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Now that's something I never really paid a great deal of attention to, but I've seen both designations on different forms. So in which cases is it deliberate, and in which is it a lack of clarity or understanding?
JFTR, when the form queries sex, I always answer in the affirmative.
That's jiust it - he doesn't say it's bad... he says homosexuality is not a sin.
How nice of His Holiness to throw gays and lesbians a bone. But, he goes on to claim that homosexual acts are a sin. Why? Because one assumes that such acts occur out of wedlock? Well, golly gee, if those gay sinners were married, then said acts wouldn't be sinful at all! Oh wait... same sex marriage baaaaaaaaad. Oh well, painted into another corner. And judging by all the superlatives in your post, you sure seem to support the position.
Yet you label a call for understanding and tolerance "baloney" — all the while demanding retractions and dissociations from those who label you what such remarks only prove you to be — anti-gay!
2684-429 — that's your number, dude. We've all got it now.
No kidding. I thought this new pope would be a step backwards from the last one who gave the only good pope a heart attack but this is ridiculous. He is the dark ages. The bright side is that he will speed yet another organized religion into irrelevancy.
My question would be why isn't it irrelevant already? People actually listen to this guy? Creepy.
Unless one is Catholic, the Pope can babble all he likes and it amounts to nothing more than a Page 2 story. I suspect that you post the link to support your view that gay is bad ~ any Pope in a storm.
Stop and consider ~ a group of people don't hem and haw in the back ground of their social construct and arbitrarily assign prejudices to one another. They come to conclusions on an individual's bigotry or tolerance based on that individual's behavior over a period of time.
OK, rather than beat around your bush, the majority believe you to be homophobic because you've come off that way for a very long time. It's not as though there's been some kind of conspiracy to label you so. poly is an avowed and often rabid atheist, matt is a devoted, often delusional conservative and your are homophobic.
That you deny it so strenuously is especially laughable in light on the original subject of this post and your support of the Pope's views on the issue. Please note my civility. I do not want the Moderators involved in my response to you again.
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Mummer's Day Parade is on life support this year. Philly has cut back its subsidy (because the city is on the verge of bankruptcy . . . so what else is new) and the parade is going to be like a dog this year (cur-tailed).
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Pope Benedict scored a double hit with just one shot in his end of year address at the Vatican when he blew wide open the fallacy of 'gender theory' whilst demolishing the US led 'tolerance' baloney that supports it. The only thing he didn't do is nail the intolerant backlash that will inevitably follow.
What do you mean "debunks". He doesn't do that at all. What he does is give his opinion based on his religious thinking. While I might tend to agree with some of what he says, he certainly is not an authority that I give a single credence to. Just a guy selected by a bunch of people to be the head of their group. Not my group so what he says is nothing to me.
To say he "debunks" something is to say he disproves something and he just is giving his opinion. Again, not important to me at all
There are 10 kinds of people. Those that understand binary and those that don't.
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June 8: Be Suspicious of Your Friends and Co-Workers (they're trying to kill you) Day
- 1210 - Rain is discovered by Vatican scientists.
- 1213 - The Vatican, under Pope Innocent III, creates purgatory.
- 1312 - King Edward II became the first man to successfully grow a goatee beard.
- 1798 - North Dakota moves to its present location from beside the River Thames.
- 1861 - Tennessee secedes from the Union. Nissan decides it will build its plant there after all.
- 1900 - Hitler's moustache is born.
- 1901 - The Queen of the United Kingdom, Empress of Canada, Grand Sheila of Australia, Most Merciful Pasha of Yorkshire, is expelled from her mother's uterus into the world.
- 1949 - 35 years after starting it, George Orwell finally completes his futuristic novel Nineteen Fourty-Four.
- 1963 - Doctor What changes his name to Doctor Who.
- 1969 - Bill Clinton fails to inhale.
- 1979 - Mel Gibson speaks in enhanced Aussie accent after discovering he was born in Peekskill, New York.
- 1983 - The United States Government collapses then reforms in a period of twelve hours, no one notices because a cute kitten is born on TV.
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The hacking scandal rocking media mogul Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids is coming to America.
High-profile British attorney Mark Lewis is planning for the first time to sue in the United States on behalf of alleged hacking victims, his office confirms. The legal action would be the first to strike at the heart of Murdoch's global media empire.
Lewis will sue on behalf of three people, none of whom have yet been identified. At least one is thought to be American.
"Some of them were in America at the time, either traveling or resident there," Lewis told the BBC.
It's still not clear when and where the legal action would be filed.
Jack Horner, a vice president of corporate communications at News Corp. said the company would not comment on the pending court action. News Corp. is the parent company of News International, the Murdoch family's British newspaper subsidiary. News Corp. also owns the Fox News Channel.
In the BBC interview, Lewis said it was significant that legal action over phone hacking is moving outside the UK for the first time.
"The scandal as it is is not just then confined to the United Kingdom or to the United Kingdom companies like News International and News Group Newspapers," he said.
"This goes to the heartland of News Corporation and we'll be looking at the involvement of the parent company in terms of claims there and that is something that will be taken more seriously by perhaps the investors and shareholders in News Corporation."
Mark Lewis has been a thorn in Rupert Murdoch's side since the hacking scandal emerged several years ago. He has filed suits on behalf of a number of hacking victims, including a 2007 lawsuit on behalf of a hacked soccer official. That case is thought to be the first legal action in the hacking scandal.
Lewis also represents the family of Milly Dowler, the abducted teen who was found murdered outside London in 2002. Dowler's voice mail was thought to have been hacked after she disappeared. The case sparked public outrage at the tabloid press and the furor eventually led to the closure of The News of the World.
Lewis hasn't named his three clients in the US action, claiming issues of privacy.
"I don't think all three would be described as high profile," he told the BBC. "One is what we would call collateral damage, they came across perhaps leaving messages and were recorded by the News of the World in England but was an American citizen," he said.
"The other two people are people from outside Britain, who happened to be there - they think - at the time they were hacked."
Lewis also said that there was potential for more cases in the US courts and that he was working with other UK lawyers wanting to pursue claims there.
News International has paid out millions in compensation settlements in the wake of the hacking scandal, with some British media reporting that the company offered at least $3 million to the Dowler family.
More than 4,000 people have been identified by police as possible victims of phone hacking, according to the BBC.
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The percentage of degrees earned by women continues to increase and mirrors national trends. The number of bachelor's degrees earned by women in Minnesota increased by 7 percent since 1990, compared to an 8 percent decrease for men over the same time.
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With the exception of Asian students, students of color have persistently lower chances of graduating from high school and smaller chances of immediate enrollment in college than white students.
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Borrowing by Minnesota undergraduates increased faster than tuition or inflation. Defaults are relatively uncommon. The default rate for borrowers attending institutions in Minnesota was below the national rate.
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Students less than 24 years of age are making up an increasing proportion of Minnesota's undergraduate population. Enrollments of students in this age group have steadily increased, while undergraduate headcounts of older students have been declining.
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While not all undergraduates intend to earn baccalaureate degrees, graduation is still a goal of most students entering four-year colleges and universities. For a variety of reasons, many students who enter college are not successful in achieving this objective. Recent changes in federal reporting legislation reflect interest by students, families and policymakers in knowing how likely students are to complete a degree at a given institution.
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Twenty-four percent of new entering freshmen in Minnesota institutions were from out of state in 1996. Twenty-seven percent of all Minnesota college bound high school graduates attended out of state institutions.
Students age 25 and older accounted for 69 percent of enrollment growth over the last 10 years. The most dramatic enrollment growth has been in graduate and professional programs.
Steady increases in enrollment of students of color at postsecondary institutions reflect Minnesota's changing population. In Fall 1997, Minnesota's postsecondary institutions enrolled 21,902 students of color, or 9 percent of total enrollments.
Minnesota's colleges and universities have a rich tradition of service to their communities through student volunteerism and other institutional outreach activities. The last 10 years have witnessed tremendous growth in the number of students engaged in community service activities, as well as increasingly sophisticated strategies to engage faculty and connect community service with larger institutional agendas.
Minnesota is in the middle among the 50 states in terms of net tuition and fees per public postsecondary student. This middle rank has been consistent over time. Over the last 10 years, states with the highest net tuition and fees tend to have had the largest increases.
Minnesota's work study program, for the first time, will fund jobs in private industry that are related to the student's educational program.
Borrowing by undergraduates in Minnesota increased by 33 percent between Fiscal Years 1993 and 1995.
In fall 1994, over 18,500 Minnesota residents were enrolled in neighboring jurisdictions under Minnesota's tuition reciprocity agreements. Similarly, over 13,000 residents of reciprocity jurisdictions were enrolled in Minnesota public postsecondary institutions.
"Learning will become the tool of the individual, available to him or her at any age, if only because so much skill and knowledge can be acquired by means of the new learning technologies."--Peter Drucker (November, 1994) 53-80.
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This is a great analysis of the Bush tax cuts. For more, please read my other blog on this topic at: http://www.wealthvest.com/blog/wade-dokken/expiration-of-the-bush-tax-cuts-and-the-great-recession/
Five myths about the Bush tax cuts
The tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003, known as the Bush tax cuts, are set to expire Dec. 31, and the fight over what to do is increasingly heated. Should the tax cuts expire, as some Democrats have said? Should they be extended, as most Republicans maintain? Or does the answer lie somewhere in between, as the Obama administration, led by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, has argued in recent weeks?
The cuts lowered tax rates across the board on income, dividends and capital gains; eventually eliminated the estate tax; further lowered burdens on married couples, parents and the working poor; and increased tax credits for education and retirement savings. Obama’s proposal would extend most of these reductions, allowing only those for individuals making more than $200,000 and families making more than $250,000 to expire.
Complicating the debate is a gloomy economic and fiscal outlook, one that is decidedly different from the rosy scenario that prevailed at the beginning of the last decade. That outlook has given rise to a number of stubborn myths about what extending the Bush tax cuts would — or wouldn’t — do.
1. Extending the tax cuts would be a good way to stimulate the economy.
As a stimulus measure, a one- or two-year extension has one thing going for it — it would be a big intervention and would provide at least some boost to the economy. But a good stimulus policy can’t just be big; it should also offer a lot of bang for the buck. That is, each dollar of government spending or tax cuts should have the largest possible effect on the economy. According to the Congressional Budget Office and other authorities, extending all of the Bush tax cuts would have a small bang for the buck, the equivalent of a 10- to 40-cent increase in GDP for every dollar spent.
Why? As the CBO notes, most Bush tax cut dollars go to higher-income households, and these top earners don’t spend as much of their income as lower earners. In fact, of 11 potential stimulus policies the CBO recently examined, an extension of all of the Bush tax cuts ties for lowest bang for the buck. (The CBO did not examine the high-income tax cuts separately, but the logic it used suggests that extending those cuts alone would have even less value.) The government could more effectively stimulate the economy by letting the high-income tax cuts expire and using the money for aid to the states, extensions of unemployment insurance benefits and tax credits favoring job creation. Dollar for dollar, each of these measures would have about three times the impact on GDP as continuing the Bush tax cuts.
2. Allowing the high-income tax cuts to expire would hurt small businesses.
One of the most common objections to letting the cuts expire for those in the highest tax brackets is that it would hurt small businesses. As Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) recently put it, allowing the cuts to lapse would amount to “a job-killing tax hike on small business during tough economic times.”
This claim is misleading. If, as proposed, the Bush tax cuts are allowed to expire for the highest earners, the vast majority of small businesses will be unaffected. Less than 2 percent of tax returns reporting small-business income are filed by taxpayers in the top two income brackets — individuals earning more than about $170,000 a year and families earning more than about $210,000 a year.
And just as most small businesses aren’t owned by people in the top income brackets, most people in the top income brackets don’t rely mainly on small-business income: According to the Tax Policy Center, such proceeds make up a majority of income for about 40 percent of households in the top income bracket and a third of households in the second-highest bracket. If the objective is to help small businesses, continuing the Bush tax cuts on high-income taxpayers isn’t the way to go — it would miss more than 98 percent of small-business owners and would primarily help people who don’t make most of their money off those businesses.
3. Making the tax cuts permanent will lead to long-term growth.
A main selling point for the cuts was that, by offering lower marginal tax rates on wages, dividends and capital gains, they would encourage investment and therefore boost economic growth. But when it comes to fostering growth, this isn’t the whole story. The tax cuts also raised government debt — and higher government debt leads to higher interest rates. If estimates of this relationship — by former Bush Council of Economic Advisers chair Glenn Hubbard and Federal Reserve economist Eric Engen, and byoutgoing Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag and myself — are accurate, then the tax cuts have raised the cost of making new investments. As the economy recovers and private borrowing rises, the upward pressure on interest rates is likely to grow even stronger.
I have used standard growth and investment formulas to calculate that the overall effect of the Bush tax cuts on economic growth has therefore been negative — and it will continue to be negative if the cuts are extended.
4. The Bush tax cuts are the main cause of the budget deficit.
Although the cuts were large and drove revenue down sharply, they are not the main cause of the sizable deficit that exists today. In 2007, well after the tax cuts took effect, the budget deficit stood at 1.2 percent of GDP. By 2009, it had increased to 9.9 percent of the economy. The Bush tax cuts didn’t change between 2007 and 2009, so clearly something else is to blame.
The main culprit was the recession — and the responses it inspired. As the economy shrank, tax revenue plummeted. The cost of the bank bailouts and stimulus packages further added to the deficit. In fact, an analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities indicates that the Bush tax cuts account for only about 25 percent of the deficit this year.
5. Continuing the tax cuts won’t doom the long-term fiscal picture; entitlements are the real problem.
One theory holds that the country’s long-term budget shortfall is “just” an entitlements problem, the result of rising costs associated with growing Social Security rolls and increased health-care spending (via Medicare and Medicaid). Republicans like this idea because it plays down tax increases as a potential solution. Democrats like it because it makes the recent health-care package seem like even more of a triumph.
But it just isn’t true. The deficits we face over the next decade reflect a fundamental imbalance between spending and revenue, one that goes beyond entitlements. Based on projections by the CBO, Alan Auerbach of the University of California at Berkeley and myself, among others, even if the economy returns to full employment by 2014 and stays there for the rest of the decade, the continuation of current fiscal policies, including the Bush tax cuts, would lead to a national debt in the range of 90 percent of GDP by 2020. That’s already the highest rate since just after World War II — and Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security aren’t expected to hit their steepest spending increases until after 2020.
According to these same projections, the yearly deficit would rise to 6 to 7 percent of GDP by 2020. The Bush tax cuts would account for a significant chunk of this, considering that in each year they are in effect, the revenue lost because of them amounts to nearly 2 percent of GDP.
Compounding the problem: By increasing the government’s debt, the tax cuts have already led to higher interest payments on that debt. So even if all of the cuts expire on Dec. 31, we will still be paying for them for years to come.
William G. Gale is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.
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Geographical Index > United States > Washington > Cowlitz County > Article # 136
Media Article # 136
Article submitted by Richard Noll
Thursday, October 17, 1974
No Forgetting the Sasquatch
Luckily, the prolonged summer weather of 1974 has not passed without a couple of good Sasquatch sightings and the discovery of some dandy Sasquatch footprints.
This year's Sasquatch search has centered in the Cowlitz County logging area country, where 161 huge, man-like tracks were found by loggers last week. A Washington State University anthropologist says it is "overwhelmingly probable" that the tracks are real.
You'd think a creature estimated to be at least 8 feet tall would not be hard to find. But the Sasquatch, as the football announcers would say, is remarkably agile for his size.
He leaves just enough traces of his fleeting presence here and there in the woods to keep the Northwest's favorite legend alive. | <urn:uuid:d01ce0c2-4456-482f-963e-6ed8c5cb4694> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_article.asp?id=136 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954595 | 201 | 2.46875 | 2 |
July 1, 2005 - Aug. 31, 2005
"There is a passage in Rhoda Kellogg’s book Analyzing Children's Art, where in response to a question about what his drawing means, a child responds, 'It’s not a story to be told. It’s a picture to be looked at.' A flag is an image with a story to tell - a tale of history and national identity - but it is a story that can be told in many different ways. Kids colouring, scribbling and writing graffiti in the ideologically cramped space of the flag suggest new uses for the flag, new stories to be told.
For a project sponsored by The Drake Hotel and The Power Plant and I gave images of Canadian and American flags to local children to colour. I then made a selection of their drawings and have installed them here and at the Power Plant. In addition, I have provided blank American and Canadian flag images for patrons of The Drake to colour. These will be collected and added to the kids' drawings already installed. As the title of the project suggests, to draw is to express ideas, and as the kid’s images show, they have a lot on their minds." -Glenn Ligon | <urn:uuid:6c9bfab4-9ef4-4975-a8dc-b87b728b5fa7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thedrakehotel.ca/culture/thoughts-flag-colouring-project/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956087 | 252 | 2.109375 | 2 |
The most crowded collision of galaxy clusters has been identified by combining information from three different telescopes. This result gives scientists a chance to learn what happens when some of the largest objects in the universe go at each other in a cosmic free-for-all. Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, astronomers were able to determine the three-dimensional geometry and motion in the system MACSJ0717.5+3745 (or MACSJ0717 for short) located about 5.4 billion light years from Earth. The researchers found that four separate galaxy clusters are involved in a triple merger, the first time such a phenomenon has been documented. Galaxy clusters are the largest objects bound by gravity in the universe.
In MACSJ0717, a 13-million-light-year-long stream of galaxies, gas and dark matter -- known as a filament -- is pouring into a region already full of galaxies. Like a freeway of cars emptying into a full parking lot, this flow of galaxies has caused one collision after another. | <urn:uuid:de7bdb37-a216-4e09-bd60-c95c39701be3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://monroetalks.com/forum/index.php?topic=13411.0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928682 | 227 | 3.671875 | 4 |
The “Fall is for Planting” adult horticulture program will be presented from 1-3 p.m. on Oct. 24 at the San Antonio Botanical Garden, 555 Funston, San Antonio. David Rodriguez, AgriLife Extension agent for horticulture in Bexar County, is the program presenter.
“After two years of drought, this fall will be an ideal time to restore and re-establish landscapes,” Rodriguez said. “The cooler temperatures are more conducive to planting, and many trees and plants establish much better when planted in the fall as opposed to other times of the year.”
He said the fall planting program would emphasize the use of colorful, low-maintenance native plant materials.
Earth-Kind methods combine the best of traditional and organic gardening and landscaping techniques, providing gardening enjoyment while also helping preserve and protect the environment, he added.
Rodriguez said the next Earth-Kind presentation to follow the Oct. 24 program would be his “Winter Landscape Color” program at the botanical garden from 1-3 p.m. on Nov. 22.
He said presentation would focus on planting seasonal landscape material to provide color during the wintertime.
“You can still get a lot of landscape color in the winter not only by planting pansies, cyclamids and other seasonal flowering or ornamental plants, but also by planting certain types of colorful vegetable plants,” he said.
The thrust of the Earth-Kind Landscape series is to show methods of landscaping which encourage water and energy conservation, reduce fertilizer and pesticide use, and lower the amount of yard waste entering landfills, Rodriguez noted.
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The Mandarin bilingual program provides students with instruction in both English and Mandarin.
It is intended for students whose first language is not Chinese who wish to have a dual language learning experience.
The Mandarin bilingual program is a program of choice that enables students to :
- Develop oral comprehension and fluency in Mandarin
- Develop the ability to read and write Chinese
- Gain an understanding of Canadian and Chinese cultures
- Develop a knowledge of and appreciation for diverse cultures while learning a second language
- Complete the requirements of the BC Curriculum
Subjects taught in English are :
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Fine Arts
Subjects taught in Mandarin are :
- Chinese Language Arts
- Health and Career Education
- Physical Education
Simplified Chinese script will be introduced in Kindergarten. The Hanyu Pinyin pronounciation system will be taught to accelerate the process of learning to read Chinese.
The program is offered at Walton Elementary starting in kindergarten / grade one to the end of grade five.
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Marginal Hasluck could see first Aboriginal member
Voters in the marginal Perth electorate of Hasluck could make history on Saturday by voting in the first Aboriginal man to the House of Representatives.
Hasluck is one of the country's most marginal seats, held by just 0.9 per cent by the Labor MP, Sharryn Jackson.
Just 1,800 voters need to change their vote to see Ms Jackson lose the seat.
The former Union official is up against Liberal candidate, Ken Wyatt, the director of indigenous health at the WA Health Department and uncle to state Labor MP, Ben Wyatt.
The seat remains too close to call and has been visited by both Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott throughout the campaign.
Hasluck lies on Perth's Eastern fringe, taking in suburbs around Gosnells, Forrestfield, Guilford and Midland.
It is an area dominated by mortgagees, trades people and service industries, with more than 80 per cent of households taking home about a thousand dollars a week.
Hasluck has changed hands a number of times in the past decade and is considered a must-win for both sides. | <urn:uuid:b23223c3-95f6-4d6b-9e82-4fa096fce521> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-08-17/marginal-hasluck-could-see-first-aboriginal-member/946466 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961689 | 231 | 1.5 | 2 |
Practically speaking, what is immediately needed to counter-act critical theory is a vigorous defense of America, the family, and the Constitution, including freedom of religion; as well as an exposure of those who corrupt the courts, the schools, the universities, the news media, the entertainment industry, and the government.
We will never have a conflict-free nation; but we can have one where we understand who is cunningly stoking the flames of passion and manipulating people to achieve naive and dangerous ends. This can only happen if we thoroughly know the nature of the enemy, as well as its plans. In a war of ideas, just as in any war, this is fundamental to formulating any effective strategy. We must unify in defense of America, that nation that was birthed in freedom and independence. We must never be intimidated by those who seek to exploit us.
American conservatives can never rest when looking to defeat the ideological subverters of this nation’s founding principles of freedom, liberty, and Constitutionally limited government. Thomas Jefferson had it right more than two hundred years ago when he wrote,”The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” | <urn:uuid:52718280-8dac-4288-a7fd-c37e78febf9f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://john8322.blogspot.com/2012/06/strategy-to-destroy-america-critical.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960506 | 239 | 2.109375 | 2 |
...About 300,000 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank. Many Israelis oppose the settlements and are in favor of most be removed [sic! *] in exchange for peace with the Palestinians.
That should be:-
Over a half-million Israelis have made their homes in territory that is considered disputed, 300,000 reside in Judea and Samaria with another 200,000 living in Jerusalem neighborhoods across the former Green Line boundary. There is strong opposition within Israel to the Jewish communities but it is limited to media, academic and cultural elites. There has never been a majority in favor of expelling Jews from their homes in exchange for peace with the local Arabs and all government coalitions have continued to build in these areas.
Funny, it's different here:-
About 300,000 Israeli settlers live among some 2.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank. Many Israelis oppose the settlements and are in favor of removing them in exchange for peace with the Palestinians.
Asked whether they would support Obama imposing a plan dividing Jerusalem and removing the Jordan Valley from Israeli control, 91 percent of Israelis who expressed an opinion said no and 9% said yes, according to the poll of 503 Israelis, which was taken by Ma’agar Mohot on Sunday and Monday and had a 4.5% margin of error.
Eighty-one percent said it was improper for Obama to try to force such a plan on the two sides, while 19% of those who expressed an opinion said it was proper.
The poll asked whether it would create enduring peace or enduring conflict should Jerusalem be divided, with Jewish neighborhoods remaining part of Israel and Arab neighborhoods becoming part of a Palestinian state. Eighty-four percent said conflict and 16% said peace.
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McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University
Academic Integrity Statement
Further information about what constitutes a violation of academic integrity and steps to avoid unintended violations can be found at the Undergraduate Academic Conduct Committee's Academic Integrity Page.
Integrity, honor, and dignity are fundamental characteristics of the engineering profession. Engineers strive to exhibit these characteristics while using their knowledge, skills and experience to improve the world around them. By being honest, straightforward, and impartial in serving the public, their employers and clients, engineers continuously increase the excellence and prestige of the engineering profession. These principles cannot be described by an equation or an integral, but they are rooted in the curricula of the best engineering schools. Adherence to these fundamental principles, essential not only in engineering but also in our entire society, is the responsibility of the students.
Students and faculty are guided in matters of academic integrity at both the University and the McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science levels, so it is the responsibility of every member of the engineering academic community to be familiar with the specific policies of our school.
In particular, it is the responsibility of every student in the McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science to be familiar with and to adhere to the Policies on Academic Integrity of both Northwestern University and the McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science.
Procedures for Cases of Alleged Violations of Academic Integrity
- All cases of alleged violations of academic integrity by undergraduates in courses in the McCormick School must be referred to the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Engineering (ADUE). Cases should be referred within one month of the date of the alleged incident, or within one month of the date the reporting individual becomes aware of the alleged incident, whichever is later. However, no action will be taken on any case if more than one year has elapsed since the alleged incident. Once a matter has been referred to the ADUE, it may not be withdrawn without the ADUE’s approval, nor may the referring faculty member resolve the case without the ADUE’s approval.
- The ADUE shall review the facts of the alleged incident, including statements of the reporting individual and any supporting material. If the ADUE determines that there is cause for further investigation, he or she shall notify the student by letter of the date of the incident (if known), the course and instructor, and the nature of the alleged violation. A copy of the current procedures should accompany the letter. The student will be asked to make an appointment with the ADUE to discuss the case within seven working days of the date of the letter, at which time the student may present any relevant material or statements in his or her behalf. The student will have the right, prior to meeting with the ADUE, to review relevant original materials in the Undergraduate Engineering Office, to obtain copies of such materials if desired, and to discuss the matter with a faculty adviser or other individual. Review of original materials must take place by appointment during normal working hours at the Undergraduate Engineering Office within seven working days of the date of the ADUE’s letter. If the student does not schedule a meeting to take place within seven working days, the ADUE may make his/her determination on the basis of the evidence before him/her at that time. The ADUE may grant reasonable requests for an extension of this time deadline in his/her sole discretion.
- In certain cases where timely notification is important as, for instance, if a student is about to leave campus for vacation, verbal notification may be made, but such verbal notification should be followed by a letter.
- The ADUE has the authority to determine, based on a preponderance of the evidence available, whether a violation of academic integrity has occurred.
- In meeting with the student, the ADUE will describe the charges made and detail the evidence supporting those charges. At this initial meeting, the student may decline to discuss the matter and/or request that the ADUE defer making a determination until after a subsequent meeting between the student and the ADUE, at which time the student may present other relevant information or evidence. This second meeting must be requested at the initial meeting and must be scheduled for a time within seven working days of the initial meeting.
- After his/her review, the ADUE shall inform the student by letter of his or her decision and the sanction, if any, to be imposed. If the student is not registered in McCormick School, the sanction of the ADUE will be limited to a recommendation related to grading in the course. Additional sanctions may be imposed by the associate dean for undergraduate studies in the school in which the student is registered; see section VI.
- Sanctions that may be imposed by the ADUE include, but are not limited to: a letter of warning; a defined period of probation with the attachment of conditions; a defined period of suspension, with or without the attachment of conditions; permanent exclusion from the University; notation on the official record; revocation of an awarded degree; or any combination of these sanctions.
- Any grade entered for a student in a course in which an allegation of academic integrity violation is pending against him/her is subject to modification after all proceedings and appeals are concluded. Should the student be found to have violated academic integrity, the course instructor is empowered, in his/her sole discretion, to determine the effect this violation will have on the student’s grade in the course; possible actions range from disregarding the incident in calculating the grade to failing the student in the course.
- The ADUE’s decision and/or sanctions incurred as a result of the violation may be appealed to the Academic Hearing Board by filing a written notice of appeal within ten working days of the date of the letter of notification. The student’s written notice of appeal must state what is being appealed, whether it be the violation finding, the sanction, or both, and it must describe in detail the grounds for the appeal. The student’s written notice of appeal should also state whether the student desires to present the appeal in person to the Academic Hearing Board.
- If the student so requests, he or she will be granted an opportunity to appear in person to present his or her case to the Academic Hearing Board and to hear and respond to any testimony provided by the ADUE or witnesses appearing before the Academic Hearing Board. Likewise, the ADUE may be present to hear and respond to testimony of the accused student or any witnesses appearing before the Academic Hearing Board. If the student wishes to present witnesses before the Academic Hearing Board, she or he must inform the ASUE at least seven working days before the appeal is to be heard of the names of the proposed witnesses and of the nature of the evidence they are prepared to present. However, the Academic Hearing Board has sole discretion to determine what witnesses other than the accused student and the ADUE it will hear. The Academic Hearing Board shall review the appeal as soon as practical after it has been filed.
- Following its review, the Academic Hearing Board may sustain or reverse the violation finding, if that portion of the ADUE’s decision were being appealed, and may, if the finding stands, sustain or modify (but not increase) the sanction, if that portion of the decision is what was being appealed. The Academic Hearing Board shall inform the student by letter of its decision.
- The student may appeal the Academic Hearing Board’s decision within ten working days to the Provost of the University. Such appeals must be in writing and include a detailed statement setting forth the grounds for the appeal. Appeals to the Provost will be limited to alleged errors in procedures, interpretation of regulations, or alleged manifest discrepancies between the evidence and a school finding and/or sanction. The Provost will receive appeals only after a sanction has been specified for the alleged violation (see VI).
- In instances where a student who is a degree candidate of another school is alleged to have violated academic integrity in a McCormick School course, the authority of the McCormick School will extend only to determining whether or not the alleged action constitutes a violation of academic integrity and, if so, to the imposition of a grade penalty by the instructor in the course (see IIIB.). If the finding is affirmative and all appeals have been exhausted or the time for appeals has expired, the case will be formally referred to the appropriate authority of the school in which the student is registered for whatever further sanction that school deems appropriate. Analogously, the ADUE will be called upon to determine if further sanctions for McCormick School students who have violated academic integrity in courses of another Northwestern school will be appropriate.
- In instances where a student who is a degree candidate of the McCormick School has been found to have violated academic integrity in a course offered by another school, the ADUE will notify the student in writing of the matter. The ADUE may apply an additional sanction based on the nature of the violation. Such notification will inform the student that he/she may schedule an appointment with the ADUE, to take place within seven working days, to present any evidence of mitigating circumstances but not on the underlying question of guilt or innocence. If the student does not schedule an appointment within the allotted time, or within such extension of time as the ADUE may grant in his/her sole discretion, the ADUE will make a decision on sanctions based on the available information.
- The ADUE will inform the student in writing of any additional sanction to be imposed and of the student’s right to appeal that sanction to the Academic Hearing Board.
- A student may not change his or her registration in a course once an individual with responsibility in that course has become aware of the alleged violation of academic integrity.
- At any stage of the proceedings described above, the student may be accompanied by a fellow student, a faculty member, or another individual of the student’s choosing, but not by an attorney. This person may not, however, take part in the proceedings; the student must speak on his or her own behalf.
- Sanctions specified by the ADUE, as modified by the Academic Hearing Board or the Provost (if an appeal has been filed), shall take effect at the expiration of the period for appeal of a decision if an appeal has not been filed, and after a decision has been reached by the Academic Hearing Board or the Provost if an appeal has been filed. If the appeal is not granted, the sanction will be applied retroactive to the date specified by the ADUE, and, if necessary, current registrations may be canceled.
- All materials relating to an allegation of an academic integrity violation will be kept in the McCormick School’s Undergraduate Engineering until the student has graduated or for ten years after the incident, whichever is earlier.
- All references to the ADUE in these procedures include the ADUE’s designee if circumstances prevent the ADUE from participating.
- Electronic messages may be used to fulfill the requirements of these procedures wherever a letter is specified, and electronic versions of policy statements may be used to comply with required document transmittal.
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"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates
"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that." Mill
Philosophy is the examination of ideas and the evaluation
of first principles. In addition to studying its own traditional areas
such as ethics, logic, metaphysics and epistemology, philosophy investigates
other disciplines by critically reviewing their foundations and methods.
Philosophy helps us free ourselves from dogmatic or unreflective habits
of mind. It instills habits of intellectual integrity, impartiality,
and rationality. Philosophy enlarges our conception of what is possible
and enriches our intellectual imagination. Accordingly, philosophy is
an essential ingredient of any sound education.
Besides providing individual courses, the Philosophy Department offers a well-rounded minor in philosophy. The minor provides an introduction to ethics, logic, and the history of philosophy. It also helps students develop crucial intellectual skills such as critical thinking, logical reasoning, and conceptual analysis; in short, it helps students learn to think for themselves. Emphasis is balanced between philosophical content and the cultivation of philosophical thinking.
Hall, Room 329
is the quest for fundamental truths. It searches for the most
rational answers to questions such as:
makes an action right or wrong?
is the nature of the mind?
there adequate reason to believe God exists?
abortion or the death penalty ethical?
get a Philosophy Minor?
By asking such
fundamental questions, Philosophy examines the basic assumptions, principles,
and methods used in other disciplines, such as the one in which you
major. It does this to see if those disciplines are justifiably
based. Just as you would want your house built on a firm foundation,
so you would want your major or profession built upon verified, rational
is also the most direct way to enhance your critical thinking and analytical
& Information Technology:
The Philosophy Department at Winona State University has the only completely computer-assisted Critical Thinking course in Minnesota. All exams are done in the Departments Critical Thinking Lab. In this self-mastery course, you work to competence, receiving immediate feedback on your exercises and reviewing and retaking exams until you pass them. Personal tutoring is available in the CT Lab 30 hours per week.
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I have always found (and I am in Ohio) that I can defend that any of my
lessons can be connected to THE TEST! This is only my second year teaching
and if you word things in ways that the test is you should be alright. An
easy one to make connections to is math and language arts for me. Math
because of the dividing and lines that are involved which you can relate
to dividing their paper for a project or to shape versus form. Maybe in
your lesson plans mark this out so they can see it and not just you. You
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Written by Kevin Hower Tuesday, 01 September 2009 13:19
Imagine that you are walking along, and someone comes up behind you. They wrap their arms around you to carry you off. Almost without having to think about it, you arch your back a certain way and your ribs pierce the sides of your body, simultaneously impaling your attacker and dosing them with a strong poison.
Although not something that would ever happen to a person, it’s a regular event in the life of a Spanish ribbed newt. The act of piercing its sides doesn’t seem to cause any permanent damage to the newt, but its ribs can severely injure the predator that tries to capture it.
Then again, if it came down to a difference between having to heal for a short time or being dead, I would naturally take the former any day.
In the “Alien” movies, the title creatures use their corrosive blood as a weapon. Although scientists haven’t seen any corrosive blood such as is depicted in the movies, many creatures are known to use their blood as a weapon.
Parts of Africa are home to armored ground crickets that squirt blood—called haemolymph—at their attackers, and will frequently vomit on themselves as well. Their most common predators have a strong aversion to eating these crickets, or any other insects, which have the foul-smelling toxic liquid on them.
However, these defense mechanisms also have a downside: They tend to make the cricket more susceptible to being eaten by its own kind.
Ampulex compressa, also known as the emerald cockroach wasp, is a form of parasitic wasp. It stings the roach in a specific spot in its brain which controls the instinct to flee, shutting that area down. Then, since the wasp is much smaller than its prey, it hops on the cockroach’s back.
The wasp uses the helpless roach’s antennae to steer it. Once back in the wasp’s den, it stings the cockroach again to permanently paralyze it, after which it becomes an incubator and future meal for the wasp’s larvae.
The Asian giant hornet can grow to be 2 inches long with a 3-inch wingspan, and kills around 20 to 40 people throughout Asia—mostly in Japan where they’re most common—every year. It has a quarter-inch stinger that injects a venom potent enough to dissolve human tissue around the sting.
These insects will raid honeybee nests in groups, and slaughter every last bee that lives inside in a short time.
Non-native bees are especially vulnerable, but Japanese honeybees have evolved an amazing defense. When a hornet comes scouting the nest to mark it for extermination by others of its kind, the bees swarm over its body and begin vibrating their own abdomens.
This action raises the temperature inside the mass of bees to above what the hornet can tolerate, literally roasting it alive. The bees can stand a temperature just slightly higher, so they don’t die from the heat.
It may seem that these are all morbid examples of nature’s handiwork, and many readers may wonder why I didn’t pick more pleasant subjects to write about.
I suppose it’s a matter of perspective. One of the things I find most gratifying about science is that it’s descriptive. It doesn’t try to place moral or aesthetic judgements on any of the things it describes.
Nature can be harsh, cruel and even disgusting if one chooses to see it that way. There is pain and suffering throughout the natural world. But if that’s all someone sees in these examples, then—and this is just my opinion, nothing more—I feel they’re missing something important.
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14-Jun-2013 - Burger Giant McDonald’s has reported an uplift in sales for May, with both the US and Europe performing well.
13-Jun-2013 - While the European horsemeat scandal and a fresh Asian avian flu epidemic have dented public confidence in meat and livestock safety, Bernard Vallat, director general of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), has stressed recent victories in the global battle for disease control.
12-Jun-2013 - US farmers have welcomed the passing of a bi-partisan 2013 farm bill by the US Senate.
11-Jun-2013 - Australian beef and veal exports hit record levels in May, exceeding 100,000 tonnes (t) swt for the first time in the nation’s history.
11-Jun-2013 - Canada’s government has published a list of US commodities that are potential targets for retaliation unless the dispute over country of origin labelling (COOL) is resolved.
10-Jun-2013 - Preparations are well underway for one of the world’s biggest food fairs with visitors expected from around the world.
10-Jun-2013 - Cattle throughput is up by over 9% for the year-to-date in the Republic of Ireland (RoI), including increases of 20% for steers and 13% for cows, driven by stronger trading as well as faster disposal of stock and higher mortality rates due to the fodder crisis.
10-Jun-2013 - Australian red meat exports to Saudi Arabia have soared so far this year with analysts predicting further growth in the market.
07-Jun-2013 - The E.coli outbreak at Canada’s XL Foods meat processing plant was the result of failures by plant staff and food safety officials, an independent review panel has found.
07-Jun-2013 - Prices for livestock products are expected to remain above historical averages in the medium term, according to a report presented yesterday (June 6) by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) and the UN’s Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
07-Jun-2013 - A Portuguese member of the European Parliament (MEP) Nuno Teixeira has raised concerns about the safety of Brazilian beef after learning that two shipments of Brazilian beef have been blocked in the port of Rotterdam after testing positive for the presence of E.coli bacteria.
07-Jun-2013 - US pork and beef export volumes saw some recovery in April, but are still lagging behind last year’s levels, according to data from the US Department of Agriculture.
06-Jun-2013 - Japan significantly increased beef imports in April, with growth driven by shipments from the US, according to data from the country’s Ministry of Finance.
06-Jun-2013 - Vaccines are unlikely to be successful in tackling the problem of bovine TB in the UK, a new report from MPs has warned.
05-Jun-2013 - An expert has warned that the UK’s food safety body must focus on improving its intelligence and major incident protocols in order to prevent further food fraud like the horsemeat scandal.
04-Jun-2013 - UK food minister Owen Paterson has revealed that Professor Chris Elliot of Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland has been asked to lead an independent review into the horsemeat scandal.
04-Jun-2013 - A group of UK MPs have called for a cut in meat consumption and a switch to pasture-fed systems in a bid to improve global food security.
04-Jun-2013 - Australia’s Green Party has hit out at the country’s ruling Labor party for refusing to back a Private Members Bill to establish an independent Office of Animal Welfare.
03-Jun-2013 - US meat stocks rose last year, according to the most recent US Department of Agriculture (USDA) cold storage survey.
03-Jun-2013 - Indonesia has granted Australian beef exports exemption from quotas, under a new deal announced ahead of Ramadan and the Eid Fitri Festival.
03-Jun-2013 - Despite the Russian meat industry having grown quickly over the last decade it is expected to drop over the next 10 years due to Russia’s new World Trade Organisation (WTO) membership and lower projected domestic consumption growth.
31-May-2013 - Ways in which the UK and Ireland agri-food industries can work more closely were discussed at the UK-Ireland Food Business Innovation Summit in Dublin on Wednesday (29 May).
30-May-2013 - US meat bosses have welcomed a decision by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) to declare the country a low risk for BSE in cattle.
29-May-2013 - Strong beef sales have contributed to a 27% value hike in Irish food and drink exports over the last three years to €9bn in 2012, while trade with the UK has risen by 5% over the last year alone to €3.8bn or 42% of all exports.
28-May-2013 - New Zealand authorities claim they have resolved a trading impasse with China which has left hundreds of pallets of frozen beef and sheep meat stranded in ports for weeks.
The XXVI European Feed Manufacturers’ Federation (FEFAC) Congress, ‘How to Stay Profitable in Volatile Times’, was held...
Chinese company Shuanghui Group recently announced the acquisition of US meat business Smithfield. Ildiko Szalai, an analyst...
The outbreak of H7N9 bird flu in China has left 36 dead and caused considerable damage to...
Earlier this year, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) published its fourth annual Report...
Director , IFFA
In February this year, Viscofan, one of the world’s biggest casings manufacturers, opened a new factory in...
A combination of low prices and production costs, reduction in import volumes from non EU countries, increased...
As the horsemeat scandal continues to spread across Europe and beyond, Simone Baroke, an analyst for Euromonitor, looks... | <urn:uuid:8509d9f9-91ae-4d5b-8fb5-575aedb1790a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.globalmeatnews.com/Product-Categories/Beef | 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 | 0.926144 | 1,261 | 1.84375 | 2 |
If you've ever been around a light source in the middle of an expanded Midwestern landscape of soybeans and chubby cows, you know you've got to be wary of Them Bugs. Them Bugs will attack you in intense droves, and they will do so without warning. A bug zapper will help, but just a little: There's not much artificial light in the Midwest, and what little there is, Them Bugs will find it.
Which is serious problem when your light source is 4,000-square foot LED television. The Nebraska Cornhuskers just installed the mammoth device at Memorial Stadium, and it is doing little more than attracting a ridiculous amount of moths.
While we wonder whether or not that Fred Smoot fumigator is busy or not, we nevertheless expect, if the Cornhuskers get off to another bad start, the moths and flies and Them Bugs to count toward positive attendance figures.
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"A New Hurdle for Cape Wind?"
"BOSTON -- In a new setback for a controversial wind farm proposed off Cape Cod, the National Park Service announced Monday that Nantucket Sound was eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, guaranteeing further delays for the project.
Known as Cape Wind, the project is the nation's first planned offshore wind farm and would cover 24 square miles in the sound, an area roughly the size of Manhattan. The park service decision came in response to a request from two Massachusetts Indian tribes, who said the 130 proposed wind turbines would thwart their spiritual ritual of greeting the sunrise, which requires unobstructed views across the sound, and disturb ancestral burial grounds.
The tribes -- the Mashpee Wampanoag of Cape Cod and the Aquinnah Wampanoag of Martha's Vineyard -- sought the listing last fall, shortly before a final federal decision on the project was expected. The project has been in the works since 2001 and is strongly supported by Gov. Deval Patrick."
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There were over 600 umpired games, not counting Playoffs and All Star Day during the last season.
Towards the end of the season it became increasingly difficult to find umpires due to graduations,
finals and other activities. SRVGAL will still be offering Umpire Clinics again this year so
please be sure to sign up if you are interested.
Behavior Toward Umpires
Providing well-trained umpires for over 60 teams (10U – 18 High School) is a tremendous task.
The umpire organization in SRVGAL represents over 100 dedicated youths and adults who are on
the field during games to provide safety and fairness for all teams. Umpire coordinators work
diligently all season to provide coverage for the high volume of games played.
Parents and coaches need to keep in mind how difficult it is to be an umpire, especially if
you are young. We continue to lose many umpires every year because of the harassment they
receive from coaches and parents.
The role of umpire must be recognized and respected by the coach, the team, and the parents.
Youth umpires must be given the same respect as the adult umpires. New umpires must
learn positioning, signs and timing of calls. If you are patient and positive, that umpire
will become experienced and confident. That umpire could be YOUR child! The umpire in
a softball game has complete authority over players and coaches from the moment that the
umpire walks onto the field until the game is over.
Coaches, players, parents, and spectators shall never argue or dispute the decision of the
umpire, make negative or derogatory remarks or gestures towards an umpire, or otherwise behave
irresponsibly or bring the game into dispute. Remember, it's only a game.
We have established the following standards for SRVGAL umpires:
1. All umpires must be ASA certified —- we'll provide the training to achieve this.
2. For 1st-year umpires, attendance will be required at two preseason clinics that will
encompass both rules and mechanics. Of course, ASA certification through another organization
will satisfy this requirement.
3. If you are a returning 2nd-year, 3rd-year, 4th-year, etc., umpire, you need only attend
one training clinic -- preferably, a SRVGAL rules/mechanics clinic.
4. All umpires will be expected to officiate some games at the white and blue levels.
Assignments will be made primarily by availability and level of experience —- not by preference.
No one will be asked to umpire games beyond their abilities.
5. All umpires will be required to wear protective equipment (face mask, shin guards and
chest protector) at all games. This equipment will be supplied by SRVGAL or personal gear,
of course, can be used.
6. All umpires must be 13 years old by the beginning of regular season games.
7. Umpire scheduling will be made exclusively through the use of the online scheduling
system available on Sportability.
8. In prior years, we have had many committed and dedicated people performing the umpiring
duties for SRVGAL and, for this, we are very grateful. Unfortunately, our past experience
has involved many umpire "no-shows" leaving games without an umpire. We hope that this year,
our umpire program will be made up a group of people having committed to working with us to
virtually eliminate all cases of umpire "no-shows" and uncovered games.
"No-shows" will be kept track of and will effect future umpire assignments.
Umpire Scheduling Guidelines
1. No SRVGAL umpire may be scheduled to umpire the games of girlfriends, sisters,
daughters or other close relatives.
2. Every attempt should be made to ensure that an umpire does not even umpire in the
same league where there is a girlfriend, sister, daughter or other close relative.
3. There are exceptions to these:
a.) if we have no alternative, we can relax the guidelines, especially in the
white divisions and
b.) in the case of an umpire being at a game and the assigned umpire is a "no-show."
If you are a 1st-year umpire, you will be required to attend two clinics -- at least one
of them should be a SRVGAL clinic. If you are a returning umpire (2nd, 3rd, or more years),
you need only attend one clinic—preferably a SRVGAL clinic.
Umpire Pay Schedule
The pay scale has been devised with an emphasis on trying to get umpires to return and
continue to work with SRVGAL:
1. New umpires and umpires with no SRVGAL experience (1st-year umpires) will be paid $33 per game.
2. Umpires with one year of SRVGAL experience (2nd-year umpires) will be paid $40 per game.
3. Umpires with two or more years of SRVGAL experience (3rd-year and higher umpires) will be paid $45 per game.
4. If umpires wish to work together to do games (2-man mechanics), the pay will be $22 each. SRVGAL has routinely paid for only one umpire per game. It is highly recommended that 1st year umpires work with partners, particularly for the 1st half of the season.
5. In cases where the Board of Directors approves the use of two umpires (such as for playoff or championship games), the umpires will be paid based on the their experience (the established scale this year as described above).
The Umpire Game Card/Pay Slip (PDF) is the form that
every umpire must use to document their participation in their scheduled games. To receive
payment, the umpire must complete this form, have it signed by the game coaches, and then
send it to the SRVGAL Treasurer. The Treasurer will send payment within two weeks of receipt
of the Game Card. The second page of the Game Card provides an area for documenting any
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Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 08:03:52 -0400
Author: Angela Plagemann
Subject: RE: units of measurement
> So the problem IS that when all odometers become metric, all the hard work
> that the county did to create the roads in a logical grid becomes useless.
> You odometer gives you precise information to find your way around the
> county. But if it reads in km, it's almost useless.
As a Canadian, I've always had an odometer in kilometers. I've never had a problem figuring out how far I've gone in the U.S. with my Canadian car. The speedometer is in both kilometers and miles. So, I have a
conversion chart right there on top of the odometer. It's not too hard to figure out how many kilometers there are in a certain number of miles. Besides, how precise do you need to be when you're driving a car in the country? If you make a rough conversion and drive that many kilometers, there's probably only one house in sight when you get there...
Physics Demonstration Lab
University of Michigan
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Mola Lenghi, NBC 5 Arlington Reporter
Voters have shot down attempts to bring public transportation to Arlington three times in the past, now the City of Arlington is taking a different approach.
Arlington is investing in a pilot program for a shuttle to and from the University of Texas at Arlington and a Trinity Railway Express station near Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
The pilot bus program will take riders to the CentrePort TRE Station, where they can then access the rest of the region.
Previous public transportation pilot programs in the city have fallen short. Arlington, the largest U.S. city without mass transit, has previously shot down measures for public transportation.
But Councilwoman Kathryn Wilemon said the shuttle program is different.
"This is not a citywide bus system," she said. "This is strictly a two-year pilot project to see the viability of moving from inner city to connect with the region."
Wilemon said UTA and the business and tourism communities are all on board.
"We all have this one thing in common, a transportation need, so by bringing all those together, which we did, they came up with it," she said. "It was not necessarily city-led."
Transit systems currently go around Arlington, she said.
"Just look at a map. ... We are the hole, but we don’t intend to stay there," she said.
City officials said last year that they were looking at ways to connect Arlington to local rail systems.
Officials say connecting Arlington with the rest of North Texas is also an economic issue.
"When you're getting that connectivity throughout the region and to the airport, you are connecting everybody conveniently to the rest of the world," said John Terrell, DFW Airport vice president of commercial development.
Jay Burress, president and CEO of Arlington's visitors and convention bureau, agreed.
"We sell ourselves many times as one region, especially to the international visitor, and not being able to get here does leave sort of a hole in the doughnut, and you don't want to be that," he said.
Jennifer Chaves, co-owner of Maverick’s Bar and Grill, said her business would benefit from a mass transit system but doesn't think Arlington will ever implement one.
"I think public opinion hasn't really changed on the matter," she said. "If they run the pilot program and it's successful -- maybe. But I think opinion is still the same with the residents." | <urn:uuid:02a2d7c4-4af4-4288-8513-71bd30b720fd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Arlington-to-Try-Out-Shuttle-Between-UTA-TRE-Station-189281671.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972494 | 517 | 1.609375 | 2 |
One of the areas in marketing that gets a lot of attention these days is how brands use social media. High profile sites like Facebook and Twitter have some incredible stats, but is social media an appropriate place to do marketing, or is it just an accelerated amplified kind of word of mouth?
As part of our ‘Marketing to Women’ survey, we asked women in the Purl Influencer Panel to answer some questions about their relationship with brands and social media.
Our analysis of brand perceptions suggested that social media was not as important as factors like service levels or the look and feel of stores or websites – in fact, the way brands interact on social media was ranked 6th out of 7 in a list of things that influence women’s perceptions of brands.
However when asked directly about social media, 85% of women surveyed think that social media is an important tool for brands to engage with female consumers.
Do women Like brands on Facebook?
However, just because women say that social media is an important tool, doesn’t mean that they are using it for that purpose. Like mobile phones, which are used for peer-t0-peer communication, the primary purpose for using social networks is to interact with friends first and foremost and brands second, if at all.
Of the 78% of women surveyed who use Facebook – 42% have ‘liked’ a brand, which while less than half is still a large number when you think about the numbers of people who use Facebook.
Do women Follow brands on Twitter?
Different social media is used by different kinds of people for different reasons. Twitter is misunderstood by many, but it can be a powerful communication tool for brands to talk to consumers and vice-versa.
Over 70% of the women in the Purl Influencer Panel use Twitter – which is a surprising number in itself. This is higher than we would expect in the ‘average’ population, but it could show that Twitter is used as a tool where the currency is influence.
However, of the women who do use Twitter, fewer are using it to ‘follow’ brands. Only 21% of those who use Twitter follow brands. | <urn:uuid:d13830aa-b5d2-4907-83ed-6b454512f9d3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.aquitude.com/women-and-social-media-survey-results/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965121 | 449 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Clio (first published in 1973) is Western Connecticut State University’s student-run history journal. The journal is a compilation of works written by students, staff, and faculty at WCSU, many of whom pursue history as their major. Each September the club decides on a theme and requests that members of the Western community submit articles, art, or poetry on that given theme, with a deadline in December. After several papers have been received, club members select papers which then get published in the journal in the spring. Our organization supports the development and dissemination of student history research at Western Connecticut State University.
Interested in Joining Clio?
Clio meets regularly; If you are interested in joining, you may contact our president, Patrick Shea (shea056[at]connect.wcsu.edu), or our co-advisors, professors Marcy May or Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox. | <urn:uuid:9d411e90-d0ee-4e3b-a2a0-7779bab4cb85> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://archives.library.wcsu.edu/clio/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946151 | 188 | 1.640625 | 2 |
When You Need A Completely New CareerSusan Adams, 09.15.09, 06:00 PM EDT
Figure out what you love and how your skills can translate, and start networking.
Constance Dierickx hated her job as a stockbroker at Merrill Lynch in Asheville, N.C., so she started looking at her daily grind and asking herself a series of questions: "What do I hate? What do I love? What do I never want to do again?" she recalls. "If I could do only one thing all day, what would it be?"
"My answer was, I would talk to people in small groups," she says, "I would facilitate their achieving some goal."
Dierickx (her name is Belgian) went back to school, got a Ph.D. in psychology and for the last two decades has thrived in a career as a corporate psychologist. She works at a consulting firm called RHR International in Atlanta. Her basic advice for career changers: Take a long, hard look at where your passions lie, and follow them.
Of course that's easier said than done in these days of ramped-up job loss and meager hiring. But Dierickx and a half dozen other experts we interviewed offer some helpful tips on how to find a job in a whole new field.
Dierickx suggests that instead of honing your résumé, you craft a one-page autobiography that describes your skills and experience in the language of your chosen next field. When she first wrote her own bio, she noted that she worked with very successful people, that she had to understand what was driving them and that she helped groups of people reach agreement about their goals. She had needed all of those skills as a stockbroker, but they'd be just as valuable for a corporate psychologist.
Career coaches and outplacement experts agree that the farther afield you go from your current job, the more prep you need to do. That can mean going back to school, taking courses or doing volunteer work.
Another powerful tool: interviewing, to learn and amass information about your proposed new career. Orville Pierson, senior vice president at the outplacement firm Lee Hecht Harrison and author of Highly Effective Networking: Meet the Right People and Get a Great Job, recommends talking to people who have job titles you think you would like. Meet in person, and get a solid fix on what's involved in their work.
"You want to dig into the qualifications required for the job," Pierson says. "Talk to the person about who you are and what you see as your skills, and ask them if they think you're a credible candidate without further education."
Pierson says networking can be a powerful tool when it comes to setting up such interviews and adds, "There is very good sociological evidence that the action is at the second or third degree of separation. In other words, you are more likely to get hired by a friend of a friend of a friend." After all, the number of connections multiplies at each degree. So tap everyone you know, from second cousins to high school teachers, to find a personal connection to someone in your hoped-for new field.
Data show that 50% to 75% of people find their jobs through networking, Pierson says. For career changers, it's closer to 90%. Pull every string you can find. | <urn:uuid:06455287-086e-4527-9905-d28e85c91f0d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/15/career-change-jobs-leadership-careers-employment.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978081 | 704 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Oakland residents will vote on November 6 whether to allow the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) to issue $475 million in bonds to repair school facilities and start new projects. If voters approve Measure J, OUSD will begin planned projects at 11 schools in Oakland, including McClymonds High School and Foster Elementary, among other district-wide improvements. Projects range from replacing portable classrooms with permanent buildings to constructing community kitchens at school sites.
Measure J would be the fourth in a series of bond measures to be approved over the past 18 years. Bond measures allow institutions to borrow money and, with time, pay back the loaned amount, plus interest. The borrowed money is paid back using funds produced by tax levies on Oakland property owners (see graphic for Measure J tax amounts). The tax rates are not fixed, said OUSD director of public relations Troy Flint. Alameda County would set tax rates based on the actual repayment amount due each year.
Under the California Education Code, bond money may only be used to pay for facilities—“not people,” school board president Jody London said, adding that voters sometimes think bond money will be used for salaries. | <urn:uuid:90ee476a-afaa-46d2-81a9-3a645cc75b45> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.sfgate.com/inoakland/2012/10/18/measure-j-bonds-for-school-facilities-how-much-would-it-add-to-tax-bills/?gta=commentlistpos | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953307 | 238 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Building for Today and Tomorrow
Investments in new facilities on North Campus have been a major contributor to Michigan Engineering’s leadership among peer institutions. But ongoing advances in technology demand continual improvements in and additions to buildings, laboratories and equipment. Progress & Promise: 150th Anniversary Campaign has made these advances possible.
Carl A. Gerstacker Building
The Carl A. Gerstacker Building is home to a wide variety of research programs in which investigators in multiple laboratories are delving into areas such as high-tech ultrasonic imaging, nano- and micro-molecular biotechnology, bio-fluid mechanics, the development of an artificial lung and tissue engineering.
Ann and Robert H. Lurie Biomedical Engineering Building
The Biomedical Engineering (BME) department occupies two state-of-the-art research and educational facilities on North Campus, which have allowed BME to grow rapidly, with new faculty, students and degree programs. Established as a department only in 1996, BME now hosts one of the largest graduate programs in the nation.
Completed in 2006, the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Biomedical Engineering Building features research laboratories, a variety of teaching labs, classrooms, conference rooms and faculty offices.
- Read about the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Biomedical Building
Undergraduate Degree in Biomedical Engineering
The BME expansion has made it possible for the department to create a degree for undergraduate students who enjoy math, physics and chemistry, but who also have a keen interest in biology and medicine.
Robert H. Lurie Nanofabrication Facility
The Robert H. Lurie Nanofabrication Facility (LNF) is an example of what vision can do, not only for the College of Engineering but also for high-tech companies, large and small, and the economy throughout southeastern Michigan. A $40-million face-lift included a 37,500 square-foot addition to the previous facility. The expansion was funded in large part by a gift from Ann Lurie (LLD Hon. ’03), wife of the late Robert Lurie (BSE IOE ’64, MSE ’66).
There are labs similar to the LNF in the Midwest, but none as advanced. Research groups from government, small companies and universities often don’t have the resources that the LNF can offer – but they can use the facility’s processes and equipment for a nominal fee.
Everyone benefits – not only the LNF and the researchers who use the equipment, but also the vendors who donate equipment, because many of the researchers and companies who use the equipment in the LNF are potential customers who might buy the very same equipment for use in another location in the future. Furthermore, the LNF is motivating companies – especially small companies – and Michigan Engineering researchers to take the risks that are often necessary for discovery and entrepreneurial ventures.
- Read more about the Lurie Nanofabrication Facility
Computer Science and Engineering Building
Multiple gifts to Progress & Promise: 150th Anniversary Campaign made possible the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Building, a state-of-the-art instructional and research facility.
The building, which opened in 2006, is creating opportunities to advance
current and recent projects such as:
- Computer infrastructures to create secure information systems
- “Smart cards” that tighten the security on computing systems
- Techniques to detect and identify attacks on computer networks
- Fault-checking capabilities that increase chip performance in computer processors and shorten the concept-to-market cycle
- Memory systems that retain their speed and tolerate system crashes
CSE accommodates 56 tenure-track faculty and 11 new laboratories. It also provides a single home for Michigan Engineering’s Computer Science and Engineering division, which had been spread throughout three buildings. The new environment is flexible, open and dynamic, designed to encourage frequent interaction that promotes the exchange of ideas and problem-solving.
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Immediately after Reagan’s announcement, Senator Ted Kennedy dashed to the Senate floor to mock the SDI speech as “misleading Red-scare tactics and reckless Star Wars schemes.” The term quickly found itself typed into New York Times headlines that day. Kennedy inspired other Democrats to follow suit. Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) dismissed Reagan’s talk of “Buck Rogers” weapons. Congresswoman Barbara Boxer (D-CA), today a U.S. senator from California, chuckled at the president’s “astrological dream.” Boxer ridiculed Reagan’s vision of flying parking “’garages’ in orbit.” The leftist scientist Carl Sagan, the face of Cosmos, a popular PBS series, joined the fun, howling at Reagan’s silly machine: “In the foreground comes a very attractive laser battle station,” guffawed Sagan, “which then makes a noise like bzzzt … bzzzt … bzzzt.”
Needless to say, the Kremlin absolutely loved this (click here and here). It was a badly needed gift, courtesy of America’s Democrats. Reagan’s announcement had terrified the Russians. They needed a way to turn the tables. They adored the lines about “Star Wars” and “Buck Rogers.” They instantly co-opted the language and created a full propaganda campaign built precisely on these terms of derision by Democrats.
Like with Barack Obama’s statement against missile defense today, the Russians were elated.
That was March 1983. And yet, President Obama’s comments bring to mind another troubling historical analogy. They follow Obama’s September 17, 2009 announcement cancelling plans for joint missile defense between the United States, Poland, and the Czech Republic—former “Captive Nations” of the Soviet Bloc that have become superb U.S. allies, and who still fear the Russians. Obama’s action was a shocking betrayal of these two allies, and it was done to mollify Vladimir Putin and the Russians.
Poles and Czechs were stunned. But Poles especially were aghast at the timing of Obama’s decision: It came exactly 70 years to the day—September 17, 1939—that Stalin’s Red Army, in compliance with the Hitler-Stalin Pact, invaded Poland. The Soviets thereby joined the Nazis in assaulting Poland and starting World War II. Among other calamities for Poland, such as the Katyn Woods massacre, this joint attack made possible the Warsaw Ghetto and Auschwitz. Poland somehow survived, but its Jews did not.
Back then, too, in September 1939, Poland was virtually defenseless, and Uncle Sam didn’t help.
This time, in September 2009, Poles and Czechs were asking for something much simpler: a U.S. commitment to the joint missile-defense system that America had promised under its previous president. No American troops were requested, no American tanks, planes, rifles, bullets, grenades. Only a defense system.
President Obama reversed that promise on September 17, 2009.
Many Poles saw the move as another painful example of Uncle Sam siding with Russia at Poland’s expense and to Poland’s detriment, a tragic history that goes back to Yalta in February 1945.
President Obama’s moves on missile defense contain some chilling historical parallels. This is not good.
Will any of this matter to Obama’s supporters? No, it won’t.
Dr. Paul Kengor is professor of political science at Grove City College, executive director of The Center for Vision & Values, and author of the book, “The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor.” His other books include "The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism" and "Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century." | <urn:uuid:e33d734a-24ee-4625-bcce-844a8911621d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://townhall.com/columnists/paulkengor/2012/04/01/obama_the_russians_and_missile_defense_historical_parallels/page/2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950428 | 850 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Cystoscopy Female Vaginal w/PostCare Patient Education on.fb.me -NEW facebook page - it's cool! SEE MORE VIDEOS: Patient Education Company Your doctor has recommended that you undergo a Cystoscopy. But what exactly does that mean? The lower urinary tract allows your body to store and release urine. It's made up of two parts, the bladder and the urethra. Your bladder is a hollow organ that expands as it fills with urine. Because it is made of muscular tissue, it can also contract and force urine to pass out of the body, through the urethra. Your urethra carries urine from the bladder to the outside of your body. Your doctor feels that it is necessary to examine the interior of the urethra and bladder, to try to determine the cause of a problem that you may be having. Symptoms that may call for a routine Cystoscopy include * Persistent infection of the urinary tract * Bladder stones * Bleeding while urinating * Irritation due to polyps, or * Changes to the bladder caused by cancer. Cystoscopy is a simple procedure during which your doctor will insert a well-lubricated, instrument called a cystoscope through your urethra and into your bladder. The cystoscope allows your doctor to visually inspect the interior of your bladder. It also allows your doctor to remove small pieces of tissue for later examination and even to crush small bladder stones, should any be present. Any tissue that your doctor removes from your bladder will be sent immediately to a laboratory for ***ysis. Your doctor will ask the laboratory to check ...
M1 Patient Diagnosis How a first year medical student diagnoses a patient
Pocoyo - Be Patient Pocoyo!!! Pocoyo is desperate to learn to play golf!! please ..Can you give me your opinion? this way I can go on uploading more pocoyo's videos!!
Tool - Eon Blue Apocalypse and The Patient Eon Blue Apocalypse - No lyrics. The Patient - A groan of tedium escapes me, Startling the fearful. Is this a test? It has to be, Otherwise I can't go on. Draining patience, drain vitality. This paranoid, paralyzed vampire act's a little old. But I'm still right here Giving blood, keeping faith And I'm still right here. Wait it out, Gonna wait it out, Be patient (wait it out). If there were no rewards to reap, No loving embrace to see me through This tedious path I've chosen here, I certainly would've walked away by now. Gonna wait it out. If there were no desire to heal The damaged and broken met along This tedious path I've chosen here I certainly would've walked away by now. And I still may ... [sigh] ... I still may. Be patient. I must keep reminding myself of this. And if there were no rewards to reap, No loving embrace to see me through This tedious path I've chosen here, I certainly would've walked away by now. And I still may. Gonna wait it out. I do not own Tool, or any of their work. All rights go to the band and their record label
Batman Arkham Asylum Patient Interviews: The Joker - Full Yeah beat the game and got all the rrittles and interview tapes, since I searched them before and couldn't find them, figured some one else might do the same.
The Resident Patient part 2 Granada's adaptation of The Resident Patient.
Wilco - Please Be Patient With Me Album: Sky Blue Sky www.last.fm I should warn you When I'm not well I can't tell Oh, there's nothing I can do To make this easier for you You're gonna need to be patient with me I'm this apple, this happening stone When I'm alone Oh, but my blessings get so blurred At the sound of your words I'm gonna need you to be patient with me How can I warn you when my tongue turns to dust Like we've discussed It doesn't mean that I don't care It means I'm partially there You're gonna need to be patient with me
Patient Zero A man travels to the past to kill a girl who is about to infect the world with a deadly virus that will eventually wipe out billions.
Serious Young Insects - Be Patient (1982) Music from Australia and New Zealand in the year 1982: Serious Young Insects' promo-video for the single 'Be Patient'. -------------------------------------- NZOZ NZOZ1982 1982 Australia Early Eighties 1980's 1980s 80's 80s Extended Tags: Boom Crash Opera Musical Terms: New Wave, Rock, Indi, Mod, Aussie, Old Australian Band
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Very Emotional - Be Patient My Mother There was a women called Ma*** of Firoun, she was a women who was the hairdresser of Firouns daughter, Pharaoh who said, I did not know any god but me, and Ma*** of Firoun, this hairdresser, she had embraced Islam in secret and when she was combing the hair of the daughter of pharaoh the king, one who said that he is god, the comb fell to the ground and then she automatically sub consciously picked up the comb and said, Bismillah, in the name of Allah. And this Ma*** of Firoun this hairdresser had five children and one of them was still breast feeding and then the daughter of Firoun said, Allah Abi, are you saying Allah my father? And she said, No! Allah, the god of your father and yourself and me and she became angry, she went to her father and said to him: Father, this woman worships another god besides you, he said: What? She knows another god besides me, who is that? Call her to me, and they called her to him. And she came and stood, a woman, a women brothers and sisters in front of this great Pharaoh. And he said to her, who is your god? And she said, Allah is my lord. He said who is Allah? She said Allah is my god and yours. Yes, she was cornered and put in a place, when she had to answer, she answered, this how the state of the Mumin in the past and present are. When they said, Allah is my lord, they were tortured. But we dont care. Because we know what were heading towards, we know who are lord is and we say what we believe, were not liars. She said Allah ...
The Average Patient I made this video to give the world a taste of what we dentists go through on a daily basis.
Wilco - Please Be Patient With Me Sky Blue Sky. Nonesuch Records. 2007.
Giving a Patient a Bed Bath This is a demonstration of how to give a patient a bath while they are in bed.
THe patient and I- specify nothing The 19th vid I made. Of random pics and music vids. Enjoy!!!--Valerie Ocana--
The Resident Patient part 1 Granada's adaptation of The Resident Patient.
Tool - The Patient Enjoy :D
Patient Chihuahua http
The Patient - Tool piano cover DOWNLOAD :
Patient J Part 2 READ!!! Part 2 of the first Patient J part which was uploaded by BatmanFaceTheFace. To See the rest of the film then go to google video and type up patient j you'll find it there full film available for download.
Posing as a Mental Patient Locked Up Abroad: The Real Midnight Express : SEASON PREMIERE WED JUN 30 10P et/pt : Hayes fakes insanity in order to transfer to a mental hospital, only to find that the hospital is much worse than prison.
Tool-The Patient (with lyrics) (lyrics). DougF420 to see more TOOL videos I've made. Visit and support him and TOOL by donating to build the "TOOL SHRINE." Only the first 10000 fans are including so HURRY!
Trauma Patient Assessment Part 2 - Do Not Attempt Here is part 2 of the trauma patient assessment. These are the things that should not happen on a call, plus some silly bloopers and staged entrances.
The English Patient - Extended Trailer For your ipod: Used the theatrical trailer as a base to create an extended trailer showcase. Enjoy!!
PreOp® Patient Education Myomectomy Vaginal Fibroid Surgery on.fb.me - NEW facebook page - it's cool! SEE MORE VIDEOS @ Patient Education @ 617-379-1582 INFO Your gynecologist has recommended that you undergo surgery to remove vaginal fibroids. But what does that actually mean? The uterus is part of a woman's reproductive system - it's the organ that contains and protects a growing fetus during pregnancy. Fibroids are non-cancerous tumors that grow from the inner or outer wall of the uterus. They are quite common - as many as 20% of women over 30 will develop fibroids sometime during their lifetimes. In most cases fibroids do not cause any discomfort and are never detected. Occasionally, however, fibroid tumors can cause problems. Complications from fibroid growth can include * Pressure on the urinary system. * Pressure on the intestines. * Interference with the reproductive system * Or infection. Because these tumors can grow to be very large, surgery is usually recommended in order to restore health and to protect the uterus.
Tool EBA/The Patient Radio City Music Hall live #8 Radio City Music Hall 8/13/2002 Tool: Eon Blue Apocalypse/The Patient live
Split brain behavioral experiments To reduce the severity of his seizures, Joe had the bridge between his left and right cerebral hemisphers (the corpus callosum) severed. As a result, his left and right brains no longer communicate through that pathway. Here's what happens as a result:
Patient Number 7 Police at her heels, killers on her trail, Kyra is on the run, with no memory of who - or what - she is.
The Joker Blogs - Find Patient 4479 DR. HARLEEN QUINZEL'S TASK: We need to spread the word and warn everyone about Patient 4479's escape. Make sure to put at least 10 of these in places where everyone will see them. Then get them on other websites and forums. Get the word out any way that you can. I'm counting on your help.
Tool - The Patient Tool - The Patient Unofficial music video, footage from the film "Pan's Labyrinth" I saw this movie the other day and the whole time it reminded me of a tool video so I made it in to one.
Tool- the patient live pretty ace live bootleg of tool.
Terminator - Be Patient Darkside Pioneer Mixtape Coming soon
The world's most patient cat Katie was getting kicked by Gregory for a few minutes. She never even hissed or tried to scratch or bite Gregory. In fact, she considered it a form of attention. Katie was purring the whole time.
patient faking seizure in ER pretty much how it is
Patient Haunting footage of mental patients from the 1940's and 50's. Music is "Never Forgive Me, Never Forget Me" by Akira Yamaoka
Gastric Bypass Patient Eatting The Biggest Reese's Egg Jeff, just thought I'd make you laugh a bit and eat this big *** of an egg on camera for you. I'm doing ok........No I'm not but thats cool, totally worth it. Forthose who want to follow me on twitter and get any inside info, follow me here: For those that want to be made aware when I start a BlogTV, Go here: and subscribe me in the middle of the page for SMS text or twitter for show starting announcements.
the morning benders "patient patient" a favorite song of mine that needed to be on youtube.
"Please Be Patient With Me" (1979)- Albertina Walker Albertina Walker, James Cleveland, and John McNeil lead.
Breakfast at Ginger's - Silence is "Golden" Silence is "Golden" on this version... Many people have commented that they'd like to see a version without the campy laughter in the background, so here it is: Breakfast at Ginger's, minus the laugh track. You decide which is better! We have our favorite! =) Enjoy...
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- You must be able to talk with your doctor to get what you need
- Ask yourself, “How much do I want to know?”
- Giving and getting information
- Asking questions
- Remembering what your doctor says
- The doctor-patient relationship
- Getting a second opinion
- If you have a problem talking with your doctor
- Information from your doctor that you will need later
- To learn more
Write down your questions as they come up between visits and take them to your next appointment. Here are some questions your doctor can usually answer for you. Keep in mind that the nurses and other members of your health care team can answer many of your questions, too.
When your doctor gives you instructions, write them down. Make sure you understand them before you leave the office. You will need to follow them exactly. You may also want to keep written notes on any health questions and concerns. Bring your notes with you to appointments to help you remember what you wanted to ask or tell your doctor.
These are some basic questions that can help you start learning about cancer and the choices you will have to make.
- What do I have? (What is my diagnosis?)
- What treatment do you recommend?
- Are there other treatments?
- What are the benefits of these treatments?
- What are the risks?
- How long will I need treatment?
- What medicines are you giving me? What are they for?
- How should I expect to feel during treatment?
- What side effects, if any, can I expect to have?
- What can be done about the side effects?
You can find more detailed question lists online at http://www.cancer.org/Treatment/FindingandPayingforTreatment/TreatmentDecisionToolsandWorksheets/QuestionstoAskYourDoctor/index.
Other things you may want to ask about
Here are some other things you may want to discuss with your doctor before and during treatment:
Effects of treatment: How will treatment affect the things in my life that are important to me? For example, will the disease or the treatment keep me from working or from caring for my family? How will I cope if I live alone? Will I be able to have children after treatment? Will I have any physical problems? Again, ask your doctor if you want more information about your treatment. Ask if there is written information you can take with you.
Starting treatment: Is it OK to wait to start treatment? Maybe you have a vacation, wedding, graduation, or other big event you want to go to before starting treatment. Or maybe you feel like your doctor is waiting too long to do your surgery or start your radiation or chemo. You may feel as if every day that goes by is one lost when you could have been fighting the cancer. Talk to your doctor about this. It may be safe to put off treatment for a short time. And in some cases it’s best to take time to get as much information as you can about your overall health and the cancer in order to know which treatment is best for you.
Contact numbers: What is the best time to call if I have a question? Some doctors have a special time to return calls. Expect your doctor to call you back, but remember that a quick response may not be possible if another patient is having a crisis. And many times a nurse can answer your questions, too. Where do I call if I have an emergency? What about after office hours, on holidays, or on the weekend?
You medical information: Who else gets information about me? Is there another doctor who should be kept informed? You may also want your doctor to be able to talk with your spouse, family members, or loved ones about your condition. Think about your choices and tell your doctor what you want. You may have to sign a form giving the doctor permission to talk to certain people. For more information on patient privacy, see our document What Is HIPAA?
If problems come up: Always tell your doctor about any effects from your treatment or from the cancer itself. Physical symptoms can be very important for your doctor to know about during (and even after) treatment. People with cancer may have trouble with pain, breathing, sleeping, nausea, appetite, their bowels, feeling tired, or other problems. Many discomforts can be prevented or made less of a problem with help from your doctor. Tell the doctor:
- What kind of symptom you are having and exactly how it feels
- The time of day you usually notice this symptom
- How bad it is
- Where you feel it in your body
- How long it lasts
- What, if anything, makes the symptom better or worse
- In what way or ways it affects or interferes with your daily life
If you keep having problems, let your doctor know what works and what doesn’t. Most people have to try more than one way to get symptoms under control.
If you feel sad, overwhelmed, or hopeless a lot of the time and these feelings don’t go away, bring this up with your doctor. There are many kinds of emotional distress that go with cancer and its treatment. You may have a problem that can be treated. See our document called Distress in People With Cancer for more details.
Above all, your doctor should take your questions seriously. He or she should be interested in your concerns and not make you feel rushed. If your doctor does not respond this way, bring it up at your next visit.
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Best New-Style Drugstore - 2001
Long before drugs became, well, a topic for roundtable discussions, cultures were busy nibbling on bark, boiling leaves and trying to figure out why the human ape did what it did. Although some primitives may have bitten off more than they wanted, they also assembled a healthy dose of remedies. And while Western medicine is good, there's nothing that says you can't have a little of both. That's why Clearspring has conventional standbys such as aspirin and vitamins alongside traditional herbal remedies and natural supplements. Clearspring is also bursting with information, in part because the store's buyer learned Denverites' needs while working for more than a decade as the buyer at Alfalfa's Market. The staff also includes a doctor, an acupuncturist, a chiropractor and a nurse in addition to the pharmacist who fills your prescriptions. If you have questions, there's always someone to ask, which is helpful, because those original bush doctors don't make house calls anymore. | <urn:uuid:42efb4bf-403f-4066-bb70-89e16149fd5f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.westword.com/bestof/2001/award/best-new-style-drugstore-39622/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970798 | 210 | 1.515625 | 2 |
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A few photos from the Zero Gravity Research Facility at NASA's Glenn Research Center, next to the Cleveland airport. I was there during the NASA tweetup I went to back in March. The name sounds exotic, but the concept is actually pretty simple: There's a 510 foot hole in the ground, lined with steel and sealed, with vacuum pumps to remove all the air. Experiments are enclosed in protective vehicles and dropped from the top of the shaft. The drop vehicle experiences 5.18 seconds of free fall (the zero gravity part) before landing in a pit of foam beads at the bottom.
A datasheet about the facility lists various things it can be used for, like testing new hardware, prototyping experiments that might go to space later, and so on. As it was explained to us, in recent years the facility's been used primarily for testing things you may not want to try on board a space shuttle or space station, like studying how fire behaves in zero gravity. I get the impression this research doesn't fully utilize the facility, and the datasheet mentions possible commercial uses, which I think means it's rentable if you have money and a legitimate use for the facility. If you fit that description, you'll probably want to start by reading the detailed User's Guide (the version online dates to 1999 so the bits about instruments and data handling are probably obsolete, but it still gives a general idea about how the process works.)
The guide mentions that they have a variety of still and video recording options, including high speed video cameras, but none of this video seems to have made it to YouTube, unfortunately. GRC does have its own YouTube channel, although it isn't updated regularly, and they don't seem to have any videos from here or the other unusual & heavy-duty facilities they run. At least not so far.
We were a bit pressed for time and only got to see the facility from the top, which was kind of a shame. The Wikipedia page about the facility includes a photo looking up from the bottom, with a drop vehicle about to hit the foam beads, and another photo on archive.org shows a vehicle as it enters the bead pit. A Cleveland Magazine article visited the bottom of the pit, and the author seemed to be somewhat freaked out about being in such a deep hole. | <urn:uuid:6485b5a8-633f-4827-8ff0-0d6fb8e8be46> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cyclotram.blogspot.com/2012/11/zero-gravity-research-facility.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966422 | 476 | 2.90625 | 3 |
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Sat June 16, 2012
Embracing The Quirkiness Of Djuna Barnes
Originally published on Sat June 16, 2012 6:06 pm
A writer, illustrator and provocateur in the Roaring '20s, Djuna Barnes stood out.
"She was much more interested in embracing the quirky and embracing that idea that became so famous in feminist circles half a century later," Catherine Morris says, "the idea that the personal is political."
Morris is the curator of a new exhibition of Barnes' writings and illustrations called "Newspaper Fictions" at the Brooklyn Museum's Sackler Center for Feminist Art.
The story goes that Djuna Barnes — who grew up with her mother, grandmother, polygmaist father, his mistress and brothers she'd help support — walked into the office of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and announced: "I can draw, I can write, you'd be foolish not to hire me."
And the paper did.
Barnes' whimsical drawings lent a satirical charm to her reporting. The newsprint and photographs on display are a bit faded, but Barnes' voice is still kicky. You could imagine some of her articles printed today in Vogue or The New Yorker.
"Part of the series that she did was called 'Odd types found in and around Brooklyn,' " Morris tells NPR's Jacki Lyden. "She would find individuals, strange people — across class lines, race lines, across all sorts of social milieus — and kind of draw pictures for her audience. And literally draw pictures."
Barnes, like the so-called "New Journalists" who came along in the '60s (Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion, for example), believed the observer colored the story, so why pretend otherwise? She often fabricated or made herself the subject.
One photograph in the exhibit shows her — bobbed hair and cloche hat — being saved by firemen while dangling off the side of a building. In a grimmer picture, she's being forcibly fed through a tube.
"A century before Christopher Hitchens was waterboarded, we have this example of what we would now call stunt journalism," Morris says.
At the time, suffragettes were making headlines in Britain. Hunger strikes were big — and so was forcing water and food down a woman's throat to keep her alive. Barnes decided to report on it by having it done to her for a piece she wrote for New York World Magazine in 1914. It was called "How It Feels to Be Forcibly Fed."
From New York To Paris And Back
Barnes, whose upbringing had been erratic and negligent — even abusive, was drawn to the whimsical and eccentric. A favorite enticement in her stories was Coney Island, where, Morris says, she drew the reader in.
But Coney Island couldn't keep her in New York when Paris called. In 1921, Barnes set off for the city that would make her famous.
"She interviewed people like James Joyce and others and became an active part of the really modern avant-gardes of Paris," Morris says.
She returned to New York in the 1930s and became a recluse, dying in 1982 in Greenwich Village — decades after she became famous in feminist circles for her novel Nightwood.
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In the event of a plumbing emergency, the following helpful hints and tips may help you if a professional plumber is not available to serve you immediately. We are available for emergencies through or toll free number: 800-378-DRIP (3747).
Leaky Pipes and Drippy Faucets
For water leaks beneath your home, turn off the main water valve to the house. This valve is usually outside. Close the main hose faucet on the house.
For fixtures that leak, simply turn the water off to that faucet.
For clogged fixtures, check other fixtures in the house to determine if the problem is isolated or if it's just that particular fixture that has problems.
Informing the plumber of these things when they arrive will speed up the repair process.
With municipal water rates rising steadily by the year, proper home water management is essential to save you money and water. Taking a few simple measures can help reduce consumption and your monthly bill:
- Repair dripping or leaky faucets and fixtures ASAP!
- Air dry dishes in the dishwasher.
- Replace old shower heads with low-flow devices.
- Replace toilet flappers every three years.
- Don't remove aerators from taps.
Water Heater Failure
There are many reasons that water heaters fail. The most common are: 1) bad heating elements or 2) corrosion that causes leaking. If your water heater fails, take the following measures first, then call us:
- Turn off power and disconnect gas to the unit. For electric units, use the fuse box; for gas units use the on/off valve.
- Close the water valve, which is usually located at the top of the tank.
- At the bottom of the tank, connect a hose to the drain valve and turn it on. Then turn on a hot water faucet inside the house and allow the tank to drain.
Thousands of children and seniors are severely burned each year from water heaters, which are typically set between 130 and 140 degrees. With these temperatures, third-degree burns take only a second to occur. To avoid scalding, follow these measures:
- Set your water heater at 120 degrees.
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- Never leave babies or children unattended in the bath tub.
- Install an anti-scalding device in the tub or shower to monitor temperatures.
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Healthy diet doesn't matter past 75, study says
In other words, eat whatever you want, grandpa.
Wed, Jan 16 2013 at 2:37 PM
Traditionally, the benefits of aging include getting away with speaking one’s mind, being forgiven for forgetfulness, and tossing fashion convention to the wind. But now a new study adds perhaps the best reward of all for reaching old age: The silver-haired set can throw dietary caution to the wind because eating healthfully no longer matters.
For people who have passed the 75-year mark, a diet high in sugar and fat doesn’t make a difference — and overly restrictive diets may not improve health at all, according to researchers.
"The results suggest that if you live to be this old, then there may be little to support the use of overly restrictive dietary prescriptions, especially where food intake may already be inadequate," says study author Gordon Jensen, head of the Department of Nutritional Sciences at Penn State.
The study, which appears in the Journal of Nutrition Health and Aging, followed a group of 449 people for five years. Participants were on average 76.5 years old at the beginning of the study; and were categorized as eating according to one of three different dietary patterns: “More healthful” which had relatively higher intakes of fruit, vegetables, whole grains, eggs, nuts, legumes and dairy; “Westernlike” which was characterized by an intake of starchy vegetables, refined grains, meats, fried poultry and fish, oils and fats; and “low produce, high sweets” which was defined by high saturated fat, and low dietary fiber and vitamin C intakes.
During the course of the study, researchers identified whether the participants developed cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, hypertension (high blood pressure), and metabolic syndrome. The results revealed no connection between dietary pattern and prevalence of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, or mortality in the participants. Even though there was evidence of increased risk of hypertension in people who followed the “low produce, high sweets” pattern, the conclusion was nonetheless surprising.
And not only that, but recent reports "suggest that there may be survival benefits associated with overweight and mild obesity status among the elderly,” Jensen noted.
The moral of the story? Make it to 75, then eat cookies to your heart's content.
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If you are looking at Facebook for social media marketing, know what it can really be used for. There is one mistake that is made. A business or individual starts to use the option and expects others to come running with interest in the business and connecting at massive speeds. However, the social media area is actually not supposed to be used this way.
I can guarantee if you go to the business plan of Facebook, you will find one thing that relates to the social media marketing. This is that the portal is intended for basic networking. That means you can connect to others and give them information. Basic information. What you are doing, what your business is doing, links to your business, and the new and improved pages, groups and marketplace definitely also add up. However, expect that most will look at this quickly then be on their way for different alternatives.
If you want to delve into the world of social media marketing, then considering Facebook is a way to connect to others. However, you want to make sure that you don’t rely too seriously on this form of marketing and should combine other aspects with your capabilities on this social media portal. Knowing what the social media area can be used for and weighing it in with your options ensures more alternatives for building a strong online presence. | <urn:uuid:2d0b4e9f-d920-4fe7-aab0-b4be9d1d8356> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ontargetvirtual.com/2011/07/is-facebook-only-social-media-marketing.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962554 | 260 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Canada’s government is working at full speed these days, as highlighted by Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird's assurance that the country is being kept safe from a possible zombie invasion.
Cue record scratch. Pardon me?
Yes, apparently we have nothing to fear from a zombie invasion. Baird made the assurance after being questioned on the topic in the House of Commons by NDP MP Pat Martin.
Baird said, according to Postmedia News:
Mr. Speaker, I want to assure this member and all Canadians that I am dedicated to ensuring that this never happens. I want to say categorically to this member and through him to all Canadians that under the leadership of this Prime Minister, Canada will never become a safe haven for zombies ever.
And while the topic is entirely out of the ordinary, it may not be entirely out of the blue.
The Canadian Press reported yesterday that Quebec's public security department discussed how to handle a zombie apocalypse during an industry symposium.
The entirely hypothetical (or is it?) topic of a zombie invasion has actually become a fairly common debate for disaster response groups. It allows for a discussion about emergency practices without straying too closely to an actual emergency scenario.It also captures the attention of the public.
British Columbia held a Zombie Preparedness Week to test its emergency equipment last year.
[ Related: TV station in Montana warns of attacking zombies ]
And the United State's Center for Disease Control decided to maintain its site on zombie awareness after the end of its tongue-in-cheek campaign last year.
"If you are generally well equipped to deal with a zombie apocalypse you will be prepared for a hurricane, pandemic, earthquake, or terrorist attack," director Dr. Ali Khan said.
Yes, it is heady days for zombie aficionados, in and out of parliament. It’s good to know the government is on top of the threat.
You may find it interesting that this is not the first time the topic of zombies has been brought up in the House of Commons. A quick scan through OpenParliament.ca finds that zombies — the colloquial name for hacked computers — were the topic of conversation during a recent Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act debate.
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From Bloomberg Government’s Congress Tracker blog
President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address that his health-care overhaul is taming costs, though Congress’s top budget advisor isn’t so sure.
Douglas Elmendorf, director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, told lawmakers that he doesn’t know why once-spiraling costs have slowed in recent years.
“We have not attributed the slowdown to any particular factor like the Affordable Care Act,” he told the House Budget Committee, referring to the law enacted in 2010.
It’s a combination of the slow economy — people spend less on care when they feel strapped — and structural changes in the health-care industry that economists don’t yet understand, Elmendorf said.
“The structural part could have a number of possible causes,” he said. “One could be providers thinking about the current incipient effects of the Affordable Care Act, but they also are driven by pressures from private insurers. I think providers are driven by their own sense that they’re not providing care in as efficient a way as possible.”
In his speech last night, Obama took credit for the slowdown, telling lawmakers: “Already, the Affordable Care Act is helping to slow the growth of health-care costs.”
Cost increases have been slowing for several years; Medicare grew by just 3 percent, or $16 billion, in 2012, the smallestannual gain since 2000. That helped prompt CBO to ratchet back its projections of future costs. It now anticipates that Medicare and Medicaid will cost $200 billion less in 2020 alone than it anticipated just three years ago.
“That’s a topic that we’re giving a lot of thought to,” said Elmendorf. “I think the right way to summarize the consensus is that we don’t know.” | <urn:uuid:c95e9bf0-ce97-42f5-bce5-b2ca71000c61> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://go.bloomberg.com/political-capital/2013-02-13/obama-says-health-law-cutting-costs-cbo-chief-isnt-so-sure/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957834 | 401 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Robert Thiele: The Accidental Gallerist
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|Miami artist Robert Thiele and an array of his artwork, inside his studio|
When meeting Robert Thiele, it’s best to toss aside the reigning conceptions of Miami’s current art stars. Thiele is neither baby-faced nor prone to invoking a mishmash of postmodern theory. And he’s anything but effete. Instead, the 70-year-old sculptor stands well over six feet tall and still retains the bear-size frame that earned him a football scholarship to Ohio’s Kent State University, followed by a position with the Dallas Cowboys. As Thiele recalls with a chuckle, “My painting teacher at Kent State once said, ‘I’ve been trying to figure you out. On Saturday you go out and tackle people and you’re really aggressive. Then on Monday you go into the studio. How can you make these two things work?’” Thiele’s wry response? “I told him I was even more aggressive in my studio than I was on the football field.”
He’s only partly joking. There’s a quiet intensity that has marked Thiele’s artwork since he first arrived in Miami in 1966, ditching his football career to become an art instructor at the then-fledgling Miami-Dade College, where he taught alongside painter Robert Huff, painter Salvatore La Rosa and the late sculptor Duane Hanson.
Over the subsequent decades, Thiele would become increasingly synonymous with the Miami art scene, literally so in 1975 when he and La Rosa were the first South Floridians ever to be chosen for the nationally trendsetting Whitney Biennial. Not that Thiele’s admirers were able to easily classify his hanging columns and towering stone monoliths, most with Plexiglas-shrouded compartments offering blurred internal views—sometimes of intriguingly cryptic shapes, sometimes of no less intriguingly obscured women.
Reflecting on a 2009 exhibition at Wynwood’s Dorsch Gallery, Miami Art Museum senior curator Peter Boswell likened Thiele’s pieces to those of Christian Boltanski, noting the “continuous play between revelation and concealment, between object and illusion, between the intimate and the imposing.” Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale director emeritus George Bolge has suggested that the best way to understand Thiele’s monoliths is to dispense with the contemporary art world altogether: “I see Celtic grave markers, these large stones with the glass in them, and inside the glass are little stories, marvelously masochistic, sexual things going on.”
Thiele fully intended to spend 2011 continuing to spin out those “little stories,” dividing his time between his studios in North Miami and, come summertime, in Brooklyn. But then came the sale of the sprawling warehouse where he leased his North Miami studio. “I’ve been there for 15 years. It’s full of tons of my work—literally, it weighs tons.”
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In the 1970's and early 1980's the Australian National Botanic Gardens (then known as Canberra Botanic Gardens) produced a landmark series of booklets called 'Growing Native Plants', issuing one volume a year for 14 years. This was at a time when little was available on this topic in commercial publishing.
With the private publication of 'Australian Native Plants' by John Wrigley and Murray Fagg in 1979 and the first volumes of the multi-part 'Encyclopeadia of Australian Plants' by Rodger Elliot and David Jones in the 1980's, there was less demand for the government to produce the series and it finished at Number 14.
This Web version updates highlights from the series, making the information
available to a much larger local and world audience. In recent years new species
have been added, written by the Botanical Interns as part of their training program with the Australian
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Over more than a decade, software quality has evolved as driving engine for software development. It has played significant role in development and timely delivery of quality software to the market. During this period, managing complex quality system has turned out to be more challenging.
Managing software quality and its process is influenced by a key factor – test tools. Test tools like UI Automation, Performance, SOA test, and ALM, help in producing high quality software through efficient process.
The rapid evolution of technology has given birth to a wide range of test tools. In this scenario, the process of selecting the apt test tool has become quite a big challenge. Finding the right tool plays a pivotal role in successful delivery of any project. A methodical and a well-structured approach in tool selection would give a better Return on Investment and long term perspective in the market.
Not having the tool selection process in place would jeopardize the project. The investment in expensive licenses, training, and development effort will go down the drain.
In the field of independent verification and validation services, Testree has accumulated immense expertise in the field of software quality (testing). The deep domain knowledge, along with testing services, Testree also plays advisory role for various clients across the globe for tool selection process. Testree has identified the following key factors as critical in test tool selection process.
For demonstration purpose, as an example, selection of a test automation tool is considered.
It is always a good idea to “start with the end in mind”. , , Always have a clear scope in mind Scope like test coverage, types of test (like UI functional and unit tests), delivery timelines, applications under test, cross-browser tests and list goes on as per needs.
- Tools & Pricing
At present, there are various test automation tools available in the market, right from open source to commercial. Both offer various benefits (more or less) like support for various applications, platforms, and operating systems.
In comparison, commercial tools save development time, (not to mention good technical support). Whereas open source tools would be cost effective but may demand significant development cost and expertise in programming.
In both cases technical competence of the testers plays a crucial role. Open source would demand a highly skilled expertise from all the team members; whereas commercial would work with semi-skilled members but with at least one high skilled member. Lastly and obviously budget would matter as deal maker or breaker.
- Gaining confidence in a test tool
With handful of test scenarios covering all possible UI elements having proof of concept specifically tailor made to the requirement would help in gaining the insight and confidence. On the other hand, this preparation will help in understanding the requirement thoroughly and strategize testing activity.
Moreover demonstration of the proof of concept would give a good chance in gaining the confidence of all stake holders involved.
Testree Thoughts: This article will give an idea to the reader the importance of a proper plan in place when it comes to test tool selection and implementation of the same.
As one can see from this dissertation, selection of right test tool would do great deal in making a project successful with good return on investment.
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Scale back smartly and get to the starting line fresh, healthy, and ready to run.
After three or more months of hard marathon training, you'd think runners would embrace the R&R of the taper. Not always. Both veterans and newcomers often find it difficult to scale back their mileage, kick up their feet, and coast into race day. "Runners have to understand that they won't be fat by Thursday or lose their fitness by Sunday," says Janet Hamilton, M.A., C.S.C.S., an exercise physiologist at Running Strong in Atlanta. "One of the best gifts you can give yourself is well-rested legs on race day." To get those rested legs, coaches typically recommend a taper of two to three weeks. Whether you're aiming simply to finish your first 26.2 or to nail a time goal, here's how to navigate those final weeks so you arrive at the starting line raring to go.
THREE WEEKS OUT
Because the taper follows a fatigue-inducing period of high mileage, you'll likely welcome these first days of cutting back. Reducing your total weekly volume by 20 to 25 percent during this week gives your body a chance to recover from all that hard work by restocking depleted glycogen supplies and repairing tissue damage. The combination of decreased mileage and increased rest can be invigorating—expect to feel excited, anxious, or both, says Cindra Kamphoff, Ph.D., associate professor of sports psychology at Minnesota State University.
Reduce the distance (or time) of each of your runs by 20 to 25 percent—so, for example, if you were running five miles during your shorter midweek runs, run four; if you ran 20 miles for the previous week's long run, run 16. Perform most of your runs at an easy pace. "If you run everything at or near race pace, you're bludgeoning your body," says Hamilton. Runners targeting a time goal should do three to five miles at goal pace during a long midweek run—key workouts like this will keep your body and mind tuned into race pace. Rest two days.
TWO WEEKS OUT
Welcome to no-man's-land—with 14 days to go, both your training gains and race goal may seem distressingly far off. During week two of your taper, you'll reduce your mileage an additional 20 to 25 percent, which gives you plenty of free time to fret. "You might start doubting your ability this week," says Kamphoff. Counter it by looking through your training log to see how far you've come, and how much your fitness has improved.
Reduce each of your weekly runs by an additional 20 to 25 percent. Run everything easy. If you're targeting a time goal, do the following key workout during one of your longer midweek runs, says Jesse Kropelnicki, head coach at Your262.com. Warm up for 10 to 15 minutes, then run one mile at 30 seconds faster than marathon race pace, followed by one mile at 30 seconds slower than race pace. Repeat two to four times. "During the final two to three weeks, it's important that any speedwork be as race-specific as possible," says Kropelnicki. Chill out for two days.
At this point, it's all about staying rested and getting mentally prepared. This week, aim to sleep eight hours a night and stay off your feet as much as you can—reducing stress on your body will allow it to top off its glycogen and maintain adequate hydration levels. To combat nerves, schedule movie nights, start a new book, or visualize races you've enjoyed. "Pump your mind full of positives," says Kamphoff. "Use all your senses to create how you'd like your race to go."
"This is a time of high nerves, and some athletes feel they need to run to calm themselves," says Hamilton. Which is fine—but take it real easy and reduce your running to just four days this week. New marathoners may run no more than three or four miles at a time, while advanced runners may do a couple of six-milers early in the week. A very light, race-pace workout early in the week can help you stay sharp. Run one to four miles at marathon pace with a one-mile warm-up and cooldown. First-timers looking to simply finish shouldn't worry about a sharpening workout. "It's more important to get to the start well-rested and injury-free," says Hamilton. | <urn:uuid:0b9cbcc0-3829-4ea0-a535-a3394eb09774> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.runnersworld.com/race-training/taper-time | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970495 | 948 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Phosphorus: An Essential Element For Farming
Increased uptake of phosphorus improves plant health, root structure and growth.
(NAPSI)—Those who paid attention during basic chemistry classes may recall that phosphorus is one of three essential elements for plant life. Without phosphorus, farming and food production would be impossible.
For this reason, some say that phosphorus is just as important as oil in the industrial world. However, while issues involving petroleum are front-page news, phosphorus rarely garners any attention at all. That is, unless you work in agriculture.
Dependency, Shortages and Concerns
The truth is that phosphate rock is a limited resource and supplies are under siege. The largest global reserves of phosphate are located in places where it is difficult to access for political or environmental reasons, such as China, Morocco and the western Sahara Desert.
The world’s largest phosphate mine is in Florida, but production in that mine is limited by environmental regulation due to concerns about phosphorus runoff into waterways and groundwater.
Dr. Larry Sanders, president and CEO of SFP, observed that marketplace volatility in 2008 caused phosphorus prices to increase several hundred percent. “This scenario could happen again,” he warns.
Sanders added that phosphate is finite in nature, and supplies are threatened by geopolitical situations, which are compounded by the fact that phosphorus, when applied as a fertilizer, loses as much as 75 to 95 percent of its value due to “lockup” in the soil. He says the fixation of phosphorus in the soil makes much of the element unavailable for plant uptake.
Technology Creates Solution
Fortunately, today there is a product designed to reduce soil lockup of applied phosphorus and help maximize the availability of the element for the plant.
Called AVAIL® Phosphorus Fertilizer Enhancer, it’s added to phosphorus fertilizer and allows a much higher percentage of the nutrient to be available for plant uptake.
Increased uptake can improve plant health, facilitate a stronger root structure and generate better crop growth. The results are higher-yield opportunities for any crop where AVAIL-treated phosphorus is applied.
To date, AVAIL has been used on more than 36 million acres of crops worldwide, with the majority of those acres being corn, wheat, soybeans and forages.
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The 2006 Census - Your chance to have a say
With many of the products and services from the 2001 Census now available, attention has already begun to focus on the next Census of Population and Housing expected to be held on Tuesday 8 August 2006.
Public consultation for the 2006 Census has begun with the release of the first in a series of Information Papers, 2006 Census of Population and Housing: ABS Views on Content and Procedures (cat. no. 2007.0) on 2 July 2003.
The Information Paper, available on the ABS web site at http://www.abs.gov.au/census, describes the procedures for the 2006 Census and the topics that might be included. The paper also explains ABS arrangements to protect the privacy of individuals and the confidentiality of the information supplied by them.
Users of census data and interested members of the public are invited to make submissions on any aspect of the conduct and content of the census, using the assessment criteria outlined in the Information Paper.
Submissions can be made electronically by email or in hardcopy. Submissions will be sought by 30 July 2003.
In addition to providing copies of the Information Paper to people and organisations with an interest in census data, the public will be notified of the release of the Information Paper through:
Following assessment of submissions, recommendations on the nature and content of the 2006 Census will be discussed with the Australian Statistics Advisory Council later in 2003. All individuals or organisations who have made submissions will be advised of the results of these deliberations. The ABS will prepare a submission to the Federal Government during 2004 containing recommendations on the nature and content of the 2006 Census and release an information paper outlining the 2006 Census content.
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By Erin Conroy, Associated Press
PROVIDENCE Having someone's name permanently etched into your flesh is considered by some to be the ultimate testament to a relationship. But wouldn't it be great to make that commitment without really making it ... forever?
A new dye due to hit tattoo parlors this fall will provide an exit strategy of sorts for people who have thought about getting a tattoo, then wondered if they might someday have regrets.
The permanent but removable ink is made by storing dye in microscopic capsules that will stay in the skin for good. But if that butterfly tattoo on the small of your back starts looking lame, it can be zapped away with a single laser treatment that is simpler and less painful than the barrage of treatments now needed.
While the idea might intrigue some — for example, the 36% of Americans ages 18 to 29 who get tattoos, according to a 2006 study by the Journal of American Academy of Dermatology— some enthusiasts say getting inked without the lifetime commitment wouldn't be appealing. Those in the industry are also skeptical, especially since the company making the dye says it will cost considerably more than a regular tattoo.
"I don't know anyone who would pay more for a tattoo where their thought is, 'Maybe one day I'm going to remove this,'" said Jerry Lorito, vice president of the tattoo removal company Tat2BeGone in Costa Mesa, Calif.
The idea was developed in the late 1990s by Rox Anderson, a dermatology professor at Harvard University who founded the New York-based company Freedom-2 in 1999 to bring the product to market.
In 2004, Anderson approached Edith Mathiowitz, a professor of medical science and engineering at Brown University. Mathiowitz specializes in microcapsulating medicines, DNA, hormones and insulin in plastic polymers, which control the time and rate of the drug's release in the body. Some molecules are designed to break open when exposed to heat, ultraviolet light or ultrasound.
Using the same technology, Mathiowitz trapped dye pigments in microscopic beads coated with a safe, biodegradable plastic.
It's possible to remove regular tattoos with lasers, but it can cost thousands of dollars and usually requires between seven to 15 treatments.
With each conventional laser treatment, the dye is broken down into fragments until they are small enough to be carried away by the bloodstream, usually into the lymph nodes. But the Freedom-2 ink particles held in the tiny beads are already small enough. In just one laser treatment, the polymers combust, and the fragments are released and naturally expelled from the body, Mathiowitz said.
She hopes to eventually design molecules that will dissolve over time for a long-term temporary tattoo that would not require any laser treatment.
Mathiowitz doesn't have a tattoo and said that as a scientist, she never thought she'd be working with them. But she said she is happy to help improve an ancient art form.
"This will make tattoos so much safer. None of the toxins from the ink will be able to leak out" and linger in the dermis, as occurs with conventional tattoos, Mathiowitz said.
Freedom-2 boasts it could save a painful and costly removal process for those who have their heart broken or make a spring break mistake.
"Regret is a strong word, but there are people who are parents or are in a job where they do not want their tattoo to show," said Martin Schmieg, president of Freedom-2. "There are times that your life circle changes things, and the form of self-expression you were proud of in your past just doesn't match now."
Schmieg is the only person to use the ink so far. He tattooed his bicep with the company's red logo, then removed it four months later. Photos show the color has disappeared and only a shadow of it looms. Schmieg said it has since faded.
For Elke O'Connor, 39, of Los Angeles, having a decade-old tribal print removed from her throat is costing her at least $1,000, about a dozen laser treatments and pain she described as "excruciating." "It's the worst pain I've ever had in my life," said O'Connor, who had her first treatment last week. "It's like razor blades cutting you."
Despite the pain, she said she still would have declined if she had the option for removable ink back then. "When someone's going into something like getting a tattoo, it's usually something they want forever," she said.
Lorito said the biggest obstacle the company faces is marketing the product to tattoo salons, where he said temporary tattoos, made from henna or vegetable dye that last weeks and sometimes months, are frowned upon.
"When an artist tattoos somebody, in their mind, they want their work on that body for the rest of that person's life," he said.
At Bambu Tattoo Art Studio in Providence, tattoo artist George Dietz said he's skeptical about whether the ink will last, and said he probably won't use it when it's available this fall.
"If people don't want something permanent," he said, "they shouldn't get a tattoo."
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|Amputation for War Wounds (ICRC, 30 p.)|
Revision of a stump months or years after skin closure is commonly requested to facilitate the fitting of or weight bearing on a prosthesis. The common indications are: neuroma; a painful scar tethered to bone; chronic sinus from a non absorbable suture or a sequestrum; in the case of below knee amputations, a long fibular section (figure 10), a tibial section without anterior bevelling or a bone spike from the residual periosteum.
In children, the bone ends continue to grow and so may eventually protrude through the scar; this is particularly common in forarm amputations.
The aim of the revision is to remove the cause of the problem and to leave a stump as long as possible which is well covered by soft tissue. The myoplastic amputations described above are rarely appropriate for stump revision unless reamputation at a much higher level is being considered.
Revision for neuroma need only involve excision of the neuroma and distraction of the nerve before its higher division.
The operation should be performed with a tourniquet on the limb with a single intravenous dose of benzyl penicillin. Both muscle and bone are wasted in any stump and so both are more easily cut. The stump can be closed primarily as long as the revision was not undertaken for an infected sinus. Vacuum drainage of the closed stump is recommended if the revision has involved division of bone or muscle. | <urn:uuid:74de91ec-750e-4fe0-b171-ea94ccec4e6a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nzdl.org/gsdlmod?e=d-00000-00---off-0who--00-0----0-10-0---0---0direct-10---4-------0-1l--11-en-50---20-preferences---00-0-1-00-0--4----0-0-11-10-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=who&cl=CL2.1&d=HASH017ac520ffbde1bc501678c0.9 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92641 | 314 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Migration, Public Opinion and Politics
The Transatlantic Council on Migration
1st edition 2009, 392 pages
Public perceptions and media coverage of immigrants and immigration policy are powerful forces in shaping the immigration debate. Understanding public opinion on immigration, how this impacts the political debate and how it affects reform prospects is critical in designing a strategy to advance thoughtful, rational and effective immigration and integration policy.
This volume explores a critical policy issue that has often been underestimated in the migration policy debate: the media and public opinion. This volume contains expert analysis of how our publics perceive immigration and immigrants—from their effects on the job market, to their impact on culture and society, to their prospects for integration. It assesses the forces that are shaping how our publics perceive immigration and immigrants. The authors also highlight patterns and trends in how political leaders speak about immigration. The volume ranges more broadly as well to examine how public opinion and political debates about issues such as globalization, economic crisis and demographic change affect the immigration debate. The work is deeply informed by the Council’s transatlantic perspective.
The book focuses in particular on three case studies: the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany. The volume includes chapters analyzing public opinion and media coverage of immigration issues in each country. Additional chapters propose strategies for unblocking opposition to thoughtful, effective immigration-related reforms.
This book is the third major product of the Transatlantic Council on Migration. It is a result of the deliberations and thinking of the Transatlantic Council on Migration, which brings together leading political figures, policymakers and innovative thinkers—pollsters, political consultants, journalists, community organizers and politicians—from the USA and Europe.
The Transatlantic Council on Migration is an initiative of the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, DC and its policy partner the Bertelsmann Stiftung. Its work is supported by numerous foundations and several governments. The Council is a unique deliberative body that examines vital policy issues and informs migration policymaking processes across the Atlantic community. Council members include leading politicians and policymakers from both sides of the Atlantic. | <urn:uuid:39b751b3-41d4-4eff-b969-ab9e4ac5290b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/cps/rde/xchg/SID-F9861606-F3BA0A0C/bst_engl/hs.xsl/publikationen_98119.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00064-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938275 | 417 | 2.015625 | 2 |
A Brewing Debate: Alcohol Direct Shipment Laws and the Twenty-First Amendment
Matthew J. Patterson | 2002 U. Ill. L. Rev.
Alcohol direct shipment laws exist in many forms. In some cases, these laws prohibit out-of-state producers and retailers from shipping alcohol directly to in-state consumers. In other instances, such laws allow alcohol to be shipped directly to consumers from producers and retailers in another state as long as a reciprocity agreement exists. While proponents of alcohol direct shipment laws cite underage drinking and tax evasion as reasons to keep these laws intact, opponents believe that states have no legitimate regulatory interest in the stream of intrastate alcohol.
At the center of this dispute is the Twenty-first Amendment, which assures that alcohol transportation or importation into any state will not occur in contravention of the laws of that state. As a result of this assurance, a debate has raged over whether state laws governing the intrastate flow of alcohol are exempt from the ambit of the Commerce Clause.
In this note, the author will examine the history of alcohol regulation in the United States and analyze Twenty-first Amendment jurisprudence. This note will then argue that a disassembling of state-sanctioned alcohol distribution plans is not backed by the Twenty-first Amendment or the history encompassing its passage. Finally, the note will argue that striking down alcohol direct shipment laws would produce a national alcohol market, which would be in conflict with the Twenty-first Amendment.
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A party of the enemy came from Suffolk to South Key, 16th Instant destroyed the ware houses, Rum, tobacco, &c., at that place, the day next marched to Wineoak & Manny's ferry, which is within 12 miles of this place, Burnt Mr. Manney's dwelling house, with upwards 100 Blls. Sugar, a large quantity Rum, Rigging, Coffee, &c. They also destroyed a large quantity Rum, Sugar, Coffee, Wine, &c., at Wine-Oak, took all the horses, plundered the inhabitants in a most cruel manner. They were expected at the Pitch Landing, which is four miles above this & a place of considerable trade. I turned out and raised between 60 & 70 men & took post at Skinner's Bridge on Meherin River, an advantageous post, which is generally supposed prevented their coming this far. The 19th they retreated towards Suffolk. There has a number of Tories joined the Enemy in Nansemond County near South Key, and is embodied in that neighbourhood, which is only 18 or 20 miles from this
I have and can raise in a few hours, 70 or 80 men in this part of the Country. Please to favour me with a line as soon as convenient.
Col. Lamb is on his way to join you with a party of Troops from this district, who can inform you of the success of collecting the drafts, &c.
All the stores was not sent from this neighbourhood when we expected the enemy among us. I put a part of it on board of a vessel, and the remainder I secured as well as I could. Among the articles impressed, there was a few pss. of light canvass & 1 pss. Rushe Drill. If you want it, it is very good for Breeches and Overalls. I will keep two or three ps. and bring out with me, as I make no doubt but the Officers are in want. Lord Cornwallis is at Jericho, a few miles below Suffolk. He has burnt all the vessels in that part of the Country. I am informed by good authority that 2,000 men had embarked from his army for New York. I am told the Marquis is on the other side of James River, and that General Wayne has come over on this side, six days ago, with upwards of 1,000 men.
I saw Capt. Edwd. Webb, a gentleman that is to be depended on, yesterday, directly from Boston, Informs me that he overtook in Hertford town in Connecticut five Thousand French troops with a number of large cannons, some 42-pounders, on their way to join His Excellency, Genl. Washington, at the white plains. | <urn:uuid:64f13593-90b6-49c6-b65b-e15838a22469> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://docsouth.unc.edu/csr/index.html/document/csr15-0503 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985121 | 559 | 1.5625 | 2 |
South Sudan interview: 'What we are facing is an extremely serious situation'
What are the most pressing problems?
In the Batil camp, the needs are wide-ranging – water, food and shelter but also soap and jerrycans to collect and stock clean water – but the most significant concern at this point is the nutritional situation. We admitted more than 1,000 young children suffering from severe malnutrition in three weeks. That's a very significant number and it continues to grow. 50 children – the most seriously malnourished – have been hospitalised and are being monitored closely around the clock. For the MSF teams, treating malnutrition in the camp is a race against time.
What are the causes of this situation?
These people have been on the move for months. Many fled because of attacks or bombings in their village. They often leave in the middle of the night and don't have time to get ready. We are dealing with entire families who are exhausted and extremely weak. Many arrived in a more or less advanced state of malnutrition. They now receive rations of rice, cereal and oil every 15 days, but it is not enough. Children, particularly the youngest ones, lack reserves of nutrients. As a result, the immune system cannot function properly and children can die from diarrhoea, fever or a respiratory infection.
Can you tell us more about living conditions in the camps?
The situation we’re seeing in Batil is tragic. In addition to the lack of food, poor hygiene conditions – for example, the lack of soap – are aggravating the situation. There is a lot of diarrhoea. I'm also worried about malaria and the lack of mosquito nets. It's very upsetting to walk through the camp and see all these children who no longer have the energy to laugh or play. People are hungry. The weakest children die of malnutrition or diseases.
What is MSF doing in this region?
Today, in Batil camp, we spend most of our time and effort treating malnutrition. We currently have 150 beds in Batil. This number is constantly increasing because the needs are huge and growing. In the last few days, MSF has sent 70 tons of therapeutic foods by air and water from
Is there sufficient international aid?
Clearly, the current amount of aid is inadequate to cope with such high needs. What we need now are more food distributions which are better-suited to the most vulnerable. In order to prevent the health of children, pregnant and lactating women from worsening rapidly, they need a rich and varied diet that contains protein and micronutrients. We are undertaking a nutritional and mortality survey right now, in order to better understand the needs and adapt our responses to them. We are very worried about this situation. We have to be ready for the worst. What we are facing is an extremely serious situation.
Are distributions possible despite the logistical problems?
MSF delivers aid primarily by air. We have expanded our teams significantly in the last few days and we've sent two vehicles, a tractor and 30 tons of energy biscuits for the malnourished children. Access is difficult in this region. Some roads have been cut off as a result of rising water now that the rainy season has begun. We are in a marshy area here. However, the airports and roads are open. Aid organisations cannot use logistical problems as an excuse. We've got to mobilise all resources immediately. | <urn:uuid:9ba4d048-403a-4e7e-beb4-fc8c6ab5eee4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.msf.org/article/south-sudan-interview-what-we-are-facing-extremely-serious-situation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970475 | 702 | 1.726563 | 2 |
The non-profit Grabhorn Institute supports paid apprenticeship programs designed for those interested in long-term employment and not for a temporary or transitional experience. They provide training in the crafts of typography, letterpress printing, bookbinding, and type casting. Apprentices learn while working on book publishing projects, contract jobs, and type production for the two divisions.
PRINTING & BOOKBINDING : Arion Press, fine printers and publishers of deluxe limited edition books, offers training in typography, book design, letterpress printing, and bookbinding that will lead to long-term employment. Commitment is for a minimum two years of employment.
TYPECASTING & FOUNDRY WORK: M & H Type, the oldest and largest surviving type foundry in the United States, offers training in typography, typecasting, and Monotype composition that will lead to long-term employment. Commitment is for a minimum four years of employment: two years in apprentice status, followed by at least two years in journeyman status.
We wish we could accommodate all the talented and dedicated people who would like to come here to learn book making with us. Currently, we have two apprentices and two journeymen who have completed apprenticeships in the type foundry and two journeymen in the bindery who also completed apprenticeships. These people are also receiving training in the composing room and pressroom from a typographer/printer. We have a master typecaster and a master bookbinder, both part-time, who continue training in their departments. If you should come to San Francisco, we would be happy to meet you and show you the facility during one of our weekly public tours on Thursday afternoons at 3:00 by reservation. The charge is $7 per person.
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It was the tragic homicide of her first husband that brought fifth grade math teacher Jennifer Evans Lowery to her true calling.
Initially, Lowery completed a bachelor’s in business and pursued a career as an investment analyst.
“I chose that career because it was a ‘logical’ choice,” Lowery said.
The Milken Educator Award winner said she chose a career in finance because her husband was an Oklahoma State trooper and she wanted to have a more lucrative career to supplement his income since his pay was “unbelievably low at the time.”
On Thursday, August 31, 2000, Lowery’s first husband, trooper Mathew Scott Evans, was killed in the line of duty at age 24 after just one year on the job.
“When he passed, I realized life was entirely too short to work simply for money,” she said.
She went back to college and earned another bachelor’s and a master’s in elementary education.
“I took a pay cut because I was called to teach,” said Lowery, who teaches at Mid-Del’s Highland Park Elementary.
And called she was. The seven-year teaching veteran was selected as one of this year’s 55 Milken Educator Award winners nationwide.
The Milken Educator award honors and rewards outstanding K-12 educators for the quality of their teaching, their professional leadership, their engagement with families and the community, and their potential for even greater contributions to the healthy development of children. The honor also comes with a $25,000 reward.
Lowery said the secret to her success is simple. Her first job is to impart to students a love for learning, not simply a means to pass a test.
“I wouldn’t be truthful if I said standardized tests don’t worry me, they do. But my joy comes from the kids, not from the results.”
She said finding alternatives to paper and pencil, whether it is using technology, purposeful movement activities, white boards or team collaboration, is imperative to making learning new and inviting to kids.
Despite her intentional lack of focus on test scores, results are exactly what she’s been getting. There has been a 30 percent increase in the number of fifth graders scoring advanced in math on the Oklahoma Core Curriculum Test.
Lowery said it is important for her to help her students understand why they need to know math concepts.
“If students see a reason for trying and know that you believe in them, they will nearly always respond favorably,” she said. “They need to know that we believe in them not only to complete assignments correctly, but to make good decisions and plan for the future.”
Lowery is known for incorporating games and collaborative teaching methods with multiple subjects into just one project. She regularly integrates her passion for cooking with her insatiable appetite for innovative instruction.
She hosts pancake breakfasts as a way to show parents how to give their kids the proper nutrition, especially during testing periods. She also teaches cooking lessons to reinforce math concepts like fractions.
“The wonderful thing about teaching is that every class period is a time to start fresh, to leave what happened at home at home and what happened in the last class period right where it belongs – the last class period. We continually get a fresh start and so do our kids.”
Story written by Kandis West and published in the December 2010 / Januarly 2011 edition of the Education Focus.
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Software technologist Racheli Van Buren invented a special keyboard for use with Webee.
With its four colorful, fat buttons, the keyboard for Webee is an irresistible magnet for little hands. Its inventor hopes it will also be a magnet for parents seeking to give their youngsters a head start on independent learning and computer literacy.
“Kids are open to learning and aren’t fearful of new things,” says Racheli Van Buren, an Israeli high-tech executive who has been refining the product concept since her oldest child, now 18, was still in diapers.
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“At age two, a child can learn three different languages and adults cannot. So it’s the right age to introduce learning experiences, but most parents don’t have the opportunity or the tools to do this. We decided to give them that opportunity.”
Webee (not to be confused with the Facebook business app MyWebees) is a game console based on “software as a service” (SaaS). No downloads or installations are required. The special keyboard plugs into any computer or laptop via a USB connection to access Webee’s educational games through the website.
Parents or teachers can create unique profiles, allowing the children to play interactively in a secure environment.
Keyboard rather than touch screen
Van Buren initially thought about using a touch screen, which was virtually unknown when she first began tinkering with the business concept. But she decided that a durable keyboard (she calls her invention a Jumboard) that fits over the regular keyboard would be more kid-proof and attractive to little ones. One boy in a test group even slept with the Jumboard under his pillow, she reports.
Having only four keys also cuts down on the margin for error and frustration, she says, because the user can make no more than three incorrect guesses.
The interactive keyboard comes with software development and educational development kits that allow anyone with the right know-how to create and sell their own online games, as well as offline content and worksheets based on existing Webee games.
Each of the interactive games revolves around “Webee,” an animated bee that accompanies children as they learn skills such as counting and color recognition.
Why a bee? “We wanted a ‘friend’ for the children, someone to explain the games, but not a boy or girl,” Van Buren tells ISRAEL21c. “Bees work hard and they are very smart.”
Kickstarting the business
Van Buren and her husband and business partner, Danny, formally founded their company in April 2010 with their own money and several other private investments. Webee is a portfolio company of the Nomadigo Business Accelerator in Tel Aviv.
Hoping to have the newest platform, games and keyboard on sale by December in Russian, English and Hebrew versions, they gained international exposure – and a few financial backers — for the product through a recent Kickstarter crowd funding campaign.
Distribution agreements are already in place with companies in Israel, India, Australia and Russia. The US market is, of course, the prime target, and Van Buren says negotiations are under way with interested parties.
“We prepared it from the beginning to easily switch languages,” she says. “We don’t have text in all the games — only letters — and we discovered that children can actually play the games in any language. It’s a wonderful way to learn a language because it’s very intuitive.”
The Van Burens engaged several consultants to help them develop the product. Ora Segal Drori, a child development specialist at the Levinsky College of Education in Israel, tested the prototype with groups of children in nursery schools, with and without their parents present.
“Sometimes the children were so excited to try it that they waited patiently for more than an hour for their turn,” Van Buren says. “It was fantastic.”
The company employs 15 people — four software developers in addition to animators, a quality assurance specialist and project manager.
Van Buren has a degree in computer science from Tel Aviv University, and worked over the past 25 years in software technology for several big companies, such as Elbit Systems and TTI Telecom. As vice president of R&D for Tadsec, she most recently worked on command and control (C&C) systems for the $20 million “Safe Cities” artificial intelligence project in Juarez, Mexico. | <urn:uuid:04ad55fe-29a1-4b90-91ad-c0d5af491047> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://israel21c.org/culture/web-based-learning-for-wee-ones/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955952 | 986 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Paranoid or Preventative?
Schools Practice Lockdown Drills
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
It’s a typical day in classrooms across America. Students turn in last night’s homework, take their seats, open their notebooks, and settle in for a lesson in handwriting. Or calculating the diameter of a circle. Or avoiding being shot by a madman.
Schools from elementary to high school are now putting students through “lockdown drills” to rehearse what to do if someone starts shooting up the campus. Some have been practicing like this since Columbine; others only began after the Sandy Hook school massacre in December.
The drills usually begin with a loudspeaker announcement from the principal, after which teachers lock and/or barricade their classroom doors, close any blinds, and instruct their students to huddle in a corner and remain absolutely silent for 10, 15, or even 30 minutes. Sometimes staff members bang threateningly on classroom doors or fire blanks in the hall to add realism. One school had students lay down “dead” with fake blood.
“I cried the first time my son came home and told me about these,” says a friend of mine. “They told him, ‘If you’re in the bathroom or hall when the classroom doors are locked, find somewhere else to hide because the teachers won’t let you in.’ He was 9.”
I’m as fully freaked out by school shootings as anyone else — as we all ought to be. Like you, I read the accounts of Newtown with my hands over my mouth, tears rolling down my face, my mind working futilely to make sense of it.
But is this really where we are as a society? Simulating senseless violence for our kids? If it sickened us that Sandy Hook’s children had to cower and quake in broom closets, then why doesn’t it sicken us to send our kids in there again … “just in case”?
These aren’t the measured, calmly-exit-the-building procedures of a fire drill. They’re the terrified, let’s-pretend-we’ve-got-this-under-control flailings of a duck-and-cover atom-bomb drill. (“Like that would have helped!” recalls a friend who lived through those. “All it did was make us all believe nuclear war was imminent and inevitable.”)
Where’s the line between prudent and paranoid? Between equipped and unhinged? If we put our kids through these preposterous paces, will it guarantee no one else can ever harm them? I’m angry that we’ve let anomalies persuade us to live in fear — and to drape our kids in it.
My friend who works in law enforcement says I’m in denial that these dangers exist. There were, in fact, nine school shootings in the U.S. in 2012, and there have been eight already this year. “I want my kids to feel as if they have a say in their own safety,” he says, “to be courageous, to be able to act.”
I see his point. I spent time learning CPR, though I’ve never had to use it and hope I never will. Our kids learn about safe sex in school and the dangers of drugs. Is this just more modern teen know-how?
I spoke to an 8-year-old girl who said lockdown drills aren’t scary. They make her feel safer “because if somebody actually did it, and we hadn’t practiced, we probably wouldn’t know what to do.”
There’s so much I don’t know about the world after Sandy Hook — so much I obviously didn’t know about the world before Sandy Hook. I’m unsure of how to fix any of it. All I can do is start with what I do know and work backward from there. And what I’m certain of, even in a world where deranged people shoot holes in our certainty every day, is that this small piece of the solution — this teaching our children to put down their pencils and hide from imagined psychopaths in the bunkers that used to be their learning environments — is wrong. | <urn:uuid:c176d479-3edf-4955-abbe-8e717533d4ea> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.independent.com/news/2013/feb/13/paranoid-or-preventative/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95982 | 925 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Don’t assume—get the facts
Sizing an Exchange Server 2003 system when you're migrating or upgrading isn't a trivial task. Administrators often use sizing calculators (e.g., HP ProLiant Server Sizer for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003) and load-testing tools (e.g., Exchange Server Load Simulator—LoadSim—2003) when designing systems, but sometimes they guess or rely on assumptions when providing input for these tools. (For more information about these tools and their needed inputs, see the sidebar "Tools and Resources for Designing an Exchange 2003 System," page 6.) When I perform an assessment before designing a system, I'm amazed at the lack of good data or insight into answering the root question: How do people use the current Exchange system? To answer this question, you need to determine, at a minimum, the following information:
Exploring the Peaks and Valleys
Two important questions you need to answer before you size an Exchange system are how long is your users' typical workday? and what are their peak work hours? This information is important because you'll need to size your system so that the performance will be acceptable during peak demand. A typical workday for most users is 8 or 9 hours long, but many offices have some type of flexible scheduling, so not everyone starts their day at the same time. For example, some people might start their day at 6:00 a.m., whereas others might start at 9:00 a.m. Work-from-home trends have made flexible scheduling more the norm than the exception. A flexible schedule increases the overall length of the workday past the historical 8 hours of the 9-to-5 job.
Another factor to consider is users' distribution across time zones. If your organization has people spread across several time zones and you plan to use centralized servers, you need to account for this fact when determining the length of the workday. For example, if you have users in California and Washington, DC, the minimum workday is 11 to 12 hours long because of the 3-hour time-zone difference. When you factor in flexible work schedules, a more realistic number is having a workday that's 15 to 18 hours long.
Although knowing the length of the workday is important, it's more important to know when you can expect peak loads and how long the load periods last. Most administrators expect loads to be highest first thing in the morning and right after lunch. However, the loads really depend on how your organization does business. To determine the peaks and their durations, you need to monitor your system, which is easily accomplished by using the Windows Performance Monitor tool.
Performance Monitor has four Information Store (IS) counters that I find useful: User Count, Active User Count, Connection Count, and Active Connection Count. The User Count and Active User Count counters tell you the total number of connections on a per-logon basis. The Connection Count and Active Connection Count counters tell you the total number of connections to resources within the IS. The distinction of an active count is that it shows information about activities performed within the last 10 minutes of the sample. The difference between a connection count and a user count is that a single user can have multiple connections, so generally the connection count is higher than the user count because each user often makes several connections to the IS. For example, a user might have three connections—one to access his or her mailbox, one to access the public folder store, and one to access another user's calendar.
Email-enabled applications, such as Research In Motion's BlackBerry Enterprise Server, can also create connections. You need to consider the source of the connections because different sources can create different loads on the system. For example, at HP, we've found that each BlackBerry user creates the same load as 2.21 Outlook users. You need to consider this type of loading factor when calculating the number of users to put on a server.
Figure 1 shows a graph representing the actual system load results from a server in a site. I added the vertical bars so that you can correlate the user and connection counts to the time of day. This server's administrator had assumed that the load was heaviest early in the morning and at lunch time, but as you can see, users in this organization tend to establish connections when they arrive and don't close them until they leave for the day. The users also tend to be fairly consistent with the frequency in which they interact with the mail system throughout the day. For the day this sample was taken, the server hosted 750 users and the peak user count was 660. Samples from other days showed similar results. So, the administrator and I determined that approximately 80 percent of the user population is consistently online at the same time. This information is needed to help determine how many mailboxes a server can support.
When you use Performance Monitor, don't just take samples for a few days or on certain days. Make sure you sample over a long period of time, then aggregate the results. You might find, for example, that Mondays and Fridays have different results than other days of the week. Or you might find that there's higher utilization a certain week each month because of a recurring event. Don't forget to discount atypical periods, such as weeks that contain a holiday. Finally, don't assume every server is used the same throughout an organization. If you have many servers, those individual servers likely support individual business units. Sometimes business units work differently, and you might find that one set of servers sees steady usage, such as the server represented in Figure 1, whereas other servers have very jagged connection graphs with extreme peaks (high utilization) and valleys (low utilization). You should gather data from a large number of servers, if not all of them, to determine what server types and configurations you need. This information will help you determine, for example, whether you should deploy five or six high-end servers for centralized users and two midrange servers for field offices or deploy a series of identically configured midrange servers for all locations.
Do Users Love It or Leave It?
Do the people in your organization use the mail system all day long for a variety of tasks (e.g., communicating, scheduling), or do they hardly use the mail system at all? Most of the sizing tools ask you to determine the number or percentage of users who fall into the heavy-, medium-, and light-usage categories. These classifications help determine how many transaction logs you expect to generate per day, how fast you expect people to hit their mailbox quota, and how often you expect message transports to be used.
Classifying users and determining exactly how they use the mail system each day is difficult. You need to start by using an assessment tool to gather data to help you classify users. You also need to employ other tactics, such as focus groups and surveys, to gather the information.
One assessment tool you can use is StorStat, a Microsoft BackOffice Resource Kit (BORK) 4.5 utility that gathers information about mailbox usage. Although Microsoft initially designed StorStat for Exchange Server 5.5 upgrades, it's still useful today because it uses the Messaging API (MAPI) to access and evaluate items in a mailbox.
StorStat provides statistics such how many folders are in a mailbox, the average message size in the mailbox, and how many messages are sent and received per day. This information is good to have, but you need to be aware that the tool's results can be misleading. The results will be valid for only the items stored in the mailbox at the time the tool was run. For example, suppose you run the tool and it reports that a user's mailbox contains only a few messages and no attachments. You might assume that the user doesn't receive many messages and rarely receives attachments, but in reality, the person might frequently receive messages, some of which have extremely large attachments. The user just happens to immediately save all attachments on the local drive and regularly delete old messages. StorStat didn't measure the attachments and messages because they were no longer in the user's mailbox. For this reason, you need to conduct more in-depth investigations through focus groups and surveys.
Another limitation of StorStat is that, although it lets you summarize the results from a sampling of mailboxes, it provides only a summary of the entire sample set. It doesn't break down the results for further analysis. For example, StorStat provides the average number of messages sent per day over the sample, but it doesn't break down the number of messages sent by the number of people who sent them (e.g., 3 people sent 0 to 10 messages, 23 people sent 10 to 20 messages). I like to use StorStat for gathering general information, but for more detailed usage information, I use other means (e.g., focus groups, surveys) to get a realistic picture.
I've found that the number of messages sent and received, the size of those messages, and the number of messages sent with attachments are good starting metrics for determining how many users fall into the heavy-, medium-, and light-usage categories. As you capture this information, you can use MAPI Messaging Benchmark (MMB) 3—the benchmarking standard for measuring the performance and scalability of computers running Exchange 2003—to start assessing low-, medium-, and high-usage levels. MMB3 is designed to profile medium usage. For example, for the metric of the number of messages sent per day, 55 messages is considered medium usage, 41 messages (roughly 75 percent of medium) is considered light usage, and 69 messages (roughly 125 percent of medium) is considered heavy usage. You need to be aware that MMB3 is designed to compare hardware from different vendors, and the hardware configurations don't usually reflect real-world deployments. So, you should use the numbers only as a starting point.
After the information starts coming in, you might notice certain trends that are indicative of a certain usage category. For example, I've found that people in the heavy-usage category tend to send and receive a lot of mail and keep what they send and receive for a long time. They're involved in or schedule meetings frequently and usually have attachments saved with their appointments. They tend to create many folders to help organize what they keep.
Open It Again, Sam
Another metric considered important when categorizing users into usage levels is how often people open and reopen a message or attachment. If you're using a noncaching client such as Outlook 2000, each time someone reads a message or accesses an attachment, activity is incurred against the IS. When people frequently access items multiple times, they might be using the mail system as a file store. Although using the system for this purpose isn't necessarily bad (I store documents I occasionally need because I can access my mailbox from almost anywhere), it indicates heavy usage.
Repeat access creates heavier loads on the Exchange server. However, if you plan to deploy Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 as your primary client, repeat access isn't as much of a concern as it used to be. Outlook 2003 has a feature called cached mode that creates a complete copy of the mailbox on the local PC. When people read and reread messages, they're accessing the items from the local copy of the mailbox, which reduces the load on the server. If you're not planning to deploy Outlook 2003 or not planning to use cached mode, you need to determine the amount of repeat access so that you can better ascertain how many heavy users a server can support before it becomes overstressed. Unfortunately, gathering this type of information is difficult because you need to directly survey users.
Give Me More, More, More
The amount of storage a person uses can indicate his or her usage level. For example, I've found that people who use little storage space typically tend not to keep messages. They generally don't receive much mail and don't fall into the heavy-usage category.
In an Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2000 environment, you can use the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Exchange System Manager (ESM) snap-in to determine how much storage space is being used. In an Exchange 5.5 environment, you can use Microsoft Exchange Administrator to make this determination. Both tools report the storage utilization in bytes for each mailbox. The tools also let you export data to a comma-separated value (CSV) file, which you can load into Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Access to analyze. Table 1 provides step-by-step instructions for how to use these tools.
In the past, ensuring that mailboxes had quotas was considered a best practice because you could control the growth of IS files. This practice encouraged people to manage their mailboxes and delete unnecessary items. In many cases, it also encouraged them to move items to personal folder store (PST) files.
Over the years, the cost of disk storage has dropped, Exchange has evolved to support multiple databases, and archiving and secondary-storage utilities have become commonplace. All these factors have created a push to increase mailbox quotas. If you're planning to increase quotas, you need to consider how it might affect not only the mail system but also other parts of the organization. For example, if you're planning to increase quotas because you're going to use Outlook 2003's cached mode, you need to plan on more space being used on PCs' local drives to mirror what's on the server. Depending on your hardware and backup strategy, your backups and restores might take longer and use more media.
Having larger quotas can be advantageous for both users and administrators. Users will likely be happy because they no longer have to save items to PST files, then later search multiple repositories for the data they need. Administrators will likely be happy as well because PST files can create headaches. When users move items to PST files, those files must be stored somewhere—usually on PCs' local drives or network file servers. Local PST files can be a nuisance when administrators need to re-image PCs to resolve a problem or upgrade hardware. If a user has several gigabytes of PST files, an administrator must locate, back up, and restore all those PST files. This task can take hours, and the risk of data loss increases. PST files on network file servers can create hassles, too. Because the PST files are individualized, administrators can't take advantage of single- instance storage. Consider these points as you discuss with users and management your strategy for storage in the new environment.
Get the Facts
Sizing and load-testing tools offer you a formulaic approach to determining your system configuration and server specifications, but you have to input accurate data into these tools. Fortunately, assessment tools such as Performance Monitor and StorStat can provide you with the data you need. However, you also have to supplement the gathered data with feedback from users and management. Having an understanding of how people use mail now, knowing what's possible, and understanding their expectations will help you create a good design. Start with the items I've discussed here and gather good data—don't just assume! | <urn:uuid:62827db3-5131-4137-85b8-017c8d04a471> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://windowsitpro.com/print/exchange-server/sizing-exchange-2003-system | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940913 | 3,084 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Army Misses Recruiting Goal, Raises Enlistment Bonuses
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, March 3, 2005 The Army "is a particularly stressed force" and officials are studying ways to increase recruiting, Pentagon spokesman Larry Di Rita said here today.
The Army missed its February recruiting goals for the active duty, Guard and Reserve forces. It was the first time the service missed recruiting goals in five years. In February, the active Army's goal was 7,050 new recruits, and the service fell short by 1,900. All other services made recruiting goals, DoD officials said.
These numbers tend to be cyclical, Di Rita said, and February is not a normal month for young men and women to report for service. But the Army still missed the goal, he said. "The Army has, indeed, increased the incentives," Di Rita said. "They are hiking enlistment bonuses from $8,000 to $10,000." In some hard-to-fill military occupational specialties, the service has raised enlistment bonuses to $15,000.
In addition, the Army has increased the number of recruiters on the street by 20 percent. The service has added 950 recruiters to the total recruiting force, Di Rita said.
Working against the military is a solid economy. Traditionally, officials said, military recruiting does better in bad economic times.
Working both for and against the military is the fact that the nation is at war. Young men and women who enlist probably will go to a war zone, officials said. Many are enlisting to do their duty, said officials. Other potential recruits are shying away from military duty because of that likelihood. "It's pretty much a wash," said a Pentagon official. "As many are attracted to service as are repelled."
Many Americans have a positive image of the U.S. military, and the services are working to get parents - or other "influencers" - to encourage eligible young men and women to enlist. Di Rita said the military is aiming advertising to these influencers. Di Rita said the Army believes it will make up the difference before the end of the fiscal year.
Retention is another story and a bright spot in the picture. In units that have deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, the re-enlistment rate actually is higher than in units that have not deployed. This is true throughout the total Army - Guard and Reserve retention is higher in units that have deployed than in those that have not, Di Rita said. | <urn:uuid:ad782f36-a08f-42d6-9000-394028e3ea2e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.defense.gov/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=31286 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979468 | 524 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Special Interest Groups
A fundamental objective of the North Shore Technology Council is to foster growth of technology-related business north of Boston. Today, biotechnology and medical devices are among the most exciting and promising sectors.
In 2005, the NSTC initiated a task force to identify the needs that the council is uniquely positioned to address for the biotechnology and medical devices sector. What emerged from this effort is the Biosciences Group. While an integral part of the NSTC, it is developing exciting new programs with content specifically tailored to meet the special needs of this business community.
The Sustainability Forum explores and promotes ways in which technology can improve the quality of life –health, economic, business, or social. The group brings together technicians, businesses, academics, and governmental experts to collaborate on decreasing waste, pollution, energy consumption, and costs. It examines the costs and benefits arising from possible solutions such as alternative energy, recycling, energy audits, business partnerships, improving the design of both products and production.
Technology and environmental professionals and concerned citizens interested in working with the Sustainability Forum should email firstname.lastname@example.org and for further information please visit the Sustainability Forum page and the NSTC Sustainability Forum Blog.
Software & IT Special Interest Group Mission Statement
The Software & IT Special Interest Group was founded to:
- Provide a forum for thought leadership, industry analysis, trends and technologies, and other important aspects of software and technology
- Provide education and learning experiences from each other, speakers, and experts in the field
- Explore new technologies such as cloud, mobile, virtualization, remote usage, user practices, etc.
- Keep appraised of legislative efforts, privacy concerns, and other related topics
- Be a resource from which members can learn from the experiences of others as they have worked through similar challenges
- Provide a resource for workforce development and other hiring and employment considerations
- Network with one another in order to help promote a vital business climate and open exchange of expertise
Software & IT professionals interested in participating in the Special Interest Group please send an email to email@example.com for further information
The mission of the NSTC’s Women’s Initiative is to facilitate connections among industry sectors for the purpose of promoting and supporting women in technology in the North Shore region of Massachusetts
Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM)
The need for a focus on STEM is clear. The North Shore region, 16 of the 20 fastest growing occupations are in STEM-related fields and most of these will require college. To help focus the NSTC’s efforts on STEM education we are developing goals to follow, including driving value for the NSTC’s corporate members by connecting and engaging with them in a meaningful way to influence student education and faculty professional development to deliver a STEM educated workforce. Visit the STEM SIG page for more information. | <urn:uuid:0dffd667-a163-45af-b7ed-9c591be447cd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nstc.org/special-interest-groups/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926366 | 594 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Did you just get a new cell phone? Are you wondering what to do with the old one? Rather than adding it to your growing collection of unwanted mobile phones, recycle it!
In 2007, approximately 14 million Americans recycled their used cell phones. Today, donating or recycling cell phones, PDAs, chargers, and batteries has never been easier.
Donating your working cell phone or PDA can benefit your community. When cell phones and accessories are in good working order, some programs donate them to worthy charities or sell them at a discount to those in need.
Recycling cell phones helps the environment by saving energy and keeping usable materials out of landfills. Cell phones and PDAs are made of precious metals, copper, and plastics-all of which require energy to mine and manufacture. Recycling conserves these materials so they can be turned into new products.
Cell phone collection programs can be accessed from almost everywhere in the US. Many organizations, such as cell phone manufacturers, retailers, network carriers, charities, and state or local solid waste programs offer cell phone donation and recycling programs.
Drop It Off: Check with local retailers to see if they have a program for recycling cell phones.
You can also mail in your old cell phone, PDA, cell phone batteries, chargers, or other accessories. Contact your cell phone service provider to see if they have a mail-in program.
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Brice Herbert Goldsborough (1891-1927) US Navy Veteran; Aviation Instrument Designer at Sperry Gyroscope and later Pioneer Instrument Company; Died in Attempt to Cross the Atlantic with Frances Wilson Grayson (b. March 28, 1891, Sioux City, Iowa, USA - d. December 23, 1927, between Curtis Field in New York and Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, Canada)
- George Francis Goldsborough and Mary Phelps
- For more information, refer to "A Pioneer in Aviation" the book I wrote about my great uncle, Brice H. Goldsborough. Published 2011. Robert L. Dye
Brice was born 27 Mar 1891 in Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa.
- Charles Francis Goldsborough "Frank" (1888-1964)
- Nellie Blythe Goldsborough / Eleanor May "Nellie" Goldsborough (1893-1927)
He married Mary A. Kyle and had a son: Frank Herbert Goldsborough (1910-1930) who was also a record holding aviator who died in a crash. Mary died in June 1911 in Sioux City at age 20 when Frank was just a baby.
Brice married about 1918 to Gertrude Jacobi, daughter of Frank Jacobi and Anna Marie Hoehn. Gertrude was born 12 Dec 1893 in New York. They had no children.
In 1910 he was living in Washington, District of Columbia, and he was working as an electrician. He moved to New York City and lived at 136 Havemyer Street in Brooklyn and later moved to 754 Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. Brice appears in the 1920 Manhattan City Directory living at 6 East 87th Street and working at the Pioneer Instrument Company at 246 Greenwich Street. The company was founded with Morris Titterington, the inventor of the ground induction compass; and Charles H. Colvin.
1926 Ford Reliability TourEdit
Walter Herschel Beech (1891-1950) and Brice Herbert Goldsborough won the 1926 Ford Reliability Tour aboard their Travel Air B6 airplane. Brice also flew with Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902-1974) aboard the Spirit of St. Louis in test flights from Curtiss Field as an "instrument expert" on: May 13, 1927 for 10 minutes; and May 15, 1927 for 15 minutes. Lindbergh's record breaking flight was on May 20-21, 1927. Brice was a veteran of the United States Navy.
On December 23, 1927 Frances Wilson Grayson with Brice H. Goldsborough as her navigator left from Curtis Field in New York for Harbor Grace, Newfoundland. Her plan was to leave from Newfoundland on a record setting transatlantic flight to London on Christmas day. Her plane, The Dawn was to be flown by Oskar Omdal, a Lieutenant in the Norwegian Navy. Frances may have planned to fly the plane in shifts with him. Brice Goldsborough would have been the navigator and Frank Koehler was to be the radio operator. Her plane never reached Newfoundland and sank in the water. There were several accounts of receiving radio messages from the plane when it was in distress. The bodies and the airplane were never recovered.
Memories about Frank GoldsboroughEdit
- Robert Lee Dye (1931- ) wrote in 2007: Brice Herbert Goldsborough, disappeared December 24, 1927 while acting as navigator and radio operator for Francis Grayson who wanted to be the first woman to fly the Atlantic. Her airplane was the S-36, designed and built by Igor Sikorsky and piloted by Oskar Omdahl. The fourth member of the ill-fated flight was Fred Koehler, an engine expert. Francis Grayson was frustrated with all the delays due to engine problems, and weather conditions. She had an egotistical passion [to] be the first so she put a pistol in her pocket. A newspaper reported heard her say. "There will be no turning back this time" as she patted her pistol laden pocket. Bundled as they were the pistol bulge was quite visible. But, that's another story.
- 1891 Birth in Sioux City, Iowa on March 28th
- 1910 US Census with Frank living in Washington, DC
- 1920 Living at 6 East 87th Street and working at Pioneer Instrument Company
- 1926 Ford Reliability Tour
- 1927 Aboard the Spirit of St. Louis for 10 minutes on May 13th
- 1927 Aboard the Spirit of St. Louis for 15 minutes on May 15th
- 1927 Death with Frances Wilson Grayson near Newfoundland on December 23rd
- Washington Post; December 26, 1927; New York, December 25, 1927 (Associated Press) Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson, who has been missing since she took off Friday with three companions for Harbor Grace, New Foundland, was preparing to undertake her fourth attempt within three months to fly the Atlantic in her Sikorsky amphibian plane, the Dawn.
- New York Times; December 26, 1927, page 1; "Grayson Plane Radioed 'Something Wrong' Friday Night; Then the Signaling Ceased, Silent for 54 Hours Since; Probably Lost Off The Nova Scotia Coast In A Storm"
- New York Times; December 26, 1927, page 2; "Goldsborough a Veteran"
- New York Times; December 26, 1927, page 1; "Goldsborough's Wife Spends His Christmas Gift To Pay For Plane Search For The Dawn"
- December 26, 1927; Navigator Brice Goldsborough ...
- Frederick Post; Frederick, Maryland; December 28, 1927; Hope Dwindiling in Plane Search
- Time; January 02, 1928; "Broken Dawn"
- New York Times; March 02, 1928, page 08; "Widow Of Aviator Denies Dawn Story"
- Time; May 12, 1930; "American Boy. A flight from New York to Los Angeles, begun on Monday and completed Sunday, is not in itself remarkable. But if the flyer be the young son of a crack airman who met spectacular death; and if the boy seeks a "junior speed record," public fancy is captured. Last week Frank Goldsborough, 19, son of the late Brice Goldsborough, crossed the U. S. in 34 hr. 3 min. flying time, in a biplane named American Boy. ..."
- Time; July 28, 1930; "Goodwill Tour. In the course of a tour of 100 smalltown Exchange Clubs, to demonstrate the dependability of aviation for passenger travel, Frank Goldsborough, 19, son of the late Brice Goldsborough, took off from Cleveland for Keene, New Hampshire In the Green Mountains, he plowed into a peasoup fog. ..." | <urn:uuid:ccdcc110-5ac0-43e5-8951-6fe7bd0fb3c8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://familypedia.wikia.com/wiki/Brice_Herbert_Goldsborough_(1891-1927) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953294 | 1,412 | 2.125 | 2 |
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Read Kate Grenville if you haven’t and like literary tales based on real lives. I have loved each of her books. Daniel Rooke in this novel is a quietly introspective man who is transformed when he discovers from the young aboriginal girl Tagaran that learning one’s language is much, much more than the words. I was reminded of two other books read: J. L. Carr’s A Month in the Country and Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man.
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In the manufacturing world, you would never find a company that assembles a bunch of parts into a final product before inspecting any of the individual parts, and they would not wait until the end of the assembly line to test for the quality of the product. The very notion of waiting until the product is “done”, to test it, would be appalling. How much time and money would be lost trying to figure out why something didn’t fit together properly, why it didn’t work, and why there was a quality issue with the final product? Rather, we see the manufacturing world taking an active role in preventing defects. Yes, they still do a final quality inspection, but the primary means of ensuring a quality product is delivered is not by waiting until the product is assembled to test it. They build quality in from the start and maintain that quality throughout the manufacturing process.
Prying Open The Case
Imagine the inner workings of the phone to the left. This is a very complex piece of technology. Do you think Cisco would wait until they have assembled this phone and then try to pry open the case so that they can insert a set of electrodes to test and see that the circuit board is connected correctly? I certainly hope they don’t. Instead, when a manufacturing company is building something – anything – they start with the idea of preventing defects, not waiting until they are identified and correcting them. Many companies have an active Zero Defects policy where defect prevention is paramount and quality inspection is almost just a verification of what they already know – that the product is defect free.
When a part is stamped out, formed, molded, or otherwise created, it is done so to an exacting specification. After the part has been created, the part is then tested against the same specification to which it was originally built. If the part does not fall within the tolerance and guidance of the specification, it is scrapped and a new one is made. If a series of parts are found to be out of specification, it’s usually a sign that something in the process, tooling, or other portion of the manufacturing process is not right. When this happens, they fix the cause of the problem – whether the machines need to be calibrated, the people running the machines need better instructions or whatever the cause is. In the end, the specifications for the parts were used to create the part, identify whether or not the part was up to standards, and decide whether or not to keep that part.
What’s more, the manufacturing company doesn’t wait until after they start creating parts to create the specification. Rather, they take the time to properly engineer the specifications up front. They take measurements, create prototypes with varying specifications to see what works best, record the success and failure rates of the various specifications that are tried, and use other design and engineering principles to scientifically calculate the exacting specifications that will be used to produce the parts. This occurs at all levels of the product’s design and creation. For every resistor, capacitor and microchip that builds a circuit board, each one of them has their own specifications that have been carefully engineered. If any single capacitor does not meet the specifications, it is not sent to Cisco with the hopes that it works anyways. Only when all of the specifications of each part are met will they solder the parts to the circuit board, creating a subassembly.
When a subassembly is created, it also has a specification to which it was built. The subassembly then undergoes the same quality assurance process – verification that it meets the specifications and operational requirements. The process continues from here – each subassembly gets connected to a larger system which is built to a set of specifications, with rigorous testing of the larger system as it is built, ensuring it meets the specifications. When the final phone is assembled, we don’t have to worry about whether or not a specific capacitor is soldered to the correct location – we don’t have pry open the case on this phone and insert a set of electrodes to see if the electrical current is flowing correctly. Instead, we only need to plug this phone into the correct connections (an Cisco IP phone system in this case) and verify that the phone actually performs all of it’s functions, according the functional specifications of the phone. There simply is no need to verify the capacitor that was used in the very first step. We know it works because it was built in a system that actively prevents defects.
The manufacturing world is obsessed with testing. They are willing to test from the lowest possible levels of the system, out to the end-product and the behavior that is expected. They do this because the consumers of manufactured products demand perfect. Why, then, are so many software development companies so willing to only test from one end of the process? To only test once, and only from the user interface, just before the product is shipped?
A Specification By Any Other Name
Unfortunately, the software development industry as a whole, is years behind the manufacturing industry. Our definition of quality and success are often skewed and we may consider fifty or more known bugs in a system of moderate to large size to be acceptable. It doesn’t have to be this way, though. We have the technical capabilities of following in the footsteps of the manufacturing industry, and we should.
I’m sure there would be no small number of people that would say we already employ the use of specifications in software development. After all, that’s what the requirements gathering phase is for, right? So many software development companies have put so much effort, time and money into the process of producing a piece of paper that can be understood by humans, and labeled this a specification. The problem we face with paper, though, is how to effectively verify the software against what the paper says. How do we verify that series of software lines and I/O statements that are understood by a computer have actually implemented the human readable text on the paper?
We are fortunate, actually. We don’t have to accept a Word document or a piece of paper as the specification to build to. We have the ability to create executable specifications! We can, and should, be creating specifications that can measure and verify our code. Most people call it test driven development (TDD). Some call it Behavior Driven Development (BDD). I like to think of it as Specification Driven Development (SDD? Not sure if that really exists. And really, do we need another xDD acronym?). We write code that exercises our code in the form of unit tests, integration tests, functional tests, acceptance tests, or whatever you want to call them.
We’re Not Just Stamping Out Parts
One of the major problems that I have with the manufacturing/software development analogy is the obvious statement that we don’t stamp out the same parts over and over again. In spite of my previous comments on this analogy, I now think that we are more analogous to a specific part of manufacturing than I had previously understood. A more accurate representation of software development in the manufacturing world is new product design and development. The parallels work quite well from this perspective. I am not going to expound on this in great detail at this point. It should suffice to say, for the moment, that the process of product development described in Wikipedia is a fairly accurate representation of what we go through for the average software development project.
When a manufacturing company is working on a new product, they once again don’t stamp out parts without knowing what they are doing. Many different parts may need to be tested, many different designs may need to be tried, but every one of these is still built to a specification. The major difference is that the specifications used are expected to change over time, until the final specification for the final pieces are accurate enough to produce a production-ready prototype. The same notions can be applied to the software development processes in TDD, with some additional benefits.
Built To Specs, Regression Tests And Change
Change happens. It’s a simple fact of software development. A customer thought they wanted X, but in reality they needed X-1/B – not quite what we originally thought. When this happens, we once again have a significant benefit created by our executable specifications. We only need to identify those specifications that are now wrong, correct them, and change the affected portions of the system to match the new specifications.
Our ability to change is direct evidence to one of the many benefits of TDD: regression tests. Every specification that we write becomes a regression test the moment we fulfill that specification’s requirements. With this in mind, we can work with an almost reckless abandon, free to add features, remove features, fix bugs (because let’s face it – we’re still going to find some issues somewhere in the system) and refactor the system to a higher standard, all without worry of breaking the system. We can act with this level of confidence because we have a safety net in our regression tests. If (when) we do break something in our new efforts, we will be notified the moment we re-execute our specifications – that is, run our regression tests. A specification test will fail and we will have a clear indication of what failed and why. This deep insight into the system gives us even further confidence in correcting any issues that we introduce. When a failed specification test tells you exactly which value from which class is wrong, and the context in which that class was executed is known (the exact input and expected output), pinpointing the problem becomes a rote process. Fixing the issue becomes relatively simple, and we begin to see true productivity improvements in our processes.
Start With Quality, End With Quality
Our industry is currently suffering from a lack of quality. We ship horrendously bad user experiences in products that are late and well over budget, yet we call this a ‘success’. It doesn’t have to be this way. If we change our perspective and start to take some cues from the manufacturing and product design and development world, we can dramatically increase our effectiveness as software developers. We can create high quality, low cost solutions like the world expects from manufacturers. Built to specification is certainly not a silver bullet. It is, however, the definition of quality in a Zero Defect environment.
By employing a built to specification mindset in our software development efforts, we can start with quality and maintain that quality throughout the life of our projects. This is the same process that is undertaken when a manufacturing company is working on new product design and development. It works well, it’s a proven process, and most of all – it makes sense. Build your software to specifications. Just make sure they are executable specifications.
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National Tobacco Growers Settlement Trust Payment - Agriculture Tax Tips
The National Tobacco Growers Settlement Trust (Trust) is an offshoot of the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) which was signed in November 1998 to settle claims brought by a majority of the states against certain tobacco manufacturers, to recover health care costs associated with tobacco use. As a result, tobacco manufacturers agreed to pay $5.15 billion to the Trust over a 12-year period, with the first installment of $380 million being paid in 1999 to tobacco landowners, producers, and tobacco quota owners in 14 states.
Since that time, anecdotal information received by the IRS suggests that recipients of the payments may not know the correct tax treatment, i.e., that the funds are taxable income in the year constructively received.
Taxpayers may inquire regarding the federal tax treatment of their payments. For federal tax purposes, these payments are considered gross income per Internal Revenue Code Section 61. Under this Section, Gross Income is defined as, "all income from whatever source derived," except for those items specifically excluded by the Internal Revenue Code.
Eligibility to receive payments under the Trust described above is based upon a formula developed and administered each Trust year by each state Certification entity. Under the terms of the Trust agreement, that formula may be based upon any crop year or years from 1993 forward. However, the State of Maryland (and other States may follow suit) is offering an additional incentive above the National Settlement described above. Under the State of Maryland Buyout, payments are made to eligible recipients in lieu of them growing tobacco or otherwise using their land for tobacco purposes for a 10-year period. All payments received with respect to the State of Maryland Buyout are to be treated as ordinary income (just as if the taxpayer grew and sold tobacco) if the taxpayer is an active farmer subject to self-employment tax, or rental income if the taxpayer rents out their land, as further described below.
Under Section 451 of the Internal Revenue Code and Section 1.451-1(a) of the Income Tax Regulations, taxpayers using the cash receipts and disbursements method of accounting generally include amounts in gross income for the taxable year in which funds are actually or constructively received. With respect to the National Settlement, taxpayers will receive a 1099-Misc statement in January 2002 that reflects the amount they should report on their 2001 return. Verbiage is included on Form 1099 that indicates the applicable time period with respect to payments received (From DECEMBER 29, 2000 through NOVEMBER 20, 2001) that should be included in income on 2001 returns. Those receiving funds under the Maryland Buyout also received a stuffer that detailed the proper tax treatment with respect to the Maryland payments.
The payment is reported as income on different tax forms, however, depending on specific taxpayer situations. For example, a taxpayer who raises and sells a tobacco crop would report the payment as gross income on Schedule F, "Profit or Loss From Farming," and would be subject to applicable self-employment tax. Landowners or tobacco quota owners, who historically have leased their tobacco-related property and did not help to produce the crop, would report the settlement payments as farm rental income on Form 4835, "Farm Rental and Expenses."
IRS Publication 225, "Farmer's Tax Guide," has more information on these forms and how farm income should be reported. If additional information is needed, please contact our toll free number at 1(800) 829-1040.
IRS Reminds Farmers, National Tobacco Settlement Payments are Taxable Each Year
WASHINGTON - Landowners, producers and tobacco quota owners who receive money from the National Tobacco Settlement Trust must report those payments as income each year, the Internal Revenue Service said today. See IR-2003-7, January 21, 2003 for the full text of the information release.
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Installing drywall requires measuring a board to fit the installation location, scoring it with a utility knife, snapping along the score line and using drywall screws to attach it to the ceiling. Lengthwise joints have a factory-beveled edge, meaning there is a slight indentation in which you can embed paper drywall tape in joint compound to seal the joint. But the joints you make across the sheetrock's width -- in other words, the joints you create while installing boards in a row -- don’t have a beveled edge because you cut them to size. These joints, called butt joints, often form raised humps after you embed tape over them. Does this Spark an idea?
Hang the largest section of drywall you can, cutting it to size so that its end rests halfway over a ceiling joist. To attach the board, install drywall screws every 7 to 8 inches along every ceiling joist through the drywall to the joist, including the joist that is only half-covered. Leaving half the joist exposed provides a place to attach the edge of the next board in the series.
Butt the next board against the installed board as close as possible to form a tight seam, and use screws to attach it to the ceiling joists, including the joist you left exposed. Continue installing sheetrock until the row is complete, allowing each board in the series to end halfway over a ceiling joist.
Install the largest board you can to start the new row, but place it so that it ends on a different joist than any butt joints you made in the first row. This is called staggering the joints, meaning you install the boards on the ceiling so that the butt joints in adjacent rows don’t connect with one another to form a single, long butt joint.
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Special Topics Series
CETL offers a series of workshops on special topics. Each session offers an intensive, in-depth and interactive discussion of a single topic related to pedagogy. Workshop content seeks to draw upon best practices and promising practices designed to assist faculty to enhance student learning through teaching and scholarship.
Best Practices in Working with Students Experiencing Emotional Distress: Asynchronous Online Training
Available online until June 30, 2013
Description: Through a grant from The HBCU Center for Excellence in Behavioral Health, The WSSU Wellness Center has partnered with the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) to provide an online asynchronous training to faculty examining best practices in identifying, approaching and referring students experiencing emotional distress. This innovative training through Kognito, a company specializing in interactive simulations, utilizes avatar-based learning. Faculty members enter a virtual environment, assume the role of a professor and respond to real student situations. This fun and interactive program helps to promote awareness and early intervention, increase student retention and academic performance and reduce stigma associated with mental illness. Please join us in taking this interactive training to promote mental health awareness on our campus! You can engage this training completely at your convenience via your computer or tablet in about 45 minutes! (PowerPoint | Video) | <urn:uuid:cdcdb74d-cd17-4717-9d1a-b82cb23281d5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wssu.edu/academics/cetl/programs/special-topics.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908618 | 262 | 2.171875 | 2 |
A is part of our organization domination system – a weekly project which will include a full week, spending 15 minutes a day, sorting and tossing the clutter, from a particular area, of our homes.
Emotional Thoughts & Feelings – about failure at getting organized!
Failure points and Organizing Solutions
In his new book “The four hour chef” Tim Ferris talks about two principles that are required to be applied to all learning. (when learning in the method that he teaches, accelerated learning)
The two principles are Failure Points and The Margin of Safety.
Tripping/Failure Points of Organizing Systems
What’s Stopping You Getting Organized
- Fear- fear is my first emotion. When your talking about finding a place for everything, and your home is filled to the brim with so many things that don’t have a home, the image in my head at the enormity of the job at hand, in finding a place for everything, is nothing less than fearful. That in itself is enough to stop me from getting started, at finding “A P F E”
- Time - we are all busy people. Having the time to find APFE is overwhelming, especially when so many things need to have a place found for them.
- Confusion - at knowing where to start and where you are going to put all of these things. If your cupboards, drawers, shed, garage and every other place in your home is already bursting at the seams with stuff, no wonder people feel overwhelmed and confused by the task.
- Failure to Plan- should be simple right? We are getting our things and finding places for them to permanently reside, so that we might be able to find them on the next occasion that we need them. Our other goal is to make our home look neat and tidy by putting all of our things away. Once again this is a mammoth task, when looked at as one huge job. A plan must be made, breaking the areas down into small segments and followed, to succeed at this goal/project.
- Procrastination - putting the job off for another day. Often caused by perfectionism and knowing that such an enormous task could no way be completed on the same day as starting the task. Feeling the need to have all the latest and greatest organization products such as baskets, boxes, calendars, planners, ect.
- Nostalgia - often when our homes are full of stuff, lots of the stuff may well be things that have been passed onto us by a loved one or a friend. There could be unwanted, yet loved items (because of loving the person who gave it to you). Are you holding onto things that your grown adult kids, don’t want stored at their own homes, but are more than happy to put you out, by cluttering up yours? Are you keeping baby toys? (That was one of my problem areas. Two giant plastic tubs full of stuffed toys.) Perhaps sorting through piles of items in this category has lots of emotional baggage tied to it. You’ll probably find that there never is a right time to face this type of everything.
- Distractions- people - It’s always so easy to let people distract us. In a good way, we are easily distracted by our kids and our families. In a good but little more annoying way, we are often distracted by close friends, relatives, bosses and co-workers. Next in order of distraction would come unimportant telephone calls, (ie; girlfriend just calling for a chat) impromptu meetings with neighbours friends of friends, acquaintances, and any other social type of situation. How often you allow yourself to be distracted by people which are of little importance to you, largely determines how much free time you end up with after doing all of the things that you already do and dealing with other emergencies, that crop up over the course of a day.
- Distractions – other -The year 2013 and you can say distracted again. With so many cool things calling for our attention, it’s little wonder that we could often choose being distracted over finding a place for everything in our homes and getting organized. Television, the Internet our smartphones, watching DVDs and Blue Rays, listening and watching music videos, playing PlayStation’s reading magazines, doing our hobbies. It’s certainly a time when the words “I’m board” should never even be thought of, let alone spoken.
- Lack of energy and feeling unwell - with all that we do each day, especially for those with kids, and even more so for those with kids who work, it’s little wonder that by the end of the day, the last thing we feel like doing is getting our stuff sorted. Those who suffer with ailments and injuries, also most often have a hard time at getting motivated to tackle this task.
- Indecisive - sometimes its difficult to make decisions about what to keep and what not to keep. You may have lost weight and own fat clothes, or vice versa. How do you know if you will gain or lose in the future? So do you keep all the clothes in case? What about having more children and the maternity clothes? The baby clothes, bottles and other accessories. The questions are long and sometimes difficult to come up with answers too. It’s easy to see why this is another of the road blocks that cause us to give up on finding a place for everything.
Know what’s stopping you
If you know what it is that’s your stumbling block. The thing that stops you in your tracks from getting yourself organized, you can come up with a way to deal with it when it occurs. There is an article coming up shortly that has loads of ideas, to help you get over those failure points. But, for now, it’s important that you know what yours are.
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Grab some paper and a pen and write down this question
In the past when I’ve been ready to get organized, what was it that made me stop and give up?
IT’s important that you know the trigger, the thing that makes you say, dam it, it’s too hard I don’t want to do this any more.
Know the trigger find the solution
Once you can name the trigger that makes you give up getting organized, we can find a way to overcome it. Once you have worked out what your road block/trigger is, that causes you to give up your organizing endevours, leave a message below in the comments, or come over to our Facebook page, and leave a comment over there, about your trigger. I will make certain that we work to find a way to beat all these road blocks and get you on the road to organizing success.
How we are different to the other Home Organization Sites
And that is how we are different here at Routine Habit. We are looking to help you find the source of your frustrations to your home organization. Instead of showing you how to vacuum your carpets, or put labels on your files, we are focused on helping you;
- discover your organizing roadblocks
- helping you find a solution to the problem that is the roadblock/failure point or tripping point, that makes you stop and give up on your home organization quests.
- get’s you over the stumbling block and onto a system for clearing the clutter from your home.
- helps you manage your home for the future with routines and habits for keeping it organized and clean in the future.
- keeps your home clean and organized by focusing on the minimum required dose.
- keeping your home clean and organized by understanding that 80% of the results come from 20% of the effort.
- We are teaching the 20% effort that will give you the 80% results.
But before we can get into all of that, we need to remove that clutter, find a place for everything, and then, you will begin to be astonished at the amount of work, effort, cleaning, organizing, that you’ll have to do in the future to keep your home that way, and learn to enjoy the organising.
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The BBC television program on the Communist MEK
Paul Sheldon Foote
The BBC's January 17, 2007 television program on the Iranian Communist MEK (MKO, PMOI, NCRI, Rajavi Cult, Pol Pot of Iran) included an interview with Lawrence Wilkerson, a top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell. Wilkerson revealed that the State Department supported a plan to disband the Iranian communist cult at Camp Ashraf, Iraq. However, Vice President Dick Cheney's office rejected the plan. The television program included also an interview with Congressman Bob Filner (Democrat-California and son of a Communist Party candidate for Congress) who supports this communist cult.
Hopefully, the American media will follow the lead of the BBC and examine in depth why a Republican Vice President supports a communist ult. Unfortunately, this is not the first time in American history that American political leaders have supported communist monsters. For example, there were members of the American government who supported Pol Pot in Cambodia. America has some responsibility for the killing fields of Cambodia. Some Iranians refer to Masoud Rajavi as the Pol Pot of Iran.
Americans need to continue to vote out of office the neo-conservatives (neo-Trotskyites) in the Democratic and Republican parties who support communist cults.
The following is the Comment of Paul Sheldon Foote on the group
The Iranian Communist MEK (MKO, PMOI, NCRI, Rajavi Cult, Pol Pot of Iran) has a long history of terrorism. In the 1970's in Iran, the MEK murdered American military officers and Rockwell International employees. During the American hostage crisis, to show that the MEK is more anti-Western than the Islamic leaders, the MEK clamored for the murder of the American hostages at the American Embassy in Tehran. In 1991, these Saddam Hussein-supported terrorists committed major war atrocities against Kurdish and other Iraqi civilians. Around the world, the MEK has committed terrorist acts, even in New York City.
While this BBC segment contained an interview with Congressman Bob Filner (Democrat-California and son of a Communist Party candidate for Congress), viewers need to know that hundreds of members of Congress (including Republicans) have supported the MEK or have accepted political campaign contributions from MEK supporters. While this segment was a good, brief introduction to the MEK, BBC needs to go into more depth in future segments about the real reasons why many neo-conservatives (neo-Trotskyites), the Iran Policy Committee (staffed by a former CIA employee and former American military officers), and so many members of Congress have betrayed America by supporting this evil communist cult.
Viewers can learn more about the MEK by reading Anne Singleton's book,
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Let us look to the tiny country of Malawi for the rational and correct approach to the prohibition of sharia finance. Sharia banking finances Islamic terror (zakat), and prohibits investment in whole industries, including pork, alcohol, tobacco and some forms of entertainment.
The same prohibition should be instituted in every freedom-loving country.
Malawi rejects Islamic ‘Sharia’ banking Nyasa Times (hat tip Vadim)
Islamic finance caters for customers who want to avoid earning interest, which is viewed as usury under Islamic Sharia law. Islam also prohibits speculation and investment in non sharia-compliant industries.Malawi sticks to Western banking system
RBM Director of Banking Supervision Noel Mkulichi said the central bank will not allow Islamic banking “because of Sharia law elements”.
Mkulichi says the country’s banking act and the constitution does not allow Sharia law.
Malawi has some two million Muslims from a population of 12 million.
Shariah Investments Limited (SIL) Group Advisor Ziyaad Mahomed briefed banking captains during a day-long Islamic economics and finance seminar in Blantyre recently that says the absence of an Islamic banking window in the country’s banking system is making Malawi lose out on potential Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from the Islamic world.
“Islamic banking can also encourage the current Muslim businessmen to be involved in Islamic finance thereby industrialising at a much faster rate and that the growth of business will be at a much rapid rate,” Mahommed, the South African-based Islamic banking expert said.
Ecobank Managing Director Femi Salu welcomed the idea of having an Islamic bank.
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We have so much choice over what we eat today because rural communities all over the world have had their choices taken away. To understand how our supermarket shopping makes us complicit in a system that routinely denies freedom to the world’s poorest, and how we ourselves are poisoned by these choices, we need to think about the way our food comes to us. Stuffed and Starved takes a long and wide view of food production, to show how we all suffer the consequences of a food system cooked to a corporate recipe. This is also the story of the fight against the unthinking commerce that brings it to us. In the wrecked paddy fields of India, in the soy deserts of Brazil, in the maize ejidos of Mexico, the supermarket aisles of California, French McDonald’s and Italian kitchens, there’s a worldwide resistance against unhealthy control of the food system. | <urn:uuid:3e75ce26-c218-45be-a1f7-6ee6aa977408> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://web-explora.tumblr.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959221 | 181 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Asian ambitions achievable: ambassador
- From: AAP
- November 12, 2012
AUSTRALIA'S plan to engage more with Asia sets some ambitious targets, but they can be met, Ambassador to China Frances Adamson says.
Ms Adamson says the Asian Century White Paper, released last month, provides a roadmap for Australia to navigate the social and economic changes that will flow from Asia's rise.
It also reaffirms Australia's support for China's participation in the region's strategic, economic and political development, Ms Adamson says.
"It makes very clear the scale of the opportunity and the tide of history moving in the direction of Asia, in terms of its economic weight and economic growth, and the opportunities that flow to Australia because of that," she told reporters ahead of a speech in Adelaide on Monday.
"They are ambitious targets, they are ambitious objectives.
"But they should be - Australians wouldn't want anything less."
Key points in the white paper, which sets targets to be achieved by 2025, include Australia building its capabilities in education, training, skills and Asian languages and culture.
It seeks greater links with growing Asian markets by improving competitiveness, relationships, trade and investment and looks to boost regional security by building trust and bilateral co-operation and by deepening diplomatic ties and social and cultural links.
Ms Adamson said the white paper had something to offer large and small businesses, governments, universities and other groups.
"People looking to expand beyond a domestic market are almost inevitably going to be looking at markets in Asia or looking at linking up with companies in China for global export opportunities," she said.
On the sometimes controversial issue of Chinese investment in Australian agriculture, Ms Adamson said Chinese companies were generally well informed about the opportunities and issues that existed in Australia.
"As with every past wave of foreign investment into Australia, there have been understandable sensitivities and concerns," she said.
"That's part of a wider political debate which I won't venture into.
"But I do think that there is certainly a bright future for Australia and China together in agriculture."
ADELAIDE'S worst hoon spots have been revealed as some of the city's busiest arterial roads.
HE'S gradually faded into oblivion - but the Marree Man may soon be coming back to life.
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Monaco is the second-smallest independent state in the world. It is a playground for tourists and a haven for the wealthy, the former drawn by its climate and the beauty of its setting and the latter by its advantageous tax regime.
The country - a constitutional monarchy - is surrounded on three sides by France and occupies just under two square kilometres (0.75 sq mile) of the Cote d'Azur, where the Alpes Maritimes meet the Mediterranean.
Tourism drives Monaco's economy; gamblers flock to the Place du Casino in Monte-Carlo and every May the principality hosts the Monaco Grand Prix.
The country is a major banking centre and closely guards the privacy of its clients.
But it has also been the focus of French concerns about its tax policy and has been accused of tolerating money-laundering - claims it strongly denies.
The principality was identified as a tax haven by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2003. It was subsequently placed on the OECD's blacklist of uncooperative tax havens, remaining there until 2009.
Monaco does not levy income tax on its residents.
Francois Grimaldi, the royal dynasty's 13th century founder
The royal dynasty, the Grimaldi family, is inseparable from Monaco's existence. The royals made world headlines in 1956 when the former monarch Prince Rainier III married the American film star Grace Kelly. But the personal lives of the couple's daughters, Caroline and Stephanie, had a less welcome press.
Within the executive, the monarch nominates and is represented by a Minister of State who leads a five-member Council of Government which governs Monaco under royal authority. A 24-member National Council to which elections are held every five years exercises legislative power.
Prince Albert took over as head of state following the death of his father, Prince Rainier, in April 2005. His swearing-in, in July, followed a three-month period of mourning.
Prince Rainier was Europe's longest-reigning monarch. He worked to reduce Monaco's reliance on tourism and gambling by attracting business. He staunchly defended Monaco's banking and taxation systems in the face of criticism from France.
It will be for Prince Albert - who says he wants to attract high-tech industry to Monaco - to carry this work forward. The prince says he will seek to cement the idea that money-laundering in the country is a thing of the past.
Prince Albert, who was 47 at the time of his father's death, is an accomplished sportsman.
His bachelorhood prompted a change to the constitution to allow the Grimaldi dynasty, which has ruled Monaco for seven centuries, to continue through the female line. Prince Albert is the 32nd ruler.
He married South African-born former Olympic swimmer Charlene Wittstock in July 2011.
He has acknowledged that he is the father of two children born out of wedlock to different mothers. Neither will have any right to succeed to the throne.
Born in 1958, Prince Albert was educated in Monaco and the US. He served in the French navy for a time.
The influence of Monaco's broadcast media extends far beyond the borders of the tiny state. From the 1960s Radio Monte-Carlo used powerful transmitters to reach listeners across much of France, and in the 1970s broadcasts to Italy began. Radio Monte-Carlo now has extensive FM networks in both countries.
Monte-Carlo Doualiya - a service for the Arab world set up in 1972 - is now based in Paris and operated by Radio France Internationale.
Television's great and good gather in Monaco every year for the Monte-Carlo Television Festival, set up in 1961 by Prince Rainier.
No daily newspapers are published in Monaco, but French papers cover news from the principality.
There were nearly 30,000 internet users by June 2011 (Internetworldstats).
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For many people, nutrition is an integral part of a rehabilitation process. Nutrition can also be a rehabilitation treatment of its own. At Spaulding Outpatient Centers, experts skilled in the field of nutrition teach patients about nutrition and provide customized strategies that will improve health and fit individual lifestyles.
We offer programs for those suffering from conditions such as heart disease, kidney disease, osteoporosis, women’s health and weight management issues. We also provide sports nutrition assistance, complete nutrition evaluations with follow up assessments, diet and meal plans, and nutrition and weight management classes. Our Nutrition programs can also address dietary issues related to cancer, chronic pain, diabetes, food allergies, gastrointestinal disease, osteoporosis and geriatric care
Approach to Care
Spaulding Rehabilitation Network’s Nutrition Programs offer a multidisciplinary approach, working with you and your healthcare providers, taking into account your specific health and nutrition needs. A licensed dietitian meets you one-on-one to analyze your specific nutrition and wellness needs. Readiness for change is discussed and specific nutrition goals mutually established between you and the clinician. Customized diet information and realistic implementation strategies that fit your lifestyle are taught, empowering you to improve your health and energy levels while also building a better and healthier you.
At Spaulding, our nutrition experts offer a full range of nutrition services including:
- A comprehensive and customized analysis of current eating habits and medical issues
- Identification of areas for improvement in current eating patterns and recommendations for change that lasts
- Individualized diet and meal plans tailored to medical and special concerns
- Development of self-management tools that realistically change and transform unhealthy eating behaviors into areas of control for long-term success
- Nutrition and weight management classes
- Recipe makeovers and analysis
As experts in rehabilitative care, we work with you to formulate a nutrition plan that is realistic, based on your lifestyle, and manageable for your situation. Our nutrition experts are registered and licensed dietitians who are credentialed with the American Dietetic Association. They study the latest nutrition research and have over 20 years of experience assisting a diverse group of patients with a wide range of nutrition issues and concerns.
At Spaulding’s Eileen M. Ward Rehabilitation Center for Children in Sandwich, we also have an on-site team of pediatric experts to treat infants and children who develop feeding difficulties because of conditions such as:
- Mouth or throat weakness causing choking, gagging or coughing
- Reduced muscle control, neurological disorders
- Medical complications, prematurity, cardiac conditions, traumatic injury
- Non-oral feedings
- Growth and weight problems, malnutrition
- Chronic respiratory illnesses, asthma, pneumonia
- Digestive issues, reflux, vomiting, constipation, diarrhea
Nutritionist Alice Richer is a registered, licensed dietitian and certified medical writer. She graduated from the University of Rhode Island, trained at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, and completed her master’s degree at Boston College. She has practiced in therapeutic, administrative, and education settings for over 25 years.
Alice is also the team nutritionist for the MLS Soccer team the New England Revolution, co-author of Understanding the Antioxidant Controversy: Scrutinizing the “Fountain of Youth” (2008), and author of “Food Allergies” (2009). She is a member of the American Dietetic Association, Massachusetts Dietetic Association, and the American Medical Writers Association.
The Nutrition Program is offered at these Spaulding locations:
Spaulding Outpatient Center Medford
Spaulding Hospital for Continuing Medical Care Cambridge
Spaulding Outpatient Center Framingham
Spaulding Outpatient Center Braintree
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- What a difference a thousand miles can make.
Along the U.S.-Canada border, people and wildlife pass relatively freely. Most wildlife crossings go unnoticed. Wolves, bears and moose have no need for borders.
But every few years a visitor from the north captures the birding world's attention. Snowy owls, residents of the arctic tundra, have been reported in Pennsylvania and Ohio this winter. Just a few weeks ago I read that at least 400 were known to have reached Wisconsin. Popularized by the Harry Potter movies, snowy owls are large and conspicuous. They wander south when lemming populations crash.
Lemmings are small, mouselike rodents and an important food item for snowy owls. Though lemming populations crash every four years, snowy owls visit unpredictably. They eat other prey, too, such as snowshoe hares, grouse, songbirds and small ducks, so they are not tied exclusively to lemming populations.
In fact, when lemming numbers boom, so too does snowy owl nest success. But when lemming populations inevitably crash, competition for food intensifies for the now larger owl population. Older owls usually hold their ground; younger individuals face a choice: Move south or starve. At least that's one interpretation of the facts.
Fortunately, there's an easy way to age snowy owls in the field. Snowy owls stand almost 2 feet tall, have a 4-foot wingspan and bright yellow eyes. Adult males are mostly white, and adult females show some black barring. But first-year birds are heavily marked by black horizontal bars. They appear noticeably darker than adults.
So keep binoculars in the car, and check out any large, pale, "earless" owls you might see perched on fence posts, and buildings near hayfields, grasslands and airports. If the birds are mostly white, they are probably adult snowy owls. If they seem dirty or the black barring is evident, they are juveniles.
Along the U.S.-Mexico border, it's a different story. Walls and fences stretch intermittently along the nearly 2,000-mile international border to keep illegal immigrants out of the U.S. Based on news reports, they are not terribly effective. Long, sophisticated tunnels seem easy to build. And a 2009 government report revealed that there had been 3,363 breaches of the fence just through May of that year. | <urn:uuid:24c8f3a7-b6ee-4414-88c1-794f6c1e981a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wvgazette.com/Outdoors/ScottShalaway/201112300104 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953208 | 517 | 2.875 | 3 |
Though blessed with many able administrators, the British found India just too large and diverse to handle. Many of their decisions stoked Hindu-Muslim tensions, imposing sharp new religious-political identities on Indians. As the recent experience of Iraq proves, elections in a country where the rights and responsibilities of secular and democratic citizenship are largely unknown do little more than crudely assert the majority’s right to rule. British-supervised elections in 1937 and 1946, which the Hindu-dominated Congress won easily, only hardened Muslim identity, and made partition inevitable.
This was a deeper tragedy than is commonly realized—and not only because India today has almost as many Muslims as Pakistan. In a land where cultures, traditions, and beliefs cut across religious communities, few people had defined themselves exclusively through their ancestral faith. The Pashto-speaking Muslim in the North-West Frontier province (later the nursery of the Taliban and Al Qaeda) had little in common with the Bangla-speaking Muslim in the eastern province of Bengal. (Even today, a Sunni Muslim from Lahore has less in common with a Sunni Muslim from Dhaka than he has with a Hindu Brahmin from New Delhi, who, in turn, may find alien the language, food, and dress of a low-caste Hindu from Chennai.) The British policy of defining communities based on religious identity radically altered Indian self-perceptions, as von Tunzelmann points out: “Many Indians stopped accepting the diversity of their own thoughts and began to ask themselves in which of the boxes they belonged.”
Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries. As late as 1940, Winston Churchill hoped that Hindu-Muslim antagonism would remain “a bulwark of British rule in India.” Certainly Churchill, who did not want his views on India to be “disturbed by any bloody Indians,” was disinclined to recognize the upsurge of nationalism in India. Imperial authority in India rested on the claim that the British, as representatives of a superior civilization, were essentially benign custodians of a fractious country. But as an Indian middle-class élite trained in Western institutions became politicized—more aware of the nature and scale of Indian political and economic subjugation to Britain—self-serving British rhetoric about benevolent masters and volatile natives was bound to be challenged. And no one undermined British assumptions of moral and legal custodianship better than Gandhi, who was adept both at galvanizing the Indian masses and at alerting the British to the gap between their high claims and the reality of their rule. With a series of imaginative, often carefully choreographed campaigns of civil disobedience throughout the nineteen-twenties, Gandhi shook the confidence of the British, becoming, by 1931, as India’s viceroy Lord Willingdon put it in a letter to King George V, a “terribly difficult little person.” Once such middle-class nationalists as Gandhi and Nehru acquired a popular following, independence was only a matter of time. If anything, Gandhi’s doctrine of nonviolence probably reduced the threat that a nationwide uprising would force an early and bloody exit for the British.
Through the nineteen-thirties, Gandhi had a few perceptive and sympathetic British interlocutors, such as the viceroy Lord Irwin, who when asked if he thought Gandhi was tiresome retorted, “Some people thought Our Lord very tiresome.” For the most part, though, Gandhi dealt with such hidebound members of Britain’s landowning class as Lord Linlithgow, who, as viceroy of India in the crucial period from 1936 to 1943, liked to be accompanied into dinner every evening by a band playing “The Roast Beef of Old England”—a tactless choice of preprandial music in the land of the holy cow. In 1939, without consulting any Indian leaders, Linlithgow declared war on Germany on behalf of India, committing two and a half million Indian soldiers to the Allied cause. Convinced that independence for India was many decades away, he found an equally obdurate ally in London once Churchill came to power, in 1940.
In the nineteen-twenties and thirties, Churchill had been loudest among the reactionaries who were determined not to lose India, “the jewel in the crown,” and, as Prime Minister during the Second World War, he tried every tactic to thwart Indian independence. “I hate Indians,” he declared. “They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.” He had a special animus for Gandhi, describing him as a “rascal” and a “half-naked” “fakir.” (In a letter to Churchill, Gandhi took the latter as a compliment, claiming that he was striving for even greater renunciation.) According to his own Secretary of State for India, Leopold Amery, Churchill knew “as much of the Indian problem as George III did of the American colonies.”
In 1942, as the Japanese Army advanced on India, the Congress Party was willing to offer war support in return for immediate self-government. But Churchill was in no mood to negotiate. Frustrated by his stonewalling tactics, the Congress Party launched a vigorous “Quit India” campaign in August of 1942. The British suppressed it ruthlessly, imprisoning tens of thousands, including Gandhi and Nehru. Meanwhile, Churchill’s indispensable quartermaster Franklin D. Roosevelt was aware of the contradiction in claiming to fight for freedom and democracy while keeping India under foreign occupation. In letters and telegrams, he continually urged Churchill to move India toward self-government, only to receive replies that waffled and prevaricated. Muslims, Churchill once claimed, made up seventy-five per cent of the Indian Army (the actual figure was close to thirty-five), and none of them wanted to be ruled by the “Hindu priesthood.”
Von Tunzelmann judges that Churchill, hoping to forestall independence by opportunistically supporting Muslim separatism, instead became “instrumental in creating the world’s first modern Islamic state.” This is a bit unfair—not to Churchill but to Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. Though always keen to incite Muslim disaffection in his last years, the Anglicized, whiskey-drinking Jinnah was far from being an Islamic theocrat; he wanted a secular Pakistan, in which Muslims, Hindus, and Christians were equal before the law. (In fact, political Islam found only intermittent support within Pakistan until the nineteen-eighties, when the country’s military dictator, working with the Saudis and the C.I.A., turned the North-West Frontier province into the base of a global jihad against the Soviet occupation of neighboring Afghanistan.) | <urn:uuid:882913c9-3cc3-45e1-9480-b73a4aa220b0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/08/13/070813crbo_books_mishra?currentPage=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969148 | 1,440 | 3.5 | 4 |
Twenty-one days in the beautiful Philmont backcountry? That’s the kind of vacation that us working folk daydream about.
You’ll have to forgive me for being jealous of the lucky 16- to 20-year-olds who will spend three weeks this summer at ROCS, Philmont’s Roving Outdoor Conservation School.
I did two 10-day Philmont treks during my time in Scouting. And by the 10th day on each trek, I had just one thought: “It’s over already?”
For participants of ROCS, the fun isn’t even halfway done by the 10th day.
Designed for Boy Scouts, Varsity Scouts, and Venturers with an interest in natural resource management, ROCS is a combination high-adventure trek and conservation course.
Participants spend six of their 21 days building new trails and rebuilding existing trails in the 137,493-acre ranch.
Check out the YouTube video above to hear a first-hand telling of the ROCS experience.
Here are some other details you’ll need:
- The program is open to registered BSA members who are at least 16 by the time their session begins but haven’t turned 21 by the time it ends.
- The cost for the 2011 program is $465. That increases by $10 in 2012.
- The three-week sessions run concurrently with new sessions starting every week from June 16 to July 14.
- The June 30 to July 21 session is for females only.
- As of this writing, 47 spaces remain for the 2011 ROCS sessions.
- Find more information by clicking here.
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7th Academy Awards
|7th Academy Awards|
|Date||February 27, 1935|
|Site||Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California|
|Host||Irvin S. Cobb|
|Best Picture||It Happened One Night|
|Most awards||It Happened One Night (5)|
|Most nominations||One Night of Love (6)|
Frank Capra's influential romantic comedy It Happened One Night became the first film to perform a "clean sweep" of the top five award categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay. This feat would later be duplicated by One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1976 and The Silence of the Lambs in 1992. It also was the first romantic comedy to be named Best Picture.
For the first time, the Academy standardized the practice – still in effect – that the award eligibility period for a film would be the preceding calendar year.
This was also the first of only two years in which write-in candidates were allowed by the Academy as a tacit response to the controversy surrounding the snub of Bette Davis' performance in Of Human Bondage.
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
|Outstanding Production||Best Director|
|Best Actor||Best Actress|
|Best Story||Best Adapted Screenplay|
|Best Live Action Short Film, Comedy||Best Live Action Short Film, Novelty|
|Best Animated Short Film||Best Art Direction|
|Best Score||Best Song|
|Best Cinematography||Best Assistant Director|
|Best Sound Recording||Best Film Editing|
Academy Juvenile Award
Multiple nominations and awards
The following eleven films received multiple nominations:
The following two films received multiple awards:
See also
- 1934 in film
- Academy Awards
- Academy Honorary Award
- Governors Awards
- List of Academy Awards ceremonies
- List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees
- List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees
- "The 7th Academy Awards (1935) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-07. | <urn:uuid:3f753bcc-a4c1-4fa5-a25b-b96a9ebfebf9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th_Academy_Awards | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900086 | 470 | 1.914063 | 2 |
The USDA updated the U.S. and World 2009/10 balance sheet estimates for major agricultural commodities in the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report on Friday. After the March WASDE and USDA Planting Report, grain prices have been very volatile. Traders were hoping for good news out of the April WASDE to help solidify grain prices. U.S. corn ending stocks increased slightly, within preliminary forecasts, and U.S. wheat ending stocks decreased 5% to mark below 1 billion bushels once again, according to the WASDE.
U.S. corn ending stocks were increased 100 million bushels to 1.899 billion bushels. The increase in ending stocks was due to a decrease in feed and residual use, estimated by USDA. Although there was a record use corn for January ethanol production, ethanol usage remained unchanged because of lower gasoline usage in the U.S. The USDA narrowed its 2009/10 farm price for corn by 5 cents to $3.50 to $3.70 per bushel.
World corn production was increased by 2.0 million tons on an increase in production in Brazil and South Africa. The regions have seen favorable growing conditions.
Favorable planting conditions should exist over the next 10 days across much of the Corn Belt, allowing farmers to get an early start on planting corn. Temperatures should remain above their normal averages and precipitation should be held below normal averages this week, besides in the extreme northwest region of the Corn Belt. These conditions may affect upcoming USDA estimates and corn prices.
U.S. wheat ending stocks were decreased by 51 million bushels to 950 million bushels. The 5% decrease in ending stocks was due to higher domestic use and an increase in exports of 40 million bushels. Feed use of wheat increased as well. Wheat’s 2009/10 marketing year estimated price was narrowed by 5 cents by the USDA to $4.85 to $4.95.
World wheat supplies estimates remained unchanged in the report because of a small production increase that offset a decrease in ending stocks.
Estimated exports of U.S. soybeans increased by 25 million bushels. The increase puts U.S. soybean exports 13% above the 2008/09 record, even with an exceptional crop coming in South America. Soybean stocks remained unchanged in the U.S. while the farm price for the 2009/10 soybean crop was narrowed by 25 cents to $9.20 to $9.70 per bushel.
Worldwide Soybean production estimates were increased by 1.6 million tons to 257.5 million tons on late season favorable weather conditions in Argentina and Brazil.
The USDA increased corn ending stocks and decreased wheat ending stocks like many had been expecting. The decrease in wheat ending stocks to bring them back below 1 billion bushels was important for wheat prices. Soybean prices could strengthen on the positive news that exports had increased even with the good South American crop. We will look to planting reports as the 2010 planting season progresses.
Click on the link for the full WASDE report: http://www.usda.gov/oce/commodity/wasde.
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ACL Injuries in Dogs
If your dog goes lame in one of his hind legs, he may have torn or ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL. This ligament, which also is called the cranial cruciate ligament in animals, connects the back of the femur (the bone above the knee) with the front of the tibia (the bone below the knee). The ACL is responsible for keeping the tibia in place beneath the femur and stabilizing the knee joint.
There are multiple causes of dog ACL injuries, including activity, breed, age, and obesity.
Symptoms of ACL Injuries in Dogs
ACL injuries in dogs are one of the most commonly seen orthopedic problems.
Depending on the severity of the ACL injury, a dog’s symptoms might range from having a hint of lameness to being unable to bear weight on the injured leg. A dog with an ACL injury may also have swelling on the inside of the knee.
One indicator of a torn ACL in dogs is the presence of the "drawer sign." This means that when the veterinarian holds the dog’s femur in place, the tibia can be pulled forward in a manner similar to a drawer sliding open. However, the lack of the drawer sign does not mean there is not damage to the ACL.
In addition to a complete physical exam, your veterinarian will probably take X-rays of your dog's knee to investigate the extent of damage and rule out other possible causes of lameness. X-rays will allow your veterinarian to determine the presence of fluid or arthritis in the joint, and also whether any small pieces of bone broke off with the ligament when it ruptured.
Dogs At Risk for Torn ACLs
Certain breeds are more prone to dog ACL injuries, including Labrador retrievers, poodles, bichon frises, German shepherds, rottweilers, and golden retrievers.
Obese animals and those that get occasional strenuous exercise - so-called "weekend warriors" - may also be more likely to develop ACL injuries. Often, these chronic conditions persist for long periods of time, with the dog gradually becoming more lame as the ligament becomes more and more damaged. Sometimes, however, a dog will have no obvious symptoms until the ligament finally ruptures, often with something as simple as a slight misstep.
Additionally, male dogs neutered at younger than five months old may be more likely to develop ACL injuries later in life.
Studies have shown that about one-third of the dogs that rupture the ACL on one leg will develop the condition in the opposite leg.
Treatment for ACL Injuries in a Dog
If left untreated, the lameness caused by a partially torn or ruptured ACL will improve or go away completely in many dogs, especially small ones, within three to six weeks. Regardless, the lack of a healthy ACL will cause the bones to rub against one another, leading to the development of bone spurs, pain, arthritis, and a decreased range of motion. These problems are more likely to occur in medium-sized to large dogs. | <urn:uuid:f3de44dc-3e64-4b92-89d0-ab43a40416b0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://pets.webmd.com/dogs/acl-injuries-in-dogs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950586 | 648 | 3.078125 | 3 |
January 16, 2003
We oppose witch hunts on bedroom matters for gays and straights.
Later this year, the Conservative movement's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards will most likely reconsider the subject of homosexuality. As in the past, the extremes in these discussions are not listening to each other, and there's been no mention of an obvious problem with the proposals to make halacha more gay-inclusive. (Perhaps the problem just seems obvious to me because I move comfortably in both worlds, as a shomer mitzvot Jew who once identified as gay but now accepts the authority of halacha regarding human sexuality and has been "openly celibate" for more than a year.)
What's striking about the present debate is the complete mismatch between the problem and the proposed solutions. Those who advocate changing the halacha on homosexuality reasonably insist that Jewish law consider the sincere testimony of the people it affects. But then, they advocate the most direct abrogation of one of God's mitzvot in the movement's history by legislating their own folk prejudices about "what gay guys do" without ever considering what we actually do. Anyone who thinks queer Jews are crying out in agony that the Torah's specific prohibition stymies our self-actualization has not been listening to us.
The Levitical proscription of mishkav zachar (homosexual relations) has always been understood to refer to a specific kind of male-male sexual intercourse. And it is a myth that mishkav zachar is central to the sexuality, dignity and happiness of nearly all contemporary gay men. None of us use "gay" or "bisexual" to refer to any particular sex act. Those terms refer to complex appreciations and multifaceted desires for male faces, bodies and personalities, and for sharing romantic interactions, loving gestures and sexual behaviors with other guys. Some gay men's sexual, emotional and romantic lives revolve around mishkav zachar, but not most. And those gays who do enjoy that act typically also participate in acts that, while similar, do not violate the Torah's ban.
It is disrespectful and ignorant to equate the identities of gay, lesbian and bisexual people with particular sexual mechanics. Mishkav zachar is a part of only 19 percent to 44 percent of gay sexual encounters, depending on the demographic group in question, according to sexdoc.com expert Dr. William Fitzgerald, a gay-affirming psychotherapist.
And Gayhealth.com asserts emphatically that not all gay men engage in mishkav zakhar, which it says "is steeped in all kinds of psychological baggage and it is not right for everyone. Some of us just don't enjoy it and/or have no desire to do it."
In fact, for most gays, strict monogamy is a much harder demand than abstaining from mishkav zachar, but the advocates for change don't propose sanctioning gay promiscuity. If the law can legitimately dictate the sexual schedules of straight couples and require that gay and bisexual men overcome our oness (compulsion) for multiple sex partners, why the rush to permit the very male-male sex act halacha tolerates least? Despite their warm intentions, those advocating change ironically reinforce the stereotype that gay men are sex fiends whose libidos cannot tolerate even modest strictures. Rubbish. The adjustments gay and bisexual men have made in the age of AIDS prove that we can indeed avoid certain practices.
The classic example of the oness concept (which undergirds most theories proposing halachic laxity on homosexuality) is someone who says she's sick and needs to eat on Yom Kippur. She may eat, for "the heart knows its own bitterness" (Talmud Yoma 83a). But, if during Ne'ilah services someone says he needs to sit down, we don't hand him a sandwich. Similarly, rabbis who would listen carefully to what gays and lesbians are actually saying might hear heart-wrenching pleas for things like respectful dignity, equal treatment of our families, rabbinic ordination and same-sex weddings. But urgent entreaties to revoke the Torah's ban on mishkav zachar? Hardly.
Once we recognize that the Torah's specific prohibition is almost never an insurmountable burden for gay-identified men, the tiresome debate over the Torah's cultural understanding of homosexuality becomes moot, and there's no longer a case before the Law Committee to overturn the d'oreita (biblical) ban on mishkav zachar.
Then, upholding the Levitical prohibition, it can still consider the concerns of gay- and lesbian-identified Jews and their supporters. I do not believe that a single halacha should change in this arena, but granting that many Conservative Jews do, I've drafted a sample compromise, which which would not work for Orthodoxy. Still, it demonstrates that a compassionate halachic response to homosexuality can maintain the heterosexual ideal:
1. With Jews who are straight or bisexual, our tradition insists that licit sexuality can only be found in married opposite-sex relationships.
2. With "questioning" Jews, we urge extensive introspection and exploration of scientific, psychological and halachic perspectives on homosexuality, guided by a rabbi and qualified therapist, before any assertion of a sexual identity.
3. With gay-identified Jews certain they are not bisexual, we first reaffirm that Jewish law forbids mishkav zachar. For all men and women who feel they cannot succeed in an opposite-sex marriage, completely abstaining from sexual and romantic encounters is a noble, honorable and valid choice. Indeed, for uncoupled gay men and lesbians, celibacy is the only choice we can sanction.
4. Rabbis may opt to promote monogamous same-sex couplehood (but not mishkav zachar) by performing commitment ceremonies (but not marriages) for gay men and lesbians (but not bisexuals) who want a lifelong bond with a same-sex partner. For male couples, new rituals should be developed -- perhaps involving mikvah (ritual bath) and beit din (court) -- to clarify that the consecration of these loving relationships is no heter (permission) for forbidden sex acts.
5. For celibate gay, lesbian and bisexual Jews, sexual orientation will not be a barrier to rabbinic ordination or other leadership roles. We oppose investigations and witch hunts on bedroom matters for both gays and straights: If you're not openly gay we won't ask about your sexuality, and if you are, stating you are celibate is sufficient. Each seminary, synagogue and school can set its own policies about the ordination or employment of coupled homosexual Jews who have had commitment ceremonies.
If we can fix a halachic problem with a chisel, we must never use a sledgehammer. While the law committee may not ultimately share my halachic conservatism on homosexuality, surely any changes must narrowly target the actual conundrums before it. Sadly, the proposals to jettison Judaism's preference for heterosexual marriage instead seem aimed at satisfying various political and personal agendas. It will be hard, but anyone who cares about Jewish law must oppose the apparent alliance between gays who don't understand halacha and rabbis who don't understand homosexuality, each ignoring the other's deaf spots as together they demand the only result they'd ever accept anyway.
David Bianco, a former international president of United Synagogue Youth, writes the syndicated column Over The Rainbow. He is the author of "Modern Jewish History for Everyone" (HFE, 1997), and can be reached at DaveBianco@aol.com This column was first printed in The Jerusalem Post. | <urn:uuid:b026e2bf-ce96-469a-a1f5-bcbf4e71097f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.jewishjournal.com/articles/item/gay_halacha_20030117/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937532 | 1,594 | 1.851563 | 2 |
[b-hebrew] Ps 68
peter at qaya.org
Mon Dec 19 05:47:29 EST 2005
On 18/12/2005 15:49, Dr. Joel M. Hoffman wrote:
>``Pave the way1 for the one who rides where the sun sets2 --- his name
>being Yah3 --- and rejoice before Him.''
>1. From the root s.l.l, to cast a highway. Birnbaum's ``extol''
> reflects a common understanding of this word, an understanding
> that dates back to the Targum's translation of Ps. 68, ``lift up a
> song,'' from which this passage is taken. But in light of the
> following ``the one who rides...,'' our translation of ``pave''
> seems much the more likely. NRSV adds a footnote to their
> translation ``lift up a song:'' ``Or cast up a highway.''
>2. Aravot. The idea presumably is that God rides his chariot on
> high, drawing the sun across the sky. (We have a similar
> expression, ``rides off into the sunset,'' but the meaning is
> quite different.) NRSV suggests, ``rides among the clouds.''
It makes no sense for humans to pave the way for someone who is riding
on the clouds! But if he is riding through the deserts, the only
attested meaning of `arava, it makes a lot of sense for people to
prepare a road for him, in the same way as even today in Middle Eastern
cultures (and no doubt also in America!) roads are repaired before
visits from the President.
I notice a clear and rather close parallel with Isaiah 40:3. Surely
Psalm 68 is older than Isaiah 40. It seems to me rather likely that the
prophet was deliberately echoing the psalm. He used the same word
`arava, in the singular, and in parallel with midbar making his meaning
clear, and his mesilla "highway" echoes sollu "pave (?)" in the psalm.
This suggests to me that the prophet understood the psalm as something
like "Pave the way for the rider through the deserts". And, as he would
have been in touch with ancient traditional understandings as well as
being a mother tongue speaker of biblical Hebrew, there is good reason
to think that he was correct.
peter at qaya.org (personal)
peterkirk at qaya.org (work)
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Transactions are a fundamental concept of all database systems. The essential point of a transaction is that it bundles multiple steps into a single, all-or-nothing operation. The intermediate states between the steps are not visible to other concurrent transactions, and if some failure occurs that prevents the transaction from completing, then none of the steps affect the database at all.
For example, consider a bank database that contains balances for various customer accounts, as well as total deposit balances for branches. Suppose that we want to record a payment of $100.00 from Alice's account to Bob's account. Simplifying outrageously, the SQL commands for this might look like:
UPDATE accounts SET balance = balance - 100.00 WHERE name = 'Alice'; UPDATE branches SET balance = balance - 100.00 WHERE name = (SELECT branch_name FROM accounts WHERE name = 'Alice'); UPDATE accounts SET balance = balance + 100.00 WHERE name = 'Bob'; UPDATE branches SET balance = balance + 100.00 WHERE name = (SELECT branch_name FROM accounts WHERE name = 'Bob');
The details of these commands are not important here; the important point is that there are several separate updates involved to accomplish this rather simple operation. Our bank's officers will want to be assured that either all these updates happen, or none of them happen. It would certainly not do for a system failure to result in Bob receiving $100.00 that was not debited from Alice. Nor would Alice long remain a happy customer if she was debited without Bob being credited. We need a guarantee that if something goes wrong partway through the operation, none of the steps executed so far will take effect. Grouping the updates into a transaction gives us this guarantee. A transaction is said to be atomic: from the point of view of other transactions, it either happens completely or not at all.
We also want a guarantee that once a transaction is completed and acknowledged by the database system, it has indeed been permanently recorded and won't be lost even if a crash ensues shortly thereafter. For example, if we are recording a cash withdrawal by Bob, we do not want any chance that the debit to his account will disappear in a crash just after he walks out the bank door. A transactional database guarantees that all the updates made by a transaction are logged in permanent storage (i.e., on disk) before the transaction is reported complete.
Another important property of transactional databases is closely related to the notion of atomic updates: when multiple transactions are running concurrently, each one should not be able to see the incomplete changes made by others. For example, if one transaction is busy totalling all the branch balances, it would not do for it to include the debit from Alice's branch but not the credit to Bob's branch, nor vice versa. So transactions must be all-or-nothing not only in terms of their permanent effect on the database, but also in terms of their visibility as they happen. The updates made so far by an open transaction are invisible to other transactions until the transaction completes, whereupon all the updates become visible simultaneously.
In PostgreSQL, a transaction is set up by surrounding the SQL commands of the transaction with BEGIN and COMMIT commands. So our banking transaction would actually look like:
BEGIN; UPDATE accounts SET balance = balance - 100.00 WHERE name = 'Alice'; -- etc etc COMMIT;
If, partway through the transaction, we decide we do not want to commit (perhaps we just noticed that Alice's balance went negative), we can issue the command ROLLBACK instead of COMMIT, and all our updates so far will be canceled.
PostgreSQL actually treats every SQL statement as being executed within a transaction. If you do not issue a BEGIN command, then each individual statement has an implicit BEGIN and (if successful) COMMIT wrapped around it. A group of statements surrounded by BEGIN and COMMIT is sometimes called a transaction block.
Note: Some client libraries issue BEGIN and COMMIT commands automatically, so that you might get the effect of transaction blocks without asking. Check the documentation for the interface you are using.
It's possible to control the statements in a transaction in a more granular fashion through the use of savepoints. Savepoints allow you to selectively discard parts of the transaction, while committing the rest. After defining a savepoint with SAVEPOINT, you can if needed roll back to the savepoint with ROLLBACK TO. All the transaction's database changes between defining the savepoint and rolling back to it are discarded, but changes earlier than the savepoint are kept.
After rolling back to a savepoint, it continues to be defined, so you can roll back to it several times. Conversely, if you are sure you won't need to roll back to a particular savepoint again, it can be released, so the system can free some resources. Keep in mind that either releasing or rolling back to a savepoint will automatically release all savepoints that were defined after it.
All this is happening within the transaction block, so none of it is visible to other database sessions. When and if you commit the transaction block, the committed actions become visible as a unit to other sessions, while the rolled-back actions never become visible at all.
Remembering the bank database, suppose we debit $100.00 from Alice's account, and credit Bob's account, only to find later that we should have credited Wally's account. We could do it using savepoints like this:
BEGIN; UPDATE accounts SET balance = balance - 100.00 WHERE name = 'Alice'; SAVEPOINT my_savepoint; UPDATE accounts SET balance = balance + 100.00 WHERE name = 'Bob'; -- oops ... forget that and use Wally's account ROLLBACK TO my_savepoint; UPDATE accounts SET balance = balance + 100.00 WHERE name = 'Wally'; COMMIT;
This example is, of course, oversimplified, but there's a lot of control possible in a transaction block through the use of savepoints. Moreover, ROLLBACK TO is the only way to regain control of a transaction block that was put in aborted state by the system due to an error, short of rolling it back completely and starting again. | <urn:uuid:af210db9-60d9-453f-ba33-c5b6e6ca7fe2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://idlebox.net/2010/apidocs/PostgreSQL-9.0.0.zip/tutorial-transactions.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93407 | 1,282 | 2.78125 | 3 |
November 2, 2006
Pitt notes: A unique way of punting
With much of the focus on how Pitt will counter South Florida's speed on offense on defense, the Panthers also have to be concerned about the Bulls' special teams units. Not only does South Florida haves some of the best kick and punt return units in the nation, but the Bulls also employ a rather unique approach to punting.
"They made a change about halfway through the year," Pitt special teams coach Charlie Partridge said this week. "West Virginia does the same thing: it's a roll-out punt, or a rugby punt. The philosophy behind it is really to give you balls that are hard to field and let it roll to get a good net punt. So we've had to work pretty hard this week on fielding some unconventional punts and making sure that we do our best to get the ball before it hits the ground and rolls for 20 yards."
The change in punting means that Pitt returner Darrelle Revis will have to adjust accordingly.
"They're going to be shorter punts," Revis said, "so my alignment is going to be closer to the line of scrimmage because they're going to fall fast. They'll probably take a couple bounces. The ball comes down quick."
Like Partridge said, the focus of the rugby punt is to get the ball to hit the ground quickly and roll for extra yardage. As such, the return team has to make its priorities equally focused.
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Cool Things - Hmong Story Cloth
Storytelling is a way of life for the Hmong people, an Asian ethnic group that suffered severe reprisals as a result of alliances during the Vietnam War. Kansas has become home to a surprising number of Hmong. This story cloth depicts their journey from farming villages to refugee camps.
The Hmong people lived in the Yellow River region of China for centuries. Political repression by the Chinese government pushed them into Northern Vietnam between 1790 and 1860. Eventually, they migrated to the mountainous areas of Laos, Burma, and Thailand where they lived and farmed successfully for about a century.
During the Vietnam War (1963-1975) the United States' Central Intelligence Agency and the Hmong army formed a secret alliance to fight Laotian communists and the North Vietnamese. Shortly after the U.S. military abandoned Laos in 1974, the communist group Pathet Lao announced plans to wipe out the Hmong people. Villages were burned and bombed during this conflict, and many people were killed.
Fleeing Across the Mekong
Thousands of Hmong escaped Laos by crossing the Mekong River into Thailand. Their only belongings were what they could carry. Many parents gave babies opium to prevent their crying and alerting Pathet Lao soldiers to their presence. Both babies and adults died during the journey. This flight across the river is dramatically depicted at the center of the story cloth.
Several camps were established in Thailand to house the incoming refugees. Because the refugees were destitute (having left behind nearly all their possessions), missionaries at the camps encouraged Hmong women to produce items for sale to western markets. This story cloth, made in a refugee camp in Thailand, is one such example. Although fine needlework techniques and patterns are traditional to Hmong culture, story cloths are not. Missionaries urged women to embroider their experiences onto textile squares for an American audience. Although the Hmong people preferred bright and bold colors, missionaries chose hues they believed appealed to American tastes. The result is a unique amalgam.
Hmong refugees began leaving Thailand refugee camps for the United States in December and January of 1975-1976. Hmong people continue to immigrate to the U.S. today. They also have migrated to France, Australia, French Guyana, and Canada, but many Hmong still live in southeastern Asia.
Kansas City was among the first cities to take in Hmong refugees. The Kansas Historical Society documented the history of the immigrant community as part of its Kansas Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program. This story cloth was purchased from a refugee center in Kansas City in 1989. The Society's Kansas Museum of History has several other items from Kansas City's Hmong settlement in its collection.
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Did you know that African Americans are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer's disease? We need to do all we can to eliminate this appalling health disparity – and the first step is to understand why it exists.
Dr. Laura D. Baker discussed her groundbreaking work, including whether things like exercise, diet, and nasal administration of insulin can slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Baker is an Associate Professor of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and affiliate faculty of Wake Forest's Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity.
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The tumultuous life story of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, former wife of Nelson Mandela and flawed icon of the struggle against racial apartheid, is to be told in an opera at South Africa's State theatre.
Publicity for the show, which receives its world premiere in Pretoria next April, reads: "She gave voice to a time. She gave voice to a place. She gave voice to a people. Love her or hate her … but come and hear her."
Winnie is believed to be the first opera fully composed and orchestrated in South Africa. The historic language of the form, Italian, will be jettisoned in favour of a libretto combining English and Xhosa, with a 60-piece orchestra performing a fusion of western and traditional African music.
While an opera about Nelson Mandela might risk hagiography, his former wife's life invites moral ambiguity. During the apartheid era, she was convicted of kidnapping 14-year-old activist Stompie Moeketsi, who was subsequently murdered by a member of her bodyguard.
She separated from Mandela in 1992 after details of her infidelity emerged. In 2003, she was convicted of more than 40 charges of fraud. For many, however, she remains a defining figure in the struggle against the apartheid government and, now an MP, is regularly introduced by ANC officials as "the mother of the nation".
Warren Wilensky, producer and librettist of Winnie – the Opera, said of her story: "I don't think it gets any better. She is the perfect operatic character. The highs and lows of her life are too big for a normal dramatic story." He promised a warts and all portrait, adding: "It's not about a grand heroine, it's about real life and humanity. She was there at a difficult time with no support and came to personify the struggle. We're trying to tell a fully-rounded story that I don't think has been told before."
He said the opera opens with a barrage of accusations against Madikizela-Mandela at the post-apartheid truth and reconciliation commission, with the international media in the role of a Greek chorus.
One character who does not appear is Mandela. "We thought he would overpower the story," Wilensky said. "In one line she asks, 'Nelson, where are you?' "That's a theme throughout – where is Nelson?"
The opera, composed by Bongani Ndodana-Breen, reflects a surge of cultural interest in Madikizela-Mandela. Earlier this year, British actor Sophie Okonedo played her in the BBC drama Mrs Mandela. Next year Hollywood star Jennifer Hudson takes the title role in the film Winnie. | <urn:uuid:0e98b749-7bf7-4d6f-bb6b-daffcb8edee5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/27/winnie-madikizela-mandela-opera | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978357 | 568 | 1.9375 | 2 |
The painting that is seen several times in the film depicting a man in a suit with an apple covering his face is "Son of Man", by Rene Magritte. See more...
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Plot hole: When Renee Russo was reviewing the tape showing the room with the painting to see who stole the painting, and the tape was blank because the heat generated from the suitcase hidden under the bench, why didn't she just back up the tape completely to see who put the suitcase there in the first place?
Continuity: In the opening sequence, when Crown decides to walk and has "Jimmy" meet him at the office, he is almost run down by a truck. First of all, the truck has to skid to a stop, yet there is a car no more than ten feet in front of it when they change camera angle. Why was the truck going so fast in the first place. Secondly, when Crown motions for the driver to pass, the same car is still stopped directly in front of the truck, yet the truck speeds off in a way that it should smash into the car in front of it.
Revealing: During the glider scene when they show the close up of Catherine's face with Thomas leaning over her from behind, waving his hands, if you look at her sunglasses you can see all the white screens, the camera crew, the reflection of his hands, etc. You can see this every time they show a close-up of them from the front of the glider.
Revealing: At the beginning, when Thomas Crown is in his car, getting ready to get out and walk up to the museum, they show a close up of his wrist watch to set the time; it says 9:08 a.m. A few minutes later when he is sitting inside the gallery eating his breakfast croissant, if you look carefully at his watch, it shows 4:30. In various other shots, it also shows 5:25 and 6:30, indicating at least 2 hours spent shooting the gallery scene.
Continuity: When the "thieves" are preparing the impressionist wing and inform Thomas Crown that the exhibit is closed, Crown responds with "It's only a quarter to five". Shortly after when the surveillance footage from the time of the robbery is being reviewed, the time stamp on the monitor says 5:54. I doubt that the whole robbery took 1 hour 9 mins, when the time in the movie was around 3 minutes.
Continuity: When they land in Martinique, and are on the airstrip loading up the vehicles, their luggage and the painting go into the second vehicle, a shiny black jeep. However, when they show the aerial shot of them climbing the mountain to Crown's house, the jeep is now painted in camouflage colors.
Plot hole: At the end of the movie when everyone is standing in the gallery looking at the painting now back in place (with the smoke and sprinklers still dripping) they notice that now there is a new painting missing, the one Thomas stole for Catherine. However, none of the other metal wall coverings open or move except for that small side one revealing the empty frame on the wall. This makes no sense why only that one would suddenly open and none of the others.
Revealing: During all shots of the actual glider, you can tell very obviously it is two stunt men in very bad, fake looking wigs. The one up front, "Catherine" now makes her look like a football player. He also has on a long red wig that goes to his shoulders, which is longer than Catherine's hair. In one aerial shot, the stuntman sitting in the rear, which is supposed to be "Thomas", has this dark black bowl cut wig that is parted down the middle and slicked to his head.
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Tanzania is the quintessential safari destination. The Serengeti Plains are the centre stage for the greatest wildlife show on earth, the Great Migration. The Ngorongoro Crater is 600 meters deep and 260 square kilometers in size. Ground zero to an immense eruption three million years ago, it sits alongside the world's tallest free-standing mountain, the snow-covered peak of Kilimanjaro. These are monuments to an ongoing tectonic drama dating back millennia.
The raw spectacle and scale of the place hooks you on a visceral level. Impossibly wide and teeming vistas that will make your eyes ache. The huge elephant herds of the Selous, Ruaha and Tarangine reserves. The tree-climbing lions and flamingos of Lake Manyara. The sound of thousands of wildebeest thundering across the savanna, compelled by forces and following routes some scientists now believe to be imprinted in their DNA. Every year it is estimated, two million of these animals move as one, northwards across the border into Kenya and the Masai Mara.
Tanzania shows you something ancient and basic that you will not fully process until long after you depart.
Tanzania and Kenya combine spectacular African safaris and beach vacations with history and culture. The Great Rift Valley scenery is simply spectacular. From December to March there are short rains and the heat is sultry. From March to May there are long rains and from May to September the Southeast Trade Wind brings cool air and heralds the start of the dry season.
Head north for the best safari experiences in the country’s most beautiful national parks and private concessions; the region around Arusha on the foothills of Mount Meru and in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro is still relatively unexplored and has an abundance of diverse landscapes to offer.
The northern safari circuit comprises the famous destinations of the Serengeti, the Nogorongoro crater, Lake Manyara and Tarangire. There is plenty of luxury safari accommodation in the region from tented camps to sophisticated game lodges.To the south you will find the Selous Game Reserve, the largest in Africa. Other popular destinations include Lake Malawi and Lake Tanganyika to the west offering great water-based activities and striking beaches, and Lake Victoria forming the northern border with Kenya and Uganda.
For an intense dip into the culture of Tanzania spend a night or two in Dar es Salaam. Facing the Indian Ocean, the busy harbour is well worth a visit and the local markets are vibrant and a great place to stock up on textiles and local arts and crafts. Dar es Salaam provides easy access to the exotic islands of the Zanzibar archipelago. The main island is steeped in history as a trading port for Arabian merchants. Wander the narrow cobbled streets of Stone Town and take in the moorish architecture of what was once a flourishing center of the spice trade. The Zanzibari capital is a fascinating fusion of African, Arabian, Asian and European influences, with grand stone houses dating back to the early 19th century, when it was under the control of the Sultanate of Oman.
Beautiful white sand beaches, warm water and a sultry island atmosphere await you at this heavenly destination. Take your pick of luxury accommodation and explore the attractions of this island ranging from heritage destinations to some of the best snorkeling and diving spots in the world.
There are two international airports in Tanzania. Dar-es-Salaam International Airport (DAR) is the main airport and the best to access Tanzania’s coast, Zanzibar and the southern safari circuit. Guests traveling to the Northern Safari Circuit should fly into Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO) in Arusha. From here you will then transfer (approx. 45 minutes) to the regional Arusha Airport for scheduled charter flights into the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater and Lake Manyara. Depending on your flight arrival time, an overnight in Arusha may be necessary.
Although it is possible to drive between some of the reserves it is often long and uncomfortable. We suggest making use of short lodge-hopper flights where possible to maximise your time on safari. Contact us at Southern Africa Travel today for a tailor-made itinerary in Tanzania that suits your interests and needs.
Set in the northern part of Tanzania, the town of Arusha is set on the foothills of Mount Meru and is the starting off point for any journey to the northern safari circuit including the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater and Lake Manyara.
Dar es Salaam is generally a stopover en-route to the region’s more popular destinations such as Zanzibar, Pemba and the southern safari circuits. This vibrant city is the economic and cultural heart of Tanzania and is well worth a visit if time permits.
Tanzania's Northern Safari Circuit contains some of the most famous sights in the world - The Serengeti Plains, Mount Kilimanjaro and the Ngorongoro Crater and the Wildebeest Migration, also known as ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’.
The archipelago of Zanzibar, made up of the main island of Unguja, its sister island Pemba and several islets with exotic names such as Mafia Island and Mnemba, is an enchanting paradise just waiting for your arrival. Set just off the Tanzanian coastline; beautiful sandy beaches, luxury accommodation, a rich and vibrant culture and some of the best diving spots in the world are at your disposal.
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Brazilian singer/songwriter Caetano Veloso plays next month in New York City. The concert will take place at Terminal 5, a Bowery Presents Company's venue, on the 8th. It is a one night only show and tickets are 45 dollars if bought in advance.
Caetano was born in Santo Amaro, Bahia, in 1945, though was in Sao Paulo, in the mid 60’s, where his professional musical career began. At first, as the majority of Brazilian musicians back then, Veloso’s compositions drew on the Bossa Nova’s Joao Gilberto, but he soon would develop the style which brought attention to his music. Incorporating musical and aesthetical ideas from quite diverse influences such as the Beatles, the French Dadaism and Brazilian 1920’s Modernist poetry; alongside with Gilberto Gil, his sister Maria Bethania, Gal Costa and a bunch of other intellectualized artists, he started what can be considered brazil’s musical renaissance, the short-lived cultural revolution known as Tropicalismo.
Unfortunately, it lasted for about one year and half. Caetano and Gil were exiled in London by Brazilian’s dictatorship. The three years they spent in England were actually very productive. Both of them never stopped working and some wonderful songs came out of this forced vacation. In 1972, they returned to Brazil and found out that Tropicalia remained intact and its audiences did nothing but grow.
Although Caetano’s career tone was set by Tropicalismo, he’s experienced a lot over the years. Through rock, samba, bossa, African beats, regional Brazilian tunes, Italian pop and our own popular music, his style has evolved and led him to high places. Teminal 5 gig is a chance to see this grammy-winner, gray-haired, former-revolutionary chameleon calmly rock your socks off. | <urn:uuid:768437d3-7aba-4e0f-af02-efd60101b9e4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.examiner.com/article/terminal-5-welcomes-caetano-veloso-for-one-night-event | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973948 | 398 | 1.6875 | 2 |
ISIS Report 27/10/10
Mad Soy Disease Strikes Brazil
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho
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Announcing a new Report from ISIS. The most complete up-to-date summary of the dangers of GM agriculture in 52 pages. Buy Now
No cure for mad soy disease
They call it “mad soy disease” in Brazil, where it has been
spreading from the north, causing yield losses of up to 40 percent, most
notably in the states of Mato Grosso, Tocantins and Goias.
Like its namesake, mad cow disease, it is incurable [1, 2, 3].
This is the latest GMO fiasco to
surface since our report on the meltdown in the USA (GM Crops Facing
Meltdown in the USA, SiS 46), China (GM-Spin Meltdown in
China, SiS 47), and Argentina (Argentina's
Roundup Human Tragedy, SiS 48).
Mad soy disease has afflicted
soybeans sporadically in the hot northern regions of Brazil in the past years,
but is now spreading to more temperate regions in the south “with increased
prevalence overall”, according to a US Department of Agriculture scientist.
The disease delays the maturation
of infected plants indefinitely; the plants remain green until they eventually
rot in the field. The top leaves thin out, and the stems thicken and become
deformed. The leaves also darken compared to healthy plants; the pods, when
formed, are abnormal with fewer beans.
Researchers have yet to find a
cure for the disease, as they are still not sure what causes it. The prime
suspect for spreading disease is the black mite found in stubble when soybean
is grown in no-till production systems.
According to the USDA Global Agricultural Information Network, Brazil has 24 million ha planted to soybean, 78 percent of which are GM . Apart from mad
soy disease, Brazil’s soybean is simultaneously afflicted by soybean Asian rust
that first appeared in 2001-2002. Producer groups are requesting the Brazilian
Government Agency to speed up approval of more effective fungicide to combat
the disease, which would have significant cost implications. But for mad soy
disease, no cure is forthcoming. Mato Grosso, which alone produces nearly 30
percent of Brazil’s soybean crop, is among the states that have brought the
issue of mad soy disease “to the forefront”.
US scientists identified more than 40 diseases
associated with glyphosate and glyphosate-tolerant crops
Disease of GM soybean is no longer a surprise. Senior
scientists in the United States, who have studied glyphosate and
glyphosate-tolerant GM crops for decades, identified more than 40 diseases
linked to glyphosate, and the list is growing (Scientists Reveal
Glyphosate Poisons Crops and Soil, SiS 47). Glyphosate tolerant
crops play a pivotal role in causing and spreading diseases, not only to the
crops themselves, but also to other crops grown nearby or planted subsequently
Tolerant Crops Bring Diseases and Death, SiS 47).
The scientists warned of “dire consequences for agriculture.” Don Huber, recently retired from Purdue University, stated that the widespread use of glyphosate in the US can “significantly increase the severity of various plant diseases, impair plant defense
to pathogens and diseases and immobilize soils plant nutrients rendering them
unavailable for plant use.”
1. “Brazil battles spread of 'mad soy disease”, Agrimoney.com, 5 October 2010,
soy disease hits Brazil farmers”, Kieran Gartlan, DTN Progressive Farmer
19 August 2010, http://bit.ly/ajSdRA
3. Brazil, oilseeds and products update, record soybean planted area forecast for 2010-11
crop. GAIN /report, 9/29/2010, USDA foreign Agricultural Service, Global
Agriculture Information Network, http://gain.fas.usda.gov/Recent%20GAIN%20Publications/Oilseeds%20and%20Products%20Update_Brasilia_Brazil_9-29-2010.pdf
MW. GM crops facing meltdown in the USA. Science in Society 46
PT and Ho MW. From the Editors: GM spin meltdown in China. Science in Society 47,
C. Argentina’s Roundup human tragedy. Science in
Society 48 (to appear).
MW. Scientists reveal glyphosate poisons crops and soil. GM meltdown continues.
Science in Society 47,
MW. Glyphosate tolerant crops bring diseases and death. Science in Society 47,
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|Todd Millions Comment left 16th November 2010 22:10:24|
Curious-nothing about this from ag-tox canada ,of course.
I also note that my (families) favorite soy sauce for 50 years-Kikkomon(sanyo foods),now has as first ingredent-WHEAT!All the other soy(first) brew sauces I've tried,are tasting off,rather than just not as good.
Wheat was always a secound choice for these ferments,when soy was in short supply-and Kikomon did notice that something was off in their new Iowa based plant in the early 80's,before the herbisde mod soya was even approved(we noticed at the same time that the defatted soy meal milk replacer for orphan calves,was invarably fatal,instead of the previous 30% survival rate.).
If they can't get unmodified soy anymore,it truely the end for this bean as food-human or animal.Good thing under nafta modelled trade agreemnets(chapter11),the patent holders have no liability-think of the bailout monies that would have too be printed9and backed) otherwise!
|Rory Short Comment left 27th October 2010 22:10:29|
This is frightening. So glyphosate is a problem in itself and add GMO's to it and you compound the problem.
The industrial production of artefacts like motor cars is already in many ways problematic for us as living beings but extending the industrial paradigm to our use of living systems can only be regarded as unadulterated madness.
|brian Comment left 28th October 2010 07:07:18|
This is what you get for meddling with nature...baffled expects facing a monster they created.
|Savannah Ashley Comment left 27th April 2011 20:08:57|
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It’s easy to forget what day it is because of where you are and the routine you are going through, but all the DFACs (dining facilities) we went to were decorated and there was a cake. They make an effort over here to connect with the Fourth of July, and it’s easy to remember and be thankful for what we have, which is our independence. It was a good day. Fourth of July has always been important to me because it has always been a big family day. I think today was a little different but it was every bit as special. The impact you have on our troops, that is really special.
What is funny, there were a couple soldiers that made the joke that they don’t really like fireworks over here on Fourth of July, given the things that have happened here with the indirect fire and the missiles and they don’t want that. But (the day) is very important to the troops and it’s important they connect to the fact what that means. They are living what the meaning of the Fourth of July is by being here. I think our country does a great job supporting that. The celebration was a little bit different, no fireworks, but we had a good celebration dinner tonight.
We also took a Blackhawk helicopter to a remote post that hadn’t had anyone visit them since March. They had a Fourth of July barbecue and it was a festive atmosphere. Guys were very excited to see somebody, and they were all football fans, and that really struck home. They were a smaller group, not a lot of guys. One of the more interesting things today was here in the middle of Iraq, at one of these forward-operating bases, I ran into a First Lieutenant marine named Joseph Waters that went to high school at Seton Catholic in Chandler. The first thing he said to me was, “Your son (Kenny) went to Seton Catholic.” As soon as he said Seton my ears perked up and he told me his brother played football with (Kenny) there. Just goes to show what a small world it is, that I am at a remote outpost that I had to take a Blackhawk helicopter to get to, and I run across someone who went to the same high school as my son.
We had a big meet-and-greet tonight at one of the main bases at the USO center. There were a lot of people there and that was kind of the big finale for us. (Tuesday) we start making our way back to Kuwait and we will catch a flight out late back to the States, so we get back Wednesday.
Using military terms, I had good “intel” about the trip, I had good intelligence about what we were going to be doing, and the USO does a good job informing us what we were going to do. The thing is you never know when the schedule will change. Today we were sitting in a little room for two hours waiting to take a trip to one of the bases. When you are waiting to travel by Blackhawk helicopter and it gets another mission, you are delayed. Those things can happen. It’s ironic that it’s kind of like our business, how games don’t always go the way you want them to and you have to adjust, you might have to change a scheme. That was kind of what I expected.
It went by quickly. We were busy. We were on a C-130 airplane again today, we were on Blackhawk helicopter three different trips, taking trucks and vans to all different bases. The hectic pace, I didn’t expect. The emotional connection to the troops and seeing how excited they were to see somebody from home, that was something I didn’t expect. The human element, even though you think you know what it will be, once you see the conditions they live in but the enthusiasm they have for their job, that’s what hits you where you aren’t expecting it.
In talking to the other coaches, those are the things we will be thinking about for weeks and weeks about this trip. Today, on the Fourth of July, I was just proud to see our troops and how they represent our country. I am grateful to be an American and to have these people helping another country as well as defending our freedom. | <urn:uuid:2aa89fe7-6e32-48e8-ae31-b48161d56ecb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.azcardinals.com/news-and-events/article-2/Fourth-Of-July-With-The-Troops/c1c20c8e-e57c-44e3-8a64-05fcaf4ae087 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00051-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.993017 | 905 | 1.5 | 2 |
Late one night, several years ago, I find myself in idle conversation with a drunken Maori man in the main bus station in the city of Auckland. I’d just come by train from Rotorua, a fantastic region of New Zealand full of geysers, mud pools and all sorts of volcanic activity. I was quite tired from the four-hour journey so I was definitely not in the mood for conversation with sober people, much more drunks.
“Kia ora!”, the man calls out. After almost a week in New Zealand I know this means ‘hi’ in Maori. I pretend to be deaf. But this old man is persistent and quite loudly repeats his ‘kia ora’. He proudly announces, “That’s ‘hello’ in my language, Maori.” Big laugh now. “You can say it?”, he challenges me.
I say to myself, “This man drunk but im not drunk to dat”. So I decide to humour him. I imitate his greeting and he laughs heartily. “Good,” he says, “Not like these pakeha people. Can’t talk Maori”. I also now know that ‘pakeha’ means ‘white people’ in Maori. The old man warms to the conversation. “You from Fiji?”, he asks. “No”, I respond.
Naturally, this monosyllabic answer is getting us nowhere. So he follows up, “Where?” I say, “Africa”. Then he asks, and I should have seen it coming, “Kia ora! How you say ‘hello’ in your language?” Big trouble now. What am I going to tell this man? Im drunk, so I’m tempted to make up some mumbo-jumbo. But that would be taking a joke too far.
English colonized by Africans
So I draw my ‘real-real’ language, Jamaican. I tell him that in my language we say, “Wa a gwaan?” So for the next few minutes this drunken man keeps on repeating, “Wa gwaan?” He doesn’t quite catch the extra ‘a’ in the middle.
My sister, Donnette, who used to work for an airline company and so could do crazy things like fly from Maryland to New Zealand for a long weekend, is by this time shaking her head in amazement. Her contribution to the conversation is, “I hope is not this kind of fraudulent information you been giving out along the way”. I was on a six-week lecture tour of the Pacific.
“Fraudulent?” I protested. “‘Wa a gwaan?’ is kinda African”. After all. Even though ‘Wa a gwaan?’ is really Jamaican not African, we all know where Jamaican came from: various dialects of 17th English colonized by speakers of various West African languages, for the most part. I know that some backward people still insist that Jamaican is not a language; it’s just a ‘corruption’ of English. Africans are doing the corrupting.
So ‘wa a gwaan?’ is nothing but a rotten version of ‘What’s going on?’ But, trust me, nobody who doesn’t know Jamaican, drunk or no drunk, would ever figure out that ‘Wa a gwaan?’ started life as English. It has been completely disguised.
Language death and rebirth
While in New Zealand I was fortunate to interview Professor Pat Hohepa at Auckland University’s Maori Studies Centre. One of his big concerns is what he calls ‘language death’. There was a period in New Zealand’s recent history when it looked as if the Maori language was dying out.
Now, there’s a concerted effort to teach Maori in schools. Speaking the Maori language is recognized as an essential way of keeping the culture alive. And it’s not only Maoris who need to learn the language. If pakehas are really serious about creating a truly bi-cultural New Zealand, they will have to learn Maori too.
Professor Hohepa also talked about reggae music in Maori. And he highlighted Bob Marley’s revolutionary music as a language of resistance for the Maoris in their struggle to regain control over their collective destiny: “Every man got a right to decide his own destiny”.
I wonder how long it’s going to take us in Jamaica to realise the value of the new mother tongues Africans created in this country and across the African diaspora. Our educators don’t seem to understand that as long as we tell children that they ‘chat bad’ when they use their mother tongue, we are planting the seeds of low self-esteem. And we will reap badness. Or, perhaps, we do understand and that’s why we refuse to acknowledge Jamaican as a ‘proper-proper’ language.
International Creole Day
Last Friday was International Creole Day. The Jamaican Language Unit at the University of the West Indies, Mona, led the local celebrations. Regretfully, these were affected by Hurricane Sandy. Across the Caribbean region and the wider Creole world, the resilience of the speakers of often-marginalised languages was acknowledged.
French Creole languages are spoken and written in Haiti, St. Lucia, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guyana, Reunion, Seychelles, Mauritania and Louisiana. The vocabulary of our own Jamaican Creole is mostly of English origin. So it’s sometimes not so easy for amateurs to see how different the language really is from English.
We don’t fully understand ‘wat a gwaan’ with the other aspects of the Jamaican language such as grammar, word order and the structure of sounds. And we arrogantly refuse to take the linguists seriously even though they actually know what they’re talking about.
If we had stopped to listen to the linguists who have been doing serious research on Caribbean Creoles for more than half a century, we would have realised by now that we should have been joyously celebrating the Jamaican language in this fiftieth anniversary of independence. For language is one of the primal expressions of identity.
One of the big ironies of our racialised national motto is that it fails to recognise that it’s not a vague ‘out of oneness’ that unites us as a people. It’s the specificity of the Jamaican language. Most Jamaicans, irrespective of class, colour, gender, sexual orientation and age, are more or less competent speakers of Jamaican. And if you don’t know the language, you are the odd one out: yu salt! Yu no know wat a gwaan. | <urn:uuid:a83ad7d4-0f68-4316-a385-5c4edfcc1e0e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://carolynjoycooper.wordpress.com/tag/maori-studies-centre-at-auckland-university/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951985 | 1,514 | 1.867188 | 2 |
In 1981 John Bachar cast off into the uncharted expanse of Mendlicott Dome, a steep 500-foot, knob-spackled granite face in Tuolumne Meadows, California, with nothing but a hand drill and bolts, some slings, hooks and cams. Climbing onsight and belayed by Dave Yerian, he established the litmus test for runout climbing, the Bachar-Yerian (5.11c R). Over the years, climbers have assayed their mental fortitude against Bachar's standard by stepping up to onsight this piece de resistance. Some succeeded, but others, famously, didn't. Wolfgang Gullich (one of the strongest climbers in the world before his untimely death in a car crash), for example, broke a brittle foothold and zipped 60 feet onto his belayer while trying to make the second ascent.
In July, the 19-year-old English climber George Ullrich attempted to better Bachar's style by skipping the nine bolts and protecting the face entirely with natural runners. Ullrich had already repeated some of the British Isles' boldest headpoints, both on gritstone and, more recently, in the Lake District, where he sent two of Dave Birkett's sparsely protected lines, Impact Day and Dawes Rides a Shovel Head. Both lines are rated E8 6c, which translates to scary, dangerous 5.13 climbing protected entirely by natural gear.
With that kind of background training, it's no surprise that Ullrich managed to onsight the Bachar-Yerian while clipping the bolts, but his decision to try the line without the fixed pro might leave people scratching their heads, since the route largely lacks cracks that accept gear. Ullrich spent another day on the climb sussing placements, which, for the most part, consisted of slings hitched around the suspect knobs, and then he went for the send. Six feet from the third-pitch anchors (and the end of the difficulties), Ullrich balked, opting to clip the last bolt, and bringing his historic bid to elevate America's iconic testpiece to a close.
Why did you decide to try the Bachar-Yerian without the bolts?
After climbing it with Mason Bob Earle with bolts, I was excited to see that it looked possible to protect most of the climb by slinging chicken heads with small slings and cord, and I thought it would be fun to give it a bash.I climbed it once more clipping the bolts and I felt comfortable -- kinda comfortable, actually. We got rained off the last pitch so I wasn't able to check it out.
What happened at the end of the third pitch on your attempt without bolts?
Halfway up that bit, I realized that I didn't actually have any decent protection to hold a fall, and I had only climbed the top section once before. After fiddling a crap wire into a hole, I was sketching and thought it sensible to clip the bolt a few meters up.A wise decision, as I did not feel comfortable on the top few moves. The crux of the route is halfway up the first pitch, protected by a sky-hook and a couple of cams below the break, but the top section is the psychological crux.
Other than that section, did you feel solid throughout?
Yes, it was more mentally exhausting than physically. It made my brain hurt, like math lessons used to feel.
In the video clip, the route looked well chalked. How much did you work it before your bolt-less attempt?
On my second ascent with bolts I tried to chalk things up as much as possible to make things more obvious. Plus it'd had a few ascents before me this season -- one by two guys from Austria, one of which took a big fall from the top pitch and broke his leg.
Any plans to return for the complete ascent?
It will be on my list on my next trip to the States.
Ullrich's attempt was filmed for a feature, Call It What You Want due out in the fall. See snippets at www.steepmedia.blogspot.com | <urn:uuid:4f708f51-0fc0-4991-b393-b805fcd7b1b8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.rockandice.com/lates-news/close-but-no-cigar | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967585 | 872 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Your workout routines to build muscle must focus on the results you want.
Workout routines to build muscle should always start with your core, because a strong core is the foundation of all other exercise programs. Your weight lifting workout routines will improve dramatically if you strengthen the muscles in the center of your body, that is, your abdominals and back, giving you stability for the rest of your workout routines. As you begin your home workouts, consider the kind of body you want your weight training exercises to create.
For a fitter look, workout routines to build muscle should focus on lighter sets and lots of repetitions. The best workout routines in sets of more than 10 repetitions tighten and tone, building speed and endurance. Tony Horton, on the workout video P90X®, uses a combination of exercises to firm and strengthen the muscles in the arms and shoulders. These workout routines to build muscle require only a small space, a set of dumbbells or resistance bands, a pull up bar, and about an hour a day.
For big guns, workout routines to build muscle focus on heavier sets with fewer repetitions. Weight lifting workout routines for building massive muscle are built on short reps of extreme weight, usually sets of one to five reps. Giving advice on how to build muscle, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that strengthening exercises need to be done until you'd have difficulty doing another rep. Or as Horton might put it, you find "The Line," your discomfort threshold, and push past it. (But always be careful not to push into injury.)
Workout routines to build muscle in the upper body are a means to sculpt the look you want, whether it's for your favorite sport or your favorite outfit. In his workout videos, Tony Horton encourages functional training so you can actually do something with all those muscles. The muscular body from weight training exercises is a sign of fitness and health that all can see, but the best motivation comes from internals such as feeling better, having more energy, and generally being happier with your condition. Talking about how to build muscle, Tony Horton says, "Forget 'I can't.' Say: 'I presently struggle with.'" The best weight training exercises start with a challenge, and then you beat it and raise the bar again. | <urn:uuid:b44c24da-34d7-477a-a1e6-6a153af38583> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.beachbody.com/articles/a23-workout-routines-to-build-muscle-sculpt-your-upper-body-p1.do | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953281 | 467 | 1.953125 | 2 |
At the dawn of the industrial revolution as workers left the fields and moved to industrial employment the demand for a means of payment increased dramatically. Workers, once paid in kind, needed to be paid in a medium they could use to buy the necessities of life. Small-tender bank notes, however, were illegal and in Great Britain the production of coin was monopolized by the Royal Mint which failed to provide enough high quality coin to meet the demands of workers and business. Silver coin, despite the efforts of Sir Isaac Newton, was overvalued and fled the country. Gold was too expensive to make coins suitable for workingmen and the Mint could not or would not produce high-quality copper coins.
Good Money is George Selgin’s explanation of how enterprising button makers solved what Sargent and Velde called The Big Problem of Small Change thereby making the industrial revolution possible. Selgin is a monetary theorist so you might expect a dry account of monetary history but the mint-battle between Matthew Boulton, whom Wired once named the ultimate CEO, and copper-king Thomas Williams propels the story forward. If you can imagine, Good Money is something of a cross between Friedman and Schwartz’s A Monetary History of the United States (although not as broad in scope) and a business epic like Barbarians at the Gate. I also liked how Selgin draws on newspapers, novels, limericks and tavern songs to illustrate the problems and events of the time. This bard was both a good economist (he has Gresham’s Law!) and public choice scholar.
‘Tis Gold buys Votes, or they’d have swarmed ere now,
Copper serves only for the meaner Sort of People
Copper never goes at Court
And since on Shilling can full Twelve Pence weight,
Silver is better in Germany
‘Tis true the Vulgar seek it, What of that?
They are not Statesmen,-let the Vulgar wait.
The money problem influenced and was influenced by all of the major events of the day so Good Money is also an economic and political history of the industrial revolution. Here’s an interesting tidbit. Company stores were not so much a way for firms to rip off employees (why not just pay them less?) but were rather a means of economizing on coin. Selgin shows how the shortage of coin sheds light on a number of other otherwise peculiar business practices.
What lessons can be drawn from the history of private coinage? Private money circulated only if it was voluntarily accepted as a means payment. Thus the primary problem faced by private firms was how to create trust and credibility. To encourage circulation, for example, issuers promised to redeem their tokens in gold (which the Royal Mint did not). In turn, the promise to redeem gave producers an incentive to make their coins difficult to counterfeit, which they did by making the coins beautiful – numismatists will appreciate the full-color illustrations of the private coinage produced by Boulton and his rivals – as well as technologically advanced.
Today, the big problem of small change is no longer such a big problem, although shortages of wanted coin continue to occur sporadically around the world (e.g. here and here) as well as surpluses of unwanted coin. Nevertheless, the basic problems of private coinage were trust and credibility. Modern issuers of digital cash face the same problems and thus Selgin’s history is a valuable reminder about the scope and potential of alternative monetary institutions.
Full Disclosure: I was enthusiastic about Good Money when I read it in manuscript which is why it is published by the University of Michigan Press and co-published by the Independent Institute where I am director of research (n.b. you can buy Good Money at the previous link at a small discount to the Amazon price). | <urn:uuid:5e922fe6-6e20-47b6-acb2-5e6d51ed5a4b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/09/good-money.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968675 | 791 | 2.71875 | 3 |
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is offering a three-day course - Transportation Disaster Response - Family Assistance, at its NTSB Training Center in Ashburn, Va. (near Washington, D.C.), March 10 to 12.
The course is designed specifically for commercial transportation officials, representatives of federal agencies, staff of non-governmental relief organizations and emergency managers. It will focus on the understanding of how professionals can most effectively support the family assistance efforts within their organizations.
The curriculum is appropriate for individuals employed in any mode of transportation, including rail, aviation, pipeline, highway or marine).
Some of the key points that will be covered are:
- Legal aspects of family assistance - specifics of legal protections afforded to family members;
- conducting effective family briefings - communicating with grieving and traumatized families;
- effective on-scene response - a start-to-finish look at family assistance operations ;
- successful forensic operations -- communicating with families about the forensic response; and
- practical resources for family representatives - developing support skills and self care.
For a more complete description of the course, the registration process and the cost, click here. | <urn:uuid:f1fae60d-1464-4eb6-b70d-aa77d6fcfb3c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.metro-magazine.com/news/story/2009/02/ntsb-offers-disaster-response-course.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929241 | 238 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Where to Go
Nearly a suburb of Bangkok’s Urban sprawl, Pathum Thani features many attractions, making it a top day-tip destination from the capital.
Widely recognized as the education and technology hub of Thailand, Pathum Thani Province contains a number of universities, research facilities, and industrial parks. As Pathum Thani is strategically located along the banks of the Chao Phraya River, it was founded during the Ayutthaya era and thus contains a number of historical temples, including Wat Hong Pathummawat and Wat Sing, the first monastery built by the Mon community who were the original settlers in Pathum Thani, a history that is recognized at a museum that houses Mon artifacts. As the area around Pathum Thani is fertile and well irrigated, the people of Pathum Thani grow various fruits, vegetables, flowers, and plants, all of which are for sale at Talad Thai, a gigantic international wholesale and retail produce market. The area around Wat Pailom is also one of the world's largest sanctuaries for Indian open-billed storks, which winter here during their mating season as do Ruby Throats. Blue Throats, Bush Warblers, Crakes, and Rails.
Pathum Thani is a neighboring province of Bangkok. It is situated on the Chao Phraya basin and contains many canals and orange plantations. Its original name is Mueang Sam Khok, and was founded during the Ayutthaya era. The area was originally a settlement for the Mon people who migrated from Mohtama (in Myanmar) over 350 years ago. In the year 1815 when King Rama II made a royal visit to this area, the inhabitants offered him many lotus flowers, an act that lent itself to the origin of the present name, Pathum Thani or “lotus flower town”. Because of its historical importance, Pathum Thani features a number of important Buddhist temples, and as Pathum Thani is close to Bangkok it is also the location of a number of entertainment venues, including museums and an amusement park. | <urn:uuid:4f9822c0-0516-40e2-b39c-19a4db9f17e9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://tourismthailand.org/Where-to-Go/Pathum-Thani | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963367 | 434 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Question: I Have Heard That Pain Pumps Can Be Surgically Implanted? Is That True And, If So, When Are They Used?
Answer: Pain pumps are one of the most effective tools that we have in pain management for patients with very severe pain. The pumps are reserved for patients who either don't respond to medications, or patients who have severe reactions to the medications such as inability to concentrate, memory loss, or just general sleepiness, lack of energy.
When medications cannot do the job being administered by regular means, then the pump is implanted after a trial. The advantage of the pump is that it delivers minute amounts of medication into the spinal fluid. In fact, 1/300th the amount of medication delivered into the spinal fluid provides the same amount of pain relief as 300 times more delivered by mouth. The advantage of that is very clear; patients taking 1/300th amount of medication don't have the side effects. So it's possible to deliver the medications in the spinal fluid and provide excellent pain relief without side effects. | <urn:uuid:f861b34e-262c-4999-8e74-d9e0a015951c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://abcnews.go.com/Health/TreatingPain/story?id=4047980 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947942 | 213 | 1.914063 | 2 |
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Many local authors are taking matters into their own hands by self-publishing their writing, and not working with a traditional publishing house.
“It really is becoming a trend,” said Adam Veile, a local children’s writer. “The process was more difficult than I imagined, but I realized if it’s not hard, then I’m probably not doing it right.”
Released Oct. 17, Veile’s book “The Dreamcatcher Adventures: Greedy Jack Wallace,” follows the adventures of a seventh-grader and the ghost of his rowdy Wild West ancestor.
Veile tried the traditional publishing route, but realized there are only so many major kids publishers.
“I realized I had the resources I needed to put my book together, so I took the bull by the horns,” he said.
Veile’s book is printed ondemand. He said self-publishers are fortunate these days because many don’t have to pay for an amount of printed books outright. Books are printed immediately after customers place their orders.
“The quality really is amazing,” Veile said. “It makes publishing so much more convenient these days.”
Judy Wieberg, a counselor at Spring Grove Counseling and a local author, has self-published four books. When her first book, “Self Upgrade,” was published in 1995, it wasn’t printed on-demand.
“I paid to have it printed,” Wieberg said. “But, I found I couldn’t keep up with the demand.”
Over the course of the 17 years she’s been a published author, Wieberg said the publishing industry has become more user-friendly.
“Self-publishing has changed the industry a bit,” she said. “There really are more opportunities now, it’s just a different world. With selfpublishing, publishers can no longer say yea or nay, because there’s so many opportunities for writers.”
Charles Palmer, author of “Follow the Lewis and Clark Trail in Missouri,” said he worked directly with his printer when deciding how to best self-publish his book.
“I went to see what my options were,” Palmer said. “I had some experience with publishing and printing, but needed to know what some of my limitations were.”
Don Carter, a licensed therapist and author of four books involving his therapy model, publishes his books in print and as e-books via Amazon. He said self-publishing is a great, relatively inexpensive way to get a message out to the public.
“There is a huge, ready-made market through Amazon,” Carter said. “Traditional publishing houses take forever, and most (books) get rejected.”
All of the authors agreed that marketing is the most difficult task associated with self-publishing.
“Marketing really is like starting at the bottom of the hill and pushing the rock up,” Veile said. “People don’t think about it. I was prepared for it, but was still surprised that you can’t let up one bit.”
Veile works in marketing as his day job. To market his book, he is hosting book signings, talking at schools and is holding an essay contest for fifth- and sixth-graders.
Carter, who also does consulting for authors who want to selfpublish, said he has seen authors use a variety of marketing methods, such as a website or blog, Facebook advertisements, Google Adwords and other paid advertising.
He said it’s important for authors to ask for help, if needed.
“There is a steep learning curve, but lots of people are willing to show you the ropes,” Carter said.
Sometimes, help comes in the form of writing groups, such as the one Veile and Wieberg attend at the Missouri River Regional Library.
“I advise writers to look for people who will tell you what’s wrong with your book, not what’s right,” Veile said. “It’s great to find supportive people online and offline.”
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With nearly 28,000 work hours complete on the project, construction on the new St. Mary’s Health Center is on schedule and on budget, according to hospital chief operating officer Tony Houston. The new building is expected to open by January 2015.
The concrete foundation of the building, which is located at Mission Drive and Missouri 179, is complete, including the stairwell and elevator shaft, which serve as anchors of the structure.
“Now we go into the steel phase,” Houston said. “It’s very exciting and very visual for people who drive by.”
Houston said there are also smaller things going on besides the steel work, such as the arrival of the building’s generators.
Inside a warehouse located a few blocks from the current health center, 100 St. Mary’s Medical Plaza, engineers are drafting life-size mock-ups of patient rooms.
“They look just like patient rooms, so that we can go in and sort of kick the tires,” Houston said.
The mock-up rooms are expected to be complete by the end of December.
These rooms are different than the Styrofoam models built more than a year ago. The current ones are made of the actual materials that will make up the ones at the new hospital. The mock-ups even include the electrical wiring.
“It’s great because it gives us a chance to test and determine whether what we picked throughout this process is going to work in real life,” Houston said. “It’s an exciting milestone for us.”
Hospital officials are working with a broker to help find a reuse for the health center’s current campus. Houston said there has been some interest from outside parties, but the officials want to ensure they transfer the property in a good way for the community.
Houston said the intent is to be as open and transparent as possible in sharing the construction process with the public.
“It’s exciting for everyone who lives in Mid-Missouri,” he said. “We’ve been here since 1905, and we’re looking forward to another century or more of great things.”
Visit www.lethealingbegin.com or www.newstmarys.com to view photos of the construction, watch progress on a live web cam or to view story boards highlighting the project. | <urn:uuid:101056de-8683-4774-9eba-b9a75b0d0025> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.oliviaingle.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970923 | 1,433 | 1.6875 | 2 |
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WSJ: Chinese leaders are allowing strikes to avoid “wholesale rebellion.” FT: Eurozone suffers from small country syndrome. Time: due to the economic crisis, the US is losing influence to China’s “cash offensive.”
China’s labor concessions marks a turning point
Willy Lam, a professor of China studies at Akita International University in Japan, writes in the Wall Street Journal that China’s concessions to workers represents a turning point in the nation’s economic development. He writes that there are signs that Chinese authorities will not allow prolonged labor unrest and will only make so many concessions. But he argues that China’s workers have shown they are bold, capable of organizing and unlikely to allow the status quo.
QUOTE: Unless China's Communist Party leadership is willing to make fundamental changes to how the economic and political pie is allocated, it risks a wholesale rebellion that could tear asunder the country's already tenuous social fabric.
US needs short-term growth, long-term discipline
Columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. writes in the Washington Post that US Congress and policymakers avoided another depression in 2008-2009 by giving the economy a stimulus. Now, as the economy faces further problems, they should not resort to austerity measures. Larry Summers, President Obama's top economic adviser, told Dionne that the United States cannot deal with its deficit problem until the economy sees growth. Once jobs are created, the United States must show long-term fiscal responsibility.
QUOTE: In the parlance of political consultants, it "muddles the message" to argue that we need to tilt toward growth now and fiscal discipline in the long run. But it happens to be the right policy.
Small-country syndrome threatens eurozone
Columnist Wolfgang Münchau writes in the Financial Times that small European countries are hurting the eurozone. He argues that these governments implement austerity programs without considering how their policies will affect other countries.
QUOTE: The European Union is a tyranny of small countries, and this has served it well. But the small-country syndrome is counterproductive when it comes to macroeconomics.
China restructures its industries to become even stronger
Ang Yuen Yuen, a professor of international affairs at Columbia University, writes in Beirut’s Daily Star that workers’ demands for higher wages and a decline in foreign demand for exports has threatened China’s manufacturing industry. However, the author argues that these changes may be a “blessing in disguise” as they have forced a restructuring of China’s labor-intensive industries.
QUOTE: When China’s labor-intensive industries emerge from their metamorphosis, we should expect to see firms that are larger, that invest more in product innovation and design, and that hold more sway over business and trade policies. So “Made in China” is not losing international dominance yet. It is merely taking on a new – and possibly more formidable – shape.
Put Americans back to work
Cynthia Tucker writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer that Americans are more concerned about unemployment than the national deficit. And yet, she argues, American politicians are focused on cutting spending because they see Europe’s economic crisis and do not want to face a similar problem on their soil. Tucker argues that the best way to reduce the federal deficit is to get taxpayers back to work.
QUOTE: An estimated 20 percent or so of the current federal deficit, according to the Center for American Progress, was brought on by the recession; when taxpayers lose their jobs and businesses go bankrupt, they don't pay taxes. A recovery would boost the federal treasury.
South Korea must embrace further liberalization
An editorial in the Wall Street Journal argues that South Korea is pursuing the wrong monetary policy. It states that the country’s biggest capital problem is too little liberalization, and it should enact policies to allow greater competition and trade.
QUOTE: Rather than further distorting markets already swollen by excess dollars, policy makers should look for opportunities to make their economies more resilient in the face of global shocks.
US must reduce entitlement programs to boost global security
Walter Andrusyszyn, a former director for central and northern Europe at the National Security Council,writes in the Christian Science Monitor that the United States’ debt threatens the country’s national security as well as global stability. He writes that European nations are now worried about relying on the United States for security when the country has become economically and militarily weaker.
QUOTE: Strong growth not only restores jobs and balance sheets; it revitalizes the security infrastructure, giving new leverage to diplomacy. But strong growth is not possible without first reducing the tax and debt burdens of unsustainable entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
ASEAN must confront Myanmar over nuclear ambitions
Journalist Kavi Chongkittavorn writes in the China Post that ASEAN and the United States must pressure Myanmar to respond to claims that it has nuclear ambitions. The piece argues that Myanmar is unlikely to tell the truth about a nuclear program, but ASEAN must force the issue as its reputation and desire to promote peace, stability and economic strength in the region is at stake.
QUOTE: Sooner [rather] than later, ASEAN must take up Burma's nuclear plan and other global issues to iron out differences in order to forge common views and positions.
American pessimism jeopardizes the nation’s recovery
Columnist Robert J. Samuelson writes in Newsweek that Americans are pessimistic that the economy is on track for a full recovery. He writes that fears about the economy can make the situation worse as companies might refuse to hire and consumers might refuse to spend. If that happens, it could cause a “double-dip” recession.
QUOTE: Not since World War II has an economic recovery been so hobbled by poor confidence. Every recession leaves a legacy of anxiety and uncertainty. But the present residue is exceptional, because the recession was savage and—more important—its origins (housing bubble, financial crisis) were unfamiliar.
Financial crisis undermines America’s soft power
Journalist Peter Beinart writes in Time that the financial crisis has weakened the United States’ soft power around the world. He argues that America’s attraction has always been its political and economic model. Now that its economy shows weakness, other nations are less likely to want to follow America’s lead. Instead, President Obama’s foreign policy goals are being undermined by China’s “cash offensive.”
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People, who have smoked for a long time, might have difficulty changing or stopping their habits, because of the effect of the substances found in the cigarette. These substances are dangerous to the people as this can cause diseases and some psychological problem like addiction due to chronic smoking. In one way to help these [...]
Smoking cigarette is an addicting habit that could lead to respiratory diseases, psychological disorder and even death. The government is campaigning on the awareness of smoking cigarette for years because of its dreadful effects to the users. One problem for chronic users, who are planning to stop the habit, have difficulty trying because of the [...]
Smoking cigarettes are harmful to your health as it can cause diseases that could lead to death. For this reason, scientists had developed a product that could help people who could not stop the habit, but has no risk in having these bad effects to health. Electronic Cigarettes is an innovation in the smoking business [...]
Posted: July 21st, 2011 under Amerismoke Electronic Cigarette, Luci Electronic Cigarette, Smoking Info.
Tags: Amerismoke, Amerismoke Electronic Cigarette, electronic cigarette, Electronic Cigarettes, Luci, Luci Electric Cigarettes, Luci Electronic Cigarette
People are beginning to have awareness on the ill effects caused by smoking cigarettes. Cigarettes do contain harmful chemicals that aren’t good for our body. Many people are changing their habits as they take the healthy lifestyle. Yet, the problem with smoking cigarettes as well as cigars is that, not only it causes physiological diseases [...]
Many state laws and establishments are having a strict smoke ban, which you could not blame because of the morbid and fatal effects on it to everyone’s health. But with the invention of the Electronic Cigarettes, smoking cigarettes have never been better for it does not include in the ban and you know that it [...]
Ever curious of the new buzz about electronic cigarettes, which are the odorless, cancer-free, and a healthy alternative to smoking? The sheer novelty of this claim is what attracted smokers as well as non-smokers alike to electronic or e-cigarettes. There can be a lot of brands on this product which is typically marketed as a [...]
The electronic cigarette brand Amerismoke markets not only the convenience of its electronic cigarettes, but also, and most importantly, the quality put into making it. There are people that switch to electronic cigarettes from analogue cigarettes simply because of the health hazards that are present in tobacco cigarettes. Now, in switching to a so-called healthier [...]
If you haven’t heard of the modern way of smoking, then maybe you are interested to try the electronic cigarettes. E-cigs is the most advanced way to provide smokers with real cigarette smoking passion. Amerismoke is a new brand of e-cig that is manufactured and tested in USA. It’s starter kit that went beyond the [...] | <urn:uuid:c6375914-c1b1-4646-99e8-83a0255b8e5e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://electroniccigaretteinformation.org/category/amerismoke-electronic-cigarette/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96142 | 602 | 1.96875 | 2 |