wanted to be doing," she said.
Russell Kurtz was interested in military history from an early age and enlisted as a senior in high school, although he had been accepted at colleges.
Jill Kurtz said her son "decided that he had to do something; he didn't want others over there fighting and dying without him being willing to do the same, and we supported him."
Russell Kurtz played football and baseball in school and loved the outdoors, his mother said.
"He was stationed up in Alaska, and loved it up there - the skiing and the hunting and the fishing and the mountains and all that," she said.
Kurtz said her son went through airborne training and was part of the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry. He was stationed at Fort Richardson in Alaska and sent to Iraq in October.
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We live in a Fatherless World, as I explained in a recent post. So, how do fathers and sons work together to create this fatherless situation? That’s the question I want to explain in this update posting.
Fatherless-ness is the condition of being without the true fathering which God intended. Fathering is a divine calling and privilege. Yet in today’s world men think they can make of it what they want. So they become the kind of fathers that they choose to become, without regard for their divine calling. Most people today have lost sight of the foundations for their lives, so they follow the crowd. If other fathers do things a certain way then that social norm becomes the reference point for most fathers. Then, in the absence of truth to guide fathers to their real calling, they function as something less than a father. That creates a situation of fatherless-ness.
When a child is raised without the high level of spiritual responsibility and guidance that a real father is meant to bring to the child, then the child is fatherless, even if that child has a very present, very pleasant dad in their life.
Dad doesn’t create fathering. God created fathering and calls men to fulfil that mandate. Sadly, most men are either ignorant or irresponsible. They go about providing what they choose to provide in their role as dads. So their children are fatherless.
How Dads Create Fatherless-ness
When a dad is absent the child clearly is fatherless. With immorality rampant many children are born without fathers and not able to determine who their real father is. I spoke recently with a woman who was told by her mum that her dad would have been one of two men who the mum was not married to. Without DNA testing the daughter cannot be certain which of the men is her real dad. But she is at least lucky enough to narrow it down to two.
So the absentee father is one cause of fatherless-ness, but it is not the greatest cause of this problem from the dad’s side of the equation.
The more insidious fatherless-ness occurs when there is the appearance of a father, but the absence or true fathering, as I described earlier. When ever a man fails to be the man that God has called him to be or the father that God has called him to be, then he creates fatherless-ness.
I once worked with a family where the father had virtually no manhood. He acted much like his own children, but he had less intelligence than they did. He held down a menial job and left the running of the home to his wife and her father, who provided the mature male role in the home. The man’s children mocked him openly. He was a joke to them, and yet he thought such a situation was normal and reasonable. Such a man creates fatherless-ness, because he is not functioning as a father in that home.
When a dad lives for himself and raises his children as it suits him, he makes his children fatherless. When a dad ignores God’s authority over him and through him to his children, he makes his children fatherless. When a man abdicates from his manhood and leaves the home to his wife to run, he makes his children fatherless.
Dads create fatherless culture by their failure to be the fathers God created them to be in their child’s life.
How Children Create Fatherless-ness
Children also create fatherless-ness. They do it by rejecting their fathers. When children rebel against the instructions of their father, they make themselves ‘fatherless’. Just as refusing to drive a car, even when you have one in the garage, makes you effectively ‘car-less’, so refusing to honour your father, even though you have one in your home, makes you effectively ‘father-less’.
Children choose to become fatherless when they find that their dad frustrates their will. When the child decides to go against the father’s instructions or pull against his limitations, the child removes their self from being ‘fathered’. So the child becomes fatherless.
When children spend much of their life under the influence of their peers (as is the almost universal experience of western children) it is to be expected that the children will value the peer culture above their parent’s values. The child will be sorely tempted to side with the peers rather than the parents when these cultures conflict. When the child chooses to side with the peers that child replaces the father with the peer culture. The child is then fatherless.
Since the child will likely be determining his or her values from social norms, rather than from Biblical truth or some other external and unchanging reference point, the child will be encouraged to think that their fight for independence from parental control is normal and reasonable. They will have no idea that they have permanently damaged themselves and contributed to the fatherless world in which they live.
God the Father
Among the various responses that can be suggested in this fatherless world, the most powerful one is to firmly set God as Father in our lives. God is a father, as Jesus pointed out when He taught us to pray, “Our Father in Heaven…” That truth was already given in the Old Testament Scriptures.
“But now, O LORD, You are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.” Isaiah 64:8
“For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights.” Proverbs 3:12
“Like as a father pities his children, so the LORD pities them that fear him.” Psalm 103:13
God is not only a father, He is the most perfect and complete, fully functioning father that could ever be imagined. Having God as our father brings into our lives all that our natural fathers were incapable of binging to us. So it is more than a nice idea to have God as our Father. It is an extremely powerful reality that will impact who we are more than just about anything else we could do.
I encourage you to overturn fatherless-ness in your life, but entering into intimate relationship with God as your Heavenly Father.
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How One GOP Plutocrat Helped Make 20,000 Kids Homeless
There are 20,000 kids sleeping in homeless shelters in New York City, according to the city's latest estimate, a number that does not include homeless kids who are not sleeping in shelters because their families have been turned away. Up to 65 percent of families who apply for shelter don't get in, and their options can be grim.
"Some end up sleeping in subway trains," Patrick Markee, senior policy analyst at Coalition for the Homeless, tells AlterNet. "Some go to hospital emergency rooms or laundromats. Women are going back to their batterers or staying in unsafe apartments."
Families that make it into shelters are taking longer to leave and move into stable, permanent housing. Asked by reporters why families were staying 30% longer than even last year, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, "... it is a much more pleasurable experience than they ever had before."
“Is it great?" He elaborated a day later in response to outcry over his comments. "No. It’s not the Plaza Hotel ... but that’s not what shelter is supposed to be and that’s not what the public can afford or the public wants.”
That deep-seated empathy for the poor also runs through the mayor's policies, which have helped create a crisis that the New York Times has called "an emergency." Since the mayor took office, promising to slash the rate of total homelessness by two thirds in five years, the homeless rate in New York City has ballooned to 46,000 people sleeping in shelters, an increase of almost 40 percent. The administration blames the financial crisis, but as it turns out, there are ways to make the lives of the very poor tougher in the middle of a recession: you just need to subscribe to a governing philosophy that assumes the poor are both too lazy to get on their feet and working hard day and night to cheat the system.
Here is a guide to how the Bloomberg administration managed to increase family homelessness while using up a lot of public money.
1. Cut access to federal aid.
For decades, Republican and Democratic mayors kept family homelessness down by giving homeless parents and their kids priority access to federal housing subsidies and rental vouchers. But in 2004, as part of the mayor's five-year plan to combat homelessness, the administration knocked homeless families from the top of the massive waiting list for federal rent subsidies. Administration officials, offering no empirical proof, claimed that poor people were scamming the system by moving into shelters in order to get Section 8 vouchers. (Like many conservative fantasies involving scheming minorities, it's no doubt true that someone, somewhere, cheated -- but studies show this was not a widespread problem straining the system.)
The rate of homeless families who used federal subsidies fell to the low single digits. According to Giselle Routhier, policy analyst for Coalition for the Homeless, "In fiscal year 2010, at a time of then record homelessness, home
In place of programs that gave them access to permanent housing, homeless families got the gift of personal responsibility! First the administration introduced Housing Stability Plus, a subsidy that fell by 20 percent each year. HSP was mired in controversy following revelations that families were being exposed to hazardous conditions in their new digs: "[M]any formerly homeless families and their children have suffered from lead poisoning, lack of heat and hot water, vermin infestation," according to a Coalition for the Homeless report.
The Advantage program, introduced in 2007, helped with a percent of families' rents (requiring they work or take job training) but cut aid after either one or two years. When their subsidies ran out, families were supposed to find their own way into permanent housing. Instead, many found their way back to the shelter, because, as homelessness advocates point out, rents did not magically go down in New York. One out of three families whose Advantage assistance expired applied for shelter in 2011, according to city numbers crunched by Coalition for the Homeless. | <urn:uuid:bfbff3d1-7c0b-4d82-a452-b686ae7ae5f4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.alternet.org/how-one-gop-plutocrat-helped-make-20000-kids-homeless?page=0%252C2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971288 | 824 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Modern African Art : A Basic Reading List
African Islands : Madagascar
Andrianetrazafy, Hemerson. La peinture malgache des origines à 1940. Tananarivo: Foi et Justice, . 130pp., pp. of plates. illus. (color). (Série Arts et culture malgaches). ND1097.6.M3A57 1991 AFA. OCLC 28611250.
The emergence of painting in Madagascar in this century is viewed as part of a larger process of acculturation, of contact and influences from the West. Central to this history is the question of identity: Is there such a thing which can be called a Malagasy painting?
Andrianetrazafy examines painting in Madagascar not only as an aesthetic phenomenon, but also as a series of socio-cultural changes and adaptations. Its antecedents lie in the nineteenth century in the early manifestations of "art colonial" under the influence of French cultural hegemony. In 1922 the École des Beaux-Arts de Tananarive opened; the first exhibition of contemporary art was held the following year. The foundation was thus laid, albeit in the tradition of French academic painting. Painting flourished for the next two decades, but questions arose as to whether there was too much imitative, derivative work and not enough originality. Where was "Malagasy painting"? Where was the indigenous inspiration?
Among the artists whose work was pivotal during these decades are Razanamaniraka (1900-1943), Robert Rasolomanitra (1911-1953), and Alfred Razafinjohany. Sixteen color plates reproduce paintings from the collection of the Musée du Palais de la Reine in Tananarivo. | <urn:uuid:598d88b3-4e4f-412f-917a-780ac8490a12> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sil.si.edu/SILPublications/ModernAfricanArt/maaprint.cfm?subcategory=Madagascar | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907035 | 368 | 2.8125 | 3 |
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GIVEAWAY: New Year, New You? Apps to Help You Meet Your Goals
January offers a clean slate, a new beginning and for most of us, a New Year’s goal.
We learned as kids that these goals should be specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and timely or SMART. But our own personal experience has taught us that no matter how smart the goals are, by mid January or early February if we are lucky, no matter how committed we were, it’s just too hard.
Steaz is on a mission to build a healthier world with great-tasting, good-for-you beverages that benefit the mind, body, soul – and planet. It's all about a complete approach to a better life, so we want to help our fans meet their lifestyle goals!
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Getting Dreams Done – helps you identify your dreams and achieve your life goals. The app even syncs with your iCal and reminds you of the status of certain goals to hold you accountable.
Fooducate– scan a product barcode and see what’s really inside the product. Not only will it give you a letter grade, but also calories per serving and healthier alternatives.
Mind Bloom – inspires you to live every day to the fullest, by reminding you to make healthy choices in multiple aspects of your life from managing stress to saving money, all while enhancing your creativity. The app also helps you focus on areas of your life that are the most important to you.
RunKeeper – helps you keep track, analyze, measure and improve your fitness, while receiving support and social motivation from the community.
Mind Body Yoga – uses GPS to help you find a yoga studio and class anywhere you happen to be.
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Everyone at Steaz would like to encourage our fans to live healthy lives and be the change in their world, so share your 2012 goals, and tell us how all-natural organic and fair-trade Steaz products will help!
Complete the entry form linked below and share your goals in the comments for your chance to win one of these gift bags! We'll be sharing the Steaz love with ONE lucky winner! Each gift bag will look like this and will include the follow Steaz items:
- Tote bag (everything will be packed in this)
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Entering is easy! Complete the entry form and tell us your goals in the comments before 11 am PST Wednesday January 18, 2012 for your chance to win. Winner announcement to follow before 5pm PST on Wednesday, January 18, 2012. Remember to Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for updates on all future giveaways and Steaz news!
Entries will be accepted from January 11, 2012 through 11 am PST on Wednesday, January 18, 2012.
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Environmentalist protesters have been arrested outside the White House on the first day of a planned two-week protest over a proposed oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast.
U.S. Park Police spokesman David Schlosser tells WJLA-TV (http://wj.la/qNGfzE ) that 65 people were arrested Saturday. The protest is scheduled to run through Sept. 3.
The protesters want President Barack Obama to deny a permit for the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline. It would go through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas to refineries in Houston and Port Arthur, Texas.
Gus Speth, co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, and one of the protesters tells the Wall Street Journal (http://on.wsj.com/qC3ZFp ) the pipeline would continue the nation's reliance on fossil fuels.
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Information and awareness raising programme in Switzerland
Enfants du Monde maintains regular contact with the Swiss population. The association aims to raise awareness – particularly among young people – of the problems facing disadvantaged countries, and of other matters such as children’s rights, development cooperation and especially the necessity for each and every child in the world to have access to education and medical care.
Information and awareness raising takes four forms:
Melissa Mouron participated in the activities for youth:
“It all began in 2005 when I wanted to discover other ways of life. I was able to participate at a youth camp in Bangladesh. Together with Enfants du Monde’s local partner we hosted various activities in the schools. This exchange has changed my life. I met people who made me think about the meaning of my own life. Today, after many visits to Bangladesh, I’ve created my own organisation that seeks to promote intercultural dialogue within social work.” | <urn:uuid:1fecc57b-a4b8-405c-b142-4995a2813f2c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.enfantsdumonde.ch/en/actions/switzerland | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959739 | 199 | 2.171875 | 2 |
At the university where I'm doing my summer research Tuesdays mean volleyball. Around lunch time on my first Tuesday there I was invited to play volleyball at the campus gym. I accepted, anticipating a casual relaxed game. The type of game where no one was really that good but if you relaxed the rules to allow more kinds of hits then it could still be competitive and fun. This is NOT how volleyball is played at this university. The first red flag that this wasn't what I was used to should have been when I was asked if I was any good. Assuming a relaxed game I said yes I was ok since if nothing else I am in shape and coordinated. That is enough to make you a solid player in spring break beach volleyball or fraternity intramurals so I thought I would be fine here.
When we (Dr. Paul Weng, the professor I'm working with and myself) got to the gym we jogged a few laps and then began hitting a volleyball back and forth. So far so good. Just warming up a bit before the game began. Then a lady (who was obviously a coach) shouted out some things in French. Everyone stopped hitting to listen. "Now we are going to do drills," Dr. Weng said as the coach selected a couple of players to demonstrate. Drills? Maybe this isn't the casual game I thought I was going to be playing. I got the idea of the drill from watching the demonstration and joined up with a group to go through it. It quickly became apparent that everyone in the gym (about 40 people both faculty and students) was very good at volleyball. Everyone could serve, set, and knew exactly where to be when they needed to be there.
Much humbled by the level of talent around me I spent the rest of the two hours focusing on just not looking too bad and listening to what I was told. This turned out to be a good strategy as I learned quite a bit and had a very good time.
Another big difference between the sports at the university and back home was the level of conversation during the game. With friends in America, trash talking the other team and yelling when you spiked or blocked were just part of the game. Here, all communication was for the benefit of the team working together and when the point ended the ball was just passed back and served again. (Once I began to understand more of the conversation I realized there was a bit more trash talk than I realized at first.)
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“Golf is a wonderful game—absolutely unique. It develops the good qualities of a man’s nature and softens the poor ones.
As a disciplinarian and establisher of character, it is without a peer.
It cultivates patience and endurance under adversity and yet keeps constantly alive the fires of hope. It is a leveler of ranks and classes: rich and poor alike meet on common ground. Skill at it cannot be purchased except by application, concentration, hard work, much travail of spirit and undying faith–all of which really represent a labor of love.
It has saved thousands of lives, and broadened, sweetened and enriched the minds and dispositions of many thousands more. It has given birth to and firmly cemented friendships without number.
It is the best, as it is the fairest of all outdoor pastimes—and it may be played from cradle to the grave. (The American Golfer, Feb. 1910)
The Walter J. Travis Society was founded in 1994 to promote the legacy of Walter J. Travis, America’s foremost amateur golfer of the early 1900s, golf journalist and publisher, turfgrass expert, golf course architect, and one of the great pioneers of golf in North America.
The Travis Society is dedicated to documenting the remarkable career of Walter J. Travis in order to fully understand and honor his varied accomplishments and contributions.
We strive to create an interesting and informative site that is updated regularly. We invite your comments and suggestions. To be a part of our mission to highlight and honor the Travis legacy, we invite you to become a member in the Travis Society.
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The best answer is drab. The relationship between the first pair of words, SHALLOW and DEEP, is that of antonyms—words that have opposite meanings. Therefore, the second pair of words must also be antonyms. Drab is an antonym of fancy.
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Hungary is an exotic, mysterious and plenty stories country that attracts tourists from all around the world, but it also has a strong gastronomy with plenty of flavors and aromas that little has changed over time. For these reasons we’ll tell you the history of its gastronomy, which dishes are the most desirable, how to prepare and how to eat them.
The Hungarian cuisine goes hand in hand with its history, it has a tradition of almost 1000 years and some Eastern influences, both in the seasoning and in several flavors. One of those characteristics is that all the soups and stews are thickened with lard and wheat toast flour, which gives them a texture and taste of its own. The main spices are paprika, which can be spicy or not, but it is essential to any further development of Hungary. Another inevitable flavor is tomato and onion Hungary.
One of the internationally known dishes is goulash, this soup with the consistency of stew is made with cubed beef, potatoes, lard, green bell peppers, onions, fresh tomatoes, ground paprika, cumin, garlic and csipetke pasta. This dish has become the most traditional of the Hungarian cuisine and almost every restaurant in Budapest has it in its menu.
The csipetke paste (meaning pinch) is made only with flour and eggs, it has no water, and when the dough is ready, you take little bits with your fingers and put them into the preparations in the moments that is boiling. It is also used in special preparations for those who do not like meat.
For many products used in Hungarian cuisine, a tour to the central market in Budapest is very didactic, and is one of the most beautiful Art Deco buildings in Europe. The products can distinguish the famous multicolored Hungarian sausages, such as the delicious variety of salamis that are in high demand worldwide. The particularity of these salamis, is that the meat is not grinded, it is chopped into small pieces that are smoked with beech wood. There is also the unique hanging of paprika and garlic.
Do not forget is the barak pálinka, the traditional liquor made of peach. This drink, according to Hungarian culture, enhances mood and body strength.
In general, the Hungarian food does not have raw vegetables, and its dishes are served very hot. Keep this in mind this when you are offered traditional Hungarian food.
Hungarian desserts are fresh fruit tarts and crêpes, which are filled with nuts, fresh fruit, cream, cinnamon and some booze. The crêpes are not flamed; a finishing sauce to give flavor is added.
With these recipes, the only thing you should do now is to rent apartments in Budapest and spend the best days of the year in this charming city, where the Danube has inspired artists, writers and poets.
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Henderson Creek, which runs from U.S. 41 east down to Rookery Bay, provides an opportunity to look back into Florida’s history. That is just what Randy McCormick, Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve’s assistant manager, does on this popular new trip offered this winter. The passengers board a mullet boat, similar in style to the ones used by early settlers more than 100 years ago, but McCormick starts by taking them much, much further back.
The first people came to North America over the land bridge from the Russian steppes during the last ice age, but they didn’t make it down to the tip of Florida until about 15,000 years ago. Later, people known as the Calusa settled in south Florida and may have numbered 1,500 people. Their diet included almost any type of fish, sea and land turtles, panther, manatee, clams, oysters and much more. Rather than focusing their lives around agriculture, as many other Native Americans did, they remained hunter gatherers because there was so much food available to them in the bountiful estuary.
Their major settlements are characterized by giant shell mounds or “middens” up to 35 feet high accumulated over hundreds of years. In these middens, paleontologists and archaeologists have found a variety of shell tools, carvings, ceramics and other artifacts that indicate a well developed social structure. There are the remains of a shell midden at the end of Shell Island Road. Although pioneers who later settled the area dug out some of the mounds to use for roads and fill, mounds there are still many feet above sea level.
These early Americans wove fabric and nets from palm fibers and made giant canoes. They also dug canals for these canoes so they could haul food and materials into their settlements. Their territory ranged up as far as today’s Charlotte Harbor.
Ponce de Leon arrived in south Florida about 600 years ago and was surprised to find that some Calusa spoke Spanish. This was apparently because the Spanish had previously colonized Cuba and there was some interaction between the groups. He noted that the Calusa were war-like, but they were probably forewarned by the Cuban fisherman. The disease and rum brought by the Spanish took their toll, and by 1700 the last Calusa had disappeared.
The first local enterprise was a successful shipping company in Marco Island halfway between Key West and Tampa that was started by William D. Collier in the late 1800s.
The first settlers on Henderson Creek arrived shortly after the Homestead Act of 1876, and they settled in what was then called the Little Marco Settlement. Some of these early homesteads have been the subject of archeological investigations, and numerous bottles have been found that once contained spirits and medicine.
In 1895 the Carroll family settled along Henderson Creek after moving south from Arcadia. They traveled by wagon and on foot, driving their livestock along with them. By the turn of the century Marco Island developed into the first real city in the area largely due to the proximity of Big Marco Pass and its suitability as a stopover point for coastal trading vessels.
Southern quahogs were harvested by hand by early pioneers and canned in a local cannery. Later, the invention of the clam dredge coupled with other unintended consequences of development resulted in these clams largely disappearing from local waters. The last clam cannery on Marco closed in the 1940’s. The tour also includes discussion of Johnson Island and Cannon Island where other families homesteaded on the high land. Today, both islands are uninhabited, a testament to the rough and isolated life in early Rookery Bay.
This cruise provides a well-researched review of the first settlements in southern Florida, and a mullet boat on a beautiful sunny afternoon is the perfect way to get a first-hand view of these historic properties. While this article may have piqued your interest, the cruises are booked through April. For more information about the area’s cultural history, visit the Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center at 300 Tower Road. To learn more about other boat tours and activities, visit rookerybay.org or call 417-6310 x401.
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Steelworkers demanding fair wages for thousands of workers on strike at a Freeport-McMoRan mine in Indonesia held a demonstration at the company’s headquarters in Phoenix today.
Around 10,000 workers have been on strike for higher wages since mid-September at Grasberg, the world’s largest gold mine in Papua, Indonesia. The majority of the miners earn on average little over $2 per hour, according to the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions.
Freeport-McMoRan recently reported nearly $3 billion in net income for the first 6 months of 2011.
Two of the strikers were killed and eight others wounded by police on October 10 while participating in the strike activity. The Indonesian police chief admitted today that police who guard the mining site receive money from the company, and the company’s financial reports disclose that the company pays millions for security at the mine,
Holding signs that said “Shame on You Freeport” and “Freeport Wages not Bullets”, a couple dozen Steelworkers joined with fifty community allies marched from the Occupy Phoenix encampment to the Freeport-McMoRan headquarters.
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use of will
emergengy.... i have been given this essay on very short notice, can anyone help please? anything will be appreciated!!!
write down a grammatical structure from the following text which u would present to intermediate learners. make up some other examples of this structure. write down situations you would give your learners which illustrate how and when the structure is used. use these situations to elicit the examples you have prepared
" i can't help think about what things will be like in 10yrs. will he seem like someone from a fantasy? will he be too .... will we find that our family have nothing in common...."
what is the difference between "wiil" and "going to"?
Re: use of will
It is confusing when someone posts the same question in different areas of this forum. I have given an answer to your question here:
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" will " is less certain than " be going to".
Originally Posted by serg
If you use " be going to ", it then means that you have decided to do.
Hope that helps.
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By Michael Feingold
By Elizabeth Zimmer
By James Hannaham
By Christian Viveros-Faune
By Christian Viveros-Faune
By R. C. Baker
By Michael Feingold
By Michael Musto
A hundred and fifty years after Uncle Tom's Cabindepicted the black/white divide in stark, simplistic terms, Dael Orlandersmith's Yellowman lays bare the complex gradations of white racism as the black community has absorbed and monstrously reconfigured it.
The Romance of Magno Rubio
By Lonnie Carter
103 East 15th Street
How white are you? In Orlandersmith's rural South Carolina, the answer to the question brands each family member. Both within and without the kinship group, the dark-skinned are reviled as ugly brutes, the "high yellow" are envied but despised as weaklings. The physical violence they wage against each other is horrific, but their emotional savagery is almost more shocking.
The story, narrated and enacted by Alma (Orlandersmith) and Eugene (Howard W. Overshown), details their childhood friendship, teenage courtship, and coming-of-age romance. Alma, a large, dark-skinned girl, daughter of a darker, self-hating mother and an absent light-skinned father, strives to escape their rural poverty. Eugene is caught in the tension between his light mother, his dark father, and the "yellow" grandfather who rejected them all.
In the course of their alternating, interlocking narratives, the actors portray the protagonists, their parents, grandparents, neighbors, and friends. The most intensely dramatic scenes are not between the lovers, who rarely speak directly to each other, but between characters portrayed by one actor. Sliding from her own, more cultivated speech to the Gullah dialect of her mother Odelia, Orlandersmith creates a heartbreaking encounter where Odelia throws herself on the road clutching the knees of her departing lover, Alma's father. He abuses her as a black bitch he never loved and shakes her off like a dog. Drunk and raging, Odelia forces the child to drink a foul root mixture to make her "lighter." With beguiling ease, Orlandersmith winds from spirited child to abashed, hopeful teen, to devastated daughter.
Overshown generates an even more remarkable range of characters, fluidly shifting between hurt boy, vengeful father, timid mother, steely grandfather, and other vivid figures. In a spare, low-key style, he breathes them from the inside out. In one agile, fist-flinging frenzy, he becomes both combatants fighting viciously to a heart-stopping finish.
Yellowmanoffers lighter moods too. In an Annie Hall-esque scene, the teenage lovers cringe as Odelia, drunk and sloppy at a dinner at Eugene's house, leers about the "purty yella babies" they'll make. Orlandersmith's writing is rich, rhythmic, and allusive as well as raw and unsettling. Her details are right, as when Alma, in the throes of teen jealousy, wails about those "light-skinned, long-haired girls. . . . They throw back their heads for show."
Only the denouement of the piece seems contrived. The dual narrative, inherently undramatic, also seems mannered at times, but it allows Orlandersmith leeway to show both Alma's and Eugene's thoughts, touchingly when they first make lovehe exultantly, she writhing at the image of herself "big and black against the sheets."
Despite the narrated style, the actors make one feel as if the stage were full of characters. Blanka Zizka's dynamic direction fosters this, as does Klara Zieglerova's quick-change scenic projections. And while Yellowman depicts with merciless specificity the varying degrees of black or white, it also cuts to the heart of any of us who imagined we could escape the bigotry of our culture or becoming the parents we despised.
No white characters appear in Yellowman; nor is there one onstage in The Romance of Magno Rubio, which also presents a slice of life oppressed by the dominant culture. Adapted by Lonnie Carter from a story by Carlos Bulosan, the Ma-Yi Theater Company stages the piece as a kind of folktale with sociological underpinnings. The play tells of the illusory romance of Magno Rubio, a rube and simpleton, surrounded by his fruit-picker bunkmates in California in the 1930s. Variously encouraging, teasing, homesick, or conniving, these friends of Magno narrate and comment on his sight-unseen adoration of Clarabelle, whose picture he's plucked from a lonely hearts magazine. He sends the Arkansas blonde gifts that eat up his meager earnings from picking grapes and cauliflower. Even when evidence mounts that she's playing him for a sucker, he still clings to his dream of wedded bliss.
Director Loy Arcenas uses traditional Filipino music and choreographed stick movement to stage Carter's mixture of English prose, galloping verse in rhymed couplets, and songs in Tagalog. The humor is broad and much of it seems lame, but, from those at one performance who could understand Tagalog, there were appreciative guffaws. Orlando Pabotoy's Magno, with his Neanderthal grin, suggests a silent movie clown, but he does not tug at the heart. In what seems an odd coupling of styles, Arcenas juxtaposes Asian slapstick auxThree Stooges with a dash of Christopher Street arch. In a recurrent bit, Ramon de Ocampo plays the offstage Clarabelle in a Scarlett O'Hara falsetto seasoned with Mae West ribaldry and Blanche Dubois gestures.
Talent and energy animate the piece, but the characters are stereotypes set in a historical context that is assumed rather than freshly illustrated. The play's ambitions clearly differ from those of Yellowman. But where Orlandersmith's work gives us an inside track to a culture, Carter's adaptation presents the surface of a world that can't be penetrated without a translation.
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posted 5 Jun 2008 in Volume 11 Issue 9
Masterclass - Part one
For beginners: developing a knowledge management strategy
A knowledge manager uses first hand experience to help first-time knowledge leaders establish a KM programme.
By Maria Paola Andreoni
First, you should know where I am coming from. I am a knowledge manager and have worked in the profession since 1999. However, my belief that the power of getting the best information to the frontline so the right decisions are made dates back to my first experiences in customer service.
Because strategy is a way to take you to expected results, I – like everyone else – strategise informally a lot of the time. In terms of formal strategies, I have been involved in three of them. One was my personal attempt to sell a knowledge management (KM) concept to an operations manager who was not interested. The second was an information management strategy for a small consultancy. The last one, which I am still in the process of refining, is the biggest and most ambitious – an organisational strategy for a mid-sized, international organisation with more than 40 offices across the world, most of which are in developing countries. VSO – Voluntary Service Overseas – is an international development agency that works through volunteers.
VSO, as an organisation, is all about knowledge, its motto being ‘Sharing skills, changing lives’. It is definitely committed to learning, trial and error and improvement. In that spirit, I will discuss what I have learned in the 18 months that I have spent working on the KM strategy and implementation.
What is a KM strategy?
Why a strategy?
In the KM programme that was created prior to my joining, I could not see a direction that would help me keep the whole collection of projects going together. Existing initiatives were about ‘generally useful stuff’ that would lead to results that are ‘generally accepted as useful’. Among those was an intranet to connect international staff, allowing everyone to participate, and a collection of best practices from peer organisations. I did not perceive more than a generic connection with the organisational strategy and doubted other stakeholders would see anything more in it.
Gap between information and knowledge.
Addressing the gap between the information and knowledge, my definition of knowledge is centred on the person. Knowledge is the result of an individual’s experiential interaction with the world. It is the way people interpret data and information – based on their understanding of the context – to take effective action in a particular situation. Strictly speaking, you would not be able to ‘manage’ knowledge.
Data and information come from all sorts of sources and an organisation has but limited control on what information the individual employees receive. The knowledge synthesis takes place in the mind of the individual who needs to make a decision. So, there is scope for the organisation to intervene by supporting how the employees understand the context and therefore interpret data and information.
What I’ve described makes me a believer in the systemic view of the organisation, and in the fact that KM draws from principles from a number of technical and social disciplines in order to understand how people make the right decisions or why they do not.
Understanding what is necessary in terms of culture and infrastructure so communication and training produce more sustainable effects, and information is interpreted in a way that is beneficial to what the organisation wants to achieve;
Finding where knowledge lies in the organisation and understanding how it can be released to achieve business objectives;
Creating a learning environment where the stakeholders are enabled to share relevant, context-rich information so that everyone can perform more effectively in their roles.
Defining a KM strategy
Identification of business drivers
KM exists to deliver the business strategy in a smarter way and it should not be conceived as an ‘organisational objective’ in itself. This happens especially when the uncomfortable ‘K-word’ is something that the organisation perceives it should employ because ‘it is necessary to manage knowledge’ – whatever knowledge means. Or it may happen when KM is meant to be a ready-made solution to an immediate business challenge.
I have seen my area in the business objectives defined in exactly that way. All other departments’ objectives are described as delivering a specific benefit to the business (i.e., reduce cost of sending a single volunteer overseas so that more can be sent, increasing the volume of our contribution) while my objectives have been subsumed under a generic heading ‘KM programme’. Frustrating, but not uncommon. An ex-colleague of mine, from a consultancy firm, told me this anecdote: After investing massively in knowledge management for 10 years and achieving a status for the quality of their systems, she was suddenly asked by her boss: 'Do we actually need KM?'
Especially in times where cost reduction is high priority, this perception may lead to dire consequences for the KM department, so it is fundamental to link its strategy to the achievement of very real and measurable business objectives.
What about VSO, then? For example, in our sector, staff turnover is a hot topic and with it the risk of the loss of competence and the struggle to get new employees up to speed in the shortest time possible. Perception of complexity is another issue which derives from the context in which we work – freeing the world from poverty is a never-ending, multifaceted task; there is always something else to consider, e.g., some unexpected impact or newly developing factors that contribute to creating poverty such as HIV in recent decades.
In this context, some of the real benefits KM may deliver are related to:
Easier inductions: New employees can ‘find their way around’ more easily as information is managed more tightly. For example, they receive an induction training and welcome pack when they join and there is a clear way of identifying and storing information.
Mitigation of loss of organisational competence when someone leaves: Some of the knowledge developed as the organisation goes about its business is formalised and archiving meeting minutes or introducing ‘after action reviews’ to summarise achievement and obstacles within a project.
Working with stakeholders
The KM department will not be able to achieve any of its objectives in isolation. There is the need to collaborate at least with IT and the Human Resources / Organisational Development department to create a coherent infrastructure where the different activities, processes and technologies support each other rather than putting pressure on the employee with their sometimes contradictory demands, as in the following example:
Imagine that communicating with colleagues in developing countries is a substantial part of your day-by-day job (business need, knowledge-related). The organisation for some reason is failing to provide you with means to achieve the business need, typically a good telephone connection to a specific country. You are ingenious and find a solution yourself, for example using an internet-based phone. Then you find out that that software is not compliant with the organisation’s IT security policies. What will you do?
KM in VSO – as their equivalent in other international development organisations –has highlighted this issue of contradictory demands and we are still working on achieving a risk assessment supported by training and clear policy to solve this problem. Our plan is to mediate among IT, facilities, business functions and budget holders, and link into communications and the training department.
Smarter, not more
KM means doing things in a smarter way, not doing more things (KM should not be retrofitted to the business).
As a result of collaborations as the ones cited above, users would be able to do what they do already in a smarter way.
A wise colleague from a scientific organisation decided on an altogether label-less approach to KM through what he called “knowledge-enriched services”. Being responsible for both IT and quality assurance he is in the best position to do that.
This prevents any negative, off-putting associations in the mind of internal clients related to KM as being one more onerous activity to take care of. Besides, KM can be seen sometimes as a very theoretical discipline, too difficult to understand to possibly deliver any results, or as a very presumptuous one (the title I was given of “international knowledge manager”, for example, is considered a grandiose one by some colleagues) or as scary (for those who still think hoarding their knowledge is a way to power) or all of the three together.
My experience is that you do not need to have a complete strategy straight away, especially as you need to develop an understanding of the stakeholders, their objectives, their constraints, and how knowledge management can connect into those to create ‘knowledge-enriched services’ for
the organisation and deliver on the business objectives.
However, you do need to have a vision that can be communicated clearly. The vision needs to make sense for the stakeholders and justify what you are trying to achieve. After all – I learnt from my first attempt to sell a knowledge strategy without touching
on the right spots—if the budget holder is not able to visualize a ROI or the stakeholders do not see what is in it for them, then there is no chance for success.
KM’s vision statement for VSO is the following:
VSO is one and international: KM will align behind VSO’s global vision and values, thinking internationally and partnering with our stakeholders worldwide for their local perspective.
KM will support the creation of clear information and clear sharing flows, enabled by technology where appropriate, in order to simplify the perception of complexity and therefore improving learning and accountability.
KM will support collaboration across the organisation, devising the knowledge sharing infrastructure to connect with the whole VSO structure, and working as knowledge brokers to empower the VSO community to take the right decisions.
The vision statement is there for all to keep an eye on the bigger picture and not be bogged down by details.
Without the vision statement I would have found a daunting prospect when I realised I had to manage a team with a history of library work and transform them into knowledge managers, coordinate an international working group, improve internal communications, and to plan, coordinate, implement and review projects for the delivery of the strategy.
Ambitious demands are fairly common in KM – after all, knowledge is an encompassing concept and KM may overlap with quite a few other support functions, such as Organisational Development, IT, Communications, and organisational initiatives such as quality control, business process re-engineering or auditing, to name a few. Some organisations that are all about knowledge, i.e., research organisations or education institutions, find it particularly difficult to draw a line between business unit and support function. And VSO has some of these traits.
Assessment of the ‘as-is’
A KM strategy depends on what either you or your organisation thinks knowledge is, and in the context and culture of the organisation for which you are making the strategy.
KM strategy addresses the organisation from a very specific context and culture, subject to often specific assumptions. In VSO’s case, for example, KM sat within IT at the time I joined the organisation, and I was required to be involved for almost one year in delivering an intranet tool, hoping to get a fairly ‘quick win’.
With hindsight, I should have dedicated more of my time to core KM activities rather than their IT implementation. My time would have been better spent making explicit what knowledge is for VSO instead of assuming it was clear with everyone. I should have spent the time getting to know the culture and context better, besides sharing my vision as widely as possible.
What is knowledge for your organisation?
It has taken me some time in a context where information was audience-focused, and without a prior knowledge of the organisation, to identify what knowledge is for VSO.
I find it useful to think of it in two main categories: ‘thought leadership’ – that is what makes VSO unique as an organisation and ‘operational knowledge’ – which is what makes the day-to-day work possible. I use ‘knowledge’ in an extended meaning for this purpose.
Thought leadership consists in two major types of knowledge – learning (from programmes about the issues and countries we work in and selection and training of volunteers), and operational knowledge which includes staff competence and operational information
Stakeholders have been responding well to this categorisation as it makes clear that in VSO, there is roughly a function to deal with each type of knowledge.
This, in turn, highlights there is room for the KM function to oversee all the work that is going on already and to address any shortcomings in the existing arrangement by acting as brokers and facilitators to make connections.
Being a new function in between more established ones is not as easy as you would like it to be, but there are methodologies that help.
Part two of this masterclass will appear in the July/August issue of IK and will cover the methodologies used during the first year of a new or renewed KM programme.
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If there’s one thing New Yorkers like to tweak about, it’s snow. We eat adverse commuting conditions for breakfast, but you put a little frozen water on the ground and the general population swoons like a Tennessee Williams character. Where are my boots! The crosscountry skis! One of these stupid things! I mean, it’s just snow, guys. And these days we don’t really seem to get too much of it. At least not like we did that one time back in 1888, friends. Now that was a snowstorm to remember. Cue the music.Nicknamed “The Great White Hurricane,” 400 New Yorkers actually died during this freak blizzard which occurred on March 12th of that year. There was an average of five feet of snow dumped on Gotham, with drifts reportedly reaching from fifteen to thirty feet deep downtown. Bear in mind, this was during a time when you took a cab it was powered by an actual horse. As was the style of the time, the local rags floridly waxed poetic on the general state of chaos on the ground and I found some fantastically written excerpts of period journalism. Here’s one from the venerable New York Sun, which ran the story the day after as, “BLIZZARD WAS KING. The Metropolis Helpless Under Snow.”
It was as if New York had been a burning candle upon which nature had clapped a snuffer, leaving nothing of the city’s activity but a struggling ember… At a quarter past 6 o’clock, when the extremely modified sunlight forced its way to earth, the scene in the two great cities that the bridge unites was remarkable beyond any winter sight remembered by the people. The streets were blocked with snowdrifts. The car tracks were hid, horse cars were not in the range of possibilities, a wind of wild velocity howled between the rows of houses, the air was burdened with soft, wet, clinging snow, only here and there was a wagon to be seen, only here and there a feebly moving man.It’s a shame papers no longer write like this, am I right? As vivid as a pulp novel. Listen to what happened next:
As the hours went on and noon drew nigh the storm lost none of its severity. Dusk came and then darkness, and the wonderful visitation was still in progress. Still the streets were banked high with rifts of snow, still the wind roared and howled and bellowed and flung itself against the city’s walls, still the horse cars were cut off their tracks and the pillared roads were idle, still the wagons were few, the women were obliterated from the outdoor scenes, the pelting snow and sleet blinded men’s eyes, the cold wind numbed man and beast, the uproar of wild voices continued.The streets were littered with blown-down signs, tops of fancy lamps, and all the wreck and debris of projections, ornaments, and movables. Everywhere horse cars were lying on their sides; entrenched in deep snow, lying across the tracks, jammed together and in every conceivable position. The city’s surface was like a wreck-strewn battle field.That sounds hellish, and they didn’t even have Gore-Tex at the time. So later on today when someone inevitably says “damn this weather we’re having lately!” be sure to endear yourself to them by professorially educating them in stentorian tones about a real snow storm: the Blizzard of 1888. | <urn:uuid:53e9de05-f740-493f-8202-faaab74ca0fe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ontherealny.com/the-blizzard-of-1888/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980346 | 746 | 1.757813 | 2 |
We will begin with photo lithography and other demonstrations of advanced techniques, particularly those that integrate digital and mixed media processes. We will also read about and look at images that expand printmaking practices and its role in contemporary discussions of art. Although you are asked to incorporate print media in some way, your approach may be very open and the readings and discussions will also be expansive.
This class will allow you the freedom to pursue your work with critical feedback and concepts to facilitate the deepening of your ideas and techniques. You are expected to be very motivated and open your mind in order to take a risk with your work, push yourself to gain technical proficiency and give critical feedback to your fellow students. Critiques are essential to Advanced Printmaking, and they can go on for days.... We will begin by looking at the work of each student in the class and give feedback on the directions they might consider, from technique and media to concept and content.
Students are encouraged to be engaged in the print community and to build their experience by applying for competitions, helping with visiting artist print projects, attending a print conference or organizing an exhibit. We should also plan a group project or exchange.
Undergraduates are expected to be working in your own direction, but with some requirements that are designed to challenge and inspire. Undergraduates will be graded on a mid-term and final portfolio. Graduate students can work more freely and are simply expected to have an incredible work ethic, be present and active in class and make work to show in critique that blows our collective minds. For those participating in a senior project, you are expected to work beyond the requirements for this exhibition.
Your grade is based on the following:
Evolutionary Abilities (taking risks and responding to suggestions) 20%
Critique/Reading Discussion Participation, Community participation: 20%
Shop Etiquette and Safety (This includes protecting yourself): 10%
You are expected to be in class and on time- more than 3 absences will drop your grade. Critiques are like tests: You must be present to get credit and you must participate.
You are asked to apply to one juried print competition or exhibition, please get on the bohemian press email list to receive notification.
Although this class is pretty open, you will be asked to make a photolitho print and there may be other media requirements, but you are mostly asked to work in your own direction. Content is up to you and you are encouraged to work in a series. A final portfolio should contain minimally 5 considered works, with multiple layers or (depending on media) an involved installation or multi-media piece with an equivalent amount of work. You should be self-motivated and working all the time, having new completed work for each critique.
Today: syllabus, supplies, drawer assignment, shop tour and safety review, look at and be inspired by prints, upcoming events, photo-litho handout
You will be given one free 30" x 40" photo litho plate and asked to make minimally a two layer print. Please get a stabilo Aquarellable pencil, some frosted mylar and any other drawing materials you will need for Tuesday. (Some other pencils may work, but these are the best in my experience, available at Wet Paint and maybe other stores). Papers to print on include Arches, Rives, Somerset, or any Western rag paper.
For Thursday: Please bring 3 of your most successful works, either in digital or live format, two of which should incorporate printmaking and be ready to talk about them! Have supplies for photo-litho by Tuesday!!!
Course Outline (a more thorough schedule will be given for each section)
Part I: Photo/Digital Mechanical Photolitho and Digital Chine colle, integrating print media
Part II: Alternative Methods (monoprinting, polyester plates, stencils, etc.)
Part III: New manifestations (printstallation, print-sculpture, animation)
Supplies: Get set up ASAP, ask if you have any questions
Wet Paint 1684 Grand Ave, St. Paul (amazing array of papers)
Utrecht Art Supplies 1601 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis (good prices on 25 packs of Rives or Arches)
Art Materials 2728 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis
MCAD art supply store
Takach Paper (good for ordering in bulk)
Currently on exhibit: Drew Peterson @ the Burnet Gallery at Chambers Hotel- go see it!
End of January- works due for bohemian press valentines show
February 1st Oso Bay North American Print Competition, juried by Bill Fick and Tom Huck
February 14th: bohemian press student and Alumni Show opens in Quarter Gallery
Laura Berman (KCAI) talks to class http://www.laurabermanprojects.com/
March 14-18th SGCI Conference in New Orleans, bohemian press attending
Some community/alumni presses:
Highpoint Center for Printmaking- currently has a members' show (U Alumni work there!)
Leg Up studio (on FB)
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Some folks love the lottery -- that completely random yet legal game of chance where, for a couple of bucks, we hope to reach into the haystack and pull out that needle that means a fortune.
Ohio and Michigan use a somewhat similar format to give hunters an opportunity to gamble on good luck being their companion for a ticket to prime hunting opportunities.
The hunters hope they have a bit more than a shot in the dark at working some game-rich ground.
Both states hold a variety of lotteries that are used to provide special hunting privileges for structured youth hunts and for hunts on public lands where the deer herds need to be reduced to mitigate damage to native plants.
Ohio's Department of Natural Resources, working with the Division of Natural Areas and the Division of Parks, has set up a series of special gun and bow deer hunts at seven nature preserves throughout the state.
These locations provide prime habitat, but have been hurt by excessive browsing by the growing resident deer herds. Ohio's once common state wildflower, the large flowered trillium, has almost disappeared from numerous natural areas due to heavy foraging by whitetailed deer.
"Special management hunts are an excellent tool we can utilize to protect native plant communities in Ohio's best natural areas," said Ryan Schroeder, who is the manager at the Goll Woods State Nature Preserve, just north of Archbold in Fulton County.
"These hunts allow Ohio's hunters to assist us with our land management activities while giving them a chance to see and appreciate some of Ohio's highest quality natural areas they may never see otherwise."
Goll Woods is a 320-acre sanctuary of old-growth forest that was typical in the Great Black Swamp. The natural area has some of the largest trees in the state, and an abundant assortment of native shrubs and wildflowers, which are subject to over-browsing by deer.
Applications for the special hunt at Goll Woods, and those at Lawrence Woods, Christmas Rocks, Lake Katharine, Boch Hollow, Gahanna Woods, and Blackhand Gorge state natural areas will be managed locally by the preserve managers.
On Sept. 1 at 9 a.m., Goll Woods will sponsor a drawing for an archery hunt. The drawing takes place at the nature preserve office at 26093 County Road F, northwest of Archbold.
Hunters must hold a valid 2012-13 Ohio hunting license and attend the meeting and drawing to be eligible. They are permitted to submit up to five entries for each drawing, with a $5 fee for each entry.
After a random drawing, the winning hunters will take part in an orientation and be given a two-week period to hunt the property. Each winning permit will be good for two hunters, but only one is required to attend the orientation session.
To make certain that the hunts have the intended impact on the resident deer population, these special hunts require that a doe be taken first. Bucks can be harvested only after an antlerless deer is taken.
All other special regulations concerning these hunts will be covered at the individual orientation meetings. Contact Ryan Schroeder at 419-445-1775 or at email@example.com for more information on the Goll Woods hunt.
Contact information for the other Ohio nature preserve hunts can be found on The Blade Outdoors blog.
ERIE METROPARKS: A lottery for special youth hunting and trapping permits at East Sandusky Bay MetroPark -- Joseph Steinen Wildlife Area in Huron will be held on Saturday at 9 a.m. sharp. The lottery will be held at the Frost Center in Osborn MetroPark, at 3910 Perkins Ave. in Huron.
Interested youth hunters or trappers must attend the informational meeting, with the lottery to follow. Permits for deer archery hunts, upland game hunts, and trapping permits will be drawn at the session.
There is also a lottery drawing for a deer gun hunt to be held Nov. 26-30 in sections of Edison Woods MetroPark in Berlin Heights. Hunters age 18 and older should apply by mail to: Tara Nagaich at Erie MetroParks 3910 Perkins Ave, Huron, Ohio, 44839 and include a $5 application fee in cash or check, made out to Erie MetroParks. Applicants need to include their name, address, phone number, birth date and whether they are mobility impaired on a card with the word "Edison Woods Controlled Deer Hunt" labeled at the top. Entries must be postmarked by Sept. 15. Winners of the five permits will be notified by Oct. 1, and each licensed permit winner may bring a licensed hunting partner on their scheduled day.
MICHIGAN ULTIMATE HUNT: The Pure Michigan Hunt provides a rare multispecies opportunity for three hunters who will have their names drawn on Dec. 31. Each winner in what is being touted as Michigan's "Hunt of a Lifetime" receives permits to hunt elk, bear, turkey, antlerless deer, and the first crack at a managed waterfowl area along with a prize package. Each application for the hunt costs $4, with the funds going toward wildlife habitat restoration and management. There is no limit on the number of times you can enter, and nonresidents are eligible too, but only Michigan residents will be awarded elk hunting permits.
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If you live in communities in the San Ramon, Tri-Valley, or Diablo Valley, a unique FREE educational series will be presented by Whole Community Education, designed to introduce the community to the Waldorf educational philosophy, starting on March 12 in Alamo.
The 'Saturday Waldorf Experiences' series will be held on Saturdays, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., and childcare will be provided.
Dana Jain, who taught for many years at the Waldorf School of the Pennisula, is opening her home to host and facilitate the series.
Topics will be:
- The Role of the Waldorf Parent: March 12
- The Waldorf Curriculum K-12: March 19
- Handwork in Waldorf Curriculum: March 26
- Field Trip to the Waldorf School of the Pennisula: 4/2
- A Teacher's Perspective: 4/9
- Art and the Waldorf School: 4/16
- The Role of Movement in a Waldorf School: 5/9
Being Planned: The Waldorf Preschool, How Waldorf Works with Children with Special Needs, and Accessible to All Tuition
For more specific information on the conversation topics and featured speakers, please contact Dana Jain for more information.
Contact Info: firstname.lastname@example.org or 925-948-5006
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HARRISONBURG, Va.— Rockingham Memorial Hospital in Harrisonburg is the first inpatient healthcare facility in the state of Virginia, and the second of its size in the nation to receive LEED Gold Certification, according to reports.
Dennis Coffman, director of facility planning and development at RMH, called the certification a culmination of years of dedicated work to make sure the new 630,000-square-foot hospital would meet LEED guidelines.
“We are extremely pleased to be named the first ‘green’ hospital of this size in Virginia,” said Coffman. “We made the choice not for the recognition, but because it’s the right thing to do for our community — now and for future generations. Being ‘green’ is cost-effective and is ensures we will continue to be good financial stewards of our community’s resources.”
Committed to building an environmentally friendly hospital on the 254-acre site, RMH hired Nashville-based architectural firm Earl Swensson Associates (ESa) and the commissioning firm of SSRCx, which consults on the construction and operating of high-performance green buildings.
“We share Rockingham’s excitement about this significant achievement, because this is ESa’s first Gold LEED certified replacement hospital that we’ve designed,” says Harold Petty, director of medical design and a principal at ESa. “The original goal was to achieve a Silver LEED certification, but Rockingham actually exceeded that level. This recognition now places Rockingham Memorial Hospital within a unique, small group of hospitals in the U.S. We are just honored to have been part of this accomplishment.” | <urn:uuid:61635517-fafb-4174-bccd-e730cf1e0ae5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.greenbuildingnews.com/articles/2010/11/22/virginia-hospital-receives-coveted-leed-gold-designation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9295 | 357 | 1.796875 | 2 |
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Republican Mitt Romney is renewing his criticism of President Barack Obama's welfare policy, accusing him in a new ad of "gutting welfare reform." The ad says Romney would "put work back in welfare."
Romney says Obama lifted a provision that required people receiving welfare to work. Independent fact checkers have found the premise of the ad to be false.
Last month, Obama moved to allow states to seek waivers from some welfare rules. To get a waiver, states must show their plans would move at least 20 percent more people to work.
Conservatives say waivers will lead to an end of the work requirement. Romney was among several Republican governors who signed a letter in 2005 asking for more flexibility.
The Obama campaign, noting the work of fact-checking organizations, said Monday the ads are "not true." Campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith said in fact the rule changes strengthen welfare's work requirement, not weaken it. "Just one week after pledging to run a substantive campaign, and whining about the negativity in this race, it's clear Mitt Romney has absolutely no intention of living up to that pledge," she said.
The Romney campaign did not say in which states the ad would run. The campaign says Romney will press the welfare issue during a town hall in New Hampshire Monday. | <urn:uuid:483386a1-f198-4997-8625-b15c34555f2f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.yahoo.com/romney-renews-obama-welfare-criticism-ad-091509230.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974823 | 271 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Attempting a Reconciliation
the very outbreak of hostilities, the leading brethren in the
United States were aware of the crisis which had affected the
work in Europe. They knew that there was a division among the
members. Yet they extended no support or sympathy to the persecuted
ones who found themselves outside the church.
1920 four members of the SDA General Conference Executive Committee
visited Europe with the stated purpose of settling the difficulty
and in some way restoring unity among the believers. They were
particularly concerned with the Balkan countries and Germany,
but in all their efforts they made scarcely any attempt to contact
the scattered groups of minority believers who had endured the
fires of affliction for the third angels message. Their
opinions were based almost entirely upon the reports received
from the European leaders who were directly involved in the problem.
It became evident to them, however, that the apostasy in Europe
could not be easily covered up, and that one day it would be made
known to the Adventist membership at large.
L. R. Conradi, vice president of the General Conference
and president of the European Division until 1922.
Reformers began to ask themselves serious questions about the
real intentions of the General Conference brethren: Are they actually
willing to settle the problems, or do they only intend to clear
themselves of the responsibility for what had taken place in Europe?
Will they admit or minimize the betrayal of the European leaders,
and give the impression that on the whole they had been loyal
to the message, and that they had done the best they could under
the circumstances? Do they think that the Reform brethren were
only a group of rebellious elements, extremists and fanatics,
who refused all efforts for reconciliation? Our brethren were
invited by L. R. Conradi, H. F. Schuberth, G. W. Schubert, and
P. Drinhaus (see Zions-Waechter, Nos. 13 & 14, July
1920) to send a delegation to a meeting of ministers to be held
in Friedensau, Germany, where the General Conference president
would be prepared to discuss the controverted questions.
opportunity of meeting with the General Conference president and
other Executive Committee members was welcomed by our pioneers,
who thought they could expect a fair and impartial hearing. They
soon realized, however, that they were mistaken in their optimistic
expectations. It was declared that the German leaders had been
faithful in the time of crisis, that no principle was involved
in the stand taken by the church, and that the Reformers were
only a small group of disaffected and disgruntled elements, deluded
by false dreams and visions.
conference was held at the SDA Missionary College in Friedensau,
July 21 through 23, 1920. There were present 51 members of different
Union Conference Committees (the three German Unions, The Netherlands,
Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary); plus 16 members of the disfellowshiped
minority (who were called by the SDA leaders "The Movement
of Opposition"); plus 4 General Conference men: A. G. Daniells
(president), L. H. Christian, F. M. Wilcox, and M. E. Kern. The
main speakers for the Reformers were Edmund Doerschler and Heinrich
representatives of the so called Movement of Opposition,
who took part in the discussion that was carried on at the
Adventist Missionary in Friedensau, Germany, July 21-23,
Reformers had four questions to which they desired answers:
question: "What stand does the General Conference take toward
the resolution adopted by the German leadership, since 1914, in
regard to the fourth and sixth commandments? On this point we
refer to the following written declarations (five documents presented)."
question: "What evidence can be presented to us that we have
not followed the biblical way toward the brethren, as we are accused
in the last issue of Zions-Waechter (SDA paper in Germany),
Numbers 13 & 14, July 1920? We will present the evidence later
question: (a) "What is the stand of the General Conference,
the American brethren, concerning the Testimonies of Sister White?
Are they or are they not inspired by God? (b) Should we or should
we not continue presenting the light on health reform (as brought
forth in the Testimonies) as the right arm of the message?"
question: "Is our message, according to Revelation 14:612,
a national or an international message? We have here several numbers
of Zions-Waechter which do not show that we are an international
people. Example: Zions-Waechter, Number 5, March 3, 1920,
from the leadership of the school."
reasons for, and the purpose of, these questions should be understood,
so the answers may be properly evaluated.
first question was asked with a view to finding out how far the
evident involvement of the General Conference in the combatant
position taken in Europe was admitted by the Adventist leaders,
and whether they were willing to make the necessary correction.
SDA leaders realize that this is a very delicate point; and many
try to deny some very serious facts which we must disclose to
the Adventist believers, namely, that:
By having condoned combatancy, not only among SDAs in Europe,
but also in America, and by not having corrected the situation
soon after World War I, the General Conference made matters worse;
By now refusing to acknowledge any General Conference involvement
in the World War I defection, the leaders were actually increasing
their complicity and culpability.
(front cover). Official minutes (published by the Adventist
Church in Germany) of the discussion in Friedensau (July
Adventist brethren should be informed that, during the Friedensau
conference (1920), the European leaders were whitewashed, and
even Conradi and Dail, respectively president and secretary of
the European Division (who had signed documents in behalf of SDA
combatancy), were justified as if they had committed no blunder
in connection with the law of God and the war question. And those
few who had stood up in defense of the commandments of God were
condemned for believing in strict obedience to the precepts of
Jehovah both in time of peace and in time of war, according to
the original SDA stand. The discussion is quoted from the Minutes
of the Conference with the Movement of Opposition (held in
Friedensau, July 2123, 1920), published by the SDA Church.
is the gist of Elder Daniells answer to the first question:
soon as the war broke out in Europe, we in America studied this
matter carefully. . . . And we took this position: Let everyone
act according to his conscience in this question. . . . Then we
had some brethren who had the spirit of love for their country,
and went to the battle line, and fought. They came to England
and France, and went to the trenches, and I dont know what
they did while they were there, but they served and came back
when the armistice was signed. . . . We regret the war, and we
are against it. But we must permit every citizen to act toward
the authorities according to the dictates of his own conscience.
Not one of these persons was disfellowshiped from our church.
Not one of them was treated as if he was not a Christian. . .
. As long as we do not have precise limits towards the authorities,
it must be left with each one to act according to his own conscience.
The brethren in America took the same moderate and tolerant position
as our brethren in Europe. . . . I would like to say that, when
the declaration of Brother Dail reached us in America, it did
not seem right, and we regretted it. We received letters from
brethren who condemned it severely and asked us to arise and condemn
it too. We told them to be quiet and cautious. . . . Therefore,
brethren, neither Brother Spicer nor I have ever used the pen
to publish a condemnation against these declarations. . . . In
spite of our views about this declaration, we did not send one
word in answer to it. . . . So I believe I have made clear the
feeling and position that has existed in America regarding the
events which took place in Europe. After all this we are convinced
that our brethren here, too, take the noncombatant position. We
have talked with brethren who were in the war, and I can tell
you that I have not found in any brother in Europe a greater military
spirit than in America. And I can say, too, that in their spirit
and in their procedure, our brethren in Europe have been as faithful
as our brethren in America. I will say it all over again in other
words: We are sorry for some of the declarations that have been
issued. But when we consider the spirit and the purpose that led
them to do that, we find that these brethren stand as faithful
and upright in the work as we ourselves. . . . And I must say
that everyone has had the right to set up his own conviction and
form his own conscience with reference to the war question. .
. . We believe that you brethren [referring to the representatives
of the disfellowshiped minority] are completely wrong in the position
you represent. We do believe in the fourth commandment as we have
ever believed in it. But we cannot agree with your interpretation
in connection with it. What would you have said about Moses a
few days after he had received the law on mount Sinai, if he had
told you to go and kill the king of Bashan, and all the men, women,
and children? Would you have accused him of murder? But God commanded
him to violate the sixth commandment. You see that there are many
things to be found in the interpretation of the commandments,
and we must have freedom to read and understand them, without
being bound to the interpretation of any small corporation."
quotation from the Minutes of the Conference with the Movement
of Opposition (held in Friedensau, July 21-23, 1920), published
by the SDA Church in Germany, shows the original and real issue
which brought the Reform Movement into existence: It was the law
of God. SDA leaders libel us in too many unprofitable words, with
too many irrelevant remarks and even nonsensical conclusions,
and generally miss the point altogether (as is the case of Elder
Christian in his Aftermath of Fanaticism or A Counterfeit Reformation).
However, Elder Daniells, the General Conference president in 1920,
was different. He brought to view, in a few words, the actual
big bone of contention, which caused the division at the beginning
of the crisis in Europe. We will restate his answer in a few words:
From the very beginning the General Conference men were informed
of what was going on in Europe, and read at least some of the
compromising declarations of the European leaders, but they decided
to keep quiet, leaving it up to the Europeans themselves to decide
what they should do under those circumstances. Elder F. M. Wilcox
had already explained this acquiescent attitude in an article
published in the Review and Herald:
should the Church of God today remember our European brethren
who are now suffering adversity. Some have been forced into active
military service; their lives are constantly menaced, and they
are exposed to hardship and danger. Families have been broken
up; those left at home are anxious with fear for those who have
gone to the front. The officers of some of our Conferences and
churches have been compelled to forsake their charges and join
the national colors. It should be our earnest prayer that God
will save His cause of truth during this trying period, and that
He will safeguard the lives of His children. As to just what our
European brethren should do under these trying circumstances only
they alone in prayer to God can decide." The Review
and Herald, August 27, 1914.
Conradi, the president of the European Division, wrote:
having received instruction from the highest authority, we in
Europe were permitted to decide this matter ourselves."Zions-Waechter
(SDA paper in Germany), No. 18, 1914.
The General Conference men then took the position that everyone
should follow his own conscience concerning the law of God in
connection with war service. And this is exactly what the European
Adventists did. The great majority, in Germany and other countries,
according to their conscience, took a combatant stand. The leadership
in Germany declared in one of the newspapers:
the beginning of the war our organization was split into two parties.
Ninety-eight percent of our membership, by searching the Bible,
came to the conviction that they are duty-bound, by conscience,
to defend the country with weapons also on Saturdays. This position,
unanimously endorsed by the leadership, was immediately announced
to the War Ministry. Two percent, however, did not submit to this
resolution and therefore had to be disfellowshiped because of
their unchristian conduct."Dresdener Neueste Nachrichten,
April 12, 1918.
The General Conference men even sent word to the European leaders,
expressly authorizing them to continue in their combatant position.
This cannot be denied in the face of the evidence existing in
our files: Curierul Misionar (SDA paper in Romania), November
3, 1916. Also a declaration in Zions-Waechter (SDA paper
in Germany), April 3, 1916, shows the responsibility of the General
Conference for the combatant position taken in Europe. These evidences
were not denied when shown to the General Conference men in Friedensau,
Elder Daniells, the General Conference president, made it plain
that, while in theory SDAs declare themselves noncombatants, they
may in practice follow their own consciencewhich means that
they actually have their own choice and are free to act either
as faithful Christians or as patriotic warriorswhen facing
the war question.
The small disfellowshiped minority were condemned by Elder Daniells
as being "completely wrong" in their interpretation
that taking part in war service is irreconcilable with the law
of God. This condemnation was pronounced in the presence of many
SDA leaders in Europe and some General Conference leaders too.
It is true that we still hold the same beliefand by the
grace of God intend to hold it to the very endfor which
we have often been stigmatized as fanatics.
evidences which we have just produced pinpoint the main cause
of the division and show that the law of God is in question. And
since the two parties hold different views on such a vital issue,
they must go their separate ways, as Elder Daniells himself declared
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Business Ethics From A Historical Perspective
Source: RMIT University
This paper proposes three periodisations in the history of business ethics. Different styles and kinds of discourse were produced in each of the periods. The first includes the broader social critiques of the period of industrialisation. The Fordist era, on the other hand, produced the first attempts to describe the social responsibilities of business and standards of business conduct. The last, the post-Fordist period, saw the application of ethical theory to business matters. Business ethics seems to have no history. It is one of the stranger aspects of a discipline that routinely invokes the names of long-dead philosophers that its history seems murky, unresolved. | <urn:uuid:b871e8cb-4888-4774-84ef-672bf5c06e63> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/business-ethics-from-a-historical-perspective/2906251?scname=business-ethics | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932653 | 138 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Brid schools team up to improve sixth forms
BRIDLINGTON’S two secondary schools are working together to improve the education of sixth form students in the town.
Headlands and Bridlington School have joined forces to launch the Shores Consortium – a scheme which will see the two school’s sharing resources to “improve the offer” to Bridlington’s A-Level students by having a bigger range of courses, smaller class sizes and specialist teachers.
The heads of sixth form in both schools have been working together for the past two to three years, but this year are fully launching the partnership.
Helen Nind, head of sixth form and assistant head teacher at Headlands, said: “We hope that the partnership will broaden the horizons of all sixth form students in Bridlington and offer them more courses, and the progression that they need to get where they want to be in life.”
Kathy Robson, head of sixth form and assistant head teacher at Bridlington School, said: “We are excited to fully launch the Shores and improve the offer for sixth form students in the town. At both schools we know our students and can help guide them.”
The partnership will see students at both schools choose from an enhanced list of courses which are delivered at both the Bridlington and Headlands sites – with a timetable to allow students to travel between both.
Specialist subjects can be offered at one site – so that a student from one school does not miss out on doing a course they would like to do because their school does not offer it.
Mrs Nind continued: “There are a lot more courses available than one school could possibly offer. It avoids duplication, what is the point of five students doing a subject here and five doing it at Bridlington School site when they could both be learning together?
“The idea is to keep our students in Bridlington by giving them more choice here.”
Mrs Robson agreed, saying that Bridlington had recently launched a triple B-TEC qualification in sport, the equivalent of three A-Levels, which would be open to students across both sites.
Next year around 80 of Bridlington School’s Year 11 class of more than 140 will stay on at the sixth form, with between 50% and 60% of Headlands students.
Both heads of sixth form say that they hope the improved courses will mean those already encouraging numbers would rise further.
School funding is a big issue affecting schools in the East Riding, and both schools say that the Shores Consortium offers a common sense approach which involve duplication, and allow money to be spent on providing specialist teachers and equipment for 16-18 year olds in the town.
Last year, 99% of students at both schools passed their A-Levels with half getting top grades.
While not all students will have to travel between sites for their courses, the increased integration can only be a good thing, according to Mrs Nind and Mrs Robson.
Mrs Robson said: “Having to meet new teachers, new students, and go round a different school will take some students out of their comfort zone a little bit and will help when they go to university, or into the world of work.”
A new website has been set up for students to find more information and apply at www.theshores.org.uk and a new prospectus featuring the courses is also available.
An open evening was held at Bridlington School last week and another, for Year 10 and 11 students of both schools, will be held at Headlands on February 27. Two taster days, where students from both schools will taste life at the other, have also been set up for July.
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Everything I ever needed to learn about how to live a successful and balanced life I learned from eating cheeseburgers. The average person needs to eat 2,000 calories a day. A Double Quarter Pounder Meal, super-sized, from McDonald’s is 1,840 calories. This is the reason why McDonald’s no longer gives you the “super-size” option, because eating that, plus anything else over the course of the day, will cause the average person to get fat. It’s not one trip to McDonald’s that makes a person fat however; it is the continued trips to McDonald’s over time that have a snowball effect. We can apply this “Cheeseburger Model” to any area of a person’s life to discover the path that will lead to ultimate success or ultimate failure.
The model is easy to understand. Imagine two people eating at McDonald’s over the next 12 months. One of them, Bob, will start tomorrow by eating lunch and dinner there. The other one, Abe, will also start tomorrow by eating lunch there. By the next day, Bob has had enough McDonald’s to last two weeks and begins eating other, healthier food. Abe loves McDonald’s, and continues to have lunch there every weekday because it is right across the street from where he works. Abe tells us that it is “just so close and convenient.” After one month, we see that Bob has eaten at McDonald’s only three times, while Abe has eaten lunch there 20 times. After one year, Bob is at 10 meals while Abe has eaten at McDonald’s 248 times. At this point, do you think Bob looks much different from how he did a year ago? No. How about Abe? Oh baby, did he get fat! The point of the Cheeseburger Model is to illustrate that success or failure in your life tends to be a snowball effect.
One day of sluffing off followed by a year of hard work will not doom your prosperity any more than one day of hard work followed by a year of sluffing off will guarantee your success. It’s a matter of consistency. Here are some practical examples of applying this model in real life.
Starting a Business. It takes a matter of only hours to start a new business. What most people don’t realize, however, is that spending a Saturday ordering business cards and setting up a website is only the first step. You will not have much of a business if you only work on it when you feel like it. There is quite a bit of trial and error when you start a new business, and you will find that it’s mostly error for the first few months, or even years, which will leave you wanting to give up. Slow and steady wins the race when it comes to start-ups. If you have an idea that you truly feel is worth it, devote one hour or more, five days a week, for one year to it.
Finding a Girlfriend. The average guy asks out fewer than three girls per month and is heartbroken when his rare attempts fail. This is the same guy who isn’t comfortable talking to women because, quite simply, he never talks to women. Finding a girlfriend isn’t about making one approach every few weeks, it’s about talking to every woman you can, every time you leave the house. You get comfortable talking with them by, quite simply, talking to lots of them. This increases your chances of getting a date by not only learning to talk with them, but also by asking more of them out. Don’t fish with a spear gun, use a net. You can always throw back the ones you don’t like.
Party Time. I grew up in an environment where I was told that listening to music with friends would inevitably turn me into a heroin addict. To this day I cringe when I hear idiots say things like, “if you never take that first drink, you cannot become an alcoholic.” It’s not the first drink; it’s the seventh before noon, every day for a month that wrecks a person. Humans are social creatures and that is why we group together to have fun. It is in our nature. It’s ok to have some fun, and the right amount of fun will actually make us more productive once it’s time to get back to work. Be an adult by knowing and respecting your limits, then enjoy life by playing like a child. Everything in moderation.
Getting in Shape. Every athletic club makes the majority of their money because of January 1. If it were not for New Year’s resolutions, most gyms would go out of business. It is the same thing every year. A tidal wave of people sign yearlong contracts in that first week of January, and by the end of the third week, half will never walk into the gym again, until next January. Now, for the people like me who actually keep going regularly, we love new sign-ups because without them we would never get new equipment to play with, but we do laugh at them. These people do not realize that one week at the gym is not going to get them into shape. This is the opposite of eating at McDonald’s. If over the next year they would come to the gym 248 times, they would have the bodies they want. If you want to look like the people who work out all of the time, you are going to need to work out all of the time.
Life is a Journey. One step in the right direction followed by a few hundred in the wrong direction will not get you to your goal, but it is fine to take a few steps on the scenic route from time to time.
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- Aguy of Verdun
- Airy of Verdun
- Algeric of Verdun
Born to a poor farm family. Parish priest at Saint Peter and Paul Church, Verdun, France. Bishop of Verdun in 554. Advisor to King Childebert II. Noted for his generosity to the poor. Reputed miracle worker in his later years.
Once a local rebel leader named Bertifroi sought sanctuary in the chapel of bishop Agericus in Verdun. Though a member of the royal court himself, Agericus defended the rebel’s right to sanctuary in a house of God. The king‘s men, however, ignored the tradition and the bishop, broke into the chapel, and killed Bertefroi.
- c.521 at Verdun, France in a field where his mother was working the crops
- she gave him the name Agericus because of his agricultural beginning
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Catholic Online
- Dictionary of Saints, by John Delaney
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In this drug factsheet:DIN (Drug Identification Number)
|02163152 ||LIDEMOL EMOLLIENT CREAM 0.05%|
How does this medication work? What will it do for me?
This medication belongs to the family of medications called corticosteroids. It is used to treat skin rashes that are inflamed, itchy, or caused by allergies. It should not be used to treat skin rashes that have become infected. It works by reducing inflammation of the skin.
Your doctor may have suggested this medication for conditions other than those listed in these drug information articles. As well, some forms of this medication may not be used for all of the conditions discussed here. If you have not discussed this with your doctor or are not sure why you are being given this medication, speak to your doctor. Do not stop using this medication without consulting your doctor.
Do not give this medication to anyone else, even if they have the same symptoms as you do. It can be harmful for people to use this medication if their doctor has not prescribed it.
How should I use this medication?
Gently apply a small amount onto the affected area 2 to 4 times daily and rub it in well, as needed or as directed by the doctor. This product is not normally used on sensitive skin areas (e.g., face, underarms, or groin) unless specified by the doctor. Do not cover the area with dressings unless instructed to do so by your doctor.
Apply this product cautiously on lesions close to the eye. Severe irritation is possible if the medication contacts the eye. Should this occur, immediately flush the eye with a large volume of water.
Many things can affect the dose of a medication that a person needs, such as body weight, other medical conditions, and other medications. If your doctor has recommended a dose different from the ones listed here, do not change the way that you are using the medication without consulting your doctor.
It is important to usee this medication exactly as prescribed by your doctor. If you miss a dose, apply it as soon as you remember. If it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and continue with your regular dosing schedule. Do not apply a double dose to make up for a missed one. If you are not sure what to do after missing a dose, contact your doctor or pharmacist for advice.
Store this medication at room temperature, protect it from light and moisture, and keep it out of the reach of children.
Do not dispose of medications in wastewater (e.g. down the sink or in the toilet) or in household garbage. Ask your pharmacist how to dispose of medications that are no longer needed or have expired.
What form(s) does this medication come in?
Each tube contains fluocinonide 0.05% in a water-washable, aqueous emollient base. Nonmedicinal ingredients: cetyl alcohol, citric acid, mineral oil, polysorbate 60, propylene glycol, sorbitan monostearate, and stearyl alcohol. This medication does not contain ethylene glycol, lanolin, parabens, or phenolic compounds.
Who should NOT take this medication?
Fluocinonide topical should not be used by anyone who:
- is allergic to fluocinonide or to any of the ingredients of the medication
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President Obama unveiled his first budget plan on Thursday. The $3.55 trillion spending plan for 2010, which he called a "break from a troubled past," would boost taxes on the wealthy, curtail Medicare, lay the groundwork for universal health care and leave a string of deficits dwarfing any in the nation's history.
Also on Thursday, President Obama said he anticipates another $750 billion bank bailout this year, which would more than double the direct infusion of taxpayer money into the financial sector.
AP writer Jim Kuhnhenn notes the inclusion of the money is the clearest sign yet that Obama's economic team is not certain that the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program that Congress approved last fall has done enough to unlock the capital markets and make credit more available.
» Full story: Obama budget has new $750B bank rescue contingency
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Last week we talked about the validation of the Advanced NFL Stats WP model, and Brian Burke noted in his writeup that WP still failed to account for home field advantage. Now it does.
Although it’s clear that home teams perform better during a game, at least in terms of points scored, it’s not clear exactly how this translates into an increased chance of winning minute by minute. From simple win-loss records, all we know that at the outset of a game the home generally team ultimately has about a 56.5% chance of winning.
The problem, as should be fairly apparent, is that Burke only has WP available to test these win-loss probabilities. So what happens when you chart the home team win probability (go look!)? After extracting the results from the context from which they were derived (a model that learns over the course of the game), Burke found a WP curve with respect to HFA .
Starting with a 6.5% advantage at kickoff, and following the shape of the curve, we see the real, no kidding, actual HFA as the game goes on. This isn’t HFA in terms of yards per play, first downs, or points scored, or in terms of anything except the probability of winning.
The results are interesting in that HFA effect on WP decreases over the course of the game. Would you have expected this? Crowd intensity down the stretch of the game does continue to aid the winning team, but the marginal WP returns decrease. Why?
So there are (at least) two mechanisms at work. First is the decrease in performance advantage for the home team as the game goes on that I discussed above. Perhaps fatigue neutralizes the home team's edge, or perhaps it's visitor acclimation to a hostile, unfamiliar environment. Second, as the game clock ticks down, there is less time for the home team to capitalize on its advantage. By the end of the game the scoreboard doesn’t care which team is the home team and which is the visitor. A 1-point lead is good enough to win, period. So it’s a complicated thing to model. We just can’t add 6.5% to the win probability (WP) for the home team throughout the game.
The second point is the key from a WP standpoint. At the start of the game, the home team has 60 minutes of advantaged football ahead of them. As WP predicts the odds of winning the game from a given moment through the end of the game, you can't expect the same cumulative advantage at any point in the game. By the time a game has reached the final two-minute warning, home field advantage can only do so much. | <urn:uuid:2415a4be-b56f-4aec-b7e2-2935a05b81e7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fieldgulls.com/2009/7/13/947609/now-with-more-home-field-advantage | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971645 | 559 | 1.5625 | 2 |
The New International Encyclopædia/Folks, Homer
|←Folkright||The New International Encyclopædia
|Edition of 1905. See also Homer Folks on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.|
FOLKS, fōks, Homer (1867—). An American sociologist, born in Hanover, Mich. He was educated at Albion College (Mich.) and at Harvard, where he graduated in 1890. From 1890 to 1893 he was secretary of the Children's Aid Society of Pennsylvania, and from 1893 to 1902 secretary of the New York State Charities Aid Association. He was elected to the New York City Board of Alderman as an Anti Tammany member in 1897 and 1898, and was an unsuccessful candidate for the State Assembly in 1899. In the spring of 1900 he went to Cuba to assist the United States military authorities in reorganizing the public charities of the island. In 1901 he became secretary of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, and in January, 1902, was appointed by Mayor Seth Low Commissioner of Charities for New York City. His literary work includes the editing of the Charities Review, and the publication of numerous reports and magazine articles, and a book entitled The Care of Destitute, Neglected, and Delinquent Children (1902). | <urn:uuid:2ee38d40-e6ba-4ad2-8846-9a833e8c2a89> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_International_Encyclop%C3%A6dia/Folks,_Homer | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950843 | 269 | 1.882813 | 2 |
web design and development
"We've had so many compliments on the site and that's all down to you." Paella & Tapas Company
professional web development
Equitas IT Solutions have years of experience in developing professionally for the web and some of the projects we've developed for have gone on to win awards.
Whether it's customising or creating a CMS module or developing a complex multi-user Intranet application we have the skills to help. Technologies we have skills and experience in developing for include:
- PHP (incl. OOP)
- (X)HTML & XML
- Content Management Systems (our favourites are Drupal, Wordpress & CMS Made Simple)
- Mailing lists (PHPList, Mailman, Mailchimp etc.)
examples of web development
Ad-hoc and contract work
Some of the ad-hoc and contract work recently completed includes:
- AJAX front-end (and associated back-end PHP work) on large-company web-based internal systems such as HR and resource tracking
- Perl scripting for e-mail management, archiving and spam prevention systems
- Drupal-based websites for international charities
- Websites for smaller VCS orgs and SMEs based on Wordpress and CMS Made Simple
- Theming and styling for Blogger and Worpdress blogs
Simple Intranet groupware
The former replicates a typical in/out board on an Intranet, staff can simply indicate whether they are in or out and add return times and comments. Searching, departments and one-click status changes are standard features.
The latter provides simple calendaring for smaller offices and teams. In negates the requirement for complex desktop-side clients and shared calendars but allowing each staff member to quickly indicate where they are in the coming days and weeks. Additional details, departmental displays and searching are standard features.
Both are written in Perl, are fully sutomisable in terms of appearance, require no back-end database software and easily slot into corporate Intranets. See the relevant pages under the products section or click the links below for more details. Of course both are free software as well.
web site design
Accompanying web development comes design experience that goes back to the mid-1990s. This means we can offer expertise in delivering websites that work into unique, niche situations. Whether it's a simple web-presence (although our experience tells us that such things rarely stay that way) or a complex multi-user social networking site, Equitas IT Solutions can help you.
web design case studies
The Paella & Tapas company
This catering company specialises in high quality Spanish cuisine. They had been steadily growing as a small business for some time but needed to move things to the next level. We designed, developed and host their website for them. We also advised on the structure and style for the site. They wanted a clean and stylish look which was professional but not corporate and reflected their passion for Spanish food.
We used CMS Made Simple to provide content management for the site. This is both powerful and simple to use meaning they can keep their site up-to-date as and when they need to. The site is fully accessible and adheres to open web standards meaning it's available to the widest possible audience.
Since the site launch, orders have steadily come in and they like being able to point enquirers at the site for things like menu choice.
Keswalls Angling Centre
Keswalls are an established and successful fishing tackle shop in east London. They recently revolutionised their online presence with a new eCommerce site through Equitas IT Solutions.
The site has been built using the popular (and excellent) Zen Cart free software e-commerce solution. A customised version of one of the many free designs has been deploted to give it a fresh and modern look. The rollout to the new site involved integration with online payment gateways, migrating two sites (with varying function) into a single one, relocating the whole thing to a new server (including the mailserver) and handling all the associated DNS migration to ensure customers could always use the site and orders were not lost.
It was important that the site permitted the Keswalls team to manage online orders efficiently without sacrificing the friendly and knowledgeable reputation they have rightly earned over the years.
All of the above was achieved with the minimum of fuss and no downtime. The orders are now rolling in!
If you are into (or looking to get into) angling, have a look at Keswalls.
the church mouse blog
The Church Mouse blog is a popular Christian blog housed on Blogger. Initially it used a fairly typical blogger theme but the Church Mouse wanted something a little more personal.
We designed a new unique theme with custom graphics and crisp, clean styling. The result is a theme which draws your eye to the right place quickly and fits in perfectly with Blogger.
GM Photographs are a husband and wife team who are "passionate about photography, family and life."
Gospel Printing Mission (GB)
This small charity in East London has been producing free Christian literature for missionaries around the globe since the 1960s. Recently they felt the need to add a website to their toolkit but were concerned that it didn't herald a move away from the traditional processes of their day-to-day work. Much of their "client-base" do not have access to the Internet and so any site would need to complement not replace their existing distribution and publicity methods. They also didn't want to spend a lot of hours keeping it up-to-date.
We worked with them to design a site, using the ExponentCMS open source CMS, which is as functional as it is informative and which sits along-side their existing work whilst opening up possibilities for things like e-mail newsletters for their supporters.
Since the site launch they found both their supporters and the missionaries are using it in higher numbers than anticipated. The site of course copes well and they are fidning it a useful tool in allowing missionaries to find them.
Freedom and openness
We use and develop free software within web design development because it gives everyone the fairest deal. You're not shelling out for costly software licences each time you add a new staff member and your end-users can take advantage of the latest technologies. You also get the source code (recipe) for software we develop and you have the freedom to change or have it changed as your needs grow. You can even distribute it if you wish. You'll get honest quotes with realistic deadlines and no hidden extras. The software will be made to measure (one size does not fit all), efficient and of the highest quality.
Of course accessibility and open standards go hand-in-hand with web development. Years of developing for the voluntary sector gives expertise that goes way beyond alt tags on images. Multi-lingual and multi-character set websites are just two of the fields we excel in.
For some people a design is all they need and they're happy to continue with their existing hosting arrangements. We're not about to insist you host with us if you are happy (but we'll provide a quote for hosting if you want).
For others they want the peace of mind that a complete solution brings. So you not only get a quality site designed and developed, we'll host it too. If you have a site that you want to move to us we'll work with your existing hosts to make the transition as smooth as possible.
With hosting, one size definitelty does not fit all so you won't find us offering "off the shelf" hosting packages. What we offer is a personal, tailored service but at a cost you'll be amazed at. Contact us if you want to know more. | <urn:uuid:cec753a6-c920-4257-9da3-2ba65ec7f497> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.equitasit.co.uk/services/web-development/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949974 | 1,615 | 1.5 | 2 |
In the Earth's Crust, in every million atoms, around 82 000 of them are Aluminum, (82 000 ppm1
), by weight. This is around 8 % or almost one in every 12 atoms. This places aluminum amongst the world's most abundant elements, behind only Oxygen and Silicon. This high level of abundance is not replicated for aluminum in the oceans where it is only 0.01 ppm.
Despite being present of Earth in such incredibly vast quantities on Earth, the metal never occurs on it's own in nature. Instead of existing free like Gold and Silver, due to its higher level of reactivity, it is always chemically bonded in compounds when it normally occurs. The most common of these compounds is Bauxite, or Aluminum Ore which contains large quantities of Aluminum Oxide. Typically this is a combination of Aluminum and Oxygen in the formula Al2
O. There are also the impurities Fe2
, amongst others, present in Bauxite, which have to be removed in the Bayer Process
in the production of pure aluminum.
Bauxite reserves are spread across the world. Large deposits include: Australia, Brazil, Guinea and Jamaica. Around 85% of all Bauxite mined from the Earth is used to produce aluminum metal, which goes on to be used for a huge variety of uses
. The remaining 15% goes towards chemical and refractory materials, along with making aluminum compounds.
Large Bauxite Quantities
Aluminum has become an essential metal in our everyday lifestyles and luckily the known reserves of Bauxite are thought to be plentiful enough to maintain supplies of aluminum for some centuries to come. A publication by the International Institute for Environment and Development2
, states that in the year 1999 there were around 25 billion metric tonnes3
of Bauxite Ore, that is just about enough for everyone on the planet to have 4000 kg of Bauxite each, which means approximately 500 kg of Aluminum. They estimate that if the amount of production does not increase, that the supplies could last over 200 years.
With this amount of reserves it may seem that recycling aluminum is not only unnecessary, but also pointless. This however is not the case. Creating new aluminum from old metal requires just 5% of the energy needed to create the aluminum in the first place. It also releases just 5% of the green house emissions. When one kilogram of aluminum is recycled 8 kg of Bauxite, 4 kg of chemical products and 14 kilowatt-hours of electricity are saved. Recycled aluminum can be recycled again, and again save all these vast quantities of resources and energy.
Summary: Aluminum is the world's most abundant metal, and it only occurs in compounds in nature. Most commonly it is extracted from Bauxite which is found in Brazil, Australia and Africa. The current reserves of Bauxite should be enough to meet our needs for Aluminum for the next few centuries, although recycling saves energy, the environment and resources.
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With Poll: U-M Researchers: Fuel economy of new vehicles at all-time high
New vehicles sold in the United States in January had an average fuel economy of 24.5 miles per gallon, up a full mile per gallon from January 2012.
According to a report from the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, the new mark beats the previous record of 24.4 set in October 2012.
Angela J. Cesere | AnnArbor.com file photo
Higher fuel economy has been a focus of automakers in cars, trucks, and SUVs as consumers become more sensitive to both environmental concerns and high gas prices.
Sivak and fellow UMTRI researcher Brandon Schoettle began monitoring the fuel economy of new vehicles in October of 2007 when they were averaging just 20.1 mpg.
The researchers also compiled an Eco-Driving Index, which estimates the average monthly emissions generated by drivers in the U.S based on miles driven and average car fuel economy. The “EDI” experienced its lowest month ever in September 2012 and ticked up slightly in October and November. | <urn:uuid:7a461a41-d68b-4814-8063-2c9a1b803073> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.annarbor.com/business-review/u-m-researchers-fuel-economy-of-new-vehicles-at-all-time-high/?cmpid=RSS_link_business_review | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971075 | 226 | 2.03125 | 2 |
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GOOD MORNING! What would you do if you knew you had two months to live? What lessons about life would you want to share with your family and loved ones? What would you write in a letter to your children?
___In Jewish tradition, it was/is common for parents to leave an ethical will or write a letter to their children synthesizing their insights into life and give their instructions on how to live one's life. One of the most famous letters is that of the Ramban, Nachmanides, who was born in Spain in 1194. The following excerpt is the latter part of a letter written to his son. It is adapted from the translation in A Letter for the Ages by Rabbi Avrohom Chaim Feuer (which includes the letter in its entirety along with commentary). The book is available at your local Jewish bookstore, at http://www.judaicaenterprises.com or by calling toll-free to 877-758-3242.
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Torah Portion of the Week
___Rivka (Rebecca) gives birth to Esav (Esau) and Ya'akov (Jacob). Esav sells the birthright to Ya'akov for a bowl of lentil soup. Yitzhak (Isaac) sojourns in Gerar with Avimelech (Avimelech), king of the Philistines. Esav marries two Hittite women bringing great pain to his parents (because they weren't of the fold).
___Ya'akov impersonates Esav on the counsel of his mother in order to receive the blessing for the oldest son by his blind father, Yitzhak. Esav, angry because of his brother's deception which caused him to lose the firstborn blessings, plans to kill Ya'akov, so Ya'akov flees to his uncle Lavan (Laban) in Padan Aram - on the advice of his parents. They also advise him to marry Lavan's daughter.
___Esav understands that his Canaanite wives are displeasing to his parents, so he marries a third wife, Machlath, the daughter of Ishmael.
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based on Growth Through Torah by Rabbi Zelig Pliskin
___The Torah states:
|"And the first came out red, all over like a hairy garment; and they called his name Esav (Esau)." (Genesis 25:25)|
___Esau became a murderer and his red hair became associated with a personality that might lead to murder. (Even today many people think of red-haired people as passionate, sometimes quick to anger personalities.)
___The Midrash, (Braishit Rabbah 63) relates that when the prophet Shmuel went to appoint David to be the king of Israel, he saw that David was admoni, of ruddy complexion. He became very frightened and said, "He too will be a murderer like Esau." The Almighty told Shmuel that there was no need to be afraid. When Esau killed it was in cold blood, but David would only take a life to carry out the just decisions of the Sanhedrin (the Jewish Supreme Court).
___We see from this Midrash that when someone has a basic personality tendency it is a reality of his nature that he will be what he truly is. However, a person has free will to choose how this tendency will be manifested. (The head of the FBI Behavioral Profiling Unit once said that no serial killer was so compelled to murder that he did it in front of a policeman.) Esau's tendency towards bloodshed led him down an evil path. David, on the other hand, was a mighty warrior who would utilize his natural tendencies for elevated purposes.
___This concept is expressed very clearly by the Vilna Gaon: "A person should not go completely against his nature even if it is bad, for he will not succeed. He should merely train himself to follow the straight path in accordance with his nature. For example, someone who has an inclination to spill blood should train himself to become a ritual slaughterer or a mohel (ritual circumciser)."
CANDLE LIGHTING - November 9
(or go to http://www.aish.com/shabbat/candlelighting.asp)
Guatemala 5:13 - Hong Kong 5:24 - Honolulu 5:33
J'Burg 6:11 - London 4:02 - Los Angeles 4:36
Melbourne 7:45 - Mexico City 6:41 - Miami 5:18
New York 4:26 - Singapore 6:33 - Toronto 4:41
QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
Good judgment comes from experience,
and experience comes from bad judgment.
- Will Rogers
With Deep Appreciation to|
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The first adverse effect discovered
During the 1960s, researchers trying to determine the feasibility of using xylitol as an energy source in parenteral nutrition
made an unexpected discovery. In dogs, intravenous xylitol caused a dose-related release of insulin, greater than the amount
released in response to an equal dose of glucose, which could result in a concurrent drop in blood glucose concentrations.10,11 Insulin release is also seen with oral dosing of xylitol. In one study in dogs, peak serum insulin concentrations after
ingestion of 1 g/kg of xylitol were six times greater than those after ingestion of 1 g/kg of glucose. While serum glucose
concentrations rose after ingestion of glucose, the glucose concentrations in the dogs given xylitol orally dropped rapidly
and reached a low of about 50 mg/dl one hour after administration.6 Cases reported to the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center (APCC) indicate that dogs ingesting > 0.1 g/kg could develop hypoglycemia.12
After xylitol ingestion, vomiting is usually the initial sign. Hypoglycemia may develop within 30 to 60 minutes.13 However, in some cases of xylitol gum ingestion, hypoglycemia may be delayed for up to 12 hours (ASPCA APCC Database: Unpublished
data, 2003-2006). The clinical signs may progress rapidly from lethargy to ataxia, collapse, and seizure.12 Initial blood work most often shows profound hypoglycemia12 ; in some cases, though, the dogs have presented with hyperglycemia (ASPCA APCC Database: Unpublished data, 2003-2006). The
latter finding may be similar to the Somogyi phenomenon that is seen in cases of iatrogenic insulin overdose.14 Other common serum chemistry abnormalities include hypokalemia, due to insulin's property of moving potassium into the cell
along with glucose,15 and hypophosphatemia, since insulin can increase cellular permeability to the phosphate ion.16
Xylitol's effect on blood glucose varies greatly among species. In people, rats, horses, and rhesus monkeys, intravenous xylitol
causes little to no increase in insulin release or changes in blood glucose concentrations.17 On the other hand, intravenous xylitol can cause large insulin release in cows, goats, rabbits, and baboons.17,18 Xylitol's effect on insulin release and blood glucose in cats and ferrets is unknown.
Warning to owners: Do not give these sweets to your dogs
A newly discovered danger
Recently, the ASPCA APCC has had reports of some dogs developing elevated liver enzyme activity within 12 to 24 hours after
xylitol ingestion.12 Several of these dogs developed acute liver failure subsequent to xylitol exposure.12 In a case report on liver failure following xylitol ingestion in eight dogs (see "Warning to owners: Don't give these sweets to your dogs"), six of the eight dogs did not appear to develop hypoglycemia before the onset of the liver failure.12 Instead, lethargy and vomiting developed nine to 72 hours after exposure. Coagulopathy, characterized by prolonged clotting
times and petechial, ecchymotic, and gastrointestinal hemorrhages, was also present in the dogs.
Clinicopathologic findings present in all the dogs included elevated alanine transaminase activity (often well beyond the
analyzer's range), mild to moderate hyperbilirubinemia, and severely prolonged coagulation times (prothrombin time, activated
partial thromboplastin time, or both). Other common findings included mild to moderate thrombocytopenia, mild elevation of
alkaline phosphatase activity, moderate hypoglycemia (a finding attributed to liver failure rather than xylitol's direct effect
on insulin release), and mild to moderate hyperphosphatemia. Hyperphosphatemia was a poor prognostic indicator.
Five of the eight dogs were either euthanized or died. Three dogs were necropsied; two had severe hepatic necrosis, while
the third had generalized loss of liver cells with collapse of the liver's architecture.12 The lowest estimated dose associated with liver failure to date has been 0.5 g/kg (ASPCA APCC Database: Unpublished data,
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He is expected to take up an ambassadorial or special envoy position in the next assignment from the Foreign Ministry.
Özçelik was the chief architect of the government's campaign to contain outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorism and has cultivated close ties with the leaders of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in the semi-autonomous region of northern Iraq. As he served as Turkey's ambassador to Iraq before being appointed as undersecretary of the Public Order and Security Bureau, he knows the region very well.
In connection with efforts to fight terrorism, Özçelik met with officials from the US State Department, the Pentagon and other departments of the US government and made trips to the KRG region.
Özçelik was rumored to have major disagreements with Beşir Atalay, deputy prime minister responsible for counterterrorism, on how best to solve the PKK terrorism. Atalay, who had championed the Kurdish initiative launched by the government in 2009, was accused of stalling security operations to root out militants belonging to the PKK. Atalay lost his job as interior minister in the new Cabinet after last year's elections.
Security experts say Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan personally favored Özçelik. He reportedly submitted his resignation earlier this month, but was initially turned down by Erdoğan, who later had to accept Özçelik's decision. Some analysts saw Özçelik's departure as a blow to Turkey's fight against PKK terrorism. | <urn:uuid:e61c6ca8-6f0f-47d9-a64f-e96cd3c3e845> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=280636 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977773 | 310 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Between the classes, the parties and the people, it's easy to forget that at college, you're also supposed to be preparing for gainful employment. However, in today's ultra-competitive job market, you'll need every advantage you can get upon graduation.
The trick is knowing how to navigate the demands and opportunities you have as a student. And every major school in this city has a department dedicated to helping with that very thing. It's critical to take advantage, early and often, of your school's career services department.
We sat down with local career development professionals and whittled down their expertise to five crucial bits of advice.
1. Know thyself
At the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, career center director Bev Kratzer notes regretfully that "Regularly, students won't come and visit the career center until after they graduate."
How do you get motivated to drop in? The impetus may be as simple as stopping to think about where you're headed after you snag that degree.
"Hopefully you're getting a great education ... but while you're doing that, think about: 'What am I going to do with this?'" says Larry Stimpert, acting director of the Colorado College career center. People like him can help you find what you do best, and then how to get the right folks to notice.
"It's hard to do effective networking if you don't know what it is that you want to pursue," says Stimpert. "When you connect with an alum or anybody in a network, one of the things they're going to ask you is, 'What are you interested in?' If you can't articulate that, it's going to be very tough for people to help you."
2. Cast a wider network
According to Colorado Technical University career services director Jason Ramsey, only 15 percent of jobs are ever advertised. The other 85 percent go to friends or colleagues, before they're ever posted.
How can you join the 85 percent? One way is to become a friend or colleague of an industry fixture. "You can reach out to them and they can give you the insight into those jobs that aren't advertised," says Ramsey.
When looking for someone like that, it helps to keep your eyes wide open, adds Jason Owens, associate director of employer relations at CC: "Any time in your life, you're up for a potential impression that might be on an employer."
3. Make the grade (within reason)
Emily Conway's adviser at CC introduced her to her future boss. But Conway had already been making herself a catch, working toward a magna cum laude designation and the Kenneth J. and Elizabeth Hare Curran Award for Outstanding Economics Student.
"I worked really hard to maintain a great GPA," Conway says.
Fellow 2012 grad Emily Burton-Boehr's grades weren't as exemplary: "I was a few points from cum laude, but nothing to write home about, really." That said, she clearly knew her stuff, had accumulated useful work experience, and knew how to network.
Both Emilys now work for Lexidyne LLC, a Springs-based consulting firm that develops "analytic computer models to help clients better understand how the future will unfold," in Conway's words. These models interpret data and forecast industry trends.
It's definitely not your typical entry-level job, which backs up Burton-Boehr's belief that "you can succeed without the perfect GPA."
The keys are balance, and knowing how valuable a high GPA will be to employers in your field.
"When the economy is bad like it is now, you're going to get lots and lots of applicants for most jobs. So companies have to come up with fairly objective ways to screen people," says Stimpert. For example, "they will use a GPA cut-off — if you don't have a 3.0 GPA, you're not going to get an interview."
4. Intern, intern, intern
Even a short-term, part-time internship can show employers you have real-world experience. It also will help you build your professional network.
"More and more data comes out every year that says how much more those who have internships are hired than those who haven't," says UCCS' Kratzer.
Getting an internship will require the same skills and networking as getting a job will. However, internships are designed with students in mind, and have a high turnover rate — so if you get passed over for one, keep looking. More listings will appear quickly. Better yet, leverage your professional network and create your own.
Internships are "very competitive, unfortunately," says Burton-Boehr, "but doing projects, even unpaid stuff, can serve to bulk up your résumé."
5. Be a show-off
You never know when being the captain of your chess team or holding that student government position will make an impression. Wherever you've shown skill, ability or leadership, work it into a conversation, or slap it on the ol' résumé.
"Companies are looking for people with diverse skills: people who can think, who can write, who can bring a diverse perspective," says Owens. "Companies are always looking for that fresh perspective or that thing they haven't thought of before — that's why they recruit at colleges." | <urn:uuid:b579aff6-f30d-4a59-b9b8-246883c92d48> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/get-a-job-ya-bum/Content?oid=2547352 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974719 | 1,103 | 1.6875 | 2 |
By lifting the restrictions on federal funding for organizations that promote and provide abortions overseas, as well as lifting the ban on federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research, and the promise to implement the Freedom of Choice Act, President Obama has established himself as the most pro-abortion president in history.
The move, by University of Notre Dame officials has alumni, pro-life, groups and the local bishop sharply responding.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) established a written policy in 2004 that says pro-abortion politicians “should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions” from any Catholic organization. At least one bishop tends to honor that.
The local ranking ecclesiastic, Bishop John D’Arcy, will not be in attendance at the graduation ceremony this year. "President Obama has recently reaffirmed, and has now placed in public policy, his long-stated unwillingness to hold human life as sacred," D'Arcy said. "While claiming to separate politics from science, he has in fact separated science from ethics and has brought the American government, for the first time in history, into supporting direct destruction of innocent human life."
Alumnus and D.C. attorney William Newton wrote the university to say he is deeply offended at the university's decision and vividly portrayed the image of Obama giving the address against the backdrop of things of a much different nature: “This is the person that you feel is worthy to address the students and faculty of Notre Dame, in the shadow of Our Lady atop the Golden Dome, with the spires of the Basilica in the background?”
The Cardinal Newman Society launched www.notredamescandal.com and has already gathered over 60,000 petition signatures, from a posting only 4 days ago, opposing Obama’s appearance.
But the White House sees this as an opportunity, and probably feather in their cap, and issued this statement: "While he is honored to have the support of millions of people of all faiths, including Catholics with their rich tradition of recognizing the dignity of people, he does not govern with the expectation that everyone sees eye to eye with him on every position," the White House said. "[T]he spirit of debate and healthy disagreement on important issues is part of what he loves about this country."
University President Rev. John I. Jenkins said in a written statement that the invitation to the president does not necessarily mean that the university agrees with all of Obama’s positions. But the university also plans to given Obama an honorary doctor of law degree; this would certainly lead to the notion that at least the university officials must be personally in favor of Obama’s policies.
Jenkins further added that the appearance could be used as a “basis for further positive engagement.” In a bit of a non sequitur he added, "It is of special significance that we will hear from our first African-American president, a person who has spoken eloquently and movingly about race in this nation. Racial prejudice has been a deep wound in America, and Mr. Obama has been a healer." | <urn:uuid:f7b13b69-796d-453a-b677-31594d1eea3e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/2557-catholic-notre-dame-university-to-host-obama | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971492 | 645 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Hives (urticaria) are an allergic reaction of the skin that may last a few minutes or can persist for a few days. They appear as raised, red, itchy bumps (wheals) of different shapes and sizes, with defined red margins and pale centers.
Hives may appear and then disappear at random and seem to move from place to place on the skin. Hives may range in size from less than 0.25 in. (0.6 cm) to 3 in. (7.6 cm) across or larger. Patches of hives may combine to form raised, reddened skin over large areas of the body.
Hives may appear as a reaction to a medication, food, or infection. A single area of swelling often occurs after an insect bite at the site of the bite. Other possible causes include contact with plants, things you breathe in (inhalants), stress, makeup, and exposure to heat, cold, or sunlight. Often a cause cannot be found.
Hives are often minor, but they can also be the first sign of a life-threatening allergic reaction (anaphylaxis) that requires emergency care.
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Lifetime ban for doping: A debate continued
So as expected, CAS today overturned the BOA policy of issuing a lifetime ban for any athlete who has served a doping ban longer than six months. This is hardly unexpected, and is a decision that probably owes much to the legal backdrop of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA's) policy which issues a two-year ban for a first time offence. That the BOA policy then issues an additional sanction was the root of the case heard at CAS, who ruled against the BOA.
I wrote most of what I feel is relevant to this case in my previous post, where I tried to explain that a life-time ban cannot be supported by the current science of anti-doping, because the science simply cannot guarantee with 100% certainty that an athlete who fails a doping test is actually doping. That is, it's not enough to fall back on the simple position that "a positive test means you cheated, so off with your head" (which is basically what many people seem to believe). The corollary is that a negative doping test also does not mean you're not doping, but this is a mindset that I think many have yet to recognize!
In any event, with the news of the CAS decision emerging, I asked earlier for some thoughts and opinions on our Twitter feed and Facebook pages (follow if you haven't - they are often an outlet for passing thoughts and opinion). The response was interesting. Very emotive, that's for sure, and predominantly, it seems from those within the UK.
Among the common responses is that this decision to overturn a life-time ban policy is a "massive step backwards in the war against drug cheats", that it "has validated the efforts of the cheats" and that it "takes away the deterrent of a drugs ban and opens the doors for drug enhanced training".
I think much of this is emotive, which is fine, and I completely understand the paradigm and the logic that says that to clamp down on doping, you must increase the punishment. This is basic economics - disincentivize doping through increased probability of being caught and harsher punishment when caught.
However, a few thoughts, many of which are repeated or reworded from yesterday's post, because I have a feeling the key messages I tried to put across haven't reached their targets!
1. Lifetime bans could produce fewer convictions, because harsher punishment means greater "burden of proof"
First, the reality is that a life-time ban represents the harshest possible punishment for an athlete, for it takes away their livelihood, often without a fall-back plan (ask a 26-year old cyclist what their second career option is, for example). It is, metaphorically, a case of "off with their heads", because you may as well do this. Now, in order to do this fairly, you have to be absolutely, 100% certain that you are punishing a person who deserves it. And sadly, the science is, as of this moment, not able to provide those guarantees, and there is always some doubt if an athlete wants to contest the origin of a doping positive.
(Just an aside here - the lifetime ban applied by the BOA presently applies to Olympic participation, and so there's a distinction to be made between this and a ban from all sports, which is obviously more severe. I'd argue, however, that the principles and concepts below are valid regardless of where or when the ban applies, and to take the Olympic Games away from an athlete, particularly in some sports like track and field, is unfairly harsh given the uncertainty and legal burden, as I explain below).
So ask the following: "If there is a 2% chance of a false positive test, then how comfortable are we issuing life-time bans?" Then ask "If there is a 10% chance of the positive dope test being the result of contamination of supplements, then are we comfortable with a lifetime ban?"
Now, imagine being the decision maker who has to evaluate a legal case where the athlete says "I do not contest the positive dope test, but my defense is that it came from a supplement (or meat). I was therefore NOT cheating". Can you confidently judge AND condemn this person as a cheat?
Given the science of anti-doping today, and the complexity of these cases, I'd argue that you simply cannot make this decision, and if your punishment option is to hand out a life-time ban, I'd argue that you're far LESS likely to find dopers guilty when presented with this defense!
Therefore, the first prediction is that if life-time bans were given to doping athletes, far few "convictions" would be the result!
2. Positive dope tests are not always the result of cheating, even if they're true
Second, one has to consider these possible defense strategies, and how realistic/valid they are. I'd argue that contamination and inadvertent doping happens a great deal. 10%? 20%? It's happened four times in two years in SA Rugby alone (I'm not sure of how many "genuine" cheating doping cases there've been, however). And there were dozens of cases in 2010 for just one stimulant, methylhexanamine. I don't have this statistic, but just from my reading of the coverage of cycling and athletics, it seems to me that at least half the doping cases that are disputed boil down to the issue of "inadvertent doping", either because of contamination of supplements or some other source of the same doping product. The other half, in cycling anyway, boil down to a dispute over the biological passport, and that would intensify if a life-time ban were on the table.
Now, under the current system, a person who is inadvertently doping is banned, and rightly so, because the athlete is fully responsible for anything in their system (the so-called strict liability rule). But this is a two-year ban, sometimes reduced because of extenuating circumstances. However, if we created a system where the punishment for failing a drugs test was a lifetime ban, you'd be seeing a lot more of these kinds of "inadvertent use" defenses. If you're that athlete, you'll throw everything at sowing doubt, and a drawn out appeals process would result. Also, the concept of strict liability COMBINED with a lifetime ban would be very difficult to justify - as it is, strict liability is an extreme policy that many deem unreasonable on athletes. So how can we make the athlete completely liable AND ban them for life when they make mistakes? It's just too harsh - you would not find this kind of extreme requirement in any other profession.
Remember, I'm not talking here of deliberately cheating. This is not an athlete who takes a syringe, fills it with a drug and then injects it carefully to avoid detection. This is an athlete who takes a supplement that is legal and then gets the dreaded call that they've failed the doping test anyway.
The end result of this risk, however small, is that we'd be seeing a lot more drawn out cases, and ultimately, more reduced sentences. Why? Because if the punishment is changed and made this harsh, then the burden of proof, legally, would be much, much higher. The problem, once again, is that the science cannot, at this moment in time, meet that burden.
In the longer term, drawn out appeals processes and challenges would, I believe, add to the ever-rising costs of prosecuting dopers, and this could ultimately cripple the entire system.
Remember, this is a system already straining under the legal load. The result is that the introduction of compulsory lifetime bans will mean fewer tests, because federations would find themselves spending more and more money on prosecution of dopers. Therefore, the second prediction is that if we introduced lifetime bans, the knock-on effect would be that federations would spend all their money in protracted court cases and legal battles, trying to nail down positive test results that somewhere down the line, the money to actually conduct the testing would dry up. This has already happened in cycling, where the biological passport costs a good deal of money to defend, and it erodes the spending on implementation.
In the short-term, then, lifetime bans may seem a good disincentive, but in the longer term, I'd have grave reservations that the legal process they introduce will force authorities to spend money elsewhere, where it is less effective, and the disincentive to dope would actually increase! That's not a good situation to be in.
3. The risk matrix approach - however small the probability, if the consequence is severe, it's a problem
Now, I believe that the point of anti-doping is two fold. Yes, it's there to catch dope cheats, but it's also there to give those competing cleanly an equal chance of success, and "peace of mind". The problem with life-bans is that it doesn't merely affect the cheats, it puts the innocents on a razor's edge, where they too have the axe hovering over their heads. And yes, they are innocent and therefore have nothing to fear, but even if the chance of contamination and false-positives are 1%, that's a big risk when the punishment is quite that harsh.
Businesses often use a risk-matrix to try to quantify how serious certain identified risks are. That risk matrix takes not only the probability of an event into account, but also the severity of the outcomes should that event occur. For example, the risk of sponsors withdrawing their support for your sports team may be low to moderate, but if it were to happen, it could be disastrous, and so you invest a lot of time and energy in keeping them happy. To give a more personal example, if you're choosing a babysitter for your only child, the probability of choosing someone psychotic, reckless and irresponsible may be incredibly low, but the impact of that event would be catastrophic if it did happen, and so you make really sure that you're getting a good reference and someone you trust!
Now, for anti-doping, the probability of falsely condemning someone to a doping ban may be low. As I mentioned, I don't have a figure, but it may be 1%, 5% or 10%. But the problem is that if we raise the ban from a 2-year punishment to a life-time, then that risk takes on an entirely different meaning, because the severity is so much higher - for a young athlete, it is a catastrophe. The risk of a life-time ban is thus just too high. One athlete whose career is ended wrongly can't be weighed against those who are justly banned - it's not a balance I'd like to try to strike!
The moral case - second chances
OK, so this whole picture is somewhat philosophical, and I'm talking in generalities here. For most people reading this, the current case will boil down to two names - David Millar and Dwain Chambers, the two men spoken of in the media as the beneficiaries of this decision by CAS.
I'd warn against allowing individuals to personify the case, however. It's too easy to "like" or "dislike" the specific people involved, and allow that to obscure the big picture and concepts. But nevertheless, this will happen, but I would steer clear of the specific cases and rather establish a framework for how to evaluate cases like theirs.
However, my personal take is that people make mistakes. Young athletes, in a team environment, encounter doping and often find that their future depends on becoming part of the "beast". I'm sympathetic to athletes for this reason - I had neither the talent nor the opportunity to find myself in that situation, but I shudder to think what I would do if my dreams were wrapped up in a web of doping deceit. I guess, in a sense, I'm lucky I never had to make that call, because for a young athlete on the verge of realizing a dream, it must seem an impossible call to make. As a result, it's a brave person who condemns a young athlete for doping when they've never been in a situation similar to that themselves.
So having been the beneficiary of many second chances in life (hands up if you've never had a second chance), I'd say that second chances in sport are right, as they are in life. I appreciate that sometimes, we don't give people second chances, and yes, we exclude people from doing certain jobs based on previous convictions (theft as banktellers, sex offender as teachers for example). Those are compelling arguments, without, perhaps, a right or wrong answer. But my take is that we should give second chances, provided the person involved shows a willingness to work within the system, repent and do things differently the second time around.
Discretion and compromise: Sentences can be independent of verdicts, and move towards a 4-year ban
There is compromise here, of course, and it is two-fold. First of all, use discretion. This already happens, of course - the cases I mentioned previously in SA Rugby were all given reduced bans (or no bans) because it was quite clear that the doping was from contamination and that the athletes involved did all they could to ensure the "safety" of their supplements. So one can argue that life-time bans should be introduced so that in cases that arise where athletes are clearly cheating for an advantage, and show no remorse, they can be banned for life. Neither Millar nor Chambers fit this category, incidentally, and I think both have earned some aspect of second chance through their reaction to doping bans.
I'd have no problem with life-time bans for some people, however, but I hope people realize that it means that doping cases will go the way of criminal cases, where the sentence exists independent of the verdict. That is, you're found "guilty" on the basis of the test results, but sentenced on the basis of a host of other factors, including your attitude and willingness to comply with authorities. I think this is actually a good thing, and it happens to some extent already, with dopers given more lenient sentences for co-operations. This is a good thing, and if we had the option of life-time bans (as opposed to a rule of life-time bans), expect it to happen much more, with a much higher proportion of "reduced sentences" and "failed convictions", as mentioned.
The second thing that must happen, as I mentioned yesterday, is to tighten up the testing process, to ensure that doping is caught more effectively. The contamination issue is so complex I don't see it ever going way, but false-positives and better anti-doping can happen. If it did, then the current 2-year ban might be increased to four years, and that would always cost an athlete at least one Olympic cycle, which is a good thing. So my suggestion is to move towards this goal - rather spend our energy on having the ban increased to 4 years as a result of better doping controls (which involves many things - more testing, a cleaner list of substances and a wider array of 'weapons' to test with).
The bottom line is that there's a lot of emotive accusation and condemnation going on. And far be it for me to be a "doping apologist" - those of you who read this site often will know me as a very harsh anti-doping advocate. But there's a line, I believe, between being unrealistic about doping control and providing the right balance. I believe that line should be drawn at about four years!
But practically, as of May 2012, I don't believe the science of anti-doping is quite up to the legal challenge that a four-year ban would bring to the table (and to the courtroom), let alone a life-time ban. The financial and legal implications of harsher punishment can't simply be ignored, for the federations and the innocent athletes who, as small as the probabilities may be, have to be thought of too. Let's rather work towards better testing, more certainty, and use that as the disincentive, and be slower to shout "off with their heads". For now, anyway! | <urn:uuid:1a6cc8e8-19e1-4795-b7fd-90530f40e93b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sportsscientists.com/2012/04/lifetime-ban-for-doping-debate.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FcJKs+%28The+Science+of+Sport%29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975068 | 3,358 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Genocide denier Condoleezza Rice unworthy to teach at Stanford
Published: Monday November 14, 2011
In her newly published 750-page book, "A Memoir of My Years in Washington: No Higher Honor," former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice proudly describes her efforts to defeat Armenian Genocide resolutions on two separate occasions. With great relish, she brags about her success in undermining the acknowledgment of the Armenian Genocide by the U.S. Congress in 1991 and 2007.
A close scrutiny of Rice's arguments exposes her flawed judgment and ethical lapses. In her memoir, she relates that her first experience "with this problem" was in 1991, when she worked in the White House as acting special assistant to Pres. George H. W. Bush. Her task was "to mobilize an effort to defeat the resolution in the House of Representatives." Gloating over her triumph, she depicts herself as battling "the powerful Armenian American lobby" that "has for years pressured Congress to pass a resolution branding the Ottoman Empire's mass killings of Armenians starting in 1915 as genocide." In reality, she had no need to counter what had already been acknowledged by the House of Representatives in 1975 and 1984, and by Pres. Ronald Reagan in 1981.
Rice proceeds to maintain that "there are many historical interpretations of what happened," which is totally untrue, as there are no historical disputes on the Armenian Genocide -- a universally acknowledged fact. Furthermore, Prof. Rice does not seem to realize that when she describes the Armenian "killings" as "clearly a brutal, ethnically motivated massacre," she in fact is recognizing them as genocide, as defined under Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention.
In her memoir, Rice attempts to justify her obstructionist maneuvers by explaining that the Turks "were outraged at the prospect of being branded for an event that had taken place almost a century before -- under the Ottomans!" Instead of behaving as the spineless official of a banana republic, Rice should have sternly admonished the Turks that the United States would not distort historical facts to appease the paranoid leaders of an autocratic state!
Boasting about how well she "had succeeded" in her "assigned task," Rice callously describes her appalling efforts in "fighting off the dreaded Armenian genocide resolution." She makes a half-hearted attempt to minimize her ethical transgression by stating that no one denies "the awful events or the tragic deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent Armenians," which even Turkish officials acknowledge. If she was aware that no one was denying the mass murder of Armenians, why was Rice so fervently determined to kill the resolution? She then parrots the nonsensical Turkish propaganda that this issue should be left to "historians -- not politicians -- to decide how best to label what had occurred." Rice should have known that reputable historians the world over have already declared that the Armenian killings constituted genocide.
As Secretary of State in 2007, Rice once again battled against the adoption of an Armenian Genocide resolution. She reports that she "begged" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to prevent the House from voting on the resolution, but the Speaker rejected her request. Rice and Defense Secretary Bob Gates then delivered a press statement against the resolution, standing in front of the White House. She also got eight former secretaries of state to sign a joint letter opposing the resolution.
Rice proudly states in her memoir that she managed to block the vote on the resolution, in keeping with her promise to the Turks. Once again, instead of defending the noble values and high principles on which America was founded, the secretary of state of the most powerful nation on earth caved in to the diktats of a third world bully!
Concluding her narrative, Rice makes false accusation against Armenia's leaders, claiming that "the democratically elected Armenian government had little interest in the resolution. In fact, it was engaged in an effort to improve relations with Turkey, and it didn't need it either." Rice is contradicting the U.S. government's public announcement that the 2003 Armenian presidential elections did not meet international standards. Furthermore, the then Pres. Kocharian did not oppose the genocide resolution and was not seeking to improve Armenia's relations with Turkey. In fact, a State Dept. official reported that during his meeting with Kocharian in Yerevan, the Armenian President was "in a foul mood" because the White House had just blocked the genocide resolution.
Rice is now a professor at Stanford University. Ironically, another Armenian Genocide denier, former Secretary of State George Shultz, is also at Stanford. Faculty members, students, alumni and donors should advise Stanford University officials that genocide deniers are not welcome at one of America's most distinguished institutions of higher learning.
Readers are urged to fax Prof. Rice at 1-650-721-3390, expressing displeasure at her appalling efforts against U.S. acknowledgment of the Armenian Genocide.
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WILMINGTON -- The name of the game is giving back to the community. UNCW students are giving blood in a competition that also allows them to show some school pride. UNCW and the local American Red Cross are going up against 11 other schools around the nation. The competition involves giving back to the community by donating blood. The winner gets the glory and the recognition of having the most dedicated life savers. American Red Cross spokesperson Michelle Waters said, "We are experiencing an emergency need and a lot people don't realize is that there's always a need, so that's a good reason to come out and of course we want to win." Having students get involved is one way our regional blood supply gets restored. "Over a third of our blood supply comes from high schools and colleges, and they're real great about coming out and giving blood and they love giving back to the community," Waters said. The American Red Cross hopes that by the end of the day every single bag on this table will be filled and much, much, more. UNCW student Erika Hollingsworth said, "I like to help out people and I know if I were ever in a situation I would want someone to do the same for me." UNCW student Taylor Brantley said, "Actually, I'm a first time donor so I'm really excited about doing this and helping out in anyway I can." Assistant track coach Donald Thomas says this blood drive is one more way to show school pride. "It's pretty spirited," Thomas said. "It's good to see that people come out, the students, faculty, and staff." UNCW has been involved with the Red Cross blood challenge for the past six years. UNCW students won't know how they matched up against the other schools in until the end of November.
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Writer Denise Giardina was born October 25, 1951, in Bluefield and raised in neighboring McDowell County. She is best known as a novelist and also has a long history of community activism, including a run for governor of West Virginia in 2000.
Giardina received a B.A. from West Virginia Wesleyan in 1973 and an M. Div. in 1979 from the Virginia Theological Seminary. In her five novels to date, all historical fiction, Giardina depicts Henry V in pre-Renaissance England in Good King Harry (1984); Dietrich Bonhoeffer in 1930s–40s Nazi Germany in Saints and Villains (1998); and in Fallam’s Secret (2003) she explores the subject of time travel. Her most successful novels, Storming Heaven (1987) and The Unquiet Earth (1992), feature the fictitious coal miners Rondal Lloyd and Dillon Freeman making their hard way in central Appalachia, circa 1890–1990. In all of her books, Giardina is interested in the complexities and ambiguities of the individual destined to answer the call of his or her particular moment.
As a political activist Giardina participated in and wrote about Appalachian labor-capital conflicts of her day, including the A. T. Massey (mid-1980s) and Pittston (1989–90) coal strikes. In the following years she was vocal in her critique of surface mining, particularly mountaintop removal. She highlighted such issues in her unsuccessful campaign for governor as the candidate of the Mountain Party in 2000.
Giardina’s honors include the Weatherford Award for both Storming Heaven and The Unquiet Earth; the Lillian Smith Award and an American Book Award for The Unquiet Earth; the Fisk Fiction Prize for Saints and Villains; and the Lillie Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing. Giardina is writer in residence at West Virginia State University. Her most recent book, Emily’s Ghost (2009), is a novel based on the life of Emily Bronte.
This Article was written by Stephen D. Mooney
Last Revised on October 25, 2012
Ballard, Sandra. Political and Spiritual Dimensions of the Work of Denise Giardina. Carson-Newman Studies, 1997.
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July 2007 - Posts
Thought I’d share with you something strange I found while using named queries in the DSV layer in SQL Server Analysis Services.
I have developed quite a complex layer of connected tables in my DSV. As development had evolved (with the customers demand) I found myself turning 3 of my regular tables into named queries. The named queries were basically using the same table twice in an inner join to compare the state of the entity in two different times in the table. After this change, my process time for the cube and the dimensions grew from about 5 minutes to 20 (!)
After a while I found myself adding yet another named query to my DSV. This time, the named query included a few tables inner joined. My process time for the cube and the dimensions grew to over an hour(!) I admit I even stopped the process so I don’t know the total time, but just the cube itself demanded about 45 minutes… needless to say, quite disturbing.
So what’s left to do? Check the SQL query working in the background of the SSAS engine. Seeing the query used is easy – all you need to do is click on the dimension > attribute > sql query or click on the measure group > partition > sql query. After double clicking the "select" statement under the "sql query" and you can copy the query.
Next, you take the query and run it inside a new query in the Management Studio using the relevant database. Run the query with the Estimated Execution Plan which can show you what the engine of the SSAS is actually doing in the background while building the attribute / measure.
I found the engine runs my named queries used a lot of scans and their order wasn't right (it started with the big tables first).
So what’s the solution? Well, in my project at least, the only immediate solution seemed to be to build actual tables out of the named queries. And my processing time shrunk back to 5 minutes again! J
About a week a go (I admit I'm only catching up to it now…) Microsoft released the SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer. The tool analyzes and monitors the SQL Server Profiler files. It uses a predefined list of recommendations to determine if there are potential issues in the database environment.
Now if you're like me, then after downloading and installing the tool, you can't help but think to yourself "yeah great, but how do I use it?..." Well all you need to do after that is run the SQL Server Profiler and run the program on the trace files. Enjoy!
Well I admit I started writing this blog so I could be in touch with a larger community, but truth be told, I’m finding this blog has become a means for me to write stuff down somewhere so as not to forget them… J
Let’s face it, even at the age of 27 I have a hard time remembering everything. So what can I do? Notebooks with lists always seem to magically disappear or simply not be there just when you need them. Web pages, on the other hand, are always accessible – any place any time – and never seem to fade with time. Not to mention the fact that they’re also easier to search…
So my personal tip to you? Blog! At the very least, it’ll help you not forget stuff ;)
Though it might also make you develop an obsession with seeing how many people checked you out this time…
Today I thought I'd tackle a subject even more complicated that SSAS Best Practices (yes, it's possible!), so today's topic is BI in the government (though you were probably quick enough to get that from the title..)
As you may have read in my first post, I work for the Tel Aviv Jaffa municipality. Panorama hosted an event not too long ago with a panel. It so happens that Avi Ketko, head of the whole computing service in the Tel Aviv municipality (which would translate into my boss's boss's boss J) said something in that panel which didn't go down all that well. What was it? Well, he said something along the line (and this is by no means a direct quote!) of a municipality, as a non profit organization, does not strive to better it's "bottom line" as other businesses out there do. And after that everybody seemed to have given him a sort of stare..
So I thought I would talk about how that was somewhat misunderstood. Because you see, I think first and fore most, that our customers in the TA municipality do gain an advantage from us (else I would probably be out of a job, but that's another discussion ;) ). We have developed cubes, and reports on those cubes, which have helped our customers in the municipality understand where they might have gone wrong and where they may cut back. For instance, one of our projects in the subject of property tax has helped find more easily those who don't pay their money on time and alert us on them (yes, we know who you are!!). Working on the HR cube, on of my customers' needs was to locate those jobs which have been open for quite a while and re – consider them (as if they have been open for more than a year, they might be irrelevant). Both of these topics help make a better "bottom line" for the municipality.
One of our other next main goals is to start publishing materials outside of the municipality – to our everyday inhabitants. The CEO of the municipality wants to further the concept of openness and clarity to all our real customers – you, the residents of TA, and just every other person who was looking through the municipality internet site. In that, I believe, lies the real genius! As our customers are not just the people who work in the municipality itself, but also people who might just be curious as to what's going on in their city!
So basically, I would say that though we don't have a financial report we hand to the stock exchange, we are still dedicated to bettering ourselves and making our customers – you – better informed! | <urn:uuid:048a8786-c015-4806-9b36-3599922a9e8a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/barbaro/archive/2007/07.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964987 | 1,261 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Reviewing paycheck deductions
When you receive a paycheck, some funds are usually deducted for taxes. Most people pay four basic kinds of taxes:
1. FICA. These taxes are paid because of a law called the Federal Insurance Contributions Act. FICA taxes are contributions you make to Social Security and Medicare. You pay 6.2% of your income to Social Security and 1.45% to Medicare. The good news is that your total FICA contribution is really 12.4% to Social Security and 2.9% to Medicare. However, if you’re employed, your employer pays half of these taxes for you.
2. Federal income tax. These taxes are paid to the federal government. They are calculated as a percentage of your income. For federal taxes, the more you earn, the higher the percentage you pay. Currently federal tax rates range from 10% to 35%.
3. State income tax. These taxes are paid to your state government. They may be calculated in different ways, depending on the state you live in. Some states calculate state taxes as a flat percentage of your federal tax. Other states calculate your tax as a percentage of income.
4. Local tax. Some individuals may also pay local taxes. These taxes vary depending on the city you live in. Some cities charge income taxes; others do not. Some cities may charge an “occupational tax,” which you pay for the privilege of working in that city.
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Family Business – Impact, Challenges and Prescriptions for Success
Last week my former college roommate Dr. David Hagenbuch and I presented at the Messiah College Business Alumni Association. We called our presentation a “Conversation About Family Business” and the response from the record attendance seemed to confirm the session was value packed.
We started the session with the following statistics about family business:
80% of all businesses in the US are family owned.
60% of total economy in the US is generated by family owned businesses.
75% of new jobs created in the US are started by a family owned business.
It seemed appropriate to have this session in Lancaster County which is one of our nation’s strongholds for family business. Based on the above statistics, it is not surprising that Lancaster County earned a place on Forbes Magazine’s list as one of the Top 10 Places to Ride out the Recession.
Often business and business leaders are lumped together by politicians and the media as being greedy and part of the problem in our country. We tried to build on these statistics and point out the many ways that these family businesses are the ones giving back to their community. They are often less concerned about short term profits and more concerned about significance and leaving a legacy for their family and the community.
These businesses invest what is often referred to as “patient capital.” Most big businesses are looking for an immediate return on any investment, while a family business usually has a longer horizon (sometimes a generation) when evaluating a Return on Investment.
Despite all these facts about how impactful family business is to our community and our national economy, only about 33% ever survive to the second generation and less than 20% survive to the third generation. One of the big reasons for this is obviously the economic challenges of keeping a business relevant and competitive. But often a family business has a few other challenges. Things like:
1. Entitlement: Family business members believe that no matter how they act, the business is there to serve them.
2. Nepotism: Hiring or advancing of personnel based solely on family relationships.
3. Founderitis: A founder believes that he/she is the business’s only capable manager, leading to a lack of appreciation for the second generation.
4. Succession: There’s no plan for transferring leadership and/or ownership of the business from one generation to the next.
5. Lack of Strategic Planning, Structure and Governance: Family businesses often start small and stay small because they do not organize themselves for growth.
After doing two lively group case studies with the audience, we closed with what we called our 7 general prescriptions for family business participants:
1. Realize You’re not Alone: Recognize that most of the situations faced are common to other family businesses.
2. Be Self-Aware: Try to view and understand your own role in family business dynamics from an outsider’s perspective.
3. Communicate (early and often): Let other family business members know your concerns and try to understand theirs.
4. Maintain a Sense of Humor: Use laughter to cut the tension that often arises in family business situations.
5. Involve Third-Parties: Utilize individuals who can analyze situations objectively and offer suggestions based on their experience and expertise. A board of advisors or just having an individual advisor is very important.
6. Develop Agreements: Understand that it’s appropriate, even with family members, to have express agreements that clarify responsibilities and establish expectations.
7. Understand the Difference: Are we going to be a family business or a business family. Will we run the business like a family or like a business that is owned by a family?
We also have a couple video clips of me sharing some of these points and if you desire to check out the clips, click on this link.
by Scott Heintzelman - Scott is a CPA, CMA and CFE living in Pennsylvania. Scott is a partner serving on the executive team at McKonly & Asbury LLP, a regional accounting firm with multiple offices in the Mid-Atlantic. The firm has been an IPA ALL-STAR as well as winning Best Places to Work in Pennsylvania for numerous years. | <urn:uuid:9c134b1e-003a-419e-b2e8-6684020ccfa2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.accountingweb.com/blogs/scotth/exuberant-accountant/family-business-impact-challenges-and-prescriptions-success | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967375 | 883 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Mustard is one of the oldest spices, dating back 3000 years. Mustard has been used, since ancient times, as a medicine and an aliment. Combining it with warm water has the consequence of increasing arterial pressure and stimulating blood circulation. At the same time, mustard has anti-inflammatory properties.
I first learned about using mustard in a detoxifying bath from Ashley English in her column, Small Measures, on Design Sponge. I loved the fact that its a simple and natural way to detox and immediately had to try it myself. I ended up changing the recipe a little to accommodate what I had lying around. Here's what I came up with:
2/3 C Mustard seed (ground)
3 C Epsom salt
10 drops of Eucalyptus oil
Mix ingredients together and store in an air tight container. Use several scoops in a warm bath.
Other benefits of Mustard Bathing include:
Detoxifies the Body: Experts suggest that mustard bathing can stimulate our sweat glands to produce more sweat and open up our pores. This helps greatly to detoxify the body.
Relieves Stress and Tension: It is suggested that mustard bathing can help in toning and soothing worn out muscles and nerves. This helps to alleviate stress and tension.
Induces Good Sleep: A good mustard bath can help in relaxing and soothing tired muscles and nerves. This can promote complete relaxation of mind and body, thereby inducing deep sleep.
Relieves Joint Pain and Aches: It is believed that mustard bathing can warm up muscles and promote blood circulation. This helps to treat muscles and joint stiffness, thereby reducing joint pain and general body aches.
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At one time, many recreational facilities in communities throughout the Ohio Valley were maintained and operated largely by volunteers. Municipal governments simply could not afford to staff some parks, pools, sports fields, etc., even if they could afford to build them.
Steubenville may be getting back to that type of system.
Tight finances have forced Steubenville City Council to lay off some employees once used at the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center. Operating hours at the facility have had to be reduced.
But city officials have been meeting with representatives of Steubenville Community Inc. to discuss use of volunteers at the center. City Manager Cathy Davison said SCI has "a very detailed plan" and it's hoped the organization's offer can be taken advantage of to keep the center open.
Good for all involved in attempting to get volunteers involved. That is something officials in other fiscally challenged communities throughout our area should be considering, too, to avoid loss of public services that could be kept in operation by volunteers. | <urn:uuid:75a104f9-0e07-48b2-a03d-20803a6d6613> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/581484.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974058 | 207 | 1.601563 | 2 |
theodp writes "Raw intellect ain't always all it's cracked up to be, advises Ted Dziuba in his introduction to Programming Things I Wish I Knew Earlier, so don't be too stubborn to learn the things that can save you from the headaches of over-engineering. Some sample how-to-avoid-over-complicating-things advice: 'If Linux can do it, you shouldn't. Don't use Hadoop MapReduce until you have a solid reason why xargs won't solve your problem. Don't implement your own lockservice when Linux's advisory file locking works just fine. Don't do image processing work with PIL unless you have proven that command-line ImageMagick won't do the job. Modern Linux distributions are capable of a lot, and most hard problems are already solved for you. You just need to know where to look.' Any cautionary tips you'd like to share from your own experience?" | <urn:uuid:e45bc9e2-7cdb-420c-8c12-c3110b460e46> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://linux.slashdot.org/submission/1326052/programming-things-i-wish-i-knew-earlier?sdsrc=rel | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956226 | 195 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Sorry, just kidding, don’t panic. But did you ever notice how whenever a new ethnic group around the world achieves economic success and begins foreign direct investment in real estate and other assets, that the locals are usually spooked? In the 70s it was the Arabs, newly awash in oil money. In the 80s it was the scary Japanese buying Rockefeller Center and such – terrifying! And today, it’s the Chinese – who have already financed a couple of America’s wars of adventure, of course – but who are now perhaps financing real estate projects in the San Francisco Bay Area:
Lennar Corp., LEN +0.80% one of the U.S.’s largest home builders, is in talks with the China Development Bank for approximately $1.7 billion in capital to jump-start two long-delayed San Francisco projects that would transform two former naval bases into large-scale housing developments, according to people familiar with the discussions.
The negotiations aren’t final and the financing arrangement could still fall through. But if completed, the deal would reflect a changing dynamic between the U.S. and Chinese economies, as an American company turns to China for help funding a long-delayed and partially publicly funded project that otherwise wouldn’t get done.
Remember that Canada remains the greatest investor in the United States by a wide margin, and Deutsche Bank has been up to their ears in U.S. real estate. It’s just that we don’t notice them, likely because they have been part of the international system for some time and not, you know, communists.
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Philistines at the GateLEE HARRIS
In a recent meeting of the Board of Education in the city of Artichoke, Alabama, it was decided to ban the reading of Homer's Illiad and Odyssey in the classroom. The grounds given for the exclusion of these towering masterpieces of ancient literature is that reading them in a public school violated the first amendment's guarantee of the separation of church and state.
Okay you got me. There is no Artichoke, Alabama at least, I don't think there is. And no one (so far) has demanded that Homer be taken out of the classroom. It is okay for our children to read stories about Hera and Athena, Aphrodite and Poseidon, all of whom were once the objects of superstitious veneration among the Greeks; but it is not okay to read about Adam and Eve, or Joseph and his brothers. In short, kids can enjoy the myths and stories that have come down to us from The Illiad, but they cannot be permitted to enjoy the myths and stories that have come down to us from The Book of Genesis.
The only possible reason for this dissimilarity of treatment is that the pagan religion is as dead as Mr. Dickens' proverbial doornail, while the religions that are associated with the Bible are still practiced by millions of people in America and the world over. True, the Greek pantheon might once have been a potent force in shaping the daily life of human beings, but today it has all the vitality of a wax museum, full of mannequin divinities, frozen in their timeless splendor, but long since unable to inspire warmth of affection or devotion.
The last gasp of the old pagan religion occurred when the Roman emperor known as Julian the Apostate attempted to reverse his predecessors' embrace of the Christian faith and to roll back the clock to the long vanished era in which men and women still worshipped at shrines dedicated to Apollo and Diana, and still heeded the artfully ambiguous oracles of Delphi. The apostate failed, and the once vibrant gods of Greece degenerated until they became mere rhetorical flourishes that permitted learned poets, like Milton, to ornament his verse with their euphonious names.
So that is the explanation for the different treatment received by Homer and by the Bible. Homer's gods are dead, but the god of the Bible still breathes. We can trust our children not to be carried away by Dionysus; but the same cannot be said about Jesus of Nazareth.
Yet there is still hope. Man's future may well turn out to fulfill the British biologist Richard Dawkins' most cherished dream: we may all stop believing in religious superstitions completely, and cease to take seriously all this nonsense about supernatural beings. Christianity may die out, along with Islam and Judaism, whereupon the peoples of the world would unite around the banner of detached scientific objectivity and enlightened rationality.
If we were all atheists, then the Bible would become as harmless to read as the poems of Homer. And if all of our children became atheists, too, then there would no longer be a reason to keep them from reading the Bible from time to time, even in public school, just as today they are allowed to read Homer.
Indeed, the day may come when the current attempt to suppress the reading of the Bible in public school is looked upon as being no less hysterical than the efforts of the good town of Artichoke to repress the reading of Homer in their public schools. Why have conniption fits over the retelling of stories that have charmed listeners for several thousand years? Why not ban the Arabian nights as well, along with all the fairy tales that men and women have handed down to their children?
There is something unspeakably philistine about those who wish to forbid the reading of the Bible in public school. And if you don't know what the word philistine means, just thank the ACLU.
(Hint: The Philistines were the baby-sacrificing
enemies of the ancient Hebrews, but in the nineteenth century
Lee Harris. "Philistines at the Gate." TCS (June 1, 2005).
This article reprinted with permission from Tech Central Station.
Lee Harris is a Contributing Editor to TCS. A writer living in Atlanta, he is completing a book called Civilization and Its Enemies and recently published two highly regarded essays in the journal Policy Review. He has published two novels under his full name, "Allen Lee Harris". Click here to read an excerpt from his book, Deliver Us From Evil.
2005 Tech Central
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“Drop it before someone shoots you!” yelled retired 74-year-old Colonel Bill Badger, moments after he and three other good and brave people had disarmed and knocked down Jared Lee Loughner, the shooter in the Tucson massacre earlier this month. The colonel, who obviously knew how things worked in Arizona, was shouting at a man who had picked up Loughner’s weapon.
About the same time, an armed man in the crowd was spotted. This would-be vigilante came within a microsecond of shooting at a first responder, confusing him for the assassin.
Had a paramedic, police officer or innocent bystander been wounded or killed, you can only imagine the Arizona public’s response: “But, but… he was only trying to help.” My response? Cart him off to jail, convict him of something like reckless endangerment or manslaughter, and then make certain that this neo-felon never owns a gun again.
If you were an armed, off-duty police officer standing in that bloody parking lot, and you had seen that man draw his gun, what would you have done? The same thing that most police officers would have done: shot him to save lives.
In 2010, police deaths in the line of duty were up 37 percent from 2009 — this, at a time when violent crime in America is at its lowest level since 1993. The statistical curves, for no apparent reason, have crossed.
Well, there is one reason: the accessibility of firearms. Notably, the five most deadly states in the United States are all gun-friendly states: Alaska, Louisiana, Arizona, Wyoming, Nevada and Mississippi. The safest states are those that give public safety much higher priority: Hawaii, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey and New York.
This counterfactual gun mania, which holds our cowardly Congress at bay, was given the green light by Justice Antonin Scalia, America’s “Pharisee in Chief.” Scalia, completely out of touch with context as usual, overturned a century of judicial deference to the political process, which had held that the Second Amendment was a collective right. Relying more on 18th-century English law and newspapers of that day than on James Madison (hey, all Madison did was write the actual amendment), Justice Scalia ruled that the right to bear arms is an individual right, thus unleashing vigilantes across the land. Scalia gave them the constitutional high ground and their party line: “Law-abiding citizens have a right to protect themselves.”
What this situation actually has produced is more police deaths, which will lead the police, understandably, to take fewer chances. They will shoot quicker and their targets will, from time to time, include vigilantes.
Case in point: the tragic shooting last summer of Baptist minister Wayne Scott Creach, out in Spokane Valley.
Rev. Creach, also a nursery owner, often carried around his .45-caliber pistol. He was known to have drawn his gun on suspected trespassers on his property. It was reported that he held one against a wall with the threat, “I’ll blow your head off” (a line that Christ, safe to say, never used).
That night, on request from a neighbor, the police were again patrolling the neighborhood (Mr. Creach had made 21 requests for assistance in the past). Deputy Brian Hirzel was sitting in his unmarked car when Creach, thinking that Hirzel was another thief, grabbed his .45 and headed towards the unmarked car.
As reported, Deputy Hirzel told him to drop his weapon. Creach refused. The officer then hit him with his baton. Creach hit the ground, but he had never dropped his gun, which he put into his waistband. When Hirzel saw “the butt of the gun,” he fired and killed Creach.
Might another officer have responded differently? You would like to think so. Someone more experienced, more self-possessed, better trained, with a greater sense of the situation?
OK, but in this day and age, with all these guns out there, not knowing the drug situation, not knowing the mental state, at night, after seeing this armed man heading your way?
Given what is now an army of gun-toters, the reality is if you draw your gun in public, you might be shot. If you draw on an officer of the law, you take your chances. You roll the dice.
Had Mr. Creach, a self-reliant man from an earlier era, truly just been concerned about his safety, he could have stayed in his house and called 911. But he didn’t do this. He went on the offensive. He rolled the dice. And with police deaths in the line of duty skyrocketing, with police everywhere more nervous than ever? Well, your odds aren’t good.
I’m a law-abiding citizen (who lived for a year in the most dangerous inner-city in America, Washington, D.C.), and I’ll take my chances every time with the police, their flaws notwithstanding. The last thing I want to have to deal with is a “law-abiding citizen” playing at law enforcement.
Frankly, given the response to the Tucson massacre (gun sales going up rather than down), I look even more to the police to protect me. Not to protect me more from the bad guys — the police do a pretty good job already. No, I want more protection from Justice Scalia’s “law-abiding” gun-toters, whether they live in Tucson or Spokane Valley.
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Locals to guard against railway graffitiBy Hugh Fort
August 29, 2012
Plans to stop taggers daubing graffiti alongside train lines are gathering pace after the community decided to put a stop to the vandalism.
Neighbours sick of seeing the tags around Harmans Water and Martins Heron have formed an anti-graffiti group to tackle the issue.
Thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ and private money are spent cleaning up graffiti each year and the group wants to reduce the amount around the area.
At the first meeting of the Graffiti Working sub-committee, formed by members of Harmans Water, Martins Heron, The Warren and The Parks Neighbourhood Action Group, neighbours said they believed taggers actively target ‘blank canvasses’ like walls and fences, near train lines, to show off their ‘artwork’ to people travelling on the train.
Chairman Nigel Dumbrell has carried out his own research into the problem and said one of the aims was having all graffiti removed within 24 hours.
He has seen schemes in Sydney, Australia, and The London Borough of Southwark, which have been very successful and hopes people in Bracknell Forest can follow suit.
He added he believed there needed to be education to ensure tagging does not happen in the future.
Members of the group include Janet Dowlman of Bracknell Forest Council, Sergeant Matt Gray of Thames Valley Police and Francis Egelton from Thames Water.
Francis said there had been some tagging on the company’s filter tanks at Ascot Sewerage in The Warren, which is visible from the train line. The graffiti was removed and then re-sprayed within a couple of weeks.
The committee suggested Thames Water could plant a block of screening trees to hide the site from the railway line and Nigel said it was looking to do this in the near future.
At the meeting on July 31 at Bracknell Forest Council’s offices in Time Square, the committee agreed Martins Heron train station was a problem area as it was easy to get into and featured a number of clean walls and fences – perfect for tagging.
Other ideas to stop the problem is encouraging people to have fast-growing plants on fences, special paint and CCTV close to the train station.
The group currently has no funding behind it to carry out its work, but is investigating various possible revenue streams.
After the meeting, Mr Dumbrell said: “I am very pleased with the response. Since the meeting we have had a number of people come to us with ideas. It seems like some of the things we discussed could go ahead, which is excellent.
“We believe part of the problem is people coming in from other areas on the train, which we will monitor with the police.”
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Ronald Florence to Discuss New Book On Hungary’s Jews during World War II
In March 1944, the German army invaded Hungary, the home of 850,000 Jews—the last intact Jewish population in Europe. The Jewish Rescue Committee in Budapest, which had helped individual Jews from Poland and Slovakia reach the relative safety of Hungary, suddenly faced the challenge of protecting the Jews of Hungary from the Nazi death camps. The little-known story of one man’s attempt to save the Jews of Hungary is the subject of a new book titled "Emissary of the Doomed: Bargaining for Lives in the Holocaust" by Ronald Florence.
The author will discuss his book at the Library of Congress at noon on Monday, March 8 in the Mary Pickford Theater, located on the third floor of the Library’s James Madison Building located at 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C. The free, public event is sponsored by the European Division and the Library of Congress Hebrew Language Table.
Florence is a historian and novelist. He is the author of nine previous books, including "Lawrence and Aaronsohn," "The Gypsy Man," "The Perfect Machine" and "Blood Libel: The Damascus Affair of 1840." He lives in Providence, R.I.
Founded in 1800, the Library of Congress is the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution. The Library seeks to spark imagination and creativity and to further human understanding and wisdom by providing access to knowledge through its magnificent collections, programs and exhibitions. Many of the Library’s rich resources can be accessed through its website at www.loc.gov and via interactive exhibitions on a personalized website at myLOC.gov.
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Will the lame duck session of the Congress, in between votes spending a trillion dollars of our money, actually strike at least a small blow for freedom, and loosen the restrictions it placed on internet gambling back in 2006? Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is pushing a bill that would make at least certain types of online gambling legal in the United States. He’d better hurry.
In 2006 before losing their majorities in the Congress, Republicans pushed passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UNIGEA). Another self-styled conservative – President George W. Bush — exhibited little hesitancy in signing the legislation into law; another tip of the hat to government power and reduced individual liberty.
The 2006 law barred financial institutions from processing transactions for online gambling websites; effectively outlawing internet gambling in the United States. As Radley Balko wrote at the time, Republicans claimed the ban was needed to rid the Congress of the memory of Jack Abramoff, and to prevent parents from spending their children’s college savings on gambling.
Not much has changed in the past four years. Even though almost every Republican candidate this year ran on a platform to reduce the scope, size and power of government by returning to constitutional principles, already the GOP is resorting to the same nanny-state rhetoric employed to pass the ban four years ago.
A group of House Republicans recently sent a letter to Sen. Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urging them to “not take advantage of the young, the weak and the vulnerable in the name of new revenues to cover more government spending,” by legalizing online-gambling.
There is little evidence to support the concerns expressed by the federal nannies opposing internet gambling. The number of “problem gamblers” has remained relatively low over the last few decades, despite the prevalence and availability of online-gaming primarily overseas.
A study conducted last year by the Harvard Medical School Division on Addictions, for example, shows that the availability of online-gambling did not lead to a rise in gambling addictions. In fact, people gambling on the web are likely to exhibit personal responsibility in their gaming.
With that said, the bill offered by the Majority Leader is hardly perfect. The language would permit only existing gaming businesses to operate online-gambling websites in the first two years after bill becomes law. Still, even a partial legalization of online-gambling would provide much needed revenues and create jobs – the latter being an issue Republicans were able to capitalize on in the most recent election.
Even more important that viewing internet gambling as a revenue enhancer, is the fact that it is a perfect example of individual freedom and responsibility. Yet, even before they take office as the once-again majority party in the House, many Republicans are poised to make some of the same mistakes that forced them into the political wilderness for the past four years.
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Vocabulary and Prefix Practice
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Vocabulary and Prefix Practice
Words in Context
The following exercise will help you figure out the meaning of some words from the vocabulary list by reading context clues. After you have read and understood the paragraph, explain the context clues that helped you with the meaning of the vocabulary word. Refer to the answer section at the end of this chapter for an explanation of the clues.
In our country, the use of nuclear power as a viable source of energy has been an ongoing controversy. During the gas and oil shortages of the 1970s, energy prices were exorbitant. The federal government supported nuclear power as a new energy source that would be cost effective. Now, the president's National Energy Policy Report lists nuclear power as a safe and affordable alternative. Today, however, as in the past, many people have voiced their antipathy toward nuclear power plants, especially in the wake of the 1979 partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. At that time, scientists scrambled to circumvent a total meltdown in a facility that was designed to be fail-safe. There was great fear that the meltdown would be complete and decimate the area. Now, the federal government is once again promoting this alternative energy source.
The next time you see a word you don't know, try to figure out its meaning based on the context in which it is used. Then, check to see if you're right.
Insert the correct word from the vocabulary list into the following sentences.
- There has been a local _____ over the proposed plans for the renovation of a neighborhood park.
- At the Cradle of Aviation Museum, a(n) _____ of man's first trip to the moon in 1969 will include a restored lunar module.
- Soon after the war began in Bosnia in April 1992, the damaged buildings and burned homes reduced the country to ruins and _____ the landscape.
- Scientists have discovered what could be the closest _____ to man, an upright apelike creature.
- The stock market has on average declined over the past year, with _____ periods of growth.
- Oprah Winfrey was able to _____ her humble roots to become one of the nation's most respected, wealthy, and powerful women.
- The police department's crime stopper's unit placed a drawing and description of the _____ kidnapper in the newspaper.
- Errors caused by physicians' _____ handwriting have sparked proposals to add handwriting courses to medical school curricula.
- After the implantation of a heart pacemaker, the patient's _____ was good.
- "Downsizing a company" is a(n) _____ for letting go or firing employees.
- Different ethnic groups' _____ toward each other has resulted in many wars throughout the world.
- Because of the _____ price and gas consumption of the sports utility vehicle, the first-time buyer selected a small, energy efficient sedan.
- After the _____ successfully increased the company's sales and production, the chief executive officer promoted her to regional sales manager.
- Environmentalists and energy analysts have not reached a(n) _____ about how best to meet America's growing energy needs in a safe and financially sound manner.
- Due to his mistreatment of fellow officers, the captain was _____ to the rank of sergeant.
- The famous actor seemed _____ in fame and the constant media attention he received; he continued to live his life in the same way as before his rise to fame.
- A patchwork quilt is the result of the _____ of many smaller pieces sewn together to make a unique design.
- In order to _____ the impending storm, the pilot changed his flight plan to avoid turbulence and lightning.
- My _____ were some of the first colonial activists in the United States; they took part in the Boston Tea Party.
- What some may consider _____ or unimportant ideas sometimes blossom into good business ventures.
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The coming Chevrolet Cruze will be able to run well on regular gas, despite using a turbocharger system that generally performs better on premium, a General Motors engineer said Thursday.
GM plans to start building the Cruze in Lordstown in 2010. On Thursday, the company released details of the car's 1.4-liter engine, which will be built at a new $370 million engine plant in Flint, Mich.
The Cruze engine is smaller than the 2.2-liter engine in the Cobalt, the vehicle it will replace. GM officials have said the new car should be capable of about 45 miles per gallon, up from 33 on the base version of the Cobalt.
Chris Meagher, chief engineer of GM's Ecotec engine line, said the Cruze engine will generate 140 horsepower on regular gasoline. Other turbocharged GM engines, such as the one used on the Cobalt SS sports car, require premium fuel.
"The target for the SS models was 260 horsepower," Meagher said. At those power levels, regular gas made the engines knock and rattle too much. To fix that, GM had to cut power levels or mandate more expensive fuel, he said.
Meagher said marketing surveys concluded that "customers buying SS models would be willing to use premium for higher horsepower."
With the Cruze, knocking is less of a problem because the engine produces about half the power of the hot-rod SS models, he added. Asked whether the engines could get a significant power boost from premium gas, Meagher said the company wasn't ready to discuss that issue.
Meagher acknowledged that the engine is less powerful, but he said it offers more oomph when drivers need it.
The turbocharger on the Cruze gives the vehicle peak acceleration power at 2,000 engine revolutions per minute. On the Cobalt, that power comes in at more than 3,000 rpm, meaning you'd have to mash the gas pedal a bit harder to get the same performance.
The Cobalt could keep accelerating after the Cruze hits its top speed, but both vehicles would get up to freeway speeds at about the same time, Meagher said.
Like Ford, GM plans to use turbocharging to make its small engines more powerful. That will let the company replace big V-8s with V-6s and replace big four-cylinder engines with smaller ones.
Turbochargers pump more air into a car's engine. More air lets the car burn more gas, producing a lot more power. On the down side, the systems can be expensive; they generate lots of heat; and many of them require premium gasoline.
GM also showed off a non-turbocharged version of the 1.4-liter engine Thursday that will go into the Volt plug-in hybrid. The Volt will use a massive battery pack to go 40 miles on electricity alone. When the batteries run low, the engine will kick in, acting as a generator to run the vehicle's electric motors.
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By Antoni Slodkowski
SEATTLE/TAKAMATSU, Japan (Reuters) - U.S. and Japanese aviation safety officials finished an initial investigation of a badly damaged battery from a Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner jet on Friday as Boeing said it was halting deliveries until the battery concerns were resolved.
Boeing said it would continue building the carbon-composite 787, but deliveries were on hold until the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration approved and implemented a plan to ensure the safety of potentially flammable lithium-ion batteries that prompted a widespread grounding of the new airplane this week.
In Washington, the top U.S. transportation official, Ray LaHood, said the 787 would not fly until regulators were "1,000 percent sure" it was safe. A week earlier, LaHood said he would not hesitate to travel on a Dreamliner.
Officials from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and Boeing joined Japanese authorities looking into what caused warning lights to go off this week on an All Nippon Airways Co domestic flight, prompting the aircraft to make an emergency landing at Takamatsu airport in western Japan.
The incident prompted regulators in the United States and around the world to ground the 50 Dreamliners in service. [ID:nL1E9CH8CJ] The jet has been flying safely for 15 months, carrying more than 1 million passengers, but it has run into problems in recent weeks, including problems with fuel leaks.
The biggest safety concerns centered on its lithium-ion batteries, which are lighter than conventional batteries, pack more energy and are faster to recharge, but are also potentially flammable.
When the FAA announced the grounding of all six U.S.-operated 787s on Wednesday, the agency said airlines would have to show the batteries were safe and in compliance with its rules. It said both battery failures released flammable chemicals, heat damage and smoke - all of which could damage critical systems on the plane and spark a fire in the electrical compartment.
A Japanese safety official at Takamatsu airport told reporters that excessive electricity may have overheated the battery and caused liquid to spill out. Pictures released by investigators of the battery showed a burnt-out blue metal box with clear signs of liquid seepage.
GS Yuasa Corp, the Japanese firm that makes batteries for the Dreamliner, said it sent three engineers to Takamatsu to help the investigation.
A person at the company, who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue, said: "Our company's battery has been vilified for now, but it only functions as part of a whole system. So we're trying to find out exactly where there was a problem within the system."
An official with Thales, the French company that makes control systems for the battery, referred all questions to Boeing.
At a news conference, the Japan Transport Safety Board (JTSB) said the charred battery and the systems around it would be sent to Tokyo for more checks. It said there were similarities with an earlier battery fire on a Japan Airlines Co 787 parked at Boston's Logan International Airport.
"This information will go to Boeing and the FAA. They will assess it" before allowing the 787 to fly again in Japan, said Hideyo Kosugi, a JTSB inspector. He said the JTSB aimed to issue a report within a week but the U.S. review might take longer.
LaHood, the U.S. transportation secretary, said Friday he could not predict when the 787 would resume flight.
"So those planes aren't flying now until we really have a chance to examine the batteries ... That seems to be where the problem is," said LaHood, who told a news conference on January 11 he would not hesitate to fly on the plane himself.
When pressed by reporters on Friday about whether he regretted his prior statements, LaHood said, "Last week it was safe." What has changed since then, he said, is the fact that another incident occurred involving the batteries.
Karen Walker, editor of Air Transport World magazine, said La Hood and FAA Administrator Michael Huerta chose to "stand side by side" with Boeing executives and underscore the plane's safety because of its huge importance to the U.S. economy as the first all-new American airliner in two decades.
"However, the joint statements of safety confidence and lack of an (airworthiness directive) until after a second serious incident ... could potentially hurt Huerta and LaHood," she wrote.
Boeing shares fell 0.3 percent to $75.04. Since the recent spate of issues began in early December, the stock is up 1.4 percent, against a gain of 5.4 percent for the S&P 500 over the same period.
Shares in the Kyoto-based battery maker GS Yuasa rose as much as 3.9 percent on Friday, having dropped around 18 percent since the January 7 battery fire in the auxiliary power unit (APU) of the JAL plane at Boston.
The U.S. investigation into that incident is focused on the Japanese-made batteries, with no indication the APU - built by United Technologies Corp's Pratt & Whitney - was involved, said a person familiar with the government probe, who was not authorized to speak publicly.
Mark Rosenker, a former NTSB chairman, said Boeing conducted over 1.3 million hours of testing before deciding the lithium-ion batteries were safe to use on the 787, and the company had to satisfy additional rigorous tests to be granted a "special condition" by the FAA to use the batteries.
"I don't believe there was corner cutting in any way. I believe the FAA has done a good job in its certification process. And Boeing is a very formidable and extremely careful airplane manufacturer. You don't survive in this business by not making safe, efficient and reliable planes," he said.
Japan is the biggest market so far for the 787, with ANA and JAL operating 24 of the 290-seat wide-bodied planes, which have a list price of $207 million. Boeing has orders for close to 850 of the planes.
Goldman Sachs estimated the hit to ANA's annual operating profit could be up to $40 million if the grounding of its 17 Dreamliners drags on through March. The plane makes up close to a tenth of ANA's fleet and is crucial to its growth strategy.
ANA cancelled more than 60 domestic and international flights through Monday, affecting more than 10,000 passengers. JAL has cancelled 8 Dreamliner flights on its Tokyo-San Diego route until January 25. Other flights will switch to older planes.
A spokesman for the airline said ANA remained committed to the Dreamliner and would spare no effort to get it back in the air safely.
Australia's Qantas Airways said it cancelled an order for one of 15 Dreamliners earmarked for its budget arm Jetstar. It said the decision to cancel was taken late last year, before the plane's recent problems. Qantas has options to order 50 of the new generation aircraft.
Separately, Japan's transport ministry said a fuel leak on another JAL-operated 787 last week was due to a malfunction in a drive mechanism that controls a valve. It said the British company that makes the valve was investigating. The ministry declined to name the firm.
The use of new battery technology is among the cost-saving features of the 787, which Boeing says burns 20 percent less fuel than rival jetliners using older technology.
Hans Weber, president of TECOP International Ltd, a San Diego-based aviation consulting firm and former FAA adviser, said the incidents could be linked to a bad batch of batteries.
"We have to consider the suppliers were at one time producing a lot of equipment for the 787 and then everything got delayed, so some of the stuff they built has been sitting on the shelf for a while. Some of these might have been produced early in the production process and there may have been some deficiencies in the production process," he said.
The 787, a leap in aircraft design, has been plagued by cost overruns and years of delays, though orders last year helped Boeing overtake rival Airbus as the world's largest manufacturer of passenger jets.
(Additional reporting by Yoshiyuki Osada, James Topham, Mari Saito, Issei Kato, Maggie Lu Yueyang, Herng Shinn Cheng, Ruairidh Villar, William Rigby, Alina Selyukh and Andrea Shalal-Esa; Writing by Ian Geoghegan; Editing by Jeremy Laurence, Gary Hill, Kenneth Barry and David Gregorio) | <urn:uuid:8a3fd44e-8e0a-45ff-92e1-99ec78284860> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://b93radio.com/news/articles/2013/jan/16/faa-grounds-boeing-787-over-battery-concerns/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967941 | 1,815 | 1.765625 | 2 |
The staff and students of Dover Grammar School for Boys marked Remembrance Day with a special assembly in the School Hall. As it is the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, the focus this year was on the people who lost their lives in the Holocaust, and the staff and students of DGSB who fought and died between 1939 and 1945.
The School’s Combined Cadet Force led the assembly with a formal guard of honour. The chimes of Big Ben were followed by a two minutes’ silence which was observed by the entire school. Trumpeter Harry Yarnell performed the Last Post and Alex Judd played the Reveille. The school sang “I vow to thee my country” and crosses were presented in memory of those who had lost their lives. Mrs Lees shared her own reflections following the loss of one of her ex-students in the war in Afghanistan and the assembly concluded with prayers led by members of the CCF. It was a moving occasion and the school was united in its promise never to forget those who had given their lives in the pursuit of peace in our world.
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How to buy a computer?
To a buy a computer we have to look for certain things according to our need, necessity and budget. These are: – processor speed random access memory (RAM) storage capacity of hard disk, graphics capability etc.
First of all decide that whether you want to buy a laptop or a desktop. According to your budget and hardware decide the store or local computer builder. Then you have to look for the features according to the work that you will do on it. Like if you need a computer for creating graphics then you require a good amount of RAM and processor speed because this is a heavy task else for light tasks less RAM is also sufficient. Now choose the brand keeping cost, quality and technical support in your mind. Next is to go for the additional drives like DVD-ROM, CD ROM etc. and select other hardware devices according to your necessity like modem, speakers, sound and video cards. At least get the operating system, such as windows, antivirus, word processing program, spreadsheet, databases.
When you buy a computer look for the speed of processor. Fastest models can have the speed of four gigahertz. It starts from 1.5 gigahertz and is enough for word processing and web surfing. The heavier the task the faster is the speed required. If a processor has speed in megahertz then this shows that it is an older model.
RAM AND HARD DRIVE
Some people confuse hard drive with RAM. Hard drive is the permanent storage space for the data, software packages and operating system while RAM is the temporary of the computer used to do manipulations and calculations. For e.g.:- when you open a file it gets copied to the RAM from the hard disk of computer. You add some data or make changes on the file. All this will remain in the RAM till you save that file. After that the saved file will return back to the hard disk. For good performance we must have at least 512 megabytes (MB) of RAM. It can also be increased according to your need whereas hard drive should be of at least 40 gigabytes. It can also be increased to the requirement.
Try to have 17 inch or 19 inch monitor as they will not cause as much eye strain as the small ones. So you can go for the large one if your budget allows.
Some software that are widely used are pre-installed like Microsoft Excel, openoffice etc. if these are not pre-installed while buying a computer then you can purchase it separately. You can buy many more software according to your work and requirement.
Software has the list of system requirements. One is the recommended system requirement and other is minimum system requirement. This means that your system must have those things for the proper working of software. If your system has the minimum system requirement then the software will work with certain limitations but with recommended system requirement software will work at its best. So try to fulfill recommended requirements. It is better to decide the software you need before buying a computer so that you can buy it accordingly.
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A 37-year-old Italian woman died Monday, February 9, 2009 — after 17 years in a coma following an automobile accident — amid an uproar over her government’s last-ditch bid to keep her alive against the wishes of her family. This right-to-die case has been the source of heated political and religious debate that has been dividing Italy.
Eluana Englaro was a 21-year-old when a car accident in 1992 caused her severe brain damage and put her in a persistent vegetative state. Her father has been fighting since 1999 for the right to let her die.
Our firm’s experienced car accident lawyers know how much pain and suffering comes when you or loved one are involved in an accident on the road. This family probably went through many tough decisions about whether to continue medical treatment to keep their member alive or let them rest in peace.
On Friday, doctors at a clinic in the Northeastern Italian town of Udine complied with a Supreme Court ruling and began gradually suspending the auto accident comatose person’s food and water intake. In a stunning turn of events, the government of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi attempted to introduce an emergency law that would prohibit the suspension of food and water to unconscious patients.
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano usually remains above the political fray, as chief of state, but he played a decisive role in this debate when he refused to sign the proposed decree from Berlusconi — calling the measure unconstitutional.
After months of debate, public opinion on the matter has split down the middle in this devout, Catholic country. It is a situation that is eerily similar to the controversy over the fate of Terri Schiavo — a comatose Florida woman who was given the right to die in 2005 amid a similarly heated debate.
Liberals and the religious right were equally engaged in this battle of ideals.
“They have killed an innocent person who was incapable of defending herself: Life is a gift of God and they had no right to take away that of Eluana,” said Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, representing the Vatican.
Others do not believe that the church should be making this decision.
“Life does not belong to the government and does not belong to the church,” said a liberal group, in a statement released Monday. They also accused Berlusconi of wanting to subject citizens’ rights to “the totalitarian will of the state and the church.”
Our firm’s experienced car accident lawyers have seen wrongful deaths from car accidents for nearly two decades. We are neither for or against the right-to-die. It is a slippery slope when we are allowed to let other human beings die, when our culture’s highest value is life.
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Tiết canh is a traditional dish of blood and cooked meat in Vietnamese cuisine. The most popular is tiết canh vịt, made from raw duck blood and duck meat.
Typical preparation
The freshly drawn blood is collected in a bowl, and prevented from premature coagulation (hãm huyết), by mixing it with some fish sauce of certain proportions, usually three to five soup spoons of fish sauce for one quart (approximately 1 liter) of blood. Finely chopped meat such as cooked duck innards (such as gizzards) and duck meat are put in a shallow dish along with a sprinkling of crushed peanuts and chopped herbs such as Vietnamese coriander, mint, etc. The blood and fish sauce mixture is then diluted with some watery broth left from cooking the meat and/or gizzards to promote blood coagulation, then quickly poured into the prepared meat dish. After the blood has set, the finished dish resembles a pizza. The finished dish can be kept cooled in the refrigerator, which allows the blood to maintain its coagulated state, when immediate consumption is not called for right away. If the dish is removed from the refrigerator and left to sit at room temperature for a while the blood will return to a liquid state.
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As neatly as peas
in their green canoe,
as discreetly as beads
strung in a row,
sit drops of dew
along a blade of grass.
But unattached and
subject to their weight,
they slip if they accumulate.
Down the green tongue
out of the morning sun
into the general damp,
It's the birthday of the poet Kay Ryan born in San Jose, California (1945). She grew up in a series of small towns along the desert. Her father was always trying to come up with get-rich-quick schemes, selling Christmas trees, and buying land mining operations. He died while reading a get-rich-quick book.
Kay Ryan went off to college. She just started writing poetry as a teenager. For ten years she only wrote when she had some spare time. And then a few months before her 30th birthday, she decided to take a cross country bicycle trip, 4,000 miles to give her time to think about what to do with her life. She was out in the middle of Colorado when the rhythmic movement of pedaling the bike got her thinking about poetry, and she realized she had to devote her life to being a poet.
She got a job teaching remedial English composition at a local college, and she made sure she'd only have to teach two days a week so she could spend all the rest of her time writing. She pared her life down to the basic essentials so she could afford to live on her meager salary.
She's published just four books of poetry over thirty years, including Dragon Acts to Dragon Ends and Flamingo Watching.
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The death of Amanda Todd has spurred questions about social responsibility, safe internet usage, and how Canada should deal with bullying in schools. It's also made us take a closer look at where the line falls between cyberbullying and criminal harassment.
But questions are also being raised about the role sexism played in Todd's life and death.
Several feminist bloggers have pointed out this week that much of the focus on Todd's story centers on what Todd herself did online, rather than on the actions and the attitudes of those people condemning her.
"The young women in Todd's life turned against her rather than supporting her through harassment, despite surely facing similar pressures to capitulate to male definitions of, and demands on, female sexuality," writes Fazeela Jiwa in the Georgia Straight.
We thought that the sexism and misogyny angle of this story deserves a greater discussion. So we had one Thursday on CBC Your News Live Online.
Host Lauren O'Neil was be joined by several guests, including:
- Jarrah Hodge, the founder of Canadian feminist blog Gender Focus
- Bill Besley, the founder of the website, cyberbullying.org
- Jennifer Shapka, Associate Professor of UBC in the Faculty of Education, cyberbullying expert
- Heather Jarvis, Co-founder of Slutwalk Toronto
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Talking openly with your health care provider is one of the best ways to feel good about your breast cancer treatment decisions. When meeting with your provider, it is a good idea to bring a friend or loved one (co-survivor) with you who can help ask questions and discuss the answers later. It is likely that a lot of new information will be given to you at a time when you may already feel stressed or overwhelmed. Having an extra pair of ears may help recall and understand the information that was given. Recording the discussion on a cell phone, small tape recorder or other device can be helpful (even if someone can go with you to the appointment).
Whether you go alone or with someone, preparing a list of questions ahead of time (to take with you) is important. This can help you remember everything you want to ask and keep the discussion focused on the issues that are most important to you. For a list of helpful questions, see "Questions for Your Provider" throughout Understanding Breast Cancer or link to a list below.
Also, our Questions to Ask the Doctor series provides questions on a many breast cancer issues. Each card (17 total) has questions to discuss with your provider about a specific breast cancer topic. You can download and print the cards and take them with you to your next appointment. Plenty of space is provided to jot down answers to the questions. These topic cards are a helpful tool if you have been recently diagnosed with breast cancer or feel too overwhelmed to know where to begin to gather information.
Talking with a health care provider can be hard for some people. It often occurs in an unfamiliar and stressful situation, and some providers may be hurried or unskilled at answering questions. There are many resources to help make these discussions easier. We have outlined a series of steps to help you talk more effectively with your providers in our fact sheet “Talking with Your Doctor.” The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship and American Cancer Society also have tips on talking with providers.
Below are links to the “Questions for Your Provider” sections in found throughout Understanding Breast Cancer to help you find the questions that relate to your situation.
Getting good care
Risk factors and prevention
Early detection and screening
Diagnosis of breast cancer
Types of treatment
Treatment options for breast cancer
Integrative and complementary therapies
Talking about family health history with your provider
Your family history of breast and other cancers is important to discuss with your health care provider. This information helps your provider understand your risk of breast cancer (and for survivors, your risk of breast cancer returning).
The Office of the Surgeon General and the National Human Genome Research Institute (part of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services) created an online tool called “My Family Health Portrait” that you can use to create a chart of your family’s health history. This chart may be useful in discussions with your provider about your family history of breast cancer and/or other health conditions. | <urn:uuid:c58d3c3b-d0b1-40e8-8157-6a1cffac7589> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ww5.komen.org/breastcancer/TalkingtoYourHealthCareProvider.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943108 | 614 | 2.25 | 2 |
My school, which at 500 or so students isn’t so big to begin with, in September will start its third year in an evolution that has seen us break down into smaller and smaller, increasingly semiautonomous academies.
The first three academies were started by the then brand new principal who was looking for a way to turn around what had become an unruly school on a downward path. This year there were four academies; next year there will be at least six. All beyond the first three were started by teachers who bonded around some common idea: the arts; science; or citizenship and community.
My academy for next year is made up of teachers who were not asked to join one of the other groups or who, like me, teach students from different academies. No matter. We sat down together and I was able to convince my colleagues that the thrust of our academy should be collaboration on learning projects using technology.
Our school is so far from the cutting edge in technology that we’re not part of the knife. Our first in-class computers — two Dells and a printer for each classroom — were installed just two years ago. Most of the teachers have mastered receiving and sending basic email, but not all have managed adding or downloading attachments. This spring we got some Interactive White Boards (IWBs) but we haven’t been able to use them yet.
The idea of project-based learning excited my colleagues, but when I talked about podcasts, blogs, wikis, and all the other technologies we could harness, I could see fear in their eyes. I know that look; I see it every day in my students’ faces.
Teachers are overwhelmed by the subject of technology; there is too much to learn, and it needs to be done so quickly. They are afraid that they wont remember what they’re taught. They are afraid of being wrong, of making mistakes, afraid of failing. They are afraid of not being in control, of showing weakness, of cracking the image. They are afraid of not seeming competent, capable and confident. They are afraid of being made fun of.
They are afraid of being stupid.
Afraid of being like their students.
Developing awareness of the similarity of their reactions to what happens when a student faces a challenge might be the most important thing they learn in their careers.
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Editorial: An uncertain future for PSNH
Utility regulators are listening closely, and New Hampshire lawmakers should be too. What they’re hearing is a sucking sound that could turn into a roar as customers flee the state’s largest, and most expensive, electricity producer for cheaper alternatives. The more that leave, the bigger the burden will be on the remaining residential customers, whose rates must pay the cost of Public Service of New Hampshire’s vintage power plants and the $422 million scrubber the company installed on its coal-fired plant in Bow.
Nearly all of PSNH’s big customers – the state’s manufacturers and big commercial enterprises – left long ago, and about half of its small business customers have jumped ship. Last year, the flight of the utility’s 420,000 residential customers began in earnest. About 30,000 now get power from competitors who buy electricity produced by burning newly cheap natural gas on the open market. About 3,500 customers who received power from PSNH by default left in December, and that was before the utility’s state-regulated energy rate went from 7.11 cents per kilowatt hour to 9.54 cents.
Last month, the migration away from PSNH prompted the Public Utilities Commission to open an investigation into the phenomenon and its effect on the utility’s ability to “maintain default service at just and reasonable rates.” In hopes of doing so, PSNH wants PUC approval to offer an “alternate default energy rate” or discount rate to large customers who have been getting power elsewhere for at least two years if they come back to PSNH. If that plan succeeds, the utility says, the pool of customers that pay the cost of its power plants will increase, bringing costs down for all.
That’s a big if.
Because natural gas has been so cheap, PSNH’s three coal- and oil-fueled plants have run less and less often in recent years. The costs to staff and maintain the plants – excluding the cost of the Bow scrubber – run about $43 million per year, according to testimony filed with the PUC. The utility considers paying that cost reasonable, since the plants are needed during peak demand periods like the recent cold spell that caused natural gas prices to spike dizzyingly. PSNH customers, the utility said, saved $15 million because the company operated its plants over those two weeks.
The old plants are insurance against such spikes or a disruption in the gas pipelines serving New Hampshire, but they are expensive insurance. At some point, the PUC and lawmakers will have to decide whether to order PSNH to divest itself of its power plants or separate into a regulated transmission system and a generation system that competes on the open market instead of being guaranteed a 9.86 percent return on its investment. That’s not the question before the PUC at the moment, but it will have to be answered sooner rather than later.
PSNH doesn’t believe the day will come when retaining the plants won’t be a good deal for it customers in the long run, because it believes natural gas prices will continue to rise until burning coal is cheaper. But coal emits twice the volume of greenhouse gases per unit of energy produced as natural gas, so no decision should be made without considering that factor.
If the PUC approves PSNH’s discount rate to lure back customers, regulators and lawmakers should give it a year to see if it lowers costs for residential customers. If so, fine. If not, it will be time to take up the divestiture question again. It’s likely that no one will come forward to buy power plants that are a half-century old, so divestiture could be synonymous with closure.
Either way, a big loss is inevitable. If that happens, lawmakers must ensure that the lion’s share of the loss is incurred by investors in PSNH’s parent company, Northeast Utilities, not by New Hampshire ratepayers. That includes the huge cost of the mercury scrubber. It was investors, after all, who gambled that it made sense to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to keep an old coal plant running. They could have said no. So it’s investors who should lose if that gamble doesn’t pay off. | <urn:uuid:10a4fce9-d03b-42c3-9bb1-48cfe72b0ec0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.concordmonitor.com/home/4146399-95/psnh-customers-plants-power | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952488 | 896 | 2.03125 | 2 |
SAN FRANCISCO -- If you need to be reminded just how quickly today's winner in Silicon Valley can find that perch suddenly precarious, look no further than Oracle.
Last year, during its annual OpenWorld conference, I marveled at how CEO Larry Ellison had made Oracle a model of stability compared to other tech giants.
This year, as the event wraps up in San Francisco, Oracle looks far more vulnerable, thanks to its struggles to digest the acquisition of Sun Microsystems and the perception that the company has been slow to embrace cloud computing.
But in a perverse way, it could also be good news for Oracle and Ellison.
At age 68, Ellison has been here many times, facing enormous challenges like new technologies and competitive shifts. In the past, he's risen to the task and left Oracle even stronger. Indeed, he never seems more engaged, more inspired, than when there is some perceived threat to the company he cofounded in the late 1970s.
Now, in the twilight of his remarkable tenure, comes this last, great challenge to burnish his legend. During his two keynotes this week at OpenWorld, Ellison again demonstrated that he had not lost an ounce of faith in himself.
"What we offer in the cloud is about to get better, a lot better," Ellison proclaimed in this opening keynote on Sunday.
That confidence can't entirely mask the fact that Oracle faces its share of doubters over its ability to reinvent itself for the
And many have noted that Oracle's challenges may have been compounded by what increasingly looks like a rare, but major, misstep: its acquisition of troubled Sun Microsystems.
Over the past decade, Ellison led a campaign to acquire many of Oracle's mightiest software rivals. And to a large degree, that strategy worked. But buying Sun, which focused on hardware, seemed like a head scratcher at the time. And the wisdom of the deal has only drawn more questions over time.
Before OpenWorld, Patrick Walravens, an analyst at JMP Securities, raised a provocative point: Did Oracle spend so much time trying to fix Sun that it didn't move as quickly enough on its cloud strategy?
"Overall, we think Oracle would have been better off focusing more intensely on cloud computing early -- and we feel the Sun acquisition and engineered systems effort detracted from that focus," he wrote.
Not surprisingly, Oracle devoted a healthy chunk of this week's conference to explaining why its hardware strategy would be a winner and why it was in a better position than rivals to be a leader in cloud computing.
In a nutshell, by building the hardware and software that runs cloud-based systems, Oracle argues it can offer faster, more secure, more flexible services for customers.
"True cloud means we have to own the infrastructure, we have to manage the infrastructure, (and) we have to upgrade the infrastructure," Ellison said this week.
Let me point out, to be fair, that over the last six months, investors have remained bullish on the company, driving the stock up from about $25 in May to $31.82 per share when the markets closed Wednesday.
Still, Ellison and Oracle had plenty of convincing to do. "This is the third OpenWorld running where we heard about cloud," said IDC analyst Al Hilwa. "There's a trajectory of them getting more serious and more detailed and more effective than they were before. But until they break out those revenues from cloud offerings, it's not clear to me that they'll convince the street."
OpenWorld comes just a couple of weeks after cloud-computing rival Salesforce.com held its Dreamforce gathering. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Ellison have a well-known rivalry, and Benioff has long taunted Ellison for being slow to get with the cloud trend.
Dreamforce attracted 90,000 attendees. This year, OpenWorld had an estimated 50,000 attendees. Aside from the ego bump of having the title of largest tech conference in the world, you have to wonder if users are starting to vote with both their feet and their IT budget dollars.
Oracle as underdog? Probably not. But then, this is just the type of dogfight Ellison has always relished. And the stakes for him and the company are both big and dramatic.
Will we one day look back and say that Ellison overstayed his time in the CEO chair? That he was too slow to embrace cloud computing and that his hubris led him to think he could salvage Sun?
Or does he transform Oracle, trump his rivals and lay a new foundation for that leaves his company on top for years to come?
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"John, please sit down!" "Tasha, will you stop talking?" "Shhh!
Quiet!" "Jeremy! If you hit Pete again, you're out of here."
"Becca, come sit down by me." "Okay, who threw that?" "Oh, when
will this class end?!"
Ever said these things? If not, have you ever thought them?
Chances are that if you've taught a class of children, you've
been there and done that. In fact, the #1 issue confounding most
Sunday school teachers is discipline. Teachers want to know: How do
I keep children engaged in learning? How do I get them quiet? How
much freedom is too much? Can I be a friend and authority figure
too? What creative strategies can save my sanity? How do I spare
the "rod" from Rodney?
Everybody wants answers. The problem is that few analyze why a
child misbehaves in the first place. Yet understanding the
"disease" is 90 percent of the cure.
So why does Tara talk? or Suzie squirm? or Paul punch? or Bobby
bounce? Aside from a neurological or biological condition, the
truth is that kids do what they do because of three basic
1. Kids misbehave when they feel they don't
Every person -- whether a child or an adult -- wants to belong.
Everyone desires the feeling of connection. Children yearn for peer
acceptance, and girls and boys act quite differently to get it.
Girls tend to cooperate in groups. They play together, develop
social ties, and trot to restrooms together. Girls who can't
penetrate the pack may act out. Boys, in contrast, are competitive.
They create conflict and attempt to claim superiority. Boys who
can't compete will misbehave to gain attention. Older children also
rebel to capture the attention of the opposite sex. It's a matter
Child psychiatrist Rudolf Dreikurs suggested that when children
can't resolve this need to belong, they pursue "mistaken goals" of
misbehavior -- each one becoming more intense. Initially it's
simple attention-getting: polite whispering, kicking a table,
giving goofy answers, or accidental burping. Each action draws
attention toward the misbehaving child as he asserts, "Look at me!
I belong here!"
Many teachers choose to ignore this behavior, but that's a poor
decision because it fails to address why the action initially
happened. A better choice is to create a connection. Walk toward
the whispering pair. Touch the kicking child's shoulder. Laugh at
the silly answer (Why not? Everyone else is!).
Why bring attention to misbehavior? Because it communicates to
the child that you noticed. And -- just as important -- if you
don't notice, the child graduates to power plays: talking aloud,
kicking another child, a slough of silly retorts, or a bevy of
belches. Power plays are a child's scheme to draw purposeful
attention ("It's me and you, Teacher. What are you going to do?").
Unfortunately such terrorist tactics rarely work because teachers
with more power simply squash them. You know the routine: timeouts,
rebukes, isolations, and removal of privileges and prizes.
Instead of resolution, though, wielding power only forces
children to the next level: revenge. And children's revenge looks
like this: hurtful comments, aggressive behavior toward the
teacher, absences and tardies, and sleeping during class. The child
now demands, "If you won't recognize me for me, I will hurt you for
you." Of course some teachers only respond to such insubordination
with more power, cycling into dismissal from class, degrading and
sarcastic comments directed at the child, and expulsion.
Of course as Dreikurs suggested and is often confirmed, children
who are "beaten" into submission eventually shut down. They shut up
(silence can be deafening). They sit slumped. In silence, they wait
to flee. "Someday I won't have to be here!" they scream in silence.
And most won't be there when that day comes. When their parents no
longer force church attendance, they'll stay home. Or make excuses.
Or leave the faith.
This final stage didn't evolve overnight. It's a slow process
that involves continually degrading the child. It happens daily in
public schools, and I've watched it occur often in Sunday school
and children's church. Kids screaming to belong are disconnected
through timeouts, emotional rebukes, and ignoring their
Think about the kid who gives you the most trouble. When was the
last time you phoned him? wrote her an encouraging note? remembered
his birthday? stopped by her home? If children don't sense your
connection to their lives, they'll make many attempts to gain your
attention. The answer isn't discipline, it's discipleship!
Here are a few more tips. First, reduce the rows. The more rows,
the more problems. The further back a child sits, the more he needs
to announce his presence. If you can, keep to a three-row maximum.
If you must have more than three rows, scatter plenty of adult help
among the back rows. Also keep classes small; eight to 12 children
is best. The larger the group, the more potential for problems.
Splitting older children into same-sex classes can also help.
Second, make your class a safe place -- a sanctuary free of
insult and emotional stress. Address children by their names.
Affirm their positive actions and kind words. Incorporate "share
and care" times into class where kids tell stories about themselves
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Former U.S. Rep. Douglas Barnard Jr. and retired U.S. Army Col. Bruce Crandall were given the Jimmie Dyess Award during the ceremony at the Augusta Museum of History.
The award was created to recognize both military valor and a dedication to service that emulates the life of Marine Lt. Col. Jimmie Dyess, said retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Perry Smith.
Smith said, “Our goal here is to perpetuate the legacy of Jimmie Dyess,” who was twice honored for heroism, receiving a Carnegie Medal in 1929 for saving two swimmers off the coast of South Carolina, and having been posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for valor in combat during World War II.
Smith said Crandall was selected for the Dyess Award because he, too, is a Medal of Honor recipient – awarded for his efforts as an Army helicopter pilot to resupply U.S. troops and retrieve the wounded under heavy fire in Vietnam’s Ia Drang Valley in 1965. Smith said Crandall’s heroism was important, but dedication to his community after the war also weighed heavily in the decision to give him a Dyess Award.
Smith said each year, the goal will be to honor Medal of Honor winners who have continued a life of service and some of those who have performed extraordinary service as civilians, such as Barnard.
Although he also served in World War II, it was Barnard’s long life in the public realm that made him an ideal recipient for the Dyess Award, Smith said.
“With Doug it was an easy decision,” said Smith of Barnard, who is nearing his 90th birthday. “He hasn’t stopped.”
Among his many accomplishments are serving as executive secretary to Georgia Gov. Carl Sanders, as a member of the Georgia Board of Transportation and as an eight-term U.S. congressman. More recently, Barnard has been instrumental in forming the Community Foundation of the CSRA and establishing a wounded warrior support program in Augusta.
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MOSCOW, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy reached here on Monday a new agreement on the implementation of a French-brokered cease-fire between Russia and Georgia.
NEW WITHDRAWAL DEAL
Georgian troops entered and shelled its breakaway region of South Ossetia on early Aug. 8 in an attempt to regain control there. Russian forces then moved in and drove Georgian troops out of the region that was run by Russian peacekeeping forces.
A French-brokered cease-fire stopped the five-day war on Aug. 12 in which Russia promised to withdraw its troops.
Moscow said earlier it has withdrawn all its troops from Georgia that drove Georgian troops out of South Ossetia during the war, but the West has been pressing Moscow on that.
"Russia is carrying out the cease-fire to the full scale," Medvedev said, claiming that Tbilisi is moving slowly in that aspect.
According to the new agreement read live on local TV channel by the head of state, Moscow agreed to withdraw its troops from the buffer zone around South Ossetia within one month and after international forces were deployed there.
Russia will also remove its checking-points and troops from the Black Sea port of Poti given a non-use-of-force guarantee from Georgia to its nearby breakaway region of Akbhazia, according to the new deal.
Moscow agreed to deploy 200 EU observers to Georgia by Oct. 1 to monitor the withdrawal, and an international conference on the Caucasus situation will be held on Oct. 15 in Geneva.
DISAGREE ON RECOGNITION
Moscow recognized South Ossetia and another breakaway region of Abkhazia as independent states on Aug. 26, a move that further angered the West.
Sarkozy, heading a EU delegation, condemned Russia's recognition of the self-proclaimed Caucasus regions.
"We did not agree on everything. EU condemns the unilateral recognition by Russia to South Ossetia and Akbhazia," he said. "We are not here negotiating the future, but to make sure the cease-fire was and is fully implemented."
Medvedev, in response, said the recognition was "final and irrevocable" and refused to change Russia's stance though its recognition was not broadly echoed in the international community yet.
TENSE IN TIES
Sarkozy arrived in Moscow Monday for talks with Medvedev on the Caucasus situation that was in tense due to the military conflict between Russia and Georgia.
Sarkozy and the EU delegation, including European Commission President Manuel Barroso and foreign policy and security chief Javier Solana, are expected to head for Tbilisi following talks in Moscow.
The Russian-Georgian conflict further dampened Moscow's frozen relations with the West that has promised economic aid for Tbilisi.
The EU postponed talks with Russia on a new partnership agreement and the U.S.-led NATO broke military cooperation with the Kremlin following the conflict.
In fact, observers believe that the fragile Russian-Georgian relations were a result of Tbilisi's bid for NATO membership to which Moscow objects as well as Moscow's support to the pro-Russia breakaway regions.
At the press conference following the talks, Medvedev appreciated EU's mediation, labeling the 27-member bloc a "key partner", but insisted that Moscow's decisions were "the only way to save people." | <urn:uuid:a8ca3596-293f-455f-932a-4759c1efa2f7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://english.sina.com/world/p/2008/0908/185017.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965469 | 717 | 1.625 | 2 |
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By Daily Mail Reporter UPDATED: 12:02 GMT, 7 July 2011 A major security flaw in Apple software could allow hackers to gain remote control over iPads, iPhones and iPod Touch devices, online experts warned today. The bug in the iOS operating system was exposed last night when a hacking website released a 'jail break' code for Apple customers.
Researchers have uncovered a sophisticated and decentralized botnet that combines encryption and rootkit capabilities to make it practically invisible to infected machines.
Microsoft has been granted a patent for a technology that could create wiretaps for several kinds of Internet communications, including video and voice calls over Skype, which Microsoft acquired in May. Federal law enforcement agencies have had difficulties tracking and recording criminal and terrorist conversations online. Back in September, it was reported that law enforcement officials wanted to expand the government’s powers to wiretap Internet services.
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The attacks, which were detected last week, made use of five URLs injected via a PHP script into the compromised sites, according to Trend Micro. In a blog post last week , the security vendor highlighted that the five URLs all resolve to a single, malicious IP server that has been on its radar, and added the URLs have been "proactively blocked" since Mar. 25. The modus operandi of these attacks is to redirect visitors to the compromised sites numerous times, finally leading to the download of a fake antivirus scan. Trend Micro, which classified the fake programs as TROJ_FAKEAV.BBK and TROJ_WORID.A, said "Lizamoon" was the name of the first domain to which victims were re-directed.
A new bit of malware has been making headway across the Internet, but is it really that big of a deal? You've probably seen the news that "Lizamoon," an SQL injection attack designed to point your browser to a piece of fake security malware, had infected hundreds of thousands of pages across the Internet. And this includes links found within Apple's iTunes itself… to a degree. | <urn:uuid:9261adec-c25c-4652-a1b3-0f3b501355ee> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pearltrees.com/t/computer/computer-security/id2769438 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954352 | 460 | 2.125 | 2 |
- Katarina Cittadini
Daughter of Giovanni Battista and Magherita Lanzani. Her mother died when Caterina was seven, and her father abandoned the girl and her younger sister Giuditta. They were accepted and grew up at the orphanage of the Conventino of Bergamo. There she developed a strong faith, a big sister’s sense of responsibility, and a devotion to Our Lady and Saint Jerome Emiliani.
The sisters left the orphanage in 1823 to live with their cousins Giovanni and Antonio Cittadini, both parish priests at Calolzio, Italy. Caterina became a teacher at a girl‘s public school in Somasca in 1824. The sisters felt a call to the religious life; their spiritual director recommended that they should stay in Somasca, and become the basis of a new congregation.
In 1826 the sisters rented a house in Somasca, bought and furnished a building, and in October opened a boarding school for girls. Caterina taught religion, managed the school, and instituted the oratory style of education for her girls. Word of her success spread, attracting more students. The sisters established another “Cittadini” private school in 1832, and another in 1836.
Giuditta directed these new school until her sudden death in 1840. Caterini’s cousin, Father Antonio Cittadini, died in 1841, followed quickly by her spiritual director from the orphanage. The rapid succession of tragedy ruined Caterina’s health, and she fell gravely ill, but was cured through the intercession of Saint Jerome Emilani.
Caterina quit her public teaching position in 1845 to manage the schools, care for the orphans, and guide the three companions who help her. To help organize the work and lives of her companions, she wrote the beginnings of a new rule similar to that of religious orders. In 1850 she obtained permission to build a private oratory to keep the Blessed Sacrament at her boarding school. In 1851 she applied for approval of her new religious family.
In 1854 her bishop encouraged her work, and told her to write the rules of the new order; her first attempt, based on the Constitution of the Ursulines of Milano was rejected. A second attempt was accepted on 17 September 1854 under the title Orsoline Gerolimiane (Ursuline Sisters of Somasca). On 14 December 1857, six months after her death, the bishop of Bergamo gave his approval; the order achieved papal recognition on 8 July 1927. The order’s mandate is to teach, and to care for the abandoned; today they work in Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Brazil, Bolivia, India, and the Philippines.
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