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n her essay "Of Writers in Grooves" in The Silver Domino (1893), Corelli, hiding behind the persona of the Silver Domino, establishes the category of writers in "grooves" who, once they have found one, stay comfortably in one literary niche and with one literary style. In contrast to these stands "the true Protean type of genius, capable of touching every string on the literary harp he holds" (143). Condemning a number of her male colleagues as "groovy" and unoriginal writers — including William Black, W. E. Norris, F. C. Philips, William Clark Russell, and also Marion Crawford, George Meredith, Hall Caine, and Bret Harte — Corelli moves on to attack her female colleagues.
Condemning the lack of originality in Mary Braddon ("her canvas is always prepared in the same manner, and the same familiar figures stand out upon it in only slightly altered attitudes", 153), Mrs Humphry Ward ("religious 'groove'", 152), Ouida ("no difference in style", 154), Rhoda Broughton ("always the same sort of distressing hitch in the love-business", 155), Mrs Henry Wood ("wonderfully groovy", 158), the Silver Domino eventually turns to herself, Marie Corelli. Critics, writes the Silver Domino, generally praise "groovy" and predictable authors, but hate originality.
That is why they invariably "go" for one of our newest inflictions, Marie Corelli, of whom it may be truly said that she has written no two books alike, either in plot or style; and the grave Spectator on one occasion forgot itself so far as to say that her romance entitled "Ardath" had actually beaten Beckford's renowned "Vathek" out of the field. But all the same, I, personally speaking, find her a distinctly exasperating writer, who is neither here, there, nor anywhere a "will-o'-the-wisp" sort of thing, of whom it is devoutly to be wished that she would settle into a "groove," as she would be less of a trail to the (in her case) always savage reviewer. Nothing is more irritating to a critic than to have to chronicle the reckless flights of this young woman's unbridled and fantastic imagination. She tells us about heaven and hell as if she had been to them both, and had rather enjoyed her experience. Valiant attempts to "quash" her have been made, but apparently in vain, and most of my brethren in the critical faculty consider her a positive infliction. Why does she not take the advice tendered her by the World, and other sensible journals, and retire altogether from literature? I am sure she would be much happier "picking geranium leaves" à la Becky Sharp [sic], with a husband and two thousand a-year. As it is, her very name is, to the men of the press, what a red rag is to a bull. They are down upon it instantly with a fury that is almost laughable in its violence. But I suppose she is like the rest of her sex — obstinate, and that she will hold on her wild career, regardless of censure. Only, as I say, I wish she would elect a "groove" to run in, for I, among many others, shall be relieved as well as delighted when we are all quite certain beyond a doubt as to what sort of book we are to expect from her. At present she is a mere vexation to any well-ordered mind. [156-158]
By means of a polemical discussion of her rivals in popularity, Corelli distances herself from these female authors and claims to be original all the time. Evidently, the surface criticism is a rhetorical strategy to celebrate originality as a positive quality. The "will-o'-the-wisp" quality manifests the originality of the genius and must be an essential quality of every author, and the unbridled imagination of a writer guarantees the variety of the stories.
Marie Corelli. "Of Writers in Grooves". The Silver Domino, or Side Whispers, Social and Literary. 12th ed. With Author's Note to this Issue. London: Lamley, 1893. 137-162.
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Coyote nips girl at Nehalem Bay State Park
Published: Monday, June 25, 2012, 7:48 AM Updated: Monday, June 25, 2012, 7:52 AM
The girl’s mother told KPIC the family was returning to its campsite Thursday evening after watching the sunset on the beach. The girl was dragging a stick in the sand when the coyote approached from behind and first grabbed at the stick.
The animal then nipped the girl’s back, breaking the skin. The animal fled when the family started screaming. The girl was treated at Providence Seaside Hospital in Seaside.
The park posted warning signs around the campground.
Chris Havel of Oregon State Parks says it would be the first coyote attack in state park history.
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The last game to come from Paradox Plaza was the absurdly complex Victoria. With an interface that should have come with its own Google popup blocker and an economic system that put the player right in the thick of things, it is without doubt one of the most complex strategy games ever released. One would assume that Crusader Kings, based on the Victoria engine to some extent, would follow that with even more complexity or at least the same level but with a streamlined interface.
"One" would be incorrect. Crusader Kings is arguably one of the simpler games to come from Paradox. Its game mechanics are ostensibly more complicated than in the Europa Universalis games - after all, you're managing a dynasty, its vassals and its possessions, rather than just a nation - but we did find it to be a simpler experience.
For starters, the player doesn't have to run a kingdom. He can settle for any of the numerous Duchies or Counties in the game. After choosing a time period (there are three, but all end in 1453 and the earliest starts at 1066), the player can toggle between lists of Kingdoms - a short list, Duchies - somewhat longer, and Counties - an overwhelming number. What's the difference though?
Well, keep in mind that you do rule a medieval dynasty, not necessarily a kingdom. This is the age of feudalism where peasants exchanged labor for protection from knights who pledged their service to a local Baron for mutual protection who in turn did the same with a Count, Viscount, and they bowed before Dukes who kneeled before Kings. In order to maintain control over their realms, Kings would have to give the Dukes enough power to satisfy themselves but not so much as to make them independent-minded. One of the best ways to ensure loyalty (or claim land) was to marry off daughters to powerful lords or to bring their daughters into the royal household.
This is, in fact, all simulated in Crusader Kings. The family, the title, and the land are all equally important. A King can have Dukes and Counts pledged to him, a Duke can have only Counts, and a Count is lowest among equals. The titles are important since if you're a Count whose realm is getting large and inefficient for one ruler, and you create another Count hoping that he'll be a vassal, you're out of luck. He immediately becomes independent.
There are three ways to gain titles: to inherit, to create, or to conquer. Say you're Count Blah or Blahcounty who is pledged to Duke Duh, and you married the Duke's third daughter. His sons die, he has no brothers, his other two daughters die… and your son becomes the heir to the Duke. As soon as both the Duke and your Count die, you take over the entire Duchy. Titles can also be created if you have 2/3 or more of the appropriate land. While there is no Duke of Romagna at the start of the game, if you grab the right lands, you can create him. Finally, if you have a claim on a title, you can declare war on its owner and demand it from him. Deep enough for you?
Every character in the game has his own statistics, abilities, parents, probable spouse and children as well as the claims associated to him. A popular activity among Crusader Kings players is to get not the girls with the best claims into your family, but those with the best stats. This is affectionately known as the "Kwisatz Haderach breeding program" in reference to the almighty Paul Atreides of the Dune books. Most players, however, seek advancement and the best way to do this is to get the daughters of weak dynasties - those with few or no sons. Hopefully, nature takes care of the rest… or at least can be given a helping hand with a few hundred gold pieces and the heir apparent might be found in the morning have accidentally brutally disemboweled himself while shaving.
All the player's children can be given the choice of a court or ecclesiastical education, and in the case of male children, a martial one. These improve their statistics, and can lead to traits stemming from that education. The variety of characteristics is bewildering, and some of these are hereditary to an extent. One branch of my Italian family has a strong streak of insanity running through it. Characters there all fall into deep depression and often various manias. If given the opportunity to run a county, they'll often engage in lunatic acts like rebuilding the tower of Babylon. While never permitted to inherit the throne, their insane actions do interrupt the relatively common slow parts of the game to provide needed comic relief. There are simply too many times I've found myself waiting for something to happen if I am in no position to start action. | <urn:uuid:fc952822-4f9d-4c4a-8757-b32b1e1a1544> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.firingsquad.com/games/crusader_kings_review/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973393 | 996 | 1.835938 | 2 |
In this talk, Curtis discusses the difficulties of storytelling on the internet, issues a challenge to avoid the whimsy of the ‘circle of friends’ that seems to dominate contemporary media culture, and urges us to look beyond the surface of online culture to see the power structures that underpin it. Its a fascinating and challenging talk, exploring many of the themes that he develops in his new BBC 2 series All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace.
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The Storythings Podcast is an irregular series of podcasts featuring talks, interviews and discussion with some of the best creative talent working across Film, TV, Theatre, Games, Art and beyond. This second podcast is a recording of comedian and creator of Father Ted and The IT Crowd Graham Linehan and writer and blogger Cory Doctorow in conversation at The Story conference in February 2011.
In this conversation, Graham and Cory discuss how the internet has changed their writing practises, how it helps them structure and collaborate on stories, and also how they cope with its potential for endless distraction. | <urn:uuid:fc2eed6c-ec52-4964-9fe3-fb25234da4a9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://huffduffer.com/josephrooks/collective/tags/storythings | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954436 | 219 | 1.515625 | 2 |
WASHINGTON, D.C.--At a conference here yesterday, researchers reported that even low levels of light from incandescent, fluorescent, or other humanmade sources can befuddle creatures that require a period of nighttime darkness. The findings add to the evidence that artificial lighting is interfering with the development, reproduction, and survival of species across the taxonomic spectrum.
All animals--from one-celled critters to humans--produce melatonin, a hormone that regulates cell metabolism, protects against the formation of cancerous tumors in larger animals, and allows many mammals and humans to enjoy restful sleep. But the hormone accumulates most efficiently in recurring or total darkness, such as in regular day-night cycles. When those cycles are disrupted, so is melatonin production. On the behavioral side, even seeing artificial illumination--such as street lights or indoor lamps shining through windows--at night can throw off foraging and migration in many species.
To find out how brighter nights are altering metabolism and reproduction, herpetologist Bryant Buchanan of Utica College in New York and colleagues exposed snails and larval frogs to different levels of artificial light over periods lasting up to 2 months. With even the slightest amount of artificial light, the percentage of frogs developing normally dropped as low as 15%, compared with about 40% under more natural lighting conditions and nearly 100% in darkness. The snail experiments produced similar results. Artificial illumination appears to produce "a dose response, not an on-off switch," Buchanan says. Constant lighting at night also suppressed the frogs' normal calling behavior and kept the snails hiding under leaf litter instead of searching for food.
Buchanan's findings are consistent with results for other species, says ecologist Travis Longcore of The Urban Wildlands Group in Los Angeles, California. "The introduction of light--even light that we would consider dim--will disrupt the natural cycles of animals, including humans," he says. An overlooked problem, he adds, is that outdoor lighting can hamper attempts to protect endangered wildlife living in or near urban areas. Longcore says he knows of one species of snake that disappeared from an urban habitat specifically set aside for it after steady levels of artificial light apparently disrupted its predation patterns, either by exposing it to its prey or to its own predators. "If we don't take [lighting effects] into account," he says, "our best-laid conservation plans will not succeed." | <urn:uuid:0cec87b5-8077-414a-be10-4fd0837aea81> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2007/02/22-02.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936339 | 491 | 3.75 | 4 |
This week in ocean news, ...A 72 million-year-old sea turtle fossil -- the oldest on record -- was discovered in Mexico. ...A council plans to vote in June on protecting the sea floor from Florida to North Carolina from bottom trawls, bottom longlines and other destructive fishing gear. The 23,000 square miles is thought to encompass the largest deepwater reef system in the world. ...Almost 200 pilot whales and bottlenose dolphins were stranded on a beach in Tasmania, the fourth beaching incident there in recent months. ...The fisher poets (no relation to yours truly) had their annual gathering in Oregon. ...Scientists discovered a carnivorous sea squirt that looks like a desk lamp. ...As the OCYC notes, David de Rothschild is leading a project to build a 60-foot catamaran out of plastic bottles, called Plastiki, which he will sail from California to Australia. ...A Bengal tiger cub and a dolphin made friends. The next Disney Pixar movie, anyone? | <urn:uuid:ca814618-4bc1-40ee-84de-f6ec27ba2fc6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://oceana.org/en/print/blog/2009/03/the-scanner | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947236 | 204 | 1.71875 | 2 |
The head of the NTSB suggested the investigation into the cause of fires aboard two Boeing 787 airliners this month will be a protracted affair. Deborah Hersman said there is evidence the APU battery aboard a Japan Airlines Dreamliner short circuited and had indications of a thermal runaway but what really got the board's attention is that the protections in place to handle that scenario didn't work. "The investigation will include an evaluation of how a fault that resulted in a battery fire could have defeated the safeguards in place to guard against that," said Hersman. "As we learn more in this investigation, we will make recommendations for needed improvements to prevent a recurrence." It's not up to the NTSB to decide when the 787 will fly again. That's up to the FAA, which did not issue any statements on the latest NTSB news release. Teal Group analyst Richard Aboulafia, who spoke with AVweb earlier this week in a podcast interview, told Reuters the statements made by Hersman are not encouraging.
"It was hard to find a lot of optimism on the call. It sounds like they're still in the middle of a lot of hard work and a lot of mysteries," Aboulafia said in an interview with Reuters. "It just wasn't encouraging. Fire is the last thing you want on an airplane." Meanwhile, Boeing is continuing to build aircraft and is stockpiling them at Paine Field in Everett, Wash. So far, it's maintaining a cooperative public profile. "Boeing is eager to see both investigative groups continue their work and determine the cause of these events, and we support their thorough resolution," the company said in a statement. | <urn:uuid:3f445fff-984d-4889-8a94-872c87abe58b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/NTSB_Long_787_Investigation_208069-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973422 | 340 | 1.671875 | 2 |
By Joe VanderMeulen
---- — Imagine a world where you could watch eye-opening, televised debates between candidates running for your township board. A world where you could watch the deliberations of elected officials anytime — without commercials.
If truth be told, local politics affect everyday life far more often than most of the blather in Washington, D.C. Your local officials decide whether a public restroom gets built, a sidewalk goes in, or a new company down the road gets a special property tax break.
That brings me to the role of Public, Educational and Government (PEG) TV. This little miracle of cable TV empowers everyone. And everyone who exercises that power gives something back to the community.
This summer, the League of Women Voters conducted short TV interviews with nearly 30 local candidates for UpNorth TV 97 & 992, the region's public access TV station.
This "Video Voter Guide" was an incredible gift to the community and local democratic processes. Such citizen-led efforts can help achieve true transparency in government. If you miss a cablecast, no problem. You can go to the UpNorth Media Center's web site and with a few clicks, stream the videos of candidates speaking about the issues that matter to you.
The discussions and actions of our elected officials should be visible to all of us. Elected officials make local laws (ordinances) and must enforce them fairly. Government transparency means citizens can see what's going on, quite literally. You, as a citizen, may not be able to attend every public meeting, but in the age of digital video, you should be able to watch the proceedings when and where it's convenient — all of the meetings.
Unfortunately, many of the region's elected officials have sidestepped this obvious opportunity for government transparency. In many townships, villages and counties around our region, elected officials and planning commissions meet regularly, but offer citizens little more than meeting minutes a month later. Even the elected board of the region's community college has failed this simple transparency test. Citizens need to ask why and ask for better.
The community can also celebrate the triumphs of transparency. Over the last five years, the elected officials of Traverse City, as well as East Bay, Elmwood and Garfield Charter Townships have embraced government access TV. You can watch their meetings on Government Access TV 99 & 994 or online at the UpNorth Media Center's web site. Grand Traverse County has also committed to transparency by joining community access TV, cable-casting commission and committee meetings and streaming them over the Internet.
Other governmental units have stepped up as well. The Traverse City Area Public Schools Board can be seen on PEG TV, using Educational Access TV 98. The Traverse Area District Library's Board can be seen on Public Access TV's UpNorth TV 97 & 992.
Local governments should open up their meetings to citizens and embrace transparency. You may not want to watch all of those meetings, but you most certainly should have that option.
About the author: Joe VanderMeulen is Executive Director of the Land Information Access Association & UpNorth Media Center, a Traverse City-based non-profit that operates our region's only pubic and government access TV stations. He holds a B.A. in English and creative writing and a M.S. in earth science and hydrogeology from Western Michigan University. He also holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Natural Resources and Environmental Policy.
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Outbreak of ‘Brain-eating Amoeba’ in Karachi
What is Naegleria?
Naegleria is an amoeba (single-celled living organism) commonly found in warm freshwater (for example, lakes, rivers, and hot springs) and soil. Only one species (type) of Naegleria infects people: Naegleria fowleri.
How does infection with Naegleria fowleri occur?
Naegleria fowleri infects people when water containing the amoeba enters the body through the nose. This typically occurs when people go swimming or diving in warm freshwater places, like lakes and rivers. The Naegleria fowleri amoeba then travels up the nose to the brain where it destroys the brain tissue. You cannot be infected with Naegleria fowleri by drinking contaminated water.
Naegleria infections may also occur when contaminated water from other sources (such as inadequately chlorinated swimming pool water and contaminated tap water) enters the nose, for example when people submerge their heads or cleanse during religious practices (wuzu), and when people irrigate their sinuses (nose) using contaminated tap water.
In what water temperature does Naegleria fowleri cause infection?
Naegleria fowleri is a heat-loving (thermophilic) microbe. It grows best at higher temperatures up to 115°F (46°C) and can survive for short periods at higher temperatures.
Can I get a Naegleria fowleri infection from a disinfected swimming pool?
No. You cannot get a Naegleria fowleri infection from a properly cleaned, maintained, and disinfected swimming pool.
When do Naegleria fowleri infections most commonly occur?
While infections with Naegleria fowleri are very rare, they occur mainly during the summer months of July, August, and September.
Can infection be spread from one person to another?
No. Naegleria fowleri infection cannot be spread from one person to another.
What are the symptoms of Naegleria fowleri infection?
Naegleria fowleri causes the disease primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a brain infection that leads to the destruction of brain tissue. In its early stages, symptoms of PAM may be similar to symptoms of bacterial meningitis.
Initial symptoms of PAM start about 5 days (range 1 to 7 days) after infection. The initial symptoms may include headache, fever, nausea, or vomiting. Later symptoms can include stiff neck, confusion, lack of attention to people and surroundings, loss of balance, seizures, and hallucinations. After the start of symptoms, the disease progresses rapidly and usually causes death within about 5 days (range 1 to 12 days).
What is the actual mechanism of death from Naegleria fowleri infection?
The infection destroys brain tissue causing brain swelling and death.
What is the fatality rate for an infected person who begins to show signs and symptoms?
The fatality rate is over 99%.
Is there effective treatment for infection with Naegleria fowleri?
It is not clear. Several drugs are effective against Naegleria fowleri in the laboratory. However, their effectiveness is unclear since almost all infections have been fatal, even when people were treated with similar drug combinations.
What should I do if I have been swimming or playing in freshwater and now think I have symptoms associated with Naegleria fowleri?
People should seek medical care immediately whenever they develop a sudden onset of fever, headache, stiff neck, and vomiting, particularly if they have been in warm freshwater recently.
What swimming behaviors have been associated with Naegleria fowleri infection?
Behaviors associated with the infection include diving or jumping into the water, submerging the head under water or engaging in other water-related activities that cause water to go up the nose.
How can I reduce the risk of infection with Naegleria fowleri?
- Use chlorinated and boiled water.
- Hold your nose shut, use nose clips, or keep your head above water when taking part in water-related activities in bodies of warm freshwater.
- Avoid water-related activities in warm freshwater during periods of high water temperature and low water levels.
- Avoid swimming in waters where you suspect poor hygiene and insufficient chlorination.
If you are irrigating, flushing, or rinsing your sinuses (for example, Wuzu), use water that has been:
- previously boiled for 1 minute and left to cool or
- filtered, using a filter with an absolute pore size of 1 micron or smaller or
- purchased with a label specifying that it contains distilled or sterile water.
Dr. Kamran Dawood
Consultant Microbiologist and
Head of Microbiology and Infection Control Department
Further Reference: http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/naegleria/general.html
Medical Disclaimer: This is general information provided for educational and awareness purposes. This information is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
- Brain Eating Amoeba invades Pakistan | Teeth Maestro (Teeth.com.pk)
- Brain-eating amoeba kills at least 10 in Karachi (guardian.co.uk)
- Fatal parasite strikes in Karachi (bbc.co.uk)
- What is the “brain-eating” amoeba found in Pakistan? (cbsnews.com)
- Pakistan: No risk of Naegleria if water boiled or chlorinated, say experts (crofsblogs.typepad.com)
- Naegleria Fowleri: ‘Brain-Eating Amoeba’ Kills 10 In Pakistan (huffingtonpost.com)
- Deadly Amoeba in Tap Water (foxnews.com)
Cross Post by Erin Kurt
Why is it easier to say something to our kids when we’re angry at them than when they are doing what we want them to do?
Picture a lazy Sunday afternoon and you’re reading your favorite magazine while sipping a cup of tea. Your children are in the next room playing a game together, having a wonderful time and getting along famously. What are the chances that you would get up, walk to the next room and say, “It’s so nice to see you two having such a great time together”? Probably slim. Why? Because when we parents are happy and content ourselves, we aren’t particularly motivated to move from what’s making us content.
Now imagine that your children in the next room begin screaming and arguing. Your heart begins to beat faster, anger begins to swell inside you and thoughts like, “What is going on? Why can’t they just play nicely? I was having such a relaxing time by myself!” begin to run through your head. Now you are motivated – you are MAD! What are the chances of you getting up, stomping into the next room and yelling at the kids to, “Be quiet!”?
Unfortunately, the outcome of this “Speak only when we see negative behavior Syndrome” is that our kids mostly hear from us when we have something negative to say rather than positive feedback. They receive the message that they are just annoying to us.
The antidote? Positive verbal and non-verbal reinforcement.
Here are 20 ways to show or tell your children that you appreciate their positive behaviors.
“Thanks for wiping the kitchen counter so nicely”
“I think you got ready for school in record time this morning!”
“I loved how you persevered after getting frustrated with your homework tonight.”
“I saw you on the soccer field. You played hard!”
“It was so nice dining out with you tonight.”
“Have I told you lately how much I appreciate how you keep your room so tidy?”
Give a rub on the back after your child has done something you asked.
Give your child a wink and a smile after they accomplish something difficult to show you are proud of them.
Give your child a thumb or two thumbs up after you see him/her completing a task around the house.
“Good job on that math test, Julie. I know you studied hard.”
“I’m so proud of how you _______________.”
“I’m so proud to call you my son/daughter.”
Write a special note and put it in your child’s desk at school.
Write a special note and put it in your child’s lunch bag.
Smile at your child and stroke their hair after they have made a good choice about something.
Buy a “just because” toy, game, or puzzle and attach a note or card expressing the reason you are giving the gift. Do they always hang up their coat which keeps your house tidy? Do they always finish their homework on time?
“That puppy really likes you!”
“Dad and I were so proud of the way you behaved tonight at our friend’s house. You were polite and tried to join in the conversation.”
“Wow, how creative. I like how you used the color purple here”
Leave a heart-shaped note in your child’s jacket pocket thanking him/her for a job well done on a task they always do around the house.
In order to remind themselves to use praise, some parents find it helpful to make a note and put it where they can see it often. The note might read, “notice the positive” or “catch ‘em doing good.”.
Catch your kids being good. It will have a profound effect on the atmosphere in your home. Whatever it takes, I assure you it will be worth it.
How do you reinforce the behavior in your household? Let us know in the comments below!
Erin A. Kurt, Stress-Free Parenting Expert, is founder of ErinParenting.com and the author of Juggling Family Life: A Step-By-Step Guide to Stress-Free Parenting, the proven step-by-step program that shows you exactly how to raise happy, respectful and well-adjusted kids in just 3 steps…guaranteed. Erin has also recently launched the Stress-Free Parenting Club, a private, exclusive club for women. For other great tips and to receive her stress-free parenting articles on how to parent without yelling and get your kids to listen to you the first time, visit http://www.erinparenting.com. | <urn:uuid:64339538-c34c-4c4e-8eb6-890f86ac4b0f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://discomaulvi.wordpress.com/?ref=teabreak&tbRef=59bbd.1407.74636 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93652 | 2,292 | 3.453125 | 3 |
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/309243/concern-over-environment-ministrys-no.html Concern over environment ministry’s ‘no’ to radar in Andamans
The recent rejection of a request of the defence ministry by the Union environment ministry to allow setting up of a radar in Narcondum Island in the Andaman Sea raises the question of whether in this country security of the nation is of paramount importance or whether the environmental issues can override it. It becomes all the more important when we see total abdication of issues of environmental abuse by the government.
However, so far the debate has been between environment and industrial growth but now the debate has moved to a more serious issue of environment and national security which is a matter of greater concern.
That there is large scale violation of environment in this country is a known fact. The ministry of environment is either conniving or watching helplessly, whichever way the reader wants to accept it. The mining mafia, supported by political-bureaucratic nexus is indulging in the rape of forests violating all forms of environment laws and hardly any action is being taken against any individual or company. Some activists with conviction have fought cases against the mining mafia and inaction of government and in some cases got favourable judgements.
The pollution control agencies responsible for the welfare of various rivers are a scandal. Yamuna and Ganga River Control Authorities have spent thousands of crores for cleaning up rivers with pollution in them only getting worse. This state of affairs has no justification when we see that in other democratic countries like England where river Thames at London, which was once so polluted that no fish could survive, has now become a pollution free river. Similar is the case with many rivers all over the world. Why is it that we are unable to control such an environment disaster? The simple answer is corruption. Corruption has seeped into the innards of our bureaucratic system and every aspect of bureaucracy needs a deep cleansing.
After having succumbed to all sorts of environmental scams, the ministry of environment in its effort they feel very elated when they recently denied the Indian Navy/Coast Guard to put up radars at Narcondom Island of the Andaman archipelago in the Bay of Bengal. A look at the map of Andaman Islands in the atlas will convince any lay person the critical importance of having a radar in this crucial and isolated island which juts out 160 km of the Andaman archipelago facing Myanmar. | <urn:uuid:9b2afa8b-ba42-47c4-94f6-c12b35ab4f9e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.design21sdn.com/share/22244/Most_popular | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952556 | 512 | 2.046875 | 2 |
“Outer-Space Cartoon Says Americans Are the Bad Guys: “Millions for defense, not a sixpence for tribute,” Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, once a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, said in 1796. “Millions for special effects, not a Starbucks gift card for writing,” might be the motto of modern Hollywood, at least if “Avatar” is the exemplar. “Avatar” should have been marketed as a cartoon and best animated feature of 2009. The special effects were great — though yours truly increasingly finds computer-drawn special effects boring, since they are so obviously fake. The script was as dull and predictable as the special effects were flashy. Maybe the dialogue sounded better in Na’vi.
Hardly anything was explained — so let’s start with why the whole plot was set in motion in the first place. Sinister humans are bent on removing peace-loving blue aliens from a point on Pandora above some minerals the sinister humans want to strip-mine; the peace-loving natives won’t move because the place is sacred ground. Reader Bryan Law of Independence, Ohio, notes: “Even today, horizontal drilling means you don’t have to destroy the surface above a resource to obtain it. So why wasn’t the problem on Pandora solved by horizontal drilling? Don’t tell me that 150 years from now, humanity has become capable of interstellar travel, yet forgotten a basic mining technique.”
The mineral is an anti-gravity substance that floats. Midway through the movie, we learn there are entire mountains of it floating above Pandora. So why not mine the floating mountains, where no Pandorans live, rather than go to war with the natives? The clichéd super-heartless corporation that wants the mineral is depicted as obsessed by profit. War is a lot more expensive than mining! If profit is what motivates the corporation, war is the last thing it would want.
Because hardly anything in the movie is explained, we never find out what nation or organization has built a huge base on Pandora, then brought along an armada of combat aircraft. The Earth characters all look, act and talk like Americans — in fact, slang hasn’t changed in 150 years! But does this project have some kind of government approval, or is it an interplanetary criminal enterprise? It’s hard to believe that 150 years from now, humanity’s first interaction with another sentient species would be conducted without any public officials present, but that’s what is depicted.
And who are the gun-toting fatigue-clad personnel commanded by the ultra-evil Colonel Quaritch — are they regular military, mercenaries, private security contractors? Audiences never find out. They’re just a bunch of trigger-happy killers who want to slaughter intelligent beings, and all of them but one do exactly what Colonel Quaritch says, even once it’s clear Quaritch is insane. The colonel must work for somebody — for the Pentagon, some government agency, for the corporation. So why isn’t he subject to supervision? No organization would entrust a project costing trillions of dollars — a town-sized facility has been built five light-years away — to a single individual with unchecked power. You’d worry that the single individual would commit some huge blunder that wiped out your trillion-dollar investment, which ends up being exactly what happens. I found the colonel with absolute authority a lot more unrealistic than the floating mountains.
Then there’s director James Cameron’s view of military personnel. If I were a military man or woman, I would find “Avatar” insulting. With one exception, the helicopter pilot played by Michelle Rodriguez — her character is twice referred to as a Marine, suggesting the military personnel are regular military, not mercenaries — all the people in fatigues are brainless sadists. They want to kill, kill, kill the innocent. They can’t wait to begin the next atrocity. It’s true that the U.S. military has conducted atrocities, in Vietnam and during the Plains Indians wars. But slaughter of the innocent is rare in U.S. military annals. In “Avatar,” it’s the norm. The bloodthirsty military personnel readily comply with the colonel’s orders to gun down natives. No one questions him — though in martial law, a soldier not only may but must refuse an illegal order. Plus the military personnel are depicted as such utter morons — not a brain in any of their heads — that none notice the TOTALLY OBVIOUS detail that Pandora’s unusual biology will be worth more than its minerals. Yes, movies traffic in absurd super-simplifications. But we’re supposed to accept that of the deployment of several hundred, every soldier save one is a low-IQ cold-blooded murderer.
What does “Avatar” build up to? Watching the invading soldiers — most of whom happen to be former American military personnel — die is the big cathartic ending of the flick. Extended sequences show Americans being graphically slaughtered in the natives’ counterattack. The deaths of aliens are depicted as heartbreaking tragedies, while the deaths of American security forces are depicted as a whooping good time. In Cameron’s “Aliens,” “The Abyss” and his television show “Dark Angel,” U.S. military personnel are either the bad guys or complete idiots, often shown graphically slaughtered. Cameron is hardly the only commercial-film director to present watching evil U.S. soldiers slaughtered as popcorn-chomping suburban shopping mall fun: in the second “X-Men” flick, U.S. soldiers are the bad guys and graphically killed off. Films that criticize the military for its faults are one thing: When did watching depictions of U.S. soldiers dying become a form of fun?”
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Andrea Batista Schlesinger
Real Family Values
In some rooms, we have a conversation about “family values” in the abstract. In other rooms, we talk about the intricacies of public policy, with statistics and reasoned approaches. How can we bridge the gap? With paid family leave--a policy commitment that embodies real family values.
It’s about more than the graphs and charts that explain why paid family leave is necessary, how it would benefit American workers, how its absence harms our families needlessly, and how it is even beneficial for the bottom line of our economy.
It’s about our personal stories and what ties us together.
The Drum Major Institute wants to know your story. Here’s why.
On September 15, we’ll host the next installment of our Marketplace of Ideas series highlighting policies that are practical, effective, and, most importantly, progressive. Governor Jon Corzine is our special guest. He will talk about the historical significance of New Jersey being the third state in the union to guarantee its workers paid family leave.
After Governor Corzine’s presentation, I’ll facilitate a discussion with him and a fantastic panel including New York State Labor Commissioner M. Patricia Smith, New York Women’s Foundation President Ana Oliveira, and Working Families Party head Dan Cantor.
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Fluoropolymers are among the most useful modern materials, providing nonstick surfaces for cookware and industrial products, waterproofing surface treatments for clothing and other substrates, stain barriers for textiles, high-purity fluid handling "plumbing," medical applications, wire & cable insulation jackets, high performance coatings for harsh environments, mar-free coatings for touch screen electronic devices, architectural and marine coating additives, backsheets for photovoltaic panels, films and membranes for technical, waterproof clothing and industrial applications.
PTFE is the dominant fluoropolymer, accounting for 58% (by weight) of world fluoropolymer consumption in 2012. Other fluoropolymers include PVDF, FEP, ECTFE, PVF, ETFE, PFA, CTFE-VDF, PCTFE, THV and amorphous types. China is the dominant consumer of PTFE, while the United States is the dominant consumer of other fluoropolymers.
PTFE resin has been commercially available for over sixty years and a variety of applications have been developed.
- Wire and cable insulation for electrical/electronic and aerospace
- Plumbing and fluid processing equipment for chemical, petroleum, environmental, semiconductor and medical applications
- Textile fibers for clothing, dental floss and industrial/environmental applications, including laminates for clothing and industrial applications
- Lubricants for printing, including lubricity materials for mechanical joints and contact points in mechanisms
- Cookware coatings
- Mechanical, coating and lubrication applications for vehicles, building construction, industrial machines and appliances
The following pie chart shows world consumption of fluoropolymers:
Fluoropolymers are derived from fluorocarbons, which are a class of low-molecular-weight hydrocarbons that contain fluorine and in the past they typically contained chlorine (known as chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs). Fluorocarbons are also used as refrigerants, blowing agents, cleaning agents and aerosol propellants. When fluoropolymers are produced, fluorocarbon feedstocks become part of the solid polymer and are not emitted into the atmosphere over the life cycle of the product.
The United States accounted for 20% of the world consumption of PTFE in 2012 and 40% of the world consumption of other fluoropolymers. From 2012 to 2017, U.S. consumption of PTFE will grow at 2.0% per year and consumption of other fluoropolymers is expected to grow at an average annual rate of about 3.3%.
About 67% of Western Europe's fluoropolymer consumption is PTFE. During 2012–2017, Western European consumption of PTFE is expected to grow at an average annual rate of 3.5%, while other fluoropolymers are expected to grow at an average annual rate of 6.8% during the same period.
Japan is increasingly specializing in fluoropolymers other than PTFE. Japanese fluoropolymer consumption is expected to grow at an average annual rate of 5.9% between 2012 and 2017.
China is the world's largest consumer of PTFE, with 36% of world consumption in 2012. China's production capacity and production of other fluoropolymers became significant in 2012.
Other countries currently producing fluoropolymers include India and Russia. PTFE is the only fluoropolymer produced in all of them but Russia, and it is the dominant fluoropolymer traded and consumed in the rest of the world. Consumption of fluoropolymers in countries other than the United States, Western Europe, China and Japan accounted for about 12% of world fluoropolymer consumption. PTFE consumption in these countries will increase at an average annual rate of about 5% from 2012 to 2017. | <urn:uuid:2ba88f6c-b320-4c58-acae-4487b646c97c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ihs.com/products/chemical/planning/ceh/fluoropolymers.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925954 | 898 | 1.8125 | 2 |
When an economic downturn occurs, it may affect the local real estate market causing housing and commercial values to drop. The law provides property tax relief to property owners if the value of their property falls below its assessed value.
Generally, property is assessed at the lesser of two values: (1) factored base year value (typically the purchase price adjusted annually for inflation, not to exceed 2% per year) or (2) current market value on January 1. When the market value is the lesser value, the "Decline in Value Assessment Program" (Proposition 8) allows for a temporary reduction in assessed value.
If a property is enrolled in the Decline in Value Assessment Program, its assessed value is subject to annual review in subsequent years in light of current economic and market factors. For example, the assessed value may be:
Assessed Value Increases Exceeding Two Percent (Restoration)
Some San Mateo County property owners whose properties were in the Decline in Value Assessment Program may see an increase (restoring to factored base year value) in their assessment values by more than two percent (2%).
Note: Although Proposition 13 expressly limits annual increases in a property's "factored base year value" to no more than two percent per year, there is no such limitation on annual increases to a property's assessed value, as long as the factored base year value is not exceeded.
The Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder's Office, Assessor's Division is currently accepting Decline in Value applications for the 2013-14 tax year. The deadline to file Decline in Value applications is October 1, 2013. | <urn:uuid:b15a01ba-138b-4aa5-91ee-050d8c515219> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.smcare.org/assessor/homeownerresources/property_info_systems.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928935 | 335 | 1.914063 | 2 |
(CNN) -- A 12.76-carat pink diamond has been unearthed in an Australian mine, the largest ever found in the country.
Christened as the Argyle Pink Jubilee, the diamond was found in mining giant Rio Tinto's Argyle diamond mine in Western Australia's East Kimberly region. The Argyle mine is the world's largest producer of pink diamonds, with Rio Tinto reporting that the mine generates more than 90% of the global market supply.
"A diamond of this caliber is unprecedented -- it has taken 26 years of Argyle production to unearth this stone, and we may never see one like this again," said Argyle Pink Diamonds Manager Josephine Johnson in a statement.
Rio Tinto expects that after two months of assessment and planning, it will take ten days to cut and polish the diamond into a single stone. The finished stone will be offered for sale during the company's annual Argyle Pink Diamonds Tender later this year.
According to Australia's Herald Sun, the diamond will be worth at least US$1.07 million.
However, it is premature to judge the stone's significance at this point, according to Sotheby's Asia department head of jewelry, Chin Yeow Quek.
"It is hard to judge a stone in the rough. It really depends on how large the rock will be polished downed to," he said, explaining that diamonds tend to lose at least 50% of their weight during the polishing process. "It also depends on the [intensity of] color and clarity," he added.
He cited as a benchmark the 24.78-carat fancy intense pink diamond sold by Sotheby's Geneva office in November, 2010 for more than US $46 million, which set the world's auction record for any diamond and jewel at US$1.86 million per carat.
Natural pink diamonds are considered one of the most valuable types of diamonds, and are typically found in museums, fine auction houses, and on the hands of royalty. The company said the Argyle Pink Jubilee is in a similar light pink color to the 24-carat Williamson Pink that Britain's Queen Elizabeth II received as a wedding gift. | <urn:uuid:87ca24e3-111e-43fe-8f3e-3a0e10ea57b8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://us.cnn.com/2012/02/22/world/asia/australia-pink-diamond/index.html?hpt=hp_c2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959034 | 458 | 2.15625 | 2 |
February 26, 2013
71% of Manitobans want lawn pesticides gone
Rural and urban voters support ban; say pesticides threaten lakes
For Immediate Release – February 26, 2013
(Winnipeg, MB) Polling results released today indicate a large majority of Manitobans – 71% – support a law that would phase-out the use and sale of lawn and garden pesticides across the province. The survey shows broad support with rural, urban, and suburban residents agreeing at 86%, 72%, and 68% respectively, that cosmetic pesticides should be barred from use and sale. This is the first scientific poll on pesticides since the issue came up for debate last year.
“It’s clear Manitobans want and deserve the same protection from these unnecessary toxins as the millions of Canadians across Canada where provincial bans are already in place,” said Farrah Khan, a campaigner with the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. Lawn and garden pesticides are already banned in six provinces from Ontario to Newfoundland. “Strong provincial legislation will take these poisons off store shelves and protect our most vulnerable population – our kids – from getting sick.”
This confirmation of public support is welcome news for the coalition known as Cosmetic Pesticide Ban Manitoba, who together with more than 25 local and national health and environment groups have called for a provincial ban on lawn and garden pesticides.
According to Winnipeg-based emergency physician, Dr. Paul Doucet, “peer-reviewed science consistently shows links between pesticide exposure and childhood cancer, birth defects, neurological problems, respiratory illness, and more. When non-toxic options are readily available, we should not put our health at risk simply for the appearance of a lawn.”
The new poll also reveals 77% of Manitobans see pesticides as a threat to the environment, including wildlife, air quality, and lakes; and 71% see lawn pesticides as a health threat to pets.
Earlier this month, Lake Winnipeg was named the world’s most threatened lake for 2013. Reducing toxic run-off is essential to protecting this and other water bodies across the province. Josh Brandon, communications coordinator at the Green Action Centre explains, “It’s no secret lawn pesticides are polluting our ecosystems. We hope the government will take action now to protect our lakes – while we still can.”
The polling was conducted by Oraclepoll Research. It involved a telephone survey of 498 Manitoba residents. The margin of error is +/- 4.4% 19/20 times.
For more information, contact:
Farrah Khan, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE)
(w) 416-306-2273 (c) 647-886-2189
Josh Brandon, Green Action Centre and Cosmetic Pesticide Ban Manitoba
(w) (204) 898-6460(c) 204-898-6460
There was also a poll released February 18, 2013 that shows similar results. It was commissioned by the Canadian Cancer Society and it polled British Columbians regarding their views of cosmetic pesticides. Read about it here.
About this group:
Cosmetic Pesticide Ban Manitoba is comprised of concerned citizens from a variety of groups who wish to create awareness and provide information about the important issue of a cosmetic pesticide ban in Manitoba.
The Provincial Government has entered into public consultations regarding a potential cosmetic pesticide ban in Manitoba. This is the Play It Safe document which outlines why a cosmetic pesticide ban is being considered, which other provinces have a cosmetic pesticide ban, and what a cosmetic pesticide ban would entail.
Comments are accepted until October 1, 2012. Comments can be left on this website: http://www.gov.mb.ca//conservation/envprograms/feedback.html.
We are calling for the complete ban on the sale and use of cosmetic pesticides (the use of chemicals to maintain the appearance of a landscape (eg. lawns and gardens) NOT to address a health issue or invasive species.
There are many natural alternatives to dealing with weeds in lawns and gardens, but the best defence against weeds is to nurture the soil and make sure the conditions for growing are ideal. There are many resources available at your local library or online, and Manitoba Eco-Network has an Organic Lawn Care Educational Program that delivers free organic lawn care workshops and there is a library to borrow some tools and books for free.
Please contact us at: firstname.lastname@example.org
and join our Facebook group.
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Texas budget writers got a briefing on the state’s health care programs Wednesday, and many of the biggest questions focused on how the state can reduce fraud and what to do about ever-increasing health care costs.
The state Senate’s initial budget proposal spends more than $70 billion on health and human services, a 2 percent increase from the current budget. But so far the Senate hasn’t funded enrollment growth in Medicaid, the program that provides health care for low-income and disabled Texans.
Audio: Ben Philpott's story for KUT News
It’s one of the health care budget’s biggest items. State Sen. Tommy Williams, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, said the omission is intended to start the conversation on how the state funds the program. But Williams, R-The Woodlands, warned that the state can’t continue to fund growth in the program at the rate it has over the past decade.
“And hope to build all the facilities that our institutions of higher education have, to build the highways that we need, and the water infrastructure that we need for our state to continue growing," Williams said.
Williams said senators will propose many fixes in hopes of lowering costs but that he doesn't think "those choices have to be whether we’re going to serve that population or not — it’s going to be about how they are served.”
One of the most hotly debated political points of the health care budget is whether or not Texas will join in an expansion of Medicaid called for under the Affordable Care Act. Gov. Rick Perry and other Republican leaders have promised that the state will not join in the expansion. Democrats say the state would only have to spend about $1 billion a year over the next three years to get $27 billion in federal matching funds.
One suggestion lawmakers heard Wednesday would allow the state’s largest counties to use local tax dollars to draw federal matching funds — a point state Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, wanted to emphasize.
"Let make sure I understand this: In order to cover an additional 1.2 million people in the state of Texas, we have the ability to allow counties, if they can do so, to use their GR to cover more Texans without the state encoring an expense," he said.
A staff member of the Legislative Budget Board told West he was correct.
One other expense that has been more popular one among Republicans is a call to change the state’s mental health system, which has grown louder amid recent mass shootings.
“We are going to bring you some ideas that we think will suffice in the area of mental health. It’s getting a lot of attention now," said Kyle Janek, the state's commissioner of health and human services, adding, "And I’ll point out to the committee, there is no silver bullet. Anything I could come up with you could say, 'That won’t prevent Aurora, that won’t prevent Newtown, that won’t prevent Virginia Tech.'”
The Senate Finance Committee will continue to hold hearings on each part of the budget over the next few days, then break into smaller groups to start making recommendations on cuts or increases.
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By Elizabeth Matthews
BRIDGETON, Mo. (KSDK) - A new twist in the controversy surrounding a smelly landfill in Bridgeton. The state of Missouri is now warning of a possible public health risk, but the company that owns it still claims it's safe.
Republic Services says so far in the testing that's occurred they've seen no health risk in the odor, but now the Missouri Department of Natural Resources is saying if the future if this problem continues there could be a health issue.
"All the testing that we've done and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources has done has shown that there is no hazard to the community," said Republic services' environmental specialist Bryan Sehie.
He and his company say so far the testing on the odor coming from the landfill is not harmful to the surrounding residents.
"Republic Services sent out a flyer to residents saying that everything is fine well the DNR just weeks later is saying that there could be a potential health risk," said Ed Smith with the Missouri Coalition for the Environment.
Smith is referring to an update on the Bridgeton landfill on the DNR's website. In part it reads "...if emissions from the subsurface smoldering event are not controlled or conditions intensify further, these emissions could potentially pose a risk to public health."
"I am not sure what they are basing that on exactly, the EPA has agreed that the odors are not a concern to the community obviously the DNR continues to monitor and we will report anything that we do believe is a concern to the community," said Sehie.
Republic Services and the DNR are working together in finding a remedy to the smelly issue and making sure that the odor is not harmful.
Bob Nowlin is now organizing a community advisory group that will be able to spread the word better from both Republic Services and the DNR.
"In order for people to be satisfied in the area, then we are going to have to get the information out from both sides otherwise people are only hearing one side of it," said Nowlin.
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Through a nationwide network of campuses, Job Corps offers a comprehensive array of career development services to at-risk young women and men, ages 16 to 24, to prepare them for successful careers. Job Corps employs a holistic career development training approach which integrates the teaching of academic, vocational, employability skills and social competencies through a combination of classroom, practical and based learning experiences to prepare youth for stable, long-term, high-paying jobs.
The Job Corps design includes the following features:
- Standard eligibility criteria (12 kb PDF file)
- A defined set of core competencies in academic, vocational, information technology, employability and independent living skills which represent the fundamental skills students need to secure and maintain employment
- Standardized systems for financial reporting, data collection, student benefits and accountability
- Nationally established performance outcomes, goals and quality expectations
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I have just finished my time here at the Durrell Wildlife Preservation Trust, and what a time it’s been! Between the three week Endangered Species Recovery (ESR) Course, and an extra 10 days of practical experience in the wildlife park, I’ve been here for just over a month. I’ve met such a variety of people and learnt so many things that I don’t know where to begin. The beginning, I suppose.
The group on the course was fairly small this year, so we got to know each other quite well. We had people from India, Australia, Hong Kong, Austria, and Jersey. And Canada, of course. We were also varied in experiences, from national parks staff to students who were just starting out and had an interest in conservation. On the first day of the course, Lee Durrell talked to us about how the Trust was formed, its vision, and its commitment to conservation around the world. Very inspiring! Each course participant then introduced themselves and talked about their experiences and why they thought conservation was important. It was so motivational to be in a group of people who all wanted to work to make a difference.
Throughout the next three weeks, we had lectures, worked through exercises and carried out projects on every topic imaginable to do with conservation. And I mean everything – from how to set conservation priorities to the role of zoos in conservation to captive breeding, reintroduction, and population management to dropping an egg off the top of the ITC without breaking it (developing teamwork, of course!).
The advantage of being at Durrell was that not only were we able to hear about certain theories and techniques, but we were also able to go into the zoo and speak to the people who were working on them! We learnt about egg incubation and chick rearing, and then saw the process in practice in the bird department. We learnt about the importance of microhabitats in amphibian breeding, and disease management in animals bred for reintroduction. We then had a tour of the old shipping containers Durrell has converted into biosecure habitats for the Jersey Agile Frog Headstarting Programme. Really cool!
We were also lucky that the course coincided with the Durrell International Team Meeting. I loved hearing about the work that’s being done all over the world, and was lucky enough to meet some really interesting people including former New Noah Lance Woolaver, and individuals involved with the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, who I hope to meet again before not too long.
As part of the ESR course, each student does a project; usually behavioural study on one of the species in the animal collection. I worked with one of the Jersey students on observing the activity patterns of the Livingstone’s fruit bats. These large bats are found only in the Comores and are endangered in the wild. They are being bred at Durrell, and have just been moved to a new enclosure. The keepers hope that the larger, more open enclosure will encourage them to fly more, as this is an important part of their natural behaviour. After quite a few hours of hanging around (haha) in the bat enclosure and watching their every move, we came up with some preliminary data that confirmed the keepers’ suspicions – the females were more active and used more of their enclosure than the males. They also flew much more often.
This supported the hypothesis that males get caught in a bit of a vicious cycle – they are dominant and territorial, therefore they defend a smallish area where there is lots of food. They have no need to travel around the enclosure, and because they have access to so much food they might even be getting too heavy to fly. Hopefully confirming this might be helpful for the keepers in terms of management.
After the course, I stayed on for another 10 days or so to see how things are done in the Wildlife Park. This was so much fun! I shadowed keepers in the bird and mammal sections, and they were really enthusiastic about answering my million questions. There were all sorts of interesting things going on, and I got to see baby birds and a tamarin being hand-reared, help in daily husbandry tasks, and learn about some of the management challenges involved in giving these animals the best life possible.
I spent some time in the vet centre as well, where there is almost always something interesting going on. It could be a baby meerkat who needs a microchip for ID, a gorilla with a sore toe, or a giant jumping rat who’s feeling poorly. You just never know! While I was there, also I got to help out with putting radio transponders in some Montserrat Mountain Chickens before they were released back into the wild.
Mountain Chickens are nothing like you might expect. They are actually frogs – big ones, yes – but they don’t look or sound particularly chicken-like. It could be the way they taste, as they are a local delicacy on the island of Montserrat, but I can’t make a comment on that based on personal experience! These frogs are critically endangered because of the spread of the chytrid fungus to their habitat, as well as recent volcanic eruptions on Montserrat. Durrell is breeding them in captivity, and then releasing them to help the wild population to recover. So that they can be monitored post-release, each frog carries a small radio transponder under its skin so that field workers can trace them. The Durrell staff are efficient, so this procedure isn’t too stressful for the frogs. I helped to record all the details of the procedures for reference purposes. I really enjoyed just being part (however small!) of this process, and seeing some of the work that goes into preparing animals for release.
As well as lots of learning, I managed to find some time to explore Jersey as well. It’s an amazing island. The ESR students spent one rainy Saturday exploring the War Tunnels, and learning about the occupation in World War II. We sampled local cuisine (Ice cream! Cream teas! Cream fudge!), and saw lots of the sights – pretty harbours, old granite farmhouses, green fields, rugged coastline, beaches, Jersey cows. We even went swimming- chilly but I am from Winnipeg, after all! I also spent one sunny day exploring the cliff paths along the coast. It was gorgeous and I could see all the way to France.
Now, I am sadly saying goodbye to Jersey. I will miss the people and animals of Durrell (even the lemurs who wake me up with their calling early each morning). It really is a lovely place to be. I’ve really enjoyed my time here, and learnt a lot. Now I’m off to the UK for a little while to visit family, before heading to Mauritius!
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Frozen Shoulder Treatment in Vancouver (adhesive capsulitis)
Frozen shoulder, medically referred to as adhesive capsulitis, is a disorder in which the shoulder capsule, the connective tissue surrounding the glenohumeral joint of the shoulder, becomes inflamed and stiff, and grows together with abnormal bands of tissue, called adhesions, greatly restricting motion and causing chronic pain.
Frozen Shoulder or Adhesive capsulitis is a painful and disabling condition that often causes great frustration for patients and caregivers due to slow recovery. Movement of the shoulder is severely restricted. Pain is usually constant, worse at night, when the weather is colder, and along with the restricted movement can make even small tasks impossible. Certain movements can cause sudden onset of tremendous pain and cramping that can last several minutes.
Frozen Shoulder (Adhesive Capsulitis) often result from faulty spinal shoulder joint & or spinal mechanics due to the accumulation of stress & tension to the spine from repetitive or chronic injury. This is best treated by proper assessment by a chiropractor & hands-on treatment which gets to the source of the problem and allow for most rapid healing. Call 604-733-7744 for relief!
This condition, for which an exact cause is unknown, can last from five months to three years or more and is thought in some cases to be caused by injury or trauma to the area. It is believed that it may have an autoimmune component, with the body attacking healthy tissue in the shoulder. The condition may also cause chronic inflammation. Adhesions grow between the joints and tissue, greatly restricting motion and causing a number of painful complications. There is also a lack of fluid in the joint, further restricting movement.
In addition to difficulty with everyday tasks, people who suffer from frozen shoulder or adhesive capsulitis usually experience problems sleeping for extended periods due to pain that is worse at night and restricted movement/positions, resulting in chronic fatigue and other complications. The condition also can lead to depression, pain, and problems in the neck and back, as well as damage to the surrounding tissue.
There are a number of risk factors for frozen shoulder, including diabetes, stroke, accidents, lung disease, connective tissue disorders, and heart disease. The condition very rarely appears in people under 40.Frozen Shoulder can be treated in Vancouver with chiropractic & massage services. Relief of in Vancouver by calling 604-733-7744 for information. | <urn:uuid:925455d1-55f9-4440-a1cc-b111d61f1a23> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.vancouverchiropractic.net/frozen-shoulder | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950947 | 503 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Raising the number of seats in the Lok Sabha and the state assemblies is being seen as a way out to arrive at a consensus on the Women's Reservation Bill which is being opposed in the present form by some political parties.
Both the government and the Congress have made it clear that there would be no dilution of the proposed 33 per cent reservation for women in Lok Sabha and in state assemblies.
Over a decade after the exercise started, there is no unanimity on how to go about with the task without antagonising various sections.
"No male member will be willing to vote himself out", said a member of the previous Parliamentary Standing Committee, which went into the controversial bill, suggesting that it would be a tall order to expect the members to back any measure that could hit them hard.
A former Union Minister, who has earlier held parleys with opposition parties to reach a consensus on the issue, suggested that a solution can be found if the number of seats in the Lok Sabha, which now has strength of 543, is increased to accommodate women.
"Instead of sharing the existing seats, increasing the number of seats in the Lok Sabha could be a solution. If that is done, the government can even bring the Bill in the Budget session," another member of the Committee said. | <urn:uuid:12605e37-b51e-4774-ae5e-2e19823aa27b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Women-s-Quota-Bill-Increasing-LS-seats-suggested/Article1-420622.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981803 | 262 | 2.171875 | 2 |
There exists much more power not being exploited than what you can imagine. In Corvalius we are conscious of the fact that the productivity frontier is just about to be modified drastically. You will soon know how that will take place.
It is high time that speech recognition systems bring practical and usable solutions. We are investigating on how to introduce less complex products into the market.
The process of investigation requires a clear and specialized vision that enhances results without focusing out of your main business.
If resources are directed to what is most important, innovation does not occur by chance.
We carry out technology projects that are to be tested in real environments. We anticipate scenarios of each business so as to easily identify the tools that may be applied to reality in the best way. We reduce risks in controlled environments.
New and original solutions to new problems are nowadays essential to the technology business.
We eliminate the gap between problems and possible solutions. We offer a useful change that can modify your reality.
- We develop intellectual property and advanced technology.
- We show you the way to access technology.
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For parents, it can be tough to know the common indicators of substance abuse and addiction in their teenagers. Teens can be secretive and private about their activities, even when they are not harmful or cause for concern. Many symptoms of substance abuse could also be symptoms of other problems, or harmless things like allergies or insomnia. Knowing how to group signs together and gather information from talking with your child can help to determine whether there’s an issue.
Many teenagers who experiment with drugs or who are dependent on drugs or alcohol may experience trouble sleeping or severe fatigue. Pay attention to your teen’s sleep habits and whether or not they have changed dramatically during a short period of time. Asking about sleep problems can also help you to gauge what is going on.
One sign of drug abuse, particularly marijuana use, is red or bloodshot eyes. Teens may try to hide this with use of over the counter eye drops or sunglasses. If your teen is not suffering from a cold or allergies, but seems to constantly have red eyes, you may want to consider a trip to the doctor or a conversation with your teen about why the change in appearance.
Changes in Academics
A sudden drop in grades or lack of interest in school can be a sign of substance abuse in teens. If your teen is suddenly struggling to keep up in school, talk to the school and to your child about what is going on and what caused the change. While it can be any number of things, this can be a telling indicator that something is wrong.
Changes in Social Life
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|Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary|
140:8-13 Believers may pray that God would not grant the desires of the wicked, nor further their evil devices. False accusers will bring mischief upon themselves, even the burning coals of Divine vengeance. And surely the righteous shall dwell in God's presence, and give him thanks for evermore. This is true thanksgiving, even thanks-living: this use we should make of all our deliverances, we should serve God the more closely and cheerfully. Those who, though evil spoken of and ill-used by men, are righteous in the sight of God, being justified by the righteousness of Christ, which is imputed to them, and received by faith, as the effect of which, they live soberly and righteously; these give thanks to the Lord, for the righteousness whereby they are made righteous, and for every blessing of grace, and mercy of life.
Verse 8. - Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked. The "desires of the wicked" are hurtful both to themselves and others. It is in his mercy that God does not grant them. Further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. So the LXX., μήποτε ὑψωθῶσιν. Others translate, "Or how they will exalt themselves!" The third stanza here terminates.
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked,.... Of Doeg, as the Targum, and of other wicked men, who were desirous both of taking him, and of taking away his life: but the desires of such men are under the restraints of the Lord; nor can they fulfil them unless they have leave from him, which is here deprecated. The psalmist entreats he might not be delivered up to their will, or they have their will of him; see Psalm 27:12. Jarchi interprets it of Esau, as in Psalm 140:1; and it is applicable enough to antichrist and his wicked followers; who, could they have their desires, would root the Gospel, and the interest of Christ and his people, out of the world;
further not his wicked device: or, "let not his wicked device come forth" (l), or proceed to execution, or be brought to perfection; let him be disappointed in it, that he may not be able to perform his enterprise, or execute his designs; which cannot be done without the divine permission. The Rabbins, as Jarchi and others, render it, "let not his bridle come out" (m); the bridle out of his jaws, with which he was held by the Lord, and restrained from doing his will; let him not be left to his liberty, and freed from the restraints of divine Providence; see Isaiah 37:29;
lest they exalt themselves. Grow proud, haughty, and insolent to God and man; see Deuteronomy 32:27. Or, "let them not be exalted" (n); upon the ruin of me and my friends.
Selah; on this word; see Gill on Psalm 3:2.
(l) "ne facias prodire", Vatablus; "ne sinas exire", Cocceius, Michaelis. (m) "Vel frenum ejus ne sinas exire", Cocceius. (n) "ne exaltentur", Vatablus, Gejerus.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
8. (Compare Ps 37:12; 66:7).
lest they exalt themselves—or, they will be exalted if permitted to prosper.
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half-brother, and one nephew were barbers.
As in...'Shave and a haircut, two bits' barbers.
Why three brothers and a nephew took up the
same profession is lost in the mists of time.
But it made Grandpa Bert the "odd" one
for becoming a carpenter like his father.
The dapper fellow above is the half-brother, George Washington Hanson, only child of Great-grandma Zerilda's brief first marriage. We suspect George's father died toward the end of the Civil War, but can't verify it because we don't know his first name, and therefore have no clue which of the dozens of Hanson men in Indiana at the time might be him.
At any rate, we're certain the mysterious Mr. Hanson had no other children because when George died a widower, intestate and childless, his entire estate was distributed among Grandma Zerilda's other children (or if deceased, their offspring), each of whom received $1500. Not chicken feed in 1945.
The photo above was taken around 1899 at the A.P. Martin Photographic Studio in Victor, Teller Co, Colorado.
At that time Victor was a gold rush boom town, its mines containing more gold than the more famous Cripple Creek up the road. Victor residents liked to boast that "Cripple Creek may have the glory, but Victor has the gold!".
Thirty-something and still single, George appears to have been the first brother to leave Kansas for the Colorado gold fields.
But instead of filing on a claim, he opened a barber shop. Why get dirty and sweaty searching for gold all day when those who did were more than happy to part with some of it for a shave and a haircut when they came to town!
The next family members to move to Victor were George's half-brother and barber, Edward E. "Ed" Sack, wife Katie, and daughter Viola, 7 years old.
By the spring of 1900, their mother Zerilda had joined George and Ed et al, for health reasons according to her obituary. I can't fathom how the thin air at 9700 feet was supposed to help a 59-yr-old woman already in poor health, but that's what the obit says.
youngest brother, Frank Leland Sack.
Frank apparently never caught gold fever.
He stayed behind in Douglas Co, KS,
to clerk in a grocery store and court
future wife Lucy "Orrel" Jones.
Frank and Orrel (Jones) Sack circa 1902
Sometime after their marriage in August 1902 but before 1910, they moved to Coffeyville, Montgomery Co, KS, where Frank opened a barbershop. By 1918, they were back in Ottawa and Frank was driving a truck for Standard Oil.
Meanwhile, by 1903 all of the gold in Colorado that could be extracted by current methods had been depleted.
Ed, Katie and Viola Sack moved back to Kansas, to Larned, where Ed opened the barber shop he would run until he retired, a shop he possibly sold to nephew Chester Toops around 1930.
Ed, Viola, now 17, and Katie on the porch of their home (below)
in Larned, Pawnee Co, KS, a few blocks from Ed's barber shop.
In November 1904, Zerilda, whose health had gotten worse, left Colorado and returned home to husband John in Baldwin City, KS, where she died the following Valentine's Day.
That same year, George Hanson married Ida A. Byers, moved to Los Angeles, and by 1910 was the proprietor of a cigar store. By 1920, they lived in Long Beach and he was barbering once again.
Frank and Orrel followed George and Ida to California, and by 1924 were registered voters in Inglewood, LA Co. Frank, too, took up barbering again until at least 1934.
(according to the caption) "our little cabin".
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In 1921, George Hanson gave up barbering for good.
He and Ida moved to Alhambra CA...
...and started a very successful chicken ranch!
From 3-piece suits and bowler hats to farmer overalls.
More about Victor, Colorado's history and heydey as a mining town:
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About the (Mildred L.) Batchelder Award
This award honors Mildred L. Batchelder, a former executive director of the Association for Library Service to Children, a believer in the importance of good books for children in translation from all parts of the world. She began her career working at Omaha (NE) Public Library, then as a children's librarian at St. Cloud (MN) State Teachers College, and subsequently as librarian of Haven Elementary School in Evanston, IL. She eventually joined the ranks of the American Library Association in 1936. Batchelder spent 30 years with ALA, working as an ambassador to the world on behalf of children and books, encouraging and promoting the translation of the world's best children's literature. Her life's work was "to eliminate barriers to understanding between people of different cultures, races, nations, and languages."
This award, established in her honor in 1966, is a citation awarded to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States. ALSC gives the award to encourage American publishers to seek out superior children's books abroad and to promote communication among the peoples of the world.
As of 1979 the award has been given annually to a publisher for a book published in the preceding year. Before 1979, there was a lapse of two years between the original publication date and the award date; to convert to the new system, two awards were announced in 1979: one for 1978 and one for 1979. Beginning in 1994, honor recipients were selected and announced as well. In a year that the committee is of the opinion that no book of that year is worthy of the award, none is given. The award is decided on and announced at the Midwinter Meeting of ALA, and the winning publisher receives a citation and commemorative plaque. The presentation used to be made on April 2, International Children's Book Day, but is now given at the ALA Annual Conference held each summer. | <urn:uuid:e4ab2a50-55e5-4cc3-8fd0-a552b9a2c11d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/batchelderaward/batchelderabout | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973285 | 422 | 2.21875 | 2 |
TVEC students (L to R) Leah Karwic (3rd grade), Carly Duplass (3rd grade), Kayla Campagna (3rd grade) Shayne O'Doherty (1st grade) and Anna Givens (1st grade) ardently show off some of the books which will be available at the TVEC PIE Used Book Sale fundrasier. Photo by J. Finneran/Tri County Record
Twin Valley Elementary Center (TVEC) will be holding its 5th annual Used Book Sale fundraiser in the TVEC Large Group Instruction (LGI) Room on Friday, January 25, 2013 from 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. and on Saturday January 26, 2013 from 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. The sale will feature reasonably priced books, CDs, DVDs and audio books for children and adults as well.
The book sale is sponsored by TVEC’s volunteer parent-teacher organization, the TVEC Partners in Education (PIE). The monies raised by the book sale will help to fund numerous contributions to student life at TVEC including school assemblies, field trip transportation for students, classroom supplies, and various annual student events. Last years’ book sale raised over $2,000 for student activities.
The event is directed by Used Book Sale chairpersons (and PIE members) Gina O’Doherty and Tina Duplass. In their roles as committee chairs O’Doherty and Duplass oversee the sub-committee responsible for collecting, sorting, and pricing the Used Book Sale inventory.
According to O’Doherty the items which will be available include a variety of fiction and non-fiction categories such as mystery and suspense, romance, interior decorating, gardening, sports, cookbooks, biographies and many more. The wide selection of children’s books that will be available will be conveniently organized according to age groups. Books will be available in both hardback and paperback forms, with the cost of items ranging in price from 50 cents to $3.00.
“Nothing is more than $3.00,” O’Doherty said, “There is truly something for everyone at this book sale.”
Only cash or checks will be accepted for payment at the book sale. Additionally, there will be a PIE bake sale taking place on site during the sale.
Donations for the Used Book Sale are ongoing through Friday, January 18, so please consider giving your gently used hardback or paperback books, used or new DVDs, CDs and audio books to this worthy cause. Items which are not being accepted for donation are text books, comic books, magazines, and VHS tapes.
Donations will be collected at three community locations: Twin Valley Family Fitness – located at 51 South Pine Street in Elverson, National Penn Bank – located at 3697 Main Street (at the intersection of Morgan May and Quarry Road), and Aroma’s Coffee and Bagels – located at 4997 N Twin Valley Road in Elverson (at the intersection of Morgan Way and Twin Valley Road). Look for the collection bins at each of these locations.
There will also be two ‘drop-off nights’ at the Twin Valley Elementary Center for the community: Tuesday, January 15, from 4 – 6 p.m. and Thursday, January 17, from 5 – 7 p.m. The drop-offs will be at the TVEC LGI room (to access the drop-off park in lower TVEC lot located above the Twin Valley Fire Department). The drop-offs are the ideal option for those who are making large donations.
“We would like to that the Used Book Sale sub-committee, the businesses who are hosting donation bins, and the parents and other community members who provide us with their donations,” said Duplass.
Anyone with questions on the Used Book Sale and/or donations can contact Gina O’Doherty at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Twin Valley Elementary Center is located at 50 Mast Drive, Elverson, PA 19520, right next to the Twin Valley Fire Department, and can be accessed from West Conestoga Rd./Rt. 401. The snow date for the Used Book Sale would be the following Friday and Saturday, Feb. 1, from 5-8 p.m. and Saturday Feb. 2, 2013 from 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
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Climate will be changing the most in the American Southwest and northwestern Mexico, according to a new study in press in Geophysical Research Letters.
The research team developed a new technique combining forecasts from 15 new global models run for last year's IPCC report to identify hotspots based on the magnitude of temperature and precipitation response to greenhouse gas emissions. They describe this as "climate responsiveness" [right, Purdue Univ.].
"We identified areas likely to be most responsive to changes in greenhouse gas emissions. This study provides information at the state-scale, as opposed to a global or regional average, which could be useful for climate change policy," according to study lead author Noah Diffenbaugh.
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Statement of Justin McGuire, 10, Fullerton, MD on the Federal Marriage Amendment
Whitney cooks most of the time, and I love her food. Mommy helps me with my homework, and makes sure that I have it done before I play video games. Both of my moms used to read to me at night, but now I'm old enough to do it myself. This summer, since my mom has the new baby, I am looking forward to staying home with my new sister, instead of going to day camp every day. But we have to wait and see if Whitney's job will let Mommy and me onto their insurance. I love my parents and my sister and they love me. I want to spend time with them, like my cousin did when her mom had a baby. I don't get why some people, like the insurance company, don't think we are a real family.
Since my sister was born, my moms and me are trying to decide what her last name should be. I want it to be the same as mine, but that would not be fair to Whitney if everybody had the same last name but her. If my moms were married, they could already have the same last name. Then everybody would know we are in the same family. Once Michael's mom misunderstood and thought Whitney was the nanny.
In school, we are taught a lot of different things - and in social studies class, we're taught about what makes America great. We learn about freedom, equality and why discrimination is bad. My parents' say that in America, my sister and I can be whatever we want to be, as long as we are willing to work hard. But some people are saying that just because one of my moms is not a man, that they aren't real parents and should not be equal, no matter how hard they work. They want to amend the constitution to say that my family legally does not exist. That just doesn't make sense to me, and it's sort of disturbing.
Some of my friends, when they first hear about my family, think it's weird and different. My parents always say, ""Different isn't good or bad. It's just different."" And once they get to know my family, and me they see that we're just like them. If my classmates can see that we're a family, why can't Congress? | <urn:uuid:9d18eb13-cc51-4c40-9c5c-921ab6ce98ed> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.aclu.org/lgbt-rights_hiv-aids/statement-justin-mcguire-10-fullerton-md-federal-marriage-amendment | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986888 | 485 | 1.671875 | 2 |
By Jeffery Keedy
This text was first published in 2002 in the specimen booklet for Keedy Sans.
In 1989 I designed a typeface to use in my design work
for experimental arts organizations like Los Angeles Contemporary
Exhibitions and CalArts. I called the typeface Bondage Bold. Rudy
VanderLans saw it in some of my work and wanted to sell it through Emigre.
After adding a regular weight, normalizing the spacing, cleaning up the
drawings (with Zuzana Licko's guidance), and changing the name to Keedy Sans, it was finally released on an unsuspecting public in 1991.
I designed Keedy Sans as a "user," simply
based on a vague idea of a typeface that I had not yet seen but wanted to
use in my graphic design. Most typefaces are logically systematic; if you
see a few letters you can pretty much guess what the rest of the font will
look like. I wanted a typeface that would willfully contradict those
expectations. It was a typically postmodern strategy for a work to call
attention to the flaws and artifice of its own construction. But I never
thought of it as being illegible, or even difficult to read. I have never
been very interested in pushing the limits of legibility for its own sake.
Absolute clarity, or extreme distortion, is too simplistic a goal, and it
is ground that has already been well covered. I wanted to explore the
complex possibilities that lie somewhere in between and attempt to do
something original or at least unique.
At the time I had been using the American highway
Gothic typeface in my design work that I cut and pasted from a highway
signage manual. Another vernacular influence was the "f" from
the Fiat logo. But I was not only quoting low vernacular sources; it was
important that I mixed in high design sources as well. So I was thinking
about Akzidenz-Grotesk Black, which was somewhat exotic in America, because
I liked Wolfgang Weingart's typography. Overall I wanted a typeface that
was similar to Cooper Black, extremely bold with a strong idiosyncratic
personality. I think it is a very postmodern typeface in that it included
"high" and "low" vernacular quotation, and it is
self-consciously crude and anti-aesthetic in reaction to the slickness of
Modernism. The initial reaction to Keedy Sans was that it was too
idiosyncratic, it was "ugly," hard to read, and too weird to be
very useful. It's hard to imagine that kind of reaction to a type
design today. I guess nobody really cares any more.
In 1993, Keedy Sans was still able to cause a bit of
controversy among graphic designers, and it was starting to be a popular
typeface for music and youth-oriented audiences. Its popularity slowly but
consistently grew; by 1995 it was starting to look pretty legible and tame
compared to other new typefaces on the market. Eventually even the big boys in the corporate world were no longer put off by my typographic antics, and Keedy Sans made its way into the mainstream world of corporate
commercialism by 1997.
Eight years later, it is no longer considered an
illegible, weird, deconstructed, or confrontational design. Now it's
just another decorative type style, one among many. Its willful
contradictions are only what is expected in design today. I still think it
is an interesting typeface; that's why it's a shame that now it
signifies little more than the banality of novelty. Nowadays that seems to
be all a designer can expect from their work.
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MAYVILLE - Chautauqua County voters will use the new electronic voting machines this November after all.
Election officials in Mayville announced Tuesday that Chautauqua County will be among 16 counties in New York state that will make the long-anticipated switch, leaving the lever-activated machines of the past obsolete.
"We will no longer have our trusted old friend, the mechanical lever voting machine, to depend on for elections in Chautauqua County," said Brian Abram, Republican election commissioner.
Tuesday's announcement came at a time of uncertainty over when the county would start using its $1 million stockpile of Sequoia optical scanners, purchased mostly with money from the federal government.
County election officials were all set to use the electronic machines in this year's primary and general elections until SysTest, the company charged with certifying election machines around the state, was itself decertified by the federal government. That made a 2009 debut of the state's new electronic voting machines questionable, though SysTest was soon recertified and able to continue its work.
According to election officials, Chautauqua County along with 15 other counties, will be the first to use the new electronic voting machines under a pilot program while all other counties will continue to use the state's tried-and-tested lever-activated machines.
That will be the state's first step toward finally complying with the U.S. Help Americans Vote Act, which was put into effect after the tumultuous 2000 presidential election. New York state is alone in its non-compliance with the HAVA reforms.
According to Norman P. Green, Democratic election commissioner, Chautauqua County is one of only two counties in Western New York that will use the new election machines. Wyoming County will also make the switch, but neighboring Erie and Cattaraugus counties will not.
"We agreed to be a pilot county and leader in the rollout of new voting technology because we feel strongly that our county deserves this continued honor as being the leader in voting technology in New York state," Green said. "We also feel strongly that our staff is up to the task to make this implementation happen."
Timelines released earlier this year by state election officials actually had the state's electronic voting machines ready to go after the November elections, but election officials said those estimates were purposely pessimistic since so many of the state's predictions regarding HAVA compliance fell far short of their goals.
The county bought its electronic voting machines for more than $1 million, which was mostly obtained from a federal grant. The Sequoia optical scanners, which are also equipped with a device exclusively for handicapped voters, were unveiled during last November's elections, but only for handicapped voters.
In November, when numerous local and county positions will be up for grabs as well as several judgeships, voters will insert a paper ballot into the optical scanner for tabulation, according to election officials. Sequoia's ImageCast machines also have an audio component to assist disabled voters.
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On October 10, 2008, PhotoShelter will close the PhotoShelter Collection, its stock outlet. In an announcement on the company’s website, Allen Murabayashi, PhotoShelter’s CEO declared:
“We believed that we could create a more democratic system – a marketplace for stock photography where virtually any one could participate. And a few months later, The PhotoShelter Collection was born. Upload your images, keyword & price, attach the appropriate releases, and voila! You were now a stock photographer…
We knew that sales would be challenging, but we honestly underestimated the complexity of sales. Licensing photography isn’t like selling a widget on eBay. It’s intellectual property fraught with clearance issues”
The bottom line is that the collection failed to make enough money in enough time to justify continuing. PhotoShelter will continue with personal archiving — the company describes its financial position as “strong” – but it will no longer be offering stock images to photo buyers.
The Slowness of Crowds
In a blog post, Allen describes some of the “learnings” that his experiment with stock selling taught him. These include the dominance of Getty, the difficulty of persuading buyers to break with subscription plans which lock them into a relationship with a supplier, and the inability of crowd-sourcing to move quickly enough to meet market demands.
It also apparently taught him to steer clear of stock, perhaps a wise choice for a business owner. But that’s not necessarily the smartest move for a photographer who hopes to earn money from his or her images. Although there are now plenty of options for photographers hoping to sell their images, the ability to repeatedly – and largely passively — sell licenses for the use of photographs is always going to be attractive. Allen dismisses microstock because of its low prices even though it too is democratic, provides some dedicated professionals with a real income and gives others some valuable extra revenue (and unlike the Photoshelter Collection, it works) but there are alternatives that fall between the low prices of microstock and the closed doors of traditional stock.
The Nimbleness of Niche Sites
One of the advantages that Allen Murabayashi hoped PhotoShelter would enjoy over its rivals, for example, is its ability to announce a market demand to thousands of photographers, and in a short space of time, have enough offerings to satisfy the client. In practice, he says, that didn’t work because “many research requests are due within a day,” forcing buyers to scour libraries for the photos they need. If that’s true – and the success of fotoLibra’s photo calls suggests that perhaps it’s not always true – it does create an opportunity for niche stock sites to steal a move on their larger rivals.
We’ve already seen how some photographers are doing this. Mark Maziarz has a string of boutique stock sites that offer images related to sports photography, Park City, Utah and the good life. Josh McCulloch offers licenses for his outdoor images through his own website, and Greg Epperson’s websites only provide photos related to rock-climbing.
Interestingly though, Greg, who concedes that major clients tend to go to the big stock houses, leaving him to deal with the smaller designers, has two sites through which he offers licensed photos.
“One shows the dramatized versions that stock buyers and designers are more likely to license and the other is the ‘real’ thing,” he told us. “The real thing sells poorly because the clients don’t get it. The dramatized versions sell because the client can understand it.”
That might suggest that PhotoShelter made another mistake – one not listed in Allen Murabayashi’s mea culpa: that it was wrong to believe buyers when they told PhotoShelter they wanted more realistic images and fewer posed photos. That fact was one of the more interesting things that came out of the company’s Shoot! The Day project, a plan to rejuvenate PhotoShelter’s stock library with unique offerings that art editors actually wanted to buy.
The buyers’ survey comments and requests made sense. Stock images tend to be fairly similar. Photographers can see what sells and tend to reproduce it rather than risking their time and effort on unusual images for which there might be no market. PhotoShelter attempted to provide those naturalistic images… and found that buyers stayed with the traditional shots available at Getty.
It’s hard to say though whether that’s because there’s a difference between what buyers say they want to see and what they’re actually willing to buy, or whether Getty’s subscription plans have the market for major buyers sewn up. For rock-climbing, at least, it seems to be the former but that might be something to do with the complexities of clambering up mountains.
So what does all this mean for photographers? The loss of another mid-stock outlet might mean nothing but it should show the importance of being independent and not relying too much on one sales channel. And adding a subscription model to your own stock site could be a good idea too. | <urn:uuid:59767649-608f-40c2-be36-092d24429e86> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.photopreneur.com/you-and-the-failure-of-photoshelter | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96516 | 1,104 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Child Care Center: 13 or more children at one time, 7 to 12 children if not in a personal residence. Child
care centers must be licensed by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.
Type A Home: 7 to 12 children (or 4 to 12 children if 4 children are under 2 years of age) cared for in the provider's personal residence. The provider's own children under 6 years of age must be included in the total count. Type A
homes must be licensed by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.
Click here to be directed to a page dedicated to information on becoming a licensed child care center or Type A Home in Ohio.
Type B Certified Child Care Provider: 1 to 6 children cared for in the provider's personal residence. No more than three children may be under the age of two. The provider's own children under six years of age must be included in the total count. Anyone can operate a Type B Home without a license. However, care for more than six children requires a license (see above).
Type B Homes must be certified by the County Department of Job & Family Services is the child care is paid for with public funds.
If you are interested in becoming a certified Type B Home, please contact your local County Department of Job & Family Services (CDJFS). Your local CDJFS can be found at http://jfs.ohio.gov/county/County_Directory.
Child Day Camp: A program which operates for less than seven hours a day and only during the vacation of the public schools, cares only for school age children, and the program is at least 50% outdoor based. Child day camps
must register with the department each year. If child care is paid for with public funds, the camp must also meet American Camping Association Accreditation standards, or be approved by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.
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The area around 12th Street and Seventh Avenue in the heart of Greenwich Village is remarkably quite these days -- so quiet that Yetta Kurland, an activist, goes so far as to say that "it almost looks like a bomb went off."
The block was home to St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan, which closed in April 2010 after years of financial troubles. St. Vincent's, which cared for victims of the Titanic, the AIDS epidemic and the 9/11 attacks, was New York City's last Catholic general hospital, and its absence has been felt throughout the community.
In addition, St. Vincent's was one of New York City's most prominent safety-net hospitals, serving mostly those either on Medicaid or Medicare or without insurance. It was also known as a refuge for the homeless. It has principally been these patients, then, who have been hit the hardest by St. Vincent's closing and by the shutting of other hospitals elsewhere in the city.
Filling the Void
Regardless of income, most residents of the Lower West Side who used to go to St. Vincent's now end up either at Beth Israel or Bellevue on the East Side. Shortly after St. Vincent's closed, Timothy Lunsford, a survivor of two heart attacks and two bouts of cancer, experienced a medical emergency in which his blood pressure dropped to a dangerously low level.
"It took me 33 minutes to get from Canal Street and Varick to Beth Israel hospital," he said.
Both hospitals have had to adapt to a rapidly growing patient volume, which Lewis Goldfrank, Bellevue's chief of emergency medicine, has called "a significant disaster."
"Those 60,000 people [treated each year at St. Vincent's] now have to find another place to go, so the nearest emergency rooms are overwhelmed. … And it's not because the hospitals aren’t trying, but they're unable to cope with what is a disaster," said David Kaufman, a member of St. Vincent's medical staff for 30 years and a part of the Coalition for a New Village Hospital.
With no access to local care, overcrowded emergency rooms in neighboring hospitals, the loss of a medical safety net and longer waits, the health situation in Greenwich Village is a "crisis," according to Kurland, also a member of the coalition. To remedy the problem, the coalition wants to see nothing less than a full-service hospital at the former St. Vincent's site.
Not Quite a Hospital
The plan reached by Rudin Management, a development firm, and North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System does not align with that vision. (Disclosure: My father is a doctor at Lenox Hill Hospital, a member of the North Shore network). Instead, it would create 300 luxury apartments and townhouses on the eastern side of the medical campus and refurnish the historic O'Toole buildinginto a freestanding emergency department to be operated by North Shore.
The ability of the care center to serve the 385,000 New Yorkers living in the Lower West Side remains hotly contested. According to Terry Lynam, a spokesperson for North Shore, the care center will be able to treat 90 percent of patients. "[It] would be the same kind of emergency department you would see in most hospitals with the exception that it doesn't have inpatient beds," Lynam said.
The facility would provide around-the-clock diagnosis and treatment services. It should also be open to those on Medicare or Medicaid.
However, since it would not have the resources of a full-service hospital, including operating rooms and an intensive care unit, patients suffering from heart attack, stroke or major trauma would "need to be transferred elsewhere," Lynam said. She emphasized that agreements will be in place with local ambulance providers so they do not bring these patients to the care center in the first place.
Kaufman, however, argued that these restrictions will "create a life-threatening sense of confusion for patients and ambulance drivers."
If an emergency patient does enter the care center, the amount of time it would take to transfer him or her could prove significant, according to a recent study by the Journal of the American Medical Association. It found that it takes nine out of ten transferred heart attack victims more than 30 minutes to reach their second facility, above the recommended medical guidelines. These patients consequently suffer higher mortality rates.
Despite this proviso for emergency cases, Lynam said the care center "is returning health care to the Village" and "will save lives."
But coalition members remain unconvinced. Kaufman in particular worries that the care center will be unable to manage the large number of patients who used to enter St. Vincent’s doors.
"Can their comprehensive care center … treat 61,394 people a year?" Kaufman asked at a rally on April 30. "Can it house 19,388 patients sick enough to require inpatient care, can it deliver the lifesaving, critical care that 13,572 poor souls required in the emergency room in 2009?"
Recipe for Failure
Others, though, look to the closing of St. Vincent's and see a lesson for anyone thinking about opening a new full-service hospital in the area. St. Vincent's failed after a decade of mismanagement, including a hospital merger in 2000 and the hiring of consulting firm Speltz & Weis in 2005.
St. Vincent's failure, though, also speaks to a troublesome citywide trend for charity hospitals -- a trend that has severe implications for low-income communities. Following the tradition of the Sisters of Charity, St. Vincent's was dedicated to "compassionate care": serving the poor and disenfranchised. Like many other struggling safety-net hospitals, St. Vincent’s charitable mission, ill-suited for today’s high-tech, costly health care, led to its end.
Over the last ten years, the state's Medicaid reimbursements, a significant portion of St. Vincent’s revenue, have been cut. Moreover, while St. Vincent's saw an increase in emergency room visits, which are costly and in many cases go unreimbursed, its inpatient volume decreased as wealthy residents left for more prestigious institutions.
In general, New York City hospitals are struggling. Over the past decade, hospitals nationwide have seen average profits of 4 percent, whereas in 2008, hospitals in New York City faced an average 6 percent loss.
Since deregulation in the 1990s, safety-net hospitals have struggled with less government support. What was once a highly regulated industry became a free-for-all, as "suddenly hospitals were put in the position of competing with each other," North Shore's Lynman said. This took a toll in New York City where hospitals are located close to one another, the most noticeable example being New York Presbyterian-Cornell Weill, Mount Sinai and Lenox Hill all on the Upper East Side. Without state regulation, this competition allows insurers to drive down reimbursement rates, fueling hospital debt.
To stay economically viable, hospitals vie for privately insured patients, setting off what has been called a medical technology "arms race" that raises the price of health care. They are far less eager to take in publically insured -- or worse yet, uninsured -- patients. In New York, reimbursements by the public insurers Medicare and Medicaid are notoriously low. This means that those on public insurance or not insured at all—the majority of St. Vincent's patients— place a financial burden on struggling institutions.
Evidence of the strain abounds. In 2009, in the wake of the H1N1, or swine flu, outbreak, Mary Immaculate and St. Johns – both safety net hospitals in Queens -- closed. According to a 2009 report from former City Comptroller William Thompson Jr., this led to "overcrowded emergency rooms, longer wait times for patients, and longer ambulance turnaround times."
Jamaica Hospital has picked up a flood of Mary Immaculate's and St. Johns' patients. Its emergency room, built to accommodate 60,000 patients annually, now sees 131,000. Emergency care is costly to provide, and in 2009 Jamaica Hospital lost $13.5 million. If Jamaica, one of the borough’s most prominent safety-net hospitals, goes the way of Mary Immaculate and St. Johns, the health implications, particularly for poorer residents, could be devastating.
This is a familiar pattern. When safety net hospitals close, low-income, already underserved communities bear the brunt of the impact. Patients spill over to surrounding hospitals, overcrowding their waiting rooms and increasing their financial pressures, setting off what could become a chain of hospital failures.
In the case of St. Vincent’s, Bellevue has absorbed much of the excess patient volume both because of its relative proximity and the fact that it is now the only Level One Trauma Center in lower Manhattan. Bellevue now serves an additional 2,000 people each month in its emergency room, a 25 percent increase. Beth Israel has also seen a 25 percent traffic increase with slightly higher numbers these past two months.
"What happened last year was not a tsunami that came and went, but the increase has been sustained," said Gregg Husk, chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Beth Israel. Beth Israel has increased its emergency room personnel, nursing staff and physicians and recruited former St. Vincent's programs, such as the Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Beth Israel is still "tweaking" some of its health care practices to adapt to the increased patient volume, but overall, Husk said, "we were very fortunate" and "the environment is not chaotic."
Despite this, a June 2011 study on St. Vincent's closing wrote that the surge of patients to neighboring hospitals "was characterized as 'crushing' to staff morale as hours and workload increased dramatically." The study also reported patient crowding and increased waiting room violence.
The trend toward deregulation leaves little hope low-income New Yorkers will regain their safety net care in the future. "The changing landscape of healthcare is such that no one in the New York City area is building new hospitals," said Lynam.
After St. Vincent's closed, Rudin Management proposed to donate the O’Toole building and $10 million in funds for an urgent care center run by North Shore. In April 2011, a bankruptcy court judge approved the transaction.
"This is the only deal that is doable in today's environment," said John Gilbert, executive vice president and chief operating officer for Rudin Management.
Mount Sinai had been prepared to take over and run a full-service hospital in the neighborhood but suddenly withdrew in April 2010. Coalition members blame this on a lack of support from the state Department of Health which, following the recommendations of the 2006 Berger Commission, is trying to limit "the state's unacceptably high excess capacity of hospital beds."
The North Shore care center will not create any new impatient beds and so aligns with the state's goal. A new full-service hospital on the other hand would work directly against it.
The coalition argues the focus on overall number of beds is short-sighted. "They give no thought to the distribution of beds -- all they care about is shutting them down. Community needs, bed per person ratios, socio-economic issues are all irrelevant," said Kaufman at a rally in April.
Kaufman has pointed out that in the Upper East Side and East Harlem there is one bed for every 82 residents. In contrast, after St. Vincent’s closing, there are now no hospital beds for the West Side’s 385,000 residents.
Judy Wessler, director of the Commission on the Public's Health System, noted that hospitals in New York City have "always been mal-distributed," but with the closing of many charity hospitals in underserved communities, "it's getting worse."
"The East Side is wealthier, and that's where institutions tend to settle," she said. "Studies have [shown] over and over … that there is an absolute correlation between income and access to health care and even race … and access to care."
The coalition continues to fight the Rudin/North Shore plan. Yet, while it has galvanized support among community members, it has failed to win backing from some key politicians and other community leaders. Councilmember Christine Quinn, former Mayor Ed Koch and Greenwich-Chelsea Chamber of Commerce president Tony Juliano have all spoken out in favor of the comprehensive care center.
"Our health care needs are significantly underserved. This will go a long way to bring this service back to the community,” said Juliano, warning that if the community does not support the North Shore plan "we'll be looking a year from now … at a horrible situation where a whole city block is vacant."
Since St. Vincent's declared bankruptcy in 2010, 3,500 former employees are jobless and around 40 local businesses have closed. Juliano hopes the development will "bring economic life back" to the neighborhood.
Proponents for the Rudin/North Shore plan argue that, while it may not be ideal, it represent a pragmatic solution to an admittedly bad situation.
"We recognize that, listen, you had a full-service hospital in your community for over 100 years and suddenly it's gone. We certainly understand why people are frustrated by that," said Lynam. "But the reality is that there are no other providers stepping forward. We've put forward what we think is a realistic plan that will fill that void."
For the thousands of former St. Vincent's patients – particularly those without a lot of resources -- this offers little comfort. "I think it's a health crisis like a silent time bomb," said Kaufman. "It's just sitting there, brewing. It’s happening every day but it's hidden from the public eyes. … And I think it’ll get worse."
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|Elrico (Jamison), Loyalhanna Twp., Westmoreland
[A Coal Company Patch town in Loyalhanna Twp., Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania.]
[Elrico was located along the Turtle Creek Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad.]
[Elrico was also called Jamison by the locals.]
See: Elrico (Jamison), Loyalhanna Twp., Westmoreland Co., PA
Irwin Gas Coal No. 3 Mine, Elrico, Loyalhanna Twp., Westmoreland Co., PA
Irwin Gas Coal No. 4 Mine, Elrico, Loyalhanna Twp., Westmoreland Co., PA
Jamison (Elrico), Loyalhanna Twp., Westmoreland Co.,
Elrico Mines (ca.1910's- ?
Irwin Gas Coal No. 3 Mine
Irwin Gas Coal No. 4 Mine (ca.
Irwin Gas Coal No. 5 Mine
Irwin Gas Coal No. 6 Mine
Irwin Gas Coal No. 9 Mine (ca.1920's-
|Topo Map Location of Irwin Gas Coal
Greensburg Quadrangle Map ca.1925, showing the location of Irwin Gas Coal No. 3 Mine, Irwin Gas Coal No. 4 Mine, Irwin Gas Coal No. 5 Mine, Irwin Gas Coal No. 6 Mine.
(Map courtesy of Topographic and Geologic Atlas of Pennsylvania, No. 32, 15min. Greensburg, PA Quadrangle, ca.1925, Pennsylvania Geological Survey)
The town of Elrico ca.1993 consisted of the company store and three rows of houses. The school house burned down several years ago. The company store is a two-story wood-frame building with clapboard siding; it measures 75ft. x 35ft. and contains a gable roof covered with asphalt shingles, an ashlar foundation, and a storefront of large multipaned windows in wooden architraves; the first floor serves as a grocery store and the second floor contains apartments.
The coal company-built houses include single-family residences containing two stories, brick chimneys and clapboard siding. Each had a hollow clay-tile or concrete-block foundation; modifications include the application of new siding materials over the original weatherboard, enclosed porches, room additions, and altered windows.
The Irwin Gas Coal Company of Greensburg, PA, was formed about ca.1917 and acquired coal properties in northern Westmoreland County in the vicinity of Export. By ca.1918 Irwin Gas Coal Company, led by C. L. Clark of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, operated Irwin Gas Coal No. 1 Mine and Irwin Gas Coal No. 2 Mine, and the Dibble Mine, all near Export.
Exploiting the 72 inch - thick Pittsburgh Coal seam, these mines produced over 229,000 tons of coal in 1918, virtually all of which was shipped to market over the Turtle Creek Branch of the Pensylvania Railroad. Over the next two years the Irwin Gas Coal Company expanded its interests, acquiring coal properties in Salem Township and Loyalhanna Township, just east of Slickville.
The Irwin Gas Coal Company established the town of Elrico, in Loyalhanna Township and opened the Irwin Gas Coal No. 3 Mine and Irwin Gas Coal No. 4 Mine, each containing a drift entry. In 1921 the Irwin Gas Coal No. 3 Mine was the company's largest producer; over 114,000 tons of coal were extracted from this mine. In 1921 the Irwin Gas Coal No. 4 Mine produced over 54,000 tons of coal.
Expanding their interests in the area, Irwin Gas Coal Company acquired the Keibler Mine (formerly the Speakman Miine) near Sloan, in Salem Township and renamed it Irwin Gas Coal No. 5 Mine. In ca.1923 Irwin Gas Coal No. 3 Mine produced 83,394 tons of coal, Irwin Gas Coal No. 4 Mine produced 109,089 tons of coal and Irwin Gas Coal No. 5 Mine produced 26,342 tons of coal. Most of the production of these mines No. 3, No. 4 & No. 5 was shipped to market over the Turtle Creek Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The two mines near Elrico employed 157 miners in ca.1921. There were no coke works associated with any of the Irwin Gas Coal Company mines.
By ca.1926 the Irwin Gas Coal Company had expanded again, operating six mines in Westmoreland County and one mine in Fayette County. This included Irwin Gas Coal No. 2 Mine at Export, Irwin Gas Coal No. 3 & No. 4 Mines at Elrico, Irwin Gas Coal No. 5 Mine at Sloan, Irwin Gas Coal No. 6 Mine at Delmont, and Irwin Gas Coal No. 9 Mine at Seward, all in Westmoreland County, and Irwin Gas Coal No. 11 Mine at Uniontown in Fayette County.
The firm was led by T. Pollard Latta of Greensburg, who was previously superintendent of mines for the Jamison Coal & Coke Company, of Greensburg, PA.
Before 1930 the coal company began to strip mine the coal at its properties in Export and Delmont; however, it continued its underground operations at its Elrico Mines. By 1930, the company was reorganized with John B. Brunot of Greensburg heading Irwin Gas Coal Company. T. Pollard Latta had departed the company to lead the New Alexandria Coke Company and the Hempfield Coal Company, each with mines in Westmoreland County.
In ca.1930, only the Irwin No. 3 Mine and Irwin No. 6 Mine were operating in Westmoreland County. In 1930 the Elrico operation at Irwin Gas Coal Irwin No. 3 Mine employed eighty-four miners and Irwin No. 3 Mine ran for 116 days, the miners produced nearly 63,000 tons of coal in 1930.
Both, the Irwin Gas Coal No. 3 Mine and Irwin Gas Coal No. 4 Mine operated in the 1930's. Equipment at the mines in 1935 included mechanical screens, picking tables, three trolley locomotives, and loading booms, Irwin Gas Coal Irwin No. 3 and Irwin No. 4 Mines were finally abandoned in December, 1951.
(History and description of the Erico Mines, with additional data and pictures adapted from "Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites, 1994," America's Industrial Heitage Project, National Park Service, Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record, U.S. Department of the Interior, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.)
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The title is written like a command, and for good reason!
Matthew 22:36-40: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
God wants us to love, first and foremost. Before any other subject on which one might debate morality or any other commandment given to us, the most important two are to love God completely and to love each other completely. Why is it then, that so many (even within the Christian community) lose sight of this and choose instead to squabble about issues a long way down the scale of God’s priorities? I am not saying that nothing else matters (that would be foolish), but why do we inflate those issues that matter little to God with our own artificial importance and forget the things He emphasised most? A quick example would be homosexuality; this issue has become a huge sticking point between Christians and non-Christians, and even between and within Christian denominations themselves! And yet how many times is homosexuality mentioned in the Bible? Between 5 and 10……perhaps? And yet after words like “Lord”, “Jesus” and “God”…….”LOVE” is one of the most commonly used words in the New Testament! I have written before on the importance of leaving “self” behind, and this is what we fail to do when we turn away from God’s most important commandments and the teaching of our Redeemer, Christ. To inflate an idea or issue with artificial importance is to put “self” above God. It is to say that we know better, and WE are the arbiters of what is most important. This is unnecessary. God has spelled it out for us and made it perfectly clear in no uncertain terms!
When we love God and love all, we are bound by that love. It is that love by which we are united, as a part of the single whole which is God’s creation. It is utterly beautiful that I am completely distinct from my dog Bella; I am my own being with my own personality and ideas, she has a personality of her own and things she likes to do. And yet we are completely unified, as a part of the same creation. Bound by love, mine expressed through caring for her and petting her, and hers expressed through licking my hand or bringing me her favourite toy when I get home from work. God has granted us this gift of uniqueness, coupled with oneness. It is not a gift we deserve, of course, but then that’s the point. God doesn’t do it because we deserve it, He does it because He loves us and is ALL loving. And we were made in His image! What does it tell us about God’s wish for us, if He is all loving and chose to create us in His image?
You see, it is love and ONLY love which binds us. Not hatred, not jealousy, not agreeing or disagreeing on some particular issue. It is the unifying reality and truth which underlies everything else, like the canvas beneath a lavish watercolour. We sin when we turn from this; even if we love God with all our hearts, we sin if we hate our fellow man. Why? Because we reject God’s nature when we hate! We turn away from His creation, we dishonour his image in which not only ourselves but ALL are created. It is an act which focuses on “self”, whereas love is selfless. When you love God with all your heart, soul and mind, this is a selfless act as we give all of these things to Him. When you love your neighbour as yourself, you give of yourself for the benefit of your neighbour without thought to reward or recompense. This is selflessness.
Love is a more powerful force than hatred, and has the power to overcome and unify in SPITE of hatred. God himself loves every one of us, in spite of the fact that many humans reject God! He extends His gracious offer of salvation even to those who reject and mock him. Again, as beings created in God’s image what does this tell us about His wish for us? Jesus tells us Himself:
Matthew 5:39: “Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.”
Once again: selflessness. Jesus is telling us here that just because somebody else rejects God in action (or word), that does not give us the excuse to do the same! We are to choose whether to think of ourselves and the unfairness of our treatment, or to think of God and His commandment, as well as the man wronging us and how we could pray for his benefit. God’s commandment to love is untouched by another’s decision to reject it; indeed, we are to uphold it at ALL times.
There is a poem by the American Poet Edwin Markham called “Outwitted”:
“He drew a circle that shut me out -
Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle and took him in!”
God wants us to love, first and foremost.
I fail you many times on a daily basis Lord, not just in this but in all ways. You alone are worthy of all praise, exaltation and worship – and I love you Lord with all that I am. I pray for your guidance and aid in loving everybody I encounter, and indeed all of your glorious creation. I pray this in the name of your perfect Son who laid down His life for the sins of man, Lord Jesus Christ. | <urn:uuid:3dce9764-e959-4ed1-bcfa-dd90c8aae873> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://walkingchristian.com/category/practical/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965989 | 1,264 | 1.867188 | 2 |
How is it, then, that Judge Douglas infers, because I hope to see slavery put where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, that I am in favor of Illinois going over and interfering with the cranberry laws of Indiana? What can authorize him to draw any such inference? I suppose there might be one thing that at least enabled him to draw such an inference that would not be true with me or many others, that is, because he looks upon all this matter of slavery as an exceedingly little thingthis matter of keeping one-sixth of the population of the whole nation in a state of oppression and tyranny unequaled in the world. He looks upon it as being an exceedingly little thingonly equal to the question of the cranberry laws of Indiana; as something having no moral question in it; as something on a par with the question of whether a man shall pasture his land with cattle, or plant it with tobacco; so little and so small a thing, that he concludes, if I could desire that if anything should be done to bring about the ultimate extinction of that little thing, I must be in favor of bringing about an amalgamation of all the other little things in the Union. Now, it so happensand there, I presume, is the foundation of this mistakethat the Judge thinks thus; and it so happens that there is a vast portion of the American people that do not look upon that matter as being this very little thing. They look upon it as a vast moral evil; they can prove it as such by the writings of those who gave us the blessings of liberty which we enjoy, and that they so looked upon it, and not as an evil merely confining itself to the States where it is situated; and while we agree that, by the Constitution we assented to, in the States where it exists we have no right to interfere with it, because it is in the Constitution; and we are by both duty and inclination to stick by that Constitution, in all its letter and spirit, from beginning to end.
So much, then, as to my dispositionmy wishto have all the State Legislatures blotted out, and to have one consolidated government, and a uniformity of domestic regulations in all the States, by which I suppose it is meant, if we raise corn here, we must make sugar-cane grow here too, and we must make | <urn:uuid:980f0522-29d6-422c-bf57-c07e6af329e9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bartleby.com/251/pages/page36.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974493 | 494 | 1.695313 | 2 |
チベット犬物語 (Tibetan Dog)
Kojima Masayuki | China/Japan, 2012 | 86 min | PG | TBD | Mandarin language dialogue with English subtitles
Friday November 16, 2012 – 4:30pm
A young boy named Jiantan has to leave Xi’an after the death of his mother to go deep into the Tibetan prairies and start living with his father LaGeBa, whom he can barely remember. His father is a busy doctor who had left the city for Tibet, where he is the essential physician of the poor community he lives in. One day, while herding sheep, he comes under attack, and a stray gold-colored Tibetan mastiff named Daojie saves his life.
Japan’s national angst about its role in the 21st century world may be subtle, but there is little subtlety about China’s enthusiastic nationalism and hope for its place in that same world. Probably the most internationally-visible and sympathetic example of this is China’s assertion of sovereignty over Tibet. Another is the strict controls over the importation and dissemination of media, such as film and television; foreign media companies, from Hollywood to Tokyo, have had to wait in line for any chance to reach a potentially rich and large audience. For the most part, they have waited for decades.
It is in this environment that the film was born. The first animation co-production between Japan and China, sanctioned by the Chinese government. The chosen topic, based on a bestselling book written by Yang Zhijun – a Chinese citizen – about a legendary Tibetan mastiff (a breed reputedly employed in war by Genghis Khan himself, fearsome in battle, feeding on the bodies of vanquished men). What fertile ground for conspiracy theories to sprout! But prejudice and supposition aside, TIBETAN DOG is a heart-felt drama worthy of famed anime studio Madhouse. Director Kojima who had previously helmed the sensitive drama PIANO NO MORI (WFAC 2008 selection), deftly handles the simple and effective storyline. Called upon to do character design is Urasawa Naoki, the fantastic mangaka behind MONSTER, 20TH CENTURY BOYS, YAWARA and MASTER KEATON.
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Joseph P. Fried, a reporter for The Times, covered Leona Helmsley’s conviction on tax evasion charges on Aug. 30, 1989. He filed an account of his experience with the trial of Mrs. Helmsley, whose death was announced this morning.
Some scenes stand out from the blur of arguments, testimony and explosions of emotion from the decades of covering trials for this newspaper.
There was the army of police, including sharpshooters on roofs, surrounding a Queens courthouse to prevent violence as the verdict was delivered in the case of the fatal Howard Beach racial attack of 1987. There was the mob boss Vincent Gigante mumbling ceaselessly, as he continued his long act of being mentally ill, during the long Brooklyn trial in which he was convicted of racketeering in 1997. And there was Leona Helmsley, whose reputation was of an arrogant, tyrannical ruler of a hotel empire, with the self-bestowed title of queen, sitting at the defense table for nearly an hour — clearly in shock, seemingly drained and looking anything but haughty — after being convicted of tax evasion at her 1989 trial in Manhattan.
Occasionally, the strained look on her face was broken by a smile as family members comforted her. After Mrs. Helmsley, then 69, finally gathered herself, bodyguards and federal marshals escorted her down the long flight of steps outside the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan, where marshals had cleared a path for her through a mob of several hundred spectators, reporters, photographers and television camera people. She stared straight ahead, steadied by her a bodyguard and a marshal and not responding to the shouts for comment from the media horde, finally reaching her car and being driven away.
Not surprisingly, the two financial executives of the Helmsley organization who were convicted with her — for abetting the $1.2 million tax evasion — did not attract anywhere near the same attention as they left the courthouse. (Her husband, the real estate mogul Harry B. Helmsley, had also been charged with the tax-evasion conspiracy, but he had been found not mentally competent to stand trial and did not attend the proceedings for his wife.)
Any tax evasion trial, even of the most-celebrated defendants, has its tedious stretches along with its memorable moments. One of the best-remembered parts of Mrs. Helmsley’s trial was the testimony by a former housekeeper that Ms. Helmsley had once told her, “Only the little people pay taxes.” That witness also told how employees feared Mrs. Hemsley because “she screamed at everyone” and was “very nasty.”
Anticipating such testimony, Mrs. Helmsley’s lawyer, Gerald A. Feffer, had bluntly stated that his client could at times be unpleasant. In fact, he admitted in his opening statement that she could be abrasive and rude — but added, “I don’t believe Mrs. Helmsley is charged in the indictment with being a tough bitch.”
The tedious stretches included seemingly endless testimony from government tax accountants, who itemized the millions of dollars of personal expenses that had been billed to various Helmsley companies so that the income represented by those expenditures could be omitted from the Helmsleys’ personal tax returns.
But even that testimony had its interesting moments. In addition to descriptions of renovations and adornments at the couple’s Connecticut estate, there were the items that women who did not consider themselves queens could easily identify with — like underwear.
In the end, the verdict that not only the “little people” had to pay tribute to the Internal Revenue Service was rendered by some of the little people themselves. The jury foreman who declared the queen guilty of having steered a crooked course was a postal worker, and most of the other jurors were blue-collar and clerical workers. | <urn:uuid:aed62465-2965-4b55-b1b2-0b18598274d8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/20/mrs-helmsleys-conviction-shock-hits-the-hoity-toity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983494 | 814 | 1.515625 | 2 |
William P. Gates
In the days of cage basketball, William "Pop" Gates was considered one of the nation's finest players. Always a scoring threat, Gates was a complete ballplayer on offense, a defensive specialist, and a strong rebounder. Transitioning directly from a high school championship team at Benjamin Franklin in 1938 to a World Professional Championship with the New York Renaissance in 1939, Gates quickly claimed the title of World Tournament All-Pro, in his second season -- an honor he would later earn a total eight times. As a member of the barnstorming Rens, the team won 68 straight games en route to the World Professional Tournament championship in 1939. Gates played for a handful of teams and helped to integrate the National Basketball League in 1946 as a member of the Buffalo Bisons/Tri-Cities Blackhawks. | <urn:uuid:ab350016-e368-41b2-89f8-89406888270d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famers/william-p-gates-enshrined-1989decatur.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947045 | 166 | 1.773438 | 2 |
The third week of August ends the roaring reign of Leo the lion [July 23rd — August 22nd], the astrological sign MAE WEST was born under. Borrowing details from her own bio for the dialogue with the fortuneteller in "I'm No Angel" who says, "You were born under Leo," Mae's character Tira, a novice lion tamer, replies, "Yeah, the king of beasts, huh?"
• • Perhaps the horoscope that Rajah hands Tira lists some of this information: Sun in Leo 25°22'; Moon in Scorpio 11°27'; Mercury in Leo 11°04'; Venus in Virgo 24°06'; Mars in Virgo 1°03' (and other details whose importance will be understood by some, but pooh-poohed by others). In this 1933 motion picture comedy, Tira often consults this forecast, seeking guidance on her career and romances.
• • On 23 August 1922 • •
• • It was 23 August 1922 when The Clipper announced that Mae West had returned to vaudeville and would be opening (again) at Proctor's Fifth Avenue Theatre starting that Monday. This was the same venue that had booked "Mae West and Sister" in its charming auditorium steps from Madison Square Park.
• • Kathleen Freeman • •
• • A laugh-getter who appeared with Mae in "Myra Breckinridge" [released in the USA on 24 June 1970] also had ties to variety. Chicago native Kathleen Freeman made her vaudeville debut at age 2, becoming a part of her parents' act.
• • Born on 17 February 1919, the heavy-set comedienne portrayed Bobby Dean Loner in the screen version of Gore Vidal's bestseller. The UCLA graduate's first goal had been to shine as a professional pianist but, after thoroughly enjoying her work with several stock productions, she changed gears. Kathleen Freeman once said: "I think comedy is more powerful than drama in the long run. Comedy is more difficult. It's very easy to make people cry."
• • She made her first motion picture appearance in 1948 at 29 years old. The reliable character actress was used as a comic foil by Jerry Lewis in several of his films. Her stocky figure, expressive face, energetic laugh, and supple voice-craft served her well, keeping her in demand and busy juggling parts on the silver screen, TV, and also on Broadway.
• • Kathleen Freeman, 82 years old, was cast in a Broadway production when she died in New York City during the month of August — — on 23 August 2001 — — of lung cancer. Engaged on stage until the very end, the octogenarian had given her final Tony nomination performance for her role as the piano player in Broadway's musical hit "The Full Monty" on August 18th, and five days later she was gone.
• • John Garcia, Executive Director/ Producer of "The Column" Awards, created an award in her honor. This prize is given to individuals who overcome personal, physical, or other major problems in their lives and continue to work in theater, whether behind or in front of the curtain. Kathleen Freeman embodied the true spirit of the Broadway gypsy: "The show must go on." Applause!
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West wrote this exchange for "I'm No Angel" , a big hit for Paramount Pictures.
• • • Tira: Come on, can't you hurry up and get that thing fixed? I gotta get back. I'm expecting Mr. Clayton at the apartment.
• • • Bill Barton's Chauffeur: I'm doing the best I can, ma'am.
• • • Tira: Yeah, your best is no good. Try doing your worst.
• • • Bill Barton's Chauffeur: Yes, ma'am.
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Kings County historian Vernon Parker wrote: As the curtains closed over the screen on 22 August 1962, the Brooklyn Paramount Theatre at Flatbush and DeKalb avenues was history. ... Gracing its ornate stage during its reign as the mecca of Brooklyn entertainment were such celebrities as Mae West, Frank Sinatra, Liberace, Rudy Vallee, Ginger Rogers, Bing Crosby, Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, and most of the big band era orchestras. ...
• • Source: Article: "On This Day in History: August 22 — — Paramount’s Last Picture Show" written by Vernon Parker for The Brooklyn Eagle; posted on 22 August 2011
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 2031st blog post. Unlike many blogs, which draw upon reprinted content from a newspaper or a magazine and/ or summaries, links, or photos, the mainstay of this blog is its fresh material focused on the life and career of Mae West, herself an American original.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
• • Photo: • • Mae West • • 1933 • •
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You wouldn't be Wayne Swan for quids.
Politically, the Treasurer is damned if he doesn't deliver his promised surplus in the budget papers on May 8. But, increasingly, it also appears Australia's most obstinate Treasurer will be damned if he does. Should the economy slow unexpectedly at a time when the government is cutting spending, he's sure to cop some of the blame.
Swan's dogged pursuit of a surplus has already earned him some awkward bedfellows, conservatives who claim he has embraced the idea of small government and paying off debt at any cost.
Meanwhile, his traditional allies - left-wing economists and some private sector economists who praised the government's fiscal stimulus - have turned against him, worried that planned spending cuts or tax rises will send a tepid economy even further off the boil.
So, should we have a budget surplus in 2012-13, or not?
Opponents rightly point out that the impact of past tax and spend decisions means the government is already taking heat out of the economy. By going from a deficit of $40 billion or so in one year, to a slim surplus the next, the budget is already contractionary.
True. But these figures have been around for some time, and Treasury has still been predicting a trend level of growth - around 2.5 per cent a year.
What matters for the economy with this budget is the magnitude of any new cuts.
But, without knowing what the figures are, it seems unlikely cuts will be big enough or ugly enough to derail growth. At least not when the Reserve Bank can also cut interest rates.
To keep his surplus promise, all Swan is concerned with is getting the 2012-13 books into the black. On the last count, he was there by $3 billion, though revenues have slipped since.
Let's assume revenue for that year has collapsed by about $10 billion, while spending is unchanged. That would mean the Treasurer needs to reduce spending or raise taxes by $7 billion to achieve his surplus.
One audacious strategy would be to pull forward spending from 2012-13 into 2011-12. He could, say, pre-pay $3 billion worth in planned carbon tax compensation payments before the end of this financial year. Doing so would, in fact, be both stimulatory in the short term and help achieve the surplus.
That would leave just $4 billion in spending cuts, which out of a $1.3 trillion economy, would reduce growth by only 0.3 percentage points. It's not huge, and could easily be offset by the Reserve Bank reducing interest rates.
Even then, the nature of the budget cuts or tax increases will matter too. For the same reason that lower income earners were the target of budget stimulus - they react more to changes in their income - budget cuts targeted at higher income earners would have less impact on demand.
Tax increases on foreigners earning profits in Australia, say mining companies, would also have less of an impact on domestic demand, as would reduced spending on foreign-produced defence equipment. So it's far from clear that bringing the budget to surplus in 2012-13 will damage the economy.
But will it do any good?
A dubious argument doing the rounds, and coming from the government itself, is that a surplus is needed to give investors confidence in the Australian economy and Australian government bonds. In fact, all the evidence suggests foreign investors are too keen to hold Australian assets. All this demand is actually pushing up the value of the Australian dollar as investors must first buy dollars to purchase Australian assets. Less demand for Australian assets could in fact help bring the dollar down and relieve some pressure on manufacturing, tourism and education services.
A second dodgy argument is that we need a surplus to give the Reserve Bank the space to cut interest rates. It's dodgy, because it is in the clear to cut rates whenever it wants. Fiscal policy, as noted, is already contractionary and with inflation under control and a cash rate at 4.25 per cent - compared to close to zero in other developed nations - the Reserve Bank already has more room than most to cut rates.
But there are better reasons for achieving a surplus.
A change in the ''policy mix'' back towards having monetary policy (interest rates) rather than fiscal policy (government tax and spend policies) as the major tool for stabilising the macro-economy would be good for several reasons.
At a time when the exchange rate is high, in part because interest rates are high, tighter fiscal policy combined with lower interest rates will help to take pressure off some parts of the economy.
After the turmoil of the global financial crisis, it would also mean a return to business as usual. Before the global financial crisis, the consensus was that it was much better to have an independent central bank managing demand through interest rates, not politicians through government spending.
Pollies have sticky fingers, and hate cutting spending or raising taxes. An independent Reserve Bank is more at liberty to change policy settings. It also meets monthly and can change policy settings more quickly than the government, which tends to make decisions only every six months, coinciding with budget updates.
So, on balance, we should have a surplus, if only because it won't hurt too much and it could, at the margin, help shift the responsibility for macro-stability back to where it belongs - the Reserve Bank.
Keynesian demand-management fiscal policy is best kept as a ''break in case of emergency'' tool. It works best when it's clear a downturn is imminent - like the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. In the absence of such signals, it's better for the government to concentrate on balancing its books and to leave day-to-day management of the macro-economy to the independent Reserve Bank.
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- Published on Feb 24, 2012
- Contact Jared Wadley
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—One in five households with children in poverty are surviving on the cash equivalent of a half gallon of milk per person per day in a given month.
The National Poverty Center has released a new report that examines poverty trends between 1996 and 2011. The number of households with children who are in extreme poverty in a given month—living at $2 or less in income per person per day—in 2011 totaled roughly 1.46 million households, including 2.8 million kids. This number is up from 636,000 households in 1996, nearly a 130 percent increase.
The study finds that in-kind public programs are having an effect, though. The number of children living in extreme poverty is cut in half to 1.4 million in 2011 when the statistics take into account benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program).
"We think it is important to document this significant growth in extreme poverty in the U.S. since the mid-1990s, as well as the buffering effects of our key public in-kind assistance programs," said H. Luke Shaefer, an assistant professor in the U-M School of Social Work and the study's lead author.
In 1996, welfare reform ended the only cash entitlement program in the U.S. for poor families with children. This was replaced with a program that offers time-limited cash assistance and requires able-bodied recipients to participate in work activities.
This reform has been followed by a dramatic decline in cash assistance caseloads, from an average of 12.3 million recipients per month in 1996 to 4.4 million in June 2011; only 1.1 million of these beneficiaries are adults.
As a result of shrinking access to cash assistance and the increasingly poor economic climate, researchers expected the size of the population of households with children living in extreme poverty to increase between 1996 and 2011, both in terms of total households, and as a proportion of all poor households.
In 1996, households in extreme poverty represented about 10 percent of all poor households. Fifteen years later, it's about 19 percent. When SNAP benefits are counted as cash, the rise in extreme poverty is from about 7.6 percent to about 10 percent.
In addition, many of the households in extreme poverty are accessing public health insurance for at least one of their children, and about one in five have a housing subsidy. "These in-kind safety-net programs are playing a vital role, and are probably blunting some of the hardship that American children living in extreme poverty would otherwise face," said Kathryn Edin, professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Still, she said, "it would be wrong to conclude that the U.S. safety net is strong, or even adequate, when one in five poor households with children are living without meaningful cash income." | <urn:uuid:f9d8f2bf-38ee-4093-85f0-c41a28af9191> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ns.umich.edu/new/releases/20243-extreme-poverty-28-million-children-in-the-us-live-on-2-per-day | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969901 | 601 | 2.828125 | 3 |
please help me with this code... arrays arent working.
I'm working on a food bank software for a c prog. class.
the program has a list of five choices when in runs.
1-make a donation
2-make a request
3-fill a request
4-print status report
when the user inputs 1 for make a donation, they are asked to input the inventory type and amount. this all works fine. i added a test at the end of the donation section of the code that prints the inv. type and amount and this is working fine.
when i print the status report after making 2 donations, it only prints the last donation. as another check i had it print its position in the array. and it says position (0). im lost. im guessing the error is somewhere in the donations section but i cant figure it out. if i change anything, i get different errors.
because this is an assignment i am only going to post a section of the code. if you think you can help i can PM or email you the rest of it. or maybe you'll be able to see whats wrong without the rest of the code.
thanks in advance for the help.
just to explain the program a little more.
this is my first programming course so that is why my code is so elementary. (but im trying!)
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Greece closed a bond swap offer to private creditors on Thursday after clearing the minimum threshold of acceptance to push the deal through, moving closer to unlocking funds it needs to avoid a dangerous debt default.
Government officials said before the final deadline for declaring interest passed at 2000 GMT that more than 75 percent of eligible bonds had already been committed.
The biggest sovereign debt restructuring in history will see bond holders accept losses of some 74 percent on the value of their investments in a deal that will cut more than 100 billion euros from Greece's crippling public debt.
Preliminary results from the offer are expected to be announced officially at 0600 GMT on Friday before a conference call with euro zone finance ministers in the afternoon.
One of the chief negotiators for the bondholders, Charles Dallara, forecast a "very high" final takeup, though he was unsure if it would hit the 90 percent Greece is aiming for.
Athens had said that it would abandon the deal if it did not receive at least 75 percent participation in the offer and it required two-thirds take-up to deploy a legal device to force recalcitrant creditors to accept the terms.
The private sector involvement (PSI) deal is a key element in a broader international bailout aimed at averting a chaotic default by Greece and a potentially disastrous banking crisis across the euro zone.
The European Union and International Monetary Fund have made a successful bond swap a pre-condition for final approval of the 130 billion euros ($170 billion) bailout agreed last month.
"If all goes well, tomorrow we will be able to announce that a debt burden of 105 billion euros has been lifted from the Greek people," Venizelos told parliament earlier in the day. "For the first time we are cutting debt instead of adding to it."
Despite the optimism, the deal will not solve Greece's deep-seated problems and at best it may buy time for a country facing its biggest economic crisis since World War Two and staggering under debt equal to 160 percent of its gross domestic product.
However financial markets rose strongly as the threat of an immediate and uncontrolled default receded.
Bank stocks rose sharply and the risk premium on Italian and Spanish government bonds fell as investors hoped a Greek deal would curb the likelihood of any contagion spreading to other weaker euro zone economies.
Euro zone ministers could decide whether to clear the overall bailout package in a conference call on Friday afternoon although they may leave the final decision until a face-to-face meeting on Monday.
Greece must have the funds in place by March 20 when some 14.5 billion euros of bonds are due, which it cannot hope to repay alone.
With over 75 percent take-up secured, well above the required two thirds threshold, Athens should be able to apply collective action clauses (CAC) imposing the deal on all holders of 177 billion euros in bonds regulated by Greek law.
Venizelos is expected to discuss that option on the euro zone ministerial call on Friday.
Athens faces a more complex problem with some 18 billion euros in bonds regulated under international law with a number of hedge funds expected to try to fight a deal in the courts.
It also remains to be seen whether credit default swaps (CDS) which some investors have taken as insurance against a forced restructuring of the debt will be paid out.
Greece has staggered from deadline to deadline since the crisis broke two years ago and several of its international partners have expressed open doubts about whether its second major bailout in two years will be the last.
Underlining the severe problems facing Greece after five years of deep recession, data on Thursday showed unemployment running at a record 21 percent in December, twice the euro zone average, with 51 percent of young people without a job.
There has been growing resentment over the austerity medicine ordered by international creditors which has compounded the pain from a slump which has seen the economy shrink by a fifth since 2008.
But Greece, totally reliant on international support to stave off bankruptcy, has also infuriated both the EU and the IMF with its repeated failure to push through promised reforms.
"We have shown a lot of solidarity with Greece," German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said late on Wednesday. "Everyone knows that the real problems of Greek society are in Greece and not abroad." ($1 = 0.7625 euros) | <urn:uuid:5637227d-9d6a-4588-9143-a4079bd81bf5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2012/03/08/down-to-wire-greece-optimistic-on-bond-swap-as-deadline-nears/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95761 | 884 | 1.664063 | 2 |
traditional household demographic surveys to time-series analysis of remotely sensed data in a spatially explicit framework made possible by geographic information systems (GIS). The use of multiple theoretical approaches and methodologies has been key to the past and ongoing success of this project. By asking timely and complex sociodemographic and biophysical questions, this project speaks to diverse audiences and has attracted researchers from diverse research traditions. The ability of the project to answer questions about the dynamic interaction of population and environment is due to the collaboration of these researchers without the subordination of one particular group of collaborators (i.e., natural or social science).
Over the more than 30 years of our research project, we have been guided by theoretical approaches too numerous to adequately describe in this chapter. We have utilized theoretical approaches that are based in our disciplines of training (anthropology, sociology, demography) but have also incorporated the insights of other disciplines. The key to our theoretical foundations is the dynamic nature of human-environment interactions. The cultural ecology and ecosystem ecology perspectives that motivated the early work on this project, as well as the demographic theories of population change that underlie more recent work, focus on the ways in which human populations adapt to and change their social, cultural, and biophysical environments. At the same time, we utilize theories that allow agency for individuals and families and discard those that posit structural determinism. Throughout this chapter we make brief references to the theoretical perspectives guiding each phase of the project, and we have given theoretical perspectives a more detailed treatment in VanWey, Ostrom, and Meretsky (2005).
The integration of methods from various research traditions both allows the research team to speak to all participating disciplines and brings new insights into each discipline. This project has fruitfully combined data from soil samples, remote sensing (aerial photos and satellite imagery), social survey research, and in-depth qualitative data collection (ethnography, open-ended interviews). The soils data were originally included in order to address the concerns raised by Meggers (1954, 1970) that the humid tropics could not sustain agriculture above the slash-and-burn level. Survey research has been a longstanding tool for collecting household social and economic data. Qualitative data represented the anthropological focus of the original study, supplemented with environmental data collection to study the human-environment interactions from a cultural ecological perspective. The introduction of GIS into the project allowed us to integrate point data on soils, household location and survey data, and continuous data on land cover across the landscape. This allowed us to study the ways in which landscapes embody a historical summary of past land use and are | <urn:uuid:b95b9ca9-cf46-4921-a012-c95dbb1f2aaf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11439&page=107 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928086 | 531 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Bethlehem opened up the discussion on its proposed open space plan Thursday, Oct. 23.
Holding their third public hearing on the possible townwide comprehensive land use plan, town officials focused the meeting on three specific topics: recreation and pathways; natural systems and agriculture; and farming as it pertains to the proposal.
The meeting began at 7 p.m. at Town Hall, with attendance lighter than the May meeting but with a similar format. Residents were broken into smaller groups to brainstorm and discuss the topics.
Town Planner Jeffrey Lipnicky gave the initial presentation to residents, followed by information from Senior Planner Robert Leslie.
Lipnicky said safe routes and connectivity to nearby parks and recreation, farming and agriculture, and environmental protection were some of things residents identified as important in previous meetings. He said trespassing concerns have come up a number of times concerning the proposed open space plan.
Some of the types of issues that came out [of the discussions] that we continuously hear were trespassing on private property, the issues of encroachment, liability concerns regarding trespass and things of that nature, Lipnicky said. "And these are issues that we will obviously need to address as we move on."
One focus of the meeting was asking residents to identify goals for the town that could be included in the open space plan, and Leslie discussed what types of land are in town.
"We have about 426 acres of public recreation land, and that represents roughly 1 percent of our town land area and this is made up of our town parks like Elm Avenue Park, the Henry Hudson Park and the smaller neighborhood parks like the North Bethlehem and South Bethlehem parks," Leslie said.
"Colonial Acres is one of our latest recreational areas."
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Big companies struggle with engagement on a human scale. It is important to choose spokespersons carefully. Do they embody the core values of your brand? Do others connect to them, are they approachable? Choose your representatives for social media carefully - they are the personal face of your brand. | <urn:uuid:44a383e9-d80c-4334-9278-f9d805de5f48> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.startupnation.com/How-to-build-a-social-media-marketing-strategy-/topic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924368 | 475 | 1.554688 | 2 |
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The Hobart Town Gazette was established in 1816 in Hobart, Van Diemen's Land (known as Tasmania since 1856) as the Hobart Town Gazette, and Southern Reporter. In 1821 the name was changed to the Hobart Town Gazette, and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser. In 1825 the title was split, with the government authorised publication remaining the Hobart Town Gazette, and the original editor launching the Colonial Times, and Tasmanian Advertiser . From 1882 it was known as the Hobart Gazette and from 1907 as the Tasmanian Government Gazette.See the full Wikipedia entry
- The Hobart Town gazette [electronic resource].
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The Hobart Town gazette was established on 25 June 1825 by Ross and Howe, the newly appointed Government Printers, as the authorised publisher of government notices, taking over that role from The Hobart Town gazette and Van Diemen's Land advertiser, published by Andrew Bent. It was published a day after Bent's paper and used the same volume and issue numbering. The 2 papers were published in this way for 7 weeks, until Aug. 19, 1825 when Bent changed the title of Hobart Town gazette and Van Diemen's Land advertiser to Colonial times and Tasmanian advertiser. The Hobart Town gazette continued to be published, changing title in 1881 to Hobart gazette.
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Electronic reproduction. Canberra, A.C.T., : National Library of Australia, 2008-2009 (Australian newspapers). Vol. 10, no. 477 (June 25, 1825)-v. 12, no. 597 (Oct. 13, 1827). Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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A new program at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), aims to better understand the complex biochemical networks that regulate the interactions between infectious organisms and the human or animal cells they infect. The Program in Systems Immunology and Infectious Disease Modeling (PSIIM) will employ a powerful new approach called computational systems biology to develop a deeper understanding of how pathogens cause disease and how the immune system responds to them. “Understanding the daunting complexity of biological systems is the greatest challenge and at the cutting-edge of science in the 21st century,” says NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. “The creation of this program will strengthen the intramural research program here on the NIH campus.”
The wealth of information gleaned about the human genome in recent years has identified many of the genes, proteins and other molecules involved in various biological systems. But understanding how these pieces work together to produce the complex physiological and pathological behavior of cells and organisms is not well understood. The goal of the PSIIM, which is a component of NIAID’s Division of Intramural Research (DIR) under the leadership of immunologist Ronald N. Germain, M.D., Ph.D., is to create a way to ask how whole systems of molecules, cells and tissues interact during an immune response or when confronted with an infectious agent.
“The idea of the PSIIM,” says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., “is to use systems biology to allow scientists to ask very big questions they may not have been able to fully address even a few years ago—such as how infectious organisms invade human cells, how the toxins they produce cause cell and tissue destruction and how these pathogens evade or manipulate the immune response.”
“Once we understand these interactions, we can make strategic decisions about how to interfere with infectious disease pathology or how to direct immune responses to better fight infections,” says DIR Director Kathryn C. Zoon, Ph.D., adding that these new insights can serve as the starting point for the design of new drugs to treat diseases or the development of new vaccines.
By creating computer models of complex molecular interaction networks, PSIIM investigators will be able to simulate the biology of cells, tissues and, eventually, organisms. The program will also use state-of-the-art experimental approaches to determine how closely these simulations predict real behavior. As the models improve, scientists should gain the ability to predict how drugs and other interventions will affect a cell or organism and whether such treatments will be tolerated by the host while they fight the infectious agent. Although most of the studies will be conducted with less dangerous pathogens, special facilities in the new C. W. Bill Young Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases at NIH will enable PSIIM scientists to examine such questions with microbes that cause diseases such as anthrax, virulent forms of influenza, tularemia and plague. The program will encourage collaboration between NIAID researchers and other scientists from both inside and outside NIH in efforts to better understand infectious diseases and the immune system.
The cornerstone of the PSIIM research project is a software package called Simmune, which enables biologists to model many types of biological systems. Created by NIAID scientist Martin Meier-Schellersheim, Ph.D., and his colleagues, the software allows a scientist to use a simple graphical interface to easily define the interactions between individual molecules in a large network, or the behaviors of cells in response to external signals. Once a scientist inputs quantitative information obtained by laboratory measurements, Simmune can then simulate the behavior of the whole signaling network or of an entire cell. The software does this by automatically creating a mathematical model involving special equations and then solving these equations for the specific conditions the user entered into the program.
Before Simmune, making such mathematical models by hand often took months and required extensive expertise in applied mathematics. In addition, making changes to an existing model was very time-consuming, which limited the complexity of what could be modeled. “With Simmune, we are trying to empower a broad range of biological experts, allowing them to easily make and modify detailed quantitative models of the biological systems they have studied in the lab for years. The hope is that these models will provide a deeper understanding of how complex behaviors arise, leading to new insights into disease,” says Dr. Germain. “One of the great advantages of Simmune is that it gives biologists a way to do the difficult mathematics needed for such modeling without having to actually be involved with the mathematics.”
In the first stringent test of the new software, Drs. Meier-Schellersheim, Germain and their colleagues demonstrated that Simmune can accurately predict cell function in both time and space. In an article to be published July 21 by the journal PLoS Computational Biology, they describe how they used the software to model a complicated cell-biological behavior known as chemosensing—a fundamental biological process whereby cells sense and respond to external signals, such as inflammatory chemicals involved in an immune response. Using Simmune, the NIAID team modeled what happens in a stimulated cell to the distribution of a membrane-associated molecule known as a phospholipid. The concentration of the phospholipid changes during chemosensing mainly due to the action of two enzymes that synthesize or break down this molecule. Scientists had thought that the destructive biochemical reaction that helps produce high and low concentrations of the phospholipid in different parts of the cell was regulated through some unknown mechanism acting throughout the cell. But a new model developed with Simmune predicted that the enhanced concentration of phospholipid at the “front” end of the cell (facing the source of chemical signals) resulted from a combination of two known mechanisms—a very rapid local inhibitory activity and the slower movement of another molecule to a distant part of the cell. The NIAID researchers, who tested their predictions in the laboratory, found that the experimental data matched very closely what they had predicted with Simmune.
The real power of the software, Dr. Meier-Schellersheim adds, is that it can do this same sort of modeling in nearly any cell-based biological system. “This is a tool that can simulate signaling and cellular processes in general,” he says, “whatever system or process you are interested in.” Because of the general utility of the approach, PSIIM is planning to collaborate extensively with scientists in other NIH institutes and centers, such as the National Cancer Institute’s Center for Cancer Research, to help support research in areas such as cancer biology that are outside of the field of immunity and infectious diseases.
Source: NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, July 2006
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A Christian aid group has revealed that students from Myanmar's Chin ethic minority are being forced to shave their heads and convert to Buddhism, despite the president's insistence that religious freedom is protected in the South Asian nation.
"President Thein Sein's government claims that religious freedom is protected by law but in reality Buddhism is treated as the de facto state religion," said Salai Ling, Program Director of the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO).
Myanmar's population of 55 million is heavily Buddhist at 89 percent, the CIA Factbook reveals, with Baptist Christians accounting for three percent and Roman Catholics numbering one percent.
The Chin nonprofit group, which was established on the India-Burma border by a group of Chin activists, stated, however, that an ultra-nationalistic viewpoint has gripped the country, pushed by a military regime that dictates that "to be Burmese, you should be Buddhist."
The organization highlighted the plight of Christian students who enroll at schools run by Myanmar's military, explaining that often times the students are beaten for failing to recite Buddhist scriptures, forced to shave their heads as per Buddhist tradition and convert to the Eastern religion.
The Chin population, which numbers about 500,000 people, struggle with poverty and their only real source of income is fishing, the human rights group reported. This situation leads them to seek out military schools, which provide free food, education and government jobs once they graduate.
"These schools are designed to facilitate a forced assimilation policy under the guise of development. The schools appear to offer a way out of poverty but there is a high price to pay for Chin students. They are given a stark choice between abandoning their identity and converting to Buddhism, or joining the military to comply with the authorities' vision of a 'patriotic citizen'," CHRO Advocacy Director Rachel Fleming said.
A detailed report by CHRO explores the hardships the Chin population have faced for over a decade, and documents human rights abuses they have suffered such as forced labor and torture, which has forced thousands of them to flee their homeland.
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As Alexandria continues to explore and tout its rich Civil War history during the sesquicentennial, historians say the role of free blacks, slaves and slavery won’t be forgotten.
The Port City remains well known as home to two of the war’s early martyrs, but Alexandria’s infamy as a center of interstate slave trade and later as a destination for freed or escaped slaves will share the limelight with Union Col. Elmer Ellsworth and tavern owner James Jackson, said Lance Mallamo, office of historic Alexandria director.
“I would dare say we’re not shying away from this at all,” he said. “I think that there have been times in the past when [the feeling was] this is not a side of the city’s history we’re proud of at all and maybe there were attempts to downplay that [history]. We think it’s a very important part of the city’s history and continues to be.”
As Mallamo noted, the city hasn’t had the best reputation for remembering its role in slavery and black history. Freedmen’s Cemetery, the burial ground for black soldiers and “contrabands,” a designation given freed slaves, became home to a gas station and then an office building. Eventually, the city bought the site and demolished the structures. Plans for a memorial to those interred there are in the works.
More recently, the city council recognized the historical importance of neglected gravesites near Fort Ward Park, remnants of a prominent black community settled after the Civil War.
Now officials want to tackle the role of slaves in city’s history head on during the sesquicentennial. Louis Hicks, director of the Alexandria Black History Museum, hosted a public meeting with Professor Michael Blakey of The College of William and Mary in January to give residents a say in commemorating slavery in Virginia, particularly in light of next year’s anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Blakey, who is spearheading the “Remembering Slavery, Resistance and Freedom” project, hopes to add humanity to a population he argues history has objectified. It’s not that textbooks ignore the institution of slavery, he said, but slaves’ contributions to society, their desire to escape bondage and their efforts to resist subjugation have faded.
Municipal buildings, dating to the antebellum or colonial periods, are a perfect example of objectification, he said. Many owe their existence to slave labor, but the slaves didn’t — and don’t — get credit for the work.
“Building machinery and domesticated animals don’t deserve credit, we think, for what they produce and it is in that sense that slaves are perhaps objectified by that term,” Blakey said. “They are not seen as complete human beings who would be so credited.”
It’s not an issue limited to south of the Mason Dixon line. New Yorkers were surprised to find a burial ground for as many as 18,000 colonial era slaves in lower Manhattan in the early 1990s. Blakely worked on the subsequent excavation.
“From the discovery of that site, it became clearer to historians that at the time of the American Revolution that 20 percent of New York’s population was enslaved, but we’ve led to think that slavery simply an institution of the south,” he said. “[The discovery] has forced that story into public discussion and that’s been a good thing.”
Blakey’s current project is a joint effort between the General Assembly, William and Mary and historians across the state to craft memorial and commemoration events capturing the slave experience and their unsung contributions. Blakey also sees the proclamation’s anniversary as an opportunity to have an honest discussion about slavery.
“We hope we’ll find … that we can, as blacks, whites, Latinos and others, talk about the truth.” Blakey said.
In Alexandria, Hicks’ museum will offer lectures and exhibits focusing on the black experience during the Civil War. City historians will roll out a program — tentatively scheduled for 2014 — focusing on the lives and voices of Alexandrians during the war years, slaves included, said Mallamo.
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“The subordinate place of history, theory, and criticism in design education is concomitant with the difficulty most designers have in envisioning forms of practice other than those already given by the culture.”
When Victor Margolin published those words in 2002 in his Politics of the Artificial I chastised him for being too tentative about change. It seemed to me at that time that the design world was on the verge of embracing socially relevant design, one of the new forms Margolin was advocating for. I had just returned from two years overseas. HOW magazine had published an article about my initiative starting a 501(c)(3) called Designers Without Borders, and there had been a mild ripple of interest, mostly from younger designers ostensibly looking for alternative design practice opportunities.
This was the era before Speak Up and Core 77 had made blogger/activists out of a majority of the designers in North America. Designmatters was a new program at Art Center, not a New York radio broadcast. Design for Social Impact was Ennis Carter’s studio in Philadelphia, not a Rockefeller Foundation initiative to “explore fresh business models for systematically engaging with the social sector.” And Ideas That Matter, seemed, well, like an idea that really mattered. It’s only seven short years ago, but I’m beginning to think of it as “the good old days.”
Nowadays, on any given afternoon, I am reminded how different things are. Social networking has struck the design world with the force of the Indonesian tsunami bringing changes of sorts, but no guarantees of lasting change. For example, the nomenclature conflicts referred to in the preceding paragraph have grown exponentially, resulting in unnecessary and unwanted turf battles. I never imagined I was being terribly original when I named DWB back in 2000. God knows there’s Reporters, Engineers, Doctors, Lawyers, and probably Janitors Without Borders. What I did do, at least, was conduct a Google search before claiming the domain name, which is more than this group at the New York Institute of Technology bothered to do. And while I’m happy to concede the acronym DWB to Catherine Wentworth at Designers Who Blog, I’m less likely to bless the Norsk Form group Design Without Borders. They have worked with the art school at Makerere University since 2005, or about five years after our first association there. I met their representatives during my last stint in Uganda (2006-2007) and can personally attest to their generally naïve and uncooperative approach to development through design, but you wouldn’t know this from their online presence. And even they have competition for their domain name!
For all our talk about “planning,” human beings don’t plan very well in the collective sense— civilization is just too complex. The beauty of the hives’ single-minded purpose doesn’t translate to people. As Americans we are raised to love independent choice, but this is precisely what leads to disaster when applied on a global scale. And it is no different with social design, where competition for the Internet “commons” is much more prevalent than cooperation. Add to this the fact that 98% of designers when asked say they want only to design, not plan, write grants, fund raise, correspond, or do any of the nine-hundred other nitty little things necessary to helping less fortunate people and you’re left with a large, well educated audience wearing blinders.
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Mariana Amatullo at Central Michigan University, April 2009
My friend Mariana Amatullo is fond of saying that, where design assistance for the world’s troubles is concerned, “more is more,” and on a good day I very much want to agree with her. But the amount of available funding seems to be in inverse proportion to the deluge of books and blogs devoted to “the cause,” which are beginning to overload my circuits. In addition to Cameron Sinclair’s Design Like You Give A Damn are recent books by David Berman (Do Good Design), Emily Pilloton (Design Revolution), and forthcoming from Peleg Top (Designing For the Greater Good). Do a Google search of the latter title and you’ll hit a long list of related-by-sentiment-but-otherwise-unrelated courses, companies, and design coalitions.
The blogosphere is even more bloated. Design 21 Social Design Network, not to be confused with The Social Design Site, (the only design site to make the list of 100 Best Blogs for Those Who Want to Change the World) beat Change Observer out of the box by at least two years. Its lists of organizations and individuals include, again, my Design Without Borders friends from Norway, Socially Conscious Graphic Design, and the Designers Accord, a group that refers to itself as “The Kyoto Treaty of Design.” All these organizations could fall under the self-definition rubric of Designers Accord: “The Designers Accord is a coalition of designers, educators, researchers, engineers, business consultants, and corporations, who are working together to create positive environmental and social impact.” Didn’t forget anybody there, except maybe the world’s have-nots, whose lives all of these professionals are ostensibly working with the zeal of missionaries to improve.
Part of the problem has to do with saturation. The best way to spread an ideology (or organization) these days is to give prospective participants a sense of belonging and having a job to do. George H.W. Bush branded it forever in his infamous “Thousand Points of Light” speech, where he tried to justify government indifference by encouraging personal volunteerism. Problem is, where everyone’s a volunteer there’s considerable redundancy and little or no coordination. Just check out the AIGA Who’s Who list of “consultants” at Project M’s site. They’re achieving what I’d call a critical mass of celebrity endorsement. (Project M is an initiative where young designers “do social good” by ponying up $1500 or more in a sort of altruism by subscription scheme. I suppose it feels better than paying the same amount of money to attend a national conference.)
Any number of organizations would like to corner the title of “advocate supreme” in this online world game. Designers Accord claims 170,000 signatories, while Design Observer, always proud of its numbers, boasts millions of page hits per year. AIGA, which oversees the Aspen Challenge (design the future of water indeed!), is married to ICOGRADA and ICSID, and collaborates with INDEX (talk about consolidating politically correct power!) even has competition from its own baby aiga’s. The AIGA San Francisco chapter’s started running a competition entitled cause/affect, “a biennial graphic design competition which celebrates the work of designers and organizations who set out to positively impact our society.” Given that competitions are part and parcel of design education in its currently ossified form, many designers fix on the unfortunate idea that entering competitions is the best way to help people. And did you ever meet a designer who had set out to negatively impact society?
Developed World Guilt, or Fashion Fetish?
If this blur of hysteria begins to make you feel a little woozy, join the club. I’m all about helping people, spend much time doing so, and I agree with Mariana that there’s more than enough pain to go around in this world. The people trolling the net and re-posting RSS feeds for the pleasure of their Twitter “possees” are just engaging in a big circle jerk. But beyond such dim sighted initiatives something else lurks: the sudden widespread enthusiasm for social amelioration through design. It’s so terribly trendy to care, about the poor, the environment, and every form of “betterment” that I begin to assume we must be selling more design by fetishizing social relevance.
In reference to this blog some people have asked me, “What the hell does Design-Altruism mean anyway? Do you really think altruism is the solution for social problems?” And I’ll answer, “Of course I do,” which gets me into many long-winded debates. Others may wonder whats to complain about; after all, designers, design students, and educators are finally paying attention, or so it seems. But I’m also interested in celebrating younger people who have acknowledged and are working respectfully to bridge the nearly impossible divide that exists between the haves and the have-nots in this world. Arvind Lodaya put it cogently, ironically in response to another Margolin article this time on D-A-P, where he politely pointed out the limits of the design world’s understanding of and ability to affect society’s power imbalances.
My concern with the popularity of Facebook design groups and socially conscientious design blogs is that, rather than muster wider awareness, they will cause both a false sense of general accomplishment, and result in donor-fatigue. The growth of a category of what are called “slacktivists,” people who use their interest in design/politics to justify joining online groups and building websites for remote non-profits, fails to address the world’s problems with feet-on-the-ground solutions. Such solutions must be, in development parlance, sustainable, not as an international set of environmental standards like Designers Accord is trying to push, but as a continuing physical presence in the world’s “difficult” places. A two-week seminar, or a three-week “design camp” might be fun and informative, but ultimately, it is just more of the design-for-profit-business-as-usual mentality where busy people tear themselves away from other more lucrative commitments for brief-but-expensive feel-good professional gatherings.
As a faculty member who leads semester-long socially based projects, when the semester is over it is often hard to sustain student interest and momentum in the project. Ironically, in graphic design education there are now so many people attempting to do this, one no longer really needs corporate sponsorship to “ignite change,” although much more could be said about differing definitions of what change should entail. According to Wes Janz, “For way too many people, ‘changing the world’ is equivalent to ‘controlling the world,’ ‘telling the world,’ ‘educating the world.’” He goes on to say, “I don’t see many people understanding, as I said to Tyree Guyton, that we can change the world by being changed by the world. It’s always, my terms, our terms, our intentions, our actions, our ideas, and in the end, it’s just the same designer-as-hero bullshit to me, whether in Malawi, Kosovo, or Muncie.”
I seem to have painted my idealism into a skeptical corner by asking the question, “What are we doing with this social design trope?” Are we really helping the world? To the design devoteé the answer to this last query is an unequivocal “yes.” But there are certainly more questions that need asking than the ones those who believe design will save the world are willing to ask. Personally, I continue to do what I’ve been doing all along, and try not to be distracted by the membership organizations. To me assisting flesh-and-blood people matters, not LinkedIn group sizes or number of site hits or strings of Tweets. These latter items will continue to factor to funding organizations that must justify their portfolio management quantitatively. And where they might make a difference, they can be part of the mix (some online examples, like Simon Berry’s ColaLife initiative, have been successful). At the end of the day isn’t it the person with the most mud on his or her shoes, not the one with the most conference speaking engagements, who is doing the important work?
Then again, perhaps Wes Janz said it best. Describing a recent social design presentation he attended he said, “…And, you know, it’s all good, an orphanage in Sri Lanka, house inspections in Mississippi post-Katrina, a community center in Kenya… But I just got sick of it and had this idea that you should change the name of DWB to Designers With Borders. As in, maybe there should be some boundaries, some active awarenesses that we are unqualified, or unfit, or unable to work borderlessly.”
I think he’s got something there.
David Stairs is editor of Design-Altruism-Project.
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Measured by virtually any criterion one might propose, studies of Precambrian life have burst forth since the mid-1960s to culminate in recent years in discovery of the oldest fossils known, petrified cellular microbes nearly 3,500 million years old, more than three-quarters the age of the Earth. Precambrian paleobiology is thriving---the vast majority of all scientists who have ever investigated the early fossil record are alive and working today; new discoveries are being made at an ever quickening clip....After more than a century of trial and error, of search and final discovery, those of us who wonder about life's early history can be thankful that what was once "inexplicable" to Darwin is no longer so to us. --J. William Schopf
The Cambrian explosion refers to the quality of the fossil record during the first 30 million years of the Cambrian Period (roughly 570 to 500 million years ago). During that 30-million-year period, "mollusks, starfish, arthropods, worms, and chordates (including vertebrates)"* evolved. There were sponges, bryozoans, hydrozoans, brachiopods, and a few species of stalked echinoderms.* As Richard Dawkins notes: "It's as though they were just planted there, without any evolutionary history" (Dawkins 1996: 229). Dawkins doesn't claim to know why there is so little pre-Cambrian fossil evidence but he suspects "it might be that many of these animals had only soft parts to their bodies: no shells or bones to fossilize" (Dawkins 1996: 230).
The oldest fossilized bacteria date from about 3.5 billion years ago. Two billion years later algae—organisms with cells, a nucleus, and chromosomes—appeared. Marine invertebrates with hard shells and skeletons of chitin or lime are more conducive to fossil preservation than soft-bodied creatures. Perhaps adding to the conditions that were conducive to preserving fossils during the Cambrian Period was the fact that most landmasses on the planet at that time were in the Tropics or the southern hemisphere.
Before the Cambrian Period, life on earth had emerged but large animals had not evolved. One explanation for this is that respiration was not possible as there was not much oxygen content in the atmosphere and the oceans until the Cambrian. Another explanation is that the earth was a frozen snowball until about the Cambrian Period and that sudden melting brought about a "climate shock" that triggered the evolution of multi-cellular animals. There are other proposed explanations, as well.*
For some reason, creationists think the Cambrian explosion is evidence that counts against evolution but supports their hypothesis that an invisible magical being created species individually. As Jerry Coyne notes:
many animals and plants do not show up as fossils until well after the Cambrian explosion: bony fishes and land plants first appeared around 440 million years ago, reptiles around 350 million years ago, mammals around 250 million years ago, flowering plants around 210 million years ago, and human ancestors around 5 million years ago. The staggered appearance of groups that become very different over the next 500 million years gives no support to the notion of instantaneously created species that thereafter remain largely unchanged. If this record does reflect the exertions of an intelligent designer, he was apparently dissatisfied with nearly all of his creations, repeatedly destroying them and creating a new set of species that just happened to resemble descendants of those that he had destroyed.
The fact is, the fossil record is imperfect. As Richard Dawkins notes: "if we arrange all our available fossils in chronological order, they do not form a smooth sequence of scarcely perceptible change" (Dawkins 1996: 229). Eldredge and Gould proposed the theory of punctuated equilibrium on the belief that some of the gaps in the fossil record represent what actually happened: some gaps are due to evolution occurring in sudden bursts followed by periods where no evolutionary change took place in given lineages. But even Eldredge and Gould recognized that some gaps many be due to imperfections in the record.
Creationists love to quote Gould and Dawkins out of context. Christie Syftestad of Roseville writes that "Stephen Jay Gould himself admitted that fossil evidence completely contradicts natural selection" (letter to the editor, Sacramento Bee, Dec. 19, 2005). Not quite. In his final published work, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, Gould wrote that an important reason for writing the book was to present
a tight brief for substantial reformulation in the structure of evolutionary theory, with all threads of revision conceptually united into an argument of different thrust and form, but still sufficiently continuous with its original Darwinian base to remain within the same intellectual lineage and logic (2002: p. 33).
Furthermore, unlike creationists and ID advocates, Gould was a scientist. The lack of fossil evidence from pre-Cambrian times did not mean it was time to give up science and bring in a god or some other magical being to wave his wand and create species individually just as it says in the Bible! No, Gould notes proudly that paleontologists have been scouring the appropriate sediments on earth for whatever evidence they might find of pre-Cambrian life:
For example, the earth's first prominent assemblage of animals, named the Ediacara fauna for the Australian locality of its first discovery but now known from all continents, lived from about 600 million years ago right up to the explosion, with perhaps a few forms surviving beyond. These large creatures (up to a meter in length in one case, though most specimens occupy the range of centimeters to decimeters) tend to be highly flattened in form, composed of numerous sections that seem to be "quilted" together (certainly not segmented in any metameric way), and appear to possess no body openings. Although some researchers have sought the origin of a few bilaterian phyla within this fauna, the comparisons seem farfetched and many paleontologists regard the Ediacaran animals as an early expression of pre-bilaterian possibilities of diploblast design (with modern cindarians and a few other groups surviving as a remnant of this fuller diversity), while other experts have regarded them as an entirely separate (and failed) experiment in multicellular life or even as a group of marine lichen! (Gould 2002: 1157).
The creationists and ID advocates are anti-scientific propagandists. They assume that no amount of scientific investigation will ever produce more data of relevance to understanding the processes of evolution that have taken place over the past several billion years on this planet. In short, their only interest in science is to find areas where scientists see problems to be investigated and declare that the problems can't be solved except by appealing to a magical being who can do anything that's needed to make the data fit with somebody's understanding of the Bible.
Some of these pious frauds go so far as to claim that evolution is false and not scientific. That's the position of Frank Sherwin of the Institute for Creation Research, an outfit of religious fanatics who see their Christian mission as proving the "scientific bankruptcy of evolution." According to Sherwin (in an article written by his equally pious sister, Elisabeth), the Cambrian explosion is one of the "four irrefutable arguments" against evolution. Frank believes that a true scientist believes in the Bible and appeals to a magical invisible being to do his science for him. His sister says she accepts intelligent design rather than evolution because she's "irritated by the arrogance of evolutionists who claim to have all the answers" (Sherwin 2005). If either Sherwin sibling actually read anything by Dawkins or Gould or an other evolutionary scientist they would have to lie their way to heaven if they tried to maintain that evolutionists are the ones who claim to have all the answers. The ID and creationist jackals only appear when evolutionists don't have the answers. And the pious jackals appear mainly to declare that it is hopeless to search any further, that it's time to give up and recognize that only a miracle can solve the problem. Then, in a glorious non sequitur they declare, as Frank Sherwin does, that "the world view of a person who thinks they came from bacteria is likely to be substantially different from the world view of someone who thinks they were created in [some god's] image" (Sherwin 2005). That's the moral of their story, it seems.
This is the talk of a propagandist, not a scientist. (What you gonna believe? that you're ephemeral slime or an immortal spirit?) It is the talk of a man who has no true interest in the magnificent and magical universe around him. It is the talk of a man who has an imaginary friend that allows him to stop thinking and dogmatically declare that he has all the answers so there is no need to investigate this wonderful world of living things any further. There are many straws such a man might grasp, but the Cambrian explosion shouldn't be one of them.
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Evo Morales, the Bolivian president, came to power promising to defend the right of Bolivians to produce coca for traditional uses.
Himself a former coca-leaf farmer, Morales proved his commitment to that cause when he kicked out the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in 2009, and began the country's own system of regulating coca-leaf production.
"In Bolivia, coca leaf is a traditional, medicinal, in some case religious product and it is the key to an entire culture of portions of Bolivian society. It's really tough to just take it away and substitute nothing in its place. The problem is that coca is also by definition the base of cocaine, and it's that linkage that has to be somehow broken…"
- Eric Farnsworth, the vice-president of the Council of the Americas
The DEA leads drug eradication programmes across Latin America, but it is an often controversial partnership.
Morales' move brought heavy criticism from Washington, and led the US government to conclude that Bolivia was failing to meet its commitment to fight the production of cocaine.
But a new report suggests that the country's unorthodox measures are working, with a significant drop in coca plantings and without the violence associated with many aspects of the US war on drugs.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Kathryn Ledebur, the director of the Andean Information Network who co-authored the report, explained how Bolivia went about rejecting US drugs eradication policies.
"The problem that you had with forced eradication is the forces would rip out the coca crop, people would have nothing to eat and coca would just move around the region and people would quickly replant.
"With the programme that they have now, because people know that they can have a small amount of coca and because there's less coca in the country in these controlled regions, the price of coca is quite high.
"In fact it's the same whether they're in the legal and illegal markets. So it's these kind of alternatives for people that they can put in place since they know they have the coca, that gives this a much better chance of being sustainable, and improved quality of life for these farmers."
"[Bolivia's] model has much more to speak for sustainability than the forced eradication model, which led to replanting after replanting, displacement after displacement. This gives people a stake in the system succeeding, not just some guy coming in taking away their crops and livelihood and moving on. That was a recipe for unsustainability."
- John Walsh, Washington Office on Latin America
After Morales kicked out the US DEA in 2009, the country implemented a system that permits the cultivation of coca for traditional uses.
Growers are registered and allowed to grow on a stipulated area of land, and limits are strictly enforced – a second violation of the scheme means the grower forfeits the right to grow coca legally.
The government relies on growers policing each other, since multiple violations can lead to punishment for the entire growers' union.
Both the UN and the White House say the total number of acres under cultivation in Bolivia dropped in 2011 between 12-13 percent.
By contrast the UN says that coca cultivation has increased in Peru and Colombia by five and three percent respectively.
Joining Inside Story Americas for the discussion with presenter Kimberley Halkett are guests: John Walsh, the senior associate for Drug Policy and the Andes at the Washington Office on Latin America; Eric Farnsworth, the vice-president of the Council of the Americas; and Sanho Tree, the director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.
"If you want someone to stop doing something it's important to understand why they're doing it to begin with. Previous models and other forced eradication models around the world treat these farmers growing illicit crops as mere criminals … but in fact they're family farmers. If you don't understand why they're growing these crops year after year, you do forced eradication and you force these families into food insecurity."
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Significant Research Award, 2011
Jay Greene won the college's award given for conducting significant research.
Greene holds the Twenty-First Century Chair in Education Reform and is head of the department of education reform in the College of Education and Health Professions. He was nominated for his work titled "Public School Response to Special Education Vouchers: The Impact of Florida's McKay Scholarship Program on Disability Diagnosis and Student Achievement in Public Schools." The article was published in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, described in the nomination letter as the leading empirical journal of the American Educational Research Association.
Greene also presented the research with his former student, Marcus Winters, at conferences organized by the University of Virginia and the Heritage Foundation. Greene and Winters found some evidence that competition from a voucher program for disabled students decreased the likelihood that a student was diagnosed as having a mild disability and was positively related to academic achievement in the public schools.
According to the Social Science Citation Index, the working papers that resulted in this peer-reviewed publication have been cited 17 times. The research was featured on C-SPAN and the Fox Business Channel. It has also appeared in 25 newspaper articles or opinion pieces and 12 blog posts. The evidence produced by this research has been influential in the creation and regulation of the nine existing state voucher or tax credit scholarship programs for students with disabilities.
No other research team has empirically examined this important and growing policy, according to the nomination and letters of support from students. As a result, Greene and Winters’ work has had a significant influence on the scholarly and policy discussions about special education vouchers.
One student described the importance of the research this way: "Given the ever increasing number of students enrolled in special education programs, it is essential that scholarship develop regarding patterns of diagnosis and effectiveness. School leaders need this information, parents need this information, taxpayers need this information, and policymakers especially need this information. This work is an important first step in developing the methods needed to begin to answer these pressing questions and will set a standard for other work to follow."
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As an educator and school director, I am constantly seeking ways to better meet the individual needs of all of the learners in our classrooms. In every class, we find a variety of learning styles and, in early childhood classes in particular, a variety of developmental levels. I have researched, attended seminars, spoken to colleagues and learned that the answer is as old as the one room schoolhouse. Each individual child can best be reached when we acknowledge that more than one developmental level and social ability exists in one age group. Each child can be reached when more than one level of abilities is taught in one space.
Formal education in this country began in those one room schoolhouses where students of many ages learned in one space. Students moved ahead based on their individual abilities. As the country became more populated and more students enrolled in school, that system didn’t work anymore. Students needed to be divided into smaller groups. It seemed logical to divide the students into groups based upon their ages. There are exceptions to those divisions. Some children may skip a grade and others may repeat a grade but, by and large, age division does hit the median of abilities. The question before us is whether or not it is beneficial to just hit the median or should we be striving to reach a broader range of abilities?
Integrated, or multiple-age classes, are beneficial to students in a number of ways. By widening the range of ages and abilities, teachers have to get even further out of the “one size fits all” box. While one size rarely fits all learners at any age, it is especially true in the early childhood years. It is not unusual to have a class of 2 year olds in which some children can use scissors effectively and are beginning to write while others are not yet ready to hold scissors or writing implements. Children who can work ahead aren’t always given the opportunity to do so while those who are challenged may struggle to keep up. At the end of the year, some children may be promoted from that class to the next without having mastered particular skills. If the skill sets that are developmentally appropriate for more than one age group are taught in the same space, the children can go from one teacher to another based on their ability for each individual task. Teachers will be better able to reach the outer limits of a child’s ability and ensure that each student’s abilities and challenges are communicated to the teacher preparing the students for kindergarten.
Multi-age classes allow for more opportunities for students to learn from each other and model skills, both academic and social. Children not ready to write can watch while their friends do so. Children can help each other recognize numbers, letters or words. Younger children can observe the example of older children who may sit longer for a story or be more confident explorers in their classroom. Socially, multi-age classrooms in early childhood have been shown to foster a variety of friendships and help build self-esteem. A class that spans two years allows for new, younger students to initially follow and then become the leaders themselves. Older children learn lessons about patience, empathy and building friendships based on mutual interests rather than just on age. Children who have had the chance to be models of academic and/or social skills will be more confident and, therefore, more ready to enter pre-k or kindergarten prep classes.
Classes consisting of more than one age group are also more reflective of the society in which we live. When you take children to the playground, they need to negotiate play with children of a variety of ages. A group of playmates in a neighborhood are rarely the same age. As children enter middle school, high school, college and the workplace, they will be increasingly placed with others of their ability and age becomes less and less important.
In our quest to reach and challenge every child, we look forward to finding ways to further integrate the classes and meet the academic & social needs of each individual at The Early Learning Center of Temple Shalom.
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Westward Migration towards the Interior
Even before the conclusion of a treaty of peace between the French and English, the westward migration of European-Americans commenced in earnest. Despite restrictions established by the British officials and treaties that prohibited settlement on tribal lands, they kept coming and coming. For a few brief years, the great chief of the northern tribes, Pontiac, held these incursions in check. The pattern of encroachment was repeated all along the frontier. Not long after the first settlers cleared the land and built homes, they were followed by land speculators and the colonial administrators in league with them to sanction their claims. By 1771, for example, the European-American population in the Ohio Valley exceeded 10,000 families. All along the colonial frontier they came, settling first on land secured by treaty, then taking from the tribes what the indigenous people would not sell or otherwise relinquish.
During the colonials' rebellion against British rule, the southern frontier settlements were attacked by Chickamaugas, Choctaw, Creeks and Cherokee. Further north, Shawnee and Delaware warriors attacked settlers throughout the Ohio Valley. In this struggle, the indigenous tribes saw alliance with the British as their only chance of preserving their own independence. From Canada and northern New York, Iroquois warriors and Loyalists also threatened the larger eastern population centers. In hindsight, the tribes were in a no-win situation. Had they joined the rebellion against the British, they might have been given more opportunity to abandon their way of life and become citizens of the new nation. At least some Christianized tribes might have gained protection in this manner. The frontier was by nature a region of extremes, of lawlessness and conflict. As early as the mid-seventeenth century, a commission established by the New England Confederation worked to prepare the indigenous tribes "for full citizenship." Even at this early stage of interaction between Europeans and indigenous North Americans, those enlightened enough to view these people as potential equals failed to recognize in their culture or socio-political arrangements anything worthy of incorporation into the new European-American society. Modernization formed the cornerstone of the post-conquest relationship envisioned by the commissioners:
The New England colonists attempted to establish the English form of government among the conquered [tribes] ... based on the assumption that the English way was better, and it was only done in the spirit of making the Puritan Saints feel that they were performing their worldly obligation to a people that they had seen fit to crush. The epic of America has seen the demands for equalization and sameness -- this desire for homogeneity may be a worthy standard when not carried too far, but to bring a savage race, on both feet, into a society it is not accustomed nor fitted to compete in does in the long run an injustice to the group affected.
By the mid-nineteenth century, at least some Easterners were already becoming sympathetic to the cause of the indigenous people of the frontier region. During Tocqueville's visit to North America in 1831, he visited the Mohican village near Albany, New York, where "the first Indians [he] saw ran after the carriage begging." By 1877 even the President of the United States, Rutherford Hayes, was sufficiently moved by the plight of the indigenous tribes to write: "Many, if not most, of our Indian wars have had their origin in broken promises and acts of injustice on our part." Only in 1887, however, did the government of the United States attempt to set a national policy of peaceful incorporation of the indigenous peoples into the European-American civilization. The Dawes Severalty Act paved the way for individual titleholdings to be distributed to tribal members, and in 1924 all indigenous people were granted full citizenship rights. The aggregate result of these and other measures was continued destruction of tribal societies and the loss of their territorial sovereignty.
As early as 1779, the southern tribes had been defeated in several key battles and were successfully neutralized for the remainder of the conflict between the European-Americans and the British. In the west and north the tribes continued their attacks, pushing settlers back all along the frontier. Then, in October of 1781, Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army to George Washington at Yorktown in Virginia. As the British pulled their troops out of the rebellious colonies, the last hope of the tribes to retain their lands and their sovereignty disappeared. More than 100,000 Tory loyalists also left for Canada or England, their titleholdings and property confiscated by their victorious brethren. Even before the fighting ended, the newly-independent states began to argue over the disposition of the unoccupied western territories. Negotiations ensued, and the western boundaries of the original thirteen states were established as, one by one, they ceded land to the jurisdiction of the national government.
Passage of the Ordinance of 1785 allowed settlers to pour into the Ohio Valley and up tributaries of that great river. The Iroquois were forced to relinquish their claims to the lands of western Pennsylvania, and very soon thereafter title to tribal lands from Lake Erie south and westward was surreptitiously acquired by the national government under treaties signed in most cases by minor village chiefs who had no authority to act on behalf of their nations. As a direct result, late in 1786 the Iroquois, Shawnee, Miami and other major tribes repudiated the earlier treaties and prepared to defend their territorial claims. Full-scale war broke out on the frontier three years later. Again, the tribes suffered defeat and further loss of territory. In the south, a united Creek nation managed to resist encroachments until 1790 when they were overwhelmed and forced to surrender their territory.
New roads now connected the heavily populated eastern regions with the interior, and tens of thousands of settlers made their way westward during the 1790s. Kentucky was admitted to the Union in 1792, followed by Tennessee (1796), Ohio (1803), Louisiana (1812), Indiana (1816), Mississippi (1817), Illinois (1818), Alabama (1819) and Maine (1820). By 1820 the population of the Union of states had reached more than 9.6 million. Conversely, the indigenous population was on a continuous decline. | <urn:uuid:1a6c1a8c-bff7-4502-a46f-a63f352919cf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/essays/general/civilizations-under-siege/westward-migration-towards-the-interior.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972864 | 1,270 | 4.46875 | 4 |
PRO: Pursuing Real Opportunities – a collaboration of Amarillo EDC, Amarillo ISD and Amarillo College and a community-wide initiative to develop a more skilled local workforce.
Initially, the program will target industries that currently have the greatest workforce needs including:
PRO leverages community partnerships and resources to make high school and community college students, parents and adult career seekers aware of the career options that exist in Amarillo and the surrounding areas. PRO will bridge the gap that exists between employers/businesses and capable employees to help develop a thriving local workforce.
Review the website to learn more www.pro2day.com
In 2010, the Amarillo EDC partnered with the Amarillo Area Foundation and several other community organizations to pursue the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation "Partners for Post-Secondary Success" grant. The Amarillo EDC provided funding and staff support for the partnership's efforts. In 2011, Amarillo was among four US cities to receive a $1.4 million grant to focus on educational attainment and the successful pursuit of a living wage job and a career with the opportunity of advancement.
In 2012, the Partners for Postsecondary Success – Amarillo initiative is making progress toward the goal of doubling the number of low-income young adults aged 16-26 who complete postsecondary credentials leading to living wage jobs. PPS Amarillo Partners selected “No Limits, No Excuses” for the initiative’s logo...meaning there are no limits for individuals in our community to achieve postsecondary success, and there are no excuses for our community – we must all pitch in and help remove the barriers so that all individuals can achieve postsecondary success. | <urn:uuid:e20301e7-00c2-411d-b075-9aacd1ae2db3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://amarilloedc.com/workforce-enhancement-partnerships | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930766 | 343 | 1.578125 | 2 |
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George.W.Lambert Retrospective : heroes & icons
George Lambert (1873–1930) was one of Australia’s most brilliant, witty and influential artists. The exhibtion George Lambert retrospective: heroes and icons is the most comprehensive showing of Lambert’s work for over fifty years. It will present the diverse range of Lambert’s work from his Australian bush subjects to his Edwardian portraits and figure groups, from his sparkling oil sketches to his major battle paintings and large sculpture. It will show the full breadth of Lambert’s approaches to image making and the variety of his handling of pencil, pen and paint. It will demonstrate his sure draughtsmanship and the seductive glamour and sensual appeal of his paint surfaces.
I know for myself that which is easy is not worth doing, and that nothing matters to an artist but the fulfilment of his gift.
George W. Lambert.
But who was George Lambert and what was he like? That is a difficult question to answer. His stunning image of himself baring his chest, Chesham Street 1910, like the man himself, is an enigma. It appears to have a meaning but is not strictly narrative. It invites us to provide our own interpretation. He sits boldly in front of the viewer, holding up his shirt and revealing his entire torso. The painting is a metaphor: this man seems to have nothing to hide, to be literally and metaphorically baring his chest, exposing his heart and soul to the world. But was he? Many writers have referred to Lambert’s extrovert personality, characterising him as an entertaining raconteur and mimic, with a keen sense of humour.
Approach nature with a simple palette but an extravagant love of form.
George W. Lambert, 1918
Some found Lambert’s flamboyance appealing, while others objected to it or sought to explain it away as if it were something disagreeable – frivolous and effete, a divergence from the typical easygoing, hardy, resolute Australian. Some suggested that Lambert’s posing was a shield against his sensitive nature, and others maintained he had two personalities, one for his friends (gentle, kindly and sympathetic) and another for his acquaintances and the public (brilliant, witty and flamboyant). His wife, Amy, agreed that Lambert’s theatricality and love of laughter was a mask behind which he hid his sadness.
Lambert was a versatile artist, with great audacity and considerable finesse, a more broad-ranging artist than any other in Australia at this time. George Lambert retrospective is the result of generous inter-gallery cooperation. It will selectively draw together around 110 works by Lambert that are scattered throughout major art museums and collections in Australia, as well as private collections in Britain. It will present us with the opportunity to look at the full scope of his work, including three of Lambert’s large-scale battle paintings, kindly lent by the Australian War Memorial, and viewed for the first time in many years alongside other icons such as The squatter’s daughter and A sergeant of Light Horse in Palestine.
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A stronger relationship between Poland and Spain could provide alternative solutions and help to achieve a stronger and more united Europe. Both countries share the experience of democratic transitions intrinsically linked to the European integration process and are the clearest examples of the benefits that come with EU membership.
The first 100 days of the new Spanish government have been characterised by a low international profile. Its main priorities have been determined by the economic crisis: Europe as the main reference and a major boost to economic diplomacy.
The EU has made modest changes to its democracy support, but still requires more fundamental reform to its policies.
Chancellor Merkel’s push for fiscal austerity is seriously damaging the German image. The costs are high: the decline of European integration, a creeping north-south divide between member states and the loss of global influence on trade liberalisation, development and climate change.
Despite the EU’s internal and broader external concerns, Poland and Spain have potential to bolster their relationship, in particular through further development of its institutional framework and from recasting the dialogue on questions such as European neighbourhood or European defense cooperation.
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Promoting voluntarism and improving the community through action and leadership.
Women of many races, religions and national origins committed to community service.
750 trained volunteers making a direct impact in Central Kentucky.
Raising money with successful fundraisers organized by trained volunteers to further its charitable work throughout Central Kentucky.
Committed to Preservation through the renovation and maintenance of the historic Bodley-Bullock House.
The Junior League of Lexington, Inc. recognizes the problem of substance abuse in our society. We support efforts toward the understanding, prevention, and treatment of substance abuse.
The Junior League of Lexington, Inc. is committed to ensuring that all children have the opportunities and services essential for optimal physical, intellectual, emotional and social growth and will advocate seeing that such opportunities and services are provided.
The Junior League of Lexington, Inc. supports the goal of fair and equal opportunities for women and men and will advocate for the attainment of this goal.
The Junior League of Lexington, Inc. is committed to the goal of eliminating domestic violence by supporting programs and legislation designed to understand the problem, assist and protect the victims, and work effectively with the abusers.
The Junior League of Lexington, Inc. is committed to and supports the preservation of buildings, sites, and areas of historic and architectural significance through restoration, renovation, preservation, adaptive reuse, or any combination of these efforts.
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General Duty to promote equality 2011
We are publishing a range of information in order to demonstrate how as a Council we have been implementing the duty to promote equality since 2002.
We first published a Race Equality Scheme in May 2002 which outlined how we planned to implement the first Race Equality duty. In April 2007 we then published a combined single Equalities Scheme, which outlined progress in our work to implement the Race Equality Duty (2002) and Disability Equality duty (2006) as well as our plans to implement the new Gender Equality duty (2007).
- Equalities Scheme and Corporate Equality Action Plan 2007-10
- Corporate Equality Progress report 2006-2009(pdf, 104KB)
- Equality Standard Level three self-assessment February 2008(pdf, 153KB)
- Equality Standard Level four self assessment March 2010(pdf, 34KB)
The new Public sector equality duty 2011 came into force in April 2011 and we are now publishing our progress to date, especially since 2011 and also our plans to implement the new duty which covers the following protected groups:
- Religion or Belief
- Sex (previously known as Gender)
- Sexual Orientation
- Gender Re-assignment
- Pregnancy and maternity
- Marriage and Civil Partnership ( first part of the duty only )
We have undertaken the following, which are outlined in documents and links to information below:
- We have undertaken an initial screening for relevance of all our functions and services in relation to the three parts of the duty and protected groups. This has helped us to inform our schedule of Equality Impact and Needs Analysis, which are outlined in reports on this page
- We will revisit our initial screening periodically as new information is collected and analysed. These are live documents.
- We have published EINAs
- We have undertaken an overall equality data mapping exercise using national and local data sources(pdf, 3464KB). This will help inform our equality analysis and decision making.
- DataRich contains the most up to date information.
- We have also produced annual workforce monitoring analysis reports; and bi-annual staff surveys. Information from these have informed equality objectives and actions in business plans.
- Each directorate report contains progress and links to equality information and analysis which have informed EINAs, equality objectives and actions.
- We are currently producing action plans to address gaps in local data collection systems and analysis bearing in mind the twin principles of proportionality and relevance.
- We will also aim to draw upon both national and local research studies to inform our equality information and analysis.
- We will produce a question and answer sheet to answer questions you may have about why we need to collect equality monitoring information about users of our services.
- An Equality Impact and Needs Analysis ( EINA ) will inform all commissioning in areas assessed as relevant to the new duty. These will then become translated into specifications as part of procurement processes.
- We will also report back our progress on our equality objectives as part of the annual progress report on the Corporate Plan later in 2013.
Corporate Plan: 'Fairness For All' is an underlying principle for the way in which we work
- This is your opportunity to look at all the equality information we have published and provide your feedback to us.
- Equality objectives are included in the Corporate Plan(pdf, 23KB) under the section Fairness For All. We also welcome feedback on these.
- We will not be able to deliver everything in one cycle, but will review outcomes achieved and information and feedback from communities as part of annual review and action planning cycles.
- We will also produce and publish annual progress reports on our equality objectives and actions as part of our annual progress report on the Corporate Plan later in 2013.
- The prime aim is to make a difference for all sections of our communities in our role as community leader, provider and commissioner of services and as employer.
Equality Data Mapping Audit 2011 report
Using Social Marketing Data to Identify/Target Equality Strands
As a Council we are also currently working in conjunction with Richmond and Twickenham PCT to utilise Mosaic social marketing data to help identify areas where we could engage more proactively with minority groups. Mosaic classifies households in the Borough based on analysis of the latest trends in UK society and a wealth of high quality and comprehensive demographic data sources and categorises into household types and groups. This allows us to look at small level areas within the Borough and view a classification of the likely attributes of the people living within that household for example, how likely they are to be a certain age, gender or ethnicity, their likely income and profession and some of their key social attitudes. Mosaic is a modelling tool and thus should not be viewed as giving a complete and accurate profile of an area but it can be used to aide our understanding of areas within the Borough. In particular, it can be used to identify for example, the most suitable households to which to advertise services for older people. We are currently using Mosaic to support community engagement activities across the council and in future will help to further inform our equality action planning processes.
- Workforce monitoring reports and statistics
- Service Directorate Screening for Relevance Reports, Information Audit Reports and Summary of Achievements since 2011
- Service User Profiles Equality Monitoring Information
General Duty to promote equality 2011 contacts
Please send or email your comments about the General Duty, or if you need these documents in Braille, large print, audio tape or another language to:
Corporate Equality and Diversity Manager
Adult and Communities London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
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Most of us use Groupon for things like discounts on dining and spa treatments. Some of us even score on skydiving and horseback riding lessons. But have you ever considered saving on something like a college education or another big-ticket item?
One of the latest deals from Groupon, a daily deals site offering steep discounts on everything from food to concert tickets, is for college tuition. National Louis University in Chicago, IL offered a Groupon for a class in their graduate program. The class, which is an intro to teaching course, has a cost of $2,232 for the semester. The Groupon price for the class was $950 which is a 57% savings.
Anyone can buy a Groupon, however in order to score the class deal the purchaser/user must have or should be working toward a college degree. And while anyone with an undergraduate degree can take the course, it does not mean automatic enrollment in the graduate program at National Louis University. The 10-week, three-credit course counts towards a graduate education and is meant to introduce students to a career in teaching.
This deal for education is a first of its kind and is also a good test to see whether consumers will begin using sites like Groupon to make other big ticket purchases. Most purchases on Groupon are impulse buys, often on things people will never actually use, which is why items up for purchase are usually lower cost things such as meals and beauty services. This is also why a host of sites like Lifesta exist where people can sell their unused Groupons at face-value.
Groupon offerings for big ticket items have cropped up before, most notably when the company partnered with a car dealership in Michigan to offer $200 for a $500 voucher towards the purchase of a new or used car. When the Groupon didn’t garner enough customers for the deal to “tip,” the deadline was extended several additional days before being deemed a flop because not enough people made the purchase.
By the close date of the Groupon offering, National Louis University was able to “tip” the deal for their three-credit course class. However, it remains to be seen whether future deals like this will also be a success. Would you buy a Groupon for a discounted education? | <urn:uuid:f073ffa8-b8e9-475d-bf2a-1211b232e95b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://coursesmart.info/blog/?tag=groupon | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969633 | 468 | 1.578125 | 2 |
It is interesting that Israeli Independence Day always falls around the week of Nezach. And, unfortunately, Israeli Independence Day is inevitably paired with Nakba Day, the Palestinian Day of "Catastrophe". They come as a unit, going hand in unhappy hand.
The conflict reminds me of an idea from Gestalt Psychology on the theme of power dynamics in relationships. It's called "Top-Dog, Bottom-Dog". The Top-Dog position or personality is essentially the Alpha Male prototype, aggressive, definite, strong, articulate, leading. Top-Dog represents overt, expressed, power. The bottom-dog position on the other hand is all about covert power and unexpressed emotions. The bottom-dog is weak, subservient, acquiescing, complaining, insecure, victimized...the martyr. But this weakness is deceptive because the weakness is actually being used as a strength.
The bottom-dog wields just as much power as the top. For it is the epitome of passive-aggressive behavior (PA). It utilizes subtle tactics such as undermining, learned helplessness, resentment, blaming, in order to control the relationship. The classic example of PA behavior is the husband who hates grocery shopping yet reluctantly agrees to go, sulking all the while. He returns with all the wrong items, mired in insecurity about being such an "unsuccessful shopper". Sure enough, the wife is the bad guy who put him into such a painful situation and set him up to fail...and, most importantly, he is never asked to shop again. The passive-aggressor gets the double benefit of being the 'good guy' and still getting his way, as opposed to the top-dog who may get his way, but gets forever labeled as the bad guy because of it.
If we were to simplistically apply this framework to the national occurrences around this week of Nezach, then Israeli Independence Day would stand out as the top-dog and Nakba Day as the bottom-dog. Israeli Independence Day is a day of expressed power, flags foisted, jets streaking the sky; a day celebrating victory, national strength, independence, assertion, pride. Nakba Day on the other hand represents the sulking bottom-dog, the wounded victim of the evil aggressors. 'Protesters' break through Israel's borders, get shot at in response, and piteously lick their wounds before the concerned eyes of international media.
Though they use their fair share of aggressive techniques, their most powerful and effective weapon is passive-aggression....the triumphant loser who actually wins the PR war of pity. (A wing of the PA winning a war of PR using PA tactics?!) While this is certainly an over-simplified view of the Arab-Israeli conflict, I think it offers a prism for understanding part of the power-dynamics at play in the world around us.
And surely these dynamics are equally at play in the world within us. One of the gifts of counting the Omer is that it offers us the opportunity to look into our inner worlds by delving into the themes presented each week by each new Sefira. The political occurrences of this week add fuel to the fire of our inner-growth.
During the week of Nezach, we can ask ourselves how to experience 'victory' that is actually a win-win situation. After all, another meaning of Nezach is endurance/forever-ness. True victory should mean a ceasing of the conflict, not its drawn-out continuation. Though we may not be able to impact the external political reality around us, we are able and compelled to impact our internal reality. Here at the end of the week of Nezach we are invited to look into our own interpersonal power dynamics and tendencies. Where am I falling into the extreme positions of top-dog or bottom dog? How can I create the lasting good and success for all that comes with win-win victories?
Transformative Torah Tools: Here are 3 essential tools for extracting ourselves from such unhealthy power dynamics:
Centering: Anchor in to your place of truth. What is the essential truth and deeply valid reason that you are taking your position? When you anchor in to your truth, you are much less likely to get defensive in the face of someone else's attack, to give in to another person's perspective, or to attack another.
Communication: Talk about your feelings clearly and directly. Communication is the key to unraveling those pesky passive-aggressive dynamics which are built upon lack of clear expression. Expressing hitherto unarticulated emotions dissolves much of the negative tension of power struggles. Stick with "I feel" statements, such as "I feel frustrated when I can't express myself clearly." Express the positive as well as the negative feelings. Mine your emotions for the positive layers of feeling beneath. Instead of simply saying, "I feel frustrated when we argue", add "I feel sad when we argue because I love and value you."
Of course, these steps will not vanquish all of our power-struggles and conflict so that we live a conflict-free existence. Rather, they can help us to work with and work through each conflict as it arises....and in the end, that ability to cope with and grow from each conflict is the greatest victory of all. A victory that is a win-win for everyone. A victory that will endure. | <urn:uuid:0af38a8f-8abe-4c57-a3d1-e4cb85569a92> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.havayah.com/1/category/nezach/1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956024 | 1,107 | 2.078125 | 2 |
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Natural Arthritis Pain Relief
Osteoarthritis is the most common cause of disability in the United States. Also known as degenerative joint disease, osteoarthritis affects nearly 27 million Americans, according to Arthritis Foundation estimates.
This painful condition develops when cartilage tissue in the joints breaks down. The Arthritis Foundation reports that the exact cause of osteoarthritis is not yet known; however, certain risk factors make it more likely: being overweight, suffering a joint injury, repeatedly overusing a certain joint, lacking physical activity, and aging. Over time, some people experience extreme inflammation and permanent damage to the joint—sometimes even requiring joint replacement.
In addition to encouraging exercise and weight loss, the primary way conventional doctors treat osteoarthritis is through pain management with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and COX-2 inhibitors. According to the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), these drugs do not alleviate the underlying cause of osteoarthritis; however, they do help ease pain and inflammation. NIAMS also reports there are side effects associated with these drugs, especially if they are used on a long-term basis.
The high price of pain relief
NSAIDs, such as Advil and Aleve, and COX-2 inhibitors like Vioxx and Celebrex block the activity of enzymes that cause pain and inflammation. They also impede the production of prostaglandins (hormone-like substances), which promote inflammation.
But because these enzymes and prostaglandins are important for other functions in the body, including blood flow and digestion, if you block their activity, health problems can occur. Not only has NSAID use been shown to cause life-threatening ulcers, but the drugs are also associated with diarrhea, dizziness, headaches, heartburn, ringing in the ears, nausea and many other side effects. Surprisingly, research shows that long-term use of NSAIDs also damages joint cartilage, making osteoarthritis much worse over time.
NIAMS warns that NSAIDs should not be taken with many other drugs, so it’s important to talk to your doctor before taking NSAIDs on a regular basis. In addition, NIAMS recommends that people over age 65 and those with a history of ulcers or gastrointestinal bleeding use NSAIDs with caution.
The introduction of COX-2 inhibitors was meant to reduce the ulcers and digestive issues associated with NSAID use. But according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the side effects of COX-2 inhibitors are even more dangerous, including a risk of heart attacks. As a result of these side effects, Vioxx was taken off the market in 2004. It was later reintroduced with a black box warning required by the FDA. Celebrex has the same risks.
Fortunately, many natural alternatives to COX-2 inhibitors and NSAIDs can alleviate pain while working on the underlying cause of osteoarthritis. Some natural substances have been studied for decades and are proven to promote joint health. While many of these substances don’t provide immediate relief, they have been scientifically proven to protect and repair joint tissue.
Glucosamine sulfate, a natural substance found in healthy joint cartilage, has been the subject of hundreds of studies. Most show that it treats the root cause of osteoarthritis by helping the body manufacture and rebuild joint cartilage. Based on the published research, the dosage is 1,500 mg daily.
Glucosamine sulfate is often combined with chondroitin sulfate, a natural compound typically derived from purified shark or beef cartilage or bovine trachea. Chondroitin is a larger molecule than glucosamine, so it may not be as readily absorbed. A study released in the February 2009 issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism found that a highly purified (at least 95 percent) form of chondroitin sulfate prevented joint degradation in individuals with knee osteoarthritis. The study participants took 800 mg of the purified chondroitin for two years.
According to the Natural Standard Research Collaboration, “The consensus of expert and industry opinions supports the use of chondroitin and its common partner agent, glucosamine, for improving symptoms and stopping (or possibly reversing) the degenerative process of osteoarthritis.”
Methylsulfonylmethane (MSM) is a key source of sulfur in the body, and numerous studies have demonstrated that sulfur is important for joint function. In 2008, researchers at the University of California, San Diego confirmed that MSM relieves inflammation and protects joint cartilage. Their research was published in the FASEB Journal. Dosage is 1,200 mg daily.
Keep in mind that all three of these substances take several weeks or even months to work. People needing quicker pain relief should try a highly concentrated form of curcumin, the active substance in turmeric. A study presented at the September 2011 Osteoarthritis Research Symposium International demonstrated that a combination of curcumin (BCM-95) and the herb boswellia was more effective than Celebrex at eliminating pain.
New and effective
The newest natural ingredient for the treatment of osteoarthritis is avocado/soybean unsaponifiables (ASU) made from phytosterols in avocado and soybean oils. Phytosterols are cholesterol-like compounds found in plants.
Several double-blind, clinical studies have demonstrated that ASU is effective in reducing pain and inflammation associated with osteoarthritis. A 2001 study showed that patients with knee osteoarthritis were able to significantly reduce their intake of NSAIDs while taking ASU. A 2008 meta-analysis published in Osteoarthritis Cartilage confirmed these results. Dosage for ASU is 300 mg daily.
“NSAIDs can be dangerous,” says Jacob Teitelbaum, MD, author of Pain Free 1-2-3 (McGraw-Hill, 2006). “Fortunately, there are natural anti-inflammatory compounds that deliver the same analgesic benefits without the deadly side effects.”
Karolyn is the publisher of Wellness Times. She is also the publisher of Natural Medicine Journal, a peer-reviewed e-journal for healthcare professionals and open access website. Karolyn has been publishing wellness information for nearly 20 years and is the author or coauthor of several books including her latest book with Dr. Lise Alschuler, Five to Thrive: Your Cutting-Edge Cancer Prevention Plan (Active Interest Media, 2011). She is also the co-host of the Five to Thrive Live! radio show featured on The Cancer Support Network. For more information, visit FivetoThrivePlan.com.
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by stuartbramhall in Medical Censorship, New Zealand
Images from New Plymouth Maternity Hospital
(This is the second of four blogs about the government cover-up of major health problems related to the production of dioxin-related chemicals at Dow AgroSciences in New Plymouth between 1948 and 1987)
It’s fairly common for the US and other European countries to ask New Zealand, owing to our lax environmental regulations, to manufacture and or test hazardous substances that are too controversial in their own countries. In 2005 the former MP and current mayor of New Plymouth claimed to have leaked documents revealing that New Plymouth’s Ivon Watkins Dow (IWD) plant secretly manufactured 2,4,5-T and 2,4 D for the Pentagon for use as “Agent Orange” in Vietnam. When combined, the two chemicals form large amounts of 2,3,7,8 TCDD, also known as dioxin. In 1969, around the same time the US embassy complained about high dioxin residues in beef and lamb exports, the US ended their use of Agent Orange to defoliate Vietnamese jungles. Contrast New Zealand, where the Government introduced a subsidy (in 1969) to encourage increased production and use of 2,4,5-T
Birth Defects: An Early Warning Sign
Meanwhile all kinds of alarm bells should have been going off, owing to a staggering increase in severe birth defects in families downwind of IWD. In the early 1970s, the New Plymouth Maternity Hospital Matron informed the local health department that between 1965 and 1971, one out of thirty newborns hospital had birth defects. These included a strikingly high proportion of neural tube defects commonly associated with dioxin exposure, such as anencephaly (the absence of a brain), hydrocephalus and spina bifida.
During the same period, New Plymouth officials noted that (illegal) liquid emissions had a corrosive effect on drain pipes, and residents who got the stuff on their skin developed orange blisters that never healed. Downwinders complained that the veggies they grew were misshapen. While, as in Love Canal, there was a spate of miscarriages, stillbirths, deformed newborns and kids with chronic health problems.
Declining Sperm Counts and Toxic Breast Milk
During a period that New Plymouth had the highest rate of birth defects in the country, the overall rate in New Zealand was one of the highest in the world. Everyone ingesting New Zealand meat and dairy products during the sixties and seventies accumulated substantial blood and fatty tissue concentrations of dioxin, owing to the massive amount of 2,4,5-T Kiwi farmers used to clear gorse and scrub. There is a presumptive link between this exposure and declining sperm counts and spiking cancer rates Kiwis experienced in the decades that followed. Even more alarming, a 1972-73 study of Dunedin infant published in the Lancet suggested that breast milk (which also accumulates dioxin) was less healthy than formula. In a survey of 1000 children, those breastfed four weeks or longer were twice as likely to suffer from allergies or asthma in later childhood.
The US Bans 2,4,5-T in All Crops But Rice
In 1969, IWD upgraded their 2,4,5-T plants “rudimentary” emission controls to reduce dioxin levels in their air emissions and the herbicide they produced. From 1973 on, after the US banned 2,4,5-T in all food crops except rice, the NZ government required IWD to treat their herbicide with a solvent that reduced dioxin levels levels even further. The fate of the dioxin IWD extracted between 1973 and 1987 remains unclear. Both national and regional agencies were charged with monitoring the dioxin content of IWD’s incinerator emissions. However according to available records, monitoring was sporadic, if it happened it all.
Cancer Rates Climb
Meanwhile studies continued to be published overseas linking dioxin exposure to many of the health problems residents of Paritutu and Motorua (the suburbs closest to IWD) were describing. In addition to birth defects, miscarriages, crib deaths and chronic childhood illnesses, downwind families were experiencing unprecedented levels of brain and spinal tumors, sarcomas, lymphomas, prostate and respiratory cancers and multiple sclerosis, as well as neurodevelopmental (mainly autism, Asperger’s disorder, mental retardation and ADHD) problems in their kids
Economic Viability Trumps Health
In 1972 an explosion at IWD (resulting in a massive ash emissions release), coupled with the documented increase in birth defects, led the Environmental Defense Society to call for a total New Zealand ban on 2,4,5-T production. Following a campaign by Residents Against Dioxin and a second explosion in 1986, a Ministerial Committee of Inquiry was convened. Unfortunately the Inquiry ignored the report by the Health Department of Regional Air Pollution Control officer who performed soil testing in Paritutu and Motorua. His 1985 report concluded that airborne IWD emissions during the sixties had resulted in soil dioxin residues comparable to those of Vietnamese regions sprayed with Agent Orange.
The conclusion reached by the Committee of Inquiry: that New Zealand had no “economically viable” alternative to 2,4, 5-T.
(For additional background and sources, see http://paritutuiwd.hostzi.com/?q=node/2).
To be continued
by stuartbramhall in Medical Censorship, New Zealand
(This is the first of four blogs about the government cover-up of major health problems related to the production of dioxin-related chemicals at Dow AgroSciences in New Plymouth between 1948 and 1987)
When is corruption not corruption? The anti-corruption campaign in India has received substantial international coverage. Likewise complaints of extensive government corruption in debt-ridden Spain and Greece. Yet massive electoral fraud by Republican-controlled states in 2000 and 2004 goes virtually unreported, even in the so-called alternative media. Likewise allowing corporations to bribe elected officials by paying for their election campaigns is rarely referred to as corruption. Neither is the CIA’s involvement in narcotics trafficking. Nor rewarding banksters with billion dollar bailouts rather than jailing them. Surely any government that openly engages in such activities is deeply corrupt. So why does the world media point the finger at India, Greece and Spain and not the US?
This paradox seems to revolve around the specific nature, not severity, of corrupt practices. What passes for corruption in India, and to some extent Spain and Greece, is major tax avoidance and the expectation that applicants for passports, visas, drivers and business licenses and construction permits will pay a bribe on top of the application fee. All relatively minor stuff, compared to American-style corruption, but fairly common in poor countries where government bureaucrats don’t earn enough to live on.
Since coming to New Zealand, I’ve learned there is a third variety of corruption typical of struggling second world countries. Numerous safeguards make electoral fraud very difficult here. Likewise public officials who accepted bribes would be harshly punished, owing to the disastrous effect it would have on foreign investment. In fact, New Zealand is widely promoted in the global community as being corruption-free. It also enjoys the dubious distinction of being the most regulation-free for overseas corporations, especially when it comes to hazardous corporate waste.
This is the conclusion I have come to: what the corporate media refers to as “corruption” are extra legal activities that interfere with the ability to conduct business. Corruption that results in environmental degradation or destroys the lives or health of ordinary people doesn’t count.
New Plymouth: the Dioxin Capitol of New Zealand
The whole issue of chemical trespass and inadequate toxics regulation is of particular concern to me as a New Plymouth resident. I have numerous friends and former patients who have had their health and lives ruined by the government;s total refusal to oversee or regulate the activities of Dow AgroSciences (formerly known as Ivon Watkins Dow).* The latter produced extremely hazardous dioxin-related compounds between 1948 and 1987. After World War II, chlorinated hydrocarbons (aka organochlorines), such as 2,3,7,8 TCDD (dioxin), 2,4,5-T and 2,4 D were developed as herbicides (weed killers). Dioxin, also known as Agent Orange, was extensively sprayed during the Vietnam War to expose guerrilla positions by defoliating the jungles. The damaging health effects of these compounds were noted in many returning GIs and Vietnamese civilians and their children and grandchildren.
New Zealand, which has long had an economy driven by agricultural exports, relied heavily on the toxic petroleum-based insecticides and herbicides that came out after the war. As early as 1957, the New Zealand Royal Society cautioned that these chemicals needed to be thoroughly investigated, owing to the potential hazard they posed to human health. The warning went unheeded. In the 1950s and 1960s New Zealanders experienced the highest per capita exposure to DDT and related pesticides and 2,4,5-T in the western world. This appears to be the major culprit in the doubling of New Zealand’s cancer rate between 1960 and 2012 – and the halving of Kiwi sperm counts between 1987 and 2007. This drop is the most dramatic fall in the developed world. Neither Australia nor the US experienced a comparable decline in sperm counts during the same period.
The New Zealand government got their first wake-up call regarding their heavy use of these chemicals in 1961, when the US issued a ban on New Zealand beef exports, owing to excessive residues of chlorinated hydrocarbons, such as DDT, aldrin, dieldrin, and BHC, which were used extensively as soil insecticides to combat ‘grass grub’. In 1969 the US notified the New Zealand government of their intention to test beef and lamb exports for TCDD (dioxin), based on research showing that dioxin contaminated 2,4,5-T had caused birth defects in animal studies. A confidential 1960s Dow internal memo reveals that Dow knew TCDD contaminated 2,4, 5-T was hazardous to human health: “The material presents a definite hazard. It shouldn’t be sold until animal tests show these products to be free of significant hazard from dioxin-related materials.” (For additional background and sources, see http://paritutuiwd.hostzi.com/?q=node/2).
*While Ivon Watkins (incorporated in 1944) prided itself on research and development geared towards New Zealand conditions, several major international chemical firms had substantial financial interests in the company including Monsanto (USA), the American Chemical Paint Company (USA), Geigy (Switzerland), Cela (Germany) and the Union Carbide Corporation (USA). Solidifying such connections, the company became Ivon Watkins-Dow Ltd (IWD) in 1964 after Dow Chemicals USA bought a 50% interest (Sewell 1978 – see http://www.dioxinnz.com/pdf-NZ-RAD/RAD-Thesis-BWC.pdf).
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By Nick Clayton
It really is unfair to write about a toy that certainly is not going to be available this holiday season. There is no guarantee it will be around next year either. But that does not make it any the less desirable.
Researchers from MIT, Harvard, and Northeastern collaborated to create a bot that not only was very good with language, but could work with visual cues which are a key component of how we communicate. To do that, instead of eyes made of marbles with fabric flaps for lids, the DragonBot employs an Android phone display for its eyes, which makes them much more animated and capable of expression. But the smartphone integration isn’t just for aesthetics.
The Android phone is the brain and central nervous system of the DragonBot. It controls the DragonBots movements. The phone’s camera provides the visual feedback from which the DragonBot learns, and because it’s internet-connected, when one DragonBot learns something, all of the other DragonBots learn it too.
There has no announcement about availability, but the price should be under $1,000. As Gizmodo points out. that is expensive for a kid’s toy, but not for an artificially-intelligent, cloud-connected, expressive, learning robot.
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Pets of the week
Cochise County Animal Control and the Douglas Animal Shelter currently are holding three dogs that are due to be euthanatized on Feb. 1.
All three of these dogs were seized by Cochise County Animal Control in July of 2012. These dogs were seized on an animal cruelty/neglect case.
They were not provided the food, water, and shelter needed to comply with the law. They have been neglected in the past and deserve a loving home.
All three of them have been in local shelters for seven months.
There owner failed to file the proper paperwork with the courts to get them back.
The red in color Stafford Shire Terrier (aka Pit Bull) is approximately one to two years old. His name is "Soldier."
He is neutered and has all his vaccinations. "Soldier," is a tribute to his name.
Soldier was found tied with a choke chain and no water in July 100 plus degree heat.
He has been able to maintain his loving and trusting personality, even through his trials and tribulations. He has been at the Douglas Animal Shelter for seven months.
Soldier gets along very well with other dogs and is good with children. Soldier would be a great watch dog, as he is not afraid to use his voice and talk to you.
He would be a lap dog if you let him. He is kennel trained and may be house trained (no guarantee), but he does not mess in his kennel.
Soldier will also walk on a leash and has a very mellow personality.
The Douglas Animal Shelter was able to get donations for his vaccinations, but no one would give him a forever home, at no fault of his own.
Soldier's adoption fee is $10 and the shelter staff truly believes, in their hearts, that he is a "ready-made dog." Soldier is at the Douglas Animal Shelter at 2017 N Rogers Ave. Phone number (520) 417-7567.
The medium length haired dog is a female, and thought to be a Shepherd/Retriever mix. Her name is "Daisy."
Daisy is approximately two to three years old, she is spayed and current on vaccinations. Her adoption fee is $10.
She has also been at the shelter for seven months along with Soldier. Daisy has a lot of energy and gets along great with other dogs and kids.
Daisy weighs approximately 55 pounds and she is medium sized.
She may also be house trained (no guarantee); she does not mess in her kennel.
Daisy was also provided donations from the public and shelter staff to get her current on vaccinations.
Daisy gets along well with Soldier and they will play for hours together if you let them.
She loves to be loved on and taken for walks.
Daisy will walk on a leash and would do best in an active home and another dog her size to play with. Daisy is also at the Douglas Animal Shelter.
The white in color dog with the tan spots is named "Sugar."
Sugar is approximately one year old, female, Labrador/Stafford Shire Terrier (aka Pit Bull) mix. Sugar has fought hard for a chance at a forever home.
She came down with Parvo on her eighth day of impound. CCSO paid for Sugar's treatment.
The officer that impounded Sugar went to the shelter every day and treated her, even on the Officer's days off.
Sugar would do best in an active home.
She is house trained. Sugar was in foster care for five months. She did not get along with the smaller dog in the foster home, due to personality conflicts. Sugar did get along well with the two larger, dominant dogs in the home.
Sugar would do best with a larger, neutered dominant male dog. Sugar loves children. She is extremely smart and willing to please. She is engaging and obeys some commands such as, no, sit, down, off the porch, outside, and it's bed time. Sugar walks on a leash as well. Sugar travels extremely well. She will curl up on the front seat and keep you company! If Sugar is in the back seat, she lies down and enjoys the ride. Sugar is at the Benson Animal Shelter, phone number (520) 586-3600. | <urn:uuid:608d201c-9fa1-4d86-bc27-0ff61d7ae702> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.douglasdispatch.com/articles/2013/02/13/pet_of_the_week/doc5107f8c38cf54589412327.prt | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985859 | 904 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Remember my last post about inflation? I was quite specific about what caused it. As I recall, I typed Absurd Optimism in larger than average font, and wrote “Inflation seems to be getting worse because of our laid back attitude“. Cue an official statement by DPM Tharman Shanmugaratnam, which explains that, chillax, the “average Singaporean” won’t feel it. As I’ve now had my point politely proven for me, I’ll move on to the next issue: Inflation DOES affect you, and here’s why:
Core Inflation vs. Consumer Price Index
Okay, so we know the consumer price index (CPI) is 5.2%, going on 6%. But what’s this talk of “necessities” only being just 3%?
That 3% is the measure of core inflation. Supposedly, core inflation is a more accurate measure of how inflation affects you. Because rather than include the cost of optional purchases, core inflation focuses on price changes in necessities: The things you must buy to survive.
A “house” is apparently not one of those things.
That’s right, our method of calculating core inflation excludes housing and private transport. If you eliminate the two biggest factors of inflation, the numbers look real soothing. In fact, I’ll go one better than soothing: According to core inflation, not only do things remain affordable, but inflation has actually decreased.
Here’s a quote from Channel NewsAsia:
“The MAS’ measure of core inflation, which excludes accommodation and private road transport, eased to 2.9 per cent in March compared to a year earlier, from 3.0 per cent in February.”
So assuming you don’t buy a car and really love camping, you should be fine. For the rest of us, these are the effects:
1. Your Savings Are Being Devalued
As an average Singaporean, I have a savings account. A regular savings account with less-than-stunning 0.125% interest. It’s that low because, not having a Sentosa Cove Bungalow and a million dollar pay cheque, I’m a pimple on the backside of our banking industry.
Maybe you’re a bit better (or worse) off. But either way, most “average Singaporeans” have interest rates that will never cope with this inflation. Every day our money sits in the bank, it becomes more worthless. We’re losing money faster than a Blackjack player who can’t count to 21, and the thought of retirement is a sad, bitter joke.
Don’t have high hopes for your CPF either. At a rate of 2.5%, it fares better than your bank account. But even that’s insufficient to cope with inflation; and you’ll be using a huge chunk of it when you BUY HOUSING. You know, that thing that’s NOT factored into inflation.
2. Your Wages Decrease
Your income is going to face more problems than an ah beng caught with a pig’s head and spray can at midnight.
As property prices go up, home owners and landlords are faced with higher repayments. The solution is to raise their rent. This has an adverse effect on companies, particularly if they have expatriate workers to shelter.
Also, the commercial properties are beginning to suffer a spillover from the overheated residential properties; office rent is also climbing.
Employers who need inventory space (retailers) or operating space (restaurants) are starting to feel the squeeze. As rental and property prices eat into their profit margins, they will be pressured into raising their own prices. And because their overheads swallow the extra cash from price hikes, there’s no budget for your raise.
There are two results:
- Everything is more expensive, but your wages don’t grow
- Inflation is affecting you, even if you don’t buy a house
3. You Can’t Fully Avoid The Cost Of Private Transport
Cars aren’t always luxuries. If you have a sick mother to take care of, or children to send to school, they become necessities.
Again, this is where MAS’ beloved core inflation fails. The price of cars (private transport) is excluded, so core inflation doesn’t accurately reflect your situation. I won’t go into detail on COE prices, because I already covered it in the last article. But it’s worth noting that, even if you can surrender the car, you won’t dodge inflation.
Companies need to buy cars as well. Courier companies, which transport equipment between retailers, need to pay for licenses too. And what about the food vans that deliver to hawker centres or supermarkets? They’re about as free as Mas Selamat.
Someone needs to pay for their rising petrol and COE costs. And that’s YOU. In the end, retailers and F&B outlets increase the amount they charge you, in order to pay their suppliers. It doesn’t matter whether you bought private transport or not; you’re paying for it.
4. You Can’t Afford a Home
And now we come to the most important point. Unless you intend your entire family to live like squirrels, you pretty much need a house. If you’re rich, hey, no issue. But if you’re a young couple…don’t take offence, but I’m glad I’m not you.
When you buy a first house, that’s going to be a loan you’ll be paying for…how long? 15 years? 30 years? And with the out of control cash over valuation (COV) and rising per square foot costs, I’ll tell you what you’ll pay: Too much. If you buy a house in this overheated market, you risk prolonged, crippling debt. And while you’re struggling to pay it, prices all around you are rising.
Welcome to life on Nightmare mode.
And even if you already own a house, don’t assume you’re completely safe. Remember what I said about inflation outstripping your savings and CPF? Well what happens if your retirement fund burns out, and you need to downgrade?
I hope you’re okay with buying a smaller flat that’s $100,000 more than your previous one. Even if your former home’s value appreciated, the profit is going to be devoured by the monstrous cost of your new place.
What Can You Do?
In the next article, I’ll explore what means you can use to fight inflation. Ninjas and death robots may be involved, along with constructive suggestions like visiting SmartLoans.sg. There’s hope yet!
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Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Far West, Missouri, July 8, 1838, in response to the supplication, “Show us thy will, O Lord, concerning the Twelve.”
1 Verily, thus saith the Lord: Let a conference be held immediately; let the Twelve be organized; and let men be appointed to a the place of those who are fallen.
2 Let my servant a remain for a season in the land of Zion, to publish my word.
3 Let the residue continue to preach from that hour, and if they will do this in all a of heart, in meekness and humility, and b, I, the Lord, give unto them a c that I will provide for their families; and an effectual door shall be opened for them, from henceforth.
4 And next spring let them depart to go over the great waters, and there promulgate my gospel, the fulness thereof, and bear record of my name.
5 Let them a leave of my saints in the city of Far West, on the b day of April next, on the building-spot of my house, saith the Lord.
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Deer more active this time of year in roadways | News
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS)- Troopers are warning drivers to be on the lookout for deer crossing Missouri's roadways.
Colonel Ron Replogle, superintendent of the Missouri State Highway Patrol says more deer are active this time of year especially during evening and early dawn hours.
He says that's mainly due to mating season, hunting and crop harvesting.
According to the Missouri Highway Patrol, in 2011 there were 3,563 traffic crashes involving deer in Missouri. Four people were killed and 367 injured. And, in 2011, 26.7 percent of the traffic crashes involving deer happened in urban areas.
Col. Replogle says the majority of deer-vehicle strikes occur from October-December, with the most strikes happening in November. He adds most deer strikes occur between the hours of 5 p.m. and 6:59 a.m.
Here are some tips to observe when driving this time of year:
-When you see deer, slow down and proceed with caution.
-In areas where there are streams or wooded corridors surrounded by farmland, look for more deer to cross roadways.
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|Friday, Oct 26, 2012 - 2:30 AM
"S.C. (Sam) Gwynne"
The reporter and author whose book, Empire of the Summer Moon, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2011, talks with host Marcia Franklin. The book traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. It also entails the epic saga of pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who becomes the last Comanche chief. G
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The best things in life are…actually, yes, they are free. At least, creativity is free. It’s only in recent times that recreation and entertainment has been sold to us for a very high price. But do you really want to spend $30 for a movie and popcorn with a friend? Nah, you can do better – especially if you’re trying to save money these days, like most of us. Check out these ideas and step outside of the expensive, prepackaged entertainment box.
Try your hand at guerrilla gardening. You know that boring patch of grass on the corner? I’m sure no one would mind if you sneaked in some sunflowers or a bunch of marigolds. Guerrilla gardening is an underground urban movement to take back the little green spaces most people ignore. Beautify your neighborhood, on the sly.
Hiking, biking or walking in a local natural area or park. Yes, this is obvious, but sometimes we forget how free and easy some of the best pleasures are!
Keep your eyes peeled for free concert and theater-in-the-park series starting in late spring and summer.
Take up urban foraging. Who doesn’t like free food? Learn about wild, regional edible plants or befriend a neighbor with an overloaded fruit tree going to waste. Augment your diet with fresh, free foods!
Take your honey or some friends on a good, old-fashioned picnic.
Scour your books, CD’s and DVD’s for those items you just no longer need and trade them in for credit at a local used CD or bookstore. Spend the afternoon browsing for new reads and new tunes you’d never find otherwise. If there’s no used media store in your area, try a website like SwapTree or Title Trader.
Spend a night stargazing. Find star maps online or in the library, then scout out the darkest part of town and learn the constellations. Watch as they change through the seasons. Bring a romantic partner for extra motivation.
Explore the vast world of podcasts. I myself am a podcast addict, loving to enrich my mind with interviews and alternative news. You can find storytelling and comedy podcasts too if you prefer something a little lighter, or podcasts featuring music you’d never hear on the radio.
Try volunteering. I know, I know, this is not what people usually think of for fun, but my husband has shown me otherwise. He regularly volunteers for behind-the-scenes help at music festivals and expo’s, which means he meets lots of great people and attends the event for free. I’ve done it with him and I have to admit, it’s more fun than simply buying a ticket and being part of the audience.
Craigslist (and more)
Check out your local Craig’s List free section or Freecycle. This is a fun way to pick up free things you need, and maybe some fun items you can redecorate or make art with. Surprising things have been known to turn up…I’ve seen soap-making kits, antique roll-top desks and even a hot tub! It’s definitely worth a spin.
Call your friends and organize a clothing swap party. Tell them to bring all the clothing, shoes and accessories that no longer suit them (or fit them) and spend an evening hanging out and shopping for free.
Have a yard sale. You know you have lots of stuff you could do well to pass along, and make a little extra cash while you’re at it. If the weather is still too cold where you live, start putting things aside now and you’ll be ready for yard sale season.
Make use of the public library. This has been one of my favorite free things since I was a kid. I mean, c’mon, books, movies, music – all for free!?! Depending on how extensive your local library system is, you will have an amazing amount of resources at your fingertips. Your taxes already paid for it, might as well take advantage.
Host a potluck. Humans are social animals, and we all love to eat. Food is a great icebreaker.
Pull out a sketchbook and draw. If you’ve got colored pencils or watercolors, play around with those, too. Looking at something deeply enough to draw it can be a powerful exercise in perception – and recognizing beauty in surprising places.
Get a regional plant identification guide (from the library, of course) and make a point of learning the names of the trees and plants in your area. It’s even more satisfying if you bring a sketchbook along and create your own personal botanical book.
Send a Note
Make homemade greeting cards for upcoming holidays and birthdays. You can use fabric scraps, magazine cut-outs and odd bits of beautiful paper. People love to receive snail mail.
Develop a workout routine that you can do without equipment (or minimal things you might already have, like a jump rope or dumbbells) and then do it! It’s most fun if you find a sweet spot outside, with the fresh air and shade under a tree. Need workout ideas? Here’s a place to start.
Start keeping a journal. If you don’t like to write, don’t be dismayed. One of my favorite journalers simply does one small watercolor painting per day, and that’s all she needs to record the progress of her life. If you’re a crafty DIYer, you can easily make a journal yourself with simply things you have around the house.
Is that enough to get you started? What do you do for dollar-free fun?
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passed over the emperor Tiberius. He did not, however, resent the slight, but allowed her funeral to be celebrated with all the usual honours: the ancestral images of twenty illustrious houses were carried before her bier ; " but Cassius and Brutus," says the historian, " shone before all the others, from the fact that their statues were not seen/* (Suet. Goes. 50 ; Macrob. Sat. ii. 2 ; Cic. ad AtL xiv. 20, xv. 11;. Tac. Ann. iii. 76".) JU'NIA CALVI'NA. -[calvina.] JU'NIA SILA'NA. [silana.] JU'NIA TORQUA'TA. [torquata.] JU'NIA GENS, one of the most celebrated of the Roman gentes, was in all probability originally patrician, as we can hardly conceive that the first consul, L. Junius Brutus, connected as he was with the family of the Tarquins, could have been a plebeian, although the latter hypothesis is maintained by Niebuhr. But however this may be, it is certain that, with the exception of the first consul and his sons, all the other members of the gens were
•plebeians. [brutus.] The family name.s and surnames which occur in the time of the republic are, brutus, bubulcus, gracchanus* norbanus, paciaecus, pennus, pera, pull us, silanus: 'the few who are mentioned without any cognomen are given below, under junius. Many Junii appear
•under the empire with other surnames than those mentioned above, but of course they cannot be regarded as any part of the real Junia gens : of these an alphabetical list is likewise given below.
JUNIUS, 1 .Q. junius, one of the tribunes of the plebs in b. c. 315, who endeavoured to excite 'the people against the murderers of Sp. Maelius. (Liv. iV. 16.)
2. D. junius was stationed with a force by the 'consul, Ap. Claudius, in the second Punic war, b. c. 212, to command the mouth of the Vulturnus. (Liv. xxv. 22.)
• 3.-T. junius, l. f., a contemporary of Sulla, possessed no mean oratorical powers, but was unable to rise beyond the tribuneship of the plebs, on account of his always suffering from ill health. He
•accused and obtained the condemnation of P. ;Sextius, praetor designates, for bribery at the elections* (Cic. Brut. 48.)
4. M. junius, the previous defender of Cicero's
•client, P. Quintius, but was absent on an embassy <when Cicero spoke on behalf of Quintius, b. c. 81. (Cic. pro Quint. 1.)
5. C. JuNiys, presided as judex quaestionis in the yeaf of Verres's praetorship, b.c. 74, in the 'court which condemned Scamander, Fabricius, and Oppianicus, for having attempted to poison the elder Cluentius. The opinion that this verdict was gained by bribing the judices, and, among them, Junius, was so strongly believed, and excited such
•universal indignation, that Junius, -although he had been aedile> and had a good prospect of obtaining the praetorship, was obliged to retire from public
•life altogether, and the Juditium Junianum became a bye-word for a corrupt and unrighteous judgment. (Cic. pro Cluenf.l, 20, 27, 29, 33, c. Verr.\. 10, 61; Pseudo-Ascon. in Verr. p. 141, ed Orelli.) This Junius had a son of the same name. (Pro Cluent. 49.)
JUNIUS PHILARGYRIUS. [philar-
JUNIUS RUSTICUS. [RusTicus.] JU'NIUS SATURNI'NUS. [saturninus.] JUNO. The name of Juno is probably of the same root as Jupiter, and differs from it only in its termination. As Jupiter is the king of heaven and of the gods, so Juno' is the queen of heaven, or the female Jupiter. The Romans identified at an early time their Juno with Hera, with whom she has indeed many resemblances, but we shall endeavour here to treat of the Roman Juno exclusively, and to separate the Greek notions [hera] entertained by the Romans, from those which are of a purely Italian or Roman nature. Jiino, as the queen of heaven, bore the surname of Regina, under which she was worshipped at Rome from early times, and at a later period her worship was solemnly transferred from Veii to Rome, where a sanctuary was dedicated to her on the Aventine. (Liv. v. 21, 22, xxii. 1, xxvii. 37 ; Varr. de L. L. v. 67.) She is rarely described as hurling the thunderbolt, and the main feature of her character is, that she was to the female sex all that Jupiter was to the male, and that she was regarded as the protectress of every thing connected with marriage. She was, however, not only the protecting genius of the female sex in general, but accompanied every individual woman through life, from the moment of her birth to the end of her life. Hence she bore the special sur^-names of Virginalis and Matrona, as well as the general ones of Opigena and Sospita (Ov. Fast. vi. 33 ; Horat. Carrti. iii. 4, 59 ; Serv. ad Aen. viii. 84; August, de Civ. Dei, iv. 11 ; Festus, p. 343, ed. Miiller)j under which she was worshipped both at Lanuvium and at Rome. (Liv. xxiv. 10, xxvii. ^3, xxxii. 30 ; Ov. Fast. ii. 56 ; Cic. de Div. i. 2.) On their birthday women offered sacrifices to Juno surnamed natalis, just as men sacrificed to their genius natalis (Tibull. iv. 6. 13. 15) ; but the general festival, which was celebrated by all the women,, in honour of Juno, was called Matronalia (Diet, of Ant. s. v.), and took place on the 1 st of March. Her protection of women, and especially her power of making them fruitful, is.further alluded to in the festival Populifugia (Diet, of Ant. s. v.) as well as in the surname offebruliss Februata^Februta^ Februalis. (Fest. s.v. Februarius, p. 85, ed. M'uller ; comp. Ov. Fast. ii. 441.) Juno was further, like Saturn, the guardian of the finances, and under the name of Moneta she had a temple oh the Gapitoline hill, which contained the mint. (Liv. vi. 20.) Some Romans considered Juno Moneta as identical with Mi/^oo-Jrr;, but this identification undoubtedly arose from the desire of finding in the name Moneta a deeper meaning than it really contains. [MoNE-ta.] The most important period in a woman's life is that of her marriage, and, as we have already remarked, she was believed especially to preside over marriage. Hence she was called Juga or Jugalis [juga], and had a variety of other | <urn:uuid:b504ecd1-221b-416c-af52-c882f76d23da> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/1766.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952495 | 1,699 | 2.578125 | 3 |
It started with an injured rescue dog, $125 in cash and an old silk-screen machine.
Inspired by the dog, David, Donny and Darren Hendrickson used the money and the machine to launch an online skateboard and apparel company that donates a chunk of its profit to animal causes. To raise awareness for their endeavor, the 25-year-old brothers — they’re triplets — turned to Facebook.
Hendrick Boards managed within a year to accrue more than 28,000 “likes” on the social media website and has expanded to dozens of designs on T-shirts, skateboards and accessories. Facebook has enabled the Fullerton, Calif., company to find 150 shelters to donate to across the country based on its customers’ ZIP codes.
“It’s the driving force behind our outreach,” David Hendrickson said.
Using social networks to connect with customers is nothing new, but it’s continuing to grow. It seems like nearly every business, from Wal-Mart to the mom-and-pop shop on the corner, has a social media presence of some sort.
Nine out of 10 small businesses surveyed recently by online business directory Manta.com said they were dedicating time to networking online. More than 11 million businesses maintain personalized pages on Facebook, according to the Menlo Park, Calif., company, which introduced them five years ago. And new social media outlets keep appearing for businesses to figure out.
For those that aren’t savvy on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, the U.S. Small Business Administration and other small-business organizations are holding workshops to get them in the know. In addition, a cottage industry of consultants has sprung up to guide them.
Facebook has a digital classroom to help businesses develop eye-catching advertisements and promotions and build up their online community of followers.
“We know time is one of the most limited resources that small business owners have when they’re trying to run their small business,” said Dan Levy, director of global marketing solutions at Facebook. But at the same time, “word of mouth is the most trusted source of referrals, and we think that providing word of mouth at a much larger scale can be a really effective way to grow a business.”
Social media consultant Kelly Flint recently led a workshop in Santa Barbara, Calif., and said she was surprised by the large turnout.
“It was standing-room only,” Flint said.
One reason small businesses’ interest in social media hasn’t subsided is because sites are constantly changing.
“When major shifts happen, some business owners panic with the changes,” Flint said. “But they have to remember that change affects everybody. It sort of levels the playing field.”
Social media sites are fundamental to some businesses’ livelihood; food trucks may announce their locations on Twitter to let customers know how to find them, and new health spas can attract clients with a Groupon or Living Social deal.
Checking into a business through a social media site, such as Foursquare, Facebook, Twitter and Yelp, is the modern equivalent of talking about it with friends. But now the conversation includes feedback from the company itself.
“The business owners can react to what people are saying or talk to customers through their own page,” said Dina Mayzlin, an associate professor of marketing at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. “Social media gives a restaurant a second chance to gain a customer who wrote that they were unimpressed or the chance to build a deeper relationship with their regular customers.”
Businesses have a lot more to think about on social media sites than just “likes” and “check-ins.” There are tricks of the trade, such as how to word tweets, time posts and reveal attention-grabbing giveaways.
The practice of setting a schedule for photos and messages to be released to fans enables a business owner to set some time aside and focus on the other demands of running an enterprise. The trick is to balance traditional face time with customers and 21st century screen time over the Internet.
“They might know how to run their business, but business owners might still need help in how to utilize social media to its full potential” with minimal time investment, said Katie Washington, director of social programming for American Express. “For them, time is money.”
For Hendrick Boards, figuring out the best way to use social media was a bit of a rough ride until the Hendrickson triplets received one-on-one training from Facebook employees about best practices on the site after winning a contest from Facebook and American Express.
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Question: Are we confronting any fundamental limitations in how far science can progress?
Aubrey de Grey: I don’t think there are any inherent failings that are going to hold us back indefinitely. I think it’s purely a matter of progress breeds progress. Progress breeds the expectation of further progress. And it depends on the field. I often make the distinction between fundamental breakthroughs and incremental breakthroughs – incremental refinements of breakthrough if you like. So if you look at pilot in flight, for example, it took us an awful long time to work out how to get bits of … stuff off the ground. But once we’d done it, we were able to refine that rather rapidly. You know, it was only 24 years from the Wright brothers until Lindbergh got across the Atlantic, which the Wright brothers couldn’t have imagined. And of course subsequent progressions. And we can see this in computers. We can see it in the combating of infectious diseases. You name it. So it seems to me that that was because there was no credibility barrier. People tried because they knew that they could make a small advance, and they just did it. It’s big advances that are tricky. But then that also works across fields. If you’ve made big advances in one field, you can make … maybe make it in another field. That’s what I was saying about raising sights. So I feel it’s a psychological thing; but it’s not an intractable, innate, psychological thing. It’s a … a contingent psychological consequence of our … success hitherto.
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Many white people avoid neighborhoods where the residents are predominantly black. Many black people know to avoid certain white neighborhoods.
Racism has not disappeared from America, and isn’t likely to for a very long time.
So we were not surprised to learn that a news analyst for National Public Radio said, “when I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.”
We don’t want to assert that inter-group fear is natural, but it is widespread. Seniors, juniors, sophomores and freshmen at any high school know about invisible lines separating them, even as they mingle in hallways and cafeterias. Boys and girls keep their distance from each other at certain ages. The distances between any two or more groups breed uncertainties, and unknowns breed fears.
Juan Williams, the news analyst who expressed an idea many of us have harbored all our lives about one group or another, was fired from his NPR job for doing so. We support the right of employers to make the decisions they feel are necessary, but suggest those in this situation should have handled the situation differently.
Racism and its evil siblings, prejudice and bigotry, are responsible for some of the most heinous injustices humans inflict upon one another. They exist within each of us, and won’t disappear if we don’t pull them out into the light of day, examine them and see them for the poisons they are.
An NPR news analyst position is a perfect place from which to conduct such an examination. As that topic was examined, the issue of appropriate expression for a news analyst would also have been discussed.
Some companies view failure as a necessary milepost on the road to success. If Williams’ comment is viewed as a failure to comply with the standards of his position, call it that in an on-air discussion of the fear most of us feel, and that most of us try to keep hidden deep within us.
If we could expose it, we might learn it’s not justified. And maybe the boogeyman that prevents us from truly knowing each other would disappear.
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National Campaign Reaches Out To College On Distracted Driving
Two years ago, an estimated 5,479 people were killed in the United States due to distracted drivers—most of them involving texting and driving, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Texting still remains legal in Florida.
“The reality is, that by the time 2011’s statistics roll around, many more people will have been killed,” said David Ramil, Public Information Officer for the Department of Transportation’s District 6.
In an effort to curb texting while driving, the Florida DOT has been working with Miami Dade College
and schools across the state to promote the nationwide campaign, Put It Down. The campaign was introduced to MDC students in early September by the DOT’s District 6 team.
Officers hosted a table at each campus where they explained the hazards of texting and driving, gave away items, and had students sign petition cards pledging to put their cell phones down while driving.
“By signing the petition card, students are making a commitment not only to themselves but to their family and friends to seriously put it down,” Wolfson Campus Student Life Director Teresa Reigosa said.
The United States Department of Transportation, whose other campaigns include Click It Or Ticket and You Drink You Lose, is focusing on getting texting and driving to become banned altogether.
“Technology has changed the game. This wasn’t an issue 10 years ago. Today it’s one of the greatest distractions on the road,” Ramil said.
Increasing death and accident rates throughout the years are what have transformed texting and driving into such a frowned-upon act.
Research shows that 20% of injury crashes in 2009 were due to distracted driving; 995 of those involved cell phone use by drivers under the age of twenty, according to NHTSA.
NHTSA studies also show that using a cell phone while driving delays the driver’s reaction as much as when having a blood alcohol level at the legal limit of 0.8%.
“I do it all the time. I’ve never gotten into an accident or been pulled over, so I tend to never think twice about it,” nineteen-year-old Kendall Campus student Rosalba Daniel said.
Although texting and driving is illegal in certain states, the Preemption Law prohibits localities from enacting distracted driving bans in Florida.
“We just want to get people to understand that this is a growing problem,” Ramil said. “People aren’t aware that a simple text such as ‘I’ll meet you in five minutes’ can potentially cost them their life.”
5,479 people were killed in the United States due to distracted drivers
20% of injury crashes in 2009 were due to distracted driving; 995 of those involved cell phone use by drivers under the age of twenty.
Using a cell phone while driving delays the driver’s reaction as much as when having a blood alcohol level at the legal limit of 0.8%.
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Are other illnesses associated with OCD?
People who have OCD often have other kinds of anxiety, like phobias (such as fear of spiders or fear of flying) or panic attacks.
People who have OCD also may have depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), an eating disorder or a learning disorder such as dyslexia.
Having one or more of these disorders can make diagnosis and treatment more difficult, so it's important to talk to your doctor about any symptoms you have, even if you're embarrassed.
What is PANDAS?
PANDAS is short for Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal (Strep) infections. A strep bacteria infection (such as strep throat, scarlet fever, or impetigo), can set off an immune reaction that suddenly causes worse symptoms in some children who have OCD, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or tic disorders, such as Tourette’s Syndrome. The increased severity of symptoms usually passes with time, lasting from weeks to months before symptoms improve again.
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This is part three of my three part series comparing various Canadian and American investment accounts.
I had a request recently from a blogger friend of mine – Paid Twice, who thought it would be a good idea to do a post on some of the more common U.S. and Canadian investment accounts. This post deals with the Canadian TFSA and the American Roth IRA. In part one I looked at retirement accounts – the Canadian RRSP and the American 401(k) . Part 2 compared educational savings plans – the Canadian RESP vs American 529 plan.
Please note that this is just a general comparison – it’s not intended to be reference material for any of the accounts listed.
A big thanks to Madison from My Dollar Plan for helping out with this series.
Canadian savings account
TFSA – Tax-Free Savings Account
- All contributions to these accounts are after-tax money. No tax benefit is generated from the contribution – however a contribution to the Roth IRA can qualify for the retirement savings credit.
- All earnings of any type within the TFSA and Roth IRA are not taxed.
- Most common security types (stocks, mutual funds etc) are allowed to be purchased in account.
- Annual limits are similar – $5,000 for the TFSA in 2009 and $5,000 for the Roth ($6,000 if you are age 50 or older).
- Relatively new account types. The Roth IRA was established in 1998 and the TFSA doesn’t start until January 1, 2009.
- Withdrawals from the TFSA are not taxable. Withdrawals of contributions from a Roth IRA are not taxable but withdrawal of earnings are only not taxable if the participant is 59.5 years of age or older and the account has been opened for at least 5 years.
- Contributions limits for the TFSA are not income dependent. Limits for the Roth IRA are phased out with higher incomes.
- TFSA contribution room can be carried forward (accumulated) which is not the case for the Roth IRA.
The general idea of these accounts is quite similar in that you can contribute after-tax money and allow it to grow tax-free. The TFSA withdrawal rules are much more lenient than that of the Roth IRA but as discussed earlier in the series, this might not be such a good thing if it encourages investors to withdraw money without good reason.
Read more for a detailed look at the 2009 Roth IRA contribution limits. That post also covers phase out and traditional IRA.
More information on the TFSA
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The macro-typology I propose is a way of showing the comprehensive nature of the fulfillment of God's promises in Christ. . . .
When we allow the Old Testament categories to expand to their full potential, antitype is shown to be broader than the mere fulfillment of certain explicit types and promises. Biblical theological study of the events, people and institutions provides us with a comprehensive view of reality and God's part in it. On this view, typology has regard for the full scope of God's redemptive work in that salvation means that he restores everything that was lost or marred by the Fall. According to Paul's take on Genesis 3, this involves the entire creation (Rom. 8:18-23). It was also Paul who declared the resurrection to be the locus of fulfillment of all God's promises (Acts 13:32-33). Paul's cosmic Christology, especially in Colossians 1:15-20 and in Ephesians 1:10, would appear to present a view that God has drawn all things together in Christ, through whom and for whom all things were created.--Graeme Goldsworthy, Christ-Centered Biblical Theology: Hermeneutical Foundations and Principles (IVP, 2012), 184 | <urn:uuid:983ce2bb-bca6-4a4d-a3bb-59564bdc7a29> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dogmadoxa.blogspot.com/2012/04/goldsworthy-macro-typology.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944337 | 255 | 1.921875 | 2 |
There has been rumors during this generation that the gaming industry might be hitting a bubble, which would eventually pop like the one in '83 and bring the house down once again.
But the thing is that in economic history bubbles tend to be situations were a lot of money is invested, but time passes and there's little or no actual return. There's s a great numbers of these, the most recent (and close to the industry) being the .com bubble.
The .com bubble was powered by a (at the time) dwindling silicon valley that saw its influence being taken away, and needed to push for something new. So, the essence of the .com bubble were then future possibilities of the internet, which ironically we are just seeing now, a decade later. This didn't stop product evangelists and so called entrepreneurs from convincing old captains of industry (and people who needed their money laundered) to invest in their unproven ideas. Problem is that results never came, and there was little or nothing to show to the investors.
Compared to the current state of our industry the situation is VERY different: not only there are results, gaming is becoming the leading entertainment industry, making waves all over the world. Compared to the early internet which burned through tons of money, gaming is making more money every quarter.
Most gamers were afraid of a bubble because of the rising costs of console manufacturing, since except for the Wii every other console were subsidized at a certain point. But actually there was more of a bubble during the Golden Age of consoles, when almost every electronics company launched a console to see if they could capture a share of the market. One could say the market is in perfect harmony right now compared to the 90s, when more than 10 consoles went to the market and only two came out winning: the Genesis and the Snes.
There were dire results: Atari folded, Phillips lost a giant wad of cash, Nec closed its console division, 3DO died and Panasonic cancelled the M2, Bandai kept trying with little or no results. Sure SEGA went down not too long after that, but the fact is that it didn't die because of rising costs, but due to all the money lost during that period (90-98) that left them with little to work with.
I'm actually more worried about a stagnation of the industry: because of high budgets only big companies can make AAA games now, and they like to play safe, so we see some innovation but not the kind of crazy experiments we saw years ago. Sure most sucked, but those crazy ideas captured the public's imagination, and kept people waiting for more. And even with all the profits investors are still wary of putting their money in gaming, limiting the possibilities of small indie studios.
Lets remember that the 1983 videogame crash wasn't a consequence of a bubble like the .com were there were no profits to begin with (beyond stock speculation) but that the flow of money to the industry suddenly stopped when people began to feel games were getting too boring and redundant and stopped buying altogether. | <urn:uuid:e05cf90c-5c77-4afa-9121-48f4add0b5ee> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?27433-What-is-a-gaming-quot-bubble-quot&p=421248&viewfull=1 | 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 | 0.978982 | 625 | 2.0625 | 2 |
The services required to keep soil and water healthy are much like the services required to keep a child healthy. Soil and water cannot come into the doctor's office to get care; but professionally trained soil and water specialists can make care plans for soil and water health. Of course, it is the responsibility of the landowner to see that they are implemented.
Professionally trained staff waits in your Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) for landowners to come in to seek technical assistance for managing the health of the soil and water in their care. Landowners can come in when they realize that soil and water health has deteriorated and gets technical assistance for remediation. A better plan is for landowners to seek help to keep good quality soil and water healthy. Comprehensive soil and water management plans are available for the asking.
SWCD uses aerial photos to study overall soil and water conditions. The staff does make "house calls" when it is necessary. When services are requested, they may make an on-site visit to check on the soil and water that will help determine treatment options. Just as when you go to the doctor, taking those suggestions is voluntary.
Financial assistance for maintenance or remediation of soil and water health is available to landowners through local, state, and federal partners of the SWCD. The staff keeps informed of available programs providing cost-share dollars and helps landowners prepare the necessary paperwork to apply for this funding. When financial assistance is involved, the staff sometimes finds it necessary to notify the landowner that an on-site visit is required to assure that the treatment plan is being implemented.
Like doctors have partners, so does SWCD. A major partner with SWCD for programs and services is the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Together they are involved in providing technical services to landowners. Payments to landowners through government programs are dependent on conservation plans that are developed by SWCD and NRCS. Many other partners include county and city governments, Illinois Department of Natural Resources, large and small watershed partnerships, SWCD Land Use councils, Resource Conservation and Development Councils, state associations, UI Extension Service, health departments, and numerous not-for-profit conservation groups.
Just as in any health care program, education is essential. Workshops and informational tours are always on SWCD calendars. SWCDs and many partners maintain websites. Newsletters are distributed to all interested constituents.
Working behind the scenes for SWCD, a volunteer board manages budgets and personnel, maintains equipment for rental, and approves conservation plans. Staff adds support by organizing fish and tree sales, and providing field and office services.
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Scope and Content of the Collection
Title: Views of Greece, Egypt and
Collection Number: 2001.R.1
Getty Research Institute
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
Abstract: The collection comprises
sixty-nine photographs of Greece, Egypt and Constantinople attributed to the
British photographer James Robertson. The majority of these photographs record
the ancient monuments of the city of Athens. The remainder document a small
number of ancient Greek sites outside Athens, as well as various architectural
monuments in Constantinople. Photographs of one ancient and one Islamic
monument in Egypt are also included.
Language: Collection material is in
Open for use by qualified researchers.
James Robertson, Views of Greece, Egypt and Constantinople, circa
1853-1857. Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Accession no.
Acquired in 2001.
Ann Harrison processed and described the Views of Greece, Egypt and
Constantinople in 2001 and 2007. John McElhone, photograph conservator at the
National Gallery of Canada, and Teresa Mesquit, photograph conservator at the
Getty Research Institute, provided expertise on the techniques of
mid-nineteenth-century photographic prints.
Comparable collections of James Robertson's photographs of Greece are
held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert
Museum in London and the Benaki Museum in Athens.
Although James Robertson's photographs have enjoyed broad popularity
both in his time and today, until recently many details of his life and career
have remained obscure. New research has significantly altered the facts
presented in much of the earlier scholarship and helped to clarify the
professional relationship between Robertson and Felice Beato, his
Of Scottish descent, James Robertson was born in Middlesex outside
London in 1813. He trained as an engraver, and by 1833 he was working at the
British Royal Mint. In 1841, Robertson moved to Constantinople, present-day
Istanbul, having been recruited as part of a group brought in to modernize the
Ottoman Imperial Mint. As chief engraver and die-maker, Robertson was known for
his elaborate and beautiful designs for Ottoman coinage and commemorative
medals. In April 1855, he married Matilda Beato, cementing a relationship with
her brothers, Felice and Antonio, who would follow Robertson into photography.
Robertson worked at the Mint with ever increasing responsibilities, including
appointment to the Imperial Coinage Commission, until his retirement in October
1881. He and his family then immediately left Constantinople for Yokohama,
Japan, where Felice Beato had settled. Robertson died there on 18 April
By the early 1850s, Robertson was engaged in photography as a sideline
to his work at the Mint. His short, intense photographic career can be roughly
divided into three phases. In the years from circa 1853 to 1855, Robertson
worked alone, photographing Constantinople and then Greece. From 1856 to 1857,
he worked with his brother-in-law Felice Beato, first with Beato as an
uncredited assistant, then as a full partner, and the pair photographed farther
afield. After 1858, Robertson only sold prints from earlier negatives.
It is not completely clear when or how Robertson got interested in
photography. He may have been drawn into the new medium through his general
artistic interests. As well as his numismatic designs, Robertson produced
sketches and paintings of life in Constantinople in his early years in the
city. Whenever he began, by July of 1853 there is evidence of him selling
individual photographs of Constantinople, and by October he had an album for
sale. These early forays into photography were successful. By the fall of 1853,
Robertson's photographs were being used for engravings in western publications
Illustrated London News and his Constantinople album was
favorably reviewed. He quickly expanded his catalog, photographing in Greece in
1853 or 1854 and publishing two albums of those photographs in 1854. Robertson
continued to send his work out to the western market. In January 1855 he
exhibited a selection of Constantinople photographs in London, and in May a
group of photographs of Constantinople and Greece in Paris. Both venues led to
critical acclaim. Also around this time, Robertson opened a studio in Pera, the
European quarter of Constantinople, probably primarily as a sales outlet for
The turning point in Robertson's photographic career, however, was his
coverage of the Crimean War. Robertson's location in Constantinople gave him
easy access to the war zone. His earliest photographs of the war document the
staging of troops outside the city in the summer of 1854, and he subsequently
made several trips to the front in 1855 and 1856, documenting the aftermath of
decisive battles. Robertson's war coverage brought him an extensive new
audience for his work.
It was also at this time that Robertson started working with Felice
Beato. By May of 1856 Beato was in the Crimea working as Robertson's assistant.
Although the photographs of the Crimea were signed only by Robertson,
contemporary documentation indicates that many photographs from the summer of
1856 were actually taken by Beato. Robertson and Beato's collaboration
continued after the war. By late summer they were on Malta photographing the
island and selling those prints, as well as Robertson's earlier work. They
returned to Constantinople that December, soon to set out on their next
photographic expedition to document the Holy Land and Egypt. When they arrived
in Jerusalem in March of 1857, they were accompanied by Antonio, Felice's
younger brother. Antonio Beato would later become an established photographer
in his own right, but there is no evidence for his actual involvement in these
photographs. It is also with this trip that the signature on the photographs
shifts from "Robertson" to "Robertson & Beato." New photographs of
Constantinople and Athens with this double signature further document the work
of the pair in 1857.
After this burst of activity, however, Robertson and Beato went their
separate ways. In 1858, Robertson appears to have quit taking photographs,
although he still produced prints of his earlier work until he finally sold the
studio in Pera in 1867. The company name of "Robertson & Beato" would
continue on new photography for a short while longer, used by Felice Beato, but
with no evidence of Robertson's active involvement.
Unlike Robertson, Felice Beato pursued photography as his primary
career. He was probably born in the 1820s, possibly on Corfu. After the work
with Robertson in 1856-1857, Beato went off on his own. His training with
Robertson, especially the experience of the Crimean War and the military
connections he made there, set the stage for Beato's subsequent career, as one
of the first photographers to serve primarily as a war photographer. From 1858
to 1860 Beato photographed the Indian Mutiny. Many of these photographs,
although solely the work of Beato, bear the signature "Robertson & Beato,"
presumably to take advantage of the company's name recognition. After this
initial solo enterprise, further series of military conflicts followed. Beato
went to China with the Anglo-French expeditionary force and documented the
Second Opium War in 1860. In 1871 he was the photographer for an American naval
expedition against Korea. Finally, in 1885 he went on the Sudan expedition to
Khartoum to rescue Gordon, although none of these photographs survive.
Between these military engagements, Beato was based in Yokohama, where
he had settled in 1863. The following year he formed a partnership with Charles
Wirgman, a correspondent and artist for the
Illustrated London News who had travelled with Beato in
China, supplying photographs for publications and tourist views. The
partnership lasted until 1868, when Beato went off on his own. His non-military
photographic work in this period included architecture, landscapes and genre
scenes, many still bearing traces of Robertson's stylistic influence. By 1877,
however, Beato sold his photographic business. He appears to have then been a
general merchant until November 1884, when he went bankrupt due to currency
speculation. By 1889 Beato had moved to Burma where he would run a photographic
studio and furniture business until his death circa 1907.
Scope and Content of the Collection
Sixty-nine photographs of Greece, Constantinople and Egypt attributed
to the British photographer James Robertson comprise the collection. The
majority of these photographs record the ancient monuments of the city of
Athens. The remainder document the antiquities of Corinth, Sounion and Aegina,
as well as various architectural monuments in Constantinople. A photograph of
the Sphinx and an Islamic monument in Cairo are also included. These Robertson
photographs form an important study collection for the early history of
photography. Additionally, the photographs of Greece provide rare visual
documentation of the state of the archaeological monuments, as well as the
practice of archaeology, in the 1850s.
The majority of the photographs in the collection are identified as
Robertson's work either through a signature on the negative or the print, or by
attribution. Two photographs bear the joint signature of Robertson and his
partner, Felice Beato. One photograph may be intrusive, with no clear
connection to Robertson.
James Robertson's photography centered on his adopted city of
Constantinople, but he also photographed Greece, Malta, the Holy Land and
Egypt, as well as the conflict of the Crimean War. Apart from his Crimean War
photography, Robertson's images fall into three main categories: panoramic
cityscapes, architectural studies and Ottoman types. Only the architectural
work is represented in this collection. Robertson had a distinctive style of
photographing architectural monuments with groupings of two or three figures in
the foreground. Seemingly casual passersby, wearing uniforms, native and
western dress, surround the monuments providing scale and lending a touch of
romantic, local color for Robertson's northern European clientele.
Robertson's photographs of the eastern Mediterranean world mark the
shift from amateur to professional travel photography in the 1850s. Robertson
never solely made a living from his photographs, but he was certainly aware of
the commercial market and chose and composed his images accordingly.
Robertson's images were designed to appeal to a northern European, primarily
British, traveler, either civilian or military, and the public back home. He
marketed to the growing interest in the East and Orientalism in mid-century
Britain, which was dramatically increased by the Crimean War. His photographs
were exotic, yet comfortable for the British public because they followed an
established aesthetic of presenting the eastern Mediterranean world. In order
to reach his target audience, the actual traveler or the armchair tourist,
Robertson advertised his work in British publications and displayed his work in
exhibitions in London and other European cities.
This collection of Robertson photographs is unusual in that it is
composed primarily of his less common photographs of Greece, and in that it
represents such a comprehensive set of these photographs. The dates for the
photographs used here represent the date the negative was made. Individual
prints may have been made at a later point, but for the majority of the prints
in this collection, there is no evidence for a substantially later print
This collection also displays the range of Robertson's technical
practices. The appearance of Robertson's photographs suggest that he used a
wet-collodion process for his negatives. As for his prints, Robertson appears
to have made use of several processes. This collection includes images printed
on plain salted paper and on albumen coated paper. However, the 1850s were a
transitional time for printmaking techniques and the technique of the majority
of prints in this collection, especially the photographs of Greece, remains
ambiguous through visual analysis alone. These ambiguous prints are
distinguished by a surface sheen intermediate between the surface type
associated with salted paper prints and that of standard albumen prints. This
surface sheen could be due to either a heavily diluted albumen image-carrying
layer or to a material, such as albumen, used as a post-processing coating over
a plain salted paper print.
Subjects - Names
Pittakys, K.S. (Kyriakos
Subjects - Topics
Arch of Hadrian (Athens,
Library of Hadrian
Temple of Athena Nike
Tower of the Winds
Subjects - Places
(Greece)—Buildings, structures, etc.
(Turkey)—Buildings, structures, etc.
Genres and Forms of Material
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Sunday, November 29, 2009
The Grey Geese are legendary on ball courts across the land and famous for their signature half court dunks. The Geese have been recorded to have only lost one game ever. Back in 1986 they played an intense match up against the Harlem Globetrotters that last two weeks. At that time the Globetrotters had record low attendances and were on the verge of folding. It is common knowledge that the Geese let them win to help improve the Globetrotters dwindling popularity. Word spread fast of the big win and Harlem's beloved team was back on top and lived to play another day. | <urn:uuid:ffc264da-e8a8-4934-bef5-c77822db9d43> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://scottkmacdonald.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978844 | 130 | 1.5625 | 2 |
I used to take Claritin and Zyrtec by the gallo, five years ago. Now, I don’t touch the stuff during allergy season–err—seasons. Well, let me amend that. I might feel compelled to take one OTC pill during the rare instance when my natural histamine/anti-histamine equations could use some extra input. So far, that’s amounted to [...]
The “hygiene hypothesis” movement is coming to Cheesehead Country. Or Badger Country. Or whatever the preferred term it. A new study is launching in Wisconsin that will compare city-raised babies with farm-raised babies, to compare the health experiences and the immune system activity between the two groups of babies. Researchers will be particularly interested allergies, [...]
The trees are budding now, the flowers are coming up and grass is growing. Here comes the pollen.
When looking at seasonal allergies, what triggers them and how to cope, two views generally take shape. One is focused on the immune response. It focuses on the fact that immune cells may be unduly sensitized [...]
EpiCor is a natural fermentate that delivers prebiotic benefits to the gut. (See Science Report – EpiCor and its Immune Effects on Gut Health.) What does this mean? A prebiotic is a type of sugar (not the kind you put on your Cheerios) found in certain foods. Berries, whole grains, bananas, beans and peas, onions, [...]
It’s that time of year. Time for what? The Masters? Yes. Baseball opening day? Yes. Easter egg? Yes. And…the start of seasonal allergies.
Every year the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America puts out its list of the Top 100 “allergy capitals” in the U.S. And this year’s #1 allergy capital is Jackson, MS.
So I’m sitting in my office, eating a green lettuce salad with walnuts, chicken and cranberries from Super Target, which is a couple of blocks from my office (and that salad is really good, coming from Target). And then I read this news about some new immune health science . It appears that green leafy [...]
Another “hygiene hypothesis” news story is making the rounds. This time it’s an ABC News story of a farm family in New York state whose kids and parents don’t ever seem to get sick.
As has been covered on this blog for a long time now, it’s called the hygiene hypothesis, or as I [...]
Ever wonder how much vitamin C gets flushed down the toilet around this time of year? There’s still this mind set that loading up on tons of Vitamin C during the winter months can prevent colds and infections and related winter maladies.
First, let’s not discount the overall importance of Vitamin C. It is essential [...]
Well, the weed pollen count where I live has been classified as “High” for 12 of the past 13 count measurements this month. Historically, fall pollen has been my downfall. Historically, it has compelled me to take over-the-counter antihistamines or loratadine pills by the truck load. For the past 4 years or so, I’ve probably taken 3 such [...]
The heart health/immune balance story keeps growing. A while back I wrote about inflammation and heart health. My post was based on a some new thoughts shared by a leading heart doctor. He basically said throw everything we’ve been taught about heart disease….cholesterol and fat…out the window. The key to heart health is controlling chronic [...] | <urn:uuid:af2b4d33-f059-4d69-a5f5-78fbac12623c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.balancedimmunehealth.com/category/allergies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940534 | 764 | 1.796875 | 2 |
March 16-22, 2008 is designated Sunshine Week. It is an initiative that originated in 2002 with the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Its goal is to educate the public about the importance of open government and the dangers of excessive and unnecessary secrecy.
Hundreds of newspapers, broadcasters, and bloggers celebrate America's freedom by calling for more openness and honesty in local, state and federal governments and other organizations.
I don't often write about politics or the government; there are a zillion bloggers already covering those issues much better than I could.
I have simply tried to do my part in calling for openness, honesty, decency and fairness in Freemasonry.
I'm humbled that investigative reporter Sandy Frost has honored The Widow's Son with a "Sunshine Week Big Dogs Award." I'm sure there are many, many journalists and bloggers much more deserving than I am.
Thank you, Ms. Frost. And I offer my thanks to all of you for reading The Burning Taper.
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- Mobile Performance
- Electric Speed
- Schematic as Score
- (Re)purposed Clothes
- Collaborative Spaces
- Device Art
- Digital Dub
- Rise of the VJ
- Sample Culture
Walking around the streets of Singapore, one wonders what plenty a tiny island has achieve and how it successfully position and mark its presence on the world map. Represented only by a tiny dot, its is one of the country known for its rich cultural and racial diversity, this fishing village hosts a melting pot of traders and immigrants originating from Arab, India, China and Europe during British colonization. It is a country that stand in present, a role model who achieve great success in promoting racial harmony.
Yet with every triumph, there is a list of downfalls as a deposition before its peak. Humans decide for themselves to segregate their existence by power, race, class and the rights to alter their standard of living. They fight to have a right to live and own a land.
This remixed version installation was a part of a theater performance by Singapore Indian Artiste Association entitled "Suvadugal" (Imprints), on October 2007, a musical ensemble with an all star cast with to commemorate the spirit of old Singapore during it's trials and tribulations. With the Singapore President S R Nathan as our live audience during the show, we witness the following excerpts of integral riots from 1954 - 1969.(Personal Note: How I feel about this piece is inspired by the journey on my way back after visiting the Genocide Camp-s21 in Phnom Penh, reflect on this video.)
Anti-National Service Riots - Took place in 13th May 1954 said to be due to communist influence. Chinese students demonstrated against the British government's decision to enroll young men of age 18 - 20 to perform part-time military service. Students were unwilling to defend a foreign government. TODAY: This regulation still applies.
Hock Lee Bus Riots - The Hock Lee Bus Strike led to rioting on 10 to 12 May 1955, in which 3 people were killed and 31 injured. During the strike, large numbers of dismissed bus workers locked themselves in the Hock Lee Garages in Alexandra Road and picketed at the gates. Thousands of school children, from 28 April onwards, brought the strikers food and entertained them with singing and dancing. TODAY: Singapore has one of the most efficient public transportation in the world.
Race Riots - On 3 September 1964. A Malay trishaw-rider was found murdered at Geylang Serai and his attackers were believed to be a group of Chinese. The race riot ensued in the neighbourhoods of Geylang, Joo Chiat and Siglap, and curfew was imposed. In this incident, 13 people lost their lives and 106 people were injured. Under the presence of troops and the imposing of curfews, these tensions eventually eased after a few days. 480 people were arrested. Meet the Malay trishaw-rider on the last frame of this video. TODAY: Singapore is still in racial harmony, or is it? In my opinion, only the ones living in Singapore still experience indirect racial tension layered by a facade of this great "industrial" nation.
"There is only one race -- the Human Race. Within it there are many cultures." -Edward James Olmos
Historical notes are excerpts from Wikipedia.org
The Cultsion (640 x 480 clips): Enjoy vj clips provided especially for Vague Terrain. It is a fusion of cultural inter- exploration focusing on religious idols, humans and even the alien!
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Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has confirmed the firm's intentions to develop more hardware in the wake of the imminent release of its Surface tablet, suggesting the firm may develop its own smartphone.
Ballmer told the BBC that far from being a one off, the forthcoming Surface was indicative of how Microsoft would look to set the hardware standards for Windows-based systems.
“Where we see important opportunities to set a new standard, yeah we'll dive in,” he said.
The comments are likely to fuel speculation the software giant could be developing its own smartphone. Such moves could be unsettling for Nokia, which has bet its survival on building Windows Phone handsets.
Nokia has been hammered by competition from the iPhone and Android-based handsets. But it has placed all its eggs in Microsoft's basket, by dropping its Symbian platform in favour of Windows Phone.
But Ballmer's bombshell hints that Microsoft may be uneasy about letting the success of its Windows Phone system rest largely with the Finnish phone maker.
Microsoft has previously tested the strength of its relationship with Nokia with its Windows Phone upgrade decision, which effectively meant Nokia's current range, which ran Windows Phone 7, were a technological dead end.
Relations took another blow after rival Samsung became the first handset maker to show off a Windows Phone 8 device.
Microsoft's decision to make its own tablet had already ruffled some partners' feathers. Lenovo's chief executive said Microsoft should have stayed out of the hardware business, while Dell claimed it was more sanguine, seeing the Surface as a one off.
Ballmer's comments come as Microsoft gears up for the launch of its Windows 8 operating system – which when combined with the Windows Phone 8 and Surface released, make for one of the biggest moments in the company's history, he told the BBC.
He also claimed that there was no other tablet on the market like the Surface, combining consumer media tools with business-class apps.
Early reviews of the Surface tablets have been mixed, though, with reviewers praising the hardware and noting some of the benefits of Windows 8, but also criticising the hybrid nature of the platform.
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Lamu is best accessed by air. There are scheduled flights daily from
Nairobi, Mombasa, Diani Beach and Malindi. The island is serviced by an
airstrip on neighbouring Manda Island. The strip can also be used by
A dhow ferries arriving passengers to either Lamu town or Shela. Many
yachts also come to Lamu, often sheltering in the channel near Shela.
There are no vehicles on Lamu Island.
The winding streets of the towns are
best explored on foot. Shela village and the beaches are also
accessible by foot. Alternatively dhows regularly carry paying
passengers back and forth from Lamu town to Shela.
To access the
surrounding islands of Manda, Pate or Siyu, either take an organized
Dhow Safari or for the adventurous traveller, just hitch a ride on a
passing dhow and explore. It is also possible to hire donkeys to ride
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No. 17. ATLANTA, GEORGIA. MARCH, 1890. Issued monthly during term time from the University printing office. Entered at the Atlanta, 6a., post office as second class mail matter. Subscriptions at 25 cents a year may be sent to the treasurer of Atlanta University, Atlanta. Ga. Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga., Has G50 students in College, Normal, College Preparatory, Grammar, and Primary departments, with practical instruction in wood-working, iron-working' farming, printing, cooking, sewing, and nursing, under the care of 28 officers and instructors, in four large brick buildings, surrounded by 60 acres of land within the corporate limits of Atlanta, the land,\buildings, and outfit valued at a quarter of a million dollars; with 200 graduates from College and Normal courses nearly all of'whom, together with many hundreds of past undergraduates, are engaged in teaching and other useful work in Georgia and surrounding States. Having practically no endowment, the Institution requires at least $18,000 a year in donations from its friends to continue the work now in hand, and a fund of about $250,000 to put that work on a permanent basis. Remittances of checks or money orders, or inquiries for further information, may be addressed to, Pres. HORACE BUMSTEAD, D. D., Atlanta, Ga., FORTY-DOLLAR SCHOLARSHIPS. Annual scholarships in institutions like Atlanta University may be applied in two ways. One way is to supplement the meager resources of some deserving boarding student so that he may meet the charges for his board and tuition. These charges are ten dollars a month, or eighty dollars a year. Only in very rare cases is aid given to the extent of more than one half, and in many cases less than that amount is sufficient. A forty-dollar scholarship, then, will secure the attendance of one boarding student for one year, and in some cases will meet the necessities of two or even three. All boarding students thus aided do extra daily work for the benefit of the Institution in consideration of the aid received. Fifty of these forty-dollar scholarships will at present provide all the funds needed for this purpose. The other method of using a forty-dollar scholarship, is to cover the actual cost of the tuition of one student for one year. Both the boarding students and the day students pay a tuition fee, but it is only nominal—one dollar a month, or eight dollars a year. A fair estimate of the cost of this tuition over and above tuition fees received from the students is forty dollars. This estimate is based on the amounts paid in salaries to the teachers, which the University has no endowment funds to meet, together with the cost of the general maintenance of the work not provided for in other ways. Four hundred such scholarships of forty dollars each would for the present be sufficient. Fifty times forty dollars equals $2,000 —the amount needed to aid boarding students. Four hundred times forty dollars equals $16,000—the amount needed to cover the actual cost of tuition. Two thousand dollars and sixteen thousand dollars equals $18,000—the total amount needed in annual donations. Good reader—merchant, perhaps, prospered in your business—will you not, in one or the other of the ways just indicated, assume the support of one young man in Atlanta University? Will not the thought of such a service rendered to "one of the least of these" be a rich return for the forty dollars thus expended ? Good wife and mother, will you not join with your husband and send another "forty" for the years' training of one young woman—one who is destined, most likely, to be a wife and mother like yourself, and to whom Atlanta University alone can supply such training for wifehood and motherhood as your own better informed mother and richer home-life supplied to you ? And will not the children, too, come to the aid of one more boy or girl who is just as eager as they are to get a good start in life, and who needs that good start a great deal more, perhaps, in view of the greater obstacles that impede the progress of these sons and daughters of the Freed-man ? But if father, mother and children cannot each have a student to represent them, perhaps the Sunday School with which they are connected can, through their influence or help, take up the support of the three students—or two of them—or one of them—or half, or less.
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Ivory model of a skull and a human head, France, undated
One side of this carved ivory head shows a human face crawling with worms; the other side shows a skull crawling with toads after the worms have eaten away at the flesh. Not much is known about this model, but it is thought that it is a memento mori – literally a reminder of death and the shortness of life. The skull was the symbol of death from the 1500s onwards. Previously death was represented as a skeleton accompanied by a living victim. The model was purchased from a private collection in Rome, Italy, in 1932.
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The skeleton of the head of a vertebrate animal, including the brain case, or cranium, and the bones and cartilages of the face and mouth. The skull can be subdivided into two parts: the cranium and the mandible. The human skull is made up from 22 bones.
Glossary: memento mori
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For Immediate Release: October 12, 2010
Contact: CDC Division of Media Relations
CDC Awards $5.25 Million for State and Local Climate Change Programs
Eight states and two cities will receive a total of $5.25 million for climate change prevention initiatives, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced today. The awards for a three-year funding period will support health departments in meeting the public health challenges of climate change.
The funding recipients are Arizona, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and New York City and San Francisco.
The programs will address health impacts including heat- related illness, animal- and insect-related illness, food- and water-borne diseases, conditions that worsen allergies and respiratory problems, and health effects linked to intense weather events.
CDC is funding two types of activities to expand capacity in health departments. Some health departments will use the funds to conduct risk assessments identifying the most likely health impacts and most threatened populations. Arizona, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina and San Francisco each will receive up to $360,000 over the next three years for this type of assessment and planning.
Health departments that already know their likely climate change health needs and vulnerable populations will begin developing strategies and projects to protect those communities. Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon and New York City each will receive up to $750,000 over the next three years.
"Climate change represents one of the most significant challenges to public health in the 21st century," said Christopher Portier, Ph.D., director of CDC's National Center for Environmental Health. "These projects will lead the way in anticipating and preparing for those extreme weather events and their impact and reducing the burden on the health of our communities."
For example, more frequent extreme heat events are of particular concern for the Michigan Department of Community Health. In the last 20 years the number of days Detroit residents' swelter in temperatures exceeding 90 degrees has doubled. Projections show that these events could triple in number to about 30-50 days per year during which temperatures will likely go above 97 degrees for at least half of the 50 days. These changes likely will lead to increased heat related deaths among the elderly, the very young and those with underlying medical conditions.
In New York City, half a million residents of lower Manhattan live in areas that are vulnerable to flooding, sea level rise, and strong storm surges. Harbor water levels surrounding the area have already risen almost 15 inches since 1900.
The U.S. Global Change Research Program forecasts that as a result of sea level rise, flooding associated with coastal storms and storm surge will increase in intensity, frequency, and duration. This weather phenomenon would place great stress on New York City's infrastructure possibly creating utility outages, problems with mold and indoor air quality and underground flooding. The extreme weather events, would lead to increased hospitalizations from injury due to traffic collisions and human exposure to flood waters and storm surge.
"Many of the potential health effects of climate change are related to threats we already face, including heat waves, extreme weather events, and emerging infectious diseases. These threats may seem overwhelming, but by state and local health departments preparing through necessary planning and adaptation, communities can be ready for these changes and remain safer and healthier when they do occur," said George Luber, Ph.D., director of CDC's Climate Change program at the National Center for Environmental Health.
The U.S. Global Change Research Program also predicts that in Oregon, a warmer climate is likely to lead to reduced snow packs. Melt from snow-packs is a vital source of water in Oregon and other areas of the West. Climate change could increase the frequency of droughts and wild fires affecting ground cover, carbon dioxide emissions and air quality. A change in these natural functions will likely lead to displacement of families. Over time, the diminished clean air and water will lead to increased complaints of respiratory illness, limiting resident's access to food, medical care and other public services as seen previously during the Oregon wildfires of the 1990s.
CDC works to conduct and support applied research throughout the nation to track data on environmental conditions, disease risks, and disease occurrence related to climate change, and to expand capacity for modeling and forecasting health effects that may be climate-related.
For more information, please visit www.cdc.gov/climatechange.
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India and Lithuania: Linked by Language
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Date: 7/16/2012 5:31:33 PM
It was the late 1950s, and my father had just arrived at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, to pursue a PhD in mathematics. In the university cafeteria, he spotted an American sitting alone at a table and joined him. As they got talking, my father soon learned that his table mate had recently fled Lithuania as a refugee from communism. My father had assumed that Lithuanians were Slavs, like Russians, and was astonished when his table mate said that is not true. Lithuanian is not a Slavic language. In fact, he continued, the European language that most closely resembles Sanskrit is Lithuanian.
My father was stunned. Later, he read about this link between Lithuanian and Sanskrit in Nehru’s Discovery of India.
As it happened, my brother was recently in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, for a conference. The taxi driver taking him to the hotel from the airport obviously recognized him as an Indian because he conveyed to my brother, in broken English, that the European language that most closely resembles Sanskrit is Lithuanian!
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