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Re: Fp. walkeri GH2
> In a recent private communication, Roger commented that:
> "... Fp. walkeri Kutunse is a good example. There is every reason to
> believe that this population is extinct in Ghana, its only know habitat.
> Gerhard Schreiber collected this population in 1974 and is the only time
> fish was brought into the hobby."
The GH2 location is certainly destroyed from what I understand. From current
responses to the list I understand you agree that Kutunse is the same
location, although I have yet to see conclusive proof of this.
If they are both the same genetic material then they are certainly diverse.
This diversity over nearly 30 years of breeding is a unique topic to study.
The West African site shows many photos of divergent forms of this same (?)
form but many other photos exist outside this database.
All show a great differenciation from the original GH2 which had wide
anterior barring to the flanks. This is extremely contrasting to images of
Kutunse with many bars close together.
I consider this sp. to be most interesting to study in whatever population
Ghana is a place well known to commercial collectors. We have prioritised
this sp. (as well as E.chaperi schreiberi) as one to find by our collectors
but no data has yet been relayed back to us.
Prior to 1974 many locations were brought back to captivity which have since
I am being optimistic in the belief that this sp. will surface from the wild
again but I cannot deny the fact that this sp. is on the decline from
information collected from commercial collectors. This, however should not
be considered as hard evidence.
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ill destroy us?
Then is the Sun Man the stronger; it may be
because of his kindness and wiseness, and because
of his women.
Is it told that the women of the Sun are good
to the eye, soft to the arm, and a fire in the heart
_(Holding up hand solemnly.)_
It were well, lest the young do not forget, to
repeat the old word again.
Here, where the tale is told.
_(Pointing to the spring.)_
Here, where the water burst from under the heel
of the Sun Man mounting into the sky.
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Chaldea The southern portion of Babylonia, Lower Mesopotamia, lying chiefly on the right bank of the Euphrates, but commonly used of the whole of the Mesopotamian plain. The Hebrew name is Kasdim, which is usually rendered "Chaldeans" (Jer 50:10; Jer 51:24, Jer 51:35). The country so named is a vast plain formed by the deposits of the Euphrates and the Tigris, extending to about 400 miles along the course of these rivers, and about 100 miles in average breadth. "In former days the vast plains of Babylon were nourished by a complicated system of canals and water-courses, which spread over the surface of the country like a network. The wants of a teeming population were supplied by a rich soil, not less bountiful than that on the banks of the Egyptian Nile. Like islands rising from a golden sea of waving corn stood frequent groves of palmtrees and pleasant gardens, affording to the idler or traveller their grateful and highly-valued shade. Crowds of passengers hurried along the dusty roads to and from the busy city. The land was rich in corn and wine." Recent discoveries, more especially in Babylonia, have thrown much light on the history of the Hebrew patriarchs, and have illustrated or confirmed the Biblical narrative in many points. The ancestor of the Hebrew people, Abram, was, we are told, born at "Ur of the Chaldees." "Chaldees" is a mistranslation of the Hebrew Kasdim, Kasdim being the Old Testament name of the Babylonians, while the Chaldees were a tribe who lived on the shores of the Persian Gulf, and did not become a part of the Babylonian population till the time of Hezekiah. Ur was one of the oldest and most famous of the Babylonian cities. Its site is now called Mugheir, or Mugayyar, on the western bank of the Euphrates, in Southern Babylonia. About a century before the birth of Abram it was ruled by a powerful dynasty of kings. Their conquests extended to Elam on the one side, and to the Lebanon on the other. They were followed by a dynasty of princes whose capital was Babylon, and who seem to have been of South Arabian origin. The founder of the dynasty was Sumu-abi ("Shem is my father"). But soon afterwards Babylonia fell under Elamite dominion. The kings of Babylon were compelled to acknowledge the supremacy of Elam, and a rival kingdom to that of Babylon, and governed by Elamites, sprang up at Larsa, not far from Ur, but on the opposite bank of the river. In the time of Abram the king of Larsa was Eri-Aku, the son of an Elamite prince, and Eri-Aku, as has long been recognized, is the Biblical "Arioch king of Ellasar" (Gen 14:1). The contemporaneous king of Babylon in the north, in the country termed Shinar in Scripture, was Khammu-rabi. (See BABYLON; ABRAHAM; AMRAPHEL.)
Chaldee Language Employed by the sacred writers in certain portions of the Old Testament, viz., Dan 2:4, Dan 2:28; Ezra 4:8-6:18; Ezr 7:12; Gen 31:46; Jer 10:11. It is the Aramaic dialect, as it is sometimes called, as distinguished from the Hebrew dialect. It was the language of commerce and of social intercourse in Western Asia, and after the Exile gradually came to be the popular language of Palestine. It is called "Syrian" in Kg2 18:26. Some isolated words in this language are preserved in the New Testament (Mat 5:22; Mat 6:24; Mat 16:17; Mat 27:46; Mar 3:17; Mar 5:41; Mar 7:34; Mar 14:36; Act 1:19; Co1 16:22). These are specimens of the vernacular language of Palestine at that period. The term "Hebrew" was also sometimes applied to the Chaldee because it had become the language of the Hebrews (Joh 5:2; Joh 19:20).
Chaldees Or Chaldeans, the inhabitants of the country of which Babylon was the capital. They were so called till the time of the Captivity (2 Kings 25; Isa 13:19; Isa 23:13), when, particularly in the Book of Daniel (Dan 5:30; Dan 9:1), the name began to be used with special reference to a class of learned men ranked with the magicians and astronomers. These men cultivated the ancient Cushite language of the original inhabitants of the land, for they had a "learning" and a "tongue" (Dan 1:4) of their own. The common language of the country at that time had become assimilated to the Semitic dialect, especially through the influence of the Assyrians, and was the language that was used for all civil purposes. The Chaldeans were the learned class, interesting themselves in science and religion, which consisted, like that of the ancient Arabians and Syrians, in the worship of the heavenly bodies. There are representations of this priestly class, of magi and diviners, on the walls of the Assyrian palaces.
Chamber "On the wall," which the Shunammite prepared for the prophet Elisha (Kg2 4:10), was an upper chamber over the porch through the hall toward the street. This was the "guest chamber" where entertainments were prepared (Mar 14:14). There were also "chambers within chambers" (Kg1 22:25; Kg2 9:2). To enter into a chamber is used metaphorically of prayer and communion with God (Isa 26:20). The "chambers of the south" (Job 9:9) are probably the constelations of the southern hemisphere. The "chambers of imagery", i.e., chambers painted with images, as used by Ezekiel (Eze 8:12), is an expression denoting the vision the prophet had of the abominations practised by the Jews in Jerusalem.
Chambering (Rom 13:13), wantonness, impurity.
Chamberlain A confidential servant of the king (Gen 37:36; Gen 39:1). In Rom 16:23 mention is made of "Erastus the chamberlain." Here the word denotes the treasurer of the city, or the qucestor, as the Romans styled him. He is almost the only convert from the higher ranks of whom mention is made (compare Act 17:34). Blastus, Herod's "chamberlain" (Act 12:20), was his personal attendant or valet-de-chambre. The Hebrew word saris, thus translated in Est 1:10, Est 1:15; Est 2:3, Est 2:14, Est 2:21, etc., properly means an eunuch (as in the marg.), as it is rendered in Isa 39:7; Isa 56:3.
Chameleon A species of lizard which has the faculty of changing the colour of its skin. It is ranked among the unclean animals in Lev 11:30, where the Hebrew word so translated is coah (R.V., "land crocodile"). In the same verse the Hebrew tanshemeth, rendered in Authorized Version "mole" is in Revised Version "chameleon," which is the correct rendering. This animal is very common in Egypt and in the Holy Land, especially in the Jordan valley.
Chamois Only in Deu 14:5 (Heb. zemer ), an animal of the deer or gazelle species. It bears this Hebrew name from its leaping or springing. The animal intended is probably the wild sheep (Ovis tragelephus), which is still found in Sinai and in the broken ridges of Stony Arabia. The LXX. and Vulgate render the word by camelopardus, i.e., the giraffe; but this is an animal of Central Africa, and is not at all known in Syria.
Champion (Sa1 17:4, Sa1 17:23), properly "the man between the two," denoting the position of Goliath between the two camps. Single combats of this kind at the head of armies were common in ancient times. In Sa1 17:51 this word is the rendering of a different Hebrew word, and properly denotes "a mighty man."
Chance (Luk 10:31). "It was not by chance that the priest came down by that road at that time, but by a specific arrangement and in exact fulfilment of a plan; not the plan of the priest, nor the plan of the wounded traveller, but the plan of God. By coincidence (Gr. sungkuria ) the priest came down, that is, by the conjunction of two things, in fact, which were previously constituted a pair in the providence of God. In the result they fell together according to the omniscient Designer's plan. This is the true theory of the divine government." Compare the meeting of Philip with the Ethiopian (Act 8:26, Act 8:27). There is no "chance" in God's empire. "Chance" is only another word for our want of knowledge as to the way in which one event falls in with another (Sa1 6:9; Ecc 9:11). | <urn:uuid:76b09dba-8b9e-457f-8898-c389d69c6504> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sacred-texts.com/bib/ebd/ebd076.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962273 | 1,989 | 3.421875 | 3 |
say that Because EVERYTHING (the Earth, Animals, Etc)
under ADAM'S dominion
, that when SIN
everything UNDER him suffered
(Warning: Written in long-hand for explicit detail)
The problem is not so much about sin, and the entrance of it perhaps, so much as it is about separation. They disobeyed, and sundered the connection between God and man, not because God sundered it first, but because mankind - Adam and Eve, hid
themselves, they fled
. They made the first move in separating themselves from God. It was God who sought them first...only to find (alas to his knowing already) that they refused to repent, and in that repentance turn back to him. It is only when we run away from God, that we miss him, and inevitably fall into sin. Whether or not it is running away from God who is Love into the arms of The Law which is Death, or else running away from God into the arms of pagan devils, or even into ourselves, and our own sinfulness.
Sin only occurs due to a lack of God's presence: If we walk in the spirit, we won't fulfill the desires of the flesh.
It is from Death that sin comes; Without The Law we would not know of sin - The Law is Death, the wages of disobedience/sin is The Law, which is death.
When Adam disobeyed, dying he died. From that dying he began to sin - just as a rotting corpse begins to stink.
Sin did not enter into Adam - Death did! Because he, and Eve forfeited life by running away from The Life.
When Adam and Eve ate the fruit, they disobeyed God, and realised immediately the consequences - They became aware! They had a revelation of their shame, their nakedness, they lost their innocence which rendered them responsible to The Law, which is death, because The Law is the mirror by which we see our shame, our nakedness, our destruction, but it does not clothe and heal; The Law is thus - The wages of sin, is death, that is why Grace, which is the superseding force above The Law is a gift, which is Life. The Law is "wages earned", Grace is "a given gift undeserved".
Adam and Eve, upon taking the first bite where already dying, and dead - being responsible to The Law and its wages, the wages of sin - Death. It is only by running away from God, and refusing to repent and turn back to Life that they could not enjoy the fruit of the tree of Life - the gift of life; and so died, and death became the enemy, the real
enemy of man.
That is why Death is the "final boss". Satan is a created being, but death is a form of absence; a void...a thing beyond a created being that cannot be stopped except one who is beyond creation - God, who is Life which like light in darkness fills it, and replaces it, casting it out, overwhelming it for as long as even a spark of it remains.
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California must address its overcrowding crisis by releasing over 1/4 of its prison imnate population, according to the Los Angeles' Times Supreme Court orders California to release tens of thousands of prison inmates. In a 5-4 decision written by Justice Kennedy, the SCOTUS has upheld a federal court order that called for releasing 38,000 to 46,000 prisoners. It was one of the largest prison release orders in the nation's history.
The conditions in California prisons are abysmal (and the losing "war on drugs" has only compounded this problem). Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote that California's prisons had "fallen short of minimum constitutional requirements" because of overcrowding, resulting in conditions in which as many as 200 prisoners may live in gymnasium and as many as 54 prisoners share a single toilet. This overcrowding has caused inmate suffering and death. California responded to the federal court ruling by moving some prison inmates to county facilties but are still over the allowed numbers.
The dissent criticized the opinion and claimed the federal court did not have the power to order the states to release the inmates. The dissent also claimed that, basically, bad things will happen with felons on the streets. Scary picture, right?
Actually, not right. As most criminal defense attorneys knows and according to DrugWarFacts.Org, sentencing and release policies, not crime rates, determine the numbers of persons in prison. In the period from 1991-1998, California had a 44% rise in its incarceration rate with a 36% drop in crime rates. This is a result of the failed war on drugs.
Let's stop wasting taxpayer money on a useless war on drugs and in funding the prison industrial complex. Sorry, prison guard unions, the SCOTUS has spoken.
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Let's kick off this year with a nod to a couple of guys who are either very smart or completely insane.
After starting this column nearly three years ago, I heard from people who told me they loved what I wrote – and then apologized for reading the print newspaper. Ironically, it was the media itself that made them feel like it's an all-digital world.
A few months ago, that disappeared. Not the column love. That comes and goes. But now, you also tell me how much you love the newspaper. Yes, the Register is beefier, more in-depth.
It's also revolutionary.
No other company in America is pouring resources into a newspaper like the new owners of the Register.
Consider that major cities such as Detroit, New Orleans and Syracuse, N.Y., either no longer have daily ink-on-paper editions or won't deliver to your door. Yet Orange County is going in the opposite direction. We are increasing staff, offering more color, more pages, more sections – and, yes, we deliver.
Are Register Publisher Aaron Kushner and Freedom President Eric Spitz clueless, or are they outliers?
As with Apple's ridiculously tiny square Nano – recently restored to a rectangle – ease of use is in the mind of the beholder.
Ken Doctor, a newspaper consultant, said last year that, “Print editions are going the way of the steam engine.” But in truth, print remains the most efficient method ever invented to digest news and information.
Tony Wong is a 3M executive and a Santa Ana resident who used to work for Apple. He remains an Apple fan, calls their products cool. But he doesn't start his day with an iPhone, MacBook or iPod.
He starts his day by walking down his driveway and getting the newspaper.
Wong, author of a book called “Mooove Ahead! Of the Corporate Herd,” can't play Angry Birds, listen to music or make a phone call with his newspaper. But he can review more stories more quickly by flipping pages than by clicking a mouse. He skims some stories, barely glances at others and reads many.
“You can scan two full pages in print,” Wong says, “faster than you can swap a page on an iPad.”
Nothing beats the Internet for specific and deep research. But nothing beats a newspaper for discovering what you don't know, haven't heard about.
I'll also point out that nothing informs or connects you to your local community better than the Register.
If Kushner, also Freedom's CEO, and Spitz are correct, they may save democracy in America.
Hyperbolic delusion? Perhaps, but …
A former executive with the Nixon Foundation – a man who represented a president who wasn't exactly a media fan – once told me that he feared for the future of Jeffersonian democracy if newspapers continue to decline.
I nodded wisely. Then I looked up Jeffersonian democracy. It's about believing that plain folk have the wisdom to elect their leaders if voters are informed.
The Nixon Foundation executive pointed out that without newspapers, citizens are left relying on advertising and opinion blogs.
Understand, newspaper reporters directly or indirectly are responsible for most of the news we consume. Radio and television have comparatively microscopic staffs and, um, repurpose newspaper stories. The Internet is patchy.
The sticking point for newspapers – and most have both paper and digital versions – is that young adults aren't developing reading habits like previous generations.
When I gave a talk last spring at Cal State Fullerton, I asked students where they got their information. The majority admitted they don't read newspapers – not even the Daily Titan. They said they get their news from the Internet.
But when pressed about specific websites, most were as wide-eyed as monkeys in a hailstorm.
Still, there are indications Kushner and Spitz – who have digital backgrounds – know something newspaper veterans don't.
One thing is certain. Kushner and Spitz know how to make an entrance.
In five months, the Register has hired dozens of reporters, editors and visual experts, launched an eight-page Business section, introduced a twice-weekly Varsity section, splashed color through the newspaper (I thought I was nearly alone caring about comics, but many readers tell me they love the color comics), introduced a daily Focus page, increased coverage in every area, transformed our weekly newspapers into must-reads ...
I'll stop. You have the evidence in your hands.
In an interview with National Public Radio, Senior Vice President and Editor Ken Brusic compares Register changes with other newspapers: “They've been offering less and attempting, in some cases, to charge more for it.
“People won't put up for that sort of thing. So we're now offering more.”
Kushner also understands the importance of community connections. He's gone so far as to donate to subscribers $12.4 million in free newspaper advertising to support their favorite charity.
But what's Kushner business plan?
The publisher says his model is more subscriber-based than advertiser based. Still, ad revenues remain a factor. On NPR, Kushner elaborated: “When you see very smart people like Kohl's or J.C. Penney who are actively reducing what they are doing, digitally, in order to do more in print, they're not doing it because it's trendy.
“They're doing it because it's valuable and it works.”
By now, you may have noticed I passed on interviewing Kushner, Spitz and Brusic. I made that decision to distance myself from the bosses, although admittedly this column's a kiss.
Here's a brief recap of what's out there: When negotiating to buy the Portland, Maine, newspaper, Kushner infuriated the union by declining to agree to have at least five photographers on staff regardless of circulation.
For transparency, I'll mention one of my oldest and best friends is a national Guild rep and was on the opposite side of the bargaining table. Sorry Tim, but fighting for job quotas in the ultra-competitive 21st century?
Kushner also repeats what he tells the Register newsroom: He firmly believes in the importance of newspapers.
It's the same thing all new owners say after an acquisition. But here's what makes Kushner different: Most follow up by slashing – not hiring.
As for the Register's editor, the OC Weekly quoted Brusic saying of Kushner's business model: “We'd be fools not to have fears.”
But Brusic understands that fear is fuel. He also is keenly aware there's far more on the line than the just the Register's future. Speaking of the newspaper industry, the senior vice president said, “If we can't succeed, we can't succeed anywhere else.”
Spending millions to produce a better newspaper and hoping revenues will offset the costs takes guts. But more than anything it takes faith.
Faith in you, our readers.
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Yesterday evening, in front of a small crowd of students, alumni, and guests in the ICC auditorium, Jack DeGioia received a gift from a company CEO and two international guests. To anyone not aware of the back story, that gift would have seemed somewhat strange—it was a white t-shirt, just like any you can find at the University bookstore, with “Georgetown University” emblazoned in navy blue letters across the front.
This t-shirt, however, is significant not in its appearance, but in its production. It was made by Alta Gracia Apparel, an as-yet-small project started by CEO of Knights Apparel Joe Bovich, the business model for which requires those working in the factories that produce clothing for college bookstores to be paid a living wage. Georgetown is one of over three hundred universities nationwide that carries this line in their bookstores. The event in ICC last night, entitled “The Alta Gracia Project: Continuing Georgetown’s Leadership” and sponsored in part by the Center for Social Justice and Welcome Week, was entirely dedicated to this remarkable project, and the way Georgetown faculty and students can use their buying power to better the lives of factory workers around the world.
“We as a community hold ourselves to the highest standards of community and service,” DeGioia said in his opening remarks, which came before a panel discussion with various people responsible for the presence of Alta Gracia on Georgetown’s campus. He discussed Georgetown’s commitment not just to Alta Gracia but to avoiding any company that does not treat its workers with dignity and offer them the proper wages, which has been University policy since a group of students staged a sit-in for factory workers’s rights in 1999.
Also in attendance at the panel discussion—but who saved his speaking for the very end—was LaMarr Billups, the Assistant Vice President for Business Policy Planning, who, according to DeGioia, makes sure that “no clothing bearing our logo has been made in sweatshop conditions anywhere in the world.”
The Alta Gracia Project, as Bovich explained in his ten-minute speech before the panel discussion (“I’ve never talked about Alta Gracia for only ten minutes,” he joked), was born out of a string of personal tragedies that struck Bovich in a very short period of time, one of which had the potential to render him disabled, and therefore incapable of providing for his family. This changed his view of business and his personal goals, and began to focus on the responsibility of a corporation to protect and provide for its workers.
“Doing good can also be good business,” he said.
As of now, the Alta Gracia project is only one year old, and consists of a single factory with about 130 workers in a formerly economically devastated Villa Altagracia in the Dominican Republic. In a slide show at last night’s event, attendees viewed images of the town’s dilapidated buildings and unhealthy living conditions, and then images of the smiling, healthy workers at the Alta Gracia factory, especially when holding their paychecks, which offer 350% of the legal minimum wage in the Dominican Republic.
Adding to this element of personal connection with the workers was the presence of two women who are employees of Alta Gracia, both of whom shared with the audience how their lives and those of their families had been completely reversed by the arrival of the company. With Alta Gracia, they not only receive employment with living wages, but health insurance and the ability to unionize without threat of firing or violence, a first for workers in this community.
Although hundreds of college bookstores across the nation now sell products from the Alta Gracia factory, which only makes up a very small percentage of Knight Apparel’s business, Georgetown is one of the top 10 buyers of their products, and both workers as well as Bovich thanked the community for their unwavering support of the brand and for workers’s rights as a whole.
“Without universities like Georgetown, this all would have been a dream,” Bovich said. “I feel privileged that I’ve been given this business, and that I get to be a part of something like this.”
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Being an artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer, a programming language is a coded language used by programmers to write programs that is instructions that the computer can understand, in order to do what the programmer or the computer user wants the computer to do. Therefore, a programming language consists of a vocabulary and a set of grammatical rules for instructing a computer to perform specific tasks.
The most basic, called Low-level language, computer language is the machine language that uses binary digits, that is ‘0’ and ‘1’ code which a computer can run (execute) very fast without using a translator or interpreter program, but is tedious and complex. The high-level languages (such as Basic, C and Java) are much simpler to use, as they are more “English-Likeâ€. But this type of programming language needs to use another program like a compiler or interpreter, to convert the high-level language code into the machine code, and are therefore slower.
Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine and to express algorithms precisely.
The earliest programming languages predate the invention of the computer and were used to direct the behavior of machines. Thousand of different programming languages have been created, mainly in the computer field, with many more being created every year. Most programming languages describe computation in an imperative style, that is, as a sequence of commands, although some languages, such as those that support functional programming or logic programming, use alternative forms of description.
The description of a programming language is usually split into the two components of syntax and semantics. Some languages are defined by a specification document, for example C programming language is specified by an ISO Standard, while other languages have a dominant implementation that is used as a reference.
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Jay Last, Julius Blank, Eugene Kleiner, Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, Jean Hoerni, Sheldon Roberts and Victor Grinich were a diverse group of young scientists, all in their mid-20s to mid-30s. They had come to the San Francisco Bay area in 1956 to work for William Shockley, who had won the Nobel Prize that year with John Bordeen and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor at Bell Laboratories. But the eight, disagreeing with Shockley over technology and management issues, left his start-up, Shockley Semiconductor, en masse in late 1957 to found Fairchild Semiconductor. Shockley called them the "Traitorous Eight."
The creation of Fairchild Semiconductor would establish a model for entrepreneurs for the rest of this century. Each of the men was promised stock options, a then unheard-of arrangement. They dispensed with job titles and had an open working relationship. (1)
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I'm on here kind of hoping that I could get some advice. My son has just started school - he's in his third week - and I'm feeling a little conflicted. I took him to a poppy peek session when he was about 4 at the suggestion of his kindy teachers and we met Sue and she suggested that he join Small Poppies but there wasn't a group in our area and we just couldn't afford the cost plus the travel costs to get him there so we left it.
He's always been great with letters and reading - I've read some of the stories on here and heard similar things - he recognised the alphabet before 2, he started reading simple books at around 2.5 and now at school he's reading way above his classmates. His teacher has been good and has recognised that he's advanced with his reading, which let's face it, must be difficult to get through 20 new entrants reading every day, but her opinion is that we have 'other things to work on' like his writing - which isn't to the same level - so he's sitting there learning about the letter 'g' and I feel like he's just bored out of his little tree.
I don't want to be one of those pushy parents or for her to feel like I'm trying to force him to do anything but I decided to start doing some work with him at home because he comes home and even though he's been at school for six hours he wants to do more school work.
I just wondered whether anyone had any suggestions for things that I could do or take him to that hopefully aren't expensive.
I don't want to let him down because I can't afford to take him to the kind of things he needs.
I'm guessing that his problem is that his fine motor skills don't match his knowledge so despite the fact he knows what G looks like, knows the sound etc, he can't get an accurate looking G written down as yet.
Unfortunately it's one of those practice makes perfect things - which won't appeal to any bright kid who hates repetition so you'll have to dress it up differently each time so it's not boring.
I would be inclined to just encourage heaps of fine motor skills activities at home - straight lines, circles, copying over letters the correct way (much easier to learn the right way first off than be told you've got it wrong - my eldest started school already writing but it was all capitals and when he was forced to redo in lower case he simply stopped writing at all).
Stuff like lego, drawing, painting with a small brush, anything fiddly really will all increase his fine motor skills and help with his writing. The local jump start (pre school entry group) use playdough to make the letters too.
My youngest son is 5.5 and is still bored silly at school (and testing poorly due to anxiety so the teachers just think I'm an over protective 'one of those' mums *sigh*) and he was very keen to do more school work at home for the first month or so - now he avoids any kind of work like the plague so make the most of it while he's keen!
You need to push hard to get him put up a class. His writing ability is a very poor excuse on the part of the school to keep him with a group still learning their letters. I think it borders on cruelty. He will be bored for a few weeks and then I imagine he will start to make some entertainment ---it will not be the good kind.
Get the school to trial him in the next class up for the rest of the term. Explain to him that to go in the class with interesting school work he'll have to try really hard with his writing.
That's what I'd do. My boy had the same progression as OP's but after 1 school visit it was clear to me that a higher class was needed and I suggested 'a trial' to the school. I knew he would be much happier with some challenge in the day but the school needed an 'out' for their piece of mind.
We got a similar message at our school - the writing wasn't as far ahead as the other areas and that gap in itself was judged to be a potential problem.
There was some concern about the processing speed lag in his tests. That was given more attention than any extension in the many other areas where he was so far ahead. There is a strong focus on "balance." It sometimes seems they're uncomfortable with handling strengths and prefer weaknesses that they can solve.
There is no reason he couldn't practice his writing in a class up - so long as the teacher and the other students don't make a big deal about it. While there are always extracurricular things to do with your child, they spend so much of their day and energy at school so it is worth doing what you can to make it a positive learning experience.
What area do you live in? I have heard that Small Poppies will be opening again in Glenfield if you live over that way?
It is not un-common for children's writing skills to not match their other abilities. I would agree with Shar about the fine-motor skills work. I used to work in a school doing work with children on both fine-motor, and gross motor skills and there are many fun activities you can do that would help. Playing games like pick up sticks and marbles. Sewing (we used hessian, thick cotton and large plastic needles) - doing origami. All these types of activities will help.
I think it is a good sign that your son likes to continue school stuff when he gets home. He is obviously enthusiastic about learning. I would just suggest that the discussion with him around his letter formation etc not be too intense or critical that he feels like he is "bad" at it or "failing". That could put him off writing anything at all.
There are lots of things to learn at school, academic, social etc. I would give him time to settle in, and for the teacher to get to know him better, and then make an appointment with her to raise your concerns.
I feel you have written my story (except for the poppies, without a car and it being so far away) My son started in Feb.
Also having to sit on the mat listening to letter sounds. He is in the top reading group, but still no trouble with sounds. Couldn't hold a pencil and due to having to do picture plans for story writing will take the easy way out and not like the stories he dictates to me at home, instead it is "I went to the park" so he can draw the picture quickly.
Took a story to school, but I think the teacher thinks I made it up and not him, though she hasn't said it.
No descriptive language etc, or interesting topics like space and blasting off 'kaboom' to catch comets in a net to make into mirrors, or being attacked by UFO's but catching him in a rope and dragging him into a path of a comet to save earth.
Off to a teacher interview very soon (within half an hour, logged in here to give me some direction on type of questions I should ask)
He is already tuning out and the teacher is getting annoyed at him not focusing, (he told me he was thinking about how strange it would be if rocks rolled into class and everyone had rock pets and the teacher had to teach them as well) Just off into his own imaginary world.
Sigh. I have to be strong, but how much can you discuss in a 10 min interview?
Okay, so doing a new running record for reading to see what level reading he is now on. Good
Writing, is improving.
Found out he isn't interacting with other kids, goes off in his own dream world and wanders around, though is polite and talks to them when asks to join in by the teacher on duty. Bit worried about this. This is what I did and hated school and worked out it was something to be endured, not enjoyed.
He doesn't ask questions in class (saves them for home) trying to encourage him to ask more but he is reluctant to, due to bad experiences with adults laughing at the type of questions he asks. What can you do?
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The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has called for "serious dialogue" between the Syrian government and opposition to end the ongoing war in that country.
Speaking at the closing ceremony of a two-day summit, Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi said, "We all agreed on the necessity to intensify work to put an end to the tragedies which the sisterly Syrian people are living through."
The 57-member organization supported an initiative from Egypt, Turkey, Iran, and Saudi Arabia to broker negotiations between President Bashar al-Assad's regime and the opposition.
The move is aimed at ending the nearly 2-year-old war in which at least 60,000 people have died.
The final statement called on the UN Security Council to "assume its responsibilities to end the violence and bloodshed."
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2010 NAFFS Yearbook
Kids Say the Darndest Things - Listen to Them
"Kids play a significant role in household purchasing decisions,” Judith R. Lindsey, general manger, Product Dynamics told attendees at the NAFFS 92nd Annual Convention. In fact, they make their own choices.
Four of the top 10 items kids aged 8-12 say they can buy without their parent’s permission are foods and beverages, according to Lindsey. And kids have strong opinions on brands, saying branded products taste better than identical unbranded items. Lindsey also stressed “brands bonded with as a kid remain throughout life.”
Looking at health through kids’ eyes, Lindsey noted they have definitive perceptions about what is healthy and what isn’t. Most kids will agree that overweight/fat is not healthy. They also believe healthy means less candy, pop, chips and fast food and more vegetables and fruit. Kids today are also more aware of serving sizes and the importance of being more active, she said.
Children are highly influenced by their family so what is offered and eaten at a young age is very important, Lindsey noted. They can also associate good experiences with a taste. While the threshold level for sweetness in 3- to 6-year-olds is greater than adults, the sensitivity increases with the age of the child. They are also influenced by color, texture, aroma and marketing.
Lindsey urged immersing oneself in their world when developing products for children. “See things through their eyes and experience what is important to them,” said Lindsey.
“Spend time with your target audience and taste their products. Do a virtual shopping trip and critique the basket of others. You’ll gain a perspective of what is catching their eye,” she added.
Talk to kids, she advised. Ask them what they just ate and why – the good as well as the bad. You’ll gain a better understanding of whether health played a role in the decision path.
“Allow involvement and guidance when developing a product,” said Lindsey. “Let kids take you places you may not normally go. It doesn’t replace guidance testing but will broaden your knowledge of how they reach decisions.”
Lindsey suggested using tools such as reaction panels and teaming. She said in reaction panels, target consumers are gathered to experience products, characteristics and elements. They provide their reaction, discuss the experience and provide direction. It allows exposure to “out-of-the-box” thinking, she said.
When teaming, choose one or two consumers to spend time with a developer and actively participate in formulation sessions. This works well with older kids and moms. They will also respond to the products and provide a reaction group,” she said.
When connecting with kids, it helps to play at their level. Citing examples, Lindsey noted:
• Trick or Treat….give me something sweet
o Predominance of something they will like
• Hide & Seek
o Incorporation of high nutritive density ingredients in small quantities
• Charades – looks like, feels like, tastes like
o Keep as many characteristics the same
o Mimic visual, if able
• Follow the leader
o Frame of reference is important…what are comparisons
• What is different in this picture?
o Moderate increases in positive nutrition
o Small gradual decreases in negative nutrition
o Incorporate play, distraction
Lindsey said developers must encompass other senses in addition to taste when developing products for kids, noting that “texture and visual are also extremely important.”
Adults, Lindsey said, are essentially big kids. “But there are differences in tastes and they have a more experienced pallet. The sensitivity diminishes with age, however, as they become elderly.” Adults are more motivated to accept healthy products because health concerns are on their mind, noted Lindsey. However, taste is still the driver. | <urn:uuid:ea52d88e-665f-437b-afef-e35f0c0adb29> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.naffs.org/Default.aspx?pageId=710604 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00064-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962696 | 824 | 2.625 | 3 |
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What's 17.5 feet long, weighs 164.5 pounds and has no known predators?
August 14, 2012 - Ben Klein
The largest Burmese python ever found in the Everglades National Park in Florida.
Remember this eight-foot long beauty? Prada was a severely malnourished Albino Burmese python that was taken in by Paws Along the River last November.
"People are leaving all these animals and then walking out the door, then we get a call to go get them," Paws Along the River Director Karen Kolos told me in December.
In Florida, people dump them in the Everglades.
According to CNN, this record setting python was pregnant with 87 eggs and was "so big that researchers had to pile it on top of itself and wheel it into the examination room on a flat cart. They laid it on a series of tables lined up end to end, and then five researchers worked side by side to dissect the length of the snake."
I feel like Short Round watching the CNN video where you can see just how big this thing really is.
Here's another story from November about a python that ate a 76 pound deer.
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Yesterday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg laid out his vision for New York during the annual State of the City Address. He discussed the cost-cutting goals, economic growth, and the on-going physical transformation of the city, which largely consists of greening our fair city and moving towards a more sustainable future. Click through to read the greenest points from Bloomberg’s speech.
- The city will expand renovations on Governor’s Island, continuing to revamp the plot of land into a vibrant park in the middle of the harbor.
- A new ferry service will begin running in May along the East River with stops at Long Island City, Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Dumbo, Wall Street, and 34th Street. Many of the development plans deal with reclaiming the city’s waterways, a more sustainable means of transportation between boroughs.
- Development of Hunts Point Landing is well underway, transforming abandoned dead end streets into new green space along the waterfront, complete with a fishing pier. Continuing work on other waterfront spaces, like Brooklyn Bridge Park, will also increase our public parks.
- Through the Green Infrastructure Plan, which was launched last year, the city is cleaning our waterways “by not spending $2 billion on tanks and tunnels and instead capturing storm water before it reaches our sewer system.” On top of that, the EPA is making steady progress on the federal Superfund clean-ups of the Gowanus Canal and the Newtown Creek.
- The city is launching a new grant program that encourages residents to get involved with the greening of their communities. The grants will help local civic groups develop more a sustainable city with buildings and projects that are right for their neighborhoods.
- Section 2 of the High Line, which stretches from 20th Street to 30th Street, will open this spring or summer. The expansion was originally suppose to open last year, but a lack of funding delayed the project.
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With some things that can be a common occurrence on our cars, in red
Electronic parking brake
Electronic parking brake controls are now included and must be present and not inappropriately repaired or modified.
The car will fail if an Electronic Parking Brake warning lamp is illuminated to indicate a malfunction.
Electronic Stability Control
Checks of antilock brakes will be extended to include Electronic Stability Control if fitted.
As well as electronic parking brake and electronic stability control warning lights (where fitted) the MOT test will also include checks for the correct function of the following, where fitted;
Headlight main beam warning light
Electronic power steering warning light
Brake fluid level warning light
Tyre pressure monitoring system warning light
Air bag warning light
Seat belt pre-tensioner warning light
Steering & suspension
The new test includes a check on the presence and correct function of the steering lock where fitted as standard.
Missing, or split/damaged dust covers on steering and suspension ball-joints will result in failure if they will allow dirt to enter the joint.
Power steering fluid level must be above the minimum level indicated on the reservoir.
Products on the lens or light source that obviously reduce the light's intensity or change its colour will become a reason for failure – applies to front/rear position lamps, registration plate lamps, stop lamps, rear fog and direction indicators.
Headlight requirements are updated to take account of the particular characteristics of High Intensity Discharge (HID) lamps.
HID headlights can cause dazzle if they are dirty or aimed too high so car manufacturers must fit headlamp cleaning and levelling systems.
A car will fail if a mandatory headlamp cleaning or levelling system is missing, doesn't work or is obviously defective.
Vehicles fitted with aftermarket HID systems must also be fitted with properly working washer and levelling systems.
If a headlamp bulb is not seated correctly the resulting beam pattern will be indistinct and this will result in a test fail.
Electrical wiring and battery
An insecure battery will be a reason for failure as will a battery that is leaking electrolyte.
Visible wiring that is insecure, inadequately supported or likely to cause a short will also result in a failure as will wires bared by damaged insulation.
Trailer/caravan electrical socket
There will be a basic security/damage check of 7-pin sockets.
13-pin sockets will be subject to a full electrical connectivity check and incorrectly connected or inoperative circuits will result in failure.
Tyre pressure monitoring systems fitted to vehicles first registered after 1 January 2012 must be working correctly and not indicating a malfunction.
The vehicle will fail the test if any airbag fitted as original equipment is obviously missing or defective.
A seatbelt pre-tensioner fitted as original equipment but missing or that has obviously deployed will be a reason for failure.
Seatbelt load limiters that are missing where fitted as standard or folding webbing type limiters that have obviously deployed are also reasons for failure.
The vehicle will also fail if an SRS malfunction light is missing, not working or indicating a fault.
The car will fail if a speedometer is not fitted, is incomplete, inoperative, has a dial glass broken/missing or cannot be illuminated.
It must be possible to secure the driver's seat fore and aft adjustment mechanism in two or three different positions. On electric seats the motors must move the seat fore and aft.
A rear door that cannot be opened from the outside using the relevant control is a new reason for failure.
Doors must be easy to open and close – hinges, catches and pillars will be inspected.
Inappropriate repair or modification to the towbar assembly will be a reason for failure if judged likely to affect the roadworthiness of the vehicle/trailer.
A catalytic converter fitted as original equipment but missing will be a reason for failure.
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These hound dog creatures are ruthless enforcers of the Verrat. Known to be tenacious and vicious, it's rumored that Hundjagers eat their mothers from inside the womb. Fast, clever, cold and calculating, these are the last Wesen you'd ever want on your tail.
"'Perhaps some accident has befallen him,' said the king, and the next day he sent out more
huntsmen who were to search for him." - Iron Hans
The inspiration for this episode came from the Grimm Brothers' "Iron Hans." In this fairy tale, a
king sends a number of huntsmen into a dangerous forest from which they never return. Some
years later, a wandering explorer accompanied by a dog hears of these dangerous woods and
asks permission to hunt in the forest, claiming that he might be able to discover the fate of the
other hunters. The man and his dog are allowed to enter, and as they come to a lake in the
middle of the forest, the dog is dragged under water by a giant arm. The hunter returns to the
forest the next day with a group of men to empty the lake. There, they find a man with skin like
iron and long shaggy hair all over his body.
In "Cat and Mouse," this story morphed into a bounty hunter theme with a "viva la resistance"
twist for the episode. But outside of the hunt and the use of Hundjagers, much like the use of
dogs in the tale, the stories don't carry many similarities. "Cat and Mouse" takes a more political
direction, exploring the dangers of creature-human interaction and introducing us to new
elements of the Grimm world, such as the Veratt.
The Veratt is an ancient Wesen organization that originated in Europe. Supporters of the Veratt believe it is paramount to maintain the purity of the Wesen kind, and in the 1930s, they committed mass executions of innocent Wesen without trial for marrying outside their own breed. While the Veratt have old origins and an archaic school of thought, their modern influence is spreading. They occupy positions of power: politics, industry and organized crime. Anything that is corruptible is susceptible to the Veratt's influence, even law enforcement. The Veratt enforcers are Hungjagers, a race so tenacious and vicious that it is said they are birthed by consuming their own mothers from inside the womb.
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While the antioxidants in red wine are believed to contribute to better cardiovascular health, researchers in Spain say the grapes used to make it contain significant levels of fiber that also assist in strengthening the heart. They have found that the fiber and antioxidants in the Tempranillo grape seem to reduce blood pressure and cholesterol better than other sources of dietary fiber, specifically oats and psyllium.
The study, which is published in the July/August issue of the journal Nutrition, is a followup to earlier experiments from the same team that found that drinking 300 ml of red wine a day could contribute to the daily recommended intake of soluble fiber in Spain.
For their latest research, the scientists, based in the Department of Metabolism and Nutrition, Instituto del Frío, Madrid, wanted to evaluate the effects of a fiber-rich red-wine grape on the cardiovascular systems of both healthy volunteers and those with high cholesterol.
The researchers picked Tempranillo because they found that the variety has high levels of dietary fiber compared to white varieties. They recruited 27 women and 16 men, between the ages of 20 and 45, from the community at the University Complutense in Madrid, where their lab is based.
The subjects were randomly selected and nonsmokers, and blood tests revealed that 25 had high blood pressure. Thirty-four of the subjects were asked to consume a Tempranillo-based dietary fiber product developed at the Institute in 1998.
According to the study, the grape supplement contained 5.25 grams of dietary fiber and 1,400 mg of antioxidant polyphenols, such as procyanidin and cathechin. By way of comparison, the American Heart Association recommends 25 to 30 grams per day of fiber in order to keep the heart healthy and regulate metabolism. According to the study, the average intake of a Westerner is likely to be around the 20 grams per day mark, with the Spanish intake normally much lower.
After the trial period, the team examined blood samples and found that cholesterol levels were up to 14 percent lower in healthy individuals who took the supplement and nearly 19 percent lower in those who had high cholesterol going into the research. The control group's cholesterol levels remained the same. Blood pressure was also reduced in both fiber supplement groups by 5 to 6 percent. Triglyceride levels improved as well.
These results were also found to be "more pronounced" than the findings of a USDA-conducted meta-analysis, published in a 1999 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, of 55 studies examining similar effects of oat and plantain-based psyllium fibers.
Co-author Jara Pérez-Jiménez explained that the results of non-wine Tempranillo on the blood are promising because "the lack of alcohol effectively makes it suitable for those people who want to take the beneficial polyphenols present in grapes and wine, but cannot or do not want to drink alcohol."
"This is particularly interesting for the reduction of blood pressure," she continued. "Although red wine itself has shown in several studies a beneficial effect in relation to blood plasma, this has not been observed for blood pressure, since it is well-known that alcohol intake [normally] increases blood pressure."
Pérez-Jiménez adds that a regular intake of a grape-based dietary fiber supplement with a balanced, healthy diet may show a significant and positive effect in the reduction of cardiovascular risk factors.
"This may also be applied to people with cardiovascular problems, however, we cannot propose it yet as an alternative to heart pills for those people who already suffer such problems, rather as a complement to their medical therapy."
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Origins of the Phuket Vegetarian
Fasting ceremonies have always been practiced
and are named "Chai" in Taoism religion.
In 1825, Phuket was covered with a dense
forest inhabited by tigers and other fierce creatures. Chinese people - survivors of the 1809's Burma invasion
and Chinese "Hokkien", Suo Thao" and
"Ai Ming", gathered in Nai Tu Village (today:
Kathu) where Tin mines offered job opportunities. Kathu
was prosperous, counting numerous houses and shops, even
a Chinese opera!
At that time, a mysterious fever was spreading
in villages surrounding Kathu. The opera's responsible
noted that old and traditional rituals were not made as well as in China.
He decided to set up a fasting ritual with the actors of
the troup. After 9 days of fasting, the disease stopped
and no one in Kathu got sick afterward.
However, a Chinese man from Kang-Si thought
that a lot of differences remained in the ritual, compared with the way it was done in China. He offered to
go back to China in search of sacred statues, items
and healing books. People from Nai Tu collected money to
help him: travel to China and come back was a long
way in the middle of XIXth century.
One year later, he arrived in Phuket at Bang Niao
pier, on the 7th day of the ninth lunar month.
He brought back books, talismans, magic formulas, and a
sign to place at the front of the shrine. All people
from Kathu went to welcome him and escort him back to Kathu
in a procession: Phuket Vegetarian festival was born.
36,000 Gods and specific divinities
protect and take care about each person. In return, it is
only asked to lay flowers on the spirit house all year round.
Once a year, a fast has to be done: in that way, all sins
are pushed away. It is a matter of fact that the diseases
was caused by all the bad actions, weird thought and naughty
behavior. After fasting, everything is great,
a good feeling spreads in the community. This ceremony of
fast, named "Djè Chai" or "Troot Djin"
in Phuket, is held on the nine first days of the ninth month
of the Chinese year. The figure 9 is an entirety symbol.
10 commitments to be followed during the Festival
Cleanliness of the body
Use special kitchen ustensils only for the festival
Dress in white or in a very light color
Behave physically and mentally
Don't eat: meat, fish, eggs, milk
No alcoholic beverage
People in mourning should not go to any ceremony
Pregnant ladies should not go to any ceremony
Women in their period should not go to any ceremony
On the last evening of the festival, you could assist and participate in the 'crossing the bridge' ceremony which happens in all Chinese shrines involved in the festival. People who did not follow the commitments seriously should not try to cross the bridge, as they may fail to reach its other end. People who cross the bridge successfully receive a red stamp on the back of their white shirt or Tshirt as a reward from the Gods for their commitment.
Phuket Town, nowadays...
Exept the Muslim community, the entire city follows the
Festival and, if it's possible, the rituals. Everyone
dressed in white, without any bad thought nor violent
behavior. Everyone eats the delicious vegetarian cuisine,
goes to watch the miraculous healing ceremonies, the mortifications,
that are not a display of power but a way to pay for other
When mediums pierce their cheeks, walk on
fire, beat their back with an axe or climb a razor blades
ladder, it's to take on them all the pain and sorrow,
all misfortune and sadness from the world.
to make you feel better. Possessed by a god, they don't
feel pain anymore. When a medium comes close to you, good
luck for you, join your hands as in a prayer and listen carefully:
a God is talking to you...
Text written by Bobol.
Each year the TAT (Tourism Authority of Thailand
gives all information about the festival.
Authority of Thailand
Southern office : Region 4
73-75 Phuket Road, Amphoe Muang, Phuket 83000, Thailand
Tél. +66 (0)76 211036, 212213, 217138
Fax. +66 (0)76 213582
The office is open all year round from 8.30 am till
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Expelled EMU student's bias suit revived by appeals court
Update: 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 28:
Eastern Michigan University issued this statement:
"The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals made no legal findings against the University. It did not rule that the University engaged in discrimination and it did not rule in favor of Julea Ward. Rather, the Sixth Circuit Court ruled that there needs to be additional legal proceedings before a decision can be reached. The Court also found that the Regents and the President of Eastern Michigan University were properly dismissed from the lawsuit and refused to reinstate them despite Ward's request.
"This case has never been about religion or religious discrimination. It is not about homosexuality or sexual orientation. This case is about what is in the best interest of a person who is in need of counseling, and following the curricular requirements of our highly respected and nationally accredited counseling program, which adheres to the Code of Ethics of the American Counseling Association and the Ethical Standards of the American School Counselor Association. Those Ethical Standards require that counselors are not to allow their personal values to intrude into their professional work."
A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit against Eastern Michigan University by a master’s degree student. She was removed from a counseling program because of her views on homosexuality.
Julea Ward refused to counsel lesbian, gay and bisexual clients about same-sex relationships because she said it was against her Christian faith.
She asked that LGBT clients be referred to another counselor.
EMU said the refusal was a violation of the American Counseling Association’s Code of Ethics and expelled Ward from the program.
Jay Kaplan is with the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, which supports EMU’s position.
"It becomes a very slippery slope if you allow people to be able to carve out exceptions to those core curricular requirements, for whatever reasons," says Jay Kaplan of the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, which supports EMU's position.
The appeals court says a jury could conclude that Ward’s beliefs were used against her. EMU denies any bias.
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- n. Plural form of colloquialism.
“I’ve always bought bilingual poetry editions whenever I could get my hands on them (most often Spanish-English), and find it interesting to compare the grammatical structure of the original versus the translation, the translator’s choice of words among several, and the way certain colloquialisms, metaphors, etc. do or do not “work” in English.”
“Friday’s performance, however, removed any conceit and all smug self-seriousness by assuming an unassuming gait, addressing the crowd in colloquialisms and congenial conversation.”
“She used kind of colloquialisms that really helped her connect saying you know darn right and you know I understand what it's like not to have health care.”
“Coup de chance, mardi, deux des fondateurs étaient à [...] « Links on Twitter: Who's clicking on display ads, how ESPN is reaching local advertisers, NYT concerned about "colloquialisms" in blogs”
“Other topics discussed were cliches and colloquialisms, gendered pronouns, use of familial language with strangers, and spelling names in English.”
“We should have known the steps, the music had been in our blood for a decade filled with letters scrawled from Santa Cruz to Rio de Janeiro, phone calls fat with obscure literary references and blues lyrics and Texas colloquialisms and Oakland street slang.”
“Poor punctuation, scattered with colloquialisms, use of sarcasm in writing (can be misconstrued even if incredibly obvious) and, in general, far too emotional.”
“Following Bishops', colloquialisms were frowned on: Tyndale's serpent tells Mary "Tush, ye shall not die"; King James's insists "Ye shall not surely die".”
“The challenge was actually in dialing back the language once I had poured it onto the page, making it accessible to people who aren't familiar with these expressions and colloquialisms.”
“So whence the joyless peevology, the empty outrage over nounings, neologisms, and colloquialisms?”
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All my favourite words that I come across!
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Since 1937, few books have provided more pleasure than J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. Originally published in England with a first printing of 1,500 copies, The Hobbit today celebrates its 69th anniversary!
In a 1955 letter to W. H. Auden (Letters), Tolkien recollects in the late 1920s, when he was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College, he began The Hobbit when he was marking School Certificate papers. On the back of one of the papers, he wrote the words "In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit". He did not go any further than that at the time, although in the following years he drew up Thror's map, outlining the geography of the tale. The tale itself he wrote in the early 1930s, and it was eventually published because he lent it to to some people outside of the family, including C.S. Lewis, Elaine Griffiths, the Reverend Mother St. Teresa Gale (the Mother Superior at Cherwell Edge, a convent of the Order of the Holy Child Jesus), and one child, a girl of twelve or thirteen, presumably Aileen Jennings, the older sister of the poet Elizabeth Jennings, whose family was friends with the Tolkiens, who ecouraged him to finish the book. Finally it was seen by the 10-year old son of Sir Stanley Unwin, Rayner Unwin, who wrote such an enthusiastic review of the book that it was published by Allen & Unwin.
|When 10-year-old Rayner Unwin produced this report for his father (and was paid a shilling for his efforts), publisher Stanley Unwin, he had no idea that the manuscript would go on to be a remarkable success. Neither did its author, J.R.R.Tolkien, Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, when, inexplicably, he jotted the famous opening sentence – ‘In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit’ – on a blank sheet while examining papers! Yet, within a year of its publication, The Hobbit had won the New York Herald Tribune prize for children’s literature and was set to become a classic.|
First published on 21st September 1937, The Hobbit is now recognized as an international bestseller: it has been translated in over 40 languages and has sold over 90 million copies worldwide. When it appeared in 1937, Tolkien's friend C.S. Lewis unashamedly published rave reviews in the Times and Times Literary Supplement. The book was immediately successful, in a modest way; the first impression of The Hobbit was completely sold out by December 15, and the first published review in the Times Literary Supplement put it in a class with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Wind in the Willows, but not all critics were as kind. Nevertheless, demands from readers for a sequel would lead Tolkien to begin work on the "new Hobbit", a work which would finally appear almost twenty years later as The Lord of the Rings.
The First Impression of the first UK edition was published September 21, 1937 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd. It was limited to only 1500 copies. The first UK editions prominently included the dust jacket designed by Tolkien. It was done in a wrap-a-round style in black, green and blue. It is certainly one of Tolkien's best illustrations and demonstrates his innate sense of visual design. It has become one of the most recognized book covers of all time. Originally Tolkien intended the flying dragon and the sun to be painted red, but budget restraints forced the red color to be substituted with black. The now very rare First Issue dust jacket can be recognized by the hand correction in ink, of the 'e' in the misspelled 'Dodgeson', on the rear flap.
|The first printing had NO color illustrations within the book itself, instead 10 black-and-white illustrations along with the two maps printed in red and black.
The book was constructed of green cloth boards and contained 310 pages. It was 19 x 13.5cm (7.48 x 5.31in). These boards were impressed with Tolkien's dragon and a delightful mountain scene along the top.
Here is a list of errors cited by Wayne G. Hammond that the first impression was published with. It is unclear when all of these were corrected:
1. p14, ll. 17-18, 'find morning', for 'fine morning'.
2. p17, ll. 29-30, 'So you have got here at last! what (for That) was what he was going to say'.
3. p25, l. 11, 'more fierce then fire' for 'more fierce than fire'.
4. p62, ll. 2-3, 'uncomfortable palpitating' for 'uncomfortable, palpitating'
5. p62, l. 31, 'their bruises their tempers and their hopes' for 'their bruises, their tempers and their hopes'.
6. p64, l. 21, 'where the thrush knocks' for 'when the thrush knocks'.
7. p85, l. 10, 'far under under the mountains' for 'far under the mountains'.
8. p104, l. 17, 'back tops' for 'black tops'.
9. p147, l. 16, 'nor what you call' for 'not what you call'.
10. p183, l. 26, reversed double quotation marks for the word 'Very'.
11. p205, l. 32, 'dwarves good feeling' for 'dwarves' godd feeling'.
12. p210, l. 29, 'above stream' for 'above the stream'.
13. p215, l. 13, 'door step' for 'doorstep'.
14. p216, l. 4, 'leas' for 'least'
15. p229, ll. 16-17, 'you imagination' for 'your imagination'.
16. p248, l. 32, 'nay breakfast' for 'any breakfast'.
Here is the list of the black-and-white illustrations:
P4: The Hill: Hobbiton Across the Water
P49: The Trolls
P68: The Mountain-path
P117: The Misty Mountains Looking West from the Eyrie Towards Goblin Gate
P126: Beorn's Hall
P146: Mirkwood (halftone plate facing page 146)
P177: The Elvenking's Gate
P196: Lake Town
P209: The Front Gate
P307: The Hall at Bag End
front endsheet: Thror's Map. printed in black and red
back endsheet: Wilderland, printed in black and red
|The Hobbit is the most expensive book ever sold by abebooks. Published in September 1937, this first edition first printing is in its original dust-jacket. Purchased by a buyer in Arizona from a New York bookseller for $65,000.|
Here are some reviews about the book:
The Hobbit is “the outstanding British work of fantasy for children to appear between the two World Wars, and the first of a series of books which eventually brought Tolkien world-wide fame... All historians of children’s literature... agree in placing “The Hobbit” among the very highest achievements of children’s authors during the 20th century”
- Carpenter and Prichard, 254, 530)
“Professor Tolkien’s epic of Middle Earth was begun before the war, in The Hobbit . During and after the war he continued the story... [and] published it as a trilogy “The Lord of the Rings” from 1954 to 1955...
It is considered one of this century’s lasting contributions to that borderland of literature between youth and age. There are few such books— Gulliver’s Travels , The Pilgrim’s Progress , Robinson Crusoe , Don Quixote , Alice in Wonderland , The Wind in the Willows— what else?...
The Hobbit and its sequel, The Lord of the Rings , are destined to become this century’s contribution to that select list of books which continue through the ages to be read by children and adults with almost equal pleasure” (Eyre, 67, 134-5).
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August 19, 2006
Hurricanes Heating Up -- Berardelli 2006 (817): 2 -- ScienceNOW
Last year produced a record 15 Atlantic hurricanes, including four of the most severe Category 5 variety. One of those, of course, was Katrina, the most economically damaging storm in U.S. history. So it's no surprise that climate scientists are scrambling to learn whether these events merely constituted a freak coincidence or evidenced a frightening trend. Some studies have suggested that rising temperatures worldwide are to blame for the increased frequency of hurricanes (ScienceNOW, 27 June). The jury remains out on that issue, but new research suggests the first direct link between global warming and greater hurricane intensity.
James Elsner of Florida State University in Tallahassee studied data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration stretching back over the past half century. In the 23 August Geophysical Research Letters, he reports that whenever average global air temperatures increased during the June-November hurricane season, water temperatures in the tropical Atlantic rose in lockstep. This nearly always produced a season with more powerful tropical storms.
Elsner's findings suggest that air temperatures tend to drive sea temperatures, but not the other way around--which implies a link between greenhouse gases and storm intensity. "The large increases in powerful hurricanes over the past several decades, together with the results presented here, certainly suggest cause for concern," Elsner says. "These results have serious implications for life and property throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, and portions of the United States."
Perhaps, says Gavin Schmidt, a climate specialist with NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City. Elsner's paper does add to evidence that recent increases in sea surface temperature result from the influence of greenhouse gases and other factors and don't simply reflect an upswing in a natural cycle, as some scientists have proposed, Schmidt says. He adds, however, that the findings do not necessarily pinpoint what increases in hurricane activity can be expected in the future, nor do they predict what level of hurricane damage increase we can expect.
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I have long disliked the use of singular they, partly because I associate it with banality (“Each person has their own ideas”), and partly because I find in he or she (and so on) a still appropriate rejoinder to the language of patriarchy that permeated my undergraduate education. My first undergraduate philosophy course: “The Problem of Man.” The professor was a woman. A key text: William Barrett’s Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1958). And then there was William Faulkner: “Man will not merely endure; he will prevail.” Man oh man. I like humankind.
And I like he or she, while acknowledging that my insistence upon using these pronouns often leads me to recast sentences to avoid the clutter of too many he or she, his or her, him or her pairs. But in appropriate circumstances, he or she is far better than singular they. Consider these sentences, from a 2008 post, Reliving our learning:
Does the student bring to the task a history of accomplishment that fosters confidence in the face of difficulties? Or does he or she relive a history of failure and near-failure that fosters a hopeless fatalism?Try it with singular they —
Does the student bring to the task a history of accomplishment that fosters confidence in the face of difficulties? Or do they relive a history of failure and near-failure that fosters a hopeless fatalism?— and the passage’s parallelism looks and sounds dumb. I like he or she.
Still, I found myself yesterday realizing that I can make a little room in my life for singular they, seeing as I had already made such room without realizing it. Earlier this week, I gave a class a few pages from Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time to read. Here’s a passage from a page of questions and context-setting that I wrote to accompany the reading:
This excerpt is from one the novel’s greatest scenes, the Bal des têtes [masked ball]. The narrator, who has been away from society for many years due to long illnesses and hospital stays, is attending a party, sometime after the end of the Great War (which we know now as World War I). Upon entering, he thinks he’s attending a costume party and that everyone has been made up to look old. And then he realizes: no, they are old.The singular they in the final sentence seems entirely appropriate, entirely reasonable. “And he then begins to realize: no, he or she is old” makes, of course, no sense. Thus singular they found a way to make me rethink a pretty firm habit. Pretty wily of them.
In 2003, the Vocabula Review published a long essay by Joan Taber Altieri, “Singular They: The Pronoun That Came in from the Cold.“ If it weren’t behind a firewall, I’d be linking to it now.
Update, April 21, 2010: The essay has been online for years, just not at the Vocabula Review.
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Have you ever thought of running your own business? If you have you probably didn’t think it possible until you finish school or college. Well you don’t need to finish school to start your own business, nor do you need to finish college. You can have a part time business that you can manage in your own free time, and that will give you the greatest experience that you can use along with college education to make real profits in the future.
You want to start your own business and become a young entrepreneur, well there are a few things to know before you get started. First you need an idea for your new business, and you can get an idea from your life, from your friends, previous experiences or some good old fashioned research using Internet or library. When narrowing down your ideas think about the things that may benefit you, like what do you like to do, do you have any technical skills and how much time do you need for a successful business. Once you figure out what you want to do you need to do some research. Find out if there is a need for the service you will provide, what is your competition and is your product better, make sure you think through every aspect of your business.
All that leads to creating a good business plan which every company needs in order to succeed. But the most important part of business plan is financing, and that is not so easy to come by. First thing you need to do is put everything in writing, do a research on how much that business of yours will cost to get you started. Once you get a number you can consider a way of funding your business. You may be able to pull it off from your own money, or maybe loan from your family or friends. And if that is not an option you can always go to the bank and ask for a loan. But when asking for loans there are several things to keep in mind. Think business; get only the amount you need with the fastest repay time, in order to avoid high interest. And of course that leaves you with knowing the law and legal parts of owning a business. That may be the hardest part, as you need to keep your books in order, pay taxes and keep everything under control. But there is also a way to do that easily, everything can be done easily with a good preparation. You just need to inform yourself.
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Macroeconomic Forecast MexicoFebruary 2011 | Macroeconomic Forecasts
BMI View: Official unemployment finished 2010 at 4.94%, according to data from Mexico's statistics agency, the highest end-year rate in 15 years. This will be concerning for the authorities, who would no doubt have hoped that rising economic activity levels throughout 2010 would have bolstered job creation. That said, we do not expect stubbornly high unemployment rate to persist over the next 12 months, as growth picks up in line with a robust US economic performance, and as a result are pencilling in an end-2011 unemployment rate of just 4.00%.
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Happy Floral Design Day: February 28th (pictured: Bromeliad, Orchid)
As if we needed an excuse to talk about flowers! More than sixty years ago, Carl Rittner founded the Rittners School of Floral Design in Boston, MA. February 28th is Carl Rittner’s birthday, and is now the designated day we celebrate the art form of flower arranging.
The ancient Egyptians were probably the first to decorate with flowers, as early as 2500 BC, by placing cut flowers in vases. Formal arrangements were also created for burial processions, and garlands were left in the tombs of loved ones.
The Greeks made laurel wreaths and presented them to the winners of ancient Olympic competitions, and to military commanders after successful victories. Laurel wreaths were also presented to notable poets of ancient academia (the word “laureate” in “poet laureate” refers to the honor of being acknowledged with a laurel wreath). The Europeans didn’t begin the techniques of flower arranging until 1000 AD, after emerging from the Dark Ages.
As the world emerges from a Recession, the importance of flowers is ever more relevant: they are beautiful, affordable, readily available, and make meaningful gifts for dozens of special occasions - not to mention for our own personal pleasure. And it seems it has always been this way.
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Why are women always cold?
I need to know why the women in my office always seem cold while the men are warm. The women are always wearing light sweaters (even in summer) and complaining about the air conditioning. Last summer I called maintenance to have them adjust the temperature, which was 25 degrees Celsius (or 77 degrees Fahrenheit), down to 21 (room temperature), only to be confronted by several cold women. Why are they always so cold? I have tried to tell them that their constant dieting (i.e., skipping lunch and eating too much salad, while sneaking in the occasional cookie or two) not only doesn't help them lose weight but lowers their metabolism and promotes poor blood circulation. In response, they tell me they're cold because of their monthly period. As that can account for only about a week of every month, I think they're wrong. Please try to settle this.
Excuse me, Harold. Did you say you were working in an office or a morgue? Assuming it's the former, I have to tell you that clinicians regard temperature sensitivity in men as a classic diagnostic sign, as follows:
- Prefers, or at least puts up with, 25 degrees Celsius (77 degrees Fahrenheit) = manly man.
- Prefers 21 Celsius (70 Fahrenheit) = pathetic sniveling puss.
That said, women do seem to like a higher ambient temperature than men. Popular belief holds that men have a "higher metabolism," which may be broadly true but in itself explains nothing. The medical literature offers more detail, but even the experts don't agree. Leading theories:
Women have a higher ratio of surface to volume than men and thus shed heat faster. The reasoning here is that heat generation is determined by volume (radius cubed), while heat dissipation is determined by skin surface area (radius squared). The smaller your size, the lower your heat generation/heat dissipation ratio, and the colder you are. Probably part of the answer--see below.
Men have more heat-generating muscle mass. Muscles are well supplied with blood vessels. The more muscle, the more blood flow and the more warmth.
Women have a higher vasoconstriction threshold temperature. Vasoconstriction is the process by which, as the external temperature falls, blood flow to the skin is restricted in order to divert blood to internal organs, thus maintaining core temperature. The theory: as ambient temp falls, women shut off blood flow to the skin sooner in order to provide more warmth to their unborn babies, so they feel colder. Interesting idea but as yet unproven--though women do seem to have lower skin temperature when exposed to cold.
Women get colder during menstruation. Supposedly this is due to anemia, hormonal changes, etc. However, most studies haven't shown much difference between menstruating and nonmenstruating women in terms of heat response. As you say, female aversion to cold doesn't seem to be confined to a particular time of the month.
I've also heard it claimed that men feel warmer because they wear three-piece suits and get offices with south-facing windows, whereas women are apparently shivering in rags in the dark. Setting aside the gross generalizations in this picture, when's the last time you saw anybody except a lawyer wear a three-piece suit?
The most persuasive research (for example, "Comparison of Thermoregulatory Responses Between Men and Women Immersed in Cold Water," Tikuisis et al, Journal of Applied Physiology, October 2000) suggests that varying male/female response to temp is largely a result of size and body-fat percentage, not some fundamental biological difference. Men have a higher metabolism only in the sense that a big car uses more gas than a little one. (To be fair, you can find studies that point to a different conclusion--as I say, the experts disagree.) Anyway, you can either work with large (or no) women, be a pig, or deal with it. Personally I like 25 degrees Celsius just fine. | <urn:uuid:c0479798-4909-4ea6-bd88-fe107227eb3b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2396/why-are-women-always-cold | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960065 | 832 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Empress oil leak prompts all-around criticism
The grounding of the oil tanker Sea Empress off the U.K.'s Pembrokeshire coast has prompted environmentalists to hurl criticism at both national government and local authorities for cavalier attitudes and lack of emergency response planning. Concern that a 147,000-dwt, single-skin vessel, carrying 130,000 tons of light crude oil should have been allowed to enter Milford Haven's ecologically sensitive waters in stormy weather without an escort tug or powerful standby rescue tug present is paramount. The tanker's disastrous clash with rocks — for reasons which will hopefully be explained in the findings of a Marine Accident Investigation Branch Inquiry set up by Transport Secretary, Sir George Young — led to little short of a battle for salvors and, despite efforts, nearly half of the tanker's load leaked into the sea.
Sea Empress now takes her place amidst the worst international oil disasters, joining the ranks of Valdez, Torrey Canyon, Cadiz and Braer. Damage to the environment is feared to be extensive, and a massive operation to save oiled seabirds and other wildlife is well under way in Britain's only coastal national park where some of the finest marine wildlife in Europe lives.
The horror of the pollution, coupled with the devastation of the local fishing industry and fears that tourism prospects will prove bleak for years, has unleashed suggestions that the salvage operation conducted by Smit Tak of Holland and U.K. companies Cory Towage and Klyne Tugs was inept. But the salvors, confidently shrugging off criticism when scrutinized by the Inquiry, maintain that everything possible was done as expeditiously as possible, and that sufficient horsepower was applied to the task. Long hours in the bitter cold characterized the four-day struggle to rescue Sea Empress after she hit a sandbank and rocks in the waters around St. Anne's Head, while en route to the Texaco oil refinery on February 15. Within two hours she was refloated, but 2,000 tons of oil had gushed into the sea. Force 8 gales the next day caused salvage operations to be postponed, but on February 17 she was turned by tugs to face 10 ft. (3 m) waves and 35 knot winds. A sudden 60-mph gust caused the lines to snap and the tanker to run aground once again, leaking more oil. Worsening weather made further salvage attempts impossible, even when Chinese tug De Yue (the seventh most powerful in the world) braced herself for action on February 18. With broken shackles she retired from the scene and Sea Empress was adrift, running aground once more just 300 yards from the headland.
The final and successful attempt involved a fleet of 12 tugs including the last-minute addition of 211.7-ft. (64.5-m), 130-ton bollard pull Arild Viking. Seven Cory tugs and the chartered Tito Neri added an additional 424 tons, Smit supplied Vikingbank with 61.5 tons, and Klyne's vessels Anglian Earl and Anglian Duke contributed another 184 tons for a total combined pull in excess of 750 tons.
Tanker owners Acomarit have expressed satisfaction that sufficient horsepower was garnered for the rescue attempt.
The Inquiry is certain to lead to resumed discussions on the double hull/single skin debate for tankers in ecologically sensitive waters. Another tanker grounded three and a half months ago in Milford Haven but good weather and a double hull enabled t straight forward rescue effort and easy disaster aversion.
Pilots will also be under investigation, and particular emphasis may be placed upon recent cutbacks which have allowed pilots to join tankers when they are further along their course. The pilot responsible for guiding Sea Empress has denied being intoxicated at the time of the grounding, and has not been available for comment, other than to maintain that he believes the tanker had a propulsion/steering problem. Acomarit, however, is adamant that Sea was in sound condition, and predicts that blame will be found to lie with the pilot and the captain of the Russian crewed tanker. | <urn:uuid:35b3d1e4-4755-459a-a36f-a27ea1b7543d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.marinelink.com/article/winch/empress-prompts-allaround-criticism-491 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953959 | 849 | 2.34375 | 2 |
GOP split as marriage equality goes mainstream
Facing a tidal shift among voters embracing same-sex marriage, gay Republicans are offering their party a graceful retreat. But religious conservatives warn that retreat will doom the GOP. November's election brought historic gains for the gay rights movement, with the first voter approval of marriage for gay and lesbian couples in Maine, Maryland and Washington, and voter rejection of a ban on such marriages in Minnesota. Defying predictions, President Obama suffered no backlash among African American and Latino voters. Republican nominee Mitt Romney, who endorsed a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, drew less support than the marriage ballot measure in GOP-dominated counties in Maryland, indicating a large crossover Republican vote for marriage, according to an analysis by Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. "Republicans have to be delusional to think they can take that position into a national campaign, that there ought to be a constitutional amendment against something that there is now majority support for," Olson said. | <urn:uuid:8f40a416-ffe9-4c12-a5f8-6a303f506a8d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.glaad.org/news/gop-split-marriage-equality-goes-mainstream | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949192 | 203 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Neville Stevens Medal winner
Mr Scott Hocknull
Neville Stevens Medal
Scott Hocknullís citation read by Neville Stevens
Scott's passion for Earth Science started in high school,
where he organised field trips for fellow students and became a volunteer for
Queensland Museum. In 1993 Scott presented a
paper at a CAVEPS conference entitled "Life as a Secondary School
Student in Palaeontology". Then at the age of 16, he published his first
paper on a new species of fossil freshwater bivalve.† After secondary school Scott decided to
defer University and volunteer for an entire year at the Queensland Museum,
including field trip participation and continued palaeontological research.
After secondary school, Scott was employed as an Interpretation Officer at
Queensland Museum.† For a year, he organised talks and workshops
for the general public and schools, before starting a Bachelor degree at the
University of Queensland (UQ). During his university studies Scott continued
to give presentations at CAVEPS and won the student prize in 1997 for the
best student talk. As a second year and only undergraduate presenter, this
came as a very pleasant surprise.††
Scott was also involved in the UQ Biological Society, as Secretary,
then President, coordinating talks and workshops in natural history.
Scott Hocknull receiving his medal
from Neville Stephens
In 2001 Scott became the youngest curator in Australia at the Queensland Museum
and in 2002 Scott was awarded Young Australian of the year. During this time
he presented on average 3 talks per week. His role included being Youth Week
Ambassador and talking to disadvantaged children about careers, science and
palaeontology. Scott also presented many and varied talks to many and varied
groups, including; the Australian institute of management, at the conference
for injury awareness week, Ballarat Science Expo as part of Sleek Geek week
and for Geosciences Australia.
A highlight for Scott was his chance to talk about Earth Sciences and
Australian Palaeontology with Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Phillip,
during there visit in 2002.
Scott presented a number of Palaeontology classes
throughout the Northern Territory
on his Tour of Duty.† These included
talks to aboriginal communities in Pine Creek, Katherine, Alice Springs, Darwin and Gove.† Scott has appeared on a number of
television shows talking and promoting palaeontology; including National
Geographic Channel, Local News Channels, The Panel, The Glass House, Totally
Wild, Hot Source and Bop.
After passing on the Young Australian title, Scott continued
to spread his passion for earth science through presentations at conferences,
schools, for societies and volunteer groups. In 2003 Scott was a finalist in
the Eureka Awards for science communication and a Centenary Medalist.
Currently Scott is a member of the Spotlight on Science
Taskforce, overseeing the future of science education in Queensland. He is also involved with the
development of Palaeotourism, through the organisation of several field digs
and helps develop teaching programs for education officers at Queensland Museum.† At the same time, Scott is completing his
PhD on the Mt Etna fossil Fauna, climate change over the past 5 million
Response of thanks by Scott
I do not remember if you might remember, Neville, but
about in 1993 you might have received a letter from a very strange little boy
who had a passion for palaeontology and dinosaurs. He lived just south of Brisbane. Your advice to
him was to join the GSA and in fact if I hadnít joined the GSA I would not have
received the Alcheringa and the other journals that came out. If I would not
have received all those I would not have known about all the things that are
happening in Geology in this country and the state.
Thank you very much for doing that to me as a kid,
although I got teased for it.† It was
one of the best things I did.
Thank you very much GSA for honouring me with this medal.
Palaeontology and communication sciences is a big thing and for those students
(that are) who are really interested in earth sciences always think that
science communicating is part of your everyday life, because in the end it
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Common names: Brown Lacewing, Green Lacewing, Lacewing, Aphid Lion
Scientific name: Order Neuroptera. Green Lacewing--family Chrysopidae; Brown Lacewing--family Hemerobiidae, many species
Size: Adult--1/2" to 3/4"
Identification: Adults are light green or brown; they have lustrous eyes, long antennae, and heavily veined wings. Larvae look like tiny alligators with sickle-shaped jaws. Adults hold wings in tent-like fashion while at rest. Some species have prominent golden eyes. Brown lacewings are smaller and their eggs are not stalked.
Biology and life cycle: Complete metamorphosis--eggs, larvae, pupae, and adults. Adults normally feed on nectar and honeydew or possibly take no food. Larvae are ferocious predators of many insect pests. Adults are active fliers at night. Females lay several hundred eggs in spring and summer. Eggs of the green lacewing are connected to the end of long silk stalks, singly or in clusters, on limbs, twigs, leaves, or even inorganic objects. Brown lacewing eggs are not on the silken stalks. Larvae are pinkish brown and very mobile, progressing through three instars in two to three weeks. They pupate in silken cocoons attached to underside of leaves and emerge in about five days by cutting a hole in the cocoon. Overwinter as adults or cocoons. Three or more generations a year.
Habitat: All gardens and naturally maintained areas. Vegetable and ornamental crops are host plants.
Feeding habits: Larvae or "aphid lions" feed on aphids, thrips, mites, mealybugs, scale, whiteflies, eggs of leafhoppers, moths, cabbage loopers, corn earworms, Colorado potato beetles, asparagus beetles, leaf miners, and several other small caterpillars and beetle larvae. Developing larvae eat from 100 to 600 aphids a day.
Economic importance: Control of many troublesome insects. One of our most important beneficial insects.
Natural control: None needed.
Organic control: None needed; should always be encouraged.
Insight: Green lacewings are one of the most effective beneficial insects. They are fragile-looking insects that fly around, look pretty, and mate. Nice life! The lacewing's larvae are the hard workers. They are voracious eaters of aphids, red spider mites, thrips, mealybugs, cottony-cushion scale, and many species of worms. The larvae are called aphid lions or ant lions. Larva and eggs can be purchased commercially. Use at least 500 to 1,000 eggs per release in the average garden.
To store lacewings prior to release, refrigerate the eggs or larvae for a few days at 38Ð45 degrees Fahrenheit, which will delay development but not hurt the eggs. Do not freeze.
Green lacewing adults, eggs, and larvae can be hand-sprinkled wherever harmful insects exist or are suspected. Larvae and eggs are the most practical to use. Even put in the wrong place, they will travel 100 feet if necessary for their first meal. A pill bottle with a quarter-inch hole in the cap is a good device for distributing the eggs. A salt shaker will work if the size of the holes is slightly increased. Lacewing eggs are very small. A thimble will hold about 10,000 eggs. Watch out for fire ants; they will eat the eggs like jelly beans. Biweekly releases of 2,000 to 4,000 eggs per residential lot or per acre is ideal.
Brown lacewing adults look and behave very much like green lacewing adults, but they are tan in color and are not encountered very often.
Pictured below is a so-called "trash bug." Trashbugs are immature brown lacewings. Like green lacewing larvae, brown lacewing larvae are predators, but some species cover themselves with debris and with the skins of their prey as a way to protect themselves from larger predators.
This brown lacewing larvae has used dead ants for its covering. | <urn:uuid:0faa218f-6418-4293-84a3-c6f69fa46d35> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dirtdoctor.com/Lacewing-Green_vq803.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93251 | 888 | 3.546875 | 4 |
Q: I have about 3200 square feet of grass, and I have made a terrible mistake. I have put down 4 bags of nitrogen (34-0-0) . I must have misunderstood the guy because he said nitrogen would not burn as long as I kept it watered.
Now it looks like my grass is in winter hibernation. It has been a couple of weeks and it is coming back around the edges, but the center looks dead as it can be, no signs of life. Is there any hope?
A: Theresa Schrum replies: “Yep, that was a big mistake. However, you didn’t tell us what type of grass you have.
Bermuda might be able to survive such a poisoning. Fescue, Zoysia, St. Augustine and Centipede ….. probably not.
A good rule for applying nitrogen to bermuda is to take the first number (the nitrogen percentage) and divide that into 100. In this case the answer would be close to 3. That is how many pounds of fertilizer should be applied per 1000 square feet of lawn.
If you are receiving ample rain, the excess fertilizer will wash out and hopefully NOT into a nearby creek or waterway. Another reason to not over fertilize. You will simply have to wait to see if it survives. You might want to mow or rake out the dead blades.” | <urn:uuid:629ccc79-7052-4822-b3e8-06832eb1d07f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.walterreeves.com/gardening-q-and-a/nitrogen-applying-too-much/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00064-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966088 | 289 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Streetpong: Redesigning the Walk Signal
Crossing the street might be getting a little more interesting. Two German interaction design students have created a prototype for STREETPONG, an urban game that you can play while you’re waiting for the light to change.
When the walk signal turns red, the game comes on, mounted on a street pole in place of the usual walk button. Pedestrians on each side of the street can play a version of Pong with each other. When the signal turns green, the game is over. As one of the designers points out in their short (and rough) demo video, it’s a fun way to interact with a complete stranger. It’s also a way to help keep people from crossing dangerous intersections.
In my neighborhood in Brooklyn, streets are narrow and there isn’t much traffic. Pedestrians never wait for street lights, and apart from the occasional taxi driving 20 mph over the speed limit, it’s fairly safe. But in many less walkable places, encouraging people to respect walk signals makes a lot of sense. Why not make it fun to wait, rather than handing out tickets to jaywalkers? | <urn:uuid:45c1aa32-de26-4a71-b0ac-b427677306be> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.good.is/posts/streetpong-redesigning-the-walk-signal | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925104 | 250 | 2.203125 | 2 |
When everything is working right, an e-mail message appears to zip instantaneously from the sender to the recipient's inbox. But in reality, most messages make several momentary stops as they are processed by various computers en route to their destination.
Those short stops may make no difference to the users, but they make an enormous difference to the privacy that e-mail is accorded under federal law.
Last week a federal appeals court in Boston ruled that federal wiretap laws do not apply to e-mail messages if they are stored, even for a millisecond, on the computers of the Internet providers that process them -- meaning that it can be legal for the government or others to read such messages without a court order.
The ruling was a surprise to many people, because in 1986 Congress specifically amended the wiretap laws to incorporate new technologies like e-mail. Some argue that the ruling's implications could affect emerging applications like Internet-based phone calls and Gmail, Google's new e-mail service, which shows advertising based on the content of a subscriber's e-mail messages.
''The court has eviscerated the protections that Congress established back in the 1980's,'' said Marc Rotenberg, the executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a civil liberties group.
But other experts argue that the Boston case will have little practical effect. The outcry, said Stuart Baker, a privacy lawyer with Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, is ''much ado about nothing.''
Mr. Baker pointed out that even under the broadest interpretation of the law, Congress made it easier for prosecutors and lawyers in civil cases to read other people's e-mail messages than to listen to their phone calls. The wiretap law -- which requires prosecutors to prove their need for a wiretap and forbids civil litigants from ever using them -- applies to e-mail messages only when they are in transit.
But in a 1986 law, Congress created a second category, called stored communication, for messages that had been delivered to recipients' inboxes but not yet read. That law, the Stored Communications Act, grants significant protection to e-mail messages, but does not go as far as the wiretap law: it lets prosecutors have access to stored messages with a search warrant, while imposing stricter requirements on parties in civil suits.
Interestingly, messages that have been read but remain on the Internet provider's computer system have very little protection. Prosecutors can typically gain access to an opened e-mail message with a simple subpoena rather than a search warrant. Similarly, lawyers in civil cases, including divorces, can subpoena opened e-mail messages.
The case in Boston involved an online bookseller, now called Alibris. In 1998, the company offered e-mail accounts to book dealers and, hoping to gain market advantage, secretly copied messages they received from Amazon.com. In 1999, Alibris and one employee pleaded guilty to criminal wiretapping charges.
But a supervisor, Bradford C. Councilman, fought the charges, saying he did not know about the scheme. He also moved to have the case dismissed on the ground that the wiretapping law did not apply. He argued that because the messages had been on the hard drive of Alibris's computer while they were being processed for delivery, they counted as stored communication. The wiretap law bans a company from monitoring the communications of its customers, except in a few cases. But it does not ban a company from reading customers' stored communications.
''Congress recognized that any time you store communication, there is an inherent loss of privacy,'' said Mr. Councilman's lawyer, Andrew Good of Good & Cormier in Boston. | <urn:uuid:ac9b9ba1-0e1a-435b-a605-f092424694c2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/06/technology/06net.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950702 | 747 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Computer game helps eye specialists treat disease in children
(PhysOrg.com) -- An eye consultant has drawn on his teenage passion for computer programming to create a special test to check the vision of children as young as four, in a way that can flag up problems caused by glaucoma, drug side-effects, brain tumours and other conditions.
Mr Tariq Aslam, a consultant at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and senior lecturer at The University of Manchester, found that it was very difficult getting children to sit still and concentrate while machines designed for adults measured what they could see at the edge of their vision. Crucial information could not be obtained because the children often moved their eyes wrongly or did not respond correctly. This was having an impact on the child's diagnosis and treatment options.
He realised that the ideal way to overcome a short attention span and lack of cooperation was to get children involved in playing a computer game, which would automatically measure their peripheral vision depending on exactly how they played.
Mr Aslam drew on his teenage passion for programming and electronics to write the software himself to achieve this, after researching game theory and psychology as well as taking the advice of children who tried each version. He also designed and built an electronically controlled apparatus which encourages the children to position themselves correctly as part of the whole game experience. The Crazy Castle apparatus that resulted was assessed with the help of colleagues Waheeda Rahman and Peng Tee Khaw at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, plus University of Manchester colleague David Henson.
The game console has now been piloted with young patients at Moorfields and proved very popular with the patients and their siblings, as well as achieving measurements that seem accurate.
"We built a large toy castle roughly a metre high, explained Mr Aslam. "A pair of magic glasses is set into the front wall, and when the child looks right through them we know they are in the right position and so a drawbridge in the castle wall electronically opens to allow the child to see and play a game on a screen within. The aim of the game is to track a wizard inside the castle, and press a button to help him squash rogue tomatoes. While concentrating on the wizard in the centre of the screen, they then press a different button if they spot a ghost appearing at the corners. Their reactions are recorded automatically by the software using a laptop attached to the game screen.
"Parents do sometimes worry about their children spending too much time looking at computer screens, but in this case it could potentially help to save a child's sight or give valuable information to help treat their medical condition.
Seventeen children aged four to 14 have tried the test, and given Mr Aslam's team plenty of feedback to help improve the game. Parents have also been very supportive, particularly when the test confirms the extent of their child's visual impairment, so they can help the child manage daily life to avoid accidents and falls.
Mr Aslam added: "The game system has shown great promise in this feasibility study to provide clinically useful information in a way that is accessible and enjoyable for the child with no discomfort or potential for harm. Based on this pilot, we aim to develop the software program and the hardware and to prove it has a greater diagnostic precision and sensitivity to identify visual field loss than existing tests. Our test would be quicker and more reliable and therefore require fewer hospital resources, as well as being more fun for the children.
Crazy Castle does not require expensive equipment, so it could be adopted by most hospitals in the UK, and it is affordable for use in developing countries too. The game-based approach could also be adapted to carry out other eye tests such as checking contrast sensitivity and the sharpness of a child's vision."
The pilot study was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre for Ophthalmology based at Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, and the Special Trustees of Moorfields Eye Hospital, and supported by the NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre. The findings have just been published by the British Journal of Ophthalmology, bjo.bmj.com/
Professor Peng Tee Khaw and Professor Graeme Black, the directors of the two biomedical research centres involved, welcomed the results of the research project. This is a good example of an innovation that will directly benefit patients, which arose as a result of collaboration between two NIHR biomedical research centres, they said.
Provided by University of Manchester
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In El Dorado, Kansas, at the turn of the last century, a love triangle assumed its ancient form, but this one had a wickedly sharp edge to it and would give the people of Kansas fresh sensations for many years and one of the most remarkable criminal cases in its history.
The apex of this triangle was Olin Castle, son of an undertaker, a handsome man of 24 who worked as a variety store clerk. Alongside him worked a clerk by the name of Jessie Morrison, the daughter of a former probate judge, who at 27 was staring down the barrel of spinsterhood. Jessie was desperately in love with Mr. Castle, and he reciprocated her affections. But his head was turned by a neighbor, Claire Wiley, who was younger and prettier.
Castle decided on the younger lady, and they were wed on June 13, 1900, defying superstition as to the date.
Jessie did not take the news well. Eight days after the Wiley-Castle nuptials, Jessie Morrison paid a call on her former rival in the bride’s new home.
Then the neighbors heard the new Mrs. Castle screaming.
When the women who lived nearby rushed into the Castle home, they found Claire Castle lying on the dining room floor, bleeding heavily from her throat. Jessie Morrison was standing over her with a straight razor in her hand. They pulled Jessie away and took her to the authorities, who spirited her to jail.
Claire Castle was terribly wounded, suffering from numerous severe cuts. She gave a written statement explaining that Jessie Morrison had called on her uninvited, started an argument, and attacked her. Mrs. Castle died eighteen days later (probably of a massive infection), but not before expressing her forgiveness for what Jessie had done.
Jessie Morrison was put on trial for murder in the Butler County Courthouse in November, 1900. The evidence against her was damning. The key witness for the prosecution was Mrs. Spangler, the first neighbor to enter the Castle home. She told the jurymen that she saw Claire Castle lying on the floor, her torn dress saturated with blood; Claire was screaming, “Get off me, Jessie Morrison! You are killing me!” Mrs. Spangler grabbed Jessie. “I said: ‘Woman, what have you done?’” Mrs. Spangler testified. “She said she had killed Mrs. Castle and would kill me. ‘I cut her all to pieces with a razor,’ she said.” Seven other neighbors who witnessed the immediate aftermath of the attack corroborated Mrs. Spangler’s testimony.
Things looked dark indeed for Jessie Morrison, and the newspapers reported that she looked dejected as the trial began. The penalty for murder was death by hanging. When her victim’s dying declaration was read into evidence, Jessie’s chest heaved and she gulped continually.
But then it was the defense’s turn. The lead defense attorney suggested that the whole affair was Mr. Castle’s fault, that he stimulated jealousy between the two women, and “Mrs. Castle is better off in her grave than living with such a man as he had shown himself to be.” The defense claimed that Jessie Morrison was acting in self-defense.
Miss Morrison testified at the trial and was quiet and self-possessed. She claimed that on the day of the tragedy, she so happened to be passing the Castle home when Claire called her into the house, accused her of trying to end the new marriage, and when Jessie denied it, called her a liar. Per Jessie’s testimony, Claire Castle began the fight, grabbing her husband’s razor, and compelled Jessie to attack her to save herself.
The prosecution matched this testimony with evidence from numerous witnesses that the razor in question actually came from a display in the store where Jessie Morrison and Mr. Castle worked.
And thus the case was presented to the jury, but the men who heard this evidence were unable to reach the same conclusion, and the case ended in a mistrial. Jessie Morrison had to be tried a second time in the spring of 1901. On the next go-round, the jury again had a great deal of difficulty and wrangled for nearly 30 hours. All but one juror saw through her wretched excuses and fought to convict her of murder in the first degree. The lone holdout for an acquittal finally agreed to a compromise, and the jury announced its decision: a conviction for second-degree manslaughter. The penalty was three to five years in prison.
Miss Morrison should have accepted this stroke of luck and served her brief stretch. But her attorneys appealed to the Kansas Supreme Court, which granted her a new trial. The third time Jessie tried her luck in 1903, the jury convicted her of second-degree murder, and she was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
As Jessie began serving her sentence, an hysterical agitation gripped Kansas, and public sympathy for the prisoner reached the highest political levels. The Kansas Supreme Court, citing bias in the trial judge, ordered a fourth trial. But before yet another proceeding could be held, Governor Stubbs ordered her parole in 1910 (on condition that she go to church). The governor declared that Jessie Morrison’s first trial “more nearly gave justice than the two following.” But the forgiving voters of Kansas were not thoroughly satisfied with her release, and following the public opinion, the succeeding Governor Hodges gave Jessie Morrison a full and unconditional pardon in 1913.
After her parole and pardon, Jessie Morrison moved to West Virginia and took up a quiet life. Olin Castle married again – the second time to a woman reporter who fell in love with him while covering the Morrison trials for the El Dorado Republican.
And the rest of us are left with a mystery to ponder. In the face of devastating evidence that Jessie Morrison was a cold-blooded murderess, a jealous monster who cut down her rival for spite, how did she manage to secure such outcomes? Her gender had everything to do with it. The death penalty also may well have been a key factor; she certainly wasn’t the first woman (nor would she be the last) to escape a first-degree murder conviction in a death penalty state in the face of overwhelming evidence. One is forced to conclude that some of the jurors, the Supreme Court, two governors, and a majority of the people of Kansas were more horrified by the prospect of seeing the body of a woman swinging from a stout rope than by the body of a young bride lying on the floor in a pool of her own blood.
1900 Census, El Dorado, Kansas; 1910 Census, Kansas State Penitentiary
"Jessie Morrison's Story," Sandusky Daily Star, Dec. 8, 1900.
"Favors the Defendant. Judge's Instructions in the Morrison Case," Anaconda Standard, Dec. 9, 1900.
"State's Case is Finished," Anaconda Standard, June 20, 1901.
"Verdict Reached. Sensation [sic] Murder Trial Ends in Finding Miss Morrison Guilty," Davenport Daily Leader, June 28, 1901.
"Jessie Found Guilty. Jury Agreed on Manslaughter in the Second Degree. Received the Verdict Stoically," Delphos (Ohio) Daily Herald, June 28, 1901.
"Jessie Morrison Guilty of Manslaughter," Humeston (Iowa) New Era, July 3, 1901.
"Jessie Morrison Released," Lima Times Democrat, Oct. 9, 1902.
"Jessie Morrison Gets Full Pardon; Governor of Kansas Frees Convicted Slayer of Rival," Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press, Feb. 26, 1913.
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Does parental employment affect the health of children? It is a main plank of UK policies to reduce child poverty and its associated health inequalities. However, there has been little research on how the different patterns of employment and work that characterise modern families (in their many forms) are associated with children’s health and health inequalities.
The aims of our current research, funded by the Public Health Research Consortium, are to examine how current and recent UK policies relating to employment impact on children’s health, assess the relationship of parental employment with child health up to the age of 7 years and to explore the mechanisms through which relationships between parental employment and child health arise.
Through secondary data analysis of the Millennium Cohort Study, a review of relevant qualitative literature and by primary qualitative research, we will draw out how policy and practice might use this information to promote child health.
Findings from this research will add to our previous studies in this area which have examined maternal employment and indicators of child health and the relationship between maternal employment and health behaviours in 5 year olds.
Principal investigator: Catherine Law
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- Examining the relationship between maternal employment and health behaviours in 5-year-old British children. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2009
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Shippensburg University has instituted a print quota policy that affects all printing in labs and computer classrooms that contain a print release station. This page provides information about the quota and how it works.
Per Semester Print Quota:
400 pages + 100 pages grace limit
(or $20.00 credit)
Per Page Deduction (Black & White Printers):
1 page or $0.04
Per Page Deduction (Color Printers):
10 pages or $0.40
Check your print quota balance by swiping your
Shippensburg University ID card at any print release station.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the print quota and how does it work?
All Shippensburg University students receive a print quota of 400 pages plus a 100 page grace limit (or a total of $20.00 credit) per semester. University faculty/staff receive 1,000 pages (or $40.00 credit) per semester. Since this quota is treated as a dollar amount by the printing system, each page printed on a black and white printer deducts a total of $0.04 from your balance. For labs with color printers, each page printed deducts $0.40 (10 pages) from your balance.
The number of pages in your print job is not reduced from your balance until you release the print job by swiping your Ship ID card at the print release station. Simply sending a document or web page to the queue by selecting the print option will NOT deduct any pages from your balance.
When your total balance reaches $0.00, you will not be able to release print jobs from any print release stations. Instead, you must first add more pages to your quota by visiting the Student Accounts Office in OM 100 or call (717) 477-1211.
Why was a print quota instituted?
There are numerous environmental issues caused by excessive printing related to deforestation for the paper needs and filling of landfills for used toner cartridges and old, worn-out printers. Shippensburg University instituted a print quota in order to help reduce the impact to our environment and to make effective use of our resources, thereby containing the costs of making printing available to our students. There are over 2.5 million pages printed to computer lab printers each year, and over 11 million pages printed to all campus network printers in the same time frame. Instituting a print quota will help to keep the costs of paper, toner, and printer maintenance under control, and will also greatly assist in conserving resources. It can also help deter those who abuse lab printing privileges by printing excessive quantities of documents.
How do I check my print quota balance?
You may check your print quota balance at anytime by swiping your Shippensburg University ID card at any print release station. Print release stations can be found in each of our public labs, including MCT 054, MCT 158, Grove Hall 108, Shippen Hall 240, and the Library. Stations are also installed in many departmental labs.
How do I increase my print quota?
You may increase your print quota by adding more pages to your account. Additional printing may be purchased with a $5.00 minimum. The cost per page is 4 cents on black and white printers and 40 cents on color printers. Additional payments are non-refundable. Additional printing purchased carries over from the fall to the spring semester if you are enrolled. To purchase additional printing, please go to the Student Accounts Office in OM 100 or call (717) 477-1211. Student Accounts office hours are Mon-Fri 8:00am-4:30pm. Payment can be made with cash, check, or money order.
What pages are counted towards the print quota?
Any pages printed to a lab or classroom printer with a print release station are counted towards your print quota. Many of these lab printers have an option to duplex (double-side) your print jobs. If you select this option, only one page will be charged to your account per two pages printed. For information on how to duplex your print jobs, please see our Printing Information page or ask a lab attendant for assistance.
How many students will be affected by the print quota?
The print quota was designed to conserve resources and save computer lab operating costs. Based on recent studies at Shippensburg University, only a very small percentage of students actually exceed the print quota in a given semester. The print quota also helps to limit the printing of students who may have previously abused their lab printing privileges by printing an excessive amount of pages.
How are faculty/staff being asked to help?
Faculty and staff are also being asked to assist in the effort to decrease operating costs and conserve resources. Many professors have previously posted articles online, requesting that students print these materials in a campus computer lab. Instead, faculty and staff are being asked to encourage students to submit papers and class work electronically, read materials online and bring laptops to class. Files can be posted for reading on websites and in Desire2Learn (D2L). Students can save files to their personal file space by saving to the My Documents folder on any lab computer or by accessing http://stufiles.ship.edu from Residence Halls and off-campus. When printed versions are required, faculty are asked to utilize the Print Shop on campus to photocopy materials in advance. The Print Shop's equipment is designed to handle large quantities of materials better and more efficiently than lab printers. Paper copies of these materials can also be made at a much lower cost through the Print Shop.
What steps can I take to reduce the amount of pages I need to print?
Think about the document you need to print. Can class work or papers be submitted to your professor electronically through email or Blackboard? If it is research or reading material, can it be read online? Remember you can save files to your personal file space by saving to the My Documents folder on any lab computer or by access http://stufiles.ship.edu from Residence Halls and off-campus. Our Printing Information page contains tips and resources on saving paper and limiting lab printing. In addition to this, the most important tip is to be careful and patient while you print. The number of pages in your print job is not reduced from your balance until you release the print job by swiping your ID card at the print release station. Simply sending a document or web page to the queue by selecting the print option will NOT deduct any pages from your balance. However, be careful when releasing your print jobs. Make sure you sent the correct document to the printer, and that you are aware of its length and your available balance. If you need assistance with any of these measures, ask your lab attendant.
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Climate change could make curry spices a home-grown speciality
Following stints with Reuters and the Press Association, Martin Hickman joined The Independent as a news editor in 2001. He became the Consumer Affairs Correspondent in September 2005 and has run the paper's trenchant campaigns on packaging, bank charges and factory-farmed chicken. He writes on subjects as diverse as food, finance, energy and fashion. With Tom Watson, he is author of a new book on the phone hacking scandal, Dial M for Murdoch - News Corporation and the Corruption of Britain.
Tuesday 10 July 2012
Herbs and spices could be grown in Kent or Lincolnshire as part of a government plan to meet Britain's insatiable taste for curries, according to a Whitehall report today.
Climate change and rising populations will put global food supplies under strain by 2050, meaning the UK will have to grow more ingredients for popular dishes such as chicken tikka masala, warned a future-gazing team funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
One of the Green Food Project's five teams looked at how to make Britain's £4bn-a-year love of Indian food healthier and more sustainable. The Curry Sub Group Report recommended reducing meat, replacing rice with an undefined form of "barley or wheat-based products" and growing more spices.
At the moment, it noted, the UK was "completely dependent" on imported rice, while most curry spices – such as chillies, turmeric, paprika, coriander, pepper, fennel and cardamom – were imported from South America, Asia and China, "adding to the environmental burden of the dish and its reliance on imported ingredients".
The 22-page report recommended exploiting hotter weather caused by climate change to grow crops that were previously uneconomic: "There is potential to increase the use of home-grown ingredients (for example, potatoes, wheat, rapeseed oil) emerging from long-term changes in weather patterns potentially enabling production of some traditionally imported ingredients domestically – some vegetables, herbs and spices are currently marginal in the UK."
It added: "It is worth noting that coriander is now produced in significant quantities in the UK."
As part of the project, two development chefs for the French catering giant Sodexo created a greener, healthier chicken dhansak, by reducing salt, substituting coconut milk with fresh tomatoes, introducing chickpea flower into the roti and reducing the amount of rice and meat.
The authors said: "Feedback indicated that the quality and taste of the meal was not diminished as a result of these changes."
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On mental health, Obama will focus on more availability of mental health services, training more school counselors and mental health professionals, and mental health first aid training for first responders, according to the lobbyist, who was not authorized to discuss the plan publicly before the president's announcement and requested anonymity.
The president's framework is based on recommendations from Vice President Joe Biden, who led a wide-ranging task force on gun violence. The vice president's proposals included 19 steps that could be achieved through executive action.
Obama also may order the Justice Department to crack down on people who lie on gun-sale background checks; only a tiny number are now prosecuted. Such a step has support from the NRA, which has consistently argued that existing laws must be enforced before new ones are considered.
And Obama may give schools flexibility to use grant money to improve safety. But he is not expected to call for armed guards in schools, a position promoted by the NRA.
The gun lobby released an online video Tuesday that called Obama an "elitist hypocrite" for having armed Secret Service agents protect his daughters at school while not committing to installing armed guards in all schools.
Gun control proponent Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., who met with Biden on Monday, said the president is also likely to take executive action to ensure better state reporting of mental health and other records that go into the federal background check database. But he, too, acknowledged there were clear limits to what Obama can do without Congress' say-so.
"You can't change the law through executive order," Scott said.
White House officials signaled that Obama would seek to rally public support for the measures he puts forward, perhaps holding events around the country or relying on Organizing for America, his still-operational presidential campaign.
During his announcement Wednesday, Obama will be joined children from across the U.S. who wrote letters to him about gun violence and school safety.
One of those children, a Maryland 8-year-old named Grant, wrote: "It's a free country but I recommend there needs (to) be a limit with guns. Please don't let people own machine guns or other powerful guns like that."
It's unclear how much political capital Obama will exert in pressing for congressional action.
The White House and Congress will soon be consumed by three looming fiscal deadlines. And the president has also pledged to tackle comprehensive immigration reform early this year, another effort that will require Republicans' support and one in which Obama may be more likely to get their backing.
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Sri Lanka: a special brew, part two
Aidan journeys to Sri Lanka and finds the island formerly known as Ceylon, to be a very special brew
Continued from yesterday
Kandy and the Hills
Kandy is directly east of Colombo, lying in the very centre of Sri Lanka. It was the last place to fall to the British, and maintains a separate identity from the rest of Sri Lanka. Radiating out from the central lake, Sri Lanka’s second largest city still feels quite compact when compared to the sprawl of Colombo. The Temple of the Sacred Tooth draws Buddhist pilgrims from all over the world. Believed to be one of Buddha’s actual teeth, the Tooth Relic is now housed in an extraordinary reliquary within a temple by Kandy Lake. Anyone thinking of visiting it should read a history of both the object and the temple in which it is now housed, as what sounds like fairy-tale myth is often proven historical fact. As a result of a Tamil Tiger bomb in 1998, the temple is now protected by heavy security and barricades. But surprisingly perhaps, once inside the secure perimeter, the magic of the temple remains. Daily ceremonies open some of the outer doors to the Sacred Tooth, allowing pilgrims and visitors to get within about three metres of the casket. Although you cannot see the relic itself, the reliquary and the room in which it is housed are spectacular in their own right.
As with all cities, it is worth spending time away from any guides to explore the centre of Kandy on foot, getting a feel of the place rather than being herded from one site to another. Much like the rest of Sri Lanka, the local food is excellent, with Kandy boasting many ‘locals’ eateries which are easily accessible by even the most inexperienced visitors to the Indian sub-continent. If you have no idea what anything on the menu actually is, just ask the waiter what’s good! Trust me: you won’t be disappointed.
Galle and the beaches
Another World Heritage Site, Galle was originally a Dutch colony. The Dutch Church still remains, as do the impressive fort walls facing the sea. Galle was severely damaged by the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, but amazingly the 16th century walls protected the ancient fort. The actual fort area is relatively small, and feels like a cross between Venice and Havana: expect to see quaint buildings interspersed with jewellery boutiques, cafes combined with colonial architecture and some charmingly well-worn houses that give a sense of the unique set of circumstances which conspired to create the area that exists today.
That said, there is now supposed to be a growing community of ex-pats who have purchased and renovated houses in the old fort. It is certainly the main tourist focus in Galle, containing expensive quality hotels such as the Amangalla and the boutique Fort Printers (where we had a very enjoyable stay).
Heading north up the coast from Galle leads you to some of Sri Lanka’s main tourist beach resorts that you’re likely to see in you high street travel agent brochures. Being within a few hours’ drive of Colombo airport, it is easy to see why so many travellers drop in to unwind for a few days at the end of their sightseeing odyssey. One of the only problems is in trying to adjust to a Western mindset once more, after a taste of authentic Sri Lankan culture.
The wildlife is a key attraction for a number of visitors to Sri Lanka. I can readily believe the stories our driver told us of clients who come back year after year – just to visit the various wildlife reserves. As well as having one of the best beaches, Mirissa is also the best base for whale watching in Sri Lanka, and as far as blue whales are concerned, is arguably the top spot on the planet.
Yala is most famous national park, containing one of the highest densities of leopards anywhere in the world. Travelling around the park in your jeep, there is so much to see that it is hard to know which side of the track to concentrate on. As well as leopards, you’ll see elephants, boar, crocodiles, spotted deer and a staggering range of bird life, including eagles, hornbills, parrots, kingfishers, hoopoes, spoonbills and painted storks (those are just the ones I remember seeing). Although I was fortunate to see wild elephants and many species of birds (Indian Rollers are a new favourite) while driving around Sri Lanka, seeing so many different species together in the beautiful setting of Yala was something I would definitely recommend.
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Governments are actively spying on people’s smartphones. Your car’s infotainment system can now be hacked. And cybercriminals are actively stealing credit card numbers from other cybercriminals.
These were among the uplifting subjects presented at this week’s Kaspersky Annual Summit in San Juan, P.R. (Kaspersky Labs, the Russian company that holds the conference, requires that presenters take shots of rum after each talk, perhaps to deal with the stress).
One of the scarier presentations was delivered by Ang Cui, a Columbia Ph.D. student, who demonstrated how to spy on calls made with Cisco’s VoIP phone. Yes, that is the same phone pictured here next to President Obama aboard Air Force One.
In Mr. Cui’s presentation — titled “Just because you are paranoid doesn’t mean your phone isn’t listening to everything you say” — he demonstrated how to exploit a loophole in the phone’s kernel, the core of its operating system that manages communication between a device’s hardware and software. By doing so, Mr. Cui could spy on the phone remotely, turning it into a listening device. Using Google’s voice-to-text translation feature, he demonstrated how he could transcribe any call and even search for keywords, like “nuclear” or “missile strike.”
“There’s no defense against this,” Mr. Cui told the audience. “Every single Cisco phone in the world has this vulnerability.”
Mr. Cui and his adviser, Salvatore J. Stolfo, informed Cisco of the vulnerability last October. Two days later, Cisco confirmed the problem and within a week issued a fix.
But almost immediately, Mr. Cui told Cisco he had found five ways around the patch. Three weeks later, on Nov. 20th, Cisco released a new patch. (Curiously, the patch was not available for download from Cisco’s Web site. To get it, you had to call Cisco customer support and request the patch by name.)
But once again, Mr. Cui found a way around it. Since then, Cisco seems to have given up, leaving 50 million of its phones vulnerable to spying.
Cisco declined to comment. But in a statement last November it said: “We can confirm that workarounds and a software patch are available to address this vulnerability, and note that successful exploitation requires physical access to the device serial port, or the combination of remote authentication privileges and non-default device settings.”
Mr. Cui said he had been working on his own fix — with funds from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA — and plans to introduce it at the RSA security conference in San Francisco later this month.
This post has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: February 6, 2013
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Definition of Vascular Surgery
Vascular surgery became a primary specialty of the American Board of Surgery in July 2006.
Vascular surgery encompasses the diagnosis and management of disorders of the arterial, venous and lymphatic systems, exclusive of the intracranial vessels and the heart. In addition to experience with dissection and control of blood vessels expected of general surgery trainees, diplomates in vascular surgery, by virtue of additional
training, have significant experience with all aspects of treating patients with all types of vascular disease, including diagnosis, medical treatment, and reconstructive vascular surgical and endovascular techniques. Specialists in vascular surgery possess the advanced knowledge and skills to provide comprehensive care to patients with vascular disease, understand the needs of these patients, teach this information to others, provide leadership within their organizations, conduct or participate in research in vascular disorders, and demonstrate self-assessment of
Society for Vascular Surgery
The Society for Vascular Surgery® (SVS) is a not-for-profit professional medical society, composed primarily of vascular surgeons, that seeks to advance excellence and innovation in vascular health through education, advocacy, research, and public awareness. SVS is the national advocate for 4,000 specialty-trained vascular surgeons and other medical professionals who are dedicated to the prevention and cure of vascular disease.
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Lincoln Cushing wrote this cool article on old school (mid-20th century) printing technology: Cranking It Out, Old-School Style: Art of the Gestetner”. Lincoln is a librarian who had a previous career doing printing and graphic design for community groups.
Every society has its pecking order, and printing is no exception. Equipment matters. At the top of the heap are the big presses—the giant Goss web machines that churn out daily newspapers, the high-speed Solna sheetfeds for beautiful color posters, the elegant Heidelberg Windmill letterpresses for art prints. At the bottom are the lowly duplicators—not even called presses—that are the Volkswagen Bugs of the reproduction world. People of a certain age might remember the two offset workhorses of this stratum, the A.B. Dick 360 and the Multilith 1250. But even below these machines, at the very dark recesses of the reproduction food chain, lie the spirit duplicators and mimeographs… [more] | <urn:uuid:51e03c58-a1e4-4a4c-b871-88d6683ada16> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=2549 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918988 | 216 | 2.09375 | 2 |
A partial denture is a removable appliance used to replace missing teeth. Partials help your remaining teeth stay in position, improve your ability to speak, and equally distribute chewing stress throughout the mouth. Its use is generally recommend for a patient who has too many teeth missing to properly support a fixed bridge, but who doesn't yet need full dentures. A partial denture holds artificial teeth in place with a base that saddles the gums, and retainers that clasp onto adjacent teeth. If partials are properly cared for, they can last as long as a fixed bridge. Their low cost also makes them advantageous to patients needing only one or two replacements of missing teeth. Maintaining a close fit is important in order to keep a partial functioning properly, so it should be checked at least once a year by a dentist. For more information about partials, consult a dentist in your area. | <urn:uuid:4af99719-3f33-41da-bf43-f164f21a27f9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kget.com/guides/health/dental/story/Advantages-of-partials/ofpwsPbL1ESY1HzmHDNekA.cspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946901 | 180 | 2.4375 | 2 |
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WEST POINT, Miss. (WCBI)- The Mississippi State 4-H therapeutic riding center is celebrating Halloween by having therapeutic riding lessons for children and adults with disabilities.
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Lasers have excelled as a tool for eye surgery and are used to
treat many diseases that may affect different parts of the eye. The
laser treatment itself usually takes a short time to perform, and
in most cases, the treatment is painless and non-traumatic.
The procedure is very similar to a visit to the eye doctor. You
will be seated at a slit lamp device where you put your chin on a
chin rest and the doctor looks into your eye through what looks
like binoculars. Sometimes special lenses are also used. The only
discomfort during the procedure may be the bright light from the
After the procedure, you may be asked to come to the doctor's
office for a checkup later that same day.
Lasers are safe. They allow many conditions of the eye to be
treated without traditional surgery, which means that you can have
the procedure done in a comfortable, office-like setting. Remember,
your doctor is the best judge of whether laser treatment is
appropriate for you.
Some conditions treatable with lasers are:
Retinal Tears - A sudden onset of flashers or
floaters in one or both eyes. Vision may not be affected.
Diabetic Retinopathy - A condition that can
cause blindness or reduced vision.
Macular Degeneration - A
severe loss of central or reading vision.
Glaucoma - Loss of vision caused by
this disease can be prevented most of the time if detected and
Membranes of the Eye - After cataract surgery
or as a result of disease process, clouding can decrease vision.
Lasers can be used to open a hole in these membranes to allow
clearer vision. Many patients are able to see more clearly within a
few minutes following treatment.
Though they are state-of-the-art tools, not all conditions can
be helped with laser treatments.
Your physician may want you to have a series of photographs,
either prior to or following laser treatment of your retina. This
light sensitive tissue is locate at the back of the eye. A
technician will photograph the retina with a special camera in a
painless and quick procedure. Some patients will require the use of
a dye to help outline the blood vessels in the eye. The dye is
injected into a vein in your arm, and as it flows through the small
blood vessels in the eye, a series of photographs will be
Lourdes Ophthalmology Surgery / Laser Treatment
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How to Get There
Lourdes Ophthalmology Surgery / Laser Treatment Center
is located on the main floor of the hospital inside the
Convenient parking is available in Lot G.
- Use the West Drive to enter the Lourdes Hospital campus
(located at the traffic light at Riverside Drive and Kneeland
- Proceed down the West Drive to the second stop sign. The
Ambulatory Care Center and the new Main Entrance to the Hospital
will be on your left.
- Turn right to park in Lot G.
- Enter through the new Main Entrance.
- Pass the reception desk then turn left to enter the main
- Proceed down the hallway to elevators 1 & 2.
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- As you get off the elevator, there is a hallway to the
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Everybody gets stressed from time to time. Different people feel stress in different ways. Some ways of dealing with stress — like screaming, hitting someone, or punching a wall — don't solve much. But other ways, like talking to someone you trust, can start you on the road to solving your problem or at least feeling better.
Try taking these five steps the next time you are stressed:
Get support. When you need help, reach out to the people who care about you. Talk to a trusted adult, such as a parent, other relative, a school counselor, or a coach. And don't forget about your friends. They might be worried about the same test or have had similar problems, such as dealing with a divorce or the death of a beloved pet.
Don't freak out! It's easy to let your feelings go wild when you're upset. Notice your feelings, and name them — for example, "I am so angry!" And say or think about why you feel that way. Then, find a way to calm down and get past the upset feelings and find a way to express them. Do breathing exercises, listen to music, write in a journal, play with a pet, go for a walk or a bike ride, or do whatever helps you shift to a better mood.
Don't take it out on yourself. Sometimes when kids are stressed and upset they take it out on themselves. Oh, dear, that's not a good idea. Remember that there are always people to help you. Don't take it out on yourself. Be kind to yourself and ask for the helping hand or pat on the back that you need — and deserve — to get you through the tough situation you're facing.
Try to solve the problem. After you're calm and you have support from adults and friends, it's time to get down to business. You need to figure out what the problem is. Even if you can't solve all of it, maybe you can begin by solving a piece of it.
Be positive — most stress is temporary. It may not seem like it when you're in the middle a stressful situation, but stress does go away, often when you figure out the problem and start working on solving it.
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How can we teach middleschool and highschool students to write with clarity and vigor? How can we encourage them to read more accurately and more thoughtfully? If they now read and write at a level some three or four years below their gradelevel? how can we cope with that disparity? What strategies may help us to increase their motivation? Or to lessen their estrangement from the society for which the school aims to prepare them? How can we lead such students to see that linguistic skills may be means of personal growth, keys to mature independence, and foundations for a life in community?
These questions, in one form or another, were central to our seminar sessions, And to these questions each of the following units offers a rather different set of answers. Some emphasize training or imitation; others emphasize group cooperation or creativity. Each arises from a very specific teaching situation, in which the nature of the school, the needs of the students, and the talents of the teacher are conditions as important as any “content” or “skills” to be imparted.
Each unit has therefore been designed first of all as a further step in one teacher’s continuing experiment with education in New Haven. But each has also been designed as a proposal to be shared with other teachers in other situations. That transferability may appear in the form of suggested variations, It may be implicit in the way the writer has already adapted and extended the ideas of others, It is evident in each writer’s emphasis on basic principles or easily detachable exercises, Any teacher perusing this volume will surely find in each unit a number of ideas that will be useful in a quite different situation. And some teachers may find here a substantial basis for the development of curriculum units suitable to their own classrooms,
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Oral herpes is an infection of the lips, mouth, or gums due to the herpes simplex virus. It causes small, painful blisters commonly called cold sores or fever blisters. Oral herpes is also called herpes labialis.
Cold sore; Fever blister; Oral herpes simplex; Herpes labialis; Herpes simplex
Oral herpes is a common infection of the mouth area. It is caused by the herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1). Most people in the United States are infected with this virus by age 20.
After the first infection, the virus goes to sleep (becomes dormant) in the nerve tissues in the face. Sometimes, the virus later "wakes up" (reactivates), causing cold sores.
Herpes virus type 2 (HSV-2) usually causes genital herpes. However, sometimes HSV-2 is spread to the mouth during oral sex, causing oral herpes.
Herpes viruses spread easily. You can catch this virus if you:
Parents may spread the virus to their children during regular daily activities.
Some people get mouth ulcers when they first come into contact with HSV-1 virus. Others have no symptoms. Symptoms usually occur in kids between 1 and 5 years old.
Symptoms may be mild or severe.
They usually appear within 1-3 weeks after you come into contact with the virus. They may last up to 3 weeks.
Warning symptoms include:
Before blisters appear, you may have:
Blisters or a rash may form on your:
Many blisters are called an "outbreak." You may have:
Symptoms may be triggered by:
If the symptoms return later, they are usually more mild.
Your doctor or nurse can diagnose oral herpes by looking at your mouth area. Sometimes, a sample of the sore is taken and sent to a laboratory for closer examination. Tests may include:
Symptoms may go away on their own without treatment in 1 to 2 weeks.
Your health care provider can prescribe medicines to fight the virus. This is called antiviral medicine. It can help reduce pain and make your symptoms go away sooner. Medicines used to treat mouth sores include:
These medicines work best if you take them when you have warning signs of a mouth sore, before any blisters develop. If you get mouth sores frequently, you may need to take these medicines all the time.
Antiviral skin creams may also be used. However, they are expensive and often only shorten the outbreak by a few hours to a day.
The following steps can also help make you feel better:
Oral herpes usually goes away by itself in 1 to 2 weeks. However, it may come back.
Herpes infection may be severe and dangerous if:
Herpes infection of the eye is a leading cause of blindness in the United States. It causes scarring of the cornea.
Other complications of oral herpes may include:
Call for an appointment with your health care provider if you have :
Here are some tips to prevent mouth sores:
Do not have oral sex if you have oral herpes, especially if you have blisters. You can spread the virus to the genitals. Both oral and genital herpes viruses can sometimes be spread even when you do not have mouth sores or blisters.
Habif TP. Warts, herpes simplex, and other viral infections. In: Habif TP, ed. Clinical Dermatology. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2009: chap 12.
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|14 February 2001 ... Romance with Words|
Happy evil v-day everyone! Bah, hum bug!
A prompt from Bonni Goldberg's book, Room to Write.
You probably have a vivid and early memory of encountering words, spoken or written, that profoundly affected you... it was the beginning of your romance with words.heh. In the beginning, a romance it was not. It was the number eight. I had problems with spelling as a child. At school there was a weekly test of 10 or however many words. If you got one wrong, you had to write the correctly spelled word 100 times... during play time. So while all the other kids were playing with blocks and clay and crayons, I was writing each of my spelling words 100 times. I usually missed quite a few words every time and rarely got to play with clay. It probably stunted my creative abilities. :)
Anyway. I was studying for the big test. The word eight got me every time. I just couldn't spell it. I remember that morning, before going to school, mom still going over my spelling words. I think I had most of them, but I was so frustrated with "eight."
Of course, I spell it fine now... But it wasn't so long ago that I was still using tricks like "broken eggs are useless" for "beauty." And I still haven't figured out that "I before E..." business. I noticed a while ago that I spelled "February" wrong in _every_ instance here on my website. Corrected, now, but I still can't believe that no one noticed or no one bothered to tell me. I think I have a handle on "definitely," but still have to look up the word "furniture."
Thank the tech gods for spell-check,
right? I just need to remember to run it every once in a while.
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Canada's shale gas producers are paving the way to successful exploitation of a massive resourceBy Peter McKenzie-Brown
This article appears in the second volume of CSUG's Energy Evolution Guidebook & Directory
The shale gas revolution has turned the natural gas business upside down at a pace no one could ever have imagined. There is now tough competition in North American gas markets and the legendary successes of junior oil companies in the province—a crowning achievement of western Canada’s way of doing business –is in decline. Juniors can’t be really small anymore because they now generally require a lot of start-up capital. Crashing gas prices have put some into receivership, forced many to merge and forced all to change.
Perhaps Winter Petroleum—a small, privately held company—typifies the situation for little gas producers. With operations in the northwest corner of Alberta, the company got its name because its properties can only be drilled during the winter, according to president Duncan McCowan, a geologist.
“Winter drilling requires a lot of equipment and it’s expensive,” he says, “and our production is remote from major markets. Because of cost structure and transportation, we’re finding it tough to compete in U.S. markets.”
His company hasn’t let any employees go, however. “We are still slightly profitable, but we can’t grow. We’ve cut back our capital spending completely and many of our operational items too. (Dry gas) activity in that part of the province is at a standstill.”
McCowan points to a decline in the number of junior companies, partly through bankruptcies like that of Drake Energy, which was a neighbour to his own gas company, Winter Pete.
“Today you need pretty serious money for a start-up. A few million dollars won’t go very far anymore, because the new technologies we’re using involve horizontal wells and multi-stage fraccing. It used to be you could drill a well for a couple hundred thousand dollars. Today it takes millions, and financing groups are putting together a fund of, say, $35 to $70 million and then putting an experienced management team in charge. There are fewer mom and pop petroleum companies around.”
Peter Tertzakian of ARC Financial Corp. says two other important trends favour consolidation and larger companies.
“Bulking up to get costs down helps you deal with lower prices. It gives you economies of scale. A related factor is that a lot of companies are migrating to horizontal drilling and completion strategies, but that’s very expensive.”
On average those wells cost $4.5 million, and there have been many wells that cost $8 million or more. “By drilling fewer wells that are more expensive each, you need more backbone – you need to be a bigger company.”
The companies most at risk are those that are heavily leveraged and biased to natural gas, but many of the smaller ones are successfully implementing what he calls “revitalization strategies: shifting their focus to liquids-rich gas, or even prospecting for oil. A small amount of liquids in the gas stream can make a big difference” since it often has a greater market value than oil.
Compare that situation to the one announced in February, when PetroChina made a huge counter-intuitive deal with EnCana Corp. While other major Asian investments in the Canadian petroleum industry have mostly gone into the oilsands, Petro-China put its money into shale gas. The two companies announced that they had inked a $5.4 billion deal by which they would become equal partners in EnCana’s Cutbank Ridge gas field in British Columbia. This investment, which surpasses Sinopec Corp.’s $4.65 billion acquisition of ConocoPhillips’ stake in Syncrude last year, is Asia’s largest single bet on North America’s energy sector.
According to EnCana spokesman Alan Boras, the focus of this effort is natural gas, not the associated gas liquids.
“We are always looking for ways to maximize the value of our assets, and natural gas liquids extraction is an important part of that process,” he says. “However, that is not our major focus.”
Since the company does not see natural gas prices above $6.63 per thousand cubic feet in the foreseeable future (2021), EnCana clearly is basing its business plan on something other than an upward move in North American gas prices.
One of those ideas is low-cost production. According to Boras, “In the Montney, where we have done the deal with PetroChina, our wellhead cost is about $3.15 (per thousand cubic feet).”
The deal will enable the Chinese to “get an early return on their investment, and then take the technology back to China to use it there. That certainly is part of what they’re thinking. The Chinese have recently talked openly about their need to increase domestic gas use.”
In addition to low-cost production, new pipe in a region already riddled with infrastructure could lower future transportation costs. This is the significance of the National Energy Board’s recent approval of TransCanada Corp.’s plan to build a $310 million pipeline to connect British Columbia’s Horn River shale gas region to its Alberta mainline system.
While the gas industry isn’t exactly in the ascendant, some trends suggest that ascendancy might not be far off. This isn’t readily apparent, since shale gas has backed Canadian producers out of traditional U.S. markets and driven down prices.
Low prices have made much of Canada’s conventional gas uneconomic in distant U.S. markets, and many producers are in trouble. In recent years the only major commodity to decline in price and stay there, natural gas has mostly defied winter demand for heat and summer demand for air conditioning.
The price collapse is forcing the industry to dramatically restructure, clouding the outlook. Such legacy assets as Canada’s Arctic gas fields look increasingly like white elephants: the likelihood of a pipeline from north to south is slipping ever farther into the future.
According to Robin Mann, president of AJM Petroleum Consulting, “Because of the development of shale gas formations like Montney and Horn River and others with great potential right next to infrastructure and pipelines, and with our existing conventional gas and our exports to the United States going down daily, we have more than enough (gas) for our own (use) so why is it important to build these pipelines? Why are we worrying about anything north of Alberta and B.C.?”
Consumers are happy with lower prices. Companies are not, however, and neither is the government of Alberta—now into its fifth consecutive year of deficit budgets.
One Alberta politician with ideas on the issue is Wildrose Alliance leader Danielle Smith, who doesn’t have to worry about balancing this year’s provincial budget. She sees the collapse in gas prices as an opportunity.
“There is so much we can do now to increase demand: fuel switching, the Pickens Plan (to increase gas use in automotive transport) in the United States, increasing use of gas for power generation.”
She even talks about installing modern-day gas-fired Stirling engines in our homes, to generate both heat and power. “If we do these things, consumers win. So does the environment and so do gas producers.”
In a way, those simple ideas describe a path that could bring the industry out of its funk. They are also consistent with much of what the industry is already doing in response to a rapidly changing business environment.
One industry response has been to reduce natural gas drilling--at this writing, at a one-year low. Companies are focusing instead on drilling for oil. According to ARC Financial’s Tertzakian, “this capital migration continues to be a positive leading indicator for natural gas price recovery.”
The industry is also responding to low prices with rapid adaptation of technology. It is cutting costs, seeking profitable niches and developing better markets. In addition, consumers are responding to the attractive price of natural gas, and policymakers are seeing it as a low-carbon alternative to other fuels.
And North America’s dominance in shale gas development makes it for the first time a potential large-scale manufacturer of liquids made from natural gas.
The gas-to-liquids concept is most evident in the billion-dollar deal Talisman Energy struck late last year with Sasol, the South African petrochemicals giant. The deal involved selling a 50 per cent interest in Talisman’s Farrell Creek shale gas properties in British Columbia. Eventually, the partnership could develop a plant using Sasol’s gas-to-liquids technology to turn the gas into a desirable liquid fuel. This is proven technology: Shell, for example, is constructing a $6 billion gas-to-liquids project in Qatar, the tiny Middle Eastern country with 15 per cent of the world’s proved natural gas reserves.
Another way to solve the stranded gas problem is to create liquefaction facilities for natural gas exports. When finished, the $3 billion Kitimat LNG project will become another face in the global LNG market—competing with, for example, Qatar.
According to Rosemary Boulton, the founding president of Kitimat LNG, “we’re experiencing a bigger gas bubble than we have seen in western Canada for 20 years, and this makes (LNG exports) a particularly viable proposition. We need to develop LNG to meet the needs of gas markets other than those in the U.S.”
Apache Corporation and EOG Resources obviously agree, since in December they bought out her start-up company—after it had received development approvals—and Canadian gas giant Encana Corp. came onboard with a 30 per cent interest this past March.
Countries like India and China will eventually begin developing their own shale gas resources but at present “Japan and Korea are the world’s biggest importers of natural gas,” says Boulton, “and they have no indigenous supply.”
She adds that “there are a number of ways you can write a price contract, and one of them is based on the price of WTI. That’s a pretty good price for exporters. For importers, it’s a lot better than a contract based on the price of Brent (North Sea) oil. Markets in Asia price natural gas relative to the price of oil, so that could be very attractive.”
Bill Gwozd, a vice president of Calgary-based Ziff Energy Services, agrees. “If you have an Asian market that’s prepared to pay (an LNG) price that’s linked to oil, we think (shale gas production) can surge.”
Boulton sees room for expansion of Canada’s international LNG business. “The Kitimat project is approved for five metric tonnes or 700 million cubic feet per day. The pipeline will be capable of supporting a much bigger project—doubling (project capacity) is certainly viable.”
She doesn’t see a lot of LNG shipments leaving from B.C.’s Lower Mainland, however. “Projects are all about location. I see a lot of objections to a project (there) because of the nature of some communities on the Left Coast.”
A year ago, American filmmaker Josh Fox released a film called Gasland, which purported to document the dangers of hydraulic fracturing for shale gas. One landowner after another talked about the dangers of shale gas to their health, and some spectacular footage showed a man setting water from his kitchen tap alight – the result, he said, of shale gas polluting his water well.
Ziff Energy’s Bill Gwozd is sceptical. While he acknowledges that the consumption of large amounts of water for fraccing can be an environmental problem in areas where water is in short supply, he’s sceptical about the rest. “Shale gas and ground water are peanut butter and oil,” he says. “They don’t touch each other.
There are a lot of people who want to talk about shale gas polluting groundwater but it just isn’t going to happen.”
He points out that the geological zones which hold groundwater and shale gas can be literally thousands of feet apart, and that dirt and rock under pressure are anything but porous. “So how could deep zones of shale gas pollute groundwater, which is maybe 1500 metres up?”
“You’ve got to believe that the answer is in the details,” he says. “A lot of people complain about shale gas development without bothering to understand the technical issue. When you get into that conversation, they have to come to the conclusion that there is no problem here.”
Well, not entirely. In March Québec’s environment minister, Pierre Arcand, said the government didn’t have enough scientific information about hydraulic fracturing to sanction its further use. Until his department completed its research into what had become a heated public issue, the government imposed a drilling moratorium on Québec’s promising Utica shales.
Ziff’s Gwozd has a kind of conspiracy theory respecting public concern about shale gas. “Who’s driving the environmental objections?” he asks, rhetorically, then offers his own answer: “Anybody (with an interest in) conventional gas, in LNG, in coal, in energy alternatives. If you complain about it, you make it an issue. (To say these worries are based on science) is like the fox telling the bird he doesn’t want to cook it for turkey day.”
Enter Lane Wells, the principal at head•stock, a public consultation firm which specializes in aboriginal communities. Wells describes effective stakeholder engagement as involving “thoughtful, non-adversarial and respectful exchanges of information. Listening to stakeholders is important. Responding to what you have heard is critical.” Stakeholder engagement is becoming increasingly crucial if you want public policies that give you the right just to develop shale gas.
Public policy is becoming increasingly important in other ways, too. For example, the Obama administration is now behind a drive to make natural gas the fuel of choice in as many energy-consuming applications as possible, with an emphasis on switching coal-fired power plants to gas.
Senior Democrats in Congress are getting behind the stuff, portraying it as an alternative fuel for transportation that can serve as a stopgap until renewable sources of energy, like solar and wind power, become economical on a broad scale.
Reflecting this policy, last year Rahm Emanuel—a congressman and formerly President Barack Obama’s chief of staff—introduced legislation which would have offered tax credits to both gas producers and consumers. The legislation died with last fall’s election, which unceremoniously turfed Emanuel and other Democrats from the House.
The promotion of natural gas as a fuel is popular within the industry also. The New York Times cites William M. Colton, ExxonMobil’s vice president for corporate strategic planning, as a serious natural gas enthusiast.
“If there is any kind of major trend, we think it’s going to be a shift toward more natural gas. Natural gas is available. It’s the most efficient way to generate massive power. It’s affordable. We already have gas infrastructure in place. From a CO2 emissions standpoint, it’s 60 per cent cleaner than coal, and (the U.S. has) 100 years of supply.”
As these issues get resolved, a leaner and meaner industry using advanced technologies and far more capital is emerging. The industry is opening its collective eyes to a brave new world of natural gas—one in which surplus supplies are convulsing the sector in many ways.
“Our intent is to tough it out,” says Winter Petroleum’s Duncan McCowan. “So we’re doing creative things to cut costs—jointly handling gas with our neighbours, for example. We’re optimistic about our geology—the horizontal potential is huge, but we couldn’t justify (horizontal drilling) in this price environment. Sure, we’re pessimistic about gas prices, but we know they’re going to turn. We don’t know when, but when they do we think it’s going to be pretty quick.” | <urn:uuid:ecc9dffd-7220-4b7f-874c-1ec5ab968e35> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://languageinstinct.blogspot.jp/2011/06/road-to-success.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951169 | 3,519 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Some Chinese-made baby bibs contain lead
This is a little freaky for me in particular, as Dawn recently bought the twins new bibs and while she didn't get them at the store mentioned in the article, they were made in China. But what ISN'T made in China, for realz?
Edit: After reading the article further, I found out that the bibs we bought at Wal-Mart have actually been recalled. Oh my God the girls have lead poisoning.
By Eric Lipton Published: August 15, 2007
WASHINGTON: Certain vinyl baby bibs sold at Toys 'R' Us stores appear to be contaminated with lead, laboratory tests have shown, another example of a product made in China that may be a health hazard to children.
The vinyl bibs, which feature illustrations of baseball bats and soccer balls and Disney's Winnie the Pooh characters, are sold for less than $5 each under store-brand labels, including Especially for Baby and Koala Baby.
Tests this summer, financed by the Center for Environmental Health of Oakland, California, found lead as high as three times the level allowed in paint in several styles of the bibs purchased from both Toys 'R' Us and Babies 'R' Us stores in California.
A separate test by a laboratory hired by The New York Times of the same Toys 'R' Us bibs, purchased in Maryland, found a similar level of contamination.
"These bibs are exposing children to lead in an unnecessary way," said Caroline Cox, research director at the Center for Environmental Health, a nonprofit agency that for the last decade has been testing consumer products for lead, in an effort to remove them from the market.
Kathleen Waugh, a Toys 'R' Us spokeswoman, said that the company had done its own tests on the bibs as recently as May and found them in compliance with safety standards for lead levels.
"Our uncompromising commitment to safety has been, and continues to be, our highest priority," she said in a written statement.
Officials from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which regulates children's products, said they agreed that lead had no place in bibs.
But their own recent tests of baby bibs on the market in the United States found that the lead, when present, was at levels low enough that a child chewing on or rubbing the bib would not get an unhealthy dose.
As a result, the agency urges parents to discard vinyl bibs only if they are ripped or otherwise deteriorated. But agency officials have not pushed for a recall of lead-contaminated bibs, including a brand sold this year at Wal-Mart Stores, which the Center for Environmental Health also identified.
Wal-Mart removed the bibs from its store shelves nationwide, but in Illinois, where 60,000 of the bibs had been sold, a strict lead law required their recall.
The bibs were imported for Toys 'R' Us by Hamco Baby Products, the same company that made the bibs for Wal-Mart. The bibs will be retested, said Waugh, the Toys 'R' Us spokeswoman.
Toys 'R' Us and Babies 'R' Us are jointly controlled by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Bain Capital and Vornado Realty Trust. Hamco is a unit of Crown Crafts.
The agency's approach has drawn criticism from some children's advocates, and local and state health officials.
"All lead is bad lead," said Patrick MacRoy, director of the Chicago lead poisoning prevention program. "Why should we allow any lead to be in there?"
The lead tests done for the Center for Environmental Health, conducted by the National Food Laboratory in Dublin, California, found levels as high as 1,800 parts per million in the Toys 'R' Us bibs - three times the amount allowed in lead paint.
The tests of the Toys 'R' Us bibs conducted in July for The New York Times by the same lab found similar results.
A separate test by Bureau Veritas, a testing lab in Buffalo, New York, found little lead in the clear plastic pocket of the bib, but said that the lead in the colorful part of the bib was at levels high enough that it could transfer to a baby's fingers.
A third lab, STAT Analysis of Chicago, found low levels both of total lead and of what is called "accessible" lead, or the lead a child could ingest by sucking or chewing on the bib.
Federal officials, when testing bibs, do three kinds of tests - one by checking the total amount of lead using solvents, another by rubbing the vinyl with a swab and testing the swab for lead, and a third by soaking the bib in a salty solution and testing the solution for lead.
These tests, on bibs collected this year, did at times find lead.
But the federal commission concluded that even if infants had the bibs in their mouths all day long, not enough lead would leach into their blood system to cause harm.
Based on these results, the agency concluded that the bibs did not present a hazard as long as they were not deteriorated.
But MacRoy, other health officials and children's advocates argue that the federal commission uses an antiquated standard for what level of lead in a child's bloodstream represents a hazard.
When combined with lead from other sources, including perhaps lead-based paint in an old house or lead-contaminated jewelry, the bibs could still result in poisoning or neurological damage in a child. As a result, Cox, among others, has urged parents to stop using the Toys 'R' Us bibs.
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The Bridgeway Team
This is our story.....
When our son first started public school we knew there was an underlying condition. Eventually he was diagnosed with an SLD (Severe Learning Disability) and we were able to identify the areas of opportunity that would be essential to his overall learning ability.We worked with the public schools and the LINKS program to help our son develop to the best of his ability. He attended the after school programs with LINKS, received resource support on a regular basis, received home help and followed IPP plans. Even with all this help it was just not enough to bring him up to speed and to reach his maximum potential. He is a hands-on learner who needs constant supervision, guidance and reminders for his everyday work. Our son also suffered from anxiety issues and showed physical symptoms of stress related problems which ultimately caused him to miss quite a bit of public school. At this point, to say we were desperate and frustrated beyond belief would be an understatement we did not know who to turn to or what to do next. Then we heard about Bridgeway Academy and everything they had to offer; ultimately Bridgeway Academy became our family’s salvation and a pivotal turning point in our lives.
In September of 2010 our son started at Bridgeway Academy and the changes that we have seen have been simply remarkable. Not only is he actively engaged and participating in his classes, but he is gaining and developing the confidence he needs as well as much needed social and life skills. His anxiety issues are gone now and he is happy to go to school every day.....you cannot imagine what a relief it was for us all to have him happy once again and enjoying getting up and going to school every day.
With the results we have seen to date we are very confident that our son will continue to grow and develop at Bridgeway and they will help him gain the confidence and the strength that he will need to help him through his studies. There is no question that Bridgeway is the best choice for him as they will be able to provide him with the individualized attention that will cater to his needs and future development. It gives us great peace of mind to know that Bridgeway shares our views and concerns and will be our son's best advocate when it comes to helping children with learning disabilities.
We would like nothing better than to integrate our son back into the public system, and we have asked ourselves this question over and over again and each time the answer is still no..... we will not jeopardize our child's future and everything he has learned at any cost, we simply cannot take that risk.
The public school system just does not offer the support for our son that he requires, they simply are not equipped to handle children with special needs, we know we have done the research. He will not get the individualized attention that he needs and as a result he will be lost in the system as he once was before. We will not go back to how it was .....the tears, the frustration and lack of motivation we experienced on our son’s behalf as well as our own. At Bridgeway our children learn to deal with their disabilities, adapt and integrate their challenges into their everyday learning’s and the much needed life skills.
It is our hope that the TSP funding continues and does not stop short at the 3+1 year commitment. As for us and many other parents in the same situation, when the support funds run out we will do whatever it takes to keep our son at Bridgeway; unlike the TSP funding, SLD'S do not go away,
I share our story with you today in hopes that we can make a difference in the lives of these children, our story is only one of many and I appeal to you today to learn from our experience and help change the current support program and extend indefinitely to those in need. We desperately need more schools like Bridgeway in Atlantic Canada to give other children a fighting chance at life. Our children are our future and as a parent it is my responsibility to ensure my child, as well as others, get a fighting chance and every equal opportunity in life. It's just the right thing to do.
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A WWI movie worth seeing
I received Joyeux Noel (Merry Christmas) from Netflix and watched it tonight.
It was released last year, and is based on the true story of the Christmas Truce of 1914. During World War I, on Christmas Eve of that year, a group of Scottish, German, and French soldiers called a cease fire for the evening so they could observe the holiday, share gifts, have mass together, and bury their dead.
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Preventive health care includes having regular gynecologic examinations, even when no symptoms are present, and screening tests. Screening tests are done before people have any symptoms to check for disorders that can be prevented or treated effectively if recognized early (see Prevention: Selected Screening Schedule for Adults*,†).
Women should have a gynecologic evaluation every year starting at about age 13 to 18. A pelvic examination is not usually done before age 21 unless there is a problem, such as irregular periods, pelvic pain, or a vaginal discharge. Doctors test sexually active adolescents for sexually transmitted diseases, sometimes without doing a pelvic examination. Pelvic examinations are recommended for all women, starting at age 21. However, a woman can talk with her health care practitioner about whether these examinations need to be started at this age. Also, at age 21, most women should start having tests to screen for cervical cancer, such as a Papanicolaou (Pap) test.
For gynecologic care, a woman should choose a health care practitioner with whom she can comfortably discuss sensitive topics, such as sex, birth control, pregnancy, and problems related to menopause. The practitioner may be a gynecologist, an internist, a nurse-midwife, or a general, family, or nurse practitioner.
Gynecologic evaluation of young and adolescent girls can sometimes be done by their pediatrician. However, if the pediatrician cannot set aside time for the girl to speak privately about personal concerns or is reluctant to provide gynecologic care, another health care practitioner should be found for this care.
The gynecologic visit is the time to ask the practitioner questions about reproductive and sexual function and anatomy, including safe sex practices, such as the use of condoms to minimize the risks of sexually transmitted diseases.
During a visit for gynecologic care, doctors ask questions (the history) and do a physical examination.
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Drafting is not an exact science
There is no shortage of theories when it comes to the NFL draft, but don't believe everything you hear, writes Todd McShay.
In reality, though, most so-called rules of drafting NFL players are more like myths. So we decided to put together our own little version of "MythBusters" and try to sort out fact from fiction. We've focused on 10 common theories you're likely to hear a lot the next few weeks -- essentially, the do's and don'ts of drafting -- and dug into the history books to see which hold up and which get busted.
1. Offensive tackle is the safest position on which to use a high pick
This theory built steam in the late 1990s during a remarkable run of tackles selected in the top 20 overall, including Jonathan Ogden (Ravens) and Willie Anderson (Bengals) in 1996; Orlando Pace (Rams), Walter Jones (Seahawks) and Tarik Glenn (Colts) in 1997; Kyle Turley (Saints) and Tra Thomas (Eagles) in 1998; and John Tait (Chiefs) and Luke Petitgout (Giants) in 1999.
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Though there is no real cure for acne, but all kinds of effective all natural acne treatments can be found at your local grocery store. Green tea has been shown to treat acne and even be as effective as benzoyl peroxide in some cases. So before buying yet another drying acne lotion or cream try some cures from mother nature.
Why Green Tea is Good for Acne
Immediately after harvest, green tea leaves are steamed to prevent the tea leaves from fermenting. This allows the leaves to keep their natural antioxidants and polyphenols, giving green tea its acne fighting power. Compounds found in green tea, is effective at reducing skin inflammation. Drinking and using of green tea as a toner may help reduce acne-induced inflammation, which may help eliminate the development of scars by reducing the severity of acne sores.
Green tea has no calories, and can be naturally decaffeinated giving the tea all kinds of health benefits. There is evidence that the antioxidants in green tea can help prevent cancer caused by free radicals and increase metabolism. So drinking green tea has many benefits as well as acne treatment.
Ways to Use Green Tea
First is to brew and drink three to four cups a day. Green tea is bitter to the taste for some it takes awhile to get used to if at all. Like any kind of tea you can add sugar, milk, or lemon.
Second is to take Green tea capsules, this way is easier for those who cannot get past the taste drinking it. Some green tea capsules are also used for weight loss so be sure to read the labels if this is not needed.
Your third option is to apply green tea directly at the source. Purchase some bags of tea like normal and wet them. Then rub the tea bags all over your acne and let it dry. People with moderate to severe acne suggest this, and they have said it helped them achieve acne free clear skin like no other treatment!
Source :http://www.acne.org/green-tea-reviews/207/page1.html Acne.org review, I found it helpful upon researching Green Tea results
|Pros||brightens skin makes you FEEL better reduces redness in pimples reduces pimples prevents pimples|
|Bottom line||Lately I have felt that if nature gives you certain ailments (acne) nature can also give you a solution. Therefore instead of constantly bombarding my skin with synthetic crap, I would try a natural route. This is my regimen: in the morning i wake up and wash my face with a regular old cleanser, rinse with cold water, then take a cold green tea bag ( i keep them refrigerated after i steep them)and wipe it all over my face. Then I open the bag and use the leaves to gently exfoliate my skin, and leave it on for 30 mins. Then I rinse my face with cold water again, and apply another round of green tea swiping.followed by a gentle moisturizer
at night I wash my face as usual but rinse with warm water, followed by swiping a WARM tea bag over my face and using a moisturizer. Throughout the day I also drink about 3-4 cups of green tea.
due to PMS and stress I had 2 HUGE cystic pimples pop up on my cheek. Since using this regimen for 2 days they are almost completely flat and much less red and are no longer sore (they were originally so red and sore they were purple)
Also see Chamomile on the best teas to drink for acne prone skin.
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Antarctic ice formed at CO2 levels much higher than today's
Not going to melt any time soon, says boffin
New research has shown that the mighty ice sheet covering the Antarctic froze into being when the world had a much higher level of carbon dioxide in its atmosphere than it does today.
By analysing ancient algae found in deep-sea core samples, Professor Matthew Huber and his colleagues determined that the mile-thick ice which now covers the south polar continent formed around 34 million years ago. At that stage the atmosphere held much more CO2 than it does now, some 600 parts per million (ppm) as opposed to today's level of 390 ppm.
There is often concern that the Antarctic ice sheet might melt due to global warming (though in fact, despite much publicity over losses of ice from the Western peninsula, Antarctic ice has been steadily increasing in extent for the last 40 years). It would seem that this is highly unlikely given current and near-future levels of atmospheric CO2: at current rates of increase it will take a century at least to reach 600 ppm, the level at which the ice sheet formed itself, and higher levels would be needed to actually start it melting.
Even once the process begins there won't be any need for our great-grandchildren to panic, according to Huber.
"If we continue on our current path of warming we will eventually reach that tipping point," he says. "Of course after we cross that threshold it will still take many thousands of years to melt an ice sheet."
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Tennessee is taking considerable pains to become half-pregnant.
This is what will happen if the lottery amendment passes on November 5th and the General Assembly subsequently approves a state lottery for college scholarships. The state will officially be in the business of promoting, administering, and profiting from gambling. At the same time, it will more adamantly than ever oppose the form of gambling that has had a much greater impact on Tennesseans, especially Memphians -- casinos.
The main reason the proposed lottery amendment takes up so much space on the ballot, right below the governors race in the left-hand column, is to erect legal blockades in front of anyone with ideas about a lottery being a gateway to casinos, particularly Indian casinos like the ones run by the Choctaws in Neshoba County, Mississippi.
Gamblers being forward-looking sorts, there was a little buzz during Tunicas tenth anniversary celebration last week about the chances of an Indian casino in Memphis if the lottery amendment passes.
The reasoning went something like this.
Casinos quietly entered Mississippi through the back door while the governor and everyone else were diverted by a lottery issue that never went anywhere. Once established, riverboat or dockside gambling soon evolved into something high and dry and many times larger than anyone envisioned.
Memphis will, in a couple of years, likely be looking for a major tenant for The Pyramid after the Grizzlies and, possibly, the University of Memphis leave for the new downtown arena. Pyramid debt service looks more and more like a $3 million a year albatross. The Pinch District, always an underperformer, will be more forlorn than ever.
The Pyramids neighbor, Mud Island River Park, is also underused and would be an interesting site for a casino.
Memphis and Shelby County residents spend $300-$400 million a year in Tunica, which even at the low end is more than the estimated $243 million that all Tennesseans together spend on lottery tickets in other states like Georgia and Kentucky. If lotteries in neighboring states are a leak, casinos are a flood.
Deed Mud Island or The Pyramid to the Chickasaw Indians and set them up under provisions of the Federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, just like their brethren the Choctaws in Mississippi or the Pequot in Connecticut. Suddenly casinos are 30 minutes closer to Memphis.
Whats wrong with that scenario?
No way it can happen, says lottery proponent Sen. Steve Cohen. No Indians, and no Tigers, Bears, or Orioles either.
But the question is hardly off the wall. The Tennessee Attorney Generals office addressed the state lottery and the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act in two opinions in early 2001.
Because Senate Joint Resolution 01 expressly states that it does not authorize games of chance associated with casinos, it would not be a gateway to Indian casino gambling in Tennessee, the opinion said. The state would not be required to negotiate with an Indian tribe about casino gambling, nor could the tribe sue the state without its consent to force the negotiation.
End of story? Probably, but perhaps not. One of the interesting things about the proposed constitutional amendment is how it breaks down one gambling barrier while erecting another one.
Quoting from the AGs opinion:
Currently, the Tennessee Constitution, Article XI, section 5, flatly prohibits the General Assembly from authorizing lotteries. The constitutional provision does not, however, prohibit all types of gambling. Except for lotteries, there is nothing in the state constitution prohibiting gambling, and the regulation of all types of gambling, other than lotteries, is a matter for determination by the General Assembly.
As the opinion notes, Tennessee law already provides for pari-mutuel betting. In fact, 15 years ago, Memphians approved a horseracing referendum for a pari-mutuel track that was never built.
The legal rule of thumb is that bonafide Indian tribes can engage, on their sovereign lands, in whatever forms of gambling are allowed in the rest of a state. But in addition to the ban on casinos in the amendment, there are strong doubts whether the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) applies to Tennessee.
To this offices knowledge, there is no Indian tribe which holds Indian land in Tennessee, the AGs opinion said. Thus, at this point, IGRA does not apply.
In other states, however, tribal claims have suddenly been made when casinos are on the horizon. An incomplete Internet roster of Native-American Associations in Tennessee has 89 listings, with a caveat that some are probably defunct or fake. For several years, Native Americans have held an annual powwow at Halle Stadium in Memphis.
Lottery proponents, who dont wish to complicate their long-sought amendment with any more controversy than necessary, are taking no chances. So the word casino is added to the amendment and, voters willing, to the state constitution, but in a negative sense. And in a year or two the state of Tennessee could be promoting instant scratch-and-cash tickets while busting the criminals who operate gas station pinball machines or video poker.
Mississippi casino interests profess to be somewhat bored by the whole thing.
We dont have an official position, said John Osborne, president of the Mississippi Gaming Association and general manager of Hollywood Casino in Tunica. Most people believe the residents of Tennessee need to make that determination.
Casinos and a lottery coexist in New Jersey, he noted. One school of thought holds that lotteries take players from casinos, but Osborne views Tunica as a destination resort offering amenities and gambling experiences you really cant get at a gas station.
The association, he said, is not lobbying or contributing to either side in the Tennessee referendum. | <urn:uuid:4c53ee1d-3a5e-4a60-8846-08adff712f5a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/city-beat/Content?oid=1119403 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00076-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945055 | 1,180 | 1.773438 | 2 |
"Our goal is to help fund cancer research so the doctors at DFCI can continue their great work".
In 2007 a member of the University of Vermont Men’s lacrosse team was diagnosed with testicular cancer. He followed a treatment plan from the Dana-Farber Cancer institute and underwent surgery and radiation that winter. He was then able to play in every game of his senior year and is in full remission today. Throughout this process, the team learned a great deal about cancer screening and prevention. We took it upon ourselves to help educate as many students athletes and young adults as possible through a fall lacrosse tournament that we started in October 2008.
The first Catamount Classic - Lacrosse For A Cure took place at Thayer Academy in Braintree, Massachusetts. 8 Division I college lacrosse teams squared off in a day of scrimmages to help fight the battle against testicular cancer. We charged admission to the tournament and the University of Vermont men’s lacrosse team fundraised money throughout the summer and fall. In total we donated nearly $20,000 to testicular cancer research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. We also handed out as many testicular cancer information booklets as we could to young adults at the tournament in hopes to spread the word about early detection and prevention.
Over the past four years we have donated close to $130,000 to Genitourinary cancer and women's cancers research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. We have branched out to a women's division and we have increased in size. This year we have partnered with both the men's and women's lacrosse teams at the University of Vermont. Through on campus fundraisers, a Vermont Benefit, donations and the tournament we hope to reach out to thousands of young adults stressing the importance of cancer screening and prevention. | <urn:uuid:53044a63-22d3-4eb0-98f2-369965a147c2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.catamountclassic.com/about.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969096 | 375 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Let's examine five questions storage managers should ask when considering cloud data storage:
Because of the architecture of cloud storage, you can expect high latency on file or directory access requests. So if your next project is a SQL server database or a mail server for a large site, then cloud storage probably isn't the way to go.
But if you're implementing a file server for your remote sales force, then the access time of the cloud is probably consistent with the Wi-Fi or shared Internet connection they would be expecting to use. The cloud also provides access to the data from anywhere that has an Internet connection.
There's a user experience component to this as well: Are users expecting the performance of local storage? It's important to communicate upfront that moving data to the cloud may affect the user experience. If end users have local file servers or even centralized file servers in a data center accessible by a private WAN, accessing data from the cloud will most likely be slower. This can be mitigated by providing multiple Internet connections or a higher level of network service for outbound storage requests.
Most cloud storage providers give a 99.99% service-level agreement (SLA) as their peak. A few, most notably Nirvanix Inc., advertise a 100% SLA. However, when considering these claims, it's important to understand what they are guaranteeing.
Most cloud storage providers reside in co-locations or hosted data centers, and are dependent on yet another vendor's infrastructure. If the hosting provider has connectivity issues, will the potential loss of access to your data be covered under the cloud provider's SLA or will it fall back to the hosting provider?
All cloud storage providers offer encryption for data in flight. But if the data for the cloud is sensitive, then the security of that data must be addressed once it lands on the service provider's infrastructure. Several providers now support encryption of data at rest, but you need to find out if the provider you're evaluating has this capability. Additionally, keys or logins for data encryption may become an issue if there are several pools of data that need to be segregated. Depending on the vendor, user accounts may need to be set up for each individual user in the environment.
Most cloud storage providers will charge customers based on storage access in terms of the type of access request and the space utilized. This becomes important when a large number of search either for file names or text within a file. For example, if files are required to be indexed or scanned for viruses on a regular basis, the cost of cloud storage may increase significantly.
E-discovery data stores, application data caches and temporary file storage are other types of data storage that do not work well with the cloud cost model.
For businesses that require fast access to recent files and slower access to older files, the cloud may still be a viable storage alternative if a caching appliance can be housed in the local network. These machines will store the most recent data sent to the cloud assuming that the data has a higher probability of being accessed in the near future.
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World Bank Report Highlights Importance of Africa’s Forests and Woodlands
10 November 2012: The World Bank has released a special report, "Forests, trees, and woodlands in Africa: an action plan for World Bank engagement," highlighting the importance of Africa's forests for economic growth and development, and as providers of key ecosystem services supporting livelihoods and increased resilience to climate change.
The report emphasizes that the objectives of World Bank investments in forests and woodlands in Africa are to create jobs, improve competitiveness, and build resilience and reduce vulnerability. It recognizes the diversity of forests in Africa, ranging from dry woodlands in the Sahel Region to the tropical rainforests of the Congo Basin.
The report highlights the diverse uses of forests and forest resources, which make key contributions to livelihoods such as agro-forestry in Southern Africa and ecotourism in Eastern Africa. It concludes that many of the uses of forests, trees and woodlands in Africa fall outside the traditional forest industries and, as such, require cross-sector responses.
Although the report stresses sub-regional differences in forests and forest management challenges and opportunities, a number of common action areas are highlighted, including: the development of sustainable wood-based energy markets; the restoration of degraded forests and woodlands; the development of timber plantations; improved governance of domestic timber industries; enhanced protected area management; improved forest sale management and additional investments in reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries (REDD+).
Finally, the report emphasizes the need for improved information and knowledge management related to forests, trees and woodlands, as well as improved governance, transparency and stakeholder participation. [World Bank Press Release] [Publication: Forests, trees, and woodlands in Africa: an action plan for World Bank engagement] | <urn:uuid:71807ced-42ef-4867-ac5f-9ee87473f942> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://climate-l.iisd.org/news/world-bank-report-highlights-importance-of-africas-forests-and-woodlands/166919/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931289 | 384 | 3.265625 | 3 |
dECEMBER 19, 2012
Animal Hospital of Terravita joins Operation American Patriot
CAREFREE – Dr. Teresa Juetten, is the practicing Veterinarian and owner of the Animal Hospital at Terravita, she describes herself as not only an animal lover but as a deeply patriotic American.
She was born and raised mostly in Mesa, Arizona by her beloved parents, a career U.S. Air Force officer and his World War II British War Bride. As a child she traveled through many duty stations overseas and then later returned to the states to attend Veterinary Medical School in Colorado.
“On almost a daily basis I’m amazed at all that we have in the United States, such as comfort, safety, moral and ethical strength, and financial and military strength,” she says. You truly get to appreciate those blessings when you travel around the world as I did as a military dependent.”
She is especially grateful to our military service members: “They’re the most responsible for all this.”
Starting next spring, Dr. Juetten will have a new way to express her gratitude to Veterans looking for work or a new skill set. In particular, by helping to train them to work as veterinary technicians.
Dr. Juetten has joined the clinical team at Operation American Patriot (OAP), a nonprofit organization based in Sun City whose stated mission is “to serve our military, Veterans, and their families by fortifying and uniting existing resources.”
In a new program – unique in the country – described by the catchphrase Vets Helping Vets, OAP is establishing a veterinary technician and service dog training program that will be college-accredited through Chandler University.
“I have very high standards for medical care in my animal hospital, so there’s always a need for outstanding veterinary technicians. We are going to be directly involved in the training of motivated Veterans to become veterinary technicians,” says Dr. Juetten.
Vets Helping Vets participants will earn their veterinary technician certification with a specialty in training service dogs, says OAP’s volunteer Chief Executive Officer Jerry Iannacci.
“OAP’s clinical team has identified the importance of having service dogs address the symptoms of post-traumatic stress and other medical symptoms,” says Mr. Iannacci. “We see this as a way to do something useful for our Veterans, and also – and this is particularly important to me as a Veterinarian, a dog lover – dogs love unconditionally and dogs love to have a job to do.
This program is a way to help both Veterans and dogs,” says Dr. Juetten.
For more information about Vets Helping Vets, please call OAP Clinical Director Dr. Renee Behinfar at (623) 374-2332 or visit their website at www.Operationamericanpatriot.org.
BY JOHANNA DEKING, DVM | DECEMBER 19, 2012
Holiday traveling with pets
It’s travel time for the family pets too as many of us are making plans to head out of town in the next several weeks. For those people lucky enough to get to travel with your furry friend, there are definitely some extra preparations to be made. If your pet will be traveling in the car, it’s important to be certain that they can ride without any extra anxiety or nausea. While some pets are great travelers, others become very nervous or sick in the car. In some cases, a light sedative or anti-nausea medication prescribed by your veterinarian can be used to calm them so that they’re not unnecessarily stressed or sick. Always have an idea of how your pet will handle travel before trying to go a long distance. If your pet isn’t usually in the car, take some small, short test trips first in order to determine whether a sedative may be necessary. Always test the sedative before you leave on your trip, and never give a pet a sedative for the first time as you set out on a long trip in case they have an unexpected reaction to the medication.
Long distance travel is much safer if small dogs and cats are in crates or kennels in the back seat and larger dogs wear safety seat harnesses. This prevents them from posing as a distraction, but it also keeps them safe should you need to stop or swerve suddenly. Always keep pets on leash when stopping along the way. Public rest areas and parks have many new smells, and even the best behaved dog can become easily distracted in these places and potentially run off.
You will be taking appropriate clothes for your travels, but remember that your pet can become cold in snowy places too. Body temperature can drop quickly, especially in small dogs and cats, and a coat or sweater will help keep them comfortable. Always travel with a water bowl and extra food in case your trip takes longer than expected, and remember that medications that you refrigerate at home like insulin need to be kept in a cooler when you travel. If you have a pet with special medical needs, have the name and address of a veterinarian on-hand in your destination city, in case of an emergency.
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That is a wrong assumption Lefty, as far as I know they don't convert pressure to liquid level like in other type of sensors.
In fact, and in layman words, it works by having a long resistor vertically mounted inside the 'tape'. And if anything (liquid, powder, your finger) presses against it, it will change the resistance and hence you know the top level of the liquid.
In fact you don't have to do any material specific calculations with the sensor, it returns the same results no matter it's water, gasoline or sand. I am in fact using it with something that has 1.5 times the density of water but I used water to cross check before using it for real.http://www.milonetech.com/uploads/eTape_Datasheet_12110215TC-12.pdf
The eTape sensor's envelope is compressed by hydrostatic pressure of the fluid in which it is immersed resulting in a change in resistance which corresponds to the distance from the top of the sensor to the fluid surface. The eTape sensor provides a resistive output that is inversely proportional to the level of the liquid: the lower the liquid level, the higher the output resistance; the higher the liquid level, the lower the output resistance.
Here is a video on YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=c3VJPi1TeSY
Well we can agree to disagree I guess. The fact that the following is stated:
The eTape sensor's envelope is compressed by hydrostatic pressure of the fluid in which it is immersed resulting in a change in resistance which corresponds to the distance from the top of the sensor to the fluid surface.
That states the resistance change is the result of the hydrostatic pressure against the resistance tape, not the absolute hight of the liquid level. And hydrostatic pressure is a product of the materials density and hight. Look up the terms 'hydrostatic pressure' or 'head pressure' and see if you might not agree with me in the final outlook. Now if they misstated that it's measuring hydrostatic pressure applied against the tape, but rather the absolute liquid level relative to the tape then they are not using hydrostatic pressure but some other means which wouldn't be obvious to me.
See also: Vertical pressure variation
Hydrostatic pressure is the pressure exerted by a fluid at equilibrium due to the force of gravity. A fluid in this condition is known as a hydrostatic fluid. The hydrostatic pressure can be determined from a control volume analysis of an infinitesimally small cube of fluid. Since pressure is defined as the force exerted on a test area (p = F/A, with p: pressure, F: force normal to area A, A: area), and the only force acting on any such small cube of fluid is the weight of the fluid column above it, hydrostatic pressure can be calculated according to the following formula:
p is the hydrostatic pressure (Pa),
ρ is the fluid density (kg/m3),
g is gravitational acceleration (m/s2),
A is the test area (m2),
z is the height (parallel to the direction of gravity) of the test area (m),
z0 is the height of the zero reference point of the pressure (m).
For water and other liquids, this integral can be simplified significantly for many practical applications, based on the following two assumptions: Since many liquids can be considered incompressible, a reasonably good estimation can be made from assuming a constant density throughout the liquid. (The same assumption cannot be made within a gaseous environment.) Also, since the height h of the fluid column between z and z0 is often reasonably small compared to the radius of the Earth, one can neglect the variation of g. Under these circumstances, the integral boils down to the simple formula:
where h is the height z − z0 of the liquid column between the test volume and the zero reference point of the pressure. Note that this reference point should lie at or below the surface of the liquid. Otherwise, one has to split the integral into two (or more) terms with the constant ρliquid and ρ(z')above. For example, the absolute pressure compared to vacuum is:
where H is the total height of the liquid column above the test area the surface, and patm is the atmospheric pressure, i.e., the pressure calculated from the remaining integral over the air column from the liquid surface to infinity.
Hydrostatic pressure has been used in the preservation of foods in a process called pascalization.
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Early Stage Melt Ejection in Laser Percussion Drilling
1University of Hartford, Hartford, CT, USA
Laser percussion drilling is widely used in the aerospace industry to produce cooling holes in jet engine components. This process is a thermal, contact-free process which involves firing a sequence of focused optical pulses onto a target material [1-4]. During each optical pulse, the central portion of the target area heats to a liquid then vapor state where the expanding gas produces a recoil pressure that forces the liquid material to move outward and upward in a conical fashion. This paper presents a 2-D, time-dependent analysis of laser percussion drilling that focuses on the early stage of melt formation and ejection. A non-isothermal laminar flow (nitf) model was developed in COMSOL 4.2 that includes the effects of angle of incidence and optical intensity profile (Gaussian and flat-top). The target material is iron with temperature dependent material properties to enable the phase transitions. The primary force component is provided by the expanding iron vapor that first appears at the surface of the melt pool. Figure 1 shows the velocity field 2ms after the optical pulse begins and soon after the vaporization point is reached for a Gaussian pulse and normal incidence. A convective plume begins to develop from the surface rising upward into the air. Figure 2 and Figure 3 show the early stage of movement at a depth of 0.01mm below the surface in the x-direction and y-direction, respectively. Note that the flow moves outward and then rapidly upward. After a short time, the vapor region expands horizontally and begins to affect a larger portion of the melt pool. Figure 4 is a particle trace showing the flow history at a point 0.5mm beneath the surface. The paper includes results for a range of incidence angles as well as a similar study for a flat-top pulse shape. Lastly, the width of the temperature transition region (liquid to vapor) explores the impact on melt ejection velocities and removal efficiencies. | <urn:uuid:103252de-ac39-4aa2-a85d-243f1a3dd10c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.comsol.com/offers/conference2012papers/papers/presentation/area/heat/id/13026/ | 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 | 0.906633 | 413 | 2.421875 | 2 |
We have an admin section with a number of different settings users can go to. In the majority of pages there is an option at the top which initially allows the users to either enable or disable that feature.
Currently we do this by just having radio buttons at the top, my gut feeling is that it needs to be something that has a primary and secondary focus making it a lot clearer when it is either enabled or disabled. I also feel that enable/disable sounds too technical, on off or yes no seems to make more sense but would be interested to hear what others think.
Does anyone have any good examples on best practices for enable/disable type functions?
I wanted to add a little more to this as its recently cropped up again and I'm hoping that maybe we can flesh out some more answers??
Currently in our application we use a very simple although slightly odd technique as shown below. This allows users to enable or disable certain features within the application.
The problem I have with this is that for one it repeats what you're trying to achieve plus it also just feels a bit techy to be, not really human with the words Enable/Disable
An option would be to bring in the yes/no radio button so that a question of Enabled? can be asked and its clearer to see whether something is enabled or disabled.
However, I still don't feel like this is that great for such a simple solution. I need to keep it in a similar format because of the layout of the application and the fact that something similar is used everywhere else. What I'd like to know is how people are handling this kind of setup, it seems so simple yet somehow complicated to get this right.
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Volunteer rates hit record numbers: "...young people see service organizations as an antidote to a sense of helplessness toward world problems. 'We have a venue to make a difference, and the best thing about it is we are not alone. We're part of a team, and I know that we're collectively working to impact something.' ....
Many are more attuned to volunteer services because colleges and high schools increasingly offer courses and credits for 'service-learning.'... A volunteer's experience overseas and commitment to service are also attractive to employers, she says. 'It's pretty much helping out your community and helping others while helping yourself,' says AmeriCorps*VISTA member Tabaris Gregg." See The Draft is Back and the next link:
M. Scott Peck obituary: "Peck, who has died aged 69, was a psychiatrist and author of The Road Less Travelled, the ultimate self-help manual.... Its opening sentence, 'Life is difficult', introduced a tome which argued... that human experience was trying and imperfectible, and that only self-discipline, delaying gratification, acceptance that one's actions have consequences, and a determined attempt at spiritual growth could make sense of it. By contrast, Peck himself was, by his own admission, a ... chain-smoking neurotic whose life was characterised by incessant infidelity....
"Peck... found himself drawn from Eastern mysticism to mainstream Christianity.... He... published The Different Drum." In spite of his erratic lifestyle, his influence on churches and "Christian" leadership training has been substantial.See Re-Inventing the Church, Part 2
Wiping stereotypes of India off the books: "Sandhya Kumar teaches her three daughters about other countries, cultures and religions. She wants them to take pride in their Indian heritage and Hindu faith -- and to respect and understand other views. ... She and dozens of other Indian American parents launched a campaign to change the way their history is taught in Fairfax. ...they recommended that teachers expand their lessons on topics including Hindu writings; the value system, including the four stages of life; reincarnation and salvation.
"School officials said that if members of other religions or ethnic groups raise concerns, they are ready to listen. 'This is not the end of a conversation,' Monday said. 'This is the beginning of a conversation about how we handle our increasingly diverse community.'" Al Gore’s Vision of Planetary Oneness
Create a Culture of Connectivity in Your church: "With this new book and CD, you’ll be able to dig deep into what matters most in keeping people coming back to your church. You’ll explore how to create a climate of community." What about the old, timeless book, the Bible? Has it been replaced by marketing manuals and psycho-social strategies for group thinking? See Creating Community through a New Way of Thinking
Church leaders work to alter public perception: "...some evangelical Christian leaders worry that people have the wrong idea about them, equating 'evangelical' with 'conservative,' 'Republican,' 'reactionary' and 'judgmental.'... 'People have no idea as to who we really are,' said the Rev. Erwin Lutzer, one of the Gatekeepers.... When the evangelical church stepped into the political arena, it actually made itself a target, I think, in the wider communities in America.'...
"The Gatekeepers include pastors Bill Hybels of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, James Meeks... James McDonald... Mark Jobe.... 'If this group really does come together for some great causes, it will represent hope that diverse yet Christ-honoring groups can come together and span some of what used to be thought of as uncrossable chasms,' said Hybels...."I think some evangelicals have put too much emphasis on what Christ's followers are against, as opposed to what are the great causes....'
"And what would those causes be? 'First would be the poor and the oppressed,' Hybels said, '...the hungry, the homeless.... Certainly, it would be AIDS. Lack of education. It's the classic causes that Jesus talked about in the Sermon on the Mount.'"
No, those aren't the main "causes" Jesus outlined in that great message. His concerns dealt with the heart and spirit, not possessions or earthly: Blessed are the "poor in spirit," those who mourn or hunger for His righteousness, the meek, the merciful, the pure, the peacemakers (sharing God's way to peace, not practicing conflict resolution), those who face persecution for His name's sake, those who -- by His Spirit -- seek His kingdom, not earthly gains and are salt and light in the dark and corrupt world. See The Secret of Abundant Life
A message from the U.S. Faith-Based Inititiative Office: Hi, I'm Jim Towey, director of President Bush’s Faith-Based Initiative. It’s great to come to you by way of the [Rick Warren's] Ministry ToolBox and greet you on behalf of President Bush. I met Rick Warren in the Oval Office when he was meeting with the President....
"...the President decided the best way to tackle some of these social problems was to developpartnerships between the federal government and the faith-based community. ...I think the Faith-Based Initiative captures what has been the essence of American democracy.... It recognizes that within our pluralism, we can tap into the rich communities of Jews, Christians, Muslims - and people of no faith – all coming together to address society’s ills." See Faith-Based Compromise? & Serving a Greater Whole
Christmas CD banned for mentioning Jesus (UK): "Many see the measure as the latest attempt to 'de-Christianize' Christmas.... Just last month, the Scottish Parliament banned traditional Christmas cicials said 'Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year' could not appear on government cards, as the wording was not deemed to be 'socially inclusive.'" The international goal for every community is Solidarity, which is incompatible with Christianity.
Dick and Jane don't teach bias: "It began as a reasonable and justified attempt to rid educational materials of words and images demeaning to women and racial and ethnic minorities, but the level of censorship has gone much too far.... Bias and sensitivity panels review every test question and textbook to make sure that nothing potentially offensive goes through." A New Way of Thinking
Ten Paradigm Shifts Towards Community Transformation (Part I): "All over our nation there is a quiet movement of the Spirit of God that is causing believers to re-examine how they 'do church.' ... It’s about making a significant and sustainable difference in the lives of people around us—in our communities and in our cities....
"In a post-modern world, most people are neither impressed with the size of a church nor its commitment to 'truth.' Yet, from the cover of TIME magazine to the front page of the Wall Street Journal, transformational community-centered ministries are grabbing the attention of the American people. ... Effective ministry has always been holistic, combining good deeds with good news."
But the deeds that are "good" to God will probably not be the ones done in "partnership" with a government that demands that we repackage the gospel in less offensive wrappings. See the "community" sections of
Homeland Security and the transformation of America
Mrs. Ridge promotes survey on sex, drugs: "A Fairfax County schools survey that asks teens if they perform oral sex, use drugs or ever have considered suicide is part of a national grant-harvesting program promoted by Michele Ridge, wife of President Bush's director of homeland security.
"Mrs. Ridge is the hired national spokeswoman for Communities That Care (CTC), which developed the youth survey used in more than 400 communities nationwide to collect personal information from students to help local governments justify federal and foundation grant applications...."
Youth at Risk? The National Survey: "The report focused on the findings of a CTC [Communities that Care] survey conducted with over 14,000 pupils across England, Scotland and Wales which assessed the levels of problem behaviour and risk and protection factors....
"...over half of pupils in Year 11 admitted to 'binge' drinking sometime in the four weeks before the survey. Other findings which were a little surprising in terms of the apparent scope of problem behaviour include about one-third of Year 10 pupils admitting to vandalising someone else's property at some point in the last year." All these signs of "unhealthy communities" justify more government control through consensus groups.
Communities That Care
."Years of research by social scientists and public health experts have demonstrated how to most effectively coordinate prevention efforts. CTC's strategy for involving key leaders to ensure top-down support as well as its use of accurate data in identifying and addressing priority risk and protective factors."
Bush urges help for needy: "President George W. Bush used his Saturday radio address this Thanksgiving weekend to implore Americans to show compassion for other Americans by volunteering in different ways to help people less fortunate. 'Taking time to count our own blessings reminds us that many people struggle every day -- men, women, and children facing hunger, homelessness, illness, addiction, or despair. These are not strangers. They are fellow Americans needing comfort, love, and compassion." This sounds so good, but consider these warnings:
Serving a Greater Whole and
The Lord giveth, Costco taketh away? "...can a city grab church land to erect a Costco? Cypress, Calif., apparently thought so. Quite shamelessly this spring, city officials announced plans to condemn the Cottonwood Christian Center's land because they preferred the taxes Costco would generate to the souls the Cottonwood might save.
"Last week, in an unprecedented victory for religious liberty and private property, a federal judge stepped in and said to the overweening Cypress city council: Not so fast....
"Councilmember Anna Piercy... told the News-Enterprise in a May 15 story, 'They're waging a holy war trying to make it a religious issue, and it's not that.' You are telling a church it cannot worship on its own land and that is not a religious issue? 'We just don't want them taking our prime development land,' she explained. Whose prime development land, Ms. Piercy?"
National Security Becomes National Snoopery: "Using the Sept. 11 attacks and the threat of terrorism as justification, the federal government is invading the privacy of Americans on a massive scale, probing their use of telecommunications to uncover intimate information about U.S. citizens proven guilty of nothing..... 'Consumers should know that the information they give to America Online or Microsoft may very well wind up at the IRS or the FBI.'...
"'What happens to that information four or five years from now?' he asked. 'The FBI doesn't throw anything away.'...
"Despite the massive threat to the privacy rights of Americans, there has been little public outcry against the expanded government snooping, possibly because 'there is something that people just haven't grasped, though government investigators have,' Gidari said. 'A network economy yields so much more information about personal lives that can be collected and manipulated in ways most people don't understand.'...
"'We endow government with tremendous power - power to arrest you, take away your property, take away your life, destroy your reputation, take your children away from you,' Dempsey said. 'I think those powers in the hands of human beings, acting under pressure, with the best of intentions, facing time deadlines in a world of limited resources, those kinds of powers need to be surrounded with a thicket of rules.' ...
"The aphorism 'If you build it, they will come' is apt, warned attorney Gidari. 'And `they' are the law enforcement authorities.'" See A National Information System & No Place to Hide?
The links below illustrate how church growth communities -- as well as national and global governments -- are using data gathering programs, personal profiles, tracking and "Service learning" to manage and monitor people -- often under the banner of assessing the 'growth' or 'health' of the church." See Reinventing the World. God calls His people to serve the poor in His name, with freedom to share His truth in love. That freedom is restricted -- and the web of data gathering enlarged -- when the government becomes a partner. See Faith-Based Compromiseand Charts: Paradigm Shift
Community. Celebrate Global Youth Service Day April 26-28: "The goals of GYSD are to: Highlight the ways that young people improve their communities through service 365 days a year Recruit the next generation of volunteers and Promote the benefits of youth service around the world." See Serving a Greater Whole and The New "Participatory" Community.
National Youth Service day: "National Youth Service Day (NYSD) is the largest service event in the world, engaging millions of young Americans and focusing national attention on the amazing leadership of young people. National Youth Service Day is also an opportunity to recruit the next generation of volunteers while promoting the benefits of youth service to the American public. Please take a moment to fill out the questionnaire below...." Question # was: "Did any projects incorporate a service-learning approach?" We are called to love, serve and teach in the freedom of Christ, not within the constraints and demands of the government. John 13:34
Faith-based use of government funds grows: "The number of faith-based groups using government funds to provide social services has grown in the past two years... More 'very, very small contracts' are being made with local ministries and a 'significant minority' of contracts are made directly with a church, not its nonprofit affiliate. The 1996 charitable-choice law allowed such direct contracts, though a church must also set up an accounting and reporting system for how the money was used... At the forum, Jim Towey, director of the White House office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, said collecting data on religious social services is a delicate matter for the government, since such inquiries can scare religious workers. "It's a Catch-22," said Mr. Towey, who took over the office early this year. "How do you get the data of what's going on in the country? We're trying to maneuver through that." See Faith-Based Compromise.
'First Things First' brings proven programs to our community: "1. To use credible research to identify significant problems facing Chattanooga, emphasizing families and youth. 2.To identify solutions that are based on traditional values and principles; to measure the effectiveness of these solutions based on credible, empirical data; to evaluate the impact of these potential solutions. 3.To build broad public support for values-based solutions through advocacy, communication and collaboration rather than providing direct client services. 4.To empower and equip local leaders and professionals who work with families and who are also promoting values-based solutions, and to provide support that advances their effectiveness." See Redefining Church (Check the links under the heading: "Information Networks")
Need some ideas for Servant Evangelism? "Here’s a huge list of projects. Pick one you like, and then drop John an e-mail. He needs to know which project you’ve chosen, the name of your church, the name of the coordinator...."
"The Faith-Based Caucus for an International Criminal Court is a coalition of religious and interfaith NGOs that examine the moral, ethical and religious considerations surrounding the Court. Religious organizations have a special role to play in raising awareness at the grassroots level and helping to shape the ICC. ...Participating Organizations:" World Council of Churches, United Methodist Church, World Conference on Religion and Peace, Quaker UN Office, Unitarian Universalists UN Office, Lutheran Office for World Community, Presbyterian UN Office, Mennonite Central Committee, Franciscans International, Bahai International, B'nai B'rith International. See Conforming the Church to the New Millennium
Bush's Faith-Based Initiative Not Just 'Lip Service': "Christian leaders say the president genuinely wants level playing field for charities....The evangelicals were among approximately 150 religious leaders, including Protestants, Catholics, Jews and Muslims, who met in the White House's East Room for a 30-minute briefing by Bush, a Methodist layman, concerning his 'faith-based initiative.' Bush has urged the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate to approve his plan before Memorial Day, May 27 .... 'We shouldn't fear faith, we ought to welcome it in our society,'" said the president. See Faith-Based Compromise | <urn:uuid:1dcd6330-fe7d-4441-9239-d8750ab4beb7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://crossroad.to/News/community.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945917 | 3,519 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Zadock Tillotson was the son of Samuel Tillotson and Sarah Partridge. (His name also appears as Zadoc.) Zadock was born in Lee or Tyringham, Berkshire County, Massachusetts on December 26, 1793. He married twice. His first wife was Susan Caroline Rogers. (Her name sometimes appears as Caroline Susan Rogers.) Susan was born on June 12, 1794 in Hudson, New York. Zadock and Caroline married on August 29, 1815 in Tyringham, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. (The marriage date also appears as August 24 in some sources.) Grant Tillotson's description of the move from Massachusetts states that Susan contracted measles on the way.
Zadock and Susan had the following children:
Harriet Amelia Tillotson was born January 12, 1820 in Brunswick, Medina County, Ohio. She married James Austin Hancock on October 3, 1839 (the date also appears as October 4). James was the son of Lot and Persis Hancock.
Harriet and James had three children, all born in Litchfield, Medina County, Ohio:
Charles Harrison Hancock was born August 14, 1840. He died of consumption on March 13, 1862 in Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland.
George Henry Hancock was born February 3, 1848. He married Emma Lucinda Farnsworth on February 27, 1868. She was born to Seriah Farnsworth and his wife on January 30, 1849 in Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
Austin Tillotson Hancock was born March 23, 1856.
Harriet Amelia Tillotson died in Liverpool, Medina County, Ohio on May 1, 1856. James Austin Hancock died on February 9, 1903 in Litchfield, Medina County, Ohio.
Edward Rogers Tillotson was born November 15, 1823 in Brunswick, Medina Couny, Ohio. He was married twice, first to Augusta Schooley, and second to Elizabeth "Betsey" Brown Sanderson. See their web page for more information.
Zadock Tillotson, Jr. was born August August 23, 1834 in Brunswick, Medina County, Ohio. Zadock married twice. He first married Emily Maria Metcalf. Later he married Sarah M. Potter Silk. See Zadock Jr.'s web page for more information.
Zadock Sr. was a farmer and blacksmith. Politically he was a Whig.
Susan Caroline Rogers died in Brunswick, Medina County, Ohio on July 23, 1837. She is buried in Westview Cemetery, Brunswick, Ohio next to Zadock.
About a year later Zadock married Almira Benjamin Babcock on June 14, 1838. (Her name also appears as Elmira.) Almira was born on February 4, 1802 in Peekskill, Westchester County, New York. Almira sometimes appears with Streeter as a last name. She may have been a widow at the time she married Zadock. Almira was probably the daughter of William Babcock and Anna Lovejoy.
Almira Benjamin Babcock Tillotson.
Zadock and Almira probably had one child:
Caroline Rogers Tillotson was born about 1841. Her name may exemplify the common custom of naming a child by a subsequent wife after the previous wife who died. Caroline married Amos Woodruff on July 22, 1861. They had one child, George Woodruff, who was born in 1861.
Caroline died in 1876 of a fever while traveling in Michigan. Amos died in 1899.
Several sources indicate Caroline was Almira's daughter. Almira's obituary says she and Zadock had no children together. Caroline may have been a daughter of Almira by a previous husband or an adopted child. In a letter written after Caroline's death, Almira refers to Caroline as hers.
Zadock Tillotson Sr. died on April 28, 1859 in Brunswick, Medina County, Ohio. He is buried there in Westview Cemetery. In 1862 Almira moved to Crete, Will County, Illinois to live with her niece with whom she stayed twenty-three years. Almira Benjamin Babcock Tillotson died on December 14, 1888 in Crete, Will County, Illinois at the home of my great-great-grandparents Franklin James Tillotson and Jane Ann Sexton, with whom Almira lived the last three years of her life. See Almira's obituary.
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The Sharks of North America
The Sharks of North America is a reference work that will serve as the standard work on sharks for the twenty-first century. This book covers the entire body of knowledge about each North American species, and dispels the numerous myths found in the scientific and popular literatures. The text covers all the 140 species known from North America, and includes a few extra-limital species from adjacent areas to complete the accounts of some families and to increase the area where this book can be used to identify sharks. Each species is illustrated with an anatomically correct, coloration-correct drawing, and outlines of the snout shape and teeth. This book will be the primary reference of anyone interested in sharks: from laymen and fishermen to biologists and conservationists.
Key to the Families of North American Sharks 11
Species Accounts 19
References cited 551
Scientific names 607
Common names 611
- Dr. Eugenie Clark, Professor Emerita, University of Maryland
"'The Sharks of North America' is a tour de force. Jose Castro's species accounts are written in a straighforward style easily comprehended by a lay audience, yet the scientific detail provided is the most complete of any shark book published in the last 50 years."
- Dr Jack Musick, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
"The illustrations by Diane Peebles are works of art. Not only are they attractive in their own right, they are produced with painstaking detail to morphometric analysis and accurate reproduction of natural coloration. This is one of the few scientific works that belong not only on scholars' bookshelves, but also on their coffee tables as well!"
- Dr. Jeff Carrier, Albion College
"Castro has scoured the continent (and the world) for reference materials and specimens to ensure the accuracy of the illustrations and the science. There is no doubt that this book will become a critical reference for shark researchers and enthusiasts around the world for years to come."
- Dr Mike Heithaus, Director, Marine Science Program, Florida International University
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Deacons are like road signs. If they are not everywhere, they should be. Because where would we be without road signs? Incredibly lost and hopelessly without direction. Deacons, like road signs, provide direction. They let us know what is up ahead and help us anticipate our arrival. They help us understand what is involved in ministry or how far we will have to go. Deacons identify what resources are available to help us – like gas, food, and lodging. They even identify points of interest along the way. In short, deacons (and road signs) help us connect with a location or vision. We have come to trust road signs just as we can trust deacons to safely provide all that we will need to safely arrive at our opportunity for ministry. The sign’s only purpose is to help us. Likewise, deacons are servants whose only prayer is that all Christians everywhere can find their way to fulfillment through ministry in the name of Jesus Christ.
This is a quote from a local church educator in Margaret Ann Crain & Jack L. Seymour’s book A Deacon’s Heart: The New United Methodist Diaconate (2001, Abingdon Press).
Deacons, how do you road signs in your communities of faith?
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“From among the baptized, deacons are called by God to a lifetime of servant leadership, authorized by the Church, and ordained by a bishop.” ¶328, 2008 Book of Discipline
Once upon a time before one was ordained as an elder, he or she would be ordained as a deacon. In this way, being ordained as a deacon was a “stepping stone” toward the goal of becoming an elder.
The 1996 General Conference changed that. Since the 1996 Book of Discipline, the Order of Deacon is a permanent order of persons ordained to a lifetime of ministry of Word and Service. The important part of the role of the deacon is that he/she is called to ministry in the community and within the congregation in a way that connects the two. The image most used to illustrate this calling is that of a bridge. The deacon builds a bridge between the community and the congregation. In this way, the two can be in ministry together.
Ministry of the Word includes teaching, preaching, and modeling the word of God. In addition, Deacons assist the Elder in the administration of the sacraments, conduct marriages and funerals, and empowering disciples. Ministry of Service includes servant leadership, serving the congregation and the community. Service is often seen in ministry with the poor, the sick, or the marginalized and involvement in mission trips. But it also involves equipping the congregation in interpreting the needs, concerns, and even the hopes of the world, often in their own community.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Area school administrators and law enforcement are reviewing safety procedures in response to the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Friday.
Rick Ball, assistant superintendent of Mercer County Schools, said these incidents are often hard for parents to talk about especially with younger children.
“First and foremost, our hearts go out to these families; a tragedy like this is unfathomable,” Ball said. “When you have something like this, you think of the families and children and how heinous it is. This is a tough issue and a tough situation for parents to deal with. We encourage parents to reassure their children during this time.”
Ball said there are security measures in place in every county school.
“We always do a review of security procedures at the beginning of each new year,” Ball said. “Most principals review those throughout the year with their staff to fine tune any issues. All of our schools have one main door we use as an entrance throughout the day, and we keep all of the other doors locked. During this time, we are being introspective and analyzing ways to keep our schools secure. All of our schools have security cameras and all of our classrooms have lockout capabilities. All classrooms have a call out buzzer or phones to contact the front office.”
Greg Prudich, president of the Mercer County Board of Education, said school officials do not reveal many details of their security plans to the public to protect children.
“Every school has lockdown procedures and emergency plans in case of these situations, but we don’t reveal many of those details because we don’t want potential assailants to know those plans,” Prudich said. “For the most part, our schools are the safest place for our children. Administrators discuss these safety plans on a frequent basis and make sure to go over their plans with their staff to keep the plans current and ensure all teachers know the plan. All visitors to our schools are required to report the office immediately and receive a visitor’s pass. School officials know to ask all guests what their business in the school is.”
Prudich said officials cooperate with local law enforcement on safety measures.
“We interact with law enforcement to develop our plans,” he said. “When PikeView Middle was build, we led the sheriff on a tour of the school to get safety advice. Law enforcement have blueprints of all the schools in Mercer County to know about entrances, exits and rooms. All schools have windows and doors and if someone is determined enough, there is a way they could get in unless we start building castle walls around our schools.”
McDowell County School Superintendent Nelson Spencer said communication is essential to school security.
“We have a lot of teachers who have undergone crisis prevention intervention training for these type of scenarios,” Spencer said. “We ask people to communicate to us if an incident like this could occur and communicate it immediately so we can prevent it. Schools are traditionally the safest places for children, and I know these incidents are shocking and make parents apprehensive.”
Spencer said the the McDowell County school system has recently consulted with professionals for upgraded security measures.
“We have an officer who works directly with law enforcement about these issues,” he said. “Over Thanksgiving we had a mock shooting scenario where law enforcement came into the schools and ran through different issues. We have law enforcement in both our high schools. We had a safety audit completed this summer on all our schools, and we are in the process of developing school safety teams at each school to help implement these security measures. Already, we have card access for people to enter the buildings. After school starts, only school staff and teachers can gain access to the building through the card readers. A teacher at one school can only use her card to open the door at her school.”
Major Harold Heatley, chief deputy of the Tazewell County Sheriff’s Office, said law enforcement undergoes tactical training on how to respond to school shootings.
“I have trained with most of the tactical teams in this area, and we train for situations like a school shooting or a bomb detonation,” Heatley said. “One of the things we’ve done in light of these events is to ask all of our deputies to drive by our schools and look to see if anything is out of place. You try to prepare as best you can, but how can you prepare for something like this? Nothing prepares an officer to see the body of a small child. We cry as much as anyone. I can’t imagine how the parents, officers and school staff must feel, what they are going through.”
Healtey said the public should take all threats made to school seriously.
“If anyone has information about an incident like this or threats, they need to report them to law enforcement,” he said. “Take threats seriously. If there is a suspicious package or a suspicious person hanging out around our schools, contact law enforcement with as much information as you can so we can respond to this and do what we have to do.”
Christine Kinser, an assistant superintendent with Tazewell County Schools, said all safety plans in place at county schools are annually updated and approved by the school board.
“Each school is unique in the size and shape of the building, how many floors and things like that so each plan must be different,” she said. “This is something we pray never happens. We try to remain alert and vigilant about these incidents. Each school talks with their local law enforcement about these situations. Law enforcement sometimes use our buildings to run through these scenarios. We work very closely with our law enforcement and emergency response officials.”
Kinser said parents should emphasize safety to children in light of the incident.
“I think children need to know they are safe with their teacher and safe in our schools,” Kinser said. “Parents need to reinforce that we will do everything we can to keep them safe. We certainly send our condolences and pray for them at this time.”
Marsha Mead, licensed professional counselor, also said parents should talk with their students about the shooting.
“Parents can talk to their children about the odds of (a similar school shooting) happening here,” Mead said. “It almost certainly won’t happen here.”
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Recovery from a natural disaster the scale of Hurricane Sandy is best measured by significant efforts. Here are highlights from 100 days after the storm made landfall on the New Jersey coast:
More than $352 million was approved to help individuals repair damaged homes, find temporary housing and meet other serious disaster-related needs not covered by insurance or other federal, state and charitable aid programs.
Nearly 58,000 individuals and households received help with housing, home repairs and other serious disaster-related needs.
Nearly $360.3 million in Small Business Administration low-interest disaster home loans was approved.
More than $34 million in SBA low-interest disaster business loans was approved.
More than 5,500 survivors were sheltered in more than 430 hotels/motels in the Transitional Sheltering Assistance program.
More than 71,000 visits were made to FEMA disaster recovery centers.
Thirty-five federal agencies contributed to 349 mission assignments totaling nearly $169 million.
More than 480 volunteer groups helped Hurricane Sandy survivors. Of them, 44 groups contributed 766,000 hours of their time.
160 New Jersey residents were hired by FEMA to assist with the recovery.
Nearly 3,800 FEMA employees worked on Hurricane Sandy recovery in New Jersey.
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The President of the United States
in the name of The Congress
takes pleasure in presenting the
Medal of Honor
McMURTRY, GEORGE G.
Rank and Organization: Captain, U.S. Army, 308th
Infantry, 77th Division. Place and Date: At Charlevaux, in the forest of Argonne,
France, 2-8 October 1918. Entered Service At: New York, N.Y. Born: 6
November 1876, Pittsburgh, Pa. G. O. No.: 118, W.D., 1918.
Commanded a battalion which was cut off and surrounded by the enemy and although wounded
in the knee by shrapnel on 4 October and suffering great pain, he continued throughout the
entire period to encourage his officers and men with a resistless optimism that
contributed largely toward preventing panic and disorder among the troops, who were
without food, cut off from communication with our lines. On 4 October during a heavy
barrage, he personally directed and supervised the moving of the wounded to shelter before
himself seeking shelter. On 6 October he was again wounded in the shoulder by a German
grenade, but continued personally to organize and direct the defense against the German
attack on the position until the attack was defeated. He continued to direct and command
his troops, refusing relief, and personally led his men out of the position after
assistance arrived before permitting himself to be taken to the hospital on 8 October.
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- NAME: Charlayne Hunter-Gault
- OCCUPATION: Radio Personality, News Anchor, Journalist
- BIRTH DATE: February 27, 1942 (Age: 71)
- EDUCATION: University of Georgia, Wayne State University, Washington University in St. Louis
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Due West, South Carolina
- Originally: Alberta Charlayne Hunter
- AKA: Charlaye Hunter-Gault
- ZODIAC SIGN: Pisces
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault is best known as one of two African-American students first admitted to the University of Georgia and is an award-winning journalist.
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an African-American reporter and journalist born on February 27, 1942 in Due West, South Carolina. She was one of two African-American students first admitted to the University of Georgia. On campus, she was met with racial taunts and acts of violence, but she persevered and graduated in 1963. Hunter-Gault made her mark working at New Yorker magazine, The New York Times, MacNeil/Lehrer Report, National Public Radio (NPR) and CNN. She is the recipient of two National News and Documentary Emmy Awards and two Peabody Awards. Outside of the journalism she is a sought after public speaker.
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After the Civil War, many of the country's best and brightest black advocates, artists, entrepreneurs and intellectuals moved to the New York City neighborhood of Harlem. Thanks largely to the efforts of these residents, Harlem became both the cradle of a cultural revolution and the heart of the civil rights movement. Meet some of the many people who gave—and continue to give—this neighborhood a voice, simply by calling it home.
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Aucilla River and Sinks
This is a unique section of The Florida Trail because of the interesting geology of the Aucilla River. Emerging from swamps near the Georgia/Florida border, the river flows southwestward, passing over the Aucilla Rapids and then disappearing underground a half mile north of Goose Pasture Road. For a distance of eight miles, the river appears and disappears in a series of “rises” and sinks.” The river continues this pattern until the final rise at Nutall Rise 0.5 miles north of the US 98 bridge. This section of the Trail is approximately 21.3 miles long, including the road walks. Excluding the road walks on Powell Hammock Rd. and US 98, the distance is about 15 miles. See below for access points and parking. On Goose Pasture Rd., look for the Florida Trail kiosk on the south side of the road, just before the cattle grate; the trail along the Sinks portion enters the woods to the south, just west of the kiosk. There are many sinks to follow along this trail. The trail along the River portion enters the woods on the north side of the road, a bit further west of the kiosk; the “rapids” are about 4 miles north along the River trail.
CLICK HERE for Summary Sheet with map, mileage points, and other information for hiking this section.
The east terminus of the section is at the trail crossing on CR 14, 1.5 miles south of the Aucilla River Bridge. The west terminus is 1.7 miles west of the US 98 bridge over the Aucilla River.
Hiking Conditions and Precautions
The trail leads through limestone sinks in the south portion and along the river bank in the north portion. Hiking is usually dry except when the river is at flood stage (flood stage is 9 feet; check THIS SITE for current water level; also check Trail Conditions notices on the Florida Trail Assoc. website). The trail should not be hiked during, or close to, flood stage because the trail runs close to the river bank and edges of sinks, and flood water can hide drop-offs. The trail is within the Aucilla Wildlife Management Area, so check the hunting dates at THIS SITE and wear safety orange during gun season. Ticks are exceptionally bad along the sinks from April through September and they are known to carry tick-borne Ehrlichiosis (and possibly Lyme disease).
For current advisories and changes to the maps, see the Florida Trail website.
Some roadside parking along CR 14 near the trail crossing, 9.9 mi. south of Lamont (1.5 mi. so. of Aucilla River Bridge).
2. Some parking available at the north end of the River Access 41 road.
3. Some roadside parking along Goose Pasture Road and in a small parking area across from the kiosk.
4. Many parking options at the south end of the Sinks portion, about 1 mile in from Powell Hammock Road on an unmarked dirt road that heads west off P. H. Rd. ,about 1.1 mi. north of the Dolomite mine (2.8 mi. north of US 98).
All parking is at your own risk.
There is no potable water along the trail. Boil, filter or treat river and surface water. Water (bottled) may be purchased (or perhaps available at a spigot) at J.R.’s Aucilla River Store on US 98, 0.4 mi. east of the Aucilla River bridge.
Camping is permitted at three primitive campsites along the trail. There are two campsites along the river and one along the sinks.
Supplies: Lamont, St. Marks and J.R.’s Aucilla River Store on US 98 (0.4 mi. east of the Aucilla River bridge).
Mail: Lamont 32336
Lodging: Perry; St. Marks: Sweet Magnolia B&B, Shell Island Fish Camp; west of St. Marks: The Inn at Wildwood, on US 98.
Public Campgrounds: Goose Pasture (on Wacissa River, 1.75 mi. west of Trail, at end of Goose Pasture Rd.), primitive, pit toilets, no potable water. Closed during general hunting season.
Taylor County Sheriff: (850) 584-2429.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission: (850) 488-6251
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Caveat Emptor: Microsoft Co-President Says Vista Won't Need Extra Security Software
from the that's-a-first dept
For a long time, Microsoft had a symbiotic relationship with the makers of anti-virus software. Microsoft would release a new version of Windows that had plenty of security flaws, creating a market for these third parties. But all that's started to change of late. When it got into the security space itself, its one-time partners started up the argument that the company was a monopolist. And as Vista's drawn near, many have accused the company of unfairly locking them out of the Vista Kernel, which they claim denies them the ability to make their software work. And now it seems Microsoft is ratcheting up the war of words again, as co-President Jim Allchin said to reporters that Vista wouldn't need anti-virus software, and that he'd let his young son surf the web without it. Obviously, this isn't the kind of thing that the third-party security vendors want Microsoft to say, but can we now expect Microsoft to not sell its own anti-virus software to Vista users, since it must be a waste of money? | <urn:uuid:2801836b-d1cd-4e82-b9d0-07d90d0ebd51> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20061110/084829.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974587 | 247 | 1.578125 | 2 |
LOS ANGELES, CA.-
In 421 B.C., the twenty-seven-year-old playwright Aristophanes launched a ribald and scathing theatrical assault on the entrenched military-industrial complex of Athens. On Mount Olympus, the ogre War has imprisoned the goddess Peace and holds sway over all of Greece; meanwhile, on Earth below, three rustic patriots hatch a plot to saddle their faithful dung beetle and fly to the heavens, to engineer the goddesss rescue and restore Peace to the land.
See the comic heroes of Culture Clash and Director Bill Rauch honor the revolutionary spirit of Aristophanes in a free adaptation of his zany, utopian escapade. Appearing alongside Culture Clash in Peace are two luminaries of the Los Angeles independent theater scene, John Fleck and Amy Hill.
Culture Clash is the nations most prominent Chicano-Latino performance troupe. Celebrating their 25th anniversary this year, writer-actors Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, and Herbert Siquenza have imitated the workings of social anthropologists, digging deep into Americas racial psyche to formulate their outrageous brand of satire. Peace is their second dramatic encounter with Aristophanes at the Getty Villa. Collaborating with the members of Culture Clash on this Getty-commissioned adaptation is playwright and dramaturge John Glore.
Audiences should be prepared for scathing satire, abundant profanity, and ribald humor not suitable for children.
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, September 10October 3, 2009.
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Little is known of Marquez's private life except that he has eight siblings and three children from a marriage that pre-dated his life as a fugitive, according to government intelligence officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter. They said Marquez operated as a rebel commander in the Caribbean banana-growing region of Uraba, where the FARC took a beating from paramilitaries and murders of union organizers by right-wing death squads were rampant.
In 1991, Marquez was named to the FARC delegation for peace talks in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas after being promoted to the rebels' seven-man ruling Secretariat.
It was in Caracas that he and De la Calle met for the first time.
The two "carefully measured their words in public and in private. They committed no imprudences," said Hector Riveros, a government negotiator at the time.
He remembers Marquez as being opposed to the negotiations.
Ironically, so apparently was De la Calle. Or so he was ordered.
De la Calle only showed up for the talks' inauguration, and was ordered home by then-President Cesar Gaviria because the latter wasn't interested in serious talks, said Alvaro Leyva, a Colombian politician from the Conservative Party trusted by the rebels who would later help arrange 1999-2002 peace talks.
Gaviria thought the FARC could be beaten on the battlefield, Leyva said.
At any rate, conditions were not good for peace. A coup attempt led by Hugo Chavez convulsed Venezuela in 1992, and Gaviria's government was battling cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar, who was killing civilians indiscriminately and would be tracked down and killed in December 1993 with U.S. help. The talks moved to Tlaxcala, Mexico, where they died.
Marquez and De la Calle didn't meet again until Oslo.
Because he is viewed as having no presidential ambitions, De la Calle was a good choice to lead Santos' negotiating team to the current talks, even though he didn't participate in the secret talks leading up to them, Riveros said.
The role of chief FARC negotiator fell to Marquez pretty much by default. The rebels have lost their four most senior commanders since 2008 as a U.S.-supported military buildup depleted their ranks, triggering record desertions. Three members of the ruling Secretariat were killed in military attacks and a fourth, founding leader Manuel Marulanda, died in a jungle camp, apparently from a heart attack.
Marquez reportedly was residing safely in Venezuela while Colombia's government tracked down and killed other top FARC leaders, including Alfonso Cano, with whom it had kick-started the current peace process.
Being in Chavez's country may have saved Marquez's life.
Gabriel Silva, who was Colombia's defense minister in 2009-2010, recently disclosed that government agents tracked down Marquez in Venezuela in those years and were ready to capture him.
But Colombia's then-president, Alvaro Uribe, wouldn't allow it, Silva said.
Initial peace contacts had been established with the FARC and Santos, who preceded Silva as defense minister, was running for president.
Associated Press writers Cesar Garcia in Bogota and Frank Bajak in Lima, Peru, contributed to this report.
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There was something reassuring about the wave of public sorrow over the Newtown massacre. After Tucson, after Aurora, after the mass shootings in a dozen other places that you or I couldnt name events that were shrugged off within days I was no longer convinced of the publics capacity to respond to such horror in the right way: with outrage, with regret, with something close to determination.
Apparently, murdering a score of children and the women who were trying to protect them hits primordial nerves. That it happened at all suggests an abysmal failure to carry out the very most basic responsibility of any society to keep its people safe, especially the most cherished and most vulnerable of them.
So its no surprise that the Dec. 14 slaughter at Sandy Hook elementary summoned a crisis-level response from the institution that is societys trip wire and its intelligence service, the news media. Hundreds of reporters, anchors, technicians, support crews flooded the small Connecticut town as the story swelled and engulfed the countrys news agenda.
And how did they do? How have the news media, bristling with cutting-edge technologies and bolstered by networks of hunters and gatherers prowling the social media, handled this harrowing story?
The jury is out. The first thing that was apparent in the coverage was its haste and its heedlessness. Within hours, the killer was misidentified, and the name and photo of his innocent brother streaked through the Internet. The killers connection with the school hence, his presumed motive was misreported. His slain mothers connection with the school was wrongly stated. Minutes before the shooting started, he supposedly was buzzed through the schools security doors because he was known to officials there. That too was wrong. He was diagnosed, with scant evidence, with Aspergers syndrome, to the dismay of parents of children with that condition.
Of course, theres nothing surprising about getting critical facts wrong in the early stages of breaking stories. But its worth asking whether such errors have become more, rather than less, tolerable among news people, as the velocity of reporting rises and why it is that no thought is given to the harm that false information can do.
Would the public have been ill-served if the name of the killer who posed no further danger, since he was already dead had been withheld until it was confirmed? And was it necessary to float entirely speculative reconstructions of the event, complete with causes and motives, even when they might wrongly incriminate such irrelevancies as home-schooling and autism and might leave millions of people with wholly mistaken understandings of the tragedy?
The upshot: As archaic as this may sound, maybe when theres no news to report news meaning verified facts the news media should say nothing.
But in a larger sense, the quality of the media coverage of the tragedy will be determined only now, in the aftermath, in the search to discover why it happened and what should happen next.
The initial look into causes focused on weaponry, which was inevitable and appropriate. Murdering 26 people so quickly, many of them shot numerous times, requires gruesome proficiency and sophisticated firepower. So its right to ask what sane public purpose is served by keeping such armaments so abundant that a disturbed, suicidal, possibly psychotic young man could get his hands on them to kill so many.
But zeroing in on the gunmakers and their lobby, and on the maladroit comments of the National Rifle Associations hapless president Wayne LaPierre, felt to me like a reflexive reach for a familiar foil. Sure, reducing the lethality of off-the-shelf firearms is a fine idea, but the proposed restrictions are trivial: Its hard to imagine that adding a few moments to the reload process, or forcing the killer to use a 9mm pistol instead of a .223-cal rifle, would have saved lives at Sandy Point.
But the massacre was the product not just of free-for-all gun markets, but of multiple social failures, and the media need now to inquire aggressively into the full range of those breakdowns as well. Its encouraging to see attention begin to turn to the erosion of mental health services, which have left desperate parents, faced with disquieting evidence of dysfunction among their adolescent children, with few sources of help.
And, as I suggested when 70 people were shot (12 fatally) last summer in a Colorado movie house, its high time to challenge Hollywoods two-fisted worship of gun violence as a cultural norm, the cinematic fast-track to mastery and justice.
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General approach to EU powers:
“A liberal approach to the allocation of responsibilities to the EU should be founded on a rigorous application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality… the EU must only act if there is a clear cross-border issue at stake, or when collective EU action brings collective benefits to all member states that they would not be able to secure on their own… This would help correct the lopsided nature of the EU and so make it more logical and comprehensible to British voters.”On Agricultural policy and farm subsidies:
“It would be more logical for the EU to wield strong powers in the manner in which agricultural products are traded across Europe, especially to guarantee high quality and animal welfare standards, whilst leaving much of the system of production support to national governments themselves, subject to EU rules on subsidies and fair competition.”On regional policy and the structural funds:
“There is a danger that the system of EU regional subsidies has reached a point of such excessive complexity that the value added of collective EU funds is being undermined. The founding logic of the so-called EU structural funds remains compelling – that the richer parts of the EU should help provide resources to those parts in dire straits, especially in helping to cover high infrastructure investment costs. Yet, in practice, regional funds are still being channelled to all member states, even Britain, France and Germany who are the main contributors in the first place. Logically, those governments should take full responsibility for the channelling of funds to their own regions, rather than rely on the recycling of funds via the EU… That, in turn, would allow the EU structural funds to concentrate wholly on those countries where the economic need for financial assistance is overwhelming.”On EU involvement in social and employment law:
“While it is, of course, entirely understandable to support EU measures because of their beneficial effects – working time and parental leave legislation spring to mind – doing so in order to supplant the normal domestic policy making process risks undermining the basic tenets of democratic accountability. If the EU were to be used systematically as a means to bypass domestic political debate, voters will be even more perplexed about who is responsible for what… It disrupts the key relationship between voters and those elected to public office if domestic issues with no obvious EU dimension are arbitrarily shuffled off to Brussels for resolution. For these reasons, there is a compelling case to curtail the EU in its responsibility in the social policy sphere.”On the EU budget:
"The multitude of small and dispersed EU budget lines, in everything from youth programmes and tourism, should substantially be reduced. It is highly doubtful whether their marginal benefits justify the scarce personnel resources in the European Commission allocated to them".It's hard to disagree, and indeed we have echoed many of these points our reports over the last 18 months, for example on employment law, structural funds, CAP, the EU budget and EU 'localism'.
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Function: Exclamation or statement
Etymology: Canadian, particular to the greater Hamilton (the Hammer) region (Burlington, Stoney Creek, Burlington)
1. An exclamation of disbelief.
2. Means that you don't believe something to such a degree that you make an indirect reference to someone's lack of intelligence or ugly head
When your housemate accuses you of eating all of his peanut butter when you didn't, you exclaim, 'Nice Head!'
An expression used after a friend says something particularly stupid, potentially by accident, and does not realize it. However, it must be brought to the friend's attention in the form of light-hearted ridicule.
"I think that I injured my trapezoid muscle at the gym last night."
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Over the past year, the idea that we're heading towards a new American civil war has moved from fringe raving to commonplace. There's a deep divide between ordinary citizens and our leaders - we see American free enterprise as a self-evidently great force for worldwide good, but our President and his party blame the world's ills on America.
Our ruling elites act as if all the world's poverty is caused by American wealth. If they can make America poor, they believe other nations will be better off. We're sending taxpayer money to Brazil for oil exploration but won't allow new drilling, new oil refineries, natural-gas wells, new oil pipelines, or oil-shale refining here. They're trying to "skyrocket" the cost of energy to take us down.
The world financial crisis laid the issues so bare that "Culture War" isn't strong enough. Our differences are much deeper than culture. Like the first American Civil War, this war is about individual rights.
The first Civil War was triggered when the South violated the American idea of a republic whose states could do things differently. Instead of letting the Northern states ignore slavery, the South went "in your face" with the Dredd Scott decision. This forced Northerners to personally participate in slavery by capturing and returning escaped slaves.
The South forced Northerners to rub their faces in what they considered an abomination, every hour of every waking day. It wasn't possible to compromise on slavery as had been done in the past because the North couldn't ignore it.
Mr. Lincoln declared that the nation couldn't survive half slave and half free. In the same way, our pending civil war is being driven by our liberal elites violating federalism and forcing all states to implement ideas such as gay "marriage" and abortion which many Americans consider to be abominations.
We're an amazingly tolerant people. We've put up with increased taxation, massive intrusion into our daily lives, and public sexual assaults by the TSA. Though gun sales jumped when Mr. Obama was elected, nobody seems to want to start flinging lead around.
Scragged was founded to argue for policies that would give our grandchildren better lives. Instead of worrying about what will happen to our grandchildren, however, the actions of the Obama administration have showed that it's coming to us.
What's changed? Mr. Obama spent more of tax money in his first six months than all US presidents before him, combined, spent. He's made our government so expensive that we can't afford it any more. We're borrowing roughly one-third of GNP each year.
When lenders stop lending and government checks start bouncing, violence will come. War is inevitable because we've bred generations of people who view public funds as their natural right. What's no longer given them peacefully, they'll attempt to take by force, and owners will resist.
The issue that's bringing us to the point of war is as simple as the slavery issue. One faction is convinced that the modern welfare state is morally superior to the more capitalist economy we had before the New Deal. This faction believes that it's not only right, it's required for the government to tax successful people to help the less fortunate.
Their opponents believe that workers have the right to keep what they earn. Earners believe that taxing productive people to support others, no matter how needy, is theft.
There's no real compromise between these views. The welfare state faction saw Obamacare as fulfilling a moral imperative - wealthy nations must provide all citizens with medical care. The "keep what you earn" faction saw Obamacare as a moral outrage, offering unlimited expensive medical care to people who cause their own health problems and requiring everyone to buy costly, "one size fits all" health insurance.
Welfare statists see forcing everyone to buy health insurance as necessary to get the money to take care of everyone, conservatives see it as government trampling individual liberty. If government can force us to buy health insurance and wear motorcycle helmets, can they force us to eat broccoli?
The "keep what you earn" faction believes in volunteer-based charity; they loathe the "social safety net" based on coerced taxation with tax money given to anyone who suffers the slightest discomfort or inconvenience.
Conservatives argue that nobody starved before the welfare state because neighborhoods and families took care of each other. They believe in individual, voluntary charity which lifts people out of poverty so they can support themselves and then look after others. Conservatives donate far more money to charities than liberals do. They measure results by the number of people who graduate out of the programs and no longer need help just as they measure school systems by the number of graduates who earn enough money to pay taxes.
Liberals measure success by the number of people who're in government programs, by the amount of money spent, and of course by recipients voting for liberal politicians. If the "social safety net" locks generation after welfare generation into poverty, so be it, particularly if they vote for more goodies at election time. Conservatives see multi-generation welfare ghettos as an abuse of the human spirit which verges on deliberate evil.
We now know how the culture wars will play out - no economy can afford the welfare state. It simply isn't sustainable. Europe and America have been running on borrowed money for two generations. The money's running out, so things will change even in the home of European socialism.
The slow-moving Greek bankruptcy is a battle between ordinary Europeans and the European ruling elite. When running for President, Mr. Obama illustrated what it means to be in the elite when he referred to himself as a "fellow citizen of the world."
Elites think of themselves as enlightened beings who benefit the world at large instead of individual nations. They get together to swap ideas how best to rule us - for our own good, of course.
Greece should default, cancel debts, and go back to their own currency. Not having to pay off massive debts would make it easier to return to prosperity. Personal bankruptcy wipes out debt because when there's no way to pay, there's no point trying.
Most Greek debt is held by European national banks. Stiffing French and German banks would upset the European elites because their taxpayers would have to pay. Greek rulers don't want non-Greek elites mad at them, so they accepted a plan to increase the amount Greece will have to pay back. The way to cure Greek debt is to pile on more?
The new bailout may postpone default but will make default worse when it arrives. That's OK with Greek politicians because they'll keep their elite status in the meantime.
Greek citizens are rioting. They don't want to give up anything they're getting and they don't see why they should be taxed any more. France and Germany paid for the first bailout, but their taxpayers see no reason to pour money into Greece and plan to punish their rulers in the next election.
Why didn't the Germans or the French cut the Greeks off? Governing elites don't see themselves as French, German, or whatever, except when electioneering the rubes. The rest of the time, they're Europeans or "citizens of the world."
They salute the "Pan-European" dream where there are no national boundaries just as our elites don't believe in national boundaries. They can't let themselves help their citizens by stopping the Greek gravy train - it would hurt the Greek elites who are their friends. Greek rulers won't help Greek citizens by defaulting - that would hurt their European friends and tarnish the pan-European ideal the elites all hold so dear.
The American welfare state started with the "New Deal" during the Depression. Our expectations of government changed profoundly over FDR's decade-plus in office.
As Newsweek put it in 1993, “We gradually moved from an era in which people did not want to use government for anything to today when people use government for almost everything.” The Daily Telegraph explained how Britain followed the same road:
The welfare state, as conceived by the great social reformer Sir William Beveridge and implemented by the Attlee government after the Second World War, was a sublime idea. It rescued millions of British citizens from the degradation of poverty and lifted the fear of illness. It guaranteed employment or, if jobs were not available, universal benefits. It offered security in old age.
Welfare advocates assumed that even though penalties for idleness and failure were removed, people would work as hard, be as responsible, and look after their families just as well as when survival depended on their own efforts. They assumed that the welfare system would not reduce individual work incentives so tax revenue would not fall and welfare costs would remain small.
Others argued that welfare would tempt people to be idle, but they lost the debate to the "welfare state" faction. Unfortunately, human nature didn't change - work and responsibility have became less common because they're no longer required for survival.
In 1980, T. E. Utley, chief political commentator for the Daily Telegraph, identified the problem:
"Roughly speaking, social democracy may be defined as an arrangement under which we all largely cease to be responsible for our own behaviour and in return become responsible for everyone else’s. The temptations which this way of doing things offers to synthetic anger, fraudulent penitence, all other forms of hypocrisy and the sheer evasion of duty are infinitely too strong for fallen man." [emphasis added]
Once welfare became available, people no longer had to fulfill traditional duties. Working women didn't have to raise children to care for them in their old age because government promised to care for them. Not having children is also a good way to avoid trouble with the child protection bureaucrats.
A few years ago, the Daily Mail covered a family whose grandparents were solid working people but whose current generation lives off the government. Karen Matthews, a central figure in the story, had never had regular work yet received £400 a week benefits, having had seven children by five different men.
Ms. Matthews doesn't need a husband; welfare provides her every need, and the more children she has, the more money she gets. In America, many welfare recipients have bigger families than American taxpayers.
Unlike welfare recipients, unionized government employees perform work, some of it useful and necessary, but they use their collective power to hold taxpayers to ransom. Union bosses invest their forcibly-extracted union dues to help elect politicians with whom they "negotiate" salary and benefits.
Our elites have allowed union contracts which make it nearly impossible to fire anyone and they've promised benefits which are bankrupting us. The unions control both sides of the negotiating table; the taxpayer who's stuck with the bill is nowhere to be seen.
Private sector unions are no better. General Motors was once the most profitable business in the world. Even at its peak, it couldn't earn enough to pay the health and pension benefits it had promised the United Auto Workers. Without going through bankruptcy which wiped out its debt and receiving a massive bailout with taxpayer money, GM would have disappeared.
Without bankruptcy to wipe out debt, there's no way Greece, Portugal, or the rest can be solvent. Even in the face of such realities, unionized employees won't accept pay cuts, pension cuts, or even work harder.
No government makes it easy to figure out just how much they've promised and they lie to make it easier to sell debt. USA Today reported that our government is going the way of Greece: unfunded obligations in the US are now at $528,000 per household.
In 2010, our government increased the amount we owe by one third of our GNP. Our "welfare state" elites have sold us down the river to the tune of more than a half million dollars per household. No matter how high taxes get, that's far, far more than we can ever repay.
Free enterprise generated the wealth that made our welfare state possible. As excessive taxes and onerous regulations have moved us further and further from a free market, the most powerful economy history has ever known is staggering under the load of parasites and barnacles. Mr. Obama claims to understand this:
No business wants to invest in a place where the government skims 20 percent off the top, or the head of the port authority is corrupt. No person wants to live in a society where the rule of law gives way to the rule of brutality and bribery. That is not democracy, that is tyranny, and now is the time for it to end.
- President Barack Hussein Obama, on the need for reform in Africa, New York Times quote of the day, July 12, 2009
Mr. Obama learned corruption in Chicago - his administration merrily gives Obamacare waivers to favored groups in return for political support and he's imitated the Greeks in creating job-killing regulations. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that one out of every three dollars earned in the U.S. goes to pay taxes or to comply with federal laws and regulations.
Nobody invests where 20% is taken off the top, and we're worse than that; 35% of our national income covers nothing but regulations. Without massive job creation, we can't pay our current debts even if we don't borrow any more. Our government has made it too expensive to create new jobs so we're stagnating.
In 2011, Americans received more money from government than they paid in taxes. Our nation is half self-supporting responsible citizens and half who live off government. As America couldn't survive half slave and half free, the productive half of our society can't support so many people who consume more tax money than they produce.
Regardless of the morality of the welfare state versus individual responsibility, no economy can support a welfare state because too many people stop working. Working taxpayers can't support both the welfare state and unionized government employees; welfare states last only as long as lenders pick up the bills.
When German and French taxpayers get sick of supporting Greek consumers, their rulers will cut the Greeks off to save their skins. When the Chinese get tired of supporting Americans who consume more than they produce, we'll be cut off.
Margaret Thatcher warned, "The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." Welfare states run on borrowed money. When nobody lends, it all comes crashing down.
Some of the European elites understand this. David Cameron, Prime Minister of England, has declared that British society is "broken," and offered the "big society" in its place. Instead of having services paid for by the government, he wants to recruit volunteers - individuals who look out for each other as in the past. The Guardian quotes Mr. Cameron:
"I don't think this has happened because we've somehow become bad people. I think at its core, it's the consequence of years and years of big government. As the state got bigger and more powerful, it took away from people more and more things that they should and could be doing for themselves."
Mr. Cameron has noticed that when government does anything for people, bureaucracies spend vastly more than reasonable people would spend. What does it costs for an elderly parent to be helped in a relative's home versus being put in a nursing home at $30,000-$50,000 per year?
The British aren't bad people any more than Americans are, but our problem is the same: they, and we, have succumbed to the temptation to lie back and let government take care of us.
... [the liberal elite] is wrong in its immediate assumption that it is the state’s job to look after our parents when they get decrepit. In fact, the one thing we know for certain about the state, from the terrible recent Panorama exposé and other reports, is that it does this job very badly indeed. [emphasis added]
The first decade of the new millennium has demonstrated that there were actually two wrong assumptions behind the founding of the welfare system, only one of which was foreseen.
The first assumption, that people would continue to work hard even if the government took care of them, was expected to be wrong by conservatives. The second wrong assumption wasn't really understood by anyone; even people who thought that government shouldn't try to take care of everyone thought it could.
Over the past 50 years, we’ve seen a number of gigantic policies produce disappointing results — policies to reduce poverty, homelessness, dropout rates, single-parenting and drug addiction. Many of these policies failed because they were based on an overly simplistic view of human nature. They assumed that people responded in straightforward ways to incentives. Often, they assumed that money could cure behavior problems. [emphasis added]
David Cameron is trying to reawaken the British sense of responsibility. Back in the days of the "stiff upper lip," one could say, "There'll always be an England." To his credit, Mr. Cameron has recognized that without individual responsibility, without major changes in behavior, there's no way the British can afford to be England any more.
We wish Mr. Cameron well in his efforts to turn England around. If he can, well and good.
If he and the rest of Europe can't, though, the entire European economy will collapse into the Confucian abyss of economic and governmental collapse, chaos and anarchy. Eventually a strongman who'll bring order but destroy freedom. If that happens, those who can't take care of themselves will starve because the government will be unable to care for them any more.
The welfare state cannot go on. Not merely because it shouldn't, not only because it crushes the human soul and destroys the last vestige of freedom, but because no country anywhere - not America, not Britain, not Greece, not any nation - can afford it. We'll either avoid disaster by cutting spending the hard way regardless of screaming, or we'll cut spending the very hard way by total collapse.
We call spending cuts the hard way because nobody wants to give up a dime of benefits. Wisconsin teachers lied about being sick and rioted against budget cuts. Connecticut unions refused to accept a freeze which didn't cut pay at all. Minnesota state government shut down because the politicians can't agree on a budget - one side wants to cut spending, the other wants to raise taxes. European elites are criticizing the rating agencies for downgrading European debt - they'd rather shoot the messenger than cure the problem. Cutting costs enough to avoid collapse is a hard way indeed.
Personally, we'd prefer the hard way to the very hard way, but our politicians, government employees, and other leeches want to spin things out as long as they can.
The longer they wait, the longer they try to keep the welfare state going, the messier the crash will be when it hits the wall and stops. | <urn:uuid:bf0b02fd-a6a0-4c47-a1d9-bcf8bb17f311> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.scragged.com/articles/the-new-slavery-of-moral-superiority | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97405 | 3,857 | 2.375 | 2 |
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By Jody Worsham
All rights reserved for a little common sense.
Maybe because it is late at night and my brain is only hearing half of the television commercials or, which is more likely, the commercials really are that dumb. My subconscious has been subjected to ads for giant cupcake pans, Eggies for boiling eggs without the shell provided you can still find all the parts, and pajama blue jeans which only look good on those physically fit who wear a size two.
The ultimate dumbest commercial to date, just slightly ahead of the Eggies, is the hands free soap dispenser. Now granted, a hands free touch faucet makes sense. If your hands are really dirty, then touching the faucet with your elbow, your nose, or your big toe if you are into yoga or Pilates makes sense. Even a hands free paper towel dispenser would protect your clean hands, especially if the previous person touching the paper towel dispenser lever did not do a good job of washing his/her hands, but a hands free soap dispenser?!
The advertisement touts "prevents the spread of germs." Ok, now you are getting soap to wash the germs off your hands, right? So washing a few extra germs picked up from the soap dispenser isn't going to break the germicidal bank. Plus, is the soap dispenser suddenly going to shower the room with germ spores? Are the germs congregating just south of the dispenser mechanism waiting to make a gigantic jump through the air? If the soap in the hands free soap dispenser cannot fight off the germs left by the hands the soap is supposed to clean, then it isn't going to make any difference if the soap dispenser is hands free or not. Besides, who is going to touch the soap dispenser and NOT wash their hands?
Better that germ fearing inventors turn their efforts toward inventing a hands free toothpaste dispenser. Now there's a germ laden object just waiting to explode. Think about it. Multiple hands touching the tube, (why am I the only one with toothpaste in the house) then tossing it on various counters that may or may not have been the semi-final resting place for pet frogs, worms, and gold fish? Hands griping the twisted distorted tube, squirting crusted semi-dried goo onto a toothbrush, then said hand and brush going to your mouth. Bleeegh!
Put toothpaste in those individual packets like catsup or put toothpaste in your hands free soap dispenser. At least that would make sense.
If, however, you are one of the millions who bought the hands free soap dispenser you can just toss it in the drawer with the missing eggie parts when the batteries run down. Your hands can still get clean with old fashioned soap-on-a-rope. | <urn:uuid:fa14051c-3005-412a-965c-521ad272691c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://themedicaremom.blogspot.com/2011/09/germs-have-it.html?showComment=1315771143585 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943635 | 590 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Genital warts or condylomata acuminala is a very common sexually transmitted disease, which can be found in genital and anal area (internal and external) in both men and women of any age, but women are considered to be more amenable to it than men. Sometimes genital warts can be found in children younger than 4 years old and are thought to be passed on by nonsexual way, although this may be a sign of a sexual abuse of a child also. It is represented by gray or dark-purple growths and usually caused by a virus called human papillomavirus (HPV). There are various types of human papillomavirus (more than a 100) that can infect top layers of the skin, but only few of them can cause genital warts. These are HPV-6, HPV-11, HPV-16, and HPV-18 types.
Genital warts are highly contagious and, as it was said previously, can be passed on through sexual contact with an infected partner even if he or she doesn’t have any obvious symptoms of the disease. Usually it takes more than three months for the visible signs of infection to be shown, so it is extremely important to be very careful with choosing a sexual partner and durable sexual connections are preferred. The risk to develop genital warts after a single sexual contact with a partner who has HPv-caused warts is approximately 65%.
Risk factors for the disease are:
sexual contact without the use of barrier protection
multiple sexual partners
sexual activity at a young age
stress and other viral infection at the same time
To avoid the risk of being infected – avoid previously listed practice and schedule routine physical exams under the professional doctors’ supervision. It is strongly recommended to have regular Papanicolaou tests also referred to as Pap smears to detect the disease at early stage. Pap smears test is considered to be the most effective and trustworthy test for HPV. While pap smears tests cannot detect specific sexually transmitted infections, such as genital warts, they can identify signs by distinguishing abnormal cells from normal ones.
If genital warts are not treated for a long time, they may produce some serious complications such as pregnancy problems and even genital, cervical, anal, head, neck, and oral cancer. Sometimes genital warts can cause pains while urinating and discomfort during sexual activity and itching.
There are different methods of treatment for genital warts. They can be divided in three types – medical, surgical and pharmacological. The first, medical method include prophylaxis measures, such as condoms during sexual intercourse and single sexual partner. Surgical method is used when the disease developed into a launched degree and requires urgent medical interference. It is provided under the local anesthesia and involves special techniques, such as freezing, burning, cauterzation and laser surgery. Treatment of genital warts with pharmalogical method involves applying specific medications to the affected tissues and injecting antiviral medications directly into the tumors growth. The disadvantage of this kind of treatment is in toxic influence that can be provided by those medications and even chemical burns if not washed throughly.
There is a chance that genital warts can go away on their own, but the causative agent can still remain in human body and later can lead to the escalation of the problem into a serious disease accomponied with complications. This is why routine medical exams will help you to protect yourself from a serious disease causing discomfort and to increase your chances for giving birth to healthy children without pathology. | <urn:uuid:7d821aae-3416-4b30-ab01-7f1df8be747b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://about-warts.com/genital-warts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956802 | 723 | 3.359375 | 3 |
Halah Touryalai, Forbes Staff
I stalk Wall Street. Stopping short of phone hacking, of course.
Doing business in more than 150 countries has its benefits and its disadvantages. Citigroup is feeling some of the latter as financial authorities in Singapore probe the bank over possible Libor manipulation activity.
In its most recent 10-Q filing with the SEC Citi says, ” In connection with the investigations and inquiries regarding submissions made by panel banks to bodies that publish various interbank offered rates, certain Citigroup subsidiaries have received additional requests for information and documents from various domestic and overseas regulators and enforcement agencies, including the Monetary Authority of Singapore and a consortium of state Attorneys General. Citigroup continues to cooperate with the inquiries and investigations and respond to the requests.”
In its previous 10-Q filing Citi mentioned it was receiving inquiries from non-U.S. authorities but did no specify which ones.
The disclosure shows how far alleged Libor-manipulation implications could reach. The seriousness of the Libor probes peaked in June when Barclays agreed to a settlement of more than $450 million with U.S. and U.K. regulators over charges it tried to manipulate the rate between 2005 and 2009. That was just the beginning though.
The scandal cost CEO Bob Diamond his job. Meanwhile many other banks JPMorgan Chase, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, and HSBC are being questioned. They’ve been subpoenaed by New YorkAttorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office for their roles in the rate-rigging and some face additional lawsuits from investors.
Homeowners have filed a suit against Bank Of America, Citigroup, Barclays, UBS, JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank and others saying the manipulated rates sparked increases on their adjustable rate mortgages and resulted in unlawful profits for the banks.
While Citi isn’t alone in facing probes from various regulatory authorities it is in a unique position in that it’s in the midst of a significant leadership change. Last month the bank suddenly announced its CEO of five years Vikram Pandit would be replaced by Michael Corbat.
Corbat faces many challenges in bringing Citi back to “normal” among them steering the bank through what could be a very costly Libor problem. | <urn:uuid:e231d181-44a1-41b8-9f52-c3026c90777e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.forbes.com/sites/halahtouryalai/2012/11/06/libor-problems-go-global-singapore-authorties-probe-citi-over-rigging/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953163 | 470 | 1.59375 | 2 |
MoDo is off today, so we’re spared that. However, The Moustache of Wisdom has decided to tell us “How to Score the Debate.” He has come down from the mountain to tell us that it’s not about who had the best zinger. It’s about who gave a full and honest explanation of the best way forward. Of course, he had to write this without actually seeing the whole debate… Here he is:
I had to write this column before the presidential debate was finished, so I thought the most useful thing I could do is to offer the scoring system I’ll be using to determine who did best. You can fill in your own scores. My system is not based on zingers or extra points for energizing the base, but rather on what I believe many Americans really want from the next president. You see, I believe this time is different — that many Americans understand something is very wrong, that we could go the way of Greece or Japan if we don’t shape up, and that they will embrace a candidate who trusts them with the truth, that is, an honest diagnosis of where we are and how we get out of this mess. Up to now, neither candidate has been willing to do that.
So, first, I’ll be looking for that honest diagnosis. We are where we are today, in part, because the merger of globalization and information technology has transformed how goods and services are bought and sold, made and designed. This merger makes old jobs obsolete faster and spins off new jobs faster, but all the good new jobs require higher skills. As a country, notes Lawrence Katz, the Harvard University labor economist, we have historically ensured that our work force kept up with new technology by steadily expanding public education — first universal primary education and then universal secondary education. But since the 1980s, says Katz, when we needed to move to some form of universal postsecondary education to keep pace with globalization and I.T., we didn’t. Instead, he points out, “our high school graduation rates stopped improving and our growth in college graduates slowed substantially — far below what we need for rapid growth and shared prosperity.” Today, our workers ages 50 and over are the most educated in the world; our younger workers are in the middle of the global pack for industrialized countries; and our national dropout rate remains stubbornly high, around 25 percent.
So what did we do? We created employment for our unskilled workers by a massive injection of subprime credit that created a large number of home construction and retailing jobs. Meanwhile, Wall Street also ballooned, in part by shifting from an industry that funded “creative destruction” of new firms to an industry, as the economist Jagdish Bhagwati put it, that funded “destructive creation” of unproductive financial instruments.
“For too many years, our job creation engines were excessively reoriented from competitive global markets to inwardly oriented sectors that were taken to unsustainable levels, (e.g., construction, finance, housing and retail),” wrote Mohamed A. El-Erian, the chief executive of Pimco, in The Atlantic.com. “The result was an unbalanced and vulnerable labor force. Our generation also overdosed on debt and credit entitlement. We got seduced by financial engineering. … Too little genuine growth, too much debt, and a risk culture gone crazy culminated in the very messy global financial crisis of 2008 and its aftermath — a costly shock to society whose impact will be with us for quite a few years still. … For years, Western societies have under- and mal-invested in education. As we slipped down global rankings, we convinced ourselves that our traditional global edge in entrepreneurship and innovation” could compensate for our declines in educational attainment. They can’t.
All of this came to a head during the terrible 2000s. The housing/credit markets exploded, creating a systemic banking crisis and a painful recession, which coincided with our sharpening education deficit, which coincided with two wars and a big tax cut that dramatically worsened our national deficit. The result is a deep hole.
That hole requires us to now cut spending, raise and reform taxes; stimulate the economy by investing in infrastructure, research and teachers; spur more start-ups; and offer more people postsecondary vocational or college education. So, first, listen for anything like that diagnosis from the candidates.
And, second, listen for a plan that rises to the true scale of that challenge, one that proposes job-creating infrastructure investments tied with a program to stimulate more start-ups (which have slowed) tied with a credible deficit-reduction plan — that would be phased in as the economy recovers — tied with a plan to get more Americans postsecondary education. Yes, I know, Obama has many such initiatives, but he has not made them the centerpiece of his campaign, or highlighted them in his commercials, or tied them together into a compelling package that gets people out of their chairs, saying: “Yes, he’s got the answer!” Instead of campaigning on how good is his plan, he has campaigned on how bad is Romney’s.
Third, the country wants a plan that is fair. The wealthy have to pay more, but everyone should contribute something. And, fourth, the country wants a plan that is aspirational — a plan that is about making America a great country for the next generation, not just “balancing the budget.”
So I am scoring the debate with these criteria in mind. I have argued for a year now that the candidate who offers such a plan wins the election. If neither does, someone will still win — probably narrowly — but the country will lose by a mile.
Well, Tommy, perhaps the most useful thing you could have done would have been to point out that Money Boo Boo started lying right out of the box. You did see the beginning of the thing, didn’t you? | <urn:uuid:7ad44509-9d9a-413b-9411-98afaad62404> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/friedman-solo-23/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970647 | 1,246 | 1.664063 | 2 |
City (pop., 2005 est.: 1,313,900), capital of Cambodia, at the junction of the Sab River (a tributary of the Tonle Sap) with the Mekong River. Founded in 1434 as the capital of the Khmer kingdom, it was abandoned several times before being reestablished in 1865. It was a cultural centre, with many institutions of higher learning. When the Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia in 1975, they forced the city's population into the countryside to work in the fields. The city was repopulated beginning in 1979, and its educational institutions began a difficult period of recovery from the virtual extermination of Cambodia's educated class. Although the city is 180 mi (290 km) from the sea, it is a major port of the Mekong River valley; it is linked to the South China Sea via a channel of the Mekong delta in Vietnam. | <urn:uuid:6eae9674-8305-448e-a14a-b76a11ac61df> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phnom%20penh | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966291 | 183 | 3 | 3 |
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The airport is situated five miles from Exeter city centre and five minutes from the M5 motorway. Exeter International Airport is an airport located at Clyst Honiton in the District of East Devon close to the city of Exeter.
The airport had originated as a grass field for club flying before being constructed in 1937 and formally opened on 30 July 1938 as Exeter Airport.
During World War II RAF Exeter was important RAF Fighter Command airfield during the Battle of Britain, with some two dozen different RAF fighter squadrons being stationed there for varying periods through 1944, and just about all the operational fighter types of those years had been present.
Post-war, Exeter was reclaimed by Fighter Command and a French Supermarine Spitfire squadron, No. 329, which came and stayed until November 1945. Meteors and Mosquitos made a brief appearance the following spring.
No. 691 Squadron's target-towing Vultee A-31 Vengeances, which had been present for more than a year, proved to be the last RAF flying unit of the Second World War period based at Exeter.
When No. 691 Squadron departed in the summer of 1946, the station was made available for civil use, being officially transferred to the Ministry of Civil Aviation on 1 January 1947 although there was still some reserve RAF activity until the 1950s.
Scheduled services to the Channel Islands began in 1952 and charter flights to various locations followed. A new terminal building was opened in the early 1980s and various other improvements, including a runway extension, were carried out over following years to establish Exeter as an important airport in the West Country. | <urn:uuid:0c19bb23-df90-4516-bd6d-5fc6ed309007> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.uktaxi.com/exeter-airport.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979226 | 449 | 1.734375 | 2 |
by Matthew Yost
On a sunny but cool Tuesday in early spring, Herr Alfred Zorn, federally chartered engineer, father of a son and daughter, loving husband of twenty-four years and long-standing resident of a small city in the vicinity of Basel, received a piece of upsetting news. It came in a phone call around lunchtime, when a trembling and out-of-breath voice informed him that his son, the younger of his two children, had been gravely injured while on maneuvers with his battery in the countryside surrounding Luzern. Because there was some doubt as to the young man’s survival, the speaker, a lieutenant whose name Herr Zorn forgot immediately, urged him to come as quickly as possible to the surgery ward at the cantonal hospital. Between rushing home from the office, repeating what he knew of the story to his wife, and finally taking his seat on the quarter-past-two to Luzern, he had not taken much time to reflect on what the phrase “gravely injured” might mean. On the train, though, as he wrung one hand between the other, Herr Zorn thought of nothing else.
They arrived in Luzern at half past three and were at the hospital by four, where, on the ward, a young man dressed in a dirty uniform and holding his beret crumpled in his fist stepped forward to introduce himself as the officer with whom Herr Zorn had spoken that noon. He explained that their son had been riding on the back of a truck when the rear gate had sprung open, spilling four recruits onto the road. Their son had received the worst of it. The lieutenant apologized profusely for the situation, then, after having pressed both their hands, set his beret back on his head and hurried down the hallway.
Their son was laid out in the recovery room, where, in the half-dark, a nurse was dozing on a chair in the far corner. He was unconscious and breathed only with the help of a machine. Tape held a large dressing to his chest, upon which three small spots were beginning to blossom into larger stains. The force of hitting the road had torn his aorta, but his helmet had spared his face any major insult, and despite a livid welt on the left side of his jaw, Herr Zorn thought that face might have been a perfect model of his own, from thirty years ago. He and his wife sat watching, stiffly, on two rolling stools.
Within the hour the young man had suffered another hemorrhage, a great upwelling of blood that turned the bandages’ color from one moment to the next. The sleepy nurse jumped up to call for the surgeon, and ushered Herr Zorn and his wife out of the room. The surgeon came running from the corridor, only to reemerge a short time later, his hands clean and in an unstained gown. He made father and mother sit down in the waiting area, where in a grave voice he told them, “There was little we could do, given the nature of his injuries.” Husband and wife nodded in agreement as though they, too, could not have foreseen any other possible outcome.
For an hour they sat, their arms wrapped around one another, until interrupted by a young man who came through to tell them that the body couldn’t be released until the following morning. As they sat there, Herr Zorn, still locked up in his wife’s embrace, decided he had no intention of spending the night on the hospital’s hard benches, or even in an unfamiliar hotel bed. Their daughter would be home from her lectures at the university, in any case, and he imagined that someone ought to be there to let her know what had happened.
“We should get home and tell Greta,” he mumbled into his wife’s ear, while trying at the same time to disengage himself from her. She only clutched him harder.
“You can tell her tonight,” his wife said.
“Very well. We’ll return tomorrow for—”
“No,” his wife said. “I’m going to go light candles.”
Herr Zorn pulled away, and as his wife busied herself with searching in her purse for her rosary, he glanced at his watch. He had nearly an hour remaining before he had to leave for the next train home, and though he wanted to go straight away, he realized his wife would expect that he remain with her until the last possible instant, rather than save the taxi fare to the train station. For a time Herr Zorn tried convince her to come home, but she was just as insistent on her staying behind as she was on his going, and even though he knew there was no use in the exercise, he remained, pretending he could talk some sense into her.
On the train Herr Zorn played the stoic, and he played the role almost perfectly. He was a statue. He was a crucifix. He was Socrates waiting for sunset. He did his best to marshal any lingering traces of his will, and yet fat tears still formed at the corners of his eyes. Herr Zorn leaned his head against the window, dabbed at his cheeks with a folded paper towel from the lavatory, and hoped the other passengers wouldn’t notice.
He couldn’t help thinking that he was to blame for his son’s death; he had, after all, suggested that his son join the anti-aircraft, as he had done, during his own military service. The work there was lighter than elsewhere, he’d argued—one could, for example, ride on the truck that towed the cannon, rather than slog through the snow and rain like everyone else. Herr Zorn had used those very words to persuade the boy, and why? Had he really been worried about his son getting blisters or catching cold? No, there was something else to it. Herr Zorn, too, had traveled these rails dozens of times during his stint in the Army. And even though his son’s body was just now going cold, Herr Zorn wasn’t crying only for the boy, but for himself, too.
He remembered with what impatience he had come home those Saturday mornings, finally in his stiff new dress pants and tunic, after having spent the week in his muddy fighting uniform. He had, early on in his service, acquired a girlfriend. Her name was Claire, she was slightly older than he, and, though she studied at the Basel Conservatory, Herr Zorn preferred to think of her as a street performer.
Those initial weeks of his military training were his first sortie away from home, and, in the evenings, after the sergeant was done yelling at them for the day, and when he and a few other recruits were allowed out of the barracks to go drink thin beer at a local restaurant, were the greatest independence he had ever known. Coming home Saturday mornings, he’d been reluctant to return directly to his family’s sterile house. Instead, despite the late February cold, he would walk from the train station to the top end of the Freie Strasse, which he would descend slowly, examining the contents of each shop window as he went. The third week, as he came sauntering down the hill, he found Claire at the bottom, before the portal at the back of the central post office, playing Pachelbel’s Canon on a violin.
Though he did sometimes toss the odd coin into the hat of an exceptional juggler or musician, he rarely stopped long to listen; but that day, he set down his kit bag and leaned against a nearby lamppost, to watch Claire play, and to admire the pink dabs that flowered on her cheeks and nose.
At first he had considered going straight up to her once she’d finished, but then he thought it would be funny to do something else. As she started her next piece, Herr Zorn ran into a toy store just down the street, bought a fist-sized pink plush bear, and tied a note around its neck that read, “My colleague and I cordially invite you to come out of the cold and have a cup of hot tea,” then, while she was still playing, he set the bear inside her violin case.
What followed were likely the happiest six weeks of Herr Zorn’s life. After their tea, they agreed to meet the next week. Claire brought Herr Zorn to her family’s apartment, a maisonette in Little Basel on the north side of the Rhine, where he was required to eat cake and say a few words of introduction to Claire’s mother before going upstairs. The next week they were permitted to skip the formality.
After their third week, Herr Zorn didn’t bother going home, not even to drop off his dirty laundry. Claire consumed him; even during the week, on guard duty, he found it hard to concentrate. His mother wrote several times to inform him that his behavior was the cause of a minor scandal in the town of Allschwil, and while the youthful Herr Zorn read every word she’d written, he chose to ignore her: for the first time he was in love, and this with a girl older than he, and he would be damned if he gave up his addiction before it had completely ruined him.
Sometimes, though, he did have doubts, and he did feel sorry for his mother, how she had to explain to her friends that her only son was too busy carrying on with some loose woman in town to come and see her. On one occasion Herr Zorn even felt ashamed as he and Claire, already fumbling with their buttons, tripped their way upstairs, while Claire’s mother observed from the open kitchen doorway. Besides, how long can one be consumed by—what was it? Passion?
In the end Claire spared him the trouble of any further concern. Their last weekend together, as Herr Zorn laced up his boots and zipped closed his kit bag, Claire, still naked and holding the duvet close around her chin, told him that he would have to go to the train by himself. When he called her the next Saturday, having missed her at their usual meeting place, she’d told him not to bother coming around again.
Whatever embarrassment Herr Zorn felt returning to his family when he came home that first night, the thought of having been naked in front of Claire was far worse. He wrote five letters to her, the last one of such a desperate character that sending it only left him feeling more ashamed than before.
In the weeks and months following, he had patrolled Freie Strasse, hoping he would see her playing her cursed violin. Even years later, even after he’d finished his studies at the Polytechnic in Zurich, even after he’d married, and even now, now that his son was dead, he could not help but feel that awful stab of embarrassment. How he regretted that desire he’d felt for Claire. How he hated her!
His daughter had already gone to bed by the time he got home, or so he judged by the closed door to her room. For a moment he considered knocking, but then decided to let the news wait until morning. He poured himself a glass of whiskey to help himself sleep, and as he walked through the rest of the apartment, he came across a stack of mail in the kitchen, where, sifting through the flyers and bank statements, he found a red-and-blue-edged airmail envelope, on which his name had been written in careful block letters. There was no return address, but the stamp bore the picture of a rippling American flag, and the postmark read San Francisco. Herr Zorn sat down at the kitchen table and took a large swallow from his glass. He did not know anyone in America, and that someone from that far away should seek him out terrified him. What could any American want from him? After some thought he decided he would not open the letter, that he was too tired after all. Instead he poured the rest of the whiskey down the sink and hid the letter among some papers in his study.
The funeral was the following week. Far-flung and rarely seen family members gathered for the service and afterwards sat at the long table in the back room of the Golden Ox to dine on veal and asparagus. Later most of them repaired to the apartment, where they filled the space with the sound of their talking and their smell. Herr Zorn endured as much as he could, but then he thought that if he had to brave one more arm swung around his neck, one more voice palavering in his ear about how things would be all right in the end, he might be forced to shout something improper and send his guests home early.
For a time he disappeared into his study, where he examined a set of plans a colleague had handed him before all this had happened, but then set these down and, moving a stack of papers, found the letter again. He tucked the envelope into the breast pocket of his suit coat and, without a word to anyone, made for the stairs.
Out in the street Herr Zorn found a bench and took out the letter. He wasn’t sure he wanted to open it, but he was curious. It was comforting to think it would likely turn out to be misdelivered mail and nothing more. And so Herr Zorn pulled out his pocketknife and slit open the envelope.
Inside he found a single sheet of tinted stationery bearing an address printed in wraithlike gray type across the head of the page. The writing was clearly a woman’s, stiff, neat and flawless enough that he wondered whether it wasn’t the fair copy of several successive and heavily edited drafts. The date at the top of the page was from fifteen days earlier. He did not know the hand, but he knew the salutation “Dearest Freddi!” at once. In all his life only one person had ever called him by that pet name, and that recognition filled him with a thrill of both longing and dread, the likes of which he had not experienced in a long time.
After smoothing the page Herr Zorn let out a deep sigh, and then began to read:
It has been almost thirty years since we last communicated, and though I can imagine you would rather not hear from me, I feel you might be relieved that I’ve sought you out again.
I don’t doubt that you think I played some cruel trick on you, when I did not answer your letters. You must have thought me the most vicious person when I appeared to change my mind from one moment to the next, but surely you never considered that perhaps I was sparing you from an even greater tragedy. What I mean to tell you is that we have a son. I named him Zacharias; I hope it suits you.
I knew I was pregnant before I sent you away. That I could not tell you of my condition was clear—you would have insisted that we marry, and I knew I wouldn’t be happy living with you forever. If I didn’t tell you, I knew I would remain in your memory only as youthful experience, so I made a decision, the way a surgeon does, to sever what was already dying, and hoped you would recover.
Have you forgiven me? Have I overestimated you?
As for me, Zacharias has not weighed me down. With him I have traveled great distances, found a husband and made a new home here in America. Still I think of you often; Zahcarias’ face is a perfect map of yours. He is twenty-eight now, and well into his doctoral studies at Berkeley. We both hope that the three of us might meet some day. Of course, any other family you might have would be welcome.
Until then, I extend my best wishes
to you and yours,
By the time Herr Zorn was done reading, his whole body was shaking with sobs he could no longer disguise to passersby as a mere coughing fit. He fled home, and when he entered, still crying, someone said, “Look how it’s destroyed him, losing his son.” Herr Zorn locked himself in his study before anyone else could comment on his condition.
Later, though, he reemerged to thank his guests and shake their hands as they went home. The last to leave was an old maternal uncle, a widower, well into his eighties, who’d had too much brandy. He staggered towards Herr Zorn and embraced him, then, straightening his coat, said, “The high spirits of kindness may look like malice.”
“Whatever does that mean?” Herr Zorn asked.
His uncle only smiled and disappeared into the dim hallway.
For about an hour, Herr Zorn and his wife wandered about the apartment, picking up crumpled napkins, cracked plastic cups and empty bottles. Once she had gone to bed, Herr Zorn sat down again in the living room. Under the orange light of the wicker-shaded lamp he read what Claire had written one more time. Taking a box of matches from the kitchen and leaning out the window, he burned the letter to a triangular stub, the remnants of which he flushed down the toilet as he went through his nightly ritual.He fell into bed beside his wife. As he slept, his usually impassive face bore an oddly distressed expression. The nighttime hours advanced, and Herr Zorn thrashed and cried out, but on towards morning his strained frown eased, and just before dawn he almost seemed to grin. Herr Zorn had a son, he still had a son.
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February 19, 2013
Dominion Resources (NYSE: D ) has received a patent for technology that enables electric utilities to plan, manage, and validate voltage conservation for grid optimization.
The utility said its Dominion Voltage subsidiary received the patent for its Edge platform, which helps reduce energy usage across the distribution network. Dominion Voltage director Todd Headlee called it "a game-changer for the industry." According to the company, the Edge platform is the only one that obtains voltage data directly from "dynamically selected" meters at the end-user level and adjusts the levels delivered for optimal performance.
Industry standards permit voltage to be delivered to consumers between 114 and 126 volts. Dominion Voltage's Edge allows a utility to dial down the voltage delivered to the lower end of the range while still meeting a customer's equipment performance requirements. According to Dominion Resources, the same performance is delivered to the customer but at a savings of 3% to 5% on his or her electric bill, a favorable improvement to the 1% to 1.5% savings it says are realized through traditional voltage conservation programs.
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The Islander 36 (I36) is a true classic and depending on whose numbers you believe, there were somewhere between 700 and 800 hulls built between 1973 and 1986 making it an extremely successful design. The company history before the development of the I36 is somewhat sketchy but the story goes that the firm started life as the McGlasson Corporation that then sold to or turned into Wayfarer Marine in the 1960s. Smaller boats like the 27 footer came out first and at some point Islander sold a 37 foot kit boat that then morphed into the 36 foot production boat that became the shapely and popular classic.
By the 1970s, Islander production was located in Southern California along with other classic builders like Columbia and Jensen Marine that built Cals. In fact, it is rumored that for a while, Ericsons, Pearsons and Islanders were built in the same locale. Hundreds of hulls were produced and shipped all over the US and Canada with about 25% of them selling into the Northern California Bay Area. In 1984-85, production was moved to Costa Rica where the company foundered and finally closed in 1986. It wasn’t the move that did Islander in so much as skyrocketing resin prices and the introduction of the 10% luxury tax that shut the market down.
Design, Construction & Performance
Alan Gurney’s objective in the design of the I36 was to create a “36-foot yacht that would be a competitive machine but also could cruise a family comfortably.” Since Gurney was also responsible for go fast classics like Windward Passage, Guinevere and Great Britain II, the I36 racing pedigree was guaranteed. These are fast and stiff boats with a 40% ballast to displacement ratio and even 30 years later, they still hold their own on the race course. The I36 will do 8 knots and practically steer herself in 20-30 knot winds without being overpowered, however it can feel a little sluggish in light air.
The Islander 36 was built in 4 pieces with the two hull halves, the deck and the liner - a process similar to the port and starboard construction of a Swan. It took about 700 hours to manufacture one of these modified fin keel, full skeg rudder boats. The hulls are solid glass with a throughbolted plywood cored deck topped with an alloy toe rail. Most of the models had lead ballast but some of the early boats are said to have iron in the keel. Also, a few of the mid-70s models reported blistering problems but some of that had to do with whether the boat was kept in cold or warm waters and if it was a year-round vessel or if it was decommissioned for the winter as in the Great Lakes area. Since the hulls stayed mostly the same, the models differed throughout the years by the options and conveniences that were offered. For example, folding props and shoal draft keels were optional as were interior details such as refrigeration and battery chargers.
Cockpit, Deck & Rigging
The sail area is about 600 square feet on a double spreader, high aspect ratio rig. Those who have raced an I36 describe it as “going fast on a stiff boat with small sails” since the design really pushes the maximum power from its rig. Most of the 1970s Islanders have had mast step corrosion problems and probably require the Kenyon spar to be pulled and trimmed by ¾”. Of course, any rig will need attention about every 15 years and should be checked regardless whether the boat will be racing or cruising.
The I36 cockpit is large and comfortable for six and features lockers under the seats. A swim ladder on the reverse transom was an added feature on the later 1970s models. The decks are wide and clear and there is good access to the anchor locker that also appeared on the late 70s versions.
Layout & Accommodations
The layout below begins with a sizeable vee-berth and a head/shower combination to port. In the salon, there are two straight settees on port and starboard separated with a table that folds up to the bulkhead to create a feeling of spaciousness. An L-shaped galley on starboard has a double sink and a three burner LPG stove. On port, there is a nav station that is outboard facing and the quarter berth behind it forms a seat.
There are good drawers and plenty of louvered and caned lockers throughout. Islander 36s came standard with an icebox although some owners chose the Adler Barbour refrigeration that was an option or upgraded on their own later. Hands down the best feature of the interior are the companion way steps that are truly steps as opposed to a ladder and are easy to maneuver. They also make a great seat when extra bodies are down below for cocktails.
Systems & Mechanical
The original engine specified for Islander 36s was the Westerbeke L-25 although you can find some with the old workhorse, Perkins 4-108 which will push the boat at 6.5 knots at 1800 rpm with a 2-bladed fixed prop. The I36 carries 50 gallons of water in fiberglass tanks under the settees and about 30 gallons of fuel in an aluminum tank. That amount of fuel is good for coastal cruising but it means that jerry jugs will be necessary for any kind of extended voyaging.
There are lots of Islanders listed nationwide on Yachtworld and they’re great boats that will go the distance or race quite impressively. They also hold their value: In 1975, a standard Islander sold for $29,900 and by 1978, the price for a new boat rose to $47,400.
Specs for Islander 36
Designer: Alan Gurney
Draft: 6’ deep or 4’9” shoal
Ballast: 5450 lbs deep draft
Displacement: 13,450 lbs deep draft
Sail Area: 612 sq ft
Fuel Tankage: 30 gallons
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No, I don't get it. Not at all.
What is the common factor between "classical mechanics" and "particle physics" or "quantum physics" or plain cosmology? Are you suggesting we take the Universe as a closed or isolated system?
TBH, I dont know, and I dont care. Why are you introducing new and irrelevant science questions? I am not hawkings. You are the one who subscribe to the zero energy universe not me. You should tell me these answers...
You need to make up your mind.
1. Conservation of energy (and ultimately conservation of mass) is the basis for the "sum of everything is 0" theory. Please read hawkins' work.
2. no he doesn't mention it by name
3. Why should I read about it when it is not mentioned???
He doesn't spell it out for you as the book is written for the lay. He is saying that mass energy - Gravity must be 0. What law is he talking about here? How is this possible without the law of conservation of energy?
So the claim of a “zero energy” universe is based on inflation theory, which states that the universe underwent a short, accelerated period of expansion shortly after the Big Bang. This produced both gravity as well as mass energy. You can not produce energy out of nothing, this would violate the first law of thermodynamics.
Are you sure you know what you are talking about?
I guess I don't... You CLAIM that the sum of everything is 0... you still haven't explained to me how can that be without the first law of thermodynamics. I ask again... how can the sum of everything be 0, without using the law of conservation of energy? quantum fluctuations obey thermodynamics
You said: "Allah" or "God" = "physical truth" = "objective reality" = "the universe" = "existence" = "the sum of every proton, electron, neutron, photon right now" and now you tell me that YOU get to define and decide what truth, reality and existence are?
When did I make such a claim? When did I decide what truth, reality, and existence are? Please show me where this happened...
Like i said before. Existence is not Allah. Allah is existence.
I regret using the English word "God" now. I can finally see abdun noor's point. See this thread if you want to learn the difference between God and Allahhttp://free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=9599046.0
Ah, bazinga, yes. That explains it. Did you watch a couple of episodes of TBBT and now think you understand quantum physics
Oh no, my secrets out!
What is the word "truth" doing in your statements? It is nonsensical. Truth is a value or status statement.
Truth is not an attribute but a qualitative statement. Truth is a fact. Testable. Verifiable. Demonstrable. Measurable. Falsifiable.
Truth is not just a statement as I explained in my last post. Please stop posting the same thing again and again. You keep making argument without any proof or evidence. Where is your proof?
In the manner I am using it to explain "Al-Huq ul-Mubeen" in today's language, it is "the body of real things, events, and facts".
Do any of these attribute apply to a god?
No, this does not apply to gods. Allah is not a god.
Please, don't lie or spread untrue rumours. Why do you claim I did not know "what Allah was"? How can you say such a thing?
Also, from a logical point you can't reject what has not yet been proven to exist.
You keep saying that "this and that are nonsensical", like you know what Allah is. You were never even able to quote a single statement which was nonsensical. Can you quote me just 1 statement which is nonsensical? I am only asking you for 1 statement, please choose the most nonsensical of the lot and reply back.
Again? Again a wrong assumption? By me? I don't recall having worked under a wrong assumption.
Yes, you though that i was making claims.
How is the definition you provide so different from mine?
I don't know what you are talking about. What are you talking about? Why do you keep asking random questions?
You don't answer my questions
Besides your rhetorical questions, which question have I left unanswered for you? Please post it and I will answer it.
...and try to push your point based on a word used many centuries ago in the Koran and assign it the meaning we have today. Is that legitimate?
Yes it is legitimate. When you translate an old Arabic document into modern English, you use the vernacular of today so people understand the translation.
I don't know what people who used the word "truth" when the Koran was written, but I know that today it not correct to assign a descriptive term or adjective as a noun.
"Truth" is a noun. "Reality" is a noun. "Allah" is a noun.
I keep telling you that Allah is reality. Which adjective did I assign to a noun??
Why are you asking me what a god is?
I am just trying to find out what you believe.
How could I possibly know?
Why are you asking me this? Or is this another one of your rhetorical questions?
You are saying that a god is fact, so you should know what fact is and what is not fact.
When and where did I say "god is fact"? Why are you lying and spreading rumors about me?
I just try and find out why you believe what you believe and you go into science and etymology without any reason as far as I can make out.
Bottom line Allah is reality.
When did i go into etymology? Of which word's history and origin did I start the discussion about?
As far as science, I was trying to answer your question about thermodynamics. You seem to think that thermodynamics has nothing to do with conservation of energy.
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Punch in a few directions on a PC, and this two-foot chopper will
lift off, shoot video, and land-no pilot or remote required
Learning to fly a helicopter takes hundreds of hours, and even then few pilots feel safe maneuvering one over enemy terrain or forest fires. Yet missions such as these are precisely what choppers are good for, where on-the-fly surveillance may mean the difference between life and death. It doesn´t take a genius to appreciate the potential benefits of a miniature copter, mounted with a remote-control camera, that flies itself.To build one, though, takes real ingenuity, as choppers are not inherently aerodynamic. | <urn:uuid:e444d3f7-8717-4bce-b553-5f42f566b60e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.popsci.com/category/tags/israeli-manufacturer | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929625 | 140 | 1.898438 | 2 |