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"The Greatest Dam in the World": Building Hoover Dam
In this lesson, students have learned why and how Hoover Dam was constructed. Those interested in learning more will find much useful information on the internet.
Hoover Dam Official Website
This website, maintained by the Bureau of Reclamation’s Lower Colorado Region, includes a wealth of information. In addition to directions and information about touring the dam, it includes links to “The Story of Hoover Dam,” a series of essays on construction of the dam, a database of hundreds of historic images, and a packet of educational materials.
Project Details for the Boulder Canyon Project - Hoover Dam
This Reclamation website provides basic information on the over-all Boulder Canyon Project, including detailed descriptions of the features at Hoover Dam, its history and construction, and the benefits it provides.
Bureau of Reclamation History
This website includes links to a number of documents, including a short history of Reclamation, a longer, book-length history of the years before 1945, and a study of large Federal dams, including Hoover.
Hoover Dam on Wikipedia
This article on Hoover Dam provides an excellent, detailed discussion of the dam, including background, construction history, operation, and environmental impact.
“Hoover Dam” PBS Film
This PBS production provides materials for teachers, in addition to a history of the dam and some of the people involved in its creation.
The Story of Hoover Dam Film
This website, provided by the National Archives and Records Administration, features a 1981 film that combines three short films dating from earlier periods. It includes historic footage of Hoover Dam under construction, including the high scalers in action and the concrete being poured into the forms. It also includes images showing the installation of the last turbine in the power plant and the benefits provided by the dam.
“Desperate Times” The Building of the Hoover Dam
This program, presented by the British Broadcasting Company, features interviews with the men and women who lived in Ragtown and who worked on the dam.
The Boulder City/Hoover Dam Museum
This website features images and other information focusing on the people who built Hoover Dam and who lived in Boulder City.
This PBS miniseries, hosted by author David Macaulay, describes the engineering challenges encountered in building large dams, bridges, domes, skyscrapers, and tunnels in clear, easily understood, and kid-friendly terms and visuals. Hoover Dam is one of its “Wonders of the World.” The website also includes an educators' guide,” with hands-on activities.
What Are Public Works?
This website, maintained by the American Public Works Association, discusses the shifting and slippery definition of what constitutes “public works.” It also includes a short video, “Unsung Heroes,” that highlights the critical, and often ignored, role that public works plays in our ordinary lives.
The Colorado River on Wikipedia
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COLUMBUS, Ind. (AP) — Judging by Wesley Lack's wide-eyed enthusiasm, STEM Night at Smith Elementary School might as well have been Disney World.
The 7-year-old got to build a penny-filled boat from tinfoil. He got to see bulbs light up by riding a stationary bicycle as fast as he could. He even had a chance to fly paper airplanes in the hall.
But there was a lesson behind each activity, one that community sponsors hope will plant in children an appreciation for science that might someday grow into a career.
A crowd of about 400 people that consisted of about 250 Smith Elementary kids and their adult caretakers came to the school Dec. 6 for STEM Night, a one-day event featuring hands-on activities.
Last year, various Columbus schools competed with one another in a fundraising competition for Bowl for Kids Sake, the annual benefit to raise money for Big Brothers Big Sisters. The prize was that Cummins Inc. would bring its "Science, Technology, Engineering & Math" event, called STEM Night, to the school that raised the most money.
Smith Elementary won.
Ryan Larcom, who leads the community involvement team at Cummins Technical Center in Columbus, said Cummins considers part of its social responsibility a need to give back to the community to build the next generation of engineers, mathematicians, scientists and computer programmers.
He said the Cummins employees who helped run the 10 event stations benefit from opportunities like STEM Night, because teaching others reinforces the employees' unique talents and keeps them grounded in the needs of the community.
Meanwhile, children get to experience the exciting world of science, technology, engineering and math that is related to them in a fun way that feels something like an amusement park.
Larcom said Cummins chose to bring its services to elementary school students instead of older kids because kids are all about having fun when they're younger and are naturally curious about the world around them.
"It gets kids at least thinking about how things work," he told The Republic (http://bit.ly/ZDMweC ). "The purpose ... is to bring visibility and excitement around a career path that kids don't often consider when they get older."
Gene Hack, director of the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp.'s C4 program, said he hopes students who participated at Smith become interested enough in one of the featured fields that they seek more information. He said C4 can help even elementary school children begin mapping out a schooling path that leads to a lucrative career.
C4 provides career and technical education to high school students from 12 schools in Bartholomew, Brown, Decatur, Jackson and Johnson counties, with classes at Columbus East and North high schools plus the McDowell Adult Education Center.
Rooms at Smith Elementary School were a hive of activity during STEM Night, where children squealed in delight and adults listened attentively.
At the Balloon Race station, sixth-graders Breiana Burton and Regan Nichalson blew up balloons and raced them open-ended along a string in separate competitions against a Cummins worker.
The races were fun, of course, but they also taught the girls something about the principle of thrust.
The girls said they enjoyed the makeshift science experiments.
However, Burton said she still wants to be a doctor, and Nichalson wants to be a lawyer.
At another station, Cummins and C4 representatives helped students make paper planes.
The students then toed a line and tossed their planes to see how far they traveled before floating to the floor.
The station attendants then spoke with the students about the principle of lift and aerodynamics — and why their planes might have acted as they did during their flights.
A station that gave students an opportunity to make lip gloss from petroleum jelly, Kool-Aid and honey drew a long line of girls.
Students eagerly took turns cranking the wheels of a stationary bicycle that demonstrated the different levels of energy needed to light different kinds of bulbs, from the energy efficient LED bulb to the traditional incandescent bulb.
Still another station allowed students to shape aluminum foil into boats to see what kind would hold the most pennies before sinking. Ultimately, it was the boats with the widest bases and the best-shaped sides that performed best.
Larcom said event organizers hoped to attract about half of the school's 400 students, which means that goal was surpassed.
He said he hopes the event successfully emphasized the need for STEM education in schools in general.
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
10 Fashion Design Jobs & Career Pathways
To expose the way to a great career in fashion design, you must complete a degree in the field first. Once you do, you may be interested in the 10 fashion design jobs and career pathways. The one you choose has a great deal to do with your personality and your niche of study.
1. Fashion designing is obviously the first on the 10 fashion design jobs and career pathways. This might be your choice if you sketch clothing well and have an innate skill for working with fabric. Also, you need a refined fashion sense to design the latest trends.
2. Fashion illustration is another career pathway you may choose. Most of the work conducted here is done with graphic design, making this a perfect pursuit if you prefer to digitally create your work and avoid dealing with the physical fabrics.
3. Fashion buying makes the list of 10 fashion design jobs and career pathways if you are business savvy. This is great for people who have a skill predicting future trends in the industry.
4. Pattern making is another career that may be achieved by fashion design majors. This pursuit is ideal for graduates with great visualization skills, equipping them with the ability to duplicate patterns without losing quality.
5. Costume design is an interesting niche. Often this route is forgotten, but picture the beautiful costumes that performers wear on Broadway and in Hollywood movies. The show would not be complete without the costumes.
6. Fashion marketing is a career pathway which is perfect for people who have a solid business background. The job of a fashion marketer is to increase the interest of the customer in the newest fashion trends. This job is impossible to get into without a degree in fashion design.
7. Fashion merchandising combines the skills of advertising, retail knowhow and marketing with the creativity of fashion design, giving it a spot on the list of the 10 fashion design jobs and career pathways. The global demand for fashion is never ending, and with this job you may tap into all of it.
8. Fashion event planning is perfect for a designer who wants the glitz and glamour associated with fashion design. If you have ever watched a fashion or bridal show, the event was organized by a fashion even planner.
9. Fashion styling is similar to event planning, but involves selecting clothing for photo shoots, commercials and advertisements on television, making this a candidate for the 10 fashion design jobs and career pathways.
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Issue 54, February 2006
By Janelle Jones
“Theatre is . . . like bread . . . like a necessity. Theatre is a form of religion. It is fun.” This is how Peter Schumann, the founder of Bread and Puppet Theatre, described theatre in its ideal form in 1968. Since that time, Schumann’s views and the company he formed to enact them have changed, but his essential motive remains: to provide a visually rich, street theatre brand of politics.
The puppetry of Bread and Puppet Theatre forces the audience to question social and political constructs. In its mission statement, the theatre group professes, “We believe in Puppet Theatre as a wholesome and powerful language that can touch men, women and children alike, and we hope that our plays are true and are saying what has to be said, and that they add to your enjoyment and enlightenment.”
With an apprenticeship program every month, the company not only provides audiences worldwide with a chance to experience its unique variety of theatre, but it also allows anyone to participate.
In November 2005, Bread and Puppet performed “The Passion of the Correct Moment” in Cambridge, MA. With caricatures of political figures and assistance from volunteers and the audience, the company played out the drama of the current international situation.
“I was torn between overwhelming depression and laughter at the absurdity of our current political situation,” said Alia Ghabra, 21, of Brighton, MA. “But seeing how many people attended the performance left me with some hope.”
The ironic mixture of tragedy and comic absurdity inspired Ghabra to help with The National Circus of the Correct Moment, a lighter version performed in the afternoon for children.
“The kids loved it because of all the exaggerated puppets,” said Ghabra after performing in the production. “Having a mask helped me with nerves, but I still ended up getting close to the group that I worked with.”
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the Bread and Puppet Theatre is its ability to borrow from other disciplines. It embraces music from acts such as the Prisoner-of-War Orchestra and uses elaborate dance and human motions, papier-mache, and audience inclusion. According to Lisa Elbow, Bread and Puppet’s touring manager, the act “draws upon every art form not to show it off, but to show anyone can do it.”
Schumann describes the puppet forms as “socially embedded sculptures” which are most important and easy to understand in the context they are created. They represent concepts or ideas of simple common sense rather than complex art forms with limiting rules. As an extension of sculpture, the unique forms (such as a towering “Uncle Fatso” character who represents Western capitalism) do more than traditional sculpture by telling a story on the street. “We do street theatre wherever we go,” adds Elbow.
“Puppet Theatre is the theatre of all means,” Schumann states almost religiously. “Puppets and masks should be played in the street. They are louder than the traffic. They don’t teach problems, but they scream and dance and hit each other on the head and display life in its clearest terms.”
Schumann realizes the potential in puppetry by examining cultural boundaries. To do this, he has explored opportunities for expansion from Nicaragua to Russia. In the 1990s, Schumann wrote The Old Art of Puppetry in the New World Order that describes the state of puppet theatre by examining its possibilities for a Russian audience, emphasizing that ideas associated with puppetry as an art form are not bound by any culture.
As with any art form, to get a viewer to think critically about an issue, the artist must first attract the viewer in a way that lets her in. In this regard, puppetry has an advantage over many forms of politically charged art since the medium is silly, though the topics are serious.
Puppetry pokes fun at all targets and oversized caricatured faces with absurd hands add an element of humor that questions the social constructs of authority and responsibility. This lack of seriousness forces the viewer to rethink the topic at hand.
In the piece Brother Marx Nativity, Schumann, the director, interspersed events from the Gospels of Luke and Matthew with quotes from Karl Marx. Apart from Biblical and Marxist readings, the absence of other dialogue let the expressive papier-mache masks, marionettes, and intricate costume and lighting do the talking. Bread and Puppet performed this piece in New York City for the 2004 holiday season, and although it deals with controversial issues by pairing allusions of Christianity with communism, the message conveyed more than shock-value puppetry. With touching scenes, such as the birth and first steps of a calf, the show served as a powerful testimony to the resiliency of hope and the power of human nature.
A distinctive element in puppet theatre comes from the emphasis on action over dialogue, forcing the audience to see the implications of each movement that a puppet makes. While traditional theatre concentrates on acting, puppetry all but dismisses it. A naturalistic technique employed by theatre seeks to evoke a sympathetic human response. Yet puppetry makes this obsolete behind the elaborate masks of implied emotion. Nonetheless, these puppet “actors” become complex to some audiences in the wake of undefined actions that cannot be understood as easily as actions in conventional theater.
“Before, all arts wanted to be something real and needed, and have something to do in people’s lives—to be something that people need, in their personal lives and in their communal lives. They used to serve funerals, they used to serve weddings, they used to serve childbirths. Now all of these functions are taken care of by society in a very commercial and controllable way, so the arts have come to fulfill a sort of elitist function,” wrote Schumann in his book.
With his emphasis on performing in the street, Schumann uses his visually rich brand of political theatre to push the boundaries of art. The company achieves a creative and theatrical standard by dramatizing a political message in a humorous and accessible way, taking it to the streets so any spectator can enjoy the displays.
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Aplasia Cutis Congenita
Tollefson MM – Aplasia cutis congenita (ACC) is a rare disorder that is estimated to affect approximately three newborns in every 10,000 live births. It is usually detected at birth and most commonly affects the scalp as a solitary lesion. The type of lesion may be classified into one of nine groups. Membranous types and those with a “hair collar” are at highest risk to be associated with underlying neurodevelopmental abnormalities. | <urn:uuid:f2ef21bd-38cc-44e8-b0e8-290d0b021157> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mdlinx.com/nurse-practitioner/news-article.cfm/4056544/0/congenita/next/8?source=scroller | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945739 | 108 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Full Moon Hike at IRWS
The sparkle of the full moon on a freshly fallen blanket of snow illuminates the forest like nothing else. With only the moon as our guide, we will hike through the sanctuary woods and enjoy this magical time. Since early January is often one of the quietest times of the year, we should be able to hear the hoots of owls and the howls of coyotes. The light of the moon will also allow us to catch glimpses of nocturnal animals that usually move about in complete darkness. We will then return to the Barn to warm up with some hot chocolate!
- Suitable for ages 6-16
- Meets in the Nature Center
- Please Dress for the weather
- Registration is required
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By MARGIE WUEBKER
Law enforcement officials know people are cooking in Mercer
and Auglaize counties, but the reason has nothing to do with
putting dinner on the table.
“Not since crack cocaine have we seen anything as dangerous
as methamphetamine,” said Scott Duff, a special agent
with the Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Identification.
“It is being produced in clandestine laboratories. They’re
here and I guarantee you will be finding some within several
weeks. After this program, you will see things that register.”
Duff presented two Methamphetamine Laboratory Awareness programs
Wednesday at Wright State University-Lake Campus, instructing
law enforcement officers, firefighters, rescue squad personnel
and township trustees what to look for as they go about their
“Meth is an epidemic sweeping across the country,”
said Lt. Steve Stienecker, head of the Grand Lake Task Force,
which sponsored the programs. “It’s not just coming
here; it is here in Mercer and Auglaize counties. I have a sick
feeling our counties are full of it.”
The methamphetamine lab phenomena started out west and spread
eastward. In 1996, authorities found one lab here in Ohio, The
numbers increased to 13 in 1998 and 269 in 2003. Based on conservative
estimates, Duff expects 500 labs will be found in the state
before the dawn of 2005.
“Meth is easy to make from ingredients that can be purchased
or stolen,” he said. “It is highly addictive, slow
to metabolize and offers a huge profit margin.”
The finished product — brown, white or nearly any color
— is smoked, snorted, injected or taken orally.
While crack cocaine has an immediate effect lasting about 20
minutes, meth sustains its victims for up to eight hours. Crack
binges rarely last more than 72 hours while meth binges can
continue for up to two weeks, according to Duff.
Meth users become agitated and feel “wired” to a
point where they go days without sleep. Behavior turns unpredictable
— one minute a person is friendly and calm, the next angry
Targeted investigations turn up some clandestine labs, but inadvertent
discoveries lead to others.
Mercer County Sheriff’s deputies found their first lab
Nov. 6 while serving an unrelated arrest warrant at a Wabash-area
home. They had no idea of its presence until telltale signs
— suspicious drug paraphernalia and odors — were
detected while looking for suspect Gary B. Williams.
BCI & I agents have found clandestine labs in campers, mobile
homes, tool sheds, kitchens, bathrooms, motel rooms, car trunks
and pickup beds.
“If you can stand in it or move around it, you can make
meth in it,” Duff said. “Mobile labs and box labs
are common because they can be taken from place to place with
Ten years ago meth was manufactured in huge quantities at Mexican
national labs and shipped eastward by drug lords. Stienecker
and Mercer County Sheriff Jeff Grey believe that was indeed
the case with drugs seized in a January 2002 raid in Mercer
County. It turned out to be the largest meth bust in the state.
Simplified methods and easy-to-acquire components have turned
cooking meth into a process that does not require professional
equipment or a scientific background, Duff said. The components
include plastic drink bottles, tubing, glass cookware with a
powdery residue, glass jars containing liquid, stained coffee
filters, kitty litter, anhydrous ammonia cylinders, propane
cylinders with fittings that have turned blue, spent road flares,
stripped lithium batteries, empty containers of fuel, starting
fluid, Red Devil lye and drain cleaners and a large number of
cold tablet bottles or blister packs.
“It definitely does not take a rocket scientist or a brain
surgeon to manufacture meth,” Duff said. “Cooks
can go right over to Wal-Mart or K-Mart and buy or steal what
they need. Somebody who purchases a case of drain cleaner is
probably doing something they should not be doing.”
The same applies to over-the-counter cold medications, especially
those listing Ephedrine or Pseudoephedrine among the ingredients.
Thirty-three bottles, each containing 1,000 tablets, yields
about 1 to 11⁄2 kilos of meth. Anyone needing that much
cold medication has a problem requiring hospitalization, Duff
pointed out with a chuckle.
There are several four-step processes used in the production
of meth. Authorities believe the Birch Reduction or Nazi method
is the most common in predominantly rural areas where anhydrous
ammonia is easy to acquire. The substance farmers use as fertilizer
is needed during extraction and ether from starting fluid is
the solvent of choice. Duff believes “cooks” obtain
anhydrous through thefts at the rate of five to 10 gallons at
a time from farms or farm service businesses.
“We know the Nazi method is being used here because we
have found discarded anhydrous tanks in the countryside,”
Stienecker said. “And we know the contents were not used
for agricultural purposes.”
Duff warned clandestine labs are dangerous given the corrosive
or flammable nature of the materials used.
“Never crack the lid on a jar or container holding some
type of liquid unless you know what it is. Leave that for trained
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“Panera Cares community cafes exist to feed each and every person who walks through our doors with dignity regardless of their means.”
Ron Shaich, the founder and co-CEO said the Chicago Lakeview location has particular significance for him because he wrote the company’s mission statement there. He added that the Lakeview location is ideal for a community store because there are “million-dollar townhomes and people on the street”, showing that there are customers who can help support the cafe and those who can benefit from a free meal.
“When you walk in, it’s the full Panera experience,” Shaich said. “When you go into a soup kitchen, the energy is so negative and the food is institutional and the experience is institutional.”
In order for this to be successful, consumers who have extra money are asked to donate it. Those who are short can pay less, and those who can’t pay anything can volunteer for an hour to eat for free. The idea works because Panera turns the stores over to the Panera Bread Foundation, a tax-exempt organization that runs day-to-day operations. This frees the publicly traded restaurant company of its obligation to run a profitable business.
All three of the current locations in Clayton, Mo.; Dearborn, Mich.; and Portland, Ore.; have turned a profit. | <urn:uuid:9ca2489b-2175-42d9-9ccf-17d1c7339025> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://yorkandchapel.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/panera-cares/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967681 | 290 | 1.773438 | 2 |
I noted briefly in discussing why Birch reduction of benzene gives 1,4-cyclohexadiene (diagram below) that the geometry of the end-stage pentadienyl anion was distorted in the presence of the sodium cation to favour this product. This distortion actually has some pedagogic value, and so I elaborate this here.
Posts Tagged ‘antiaromaticity’
In a time when large (molecules) are considered beautiful (or the corollary that beauty must be big), it is good to reflect that small molecules may teach us something as well. Take ethane. Is there anything left which has not been said about it already? Well, consider the reaction below, in which two hydrogen atoms mutually hop from one carbon to the other. | <urn:uuid:b4ac5c81-9441-457f-9ef5-aec056b4a6db> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?tag=antiaromaticity | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954104 | 163 | 2.375 | 2 |
also an·glo noun pl. An·glos
- Informal An Anglo-American.
- An English-speaking person, especially a white North American who is not of Hispanic or French descent.
Origin: Short for Anglo-American
Related Forms:Usage Note:
In contemporary American usage, Anglo
is used primarily in direct contrast to Hispanic
In this context it is not limited to persons of English or even British descent, but can be generally applied to any non-Hispanic white person. Thus in parts of the United States with large Hispanic populations, an American of Polish, Irish, or German heritage might be termed an Anglo just as readily as a person of English descent. However, in parts of the country where the Hispanic community is smaller or nonexistent, or in areas where ethnic distinctions among European groups remain strong, Anglo
has little currency as a catch-all term for non-Hispanic whites. • Anglo
is also used in non-Hispanic contexts. In Canada, where its usage dates at least to 1800, the distinction is between persons of English and French descent. And in American historical contexts Anglo
is apt to be used more strictly to refer to persons of English heritage, as in this passage describing the politics of nation-building in pre-Revolutionary America: “The ‘unity’ of the American people derived … from the ability and willingness of an Anglo elite to stamp its image on other peoples coming to this country“ | <urn:uuid:44284a29-013d-4f80-b440-23fe905050cc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.yourdictionary.com/anglo | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911716 | 297 | 3.328125 | 3 |
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Recently, as the result of the settlement of a 2005 lawsuit filed by parents and the ADA, California schools were told that they must have staff available, trained but not necessarily licensed, to help diabetic students with their shots, monitoring, and other needs.
The settlement was intended to address California's very low nurse-to-student ratio, the result of which is that many diabetic students receive no care at all during school.
Now, however, it looks like a fix may be a long time coming. The California School Nurses Organization has thrown a wrench into the works by advising school nurses to seek legal guidance before training non-medical staff to provide diabetes-related care. The nurses insist that because insulin mistakes can be fatal, only licensed personnel should administer insulin.
They are concerned, they say, about losing their licenses if they train unlicensed school staffers to administer insulin. And they report that non-medical staff, who have the same concerns, are equally reluctant to be trained.
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Asheville history columnist Rob Neufeld on the work of the WNC Alliance to change U.S. Forest Service policy.
Written by Rob Neufeld Visiting Our Past Asheville Citizen Times.
Twenty-three years ago, April 15, was “Cut the Clearcutting!” day in Asheville. The demonstration and concert highlighted a long campaign to redirect U.S. Forest Service policy. Western North Carolina Alliance the movement’s organizer, just celebrated its 30th anniversary. Kathryn Newfont, associate professor of history at Mars Hill College, has just published a book, “Blue Ridge Commons,” that tells the story of Cut the Clearcutting! and other successful efforts to wed environmentalism with the economic benefit of shared land. WNCA, Newfont relates, “decoupled the issue of forest protection from the question of wilderness preservation and hitched it instead to widely shared concerns about the wooded mountain commons.” The shot that lit the locals’ fire was the Forest Service’s 1984 50-year draft plan for the Pisgah and Nantahala Forests — a death sentence for one-third of our woodland. What got local farmers, hunters, loggers and merchants involved in the opposition — aside from the shadow of past federal land grabs — was that they knew that the plan was bad. At the first public hearing, in Franklin, 1985, McKinley Jenkins, hunter and retired logger from Graham County, testified, “I’ve worked in the woods almost all my life and one of the worst things I’ve ever seen is this clearcutting. If they don’t stop it there won’t be anything in the woods over four inches round.” He debunked Forest Service forestry science. “I know north facing coves,” he said, “that will never come back. And I can take you there.” At a subsequent hearing in Madison County, Haze Landers refuted the notion that clearcutting was good for sportsmen. Grouse and deer like clear-cuts, but bears, raccoons, squirrels and turkeys can’t abide them. And the briary regrowth forbids men. “If you go out there in that place they cut,” Landers averred, “you can’t go through there. You’d just as well come back.” Local experts proposed selective cutting for best long-range effects, but testimonies and petitions only nudged the Forest Service to reduce the time period of its cutting bonanza from 50 years to 15. WNCA hired a law firm, engaged other parties, and composed and filed an appeal. Walton Smith, a retired U.S. Forest Service forester who spent years trying to reclaim forests obliterated in the post-Weeks Act boom, took a team to two tracts, one clear-cut 25 years before, the other, 15. His survey showed that clear-cut areas grow back with less diversity and lower timber quality. WNCA’s appeal was denied. Its task force regrouped and, Mary Kelly, an ecologist from Madison County, recalls, everyone admitted, “We’re not getting anywhere.” A clearcutting plan by another agency, the Asheville-Buncombe Water Authority, mobilized citizens in the North Fork, Swannanoa area; and Monroe Gilmour, a Black Mountain resident and campaign organizer, joined the WNCA effort to raise public awareness. The movement got its name, “Cut the Clearcutting!” and staged a number of attention-getting, message-delivering, and community-involving happenings. In 1989, Forest Service chief Dale Robertson revised the agency’s plan so it embraced managed forestry and commons usage. “He cited below-cost timber sales as a major problem, and he also ruled that planners had not adequately considered ‘the large opposition to clearcutting,’” Newfont notes. The Nantahala and Pisgah Forest part of the plan, finalized five years later, “stood out as a model,” Newfont writes, “even among the new wave of more ecologically grounded plans”— a result of a wedding of a “commons-friendly brand of professional forestry to a grassroots campaign tapping powerful regional veins of commons protectionism.” | <urn:uuid:eb8ac55e-8165-4378-b10d-43c12f7a5d1a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pisgahareasorba.org/2012/04/asheville-history-columnist-rob-neufeld-on-the-work-of-the-wnc-alliance-to-change-u-s-forest-service-policy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940638 | 915 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Going to school is an important part of our lives. From kindergarten through high school, we learn the basics of reading, writing, math, history and science. Some of us then go to college, trade or professional school, earning credits towards graduation and the receiving of a degree. This kind of learning is valuable for us, but I believe God desires us to learn from our everyday experiences as well as our formal schooling. As a Christian, I believe that God wants us to use our minds daily to learn more about Him and more about how best to serve Him. I call this process a "Lifelong Learning in the Spirit."
In Romans 12:2 (NIV), Paul says, "Be transformed by the renewing of your mind." In the NLT, the same verse says. "Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think." The renewing of our minds is not meant to be a one-time occurrence, like a special time of remembrance in our spiritual life. This "renewing" is intended to be lifelong and daily, as we sense God speaking to our hearts from the pages of scripture, and as we converse with Him in prayer. I also think we learn about the spiritual life through other believers, family, friends, co-workers, our daily experiences and the exploration of nature. In fact, the practice of life itself becomes our classroom.
Lifelong learning in the Spirit is essential if we want our minds to grow into the maturity of Christ and also help His churches reach out to people with the Lord's grace, love, mercy and peace. Let me share two examples.
As individual believers, we know we are all sinners. In order to mature in Christ, we should want to learn how to be victorious over sin. From my years of ministry leadership, I know there are many individual believers who are addicted to particular sins, and they feel guilt and shame after every occurrence. To change this pattern of sinful behavior, they need to set a goal of learning to sin "less." Even if the behavior change is only in small increments, working toward the ultimate goal of ridding oneself of a disturbing sin is a worthy endeavor. It requires prayer, a mind set that is devoted to make the change happen and a willingness to allow the Lord to help bring it about.
Lifelong learning in the Spirit also needs to be done by congregations so that the ministry and mission of the church truly represent what their members feel God is calling them to be and do. If the most common phrases heard in a church are "we've always done it this way before" or "we don't need to reach out to anyone else, because we like the church family just the way it is," there is little likelihood that the church wants to be "renewed." Such statements reveal a resistance to change, closed minds and an idle self-satisfaction. Lifelong learning in the Spirit would be evidenced by the replacement of resistant complacency with a willingness to try new ideas and reach out to new people.
Lifelong learning in the Spirit can be seen in the lives of individual believers and in the visioning of whole churches. Isn't it wonderful that we can be transformed into a greater maturity in Christ and choose to serve God in exciting new ways through the renewing of our minds!
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By Alexis Powers
Editor’s Note: This post is one of a series of technology spotlights that introduce common technologies used in U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon team houses.
Homes generally rely on forced air systems, such as baseboard heat, for warmth in the winter. But for more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly heating, several houses built for the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon use radiant floor heating instead.
Radiant heating systems deliver warm air throughout a house in a silent, uniform, and energy-efficient way. Radiant floor heating is the most common application of this technology, although these systems are sometimes used to heat wall panels or even the ceiling.
The most popular and cost-effective radiant heating device is a hydronic, or water-based, system, which circulates hot water through a series of tubes laid beneath the floor. When connected to a solar hot water system, hydronic radiant flooring can greatly reduce home energy bills.
Materials and installation costs for an 800-ft2 home start at approximately $1,500.
For More Information
To learn more about radiant heating products used in past Solar Decathlon houses, search the floor construction section of the Solar Decathlon 2009 product directory. Additional information about radiant heating systems is available from the Energy Savers website.
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If our founding fathers could see the cesspool that the U.S. Congress has become today, they would roll over in their graves. Most Americans don’t realize this, but we already have a “part-time Congress”. Members of Congress only “work” a little over a third of the days on the calendar. The rest of the time they have off. It is no wonder why so many members of Congress are involved in so much corruption – they have so much free time on their hands that they are bound to get into trouble. Many members of Congress also use their positions of power and the information they learn during the course of their duties to become fabulously wealthy. At a time when incomes nationally are actually declining, our Congress critters are becoming stinking rich at a staggering pace. Yes, politics in America has always been a game that is funded and played by wealthy individuals, but things have gotten so extreme that it is hard to argue that average Americans have any control over Congress at all at this point. Instead of a government “of the people, by the people and for the people”, we now have a government “of the wealthy, by the wealthy, and for the wealthy”. If you doubt this, just keep on reading.
Over the past couple of decades, the “wealth gap” between members of Congress and average Americans has grown to ridiculous proportions. Things have gotten so bad that now even the New York Times is reporting on these things….
“Largely insulated from the country’s economic downturn since 2008, members of Congress — many of them among the “1 percenters” denounced by Occupy Wall Street protesters — have gotten much richer even as most of the country has become much poorer in the last six years”
So how wealthy have members of Congress become?
Many of you won’t believe the statistics posted below. The truth is that Congress has become all about money. It takes huge piles of money to get elected to Congress, it takes huge piles of money to stay in Congress, and most members of Congress seem to be able to accumulate gigantic piles of money while “serving” their country….
-Today, there are 250 members of Congress that are millionaires.
-According to the Wall Street Journal, the median net worth of members of Congress is now $913,000.
-The collective net worth of all of the members of Congress increased by 25 percent between 2008 and 2010. Meanwhile, the standard of living in the United States has fallen farther over the past three years than at any other time that has ever been recorded in U.S. history.
-After adjusting for inflation, between 1984 and 2009 the median net worth of members of Congress rose from $280,000 to $725,000 while the median net worth of all Americans actually declined slightly over that same time period.
-The collective net worth of all of the members of Congress is now slightly over 2 billion dollars. That is “billion” with a “b”.
-In 2009, Congress was only scheduled to be in session for 137 days out of the 365 days of the year. In 2010, Congress was also only scheduled to be in session for 137 days out of the entire year. For much more on the pathetic “work schedule” of the U.S. Congress, just check out this video.
-The net worth of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi increased by 62 percent from 2009 to 2010. In 2009 it was reported that she had a net worth of 21.7 million dollars, and in 2010 it was reported that she had a net worth of 35.2 million dollars.
-U.S. Representative Darrell Issa is worth approximately 220 million dollars. His wealth grew by approximately 37 percent from 2009 to 2010.
-The wealthiest member of Congress, U.S. Representative Michael McCaul, is worth approximately 294 million dollars.
-Those that won U.S. Senate seats during the last election spent an average of nearly $10 million on their campaigns.
-More than 5 billion dollars was spent on political campaigns back in 2008, and it is being projected that 8 billion dollars will be spent on political campaigns in 2012.
-When it comes to federal elections, the candidate that raises the most money wins about 90 percent of the time.
-Since 1964, the reelection rate for members of the U.S. House of Representatives has never fallen below 85 percent.
It is also amazing how deeply corrupt Congress has become. In a previous article, I detailed how a number of Congress critters used confidential information about the coming financial crisis that they received from U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in September 2008 to make beneficial stock market moves before the stock market crashed later that fall….
On September 16, 2008 Paulson and Bernanke held “closed door meetings” with members of Congress and warned them that the financial system was about to totally collapse.
But instead of racing out to save the financial system, author Peter Schweizer says that many of our representatives in Congress raced out to save their stock portfolios.
In his new book, Schweizer alleges the following….
*Schweizer says that U.S. Representative Jim Moran sold off shares in 90 different corporations on September 17th.
*Schweizer says that U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse sold off at least $250,000 worth of stock between September 18th and September 24th.
*Schweizer says that U.S. Representative Spencer Bachus bet very heavily against the stock market in the days following the September 16th meeting and made tens of thousands of dollars doing so.
*Schweizer says that U.S. Senator John Kerry bought up approximately $350,000 of Bank of America stock and approximately $550,000 of Citigroup stock during October 2008 and November of 2008. It was during this time period that the bailout programs for the big banks were being developed and debated.
So has anyone gotten into trouble for any of that?
Of course not.
Congress critters play by an entirely different set of rules than the rest of us do.
At this point, the American people are absolutely disgusted with Congress. According to the latest polls, the approval rating for Congress is sitting at about 12 percent.
But of course the vast majority of our Congress critters will be re-elected over and over and over again.
Most members of Congress do not care about you. What they do care about is taking care of their political careers and taking care of their big donors. As noted earlier, it takes enormous amounts of money to win national elections in America, and most members of Congress are not about to do anything that will threaten the gravy train.
Our system is fundamentally broken. It is time to quit pretending.
But of course the mainstream media will never admit this, because mainstream media outlets are owned by many of the same corporations and wealthy individuals that fund political campaigns. For the establishment, the current system is working just fine.
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YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon's octogenarian President Paul Biya set a date on Wednesday for voting for a Senate called for in a 1996 law in a move that could clarify succession in the African oil producer.
Cameroon passed the law some 17 years ago to create the Senate, but Biya's government delayed holding polls, citing a lack of money.
The constitution says the head of the Senate would assume the interim in case of a mid-term presidential vacancy.
The poll is set for April 14, according to a decree read over state radio. No explanation was given for the decision to hold it.
Voters will elect 70 candidates to the proposed 100-person senate, while Biya will appoint the remaining 30, the decree said.
Biya, one of Africa's longest-serving presidents, won a fresh seven-year term in 2011 polls broadly criticized as unfair and which observers said would likely be his last due to his age and speculation about his deteriorating health.
Security analysts have warned of chaos in central Africa's largest economy if the 80-year-old president, who has kept an iron-fisted grip on power for more than 30 years, dies or retires before creating political space for possible successors.
Cameroon's election commission, whose 18-member board was appointed by Biya, has extended a voter registration deadline in an effort to increase participation. Turnout during the 2011 presidential vote was around 25 percent.
"Many Cameroonians think the results of polls are known well before voting takes place...so elections are just a joke in this country," said Matias Eric Owono Nguini, a university professor in the capital Yaounde.
Cameroon produced 22.37 million barrels of oil last year and expects output to rise another 9 percent in 2013 as new wells come online. The country is also the world's fifth-ranked grower of cocoa.
(Reporting by Tansa Musa; Editing by Richard Valdmanis, Bate Felix and Michael Roddy)
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September 2, 2008
University forms partnership with the Deshpande Foundation
Boston, Mass. - Beginning in the spring semester of 2009, Northeastern University students in the International Affairs and Human Services programs will have the chance to participate in a ground-breaking global studies program in India.
For the first time, students involved in the Global Partnership for Activism and Cross-Cultural Training (Global PACT) and Dialogue of Civilizations programs will have the opportunity to study and work in India. The new Global PACT India Dialogue is the result of a new partnership between the university and the Deshpande Foundation, one of the leading philanthropic foundations in Massachusetts and India in the areas of innovation, entrepreneurship and international development.
This partnership responds to a growing interest among students seeking non-traditional international career paths and and the university’s interest in forging and maintaining important links with India. The novel program is made possible through the generous efforts of the Deshpande Foundation's Social Entrepreneurship Sand Box in India.
“Northeastern University’s ‘global vision’ asks faculty and students to be fully engaged with the world community, an engagement that gives their efforts meaning, and has a positive impact on the communities with which they engage. We can do this by calling upon the knowledge, passion, and energies of students and faculty alike as positive forces for change in our local community and global society," said Denis Sullivan, director of the International Affairs program, director of the Middle East Center for Peace, Culture, and Development, and professor of political science.
"Our university’s mission and vision will be advanced especially when we join forces and participate with dynamic partners like the Deshpande Foundation,” he said. “Northeastern University's collaborations with partners in government, industry, the arts, innovators and private sector change agents strive to contribute to economic development and enhance societal well-being."
Starting in the spring, International Affairs and Human Services students involved in the new program will sign up for their otherwise normal four-class course load. But then they will form a unique group -- a cohort of students who will work together both on campus in Boston as well as in Hubli, Karnataka state in south-western India. This unique pilot program is known as the Global PACT India Dialogue.
Global PACT India will be led by Denise Horn, assistant professor of International Affairs, and Lori Gardinier, director of the Human Services Program. The Deshpande Foundation will provide additional funding for the new program as well as logistical assistance including Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) site visits, student housing, and will recruit Indian students to participate in the training.
Students will first take two intensive courses at the Northeastern University campus in January and February. Students will then travel to Hubli in March, and remain there for up to two months. In India, they will take two more courses, to round out their four-course load in spring semester. The third course is a three-week intensive training program, led by Global PACT trainers, supervised by Dr. Horn. Upon successful completion of this training, students will take a fourth course, which involves an internship with local NGOs, supervised by Dr. Gardinier. Students will stay in Hubli until the end of the semester with the option to remain in co-op or intern positions. The four courses include:
· International Human Services: In this intensive course students will explore structural and organizational responses to human rights and community need. Using a comparative approach, students will identify how culture influences organizational design and service delivery. This course will also examine how organizations develop coordinated community responses in collaboration with government entities and other organizations. Students will be placed in service-learning sites in Boston working with recently-immigrated populations.
· Transnational Activism and Global Civil Society: This course examines transnational advocacy and activism from theoretical and practical perspectives. Students will explore the growing literature of transnational activism with a focus on the impact of such movements upon global and local civil society and issues of democratization and development. Students will research local and global problems and organize a community development project over the course of the semester to address these issues.
· Global PACT India: Students will work with their Indian peers at a local NGO to create community development programs around the theme of poverty, development, and technology. Over three weeks of intensive training with experts in the field, students will learn the key skills of community development work, including action research, leadership skills, organizational development, and cross-cultural communication.
· Internship: Students will stay on through the remainder of the spring 2009 semester to work as interns in local NGOs.
Global PACT India Dialogue is the first of Northeastern University's semester-long Global PACT and Dialogue of Civilizations programs. Northeastern University has also formed a partnership with Casa de las Américas, a prestigious academy of the arts and literature in Cuba. The university will send as many as 20 students to the country beginning in January to study its rich cultural uniqueness and become acquainted with its distinct history.
About the Dialogue of Civilizations Program
The Dialogue of Civilizations Program is a series of global student exchanges between students at Northeastern University and students around the world. The program connects Northeastern students with their peers in different national, cultural, political, and social environments. The program provides students a global experience that builds upon and enhances their academic studies and training.
About Global PACT
Global PACT is a unique peer-to-peer training program for students interested in solving real community issues in practical ways. The program is a facet of the Dialogue of Civilizations Program and enables students to identify root causes of larger community problems, create viable solutions, and establish grassroots organizations.
For more information, please contact Samantha Fodrowski at 617-373-5427 or at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Founded in 1898, Northeastern University is a private research university located in the heart of Boston. Northeastern is a leader in interdisciplinary research, urban engagement, and the integration of classroom learning with real-world experience. The university's distinctive cooperative education program, where students alternate semesters of full-time study with semesters of paid work in fields relevant to their professional interests and major, is one of the largest and most innovative in the world. The University offers a comprehensive range of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate in six undergraduate colleges, eight graduate schools, and two part-time divisions. For more information, please visit www.northeastern.edu. | <urn:uuid:ea18a8cd-d469-47b0-af84-7cefceb88335> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.northeastern.edu/news/stories/2008/09/PACT_India_Dialogue.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937783 | 1,351 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Playa Giron (Pionero, April 1962)
Luis Felipe Wilson Valera was a political cartoonist and comic artist from Guantánamo, Cuba. He worked for Editorial Zig Zag before Fidel Castro's revolutionary government came to power in 1959. He founded Rebelde 5, the magazine of the National Revolutionary Police Force that same year. He also contributed to Verde Olivo (1960-68), but he mainly published his work in Palante during his 40-year career.
His best known creation is 'Las Criollitas', his award-winning cartoon series about Cuban women. Among his other comic creations are 'Los Sueños de Musi' for Din Don (Ediciones en Colores, 1960s), 'Playa Girón' for Pionero (1960s) and 'Las Melli' for Cómicos (1980s). He was in Angola during the war (1979-80), where he worked for Verde Olivo and Misión Internacionalista, as well as O'Nanjo Uamili, the official publication of the FAPLA (People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola). | <urn:uuid:1750b35b-8f7f-4056-b2d1-baed4fdbaf5c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lambiek.net/artists/w/wilson_valera_luis.htm?lan=dutch | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961167 | 244 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Rains Lash Assam
Geneva, 4 July 2012
1. Brief description of the emergency and impact
Incessant rains have lashed many parts of the state of Assam causing an alarming rise in the water level of the Brahmaputra River affecting all 27 districts of the State. The Brahmaputra has breached its embankment in five places affecting 1,744 villages across nine districts and 70,000 hectares of cropland. The worst-hit districts include Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, Dibrugarh, Jorhat, Nalbari, Barpeta and Dhubri where water has engulfed large areas of cropland. This is claimed to be the worst flood in Assam since 1950.
More than 1.2 million people have been affected and to date the death toll stands at 61. The floods are also threatening the existence of Majuli, the world's largest inhabited river island. The Kaziranga National Park, a world heritage site, and Pabitora sanctuary, both housing the highly endangered one horned rhino, are under flood waters. 16 people have also died due to landslides triggered by incessant heavy rain in various parts of the state in the past two weeks.
Standing crops such as rice have been destroyed. Nearly 484,000 affected people have fled their homes and are sheltering in 768 relief camps while mobile rescue centres are in operation to provide help to the affected people. Large numbers of people have taken shelter on higher ground with their livestock. An army spokesman reported that over 2,500 marooned people have been rescued by the army from the flood affected districts of Assam.
There is extensive damage to public infrastructure and thousands of houses have collapsed. More than 50 potable water sources have been contaminated by the flood waters. Grain banks have also been damaged.
2. Why is an ACT response needed
ACT India Forum members Lutheran World Service India Trust (LWSIT) and Churches Auxiliary for Social Action (CASA) are both present in the area of flooding and have carried out needs assessments in their different operational areas. The most urgently needed items include shelter, food, potable water and household items. Both members are in an ideal situation to extend such relief items to those who have had to leave their homes but have not received any assistance. Provision of these basic items will help these families on the road to re-establishing their lives.
3. National and international response
The government and state authorities in Assam are fully engaged in the evacuation of people to safer places. The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has 16 teams engaged in the evacuation and rescue operations as well as the airdropping of basic relief items. The army has deployed 752 personnel for rescue and relief operations and twenty tonnes of relief materials have been delivered by the air force which is keeping a close watch on the situation in the area.
The Prime Minister has declared that the priority for the next few days is to rescue people who remain marooned and extend relief to those who have been forced to leave their homes. Once search and rescue operations have been completed, the focus will shift to restoration of damaged infrastructure.
With water levels now receding, airdropping by helicopters has been currently put on hold. The pilots, however, remain on stand-by for any emergency situation, including evacuation of the marooned. (Source: ZEE News)
4. ACT Alliance response
The assessments carried out to date indicate that the most urgent needs are for shelter, food, water, medical aid, clothing, and household utensils.
ACT India Forum members Lutheran World Service India Trust (LWSIT) and Churches Auxiliary for Social Action (CASA) have already initiated an assessment of the flood situation and are planning to respond to the emergency situation.
LWSIT is in touch with the Inter Agency Group of Assam and the District Administration and updating information on disaster situation. India ACT forum members, CASA, LWSIT and the United Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India (UELCI) are in contact with each other and discussing the flood situation.
5. Planned activities
CASA and LWSI are in the process of preparing a preliminary appeal based on the rapid needs assessment carried out as by the Inter Agency Group, Assam of which CASA is a member. Also being factored in are more details collected by CASA from its Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR) project areas and partners. Activities will focus on shelter, food and household goods.
It is the beginning of the monsoon season. While most of the states are reporting deficit rainfall Assam is under severe floods. Even though the magnitude of the event is colossal there is not much coverage in the international media which could adversely impact the funding.
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With thousands of refugees streaming across Syria's borders into Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq, Syrian government forces continued to pound the country's commercial capital, Aleppo in a bid to regain ground won by Free Syrian Army rebels.
The country's foreign minister, Walid al-Muallem, who has not been seen since the devastating bomb attack two weeks ago that killed four of President Bashar al-Assad's top security and defence officials, warned the rebel's big to seize control of Aleppo would fail.
Speaking on a state visit to Iran, the foreign minister described the 17-month long uprising that the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says has left as many as 20,000 dead, as nothing more than a conspiracy of armed terrorist groups serving the interests of Syria's neighbouring enemy, Israel.
“Today I tell you, Syria is stronger …in less than a week they [the rebels] were defeated [in Damascus],” he said, predicting the same would happen in Aleppo, Reuters reported.
Rebels forces say they have so far been able to hold off the official army in the south-western Aleppo neighbourhood of Salaheddine, while fighting continues in other districts held by the Free Syria Army.
Terrified residents who have been in the firing line for the last week were fleeing the city, and local activists say up to 190 people were killed on Sunday, although that figure cannot be verified.
There are more than 150,000 Syrians registered with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, although it is understood the number of people who have fled the country is much higher.
Many are staying with relatives in neighbouring countries or delay registering with the UN until they run out food and other basics and are forced to seek assistance, the UN said.
So many have been flooding across the Syrian border into Jordan that it opened its first official camp on the weekend, with enough room for 10,000 refugees and the capacity to expand to 100,000.
Turkey already has several refugee camps for Syrians fleeing the increasingly violent uprising - many of them leaving the city of Aleppo, which is just 50 kilometres from the border - and the UN says it has plans to build two more camps with the capacity to hold a further 20,000 people as the refugee crisis worsens. | <urn:uuid:172e625c-2b21-4d42-ba64-0d0d458c86aa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.baysidebulletin.com.au/story/150794/syria-is-stronger-troops-fight-to-regain-ground-in-aleppo/?cs=5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978265 | 465 | 1.625 | 2 |
Sep 17 2012
When I grew up in the sixties and seventies I was into the America’s Cup the way most kids are into the Superbowl. It was one of those things that comes with growing up in New England and racing sailboats. The America’s Cup was the pinnacle of the sport, an event that the United States had never lost, in what I still think are the most beautiful boats ever designed and sailed by mankind: the 12-meter sloop. The names of the skippers were like the names of famous race car drivers to me. Some people were into Sterling Moss, I was into Bus Mosbacher, Ted Hood, Ted Turner and Dennis Connor.
12-meter yachts were the standard class of sloop in which the America’s Cup was raced from the 1950s into the 1980s. The “12-meter” has nothing to do with the length of the boats, but is the result of a formula involving various measurements to arcane to delve into here. The boats were made out of wood until the 1970s, when the rules were changed to permit steel, and eventually Fiberglas. By the 1990s they were gone, replaced by the gross over-commercialization of the sport that turned the boats into billboards and make the event an arms race for billionaires with bigger egos than souls.
Here’s the current state of affairs:
Once we had this:
Now we have this:
I blame it on RedBull, marketing departments, branding experts, and over-Adderalled dickheads who pay to watch technology and not sportsmanship. Now it’s called the “AC World Series” and the crews wear helmets. Bring back Charlie Barr and the J-Boats and ban the logos.
The beginning of the end came with the infamous winged keel that the Australians snuck into the 1982 series (and won it, breaking the American hold on the Cup and threatening to rename it “The Australia’s Cup”), and suddenly the “purity” of the 12-meters was threatened (the rules that govern the America’s Cup, the “Deed of Gift” are beyond weird and were constantly changed by its longtime sponsor, The New York Yacht Club, however it pleased them) a threat that was realized in the stupid series of 1987 when New Zealand showed up with a monster maxi-yacht and the American skipper Dennis Connor countered in desperation with a speedy catamaran. Thus ended the 12-meter era, setting off a round of silly court cases, and today the Cup is raced in ridiculous (to my eye) extreme catamarans which require their crews to wear helmets and pads.
Thankfully, the 12-meter fleet of yesterday lives on in Newport, Rhode Island, the traditional battle ground for the Cup. Last winter, while spending a weekend in Newport with my wife, I muttered something about wishing I could have sailed on a 12-meter. She told me to Google that thought, and a few dayss later I was spamming the Cotuit Mosquito Yacht Club’s email list with the suggestion that a dozen of us charter one of the boats for a sail in September. Twenty-four people signed up, trusted me with their deposits, and over the spring and summer I pulled together a half-day of sailing aboard the Columbia (winner in 1958) and the Heritage (a contender for the defense in 1970).
We carpooled to Newport on Saturday morning, our arrival coinciding with the annual Newport Boat Show, gathered on Bannister’s Wharf under grey skies, and counted heads until all were accounted for. I called out the names of the two crews, having been advised by counsel to have the boats selected before arriving, and flipped a coin to choose which crew would sail which boat. Then we split up for a day of match racing. Meredith from 12-Meter Charters herded us aboard a launch for the short ride out to the two boats moored in the lee of Goat Island.
The skipper and two crew members stowed our stuff below decks, delivered the obligatory Coast Guard approved safety lecture, and within ten minutes we had the sails up and were gliding across Narragansett Bay towards Jamestown. Everyone started exchanging glances of surprise as the boat took off in the light air. This wasn’t like sailing a typical sailboat, this was more like sitting on top of a floating locomotive with the potential to turn into a bullet train.
I was disappointed it wasn’t windier and sunnier, but there was still hope as it was only 11 am. The front had already blown by and there were hints of sun peeking out to make things encouraging.
We raced informally by crossing each other’s sterns and then beating up to windward into the northwesterly breeze under the Jamestown Bridge to a bell buoy up by Gould’s Island where the Navy used to test fire torpedos. Heritage won the first race, credit taken by Judge Swartwood who had the privilege to steer the boat over the finish line. We taunted the Columbia in the best Monty Python and the Holy Grail sense of taunts , and then broke for a relazed lunch sail out into Block Island Sound. The sun came out. The box lunches came out. The wind started blowing, and we each took our turn at the wheel.
Here’s the picture that says it all: Heritage has the natural, vanished hull; Columbia is the white hull in the foreground. That’s me standing on the Heritage leaning against the boom.
The full photo set is on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/churbuck/sets/72157631559789026/
Having a chance to steer Heritage was like being a Formula One fan who gets to drive a classic Grand Prix car. Here is me trying to look all nonchalant about the experience. I wasn’t. I actually got a little choked up thinking about my old writing teacher John Hersey, and his making me feel very jealous in 1978 when he told me about the time he got to steer Intrepid and used the locomotive simile.
The best part of the day? That actually happened the day before the sail when a taxi pulled into the driveway and my daughter stepped out, a surprise arrival from San Francisco thanks to her godfather Charlie Clapp’s incredibly thoughtful generosity. Charlie is a serious 12-meter junkie. As a kid growing up in Barrington, Rhode Island, the America’s Cup was literally happening in his back yard. This was his fourth sail aboard the boats. Hell, he even owns the shirt.
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You need a REAL business plan. Not just one for banks and investors.
For many entrepreneurs, business planning seems like a chore, or even a burden. There’s a popular argument that writing a business plan is a waste of time. Sometimes I hear people tell me a “one page” business plan, or a preliminary plan is enough.
I’m actually quite amazed when I hear these types of comments. Any serious investor would expect to see that you have actually designed your business around a solid, clear concept. They would want to see that you’ve carefully studied your industry and market. And they would want to know what separates your business from all others in your industry and market – why your business will succeed and deliver what buyers need.
If you were the investor, you would expect to do the same thing. The idea-focused entrepreneur is set up for failure. Everyone has ideas. Few people actually take the time to devise clear and actionable plans.
Can you imagine a soccer club asking for money from investors so it could invest in better players – without having a long-term plan? Of course, this does happen. But you can be sure that the teams that win championships have studied their rosters, know their strengths and weaknesses and have designed their teams to fortify their strengths and address their weaknesses. They consistently analyze every other team to study the strengths and weaknesses of the team and each individual player. No, they don’t always win. It’s not necessary that they do. They just need to win enough. Those losses are learning opportunities, and sometimes losing lets you see things winning won’t. Each season, each match, each opponent, each player – are studied long and hard as the team develops and refines its strategy.
You can expect no less in business if you want to succeed. At the end of the day, you got in (or are getting in) to this business because you want to achieve some personal result. You can be sure that banks and investors carefully study what they want as well. A carefully designed business plan, based on solid market research, and focused on actionable tasks towards achieving specific objectives, is far more interesting to your stakeholders than one devised simply to attach to your loan application.
You can read about this in detail in our Business Plan Basics article.
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shows her in the configuration which have been seen at the Battle
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in her wartime paint of slate gray however, but is now repainted peacetime
white with buff funnels and masts.
The image is clearly after the war, as evidenced by the
Admiral's pennant seen flying from the mainmast. George
Dewey was appointed Admiral of the Navy on March 2, 1899.
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Editors' note: This is part of a series examining 50 years of space exploration.
The wealthy men behind today's commercial space industry were just kids when the U.S.-Soviet space race started 50 years ago.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen was 4 years old when the Russians launched Sputnik I into geocentric orbit on October 4, 1957, an act that effectively ignited the competition for dominance in suborbit.
Aerospace engineer Burt Rutan was 14 when the United States created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration the following year. Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Megastores, was 10 when Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to orbit the Earth on April 12, 1961, followed by U.S. astronaut Alan Shepard in a suborbital flight less than a month later.
Space Adventures founder Peter Diamandis was just 5 days old when President John F. Kennedy announced that the United States would put a man on the moon within the decade.
The common denominator between these men? They are the pioneers of a new private space race, 35 years after anyone has walked on the moon. The U.S.-Soviet space race surely brought about technologies we now take for granted, ranging from satellite-based navigation to Tang. It also left an indelible mark on a generation that will shape the next 50 years of space exploration. Like the pioneers of the aviation industry, kids who idolized the Wright brothers, the men trying to get private industry into space grew up with names like Shepard and Armstrong as their heroes.
"Why are (we) doing something in space? Because that's what inspired them, that's what inspired me as a youth," said Diamandis, who has founded more than four companies in the space tourism and entertainment businesses, including Space Adventures, which takes private citizens to the International Space Station for between $25 million and $35 million.
The list of millionaires and billionaires inspired by NASA's glory years continues: Neil Armstrong finally walked on the moon for the first time in human history on July 21, 1969, when Amazon.com founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos was 5. Doom video game creator John Carmack was little more than 6 months old when astronaut Shepard played golf on the lunar turf in 1971. And PayPal founder Elon Musk was nearly 18 months old when NASA took its last manned lunar mission in 1972.
Allen, Rutan, Musk, Bezos and Carmack are paving the way for private industry in space from the deep pockets of their own industrial efforts. Made wealthy by taking chances in fields like software, computers, aviation and the Internet, they're taking the risk in space that was once the sole domain of governments. If you ask any of them what drove them into this field, they will most likely tell you it was a boyhood desire to be an astronaut. That, and frustration with government efforts in space today.
Diamandis added: "In the last 40 years, we've never fulfilled the promise that we had seen in Apollo. So, now people are saying, 'I'm going to give up on the government, I'm going to do it myself.'"
At the 50th anniversary of space exploration, many industry pundits and executives say there's a new era upon us. They describe the 17 years after Sputnik as the first phase of a journey marked by new human and robotic exploration in space, and which culminated in the Skylab and the Apollo missions. The second phase, from 1976 to 2007, was characterized by robotic missions to other planets like Saturn, collecting data about the universe.
"As it turns 50, there's a third era about to begin, one that recaptures the excitement of pioneering human voices that was characterized by the early years," said David Thompson, CEO of Orbital Sciences, which developed the first private launch vehicle, Pegasus.
Activities in the private industry come at a time when governments are stepping up their efforts in space, too. President George Bush has set NASA on a mission to put men back on the moon by 2020, and then onto Mars between 2035 and 2037. Among other international efforts, Russian plans to build a new manned space transport system by 2015 and China plans to send another rover to the moon in 2012, to survey every inch of lunar surface.
"The next 50 years are going to be historic. There's intensifying economic and space competition," said Joanne Maguire, head of space systems for Lockheed Martin.
Entrepreneurs like Rutan and Diamandis believe (with no shortage of controversy) NASA should leave manned flights to suborbit and the moon to private companies like their own. Players in private space development believe they can lay the groundwork to bring down the cost of suborbital space tourism so that it might one day be as common and affordable as taking a flight on Southwest. Eventually, entrepreneurs believe they can colonize other planets so people will have a place to visit and stay. Executives also see space as an eventual trillion-dollar market for mining its vast resources in energy, minerals and real estate.
Day 1: Private industry moves to take over space race
The space race taking shape in the private sector today is due in large part to boyhood dreams of becoming astronauts.
Day 1: Space entrepreneur shoots for the moon
Space Adventures CEO Peter Diamandis talks about the future of private space travel to the moon and beyond.
Day 1: Key milestones in space exploration
A timeline of some of the events that brought humans into space and will guide where we go next.
Day 2: Silicon galaxy
Technologies developed by NASA have led to some of the most important commercial innovations to come out of Silicon Valley.
Day 2: The satellite age
The commercial satellite market has grown into a multibillion-dollar industry, but future growth could suffer.
Day 3: Do we need NASA?
Is NASA still worth spending more than $16 billion in taxpayer money each year?
Day 3: Designing a 21st-century space suit
MIT professor Dava Newman tells how the form-fitting BioSuit will help give NASA a ready-to-wear outfit for the moon and Mars.
Memories from the space age
CNET News.com readers (and writers) share their memories from the early days of space exploration. October 5, 2007
Japan probe approaches moon
A new space race is getting under way, with as many as five nations expecting to land hardware on the moon within five years. October 4, 2007
Who's who in space travel
The private sector is laying the groundwork for a new era of space exploration. October 3, 2007
A half-century of space flight
We take a look at how the ships that enable space exploration are evolving. October 1, 2007
Strange visitors to other planets
The first Voyager spacecraft left Earth 30 years ago. Now, nearly 10 billion miles from home, they aren't finished yet.August 28, 2007
Building a better space suit
At MIT and the University of North Dakota, researchers are trying out new designs to clothe astronauts heading to Mars. July 18, 2007
Stellar views from the Hubble at 17
NASA and ESA celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's anniversary with colliding stars and supernovas.April 25, 2007
The race to space: Recalling Sputnik
The Baltimore Sun
Science Times special coverage
New York Times
The next 50 years in space
Happy birthday, Sputnik! (Thanks for the Internet)
Thank Sputnik for today's orbital freedom
Christian Science Monitor
Editors: Jennifer Guevin, Jim Kerstetter
Design: Andrew Ballagh
Production: Madeleine Kempton
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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- When the Canadian Consulate office in Downtown Buffalo closed last year, it created a massive backlog for people from all over the world trying to become Canadian citizens.
Now, around 10,000 people describe themselves as the "Forgotten of Buffalo," and they want the Canadian government to do something to speed up their permanent residency applications.
Many of those people can't get work. Others lost their health care coverage. Some have been forced to leave Canada and return to their home countries, even though they were elibigle for citizenship. It's all due to the delays.
The Buffalo office was known for its efficiency. However, as a cost-cutting measure, the Canadian government decided to close it. At that point, around 10,000 applications were transferred to Canadian workers, and the problems began.
Critics say the Canadian offices that received those applications were simply overwhelmed and haven't been able to keep up.
"I understand that they were doing it as a cost-cutting measure," said Buffalo-based Immigration Attorney Rosanna Berardi. "But the Canadian Consulate in Buffalo has always been known for decades as the most efficient, friendly processing center for these types of applications. So when it was abruptly closed, we knew there was going to be some major fallout in terms of applications that were going to go to the wayside. We didn't know that there'd be quite 10,000."
Canadian officials say they hope to have all the applications processed by the summer, but that's too late for many.
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International Criminal Court eyes role beyond war-crimes trials
Advocates want the ICC to help build a stronger international justice system. Will the Obama administration join the ICC?
United Nations, N.Y.
Although spurned by the United States, the International Criminal Court approaches its first review conference next year with several high-profile war-crimes prosecutions under its belt. More recently, the court grabbed headlines by issuing a warrant for the arrest of Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, over alleged war crimes committed in the country's Darfur region.Skip to next paragraph
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But the seven-year-old ICC faces stiff challenges in coming years, advocates say. Supporters of the court who gathered in New York this week – including its chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo – say second thoughts by some countries that signed on to the court, and criticisms that the ICC only goes after rights violators in weak countries, are just part of the challenge.
More broadly, they say, the court must do more than try cases – namely, it must help build a stronger international justice system. As the high-profile cases that gave the court its notoriety fade, the ICC's purpose – ending impunity for war crimes – should expand to helping countries develop their own national court systems.
Resistance to the court is brewing, however, in regions that initially supported it, as in Africa, where the African Union recently said it would not honor the arrest warrant for Mr. Bashir. Moreover, controversy surrounding the court could build if some preliminary inquiries into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan – committed by both NATO troops and Taliban forces – are pushed further.
What advocates hope is that the ICC will be able to achieve its goal by the fact of its existence and its example, rather than by the multiplication of trials.
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Southeastern Inyo County residents are on the fence about a huge solar project proposal near Charleston View, adjacent to the Nevada border.
While many residents have gone on record in support of the project, which will bring jobs to the remote desert communities, others said there are concerns about negative impacts that may be associated with the project.
The Hidden Hills Solar Electric Generating System proposed by BrightSource Energy, Inc. will be located on approximately 3,277 acres (5.12 square miles) of privately owned land. The project site is approximately 18 miles south of Pahrump, Nev., and approximately 45 miles west of Las Vegas.
Hidden Hills will comprise two solar fields and associated facilities: the northern solar plant (Solar Plant 1) and the southern solar plant (Solar Plant 2). Each solar plant will generate 270 megawatts gross (250 MW net), for a total net output of 500 MW. Solar Plant 1 will occupy approximately 1,483 acres (or 2.3 square miles), and Solar Plant 2 will occupy approximately 1,510 acres (or 2.4 square miles).
As proposed, a 103-acre common area will be established on the southeastern corner of the site to accommodate an administration, warehouse and maintenance complex and an onsite switchyard.
A temporary construction laydown and parking area on the west side of the site will occupy about 180 acres.
According to Sierra Nevada Conservancy resource advocate Brian Brown, the construction phase of the project is one of the concerns being voiced by residents in southeast Inyo County.
“The impacts from construction will be significant,” Brown said, adding that the size of the project will bring construction crews, equipment and materials up Old Spanish Trail Highway. “That old highway will fall apart in weeks,” Brown said.
Brown also said that residents raised concerns about a potential link between wells and springs in the area of the proposed project to the Amargosa River during a meeting held in Tecopa last week.
“The locals, we’re all still trying to wrap our heads around this, there will be 30-40 miles of transmission corridors and a natural gas line coming from the Nevada side, that will be subject to the NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act),” he said.
The project itself is being proposed on private property, so it will not be subject to NEPA as the transmission
corridors will. However,
the California Energy
Commission has required that a California Environmental Quality Act review be conducted, giving residents and local government an arena to comment on the project.
The upside to the project, according to residents and proponents, is that it will provide clean, renewable energy to communities in Southern California and will create an estimated 1,087 jobs at the peak of the 29-month construction period, with another 120 full-time jobs when the project is operational.
The capital cost for the project is estimated to exceed $2.7 billion.
In a discussion about general solar policy last week, the Inyo County Board of Supervisors said any solar project in Inyo County, which makes the proponent eligible for property tax discounts, should benefit the county.
Brown explained that before major solar projects even begin, the proponent enters into “purchase agreements” with electric companies and municipal agencies.
In the case of Hidden Hills, Brown said the electricity will be sold to Southern California.
If approved by the Energy Commission, construction is expected to be completed by the fourth quarter of 2014 or the first quarter of 2015. Commercial operation of the first solar plant would be in the first quarter of 2015, with the second solar plant operating in the second quarter of 2015.
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In recent years government departments and agencies, as well as private and public organisations, have put in place protocols that recognise and pay due respects to the original inhabitants of Australia. This has occurred within the national context of reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians and an international movement that acknowledges the special and important role indigenous communities play in the development of a country's cultural identity.
In Australia, there are two traditional protocols that are in widespread use:
- an Acknowledgement protocol – used by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous speakers to pay due respect to the traditional Indigenous inhabitants
- a Welcome to Country protocol – a direct descendant of the original Indigenous inhabitants, usually an Elder, welcomes visitors to his/her traditional lands (“country”)
An Indigenous Acknowledgement is part of, and should precede, any acknowledgement of VIPs and special guests at civic occasions, functions and public events. Council has endorsed the following for use as its Indigenous Acknowledgement:
I would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Land upon which we stand.
In addition, Council has endorsed the following wording as a longer Acknowledgement, inclusive of all people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, which could be used for publications, and where a more comprehensive version is warranted:
We acknowledge and pay respects to the traditional Aboriginal people of the Gold Coast and their descendants. We also acknowledge the many Aboriginal people from other regions as well as Torres Strait and South Sea Islander people who now live in the local area and have made an important contribution to the community.
Welcome to Country
Welcome to Country, also known as the Traditional Welcome, allows the Traditional Custodians of the region to give their blessing for the event to take place on their land. It must be done by a representative of the Traditional Custodians of the location at which the event is taking place.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flags
The following information has been sourced from the Australian Government's It's an Honour website at www.itsanhonour.gov.au.
The Australian Aboriginal Flag was first raised on 12 July 1971 at Victoria Square in Adelaide. It was also used at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra in 1972.
The top half of the flag is black to symbolise Indigenous people. The red in the lower half stands for the earth and the colour of ochre, which has ceremonial significance. The circle of yellow in the centre of the flag represents the sun.
The Australian Aboriginal Flag is displayed at Aboriginal centres and is well recognised as the flag of Aboriginal peoples of Australia.
The Torres Strait Islander Flag was adopted in May 1992 during the Torres Strait Islands Cultural Festival.
The green panels at the top and bottom of the flag represent the land and the central blue panel represents the sea. The black lines dividing the panels represent the Torres Strait Islander people. The centre of the flag shows a white dhari (dancer's headdress) and is a symbol for all Torres Strait Islanders. Underneath the dhari is a white five-pointed star. The star is an important symbol for navigating the sea. The points of the star represent the island groups in the Torres Strait and white symbolises peace.
The Australian Aboriginal Flag and the Torres Strait Islander Flag were proclaimed on 14 July 1995.
Both flags are flown:
- during NAIDOC Week to celebrate and promote greater understanding of Indigenous peoples and culture
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Times New Roman is currently one of the most commonly used fonts on the World Wide Web. It is also generally listed as the preferred typeface for most formal paper styles. Though, as Albert Herring observes above, Times New Roman is a rather unpleasant font to read in wide columns, and has drawn general ire from anybody in the typographic community for years, it remains the primary font in use for the simple reason that it is available on almost all computers. Also (or perhaps because of this), the vast majority of word processing applications have set Times New Roman as the default font for body text in documents.
These factors have conspired to make the reading of academic papers vastly more unpleasant than it has to be. The excessive sharpness of Times New Roman's characters and the severe angles at which its serifs proceed from all of the letters make reading text in the font much more unpleasant than it is with fonts like Nimbus Roman, Gentium, and DejaVu Serif, among others.
Recently, with the rise of professional design on the Web, the majority of high-traffic websites have shifted to using sans-serif web fonts such as Arial in order to distance themselves from the severely negative aura surrounding Times New Roman. Though serif fonts are in general understood to be easier to read, the very small range of font styles that can be counted upon for web use has sent the popular usage towards sans-serif typefaces.
However, web pages without selected fonts typically render in Times New Roman in modern web browsers, keeping it rather entrenched despite efforts to the contrary.
The rise of @font-face and technologies like Cufon and sIFR offer the web community a chance to break free of the stranglehold that the Microsoft Core Fonts have held on the design community for over a decade. Hopefully at last we will see the demise of Times New Roman. | <urn:uuid:2724ff4c-33f6-40a7-a326-67500a68ccc5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://everything2.com/title/Times+New+Roman?showwidget=showCs2003172 | 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 | 0.931993 | 386 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Chronicle of the Third Reich Volume 2!
1936-1939. The second part of this series deals with Germany's expansion, namely with the reunion of the Saar, the annexation of Austria, which is known as the Anschluss, the national debt and how it was dealt with, the fighting during the Spanish Civil War and how Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia. During this time, Hitler seemed like he could do no wrong, but behind the mask things weren't like they seemed.
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It appears that I’m even further behind in my reading than Abel Pharmboy, because he pointed me to a couple of articles in an issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology that I haven’t even cracked open yet. It’s probably still sitting in the pile of journals on my desk that haven’t been touched yet because I haven’t gotten around to them. The issue contains two articles of interest, but I think I’ll only touch on one of them for now because it’s highly relevant to my previous posts about Abraham Cherrix, the 16 year old with relapsed Hodgkin’s disease and refused additional chemotherapy in favor of quackery known as the Hoxsey treatment. Abel’s commentary was great, but you know me. I can’t resist putting my two cents in too, given how much I’ve blogged about such issues in the past. Here’s the article:
Jeffrey D. Hord, Waqas Rehman, Patricia Hannon, Lisa Anderson-Shaw, Mary Lou Schmidt (2006). Do Parents Have the Right to Refuse Standard Treatment for Their Child With Favorable-Prognosis Cancer? Ethical and Legal Concerns. J. Clin. Oncol. 24:5454-5456.
The big difference between the topic of this article and the Starchild Abraham Cherrix case is age. Cherrix is 16, and thus getting close to adulthood. Consequently, his case is more difficult because he doesn’t want chemotherapy and is less than two years from being able to do whatever he wants because he’ll be an adult. Thus, the argument regarding his case is intimately tied to whether he is competent enough to make his own medical decisions. In contrast, this article is about children that no one would consider anywhere near old enough to be able to decide their medical care, children 6, 7, 8, or 9 years old, and it particularly emphasizes the dilemma facing physicians in the case of children with good prognosis cancers, with 75-85% chances of long term survival with conventional therapy, whose parents decide to pursue quackery instead.
After a case report, the authors plunge into the bioethics of such cases. The authors describe the dilemma that occurs when parents eschew therapy with a good chance of cure for dubious alternative medicine:
Within the framework of informed consent for treatment, physicians are obligated to provide the pediatric patient and family information pertaining to the diagnosis, prognosis, range of medical therapy available, and the risks and benefits of treatment or nontreatment. In addition, it is the physician’s responsibility to the patient to establish the course of treatment that will provide the best opportunity for long-term survival. When dealing with patients with poor prognosis, limiting medical therapy is reasonable, ethical, and morally defensible because the burdens of therapy may outweigh the benefits, and parents must consider quality of life. Conversely, when standard therapy offers a high likelihood of long-term survival and a reasonable quality of life, it is difficult for the managing physician to understand withholding such therapy. Current laws provide parents with wide discretionary authority in raising their children. These laws, however, are balanced with child abuse and neglect laws to ensure that a parent’s decision regarding treatment is in the best interest of the child. In addition to these legal aspects, ethical issues are intimately woven within the context of each clinical case.
The biomedical ethical principles of respect for autonomy (allowing free choice by the patient, perhaps exercised through a surrogate), beneficence (providing benefit to the patient), nonmaleficence (doing no harm to the patient), and justice (the obligation to distribute benefits and burdens proportionally) all weigh heavily on the providers’ decision about how to respond when parents refuse standard therapy for their child with a favorable-prognosis malignancy.
It is indeed difficult to balance respect for autonomy with beneficence in these cases, but I would argue that in these cases beneficence demands that the child be treated. I view a parents’ refusal to allow a child with a highly treatable cancer to be treated with effective therapy because they want to use woo instead as no different than the case of a bleeding child whose Jehovah’s Witness parents refuse to allow a life-saving blood transfusion. In each case, the state must step in to save the life of the child against the parents’ wishes. Remember, these are not teenagers like Abraham Cherrix. They’re not even close to that “gray zone” between ages around 15-17, where children are not yet considered legally adults but are still mature enough that we at least have to consider their wishes in how they wish to be treated.
What also interested me was the following table:
First, note the wide variety of nonstandard treatments, which range from Bible readings, chelation therapy, Laetrile, and macrobiotic diets. Second, note another thing: The only child known to have been cured of his cancer was Case 5, where standard treatment was mandated, although the outcome of one case for which chemotherapy was mandated was reported as unknown. However, this was an osteogenic sarcoma treated in 1986, when success rates for standard therapy were not as impressive as they are now. In other words, the cases reviewed are entirely consistent with what I’ve beens saying all along: This stuff doesn’t work.
Of course, one of the problems is that the majority of Americans probably don’t agree with me. There is a widespread attitude in this country that parents should have essentially absolute power and autonomy over how their children are raised. While I agree that the state should not be allowed to dictate how a parent cares of his or her child without compelling reasons to do so, I would argue that stepping in to save a child’s life from quackery is one of the few reasons that qualify as compelling. The authors seem to agree, although they are much more restrained in their conclusions that I would be (of course, an editorial on this topic by me probably wouldn’t ever be accepted for publication unless I figured out how to tone down the ol’ Respectful Insolence):
Physicians should also be aware that their actions may be perceived differently by different populations. Although the opinion of the pediatric oncology community is strongly in favor of following standard proven therapies, the general public may not be as supportive and may be swayed by the manner in which the case is presented in the media. In the case presented here, a local television station posted an internet-based survey, and 83% of the 395 responders supported the parents’ “right to choose the kind of treatment for their kids.”18 Furthermore, the vast majority of published editorials and letters to the editor regarding the present case, printed in local newspapers, strongly opposed the Department of Job and Family Services’ decision to pursue standard treatment for the child in opposition of the parents’ views (15 opposed compared with two in favor).
In summary, pediatric oncologists should be prepared for the many implications brought by a case such as this, in which parents refuse standard treatment for their child with cancer who has a favorable prognosis. As the probability of encountering a similar situation increases, so does the need to fully understand the relevant laws and ethical principles that apply. In dealing with the issues presented here, the oncologist must act as an advocate fighting to ensure that the child is given the best chance of cure while trying to balance the harms that may occur. In addition, the oncologist should consider reporting any physician to the state medical board who may have failed to meet the minimal standards of care.
Indeed. The physician’s duty is primarily to the child, not to the parents. And physicians who use quackery on cancer patients, particularly for tumors for which effective conventional therapy exists, should indeed be reported to the state medical board. Unfortunately, state boards rarely do much about such reports because, as Abel rightly pointed out, courts give wide latitude to the actions of licensed physicians. | <urn:uuid:d62e9237-4a5d-4fcc-8174-dba34ad20f2d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2006/12/14/alternative-medicine-and-pediatric-cance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965944 | 1,672 | 1.507813 | 2 |
MEDFORD (CBS) – Staff Sgt. Roy Surabian, a Medford man missing since serving in the Air Force during World War II, is returning home.
The Surabian family knew their son was a radio operator with the 64th Bombardment Squadron, 43rd Bombardment Group, Fifth Air Force. Surabian was on a sea search mission in late November, 1943 off the coast of New Guinea, when the B-24 plane he was aboard was never heard from again.
WBZ-TV’s Christina Hager reports from Medford.
Surabian was memorialized, and awarded the Air Medal and the Purple Heart, but the whereabouts of his remains, and his 10 crewmembers, were unknown.
In 2004, after multiple search attempts by the military over the years, local villagers turned over human remains they had previously removed from the area.
Scientists from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory used mitochondrial DNA to help identify the remains of the airmen.
The 11 Air Force crew members are expected to be buried on March 24 at Arlington National Cemetery. In addition to Sgt. Surabian, the body of a man from Woburn, Staff Sgt. James B. Moore, aged 21 at the time the plane went missing, was recovered and will be buried. | <urn:uuid:e39fea7a-4c57-41d4-90ae-98d2c4b5425a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/02/10/remains-of-somerville-wwii-vet-mia-coming-home/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975864 | 278 | 1.664063 | 2 |
The Ferguson Library has books and films in many world languages. The Library's ESL audio collection, ESL books, talking books for English learners, instructional world language audio materials, and world language book and magazine collections are located on the 3rd floor. Read More
The Adult Basic and Literacy collection addresses the needs of English speakers as well as non-native speakers.
The collection focuses on books for the general reader... Read More
Circulating magazines can be borrowed for one week. No renewals. See a listing of magazines to see library holdings. Read More | <urn:uuid:d111ecbe-6a00-4a2b-9a0c-16806b2f8380> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fergusonlibrary.org/welcome-to-america/collections | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938075 | 113 | 1.5 | 2 |
Back in September
Crogan, T.W., Michael Schoenbaum, C.D. Sherbourne, and P. Koegel. 2006. "A framework to improve the quality of treatment for depression in primary care." Psychiatric Services, 57(5): 623-630.
New forms of medication and brief psychotherapy have dramatically changed how depressive disorders have been treated over the past two decades. In spite of these changes, the quality of treatment for depression remains poor at the population level. In this article, the authors review current concepts and theory regarding the quality of treatment for depression. They present a conceptual model of four points in the course of a treatment episode when clinicians could deviate from guidelines. Using the model, the authors review research that supports guideline recommendations and that can inform clinicians' decisions. They suggest several areas for future study and action, including extending awareness and recognition outside the medical care setting to schools and workplaces, addressing growing concerns about possible overtreatment, using qualitative research approaches to gain an understanding of patient perspectives on treatment, and improving the measurement for quality of treatment. | <urn:uuid:01b5fe9d-be39-4138-b0b7-b6eac268c8c8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/pubs/abs/4682 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920662 | 220 | 2.125 | 2 |
Another in our ongoing series: What We Did This Summer.
Signs posted around Jamaica Pond declare it to be part of Boston’s Emerald Necklace. For years, I had assumed from this that it was a man-made pond, dug under the direction of Frederick Law Olmsted. In fact, the 68-acre 53-foot deep kettle pond was carved out by glaciers millions of years before there was a Boston or a Frederick Law Olmsted to landscape it. The natural beauty of this site meant that Olmsted had to do relatively little to it before stringing it onto the Necklace in 1892.
Equipped with a scenic and well-maintained walking trail, the Pond is a great place to take your preschooler for a bit of a walk, puppy meet & greet, turtle sightings, and general bird spotting. Apparently, you can fish and sail there too, but we’ve always been content just to go for a stroll.
- Jamaica Pond Boathouse
- Boston Park Ranger Nature Center
- Sailing (youth sailing programs available)
- Fishing (Massachusetts Fishing License required)
- 1.5 mile walking/biking trail around the pond
- Open space for picnics
- Dogs allowed on leash
- Free parking on Perkins Street, and in a limited number of spaces along the Pond
Planning your own visit? You’ll find the usual Logistical Stuff below the fold.
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This past November, First Book’s partner, Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women, celebrated their 100-year commitment to literacy service. To honor the momentous occasion, the Fraternity donated a special Pi Beta Phi edition of “Remember the Ladies: 100 Great American Women” to every student at Pi Beta Phi Elementary School in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Pi Beta Phi Elementary sits on the campus of the original Pi Beta Phi Settlement School, founded in 1912 to bring education to an area of great need.
Continuing their legacy of literacy, Pi Beta Phi gave each student at the school a copy of the children’s book that highlights 100 women who shaped American history, including Abigail Adams, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt and Oprah Winfrey. Each special edition of the book includes a message from Pi Beta Phi, who aims to promote friendship, develop women of intellect and integrity, cultivate leadership potential and enrich lives through community service.
Thanks to the continued support of Pi Beta Phi, the special edition of “Remember the Ladies: 100 Great American Women” is now available on the First Book Marketplace, a website available exclusively to educators and program leaders that work with kids in need. | <urn:uuid:8be1c73d-3da1-4d81-a7bc-47ad5d508cf0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.firstbook.org/2013/01/09/pi-beta-phi-brings-books-about-great-american-women-to-kids-in-need/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928421 | 246 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Health professionals need to learn the communication skills that will create collaborative and mutually satisfying relationships with patients. The failure of doctors to relate effectively to patients results in noncompliance, malpractice suits, longer stays in hospitals and other negative outcomes. Interpersonal skills can be easily learned by studying the techniques described by Gordon and Edwards. Using cases, interviews, dialogues, and vignettes, the authors provide effective models or blueprints for health professionals to follow. Gordon is a psychologist who has pioneered internationally recognized effectiveness training programs widely used by teachers, parents, salesmen, managers, and other professionals. He has published six books that have sold over five million copies in 17 languages. In this work, he has enlisted the expertise of Edwards, a highly respected medical doctor and educator, to provide the necessary insider's view of the health profession. Together they make a convincing case for doctors to develop closer and more collaborative relationships with patients.
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ST. LOUIS – An increasing amount of money withheld from worker paychecks is going for corporate subsidies, a Washington, D.C. think tank found, and Missouri is one of the biggest offenders.
Good Jobs First says that $700 million a year in state income taxes is being funneled to business and industry in 16 states, including some of the largest American corporations. The study found that as states try to keep jobs within their border, they may be giving away too much in tax incentives.
“You assume that money goes to school or libraries, but in these states it goes to the employers,” said Kasia Tarczynska, the Good Jobs First research analyst who studied Missouri.
The group, which released in April its multi-year study of corporate subsidies, found that Missouri is the only state that allows employers to keep 100 percent of its employees’ state withholding taxes through two of its programs – the Quality Jobs Program and the Missouri Automotive Manufacturing Jobs Act.
Only five programs allowing the complete withholding of state taxes exist across the United States.
Missouri’s automotive act was enacted in 2010, largely to keep Ford from closing its manufacturing plant in Claycomo. It allows Ford to keep the state withholding for 10 years, and for its suppliers to keep their workers’ Missouri taxes for five years. The recipients must invest at least $50,000 per existing job to qualify. The program is expected to cost $15 million in 2012 – a cap set by the legislature – with Ford getting about two thirds of the total. The program will cost Missouri $150 million in lost tax revenue over the next decade.
The much broader Quality Jobs Program lets small and expanding businesses keep 100 percent of withholdings up to five years as long as they create 20 new jobs in rural areas and 40 in urban areas. Technology firms retain withholdings up to 6 percent of new jobs payroll for five years, with high impact firms retaining 7 percent of new jobs payroll. Technology firms must employ 10 workers to qualify, while high impact firms must have 100 workers.
The cost of this program has risen from just under $7 million in 2008 to more than $51 million in 2011, Good Jobs First found.
The Missouri Department of Economic Development ‘s annual report says there were 189 projects from 159 businesses in the program at the end of 2011.
The Quality Jobs Program was put into place by the Missouri General Assembly in 2005 when St. Louis-based pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts announced it was considering other states to locate its new headquarters. After the legislation passed Express Scripts stayed, and the company has since collected $17 million in subsidies.
The company was criticized for outsourcing many of its U.S. jobs overseas, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that profits grew 325 percent between 2004 and 2010 while employment only climbed 28 percent.
In the battle to keep companies in place, the squeaky wheel continues to get more grease. Peter Mueser, a labor economics professor at Missouri University, said legislators are naturally going to enact programs such as those in the Show Me State to prevent firms from leaving.
“They’re not going to lower taxes on the ones who plan to be here long term,” Mueser said. “This gives firms incentive to try to move so they can be eligible for those subsidies.”
Kansas gave $47 million in tax incentives through its Promoting Employment Across Kansas program to AMC Entertainment in 2011 to convince the movie theater chain to move its headquarters from Kansas City to Leafwood 10 miles across the state line.
Tarczunska said such “interstate job piracy” is common.
“Companies move between Missouri and Kansas all the time,” she said.
The issue became so prevalent that 17 Kansas City-area business leaders signed a letter last April decrying the business border war between Kansas and Missouri. The letter said that the tactics provided “no net economic gain to the community as a whole and a resulting erosion of the area’s tax base.”
In January, the Missouri House Committee on Government Oversight and Accountability questioned representatives from the state’s Department of Economic Development about the Quality Jobs Program after DED’s own report showed that less than 6,000 jobs had been created although more than 23,000 were promised through the program.
Sen. Bill Stouffer, R-Napton, who is leaving the Senate this year after completing two terms, supported the Quality Jobs Program, but voted against the automotive act.
“At least with the Quality Jobs Program we have the entrepreneur making the decision to invest his own money before getting public money,” he said.
Stouffer said he’s become less favorable toward aggressive corporate subsidies during his time in the Missouri General Assembly.
“I think the legislature should foster a friendly business climate for everybody,” he said. “That climate should be fair with an opportunity for growth.”
With Kansas to the west battling with Kansas City and Illinois to the east trying to pry corporations away from St. Louis, Stouffer admits lawmakers are in a tough position of not giving away too much while retaining jobs for residents. But he said they must come up with sensible programs that don’t encourage businesses to pack their bags for neighboring states.
“I don’t like blackmail,” Stouffer said. “If we continue giving it away we’re going to continue to get blackmailed.” | <urn:uuid:d631e78f-da5a-4c24-a5f6-d8eef14f50e5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://watchdog.org/23187/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965159 | 1,145 | 1.757813 | 2 |
The Darling Wildflower Show
The Darling Wildflower Show has been presented by the Darling Wildflower Society since 1917, and the work is substantiallly done by volunteers. The work of the society focusses on two significant aspects of renosterveld, namely its unique character and the urgent need for its conservation. This has led to the recent founding of the Darling Wildflower Trust, and whilst continuing to support local charities, the income from the show now mainly goes towards conservation initiatives like the Darling Flora Project.
As there are too many plants on show to label each individually, an example of each plant is provided on the specimen tables. Here you can find the full name of each plant, and view related species. In addition, this year, there is a unique display of lichens compiled by the experienced and respected amateur botanist Dr. Pixie Littlewort.The show is designed around the different soil types found in the Darling district. The marked difference between the plantlife of the various soil types is due to the variations in humidity and in physical and chemical composition, although many plants happily grow in more than one habitat. Renosterveld is mostly found in the rich clay-soils of the Western and Eastern Cape, and is often confused with fynbos which grows in poorer soils. Most of the rain occurs between April and September (150 – 300mm). The show therefore represents a concentration of plants which flower in spring, although many of the plants also flower throughout the year. The Darling district represents a diverse flora of about 1200 species. Approximately 80 (6,5%) are endemic, whilst the rest also occur in other areas. One should keep in mind that during springtime there are a myriad of pollinators at work, such as wasps, flies, mice and sunbirds; the conservation of our local flora ensures healthy biodiversity of the whole area.
Renosterveld is primarily the flora of the Swartland. It is named after the key plant species renosterbos. Because the soil is very fertile, about 90% has been eradicated by agriculture. Fine- and granular-leaved shrubs like Eriocephalus, Elytropappus and Stoebe are typical. Geophytes like Geissorhiza, Babiana and Gladioli have some of the loveliest flowers of this region. Where water collects it causes marshy conditions and this is known locally as renosterveld "vlei". Here one typically finds Zantedescia aethiopica (arum), Drosera (sundew), Watsonia marginata (pink/mauve watsonia), Ornithogalum thyrsoides (chinkerinchee) and Onixotis stricta (rice flower).
Granite Hills can be regarded as another type of renosterveld, but is especially rich in succulents such as Aloe perfoliata (wreath aloe), Mesembryanthemaceae (vygies/mesembs) and Orbea variegata (carrion flower). Geophytes like Ixia monadelpha (mottled ixia), Gladiolus alatus (kalkoentjie/turkey), Lachenalia aloides (rock violet) and Romulea eximia (Darling romulea) are some of the more spectacular bulbs flowering on these hills. Typical shrubs are Eriocephalus africanus (capoc bush) en Lobostemon fruticosus (pyjama bush).
Sandveld consists of deep, sandy, and sometimes chalky soil. Restios like Wildenowia incurvata (sonqua reed), Chondropetalum tectorum (elephant reed) and Thamnochortus spicigerus (dune reed) are typical. This soil is relatively poor and there are few large shrubs, although smaller shrubs like Phylica stipularis (honde-gesiggie/doggy face), Staavia radiata (altyd/ever bush), Stoebe plumosa (snake bush) en Metalasia densa (blombos/flower bush) grow profusely. Typical spring flowering plants are ground-covers Asteraceae and Scrophulariaciae. The Sandveld also features marshy areas and here one finds plants that thrive near or in water, such as Lachenalia unicolor (purple violet), the edible waterplant Aponogeton distachyos (water urchin) and Gladiolus angustus (long pypie).
Strandveld shows open shrubby plant growth and features few endemic or rare species. Woody plants like Chrysanthemoides monilifera (bietou), Olea capensis (iron wood), Euclea racemosa (candle bush), and Rhus glauca (taaiblaar/tough leaf) are typical. The relatively rich soil causes most plants to bear fleshy fruits and this attracts large numbers of birds.
96th Darling Wildflower Show 20 -22 Sept 2013
The Darling Wildflower Show takes place annually over the third weekend in September at the Darling Club.
Opens: Friday 20 September at 09:00
Dates: 20, 21 and 22 September 2013
Venue: The Sports Club in Darling
Entry: To be advised
The entrance fee includes entry to the landscaped hall and as well as a free ride on a tractor drawn wagon to see the Oude Post wetland that can only be seen during the show.
A hall will be landscaped with Darling wildflowers, from the most fragile and rare to the ones easily found. Craft and fun stalls with goodies await you. There are also many and various food and refreshment stalls to cater for the inner man. This year your entrance ticket of only R30 includes a lazy tractor ride to a private vlei that is otherwise inaccessible to the public where you will be able to view some of the most spectacular flowers in situ.
For more information:
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Valouev IA, et al. (2009) Elongation factor eEF1B modulates functions of the release factors eRF1 and eRF3 and the efficiency of translation termination in yeast. BMC Mol Biol 10:60
Abstract: ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Termination of translation in eukaryotes is controlled by two interacting polypeptide chain release factors, eRF1 and eRF3. While eRF1 recognizes nonsense codons, eRF3 facilitates polypeptide chain release from the ribosome in a GTP-dependent manner. Besides termination, both release factors have essential, but poorly characterized functions outside of translation. RESULTS: To characterize further the functions of yeast eRF1 and eRF3, a genetic screen for their novel partner proteins was performed. As a result, the genes for gamma (TEF4 and TEF3/CAM1) and alpha (TEF5/EFB1) subunits of the translation elongation factor eEF1B, known to catalyze the exchange of bound GDP for GTP on eEF1A, were revealed. These genes act as dosage suppressors of a synthetic growth defect caused by some mutations in the SUP45 and SUP35 genes encoding eRF1 and eRF3, respectively. Extra copies of TEF5 and TEF3 can also suppress the temperature sensitivity of some sup45 and sup35 mutants and reduce nonsense codon readthrough caused by these omnipotent suppressors. Besides, overproduction of eEF1Balpha reduces nonsense codon readthrough in the strain carrying suppressor tRNA. Such effects were not shown for extra copies of TEF2, which encodes eEF1A, thus indicating that they were not due to eEF1A activation. CONCLUSIONS: The data obtained demonstrate involvement of the translation elongation factor eEF1B in modulating the functions of translation termination factors and suggest its possible role in GDP for GTP exchange on eRF3.
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After a school-wide effort to narrow the competition down to 10 students, the students went head-to-head in one final school competition Thursday to see who would move forward to the statewide competition. Only nine students participated Thursday because one student moved.
The geography bee included questions that ranged from state capitals, bodies of water, and even international topics.
Associate Principal Debbie Judy moderated the event.
"You've all done a fantastic job to get to this point and we're all so proud of you," she said prior to the start of the geography bee.
The nine finalists were Safa Baqi, Sarah Charles, Lilly Cherriman, Andrew Dunn, Roberto Mercado, Amy Ndiaye, Nick Newill, Edric Suarez, Todd Talmadge.
One by one, the program was narrowed down to three students: Andrew Dunn, Lilly Cherriman, and Sarah Charles. And then it was just Cherriman and Dunn, with Dunn ultimately winning. So what was the winning question? It had to do with the Yaghan nomadic tribe who live on the Isla Grande del Tierra del Fuego between Chile and Argentina.
When it was said and done, Judy said she' never had a student in the finals that guessed all three questions correctly in the round, which Dunn did.
Dunn will participate in the statewide Geographic Bee in April.The National Geographic Bee is held in Washington, D.C.
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Laptops are very convenient, because they allow you to do your work anywhere you want. This means that we should take good care of them and clean them regularly. A lot of people do not do this, because they do not know how. Here are some easy steps how to clean your laptop:
a very important rule when you clean an electric devise is to always unplug and turn it off first. Cleaners Frankston explain that this is very important, because otherwise you might damage your laptop if it is connected to the electricity while you clean it.
When you clean your laptop, it is best to start with the keyboard. The best way to clean it is with a can of compressed air. Hold it about 10 cm away from the keyboard and spray it towards the keyboard. Then tip the laptop to its side and brush off all the dust with a fine paint brush. After that, take a clean soft cloth and really slightly moisten it with some rubbing alcohol. Use it to wipe the keyboard and the surrounding frame.
Now it is time to clean the ports and the vents. This is probably the most important part of the cleaning. Again, moisten slightly a soft cloth with some kind of rubbing alcohol and wipe the outsides of the vents and ports. After that, inspect them carefully and remove any bigger pieces of dirt with a tweezer. When you are done, take a cotton swab and dip it in some rubbing alcohol. Wring out all the excess liquid and roll it around the edges of the ports and vents. Then as a final, cleaners Brunswick suggest you spray them with the compressed air.
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New evidence suggests eating disorders may be sparked by stress.
Such disorders are often blamed on body image issues and a flawed relationship with food. Less often, they are seen as a tangible way for women (and men) to manage emotion.
After all, when chaos looms, control kicks in. And what is a more tangible thing to control than the body?
A researcher at Pennsylvania's Bucknell University has looked at the emotional drivers of eating disorders, uncovering a link between thought suppression and stress.
Lauren Feldman, undergraduate psychologist, hypothesised that stressed subjects would respond differently to food-related words such as "pizza" or "restaurant".
She found that stressed subjects were significantly slower than non-stressed subjects at recognising such words.
"It's as if, when stressed, eating-disordered individuals suppressed thoughts of food," Feldman said. "This makes sense, because blocking out such thoughts would facilitate eating-disordered behaviours like dieting and restricting.
"Much of the research on eating disorders looks at weight, food and body shape as motivators," she said. "But there's also a theory that eating disorders serve emotional functions rather than physical ones."
While the findings hardly offer the final word on diet disorders, they confirm the school of thought that says eating disorders are not so much about achieving a particular body weight as they are about trying to manage emotion.
Drazenka Floyd, clinical director of the Butterfly Foundation, which helps people with eating disorders, said such disorders might start off being about weight but were fundamentally about a lack of coping skills.
"We've known that for a while," she said. "It stops being about [weight] and starts being about underlying emotions, perfectionism and black and white thinking."
The organisation suggests that disordered eating is emerging as a norm in Australian society from a young age.
Ninety per cent of 12 to 17-year-old girls and 68 per cent of 12 to 17-year-old boys have been on a diet of some type. One in 10 Australian women will suffer from an eating disorder.
"We know eating disorders are impacted by emotions, stress and anxiety ... If someone is depressed or experiencing negative emotions, they are less likely to eat. Or with bulimia, it has the opposite effect."
For this reason, a significant part of the recovery process is tackling emotions and "teaching ways to sit with negative emotions".
For instance, deep breathing through the nose calms physiological responses, while meditation techniques help to calm anxiety and stress, Floyd said.
"We also explore core negative beliefs and low self-esteem - [teaching a patient] that they're worthy."
Findings such as those from the Bucknell experiment, which will be presented in March at Bucknell's Kalman Undergraduate Research Symposium, highlight the importance of a holistic approach to treating eating disorders by building a patient's emotional and coping skills.
"We're just finding out more and more," Floyd said.
"Genetics, environment, who we are [all have an impact]. It's a multi-faceted, complex illness. Treatments are getting better, but it's a tough one."
For more information, see the Butterfly Foundation website.
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Do you remember show and tell? In nursery school, I had to bring in an unusual item and explain it to my classmates. Unlike my friends, I didn’t settle for an ordinary toy or household object. Instead I brought my sister. The great advantage was that she was able to talk for herself. Over the years, I’ve found old-fashioned show and tell to be a useful teaching technique because it illustrates the point better than describing it can ever do.
Here are three blogging elements where show and tell can help you learn and improve your craft.
- Blog platform – Is your blog on firm ground? While you can choose to blog on a free blogging platform, such as WordPress.com, Typepad or Blogger, it’s better in the long run to use your own domain with open software such as WordPress. Using your own domain helps you build Google juice. Further, if you decide to move your blog later, the technical issues and headaches can be significant.Before you tell me that money’s an issue, getting a domain name and URL costs less than $35/year and, depending on the company, web hosting and software fees are between $50-$100 per annually.Mack Collier runs his Mack Collier blog on his own domain:
while Seth Godin uses a free version of Typepad for his Seth Godin Blog:
Interestingly, Cake Wrecks, a fun photo-based site which displays cakes gone terribly wrong, is on Blogspot. It’s useful to note that Cake Wrecks acts like a media site complete with third party advertising:
- Blog name – Would a blog by any other name be as interesting? Like parents, some bloggers spend hours deciding what to call their blog. Among the options are your business or personal name, category word(s) or a made up name. Using your name or your company’s name supports your branding efforts. The problem as Chris Brogan has pointed out is that this strength can be a drawback when you want to get others to help you handle the content creation duties. (Fortunately, Chris is a prolific writer.)
Another option is using basic words that identify your blog’s category or niche. This supports your search optimization if you own a URL like this. But bear in mind that if you use multiple words, readers may not know whether to smush them together or include dashes or underscores. Many of the blogs in this category are part of commerce sites since the URLs tend to be expensive and difficult to get. Therefore, they use a sub-domain like Wine.com’s blog ( http://blog.wine.com ).
With the proliferation of new, top-level domains coming online this January, you may be able to snag something unusual. The third option is to create a new word that makes sense to your readers and is associated with your topic’s keywords. A great example is SpinSucks which focuses on PR issues. As the title states, Gini Dietrich serves up tell-it-as-it-is PR content:
- Blog design – Does your blog stand out from the crowd graphically or is it an off-the-shelf cookie cutter? While design elements aren’t required, they go along way to making your blog more interesting and keeping visitors engaged. You can go for the stripped down version where the focus in on your words like Clay Shirkey whose blog hasn’t changed from its humble WordPress beginnings:
Alternatively, you can make minor changes to a theme such as Jay Baer’s Convince and Convert blog does. Convince and Convert is branded and integrates Jay’s photograph. This gives readers the feeling that Jay is talking to them which is important for a blog.
Social Media Examiner uses extensive design that flows through every element of the blog. Each of these three options makes a branding statement.
Often the tradeoff is how much money you’re willing to invest in graphics and related technology support to implement them.
By examining each of these show and tell examples, you can see how each blog has taken it’s own unique path. Despite these differences, each blog is successful because, like my sister, they use their own words.
Are there any other aspects of blogging for which you’d like to see some show and tell?
This post is dedicated to my sister and the memories of show and tell.
Here are some related blogging articles.
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France warns extremists could prevail in Syria
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian opposition leaders pleaded Monday for funds and political backing from the international community as France warned that extremists could prevail in Syria if nations fail to honor their pledges of support.
The warning from French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius reflects growing concern over the rising power of Islamic militant groups that have joined the rebels fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime.
"Let us be clear. In the face of the collapse of a state and society, it is the extremist groups that risk gaining ground if we do not act as we should," Fabius told envoys from more than 50 nations gathered in Paris.
"Chaos is not tomorrow, it is today, and we need to end it. We need to end it in a peaceful way and that means increased and concrete support to the Syrian National Coalition," an umbrella group for the opposition.
Islamic militants have been the most organized fighters battling government troops in the 22-month-old conflict in which more than 60,000 people have been killed.
Their growing prominence has fueled fears that Muslim radicals might try to hijack the revolt, and has contributed to the West's hesitance to equip the opposition with sophisticated weapons.
The opposition coalition was formed in November, largely in response to a call by the West for the fragmented Syrian opposition to unite. More than 100 countries have backed the umbrella group, decreeing it the sole legitimate representative of the Syrian people. France was the first to confer that recognition.
The coalition replaced an early opposition grouping of exiled Syrians, whose credibility was compromised by infighting and criticism that they were out of touch with the Syrians fighting the Assad regime.
But members of the Syrian opposition lament that beyond the verbal recognition, very little aid has trickled in since the group was formed.
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Four generations-baby Robert with mom, grandma and great-grandmother.
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The numbers tell the story when it comes to assessing the work of headspace in the community.
In the five years since we opened the doors in 2008, the Illawarra region’s headspace centre has supported close to 3500 12-25 year olds from Wollongong and the surrounding areas.
What’s more, the headspace in Schools activities and community awareness presentations have also allowed us to reach over 2220 students and young people and 250 school teachers, counsellors and staff members from various schools in the Illawarra as well as a variety of community organisations.
While demand for the service is already high, we want to see more young people walking through the headspace door.
When young people experience a mental health problem it can have disabling effects on their progression in work, family and education.
We know that identifying at-risk young people and encouraging them to seek help at an early stage can have a dramatic effect on the prevention of future mental health problems, use of acute mental health services, as well as potential effects in other areas of life.
headspace seeks to enable young people to seek help early through a youth friendly approach and easily accessible services.
With the support of local community organisations we know we’re making a difference to the lives of many young people in Wollongong.
Much of what we have accomplished over the last five years is down to the centre’s experienced and passionate staff.
Young people are often coming in at their most vulnerable so the team at headspace Wollongong work hard to make the centre a place where young people feel safe and comfortable.
We see the whole gamut of mental health issues but have found that anxiety and pervasive sadness or depression are the major ones.
And it’s not uncommon to have both – one of our GPs, Dr John Watson, says anxiety can wear the best of us down over time into a depression.
We hear that word on the street is positive about headspace: that you will be respected and cared for at the centre.
And it seems we are becoming better known in the Illawarra community and that young people may well be presenting earlier.
That makes our job easier and the young person’s life and work easier if their life has not unravelled before they come to see us.
But we know there are lots of young people going through a tough time and not getting the support they need. We urge them to give headspace a go.
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?and maybe live there ourselves someday - On Mars, NASA has found both methane gas and rocks that contain carbonates. Why is this important? The rocks show that the water on Mars is not too acidic to support life?otherwise, carbonates couldn't form. And the methane could be a byproduct of plant decay, meaning that life is already there.
Large amounts of methane gas have been detected shooting up into the atmosphere through fissures in the planet's surface. These could be produced by volcanoes or by decaying plant life under the ice. Methane is quickly destroyed by sunlight, and since it spews out regularly, this means it is somehow being replenished. BBC News quotes UK space scientist Andrew Coates as saying, "The observation of short-lived, seasonally varying clouds of methane from specific regions on Mars is a tantalizing result. It shows there must be an underground source, past or present."
In BBC News, Jonathan Amos quotes researcher Bethany Ehlmann as saying, "You want to get an environment that is basically as clement as possible, that's not difficult to live in. It's difficult to live in a highly acidic environment; it's difficult to live in a very salty environment. If you have neutral waters then that presents a less difficult environment for microbial life."
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Girl gets head wedged in biscuit tin in Southport
A three-year-old girl from Southport was rescued by fire crews after her head became stuck in a biscuit tin.
The girl was brought into Southport Community Fire Station by her mother just before 15:10 BST on Monday.
It is believed the child was playing with the tin on her head when she fell and it became wedged.
Firefighters used tin snips to cut it and free her. An ambulance was called and she was checked over by paramedics but was unharmed.
Peter Kirkham, watch manager at Southport Community Fire Station, said: "The little girl was playing and had been using the tin as a hat. However, she fell and it became wedged.
"She was very distressed when she was brought in and we managed to calm her down.
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10. No alteration or erasure of the name of any person entered by the Bank in a bond as the person to whom the principal is payable or the principal and interest are payable is effective to confer any right under the bond on any other person or to deprive the person whose name was entered by the Bank of any rights that he may have under the bond.
11. Where a person applies to be registered as owner of a bond and the bond is delivered to him without his name being entered in it by the Bank, the bond shall be deemed to be validly issued and unless he returns the bond to the Bank to have his name so entered, he shall be deemed to have accepted the bond in satisfaction of his rights as registered owner and the entry, if any, in the register shall be cancelled by the Bank.
Transfer of Bonds by Registered Owners
12. (1) Except as otherwise provided by the terms of the bond a registered bond may, in accordance with sections 13 to 18, be transferred on presentation of the bond and of an instrument of transfer in accordance with these Regulations.
(2) Where subsection (1) has been complied with, the Bank may give effect to the instrument of transfer in accordance with its terms.
(3) The execution of an instrument of transfer does not transfer or confer any right under the bond against the Government of Canada or the Bank until the Bank has given effect to the instrument by making the appropriate entry in the register.
Form and Execution of Instrument of Transfer
13. (1) An instrument of transfer shall be in Form I set out in the schedule.
(2) An instrument of transfer may be executed
(a) by being signed by the registered owner or his personal representative;
(b) where the registered owner is a corporation, by being signed by its duly authorized officers and by affixing the seal of the corporation, if any, where required;
(c) by being signed by a person authorized in that behalf by the registered owner under a power of attorney or partnership agreement;
(d) where an unincorporated association not being a partnership is registered as owner of a bond, by being signed by the duly authorized officers of the association; or
(e) by being signed by a person authorized by law to execute it on behalf of the registered owner.
(3) For the purposes of these Regulations, a person authorized by law to execute an instrument of transfer on behalf of a registered owner means any person appointed by a competent court or by statute to act on behalf of or in the place of the registered owner and includes a trustee in bankruptcy.
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14. (1) The Bank is not required to give effect to an instrument of transfer unless the signature on the instrument of transfer is guaranteed by
(a) a bank incorporated under the Bank Act or the Quebec Savings Banks Act; or
(b) a financial institution approved by the Bank under this section.
(2) The Bank may approve a financial institution for the purposes of this section and section 15 and may impose terms and conditions in connection with its approval and limit the amount of the bonds to be transferred in any one transaction with respect to which the guarantee of the institution will be accepted by the Bank and may revoke or vary any approval so given.
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Visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art can now view a rare, recently excavated silver dining set from the Roman region of Pompeii in addition to an equally rare Greek drinking cup exported to Rome during ancient times as part of an ongoing exchange between the museum and the Republic of Italy.
The Moregine Treasure. Photo courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The silver dining set, which is known as the Moregine Treasure and dates to the first century A.D., is particularly rare - only three such sets are known to exist in the world. Buried during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the 20-piece set was only unearthed in 2000 at Moregine, in the outskirts of Pompei. But the set's story is possibly more interesting than the beautiful vessels themselves: all 20 pieces had been placed in a wicker basket and hidden in the basement of an unfinished public bath house during the volancanic eruption in Pompeii, presumably by an owner who died during the disaster.
The terracotta drinking cup, known as a kylix, is one of the most famous surviving works from the ancient republic of Sparta. It dates to between 575 and 560 B.C.
Both the dining set and cup will be on display in the museum's Galleries for Greek and Roman Art for the next four years. To learn more, click here. | <urn:uuid:7c3e5b19-d762-4deb-8aeb-ccafcedc1644> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.niaf.org/blog/default.asp?post=64 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96839 | 288 | 2.90625 | 3 |
‘Crazy Italians!’ you might think. Offered the choice between Bunga Bunga Berlusconi, an ex-Communist and a Brussels stooge, one in four of them went and voted for a stand up comedian.
Ever since Beppe Grillo’s shock success in the Italian elections, serious pundits in the mainstream media have been inviting us to disapprove. We are supposed to roll our eyes at the idea that Italians seem unwilling to accept austerity. We are meant to tut tut at the failure of their democracy to produce a stable administration willing to take instruction from the Eurosystem.
This only goes to show, imply the poobahs and the pundits, that Italian democracy is in crisis. Nonsense. What happened in Italy shows that politics is – thanks to the internet – being reborn.
Politics in the West, I speculate in my book on iDemocracy published last year, is going to be ‘shaped by groups of like-minded people, mobilising online’. The internet will allow new entrants to emerge rapidly and win a large share of the political market. Four months later, Italian blogger Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement came from nowhere to win over a quarter of the popular vote.
Merely attributing Grillo’s success to austerity and anti-politics tells us little. There has been a strong anti-politician sentiment in Italy for years. Those of us who have lived there know that strikes against government cut backs have been a regular feature of life in Italy for as long as anyone can remember.
No, the real game changer is the internet. It means that ordinary folk can do something about it all.
Before we had blogs and twitter, it was the job of established political parties to aggregate opinion and votes. The internet means that opinion and votes can now be aggregated online. In fact, the Five Star Movement seems to have done a better job doing so than the big corporate parties, for example allowing every Italian to help select its candidates by voting online.
In Italy, like in this country, politicians once had to communicate with the voters entirely thorough the media. That tended to favour the two (and a half) party system, acting as a barrier to new entrants.
Not any more. The digital revolution means that ‘what politicians say will no longer be assessed through pundits … but gauged by the crowds online’. Thanks to the internet, it is now possible to create a political brand, without massive amounts of money.
Sure enough, Beppe Grillo – whose party refuses to accept state funding for political parties – tends not to give mainstream media interviews, yet talks directly to an audience of millions on his blog.
‘But Beppe Grillo is mad!’ I hear you say. ’He wants … um … a referendum on the euro. An end to bank bailouts. More local decision making. Less government.’
Is that really so daft? It sounds a lot more sane than those who insist that ordinary Italians must pay the price to rescue greedy bankers from their own euro follies. The citizen consumer class in Italy seems to agree.
Beppe Grillo might not be around in Italian politics in a few years. But the internet, and the profound changes that it is starting to bring to the way that we organise politics and society, has only just got started.
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Animals require adequate food, water
Sammy prepares for the holidays by adding a little canine cheer to the season. The Santa Paws enjoys warm indoor temperatures, but many animals do not have the same luxury. Carbon County residents are reminded to provide outdoor pets with the proper shelter from the cold weather and take steps to make certain that the animals have adequate water as well as food during the winter months.
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Parents’ relationship speaks volumes
|By JENNI SEBORA|
Experts say one of the best gifts we can give our children is to have a good relationship with each other as parents and to demonstrate a healthy relationship in front of our children.
Even though kids, including my older children, will convey an audible disregard to parents’ outward displays of affection, it is important for them to see what a healthy relationship looks like between their parents.
Here are some simple ideas to share with your partner. My husband got these ideas from a community education/family education class that he took with our daughter.
Hold hands. Admit when you are wrong. Date once a week. Talk about dreams.
Give back rubs. Send a card for no reason. Start and end each day with a hug. Treat his or her friends and relatives with courtesy. Do it the other’s way.
Compliment your partner twice a day. Apologize. Show respect.
Call just to say, “I love you.” Wink at each other. Be positive.
Pray for one another. Laugh together. Cuddle. Celebrate. Forgive. Encourage.
Talk about your love. Reminisce. Touch. Smile often. Be kind. Seek outside help when you need it.
Dr. Phil recommends starting each day consciously thinking and asking oneself questions like these: “What can I do today to make my wife’s or husband’s day brighter? What can I do today to improve my marriage? What can I do today to brighten up my family’s life or improve our family unit?”
Wonderful questions and wonderful focuses for the day, and it is amazing what a simple gesture, such as an unexpected hug or a smile, can do for our loved ones.
Here’s another winter poem I would like to share, “I Heard a Bird Sing,” written by Oliver Herford.
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December
A magical thing
And sweet to remember:
“We are nearer to Spring
Than we were in September,”
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December.
A warm idea
Here’s a “warm” idea to inspire kids to get dressed in the morning
In the FamilyFun magazine, a mother shared her secret for prompting her kids to get dressed for school on those cold winter days: try putting their outfits, socks and all, in the dryer for a few minutes to warm them up. When she brings them up the stairs, she calls, “Get your hot, toasted clothes.” And they do.
A sock snowperson
On those really cold, bitter winter days, make some snow people inside, too.
Using white socks, string, markers and/or felt, stuffing and scissors, push the stuffing into a white sock to form the head of the snowman. Tightly tie a piece of string under the head to form the neck, and stuff the rest of the sock to form the body. Tie the bottom of the sock together tightly and trim off any leftover part of the sock.
Add on other features, such as the mouth, nose, and eyes with markers or cut-out felt pieces.
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BEER, CHRISTMAN, DOTTER, GREENZWEIG, HAWK, JUNGHEN, KEIPER, KUNKEL, KUNKLE, METZGER, WAINWRIGHT, YOUNGKIN, YOUNKIN posted by Connie Olson on Friday, August 28, 1998
Looking for information on the CHRISTMAN names: Solomon CHRISTMAN (b.abt 1795), married Marie KUNKEL (b.abt 1797). Their son Adam D. CHRISTMAN (b.1831) married Julianna KEIPER (b.1832). Adam and Julianna's oldest child was Barbara E. CHRISTMAN (b.1851) (need her death date and burial information) and she married Robert J. YOUNGKIN (b.1848). In 1878, Barbara and Robert took their family and moved to Minnesota where her uncle (Andrew KEIPER) was living. Solomon's line is Christapher II, Christapher I, Heinrich CHRISTMAN. Interested in communicating with anyone researching the YOUNGKIN/YOUNKIN/JUNGHEN line. I have a David W. YOUNGKIN (b.1 Jul 1820), md. Lovina GREENZWEIG (b.24 Aug 1826). They lived in Kunkletown, Ross twp, Monroe Co, PA according to the 1860 census. Their children were: Reuben (b.1843), md. WAINWRIGHT, William (b.1846), md. WAINWRIGHT, Robert J. (b.1848), md. Barbara CHRISTMAN,Samuel (b.1850),David W. Jr. (b.1853), md. METZGER,Charles (b.1854), Martha J. (b.1855), Mary M. (b.1864), md. Wm. BEER. Also researching the names of John George KUNKLE, Catherine DOTTER, Conrad DOTTER, Henry KEIPER, and Sussana HAWK. I believe these families were from Kresgeville, Coaldale, Effort/Gilbert areas and Kunkletown. | <urn:uuid:145cbc14-6e44-4bac-99f2-5d77452d6656> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.pennsylvania.counties.monroe/546/mb.ashx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930581 | 460 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Common Military AbbreviationsMany tombstones of soldiers who served in wars from the Civil War to the present include details on the unit in which they served. The abbreviations can be a bit confusing for those who aren't familiar with military jargon, however.
United States - Military Abbreviations - Ranks, Units & Awards
Australia - Military Abbreviations & Terminology
Canada - Military Abbreviations, Terms and Meanings
Germany - Glossary of Germany military terms and abbreviations
Tombstone Symbols May Indicate Military ServiceWhile the abbreviations that reference a unit and war are usually fairly obvious, other abbreviations and symbols can also indicate military service. From the intricate eagle of the Grand Army of the Republic to crossed swords, symbols can sometimes offer a clue, either directly or indirectly, to military service. Symbols of military accoutrements such as a rifle, sword or shield can often indicate military service, for example. Just remember that the meaning of a symbol is usually only known to the person who chose to place it on the grave marker, and may not always mean what we might expect.
Flag - liberty and loyalty. Often seen on military markers.
Stars & Stripes around an Eagle - Eternal vigilance and liberty. Often seen on U.S. military markers.
Sword - often indicates military service. When found on the base of the stone might indicate infantry.
Crossed swords - May indicate a military person of high rank or a life lost in battle.
Horse - May indicate calvalry.
Eagle - courage, faith and generosity. May indicate military service.
Shield - Strength and courage. May indicate military service.
Rifle - often indicates military service.
Cannon - generally indicates military service. When found on the base of the stone it may indicate artillery.
Acronyms for Military Groups & Veterans OrganizationsA variety of acronyms, such as GAR, DAR and SCV may also indicate military service or membership in a veteran's organization. These listed here are U.S. organizations.
CSA - Confederate States of America
DAR - Daughters of the American Revolution
GAR - Grand Army of the Republic
SAR - Sons of the American Revolution
SCV - Sons of Confederate Veterans
SSAWV - Sons of Spanish American War Veterans
UDC - United Daughters of the Confederacy
USD 1812 - Daughters of the War of 1812
USWV - United Spanish War Veterans
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Some financial professionals use designations that imply that they are experts at helping seniors with financial issues. Many seniors, however, don’t understand the sets of initials that may follow the names of these financial professionals or the meaning of the titles - such as “senior specialist” or “retirement advisor” - they use to market themselves.
The education, experience, and other requirements for receiving and maintaining a “senior” designation vary greatly. In some cases, a financial professional may need to study and pass several rigorous exams - after working in a designated field for several years - to receive a particular designation. In other cases, it may be relatively easy in terms of time and effort to receive a “senior” designation, even for an individual with no relevant experience.
If you want to find out more about a particular professional designation, check out the “Understanding Investment Professional Designations” page on the FINRA’s website. The page provides the education and experience requirements for many professional designations. In addition, you can find out whether the granting organization for a particular designation requires continuing education, offers a public disciplinary or investor complaint process, or provides a way to check the status of a financial professional. Keep in mind that neither FINRA nor the SEC endorses any professional designation.
Even after doing some research, it may not be clear to you whether a professional designation represents legitimate expertise, a marketing tool, or something in between. That’s one reason you should always look beyond a financial professional’s designation and determine whether he or she can provide the type of financial services or product you need.
We encourage you to thoroughly evaluate the background of anyone with whom you intend to do business - before you hand over your hard-earned cash. You also should ask questions - that’s the best advice we can give you about how to invest wisely. We see too many investors who might have avoided trouble and losses if they had asked basic questions from the start.
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Europe is generally considered greener than the United States, but its oil executives certainly share American oil executives’ enthusiasm for drilling.
I caught up with Peter Voser, the chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell, this week at the IHS Cera annual energy conference in Houston, and he gave me an earful about what he characterized as America’s lack of direction when it comes to having a national energy policy.
Royal Dutch Shell is getting closer to winning approval to drill in Alaska’s Arctic waters after several years’ and more than $4 billion worth of efforts. But for the Swiss-born executive, it is bewildering to watch the Obama administration withhold approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry crude from oil sands in Canada to refineries on the gulf coast. (Shell is a big investor in the Canadian oil sands.)
Nor does Mr. Voser understand why there is no consensus on embracing the development of natural gas from new shale fields through hydraulic fracturing (Shell is also a global leader in gas production.)
“Alaska is only part of it,” Mr. Voser said. “I am still puzzled that with Canada in the north, with oil sands and Keystone, plus the gas revolution in the United States, plus the Gulf of Mexico successes in exploration, with Alaska coming, the United States is sitting on so many energy resources.” | <urn:uuid:d715c6aa-e2f7-44ff-a43a-a3dde04b79ac> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/peter-voser/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963251 | 285 | 1.796875 | 2 |
What if it were Today? An Examination of Dispensational Premillennialism
Students of American premillennialism have been prone to making two mistakes about dispensationalism: that it can safely be conflated with premillennialism per se, and that it is a reactionary and dangerous force to the secular, pluralistic modern society. The thesis shows that dispensationalism is in fact a unique form of premillennialism, depending on a carefully systematised theology which is not tied to any particular denomination. Even at the popular levels, this theology is comprehended and used in argument with other, competing forms of premillennialism and postmillennialism. The current involvement of some dispensationalists with right-wing politics is, in the opinion of this writer, the result of this theological competition, particularly with the Christian Reconstructionist form of postmillennialism. The thesis is meant to be an introduction to dispensationalism for students of apocalyptic and premillennial movements, assuming no previous knowledge. It deals briefly with the history of the movement from John Nelson Darby forward, but the bulk of the paper is devoted to a careful examination of the theological system. The central chapter examines the Israel/Church distinction, which is the basis for the Rapture, the most well-known aspect of dispensationalist thought. Also described are the dispensationalist end-time chronology, the literal millennium and what it involves, the distinct biblical hermeneutic, typical behavior patterns, and relations with eschatological competitors.
Introduction: Jesus is coming to Earth again
Most of us don't believe in biblical prophecy. We are a nation of secular humanists in public, religious in private if at all. Biblical apocalypticism, to those of us in the mainstream--most academics in particular--is a notion of the lunatic fringe of religion. People who have made the impending end of the world a part of their daily lives are perceived as dangerous to the modern order.
The interpretive strategies deployed by dispensationalists as they biblicize history and current events are the very ones most repugnant to the modem, "critical" eye and ear ... Dispensationalism casts the subjects of "modem" theories of history, namely, enlightened men and women, as, at best, hapless agents of Satan, at worst, villains with demonic designs ... Dispensational premillennialism is a willfully "mad rhetoric"... 1
Dispensationalists are not mad. They are quite sane, and while they may perceive the modern world as a universe gone mad, who is to say that this is not the sane response?
Dispensationalism, in brief, is a system of eschatology marked by a distinction between Israel and the Church, belief in the imminent coming of Christ to take his church out of the world, a literal interpretation of the Bible, and a literal, future millennium ruled by Christ on earth. It is therefore premillennial--that is, dispensationalism holds that Christ will come before the millennium--but conflating dispensationalism with premillennialism is a mistake. While all dispensationalists are premillennial, all premillennialists are not dispensationalists. 2 It is extremely common among scholars to use the two terms interchangeably. Doing so creates confusion. Dispensationalism may be the major type of American Christian premillennialism, but it is not the only one; and many of these other systems are quite hostile to dispensationalism.
As I hope to show, dispensationalism is a complete theological system, under attack and in dialogue with other theological systems. Various individuals and groups have picked up dispensationalism's terms and sometimes its ideas in a haphazard fashion, combining things that theologically don't work. There is popular dispensationalism, but there is also popular premillennialism that has picked up some dispensational ideas while rejecting the system, and there is popular premillennialism that has rejected dispensationalism altogether.
Conflating premillennialism with the "lunatic fringe" is also incorrect. The lunatic fringe, if there can properly be one--those people who really are dangerous, and wish to be perceived as dangerous, to the modem order--consists of postmillennial individuals and groups. A postmillennial eschatology encourages its adherents to change the world themselves rather than wait for God to do it, and so postmillennialists will attempt, by any means necessary, to create a brave new world of their own envisioning. 3 Such groups are extremely hostile to dispensationalism (and just about everything else). Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell may both appear as Christian reactionaries on the radar screen of the liberal secular humanist; but they are not the same. Falwell is certainly a preniillennialist and to some degree dispensational, while Robertson is a Christian postmillennialist. This creates definite differences between their goals; while their agendas may superficially be the same, their rationales and their long-range plans are not.4
This thesis is, firstly, an attempt to introduce the reader to dispensationalism as an internally consistent system of thought--rational, careful, and "scientific" thought--that underlies much of current apocalyptic and prophecy writing and attitudes in America in the late twentieth century. Secondly, I wish to make clear that the "dangerous" millennial elements in twentieth-century America are not dispensational, but that postmillennial rhetoric may well have an unfortunate effect on dispensationalists. Dispensational literature should be watched for signs of this, which are already appearing.
The first section is primarily historical, and the point I wish to make in it is that dispensationalism, from its first arrival in America, has been premillennial in nature, and the primary champion of preniillennialism in evangelical and fundamentalist circles. In the second part, I will examine the primary basis of the dispensational system, the difference between Israel and the church, and then the Rapture, one of the most distinctive doctrines of dispensationalism, which is rooted in the Israel/church distinction. The next section will deal with popular millennial eschatologies today: those that are dispensational, those that are not but use some dispensational ideas, and those that are antidispensational. I will also discuss the relation of dispensationalism to postmillennialism, particularly as it is embodied in Christian Reconstructionism.
It is important that dispensational thinkers and adherents be viewed sympathetically, not judgmentally. Perhaps out of bewilderment, perhaps out of a desire to make the creatures in the zoo seem fiercer than they really are, academic authors often portray dispensationalism as dangerous, as reactionary, as antisemitic, as the work of people who are either a little bit unbalanced or a little bit stupid.5 This is unfair. It is also unfair to deny the genuine religious feeling involved. Dispensationalists (leaving aside, perhaps, certain televangelists) are nothing if not sincere about their beliefs. As Timothy Weber has written, most dispensationalists believe that Christ is coming because they believe that the Bible tells them so, and all their religious beliefs center on the trust they do or do not place in that book.6 A sympathetic analysis of dispensationalism does not involve head-shaking or ridicule (though I have to admit that some dispensationalist charts have elicited a giggle). When other human beings are the subjects of our study, they deserve to be taken seriously on their own terms. If this is not the case, it is a foregone conclusion that we will not understand them.
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1 Susan Harding, "Imagining the Last Days: The Politics of Apocalyptic Language" in Accounting for Fundamentalisms: The Dynamic Character of Movements, ed. Martin Marty and R. Scott Applebee (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), page 63.
2There have been attempts to create a dispensational postmillennialism, but according to most dispensationalists they have been theological failures. See the Glossary for precise definitions of terms relating to this field of study.
3Postmillennialism is not necessarily negative, but in the conservative Christian circles where it competes with dispensationalism, it almost always has totalitarian, racist, sexist, homophobic, antisemitic, and sometimes violent overtones. This will be discussed further in the final chapter of the thesis. And even secular postmillennialism has the potential to become violent. A postmillennial vision is prerequisite for revolution.
4A non-academic example of confusing premillennialism in general with dispensationalism in particular is Grace Halsell, "Courting Armageddon: The Politics of Christian Zionism," The Other Side 24: 1 (Jan/Feb 1988): 28-3 1. In it she calls both Falwell and Robertson dispensationalists and then equates dispensationalism with Christian Zionism.
5For instance, Harding mentions only that Jews will be persecuted in the Tribulation which dispensationalists so graphically describe; she doesn't mention the, to dispensationalists, equally important purpose of the Tribulation, which is to end the "times of the Gentiles" in preparation for the Jewish Messianic Kingdom. Paul Boyer, in his very interesting work, consistently describes the 144,000 Jewish evangelists of the Tribulation as being martyred in the dispensational scenario, and footnotes both Lindsey and Walvoord to support him (Paul Boyer,When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture, [Cambridge and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992], 212; footnote 106, page 403). 1 have no idea where he got this, since both Lindsey and Walvoord are very clear that the 144,000 will be preserved, intact, through the Tribulation (Hal Lindsey,There's A New World Coming [New York: Vintage, 1973],106-109. Walvoord's interpretation is described in detail in Part III of this paper.).
6Timothy Weber, Living in the Shadow of the Second Coming: American Premillennialism from 1875-1982 (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Corporation, 1983), 230. | <urn:uuid:1e1b4a9a-2b5a-43b2-8192-d66e755d1fb8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mille.org/scholarship/papers/snowpremill.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937689 | 2,136 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Acupuncture anaesthesia is widely used for Caesarean sections in China. A report recently published by the Chinese, discusses the results of 1,000 cases managed in this manner. The Chinese claim a 98 per cent success rate in the abolition of pain, a quicker recovery rate from the operation, less blood loss, and the obvious advantage of the mother being able to see the baby at, or soon after, birth. This report finds acupuncture a superior form of analgesia compared to other forms of pain relief (general or epidural anaesthesia) for Caesarean section. This success rate is astonishingly high and may well be a rather 'enthusiastic' claim.
Acupuncture can also be used to provide pain relief in normal obstetric deliveries. Adequate assessment of this form of obstetric analgesia has not yet been published, although the experience of a wide variety of acupuncturists in the West would indicate that it is a useful and effective procedure. | <urn:uuid:5a9522ce-c7bb-4bcd-8752-a228179f68db> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.healthy.net/scr/Article.aspx?Id=2036 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926526 | 200 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Here’s an interesting old video from 1933. It’s from the British Pathe Archives, from the “Secrets of Nature” series entitled Brewster’s Magic. It was a British Instructional Film, photographed by F. Percy Smith, with Editing and Commentary by Mary Field and “Musical setting” by W. Hodgson.
The 8-minute black and white film shows time lapse photography of hops and barley growing plus microscopic images, as well. Here’s how they describe the film:
Hand pump being pulled in a pub. Hop root. The eyes are pointed out with a pencil. Time lapse photography of a hop shoot growing. C/U of the claws on the stem of the plant. Plant grows. The claws help the hop plant to twist its way around a smooth surface. Hop flowers growing on a male hop plant. Female hop plant produces flowers. We see them grow through time lapse. Comment on the voiceover about flowers being disappointed spinsters as they will not be fertilised. The flowers continue to grow. C/U of the sticky substance that grows on the petals. Lupelin (sp?) highly magnified. This is the substance that gives flavour and aroma to beer.
Hop garden. Barley ripening in the fields. C/U of barley submerged in water. Time lapse of the barley absorbing water. Barley puts out shoots in time lapse. The maltster turns them upside down to stop them from growing too quickly. Water supply is cut off and the barley withers. Graphic representation of the barley shoot. Animation. Maltster kills the barley grain when it has produced digestive fluid but not had time to use it. Grains are mashed up in hot water to make malt. Men roll barrels along in courtyard of brewery. C/U of yeast cells under a microscope beside a human hair. Moving yeast cells. Cells separate. Fermentation. Diagram of a molecule of sugar. Animated letters. Solution under the microscope. Bubbles are formed.
A pint of beer is pulled in a pub. Shot of man in flat cap drinking beer from a pewter tankard.
It’s a cool time capsule and definitely worth checking out.
My only quibble is that despite it being almost 80 years old, Pathe still asserts copyright on it. Which is fine, in and of itself, even if I generally disagree with how long copyrights now tend to run. But for some reason, they think it’s reasonable to charge you a whopping £50 ($77) to buy the 8-minute video, and that’s just for a download of it — no DVD or case or artwork, though they graciously will allow you to burn it to your own DVD. How thoughtful. Anyway, as a result, it can’t be embedded and viewed here. Fortunately, you can at least watch it at the Pathe website. Enjoy. | <urn:uuid:606ecac2-94b6-4c9f-9580-a8e67b9ebffb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/secrets-of-nature-brewsters-magic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94179 | 605 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Breaking the Bank
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Ken Lewis, the CEO of Bank of America, is in trouble — a stock collapse; a rocky merger; the worst fourth-quarter losses in at least 17 years; a stockholder revolt; an urgent need to raise more capital despite a $45 billion infusion from the federal government. On top of that, he effectively has a new boss: President Barack Obama.
In FRONTLINE “Breaking the Bank” producer Michael Kirk (“Inside the Meltdown,” “Bush’s War”) draws on a rare combination of high-profile interviews with key players Lewis and former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain to reveal the story of two banks at the heart of the financial crisis, the rocky merger and the government’s new role in taking over — some call it “nationalizing” — the American banking system.
It all began on that fateful weekend in September 2008 when the American economy was on the verge of melting down. Then-Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson, his former protégé Thain and Lewis, one of the most powerful bankers in the country, secretly cut a deal to merge Bank of America and Merrill Lynch.
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Press Freedom in China
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) initiated a program in early 2008 to monitor and report on press freedom and violations of media rights in China in the lead-up to the Olympic Games in Beijing in August 2008. The IFJ’s first annual report on press freedom in China, China’s Olympic Challenge, assessed the media environment through 2008 and, even as it noted many instances of infringements of journalists’ rights and media freedom, there was some optimism at year’s end that China was moving, if slowly, toward a freer, safer and more secure working environment for local and foreign journalists. To see a map of Press Freedom violations in China from 2008 to the present visit this website.
In 2011, the situation was frustrating. Many journalists were sacked or forced to leave their original workplaces as the scent of the “Jasmine Revolution” spread from the Middle East to China in February that year.
Unfortunately, the frustrating situation continued into 2012, after a number of so-called sensitive cases arose. Media workers were liable to receive more than a dozen restrictive orders a day. Journalists were ordered to leave reporting areas because the authorities thought the news could create instability in society. Many websites were forced to shut down.
The authorities began to appreciate the importance of procedure in presenting an “open” image to the world. However all such moves were fake.
Overseas correspondents in China experienced the greatest challenges in 2012. On one hand, a foreign correspondent was asked to leave China and the correspondent’s office was suspended. On the other, the authorities used the content of reports to determine which correspondents’ working visas would be continued. At the same time, the Chinese authorities immediately shut down two international media outlets after they revealed some negative reports about the leaders of China.
Hong Kong media faced unprecedented pressure in 2012. Media outlets were attacked by thugs and journalists were detained by police after posing questions to the President of China. In addition, a journalist was hit with criminal charges when he exercised his duties.
The most disturbing development was that the Chief Executive of Hong Kong and his cabinet adopted an evasive approach to the media. They failed to exercise transparency, a traditional good governance practice. The media also received tremendous political pressure from the China Liaison Office, the agent of the Central Government of China in Hong Kong.
The Macau media also faced tremendous challenges with the escalation of self-censorship in the industry, which aroused significant protests. However the IFJ welcomed the government of Macau’s decision to withdraw a proposal to set up a government-backed press council after a large survey was conducted in media industry and the public in 2011-12. At end of 2012, China’s media environment remained in an “Ice Age”. The IFJ urged the media to remain vigilant.
The information in this report has been provided by a growing network of contributors to the IFJ monitoring project, from Mainland China and beyond. Many of these contributors must remain anonymous. But without them, this report could not have been produced.
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By Alexandra Wexler
One trend that definitely wasn’t forecast for Berlin’s Spring/Summer 2012 Fashion Week: Japanese chic.
Seven designers from Japan showcased their collections in two shows, after their own country’s fashion week was called off in the wake of the March earthquake and tsunami that battered Japan’s northeast.
The trip to Germany was made possible by an initiative started by Japan’s fashion industry following the cancellation of the Tokyo event that was slated to go on in April. Tokyo Goes Berlin, a project of Tokyo Gakudan (which means “orchestra” in Japanese), brought 30 Japanese designers and their collections to Germany, and seven were given a chance to showcase their pieces from their collections on Saturday on the runway. While Berlin isn’t one of the major four hubs of fashion – New York, London, Paris and Milan remain the most important centers for haute couture – the German city is gaining a reputation for up-and-comers.
It’s the latest attempt by Japan’s fashion industry to pick up the pieces after the earthquake disaster of March of this year. The Save Japan! Project has been perhaps the most high-profile campaign by the industry, bringing together fashion brands to raise money for disaster relief. The latest effort involved ten celebrities – including Lady Gaga, Karl Lagerfeld and Nicole Kidman – who designed T-shirts for sale through retailer Uniqlo, with the profits going to the cause.
As well, there There are also signs that Japan’s fashion industry – long seen as the trailblazers of cool in Asia – is coming back to life. Japan Fashion Week will go on again in October, and designers are trying to forge ahead and put their work on the runways even though modeling talent ranks have thinned (many left the country after the quake struck) and the industry’s supply networks have been ruined by the disaster.
Meanwhile, many of the designers who were in Germany last week were exposed to a wide audience outside of Asia for the first time. Unsurprisingly, their current work often tied in to the disaster in one way or another. The Wall Street Journal’s Mary M. Lane writes:
Ryujiro Tamaki, began furiously creating shirts for his label, Public Image, inspired by Fukushima as a form of therapy.
What appear as random yellow, red and magenta squares scattered across a button-down white shirt are actually part of the radiation topography surrounding Fukushima. Another of Mr. Tamaki’s shirts shows a digital print of a sunny Fukushima before the earthquake, from a work by Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama.
Others from Japan who were showcased in Berlin seemed to be focused on the theme of comfort. One line – Trove – recently released a new look book, themed “Hope,” with layered looks that included comfortable beige and earthy toned fabrics, including outerwear and accessories. Jieda and Efilevol, two other brands, also embraced the loose, layered look, with many of Efilevol’s designs meant to work for both men and women. After the devastating earthquake and its aftermath, it seems as though even high fashion is searching for a warm embrace. | <urn:uuid:5d11e245-7727-4568-95b9-1527db70831e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.wsj.com/scene/2011/07/12/in-japan-style-arises-from-disaster/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974878 | 674 | 1.5 | 2 |
Syriac alphabetArticle Free Pass
Syriac alphabet, writing system used by the Syriac Christians from the 1st century ad until about the 14th century. A Semitic alphabet, Syriac was an offshoot of a cursive Aramaic script. It had 22 letters, all representing consonants, and was generally written from right to left, although occasionally vertically downward. Diacritical marks to represent vowels were introduced in the 8th century; two systems of vocalization were developed, one similar to the system in Arabic, and one using small Greek letters above or below the line.
There were several varieties of Syriac script; the oldest of these was Estrangela, or Estrangelo, which was in almost exclusive use until about 500. A schism in the Syriac church at the Council of Ephesus (431) resulted in the division of the Syriac language and script into two forms, western and eastern. The western variety nearly died out under Muslim Arabic domination after the 7th century, but scattered communities of Syriac Christians survived, some of which continued to use the Syriac script. Documents of the Melchite sect of Palestinian Syrians date from as late as the 14th century. The eastern, or Nestorian, script remained in use in Central Asia and Siberia until the 13th or 14th century, as attested by inscriptions on gravestones in southern Siberia. The earliest extant Syriac inscription dates from about ad 50.
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Putting the Pieces Together
Current Forest Technology student Erik Keenan writes about his current course work (everything he's learned is coming together in a project that gives the student the experience of a "start to finish" job), being a non-traditional commuter student at UNH and his plans for the future.
My name is Erik Keenan and I am a second year student in the Forest Technology Program. I started out in a Business program and realized it was not for me, then I went to work for a Tree Service company and it sparked an interest and that is how I chose to join the Forest Technology Program at the Thompson School.
Currently in class I am working on a Forest Management Plan (A Forest Management Plan is a document that describes all of the stands of timber on a property and then gives a prescription of how each stand should be managed to meet the goals of the land owner, over the next 10 to 20 years. This plan is a culmination of all that a forester does and is considered the "capstone" project for Forest Technology students). This plan is an assignment in my Forest Management and Operations course (FORT 273) and incorporates all my previous coursework, including mapping, surveying, mensuration, forest ecology and silviculture. This is a “start to finish” job by the student, including choosing the property. This allows us to put everything we have learned into a real life situation.
I’m a commuter student and honestly commuting is not that bad. There are plenty of places to study right at the Thompson School and I spend a lot of time on the various UNH properties with my dog, snow shoeing and just walking around in the spring and the fall. UNH has a lot to offer a student who is interested in woodlands.
The small class sizes was one of the most appealing aspects of the Thompson School and the Forest Technology program. It allows for more teacher to student interaction and the community is great, very friendly. You are studying with like-minded people and everyone seems to mesh really well together. The Thompson School is also great if you are a hands-on learner. In almost every lab, you are outside, using the tools of the trade and learning how to use them correctly and efficiently.
I've also found that the Forest Technology faculty are outstanding. They help out by posting jobs for students and they also answer any and all questions you might have even if it’s not school related. I am a non-traditional student and would not change a thing about my experience at the Thompson School. It has been well worth it. Now, my plan for the future is to start a job after the Thompson School and start picking away at my Bachelor’s degree in Forestry. | <urn:uuid:a1752dad-b2c4-4f71-99c1-da43a9050fef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thompsonschool.unh.edu/fort/erik_keenan | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968129 | 563 | 1.671875 | 2 |
The possibility of using the special semi-conductors in this way was first pointed out by Dr Alain Nogaret, of the University of Bath’s Department of Physics, in an important scientific paper in 2005 (Electrically Induced Raman Emission from Planar Spin Oscillator, in Physical Review Letters). The latest research is the first attempt to turn theory into practice.
if this research is successful, it could make computers with wireless semi-conductors a possibility within five or ten years of the end of the project. Then computers could be made anything from 200 to 500 times quicker and still be the same size.
“This research may also improve the accuracy and speed of medical diagnostic by gathering data from health monitoring sensors. The microwave emitters are small enough to be integrated on portable biological sensors which feed information out on faulty biological processes.
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UK and India Collaborate on Cheaper, More Efficient Solar Cells
Challenges in developing cost-effective, efficient and stable solar energy systems are being tackled by two government-led solar research projects.
Two research projects focussed on photovoltaics, launched by the UK and Indian governments, are set to tackle some of the main challenges in developing cost-effective, efficient and stable solar energy systems.
Funded by Research Councils UK (RCUK) and the Government of India (GOI) Department of Science and Technology (DST), each organisation has committed up to £5 million over a three-year period.
Solar energy has been identified by both the UK and India as an area of significance in providing solutions to the problem of meeting future energy needs. It was highlighted in the UK’s 2007 Energy White Paper as one of the technologies that will help the country meet its 20% renewable targets by 2020.
The ‘Advancing the efficiency and production potential of excitonic solar cells’ project will focus on the development of materials, device structures, materials processing and photovoltaic-panel engineering of *excitonic solar cells. It will build on existing research in both the UK and India to develop cheaper and scalable solar cell manufacture. The project has been awarded £2.5 million by RCUK, which is matched by DST.
A second project, ‘Stability and performance of photovoltaics’, aims to remove known bottlenecks in materials supply and develop novel device designs that are significantly cheaper and more efficient than current solar cells. The RCUK grant value is £2.4 million, which is equalled by DST.
Dr Neil Bateman, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Energy Portfolio Manager said: “These projects represent a new and exciting collaboration between some of the leading photovoltaics researchers in the UK and India. The research is targeted at pushing the science of solar energy towards cheaper, more reliable and sustainable electricity production in a wide variety of settings.”
The projects form part of the RCUK Energy Programme led by EPSRC and the Solar Energy Research Initiative of the DST (GOI), and are in line with an ongoing goal of strengthening collaboration between UK and Indian research institutions.
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Technological change usually happens in three stages: the creation and introduction of new tools, optimization of those tools and, finally, redesign of the complete process. These stages don't necessarily occur sequentially, but rather, they often overlap. Once the technology is introduced, however, further development and changing user needs feed off one another.
In the prepress and printing industry, computer technology has replaced many of the tools that we had come to understand in our daily routine. In many cases, however, this evolution did nothing more than replace conventional tools with electronic tools.
We are now well into the second stage of technological change in which we look for ways to optimize our production by utilizing those new tools. As computers become more powerful and communication options increase, our ability to optimize production through automation becomes feasible.
While process automation is frequently discussed, it often is difficult to translate its concepts into practical solutions. In this article, for your convenience, we have broken the types of solutions into two distinct categories -automating individual tasks and automating complete systems. The solutions available usually fall into two categories-self-contained (turnkey) or tools that allow users to create their own solutions. All of these solutions have distinct advantages and disadvantages, yet they each offer significant time and cost benefits to almost any production operation.
When considering workflow automation, we tend to look for solutions that eliminate large blocks of time. However, eliminating many small time blocks can deliver the same end result-and be easier and less expensive to implement.
Process automation is most beneficial when working with repeatable tasks. These tasks can be simple or complex, but ultimately are the same or very similar. Take, for example, something as simple as turning on your computer in the morning. You turn it on, wait for it to launch all of the system software, and then launch your e-mail program and other production applications. This simple process occurs everyday, and prevents you from starting your work until it is complete.
To save time, you could use a built-in energy-saving application to automatically start the machine before your planned arrival. You can then use the system startup folders to launch any application, including e-mail (which can usually be set to get all messages on launch). This makes your computer wait for you, not the other way around. This simple application of automation can save minutes to hours each week, depending on your individual use.
Automation of this simple daily task is just the beginning. Utilities such as QuickKeys can automate everything from keystrokes to multi-application interaction. Now in its 12th year of release, this utility, which is available for both the Mac and Windows platforms, has grown significantly. It allows users to automate simple one-step tasks with a user-definable keystroke and to automate more complex tasks.
For example, you can create a shortcut that backs up your hard drive at a specific time or frequency. QuickKeys can be used in conjunction with AppleScript to devise extensive workflows, which we will discuss later. It even comes with specific plug-ins that add new automation capabilities and integration with certain applications. More information is available at www. cesoft.com.
There are other Mac utilities, such as Cruise Control from Walnut Systems, that allow users to schedule unattended tasks. With a calendar interface, you can record specific actions or define specific tasks that can be performed on most schedules. It works with many finder tasks and specific application tasks. In addition, Cruise Control works with AppleScript to extend its capabilities into very robust workflows. More information can be found at www.walnutsys.com. AppleScript is probably one of the most robust tools for automating tasks on the Mac. While AppleScript support has been available for many years, in the past two years Apple has supported it more. As a result, better support in the operating system has increased the performance. In addition, support in operating system extensions such as ColorSync and Quicktime also has been increased dramatically.
AppleScript ships as a part of the OS in form of an extension and a Script Editor that can be used for creating or editing scripts. Scripts to automate certain tasks are included on the OS disk. AppleScript can automatically perform almost anything that can be done manually with the Finder -and a whole complement of supported applications.
Simple tasks, such as converting the ICC profiles in images from one color space to another, or processing images with profiles using a scripted hot folder, can be automated using pre-written scripts included with ColorSync. With these and the other supplied scripts, you can combine, edit and write new scripts to automate a large portion of a color managed workflow. For the more daring, you can actually script everything from document template creation to fully designed and produced catalogs with all of the text and images in place.
In fact, at the introduction of OS9 for the Mac, Apple showed completely automated catalog production. It included creating the pages in Quark on the West Coast, getting images from a server on the East Coast, making adjustments in PhotoShop, populating the catalog with the text and images, and creating a final print-ready file-all using AppleScript. Just one click started the entire process. While this may not work for all catalogs, it does point to the robust flexibility and scope of this application.
AppleScript can be applied to most of the key applications that are used in print and Web publishing workflows. These include Quark, InDesign, PageMaker, FrameMaker, Acrobat, Word, Excel and many more. PhotoShop, which is internally scriptable, doesn't offer robust AppleScript support, but combining the built-in scripting with the application PhotoScripter gives the program robust AppleScript capabilities.
While developers such as Quark have added extensive AppleScript support, Adobe has added native scriptability to most of its applications to automate an assortment of functions. Adobe PhotoShop is an excellent example. By recording and saving actions performed on an image, users can reproduce those same actions on the same or different images at a later time. These actions can be as simple as global color corrections, scaling and file translations to more complex image compositing.
There are many books and classes available on AppleScript. For very little money, therefore, you can automate a large part of your workflow. While it does take time to learn AppleScript, once you start writing scripts the learning curve becomes shorter. For more information, go to the AppleScript home page at www. applescript.com.
There is a new class of recently introduced products that automate and address many prepress-specific production tasks. One of these is Markzscout, an application developed by Markzware, the company that developed FlightCheck. This application allows users to set up a workflow template that will check incoming files for predetermined internal file attributes. Once the files are checked, users can configure the software to perform actions on those files to stop production or even correct certain errors.
Using some of the same technology developed for FlightCheck, users can identify variations in color space, resolution, even the quality settings on a saved JPEG image. In addition, Markzscout supports most of the other checking capabilities of FlightCheck, including size, fonts and colors. It also develops actions that will work with some applications to correct problems.
This is a significant step beyond standard preflighting. You can now find and automatically correct problems, allowing production to continue. More information about Markzware's Markzscout is available at www.markzware.com.
Another application that has these capabilities, as well as others, is Enfocus PitStop 4.0. The Adobe Acrobat plug-in includes a tool set for manually checking and fixing PDF files, PitStop 4.0 and a complement of editing tools for fixing text, color, images and layout of PDF files. It also contains some new functionality first shown in Enfocus' DoubleCheck server application.
The software allows users to create a "settings" file that is specific to their production requirements so customers can check PDF files prior to sending them for output. DoubleCheck also corrects files that aren't created to the predetermined specifications. Because of the object-based structure of PDF, these correction capabilities can be extensive, allowing for specific adjustments to geometry, text, fonts, images, color, etc. The file creator can incorporate automated rule-based preflight checking "and" correction into their process. More information can be found at www. enfocus.com.
As you can see, there are many ways to automate and streamline daily tasks. If you are looking for automated output production systems, some prepress systems have begun to introduce varying levels of process automation into their solutions. The degree of automation varies by vendor and specific product. The solutions available fall into two basic categories-output server solutions and full RIP production systems.
In the category of automated output server solutions, the most popular products are Xinet FullPress, ScenicSoft Color Central (formerly from Imation) and the Helios server offerings. Each of these products is positioned in front of any RIP to automate numerous production functions, including OPI, ICC Color Management support, print spooling, job logging, etc. Ultimately use of these systems can streamline repeatable production tasks taking extra operator or machine time to complete.
Xinet FullPress version 10 includes enhanced image scaling and increased functionality with Quark 4.04, to add to its already powerful Quark tools such as Picture Wrangler. This XTension provides a fast and efficient OPI picture-processing workflow. Xinet also added support for Adobe InDesign and WebNative.
With Xinet's WebNative, output production services can offer a Web interface to their customers. It enables creators to pull low-resolution production files over the Web and place them into documents for later OPI replacement. In addition, the software has provisions such as watermarking to ensure that any images pulled can be identified to protect them from non-intended use.
ColorCentral, one of the original output production server solutions, is currently in version 3.6. It has been upgraded to support InDesign, the Agfa Apogee system and PDF 1.3. ScenicSoft has also added operator-level security, and other fixes and updates. Color Central supports TrapWise (the automated trapping application) and PressWise (an imposition application). ScenicSoft is transitioning those using PressWise to Preps, the award-winning imposition software application. More information can be found at www.scenicsoft.com.
The Helios EtherShare product also is a complete output production server solution. Currently in version 2.5, it offers most of the core output production server tasks including OPI. Helios also offers extension applications to EtherShare that handle PC connectivity, color management and PDF support. Full details are available at www.helios.com.
Once upon a time, RIPs would sit in front of an output device and do only what they were required to do to image the file. Over time RIPs have evolved to handle much more of the output production process. Tasks such as spooling, preflight, trapping, proofing, image swapping and even imposition have become standard fare on many of the output systems today. The addition of these task processes to the RIP solution instead of as a third-party add-on have enabled many developers to find better ways to automate and control a large portion of the output production process.
Today, while there are quite a few of these enhanced solutions available, many sophisticated output production systems are based on the Adobe Extreme Architecture. According to Adobe, "an Extreme system provides the component building blocks for a robust, scalable, PDF-based production solution." Although the Extreme architecture is continuing to evolve and improve, the following five characteristics define Adobe PostScript Extreme today: 1| Accepts both PostScript and PDF as input to the system but uses PDF as the internal format. 2|Creates PDF within the system with the use of the Adobe Normalizer. 3|The PDF files are viewable and editable within the system so that imposition assignments can be made or late stage changes can be made. 4|Use of Adobe PJTF (Portable Job Ticket Format)for controlling workflow parameters and process parameters. 5|Renders with Adobe PostScript 3 or the new Printer Job Ticket Processor, which combines job ticket control with the Adobe renderer.
The Extreme system is designed to handle workflow automation. Currently there are three companies that have Extreme output production systems-Agfa's Apogee; Creo/Heidelberg Prinergy; and Scitex Brisque Extreme. Each of the firms has implemented its unique version of an Extreme system, but all offer an "extremely" automated workflow solution. In addition to the Extreme solutions, there are a number of other vendors who have developed automated solutions that offer similar functionality. Harris Publishing System has developed a product, MaxWorkFlow, that uses templates (Job Tickets) to configure each of the task modules, in a fashion to the Extreme systems. Harris recently signed an agreement with Harlequin to add support for ScriptWorks RIP into its system.
Barco has announced PressTige, a standalone automated workflow solution. Using Adobe core technology, it enables input of PostScript and PDF files. The workflow includes Barco trapping and the new PressTige Impose. This new module is wizard driven and allows users to work with full, high-resolution previews. It runs on Windows NT and uses Java-based clients to submit and monitor tasks.
The Dalim Twist product line has been offering enhanced workflow automation solutions for a few years. Using a basic tool set, operators can build templates with configurable processing task icons. In addition, the Manager allows users to control the queues, view current status and resume processes after validation. Dalim also offers an option that enables dynamic load balancing across multiple servers on the network.
Fuji recently introduced the CelebraNT RIP that is designed in a similar fashion. Using an Adobe PostScript3 CPSI (Configurable PostScript Software Interpreter), Fuji has built a complete system that is controlled by Job Tickets. It includes in-RIP trapping, queue management, and job monitoring with an easy-to-use graphical user interface.
While most of the RIP vendors offer features such as spooling, OPI, and other task processing in their basic RIP solutions, this new breed of solutions will continue to develop ways to fully automate production. We can expect to see the broader based integration of many of these systems into other areas of the business process too.
The amount of automation you require will depend on your type of work and your budget. The benefits, however, are far reaching. All workflow automation requires defining process specifications and operations. This can benefit you by reducing many of the operator errors that occur during production, by ensuring that the production setups used are consistent from job to job and operator to operator. In addition, it usually decreases the total production time of a job, since you are not required to interact with each of the production steps. Ultimately, it will also allow you to interact more closely with your customers and support vendors, to offer a more seamless and cost effective process.
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Multimedia home networking enables you to share audio, video, and data across multiple media-centric devices (such as TVs, portable media players, cameras, and cell phones) and data-centric devices (such as PCs and PDAs) using a secure home network. In the last decade, broadband connectivity for Internet access has become common and PCs have been used for not just data access but also to access and share multimedia files. At the same time, digital devices such as cameras and portable media players have become popular and multimedia content created with such devices has proliferated. However, such content is difficult to share among devices because there are no connectivity standards between the different devices within a home. By enabling a high-bandwidth, quality of service (QoS)-driven, multimedia home network with a standard interface, you can access home movies, multimedia files, and the Internet from almost anywhere in the house.
Within a home network, a media server acts as a central unit. It typically has a large hard disk (hundreds of gigabytes) for storage of audio, video, and data files and high-speed connectivity to be able to stream and store files to and from different devices. Triple speed Ethernet, PCI express, USB, FireWire, UWB, and Wi-Fi are among some of the interfaces the home network has to support. It also may need transcoding capabilities to convert between video formats. Figure 1 shows an example of a media server block diagram.
Figure 1. Home Multimedia Server Block Diagram
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Reducing the Design Risk With FPGAs
The home networking device market is still in an evolution phase with many uncertainties, including which networking technologies and video formats to support. Existing ASSP solutions do not support all the various evolving networking technologies or the video formats, and developing a custom ASIC is very time consuming. Employing only ASIC or ASSP design methodologies puts manufacturers at significant risk of either being late to the market or releasing a product with dated features. Leveraging programmable logic in home networked products provides agility for time-to-market and the flexibility of adding the latest features to products. With an FPGA on board, you can add unsupported networking standards or video formats. You can also use FPGAs for transcoding capabilities.
Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) and Hi-Def A-V Network Alliance (HANA) are key industry groups whose goal is to align manufacturers and ensure compatibility between home networking products. Different companies are pursuing different technologies, broadly classified as wired or wireless, to enable multimedia home networks. Table 1 describes popular home networking technologies.
|Table 1. Popular Home Networking Technologies|
|802.11n||An extension 802.11 Wi-Fi wireless standard. Operates in a 2.4-GHz or 5-GHz frequency spectrum and can support greater than 100-Mbps bandwidth. It’s also called multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology as it uses multiple antennas for receive and transmit to enable higher data rates.|
|Multimedia Over Coaxial Alliance (MOCA)||Uses existing coaxial cable in homes to distribute audio, video, and data with target speeds greater than 100 Mbps.|
|HomePNA||Home Phoneline Networking Alliance uses phone lines to run Ethernet with data rates in excess of 300 Mbps.|
|HomePlug Audio/Video (A/V)||HomePlug A/V provides networking over in-home power lines. Effective bandwidth is in excess of 100 Mbps. Uses windowed orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) for modulation.|
|Wireless High Definition (HD)||Group working towards providing transmission of uncompressed HD video at data rates up to 5 Gbps in the 60-GHz radio frequency.| | <urn:uuid:83fd25f8-64f2-4931-87bd-6c8cc4a4d7ca> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.altera.com/end-markets/consumer/networking/csm-home-networking.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905491 | 783 | 2.46875 | 2 |
3 new generation streetcars arrive in Md. for D.C. project
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
The District is losing a panda to China but gaining three red inchworms from the Czech Republic.
Actually, they're streetcars, but they resemble worms because they share the ability to bend in a couple of places, making them more nimble than streetcars of old when it comes to negotiating turns. They are about eight feet wide and 66 feet long and are powered by overhead electrical lines.
The three cars, built in the Czech Republic by Skoda-Inekon, arrived in Baltimore by ship over the weekend and were loaded onto flatbed trucks for the trip to Metro's Greenbelt Yard, where they will sit until the first D.C. streetcar tracks are ready for them.
The District Department of Transportation says the first project, a 1.5-mile line in Anacostia, should be operating by fall 2012. | <urn:uuid:81226758-ed52-49fe-aed7-4d2007dbf6ec> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/15/AR2009121504839.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963837 | 196 | 1.78125 | 2 |
(a) "Advanced technology pesticide and fertilizer application equipment" means machinery certified by the West Virginia division of environmental protection as providing precise pesticide and fertilizer application. The agriculture commission and the West Virginia division of environmental protection shall provide technical assistance to the tax commissioner to determine appropriate specifications for machinery which would provide for more precise pesticide and fertilizer application to reduce the potential for adverse environmental impacts for purposes of application of the credit provided by this article. The machinery shall include, but not be limited to:
(1) Sprayers for pesticides and liquid fertilizers;
(2) Pneumatic fertilizer applicators;
(3) Monitors, computer regulators and heights adjustable booms for sprayers and liquid fertilizer applicators;
(4) Manure applicators; and
(5) Tramline adapters.
(b) "Conservation tillage equipment" means a planter or drill commonly known as a "no-till" planter or drill, designed to minimize disturbance of the soil in planting crops, including such planters or drills which may be attached to equipment already owned by the taxpayer.
(c) "Dead poultry composting facility" is a structure consisting of a roof, an impervious weight bearing foundation, such as concrete and rot resistant building materials such as pressure treated lumber or similar material, which is used to biologically treat poultry carcasses by composting.
(d) "Mortality incinerator" means a structure certified by the director of the division of environmental protection which is used for the purpose of burning animal carcasses.
(e) "Nutrient management plan" or "best management practice" means an established procedure for managing the amount, form, placement and timing of applications of poultry litter, certified by the commissioner of agriculture as being free from organisms that are not found in poultry litter produced in this state, as fertilizer application.
(f) "Nutrient management system" means an established procedure for managing the amount, form, placement and timing of applications of plant nutrients.
(g) "Qualified agricultural equipment" means advanced technology pesticide and fertilizer application equipment, conservation tillage equipment, dead poultry composting facilities, nutrient management plans, best management practices, nutrient management systems, streambank and shoreline protection systems, stream channel stabilization systems, stream crossing or access plans, waste management systems, waste storage facilities, and waste treatment lagoons located on or at agricultural operations in this state and certified by the tax commissioner in accordance with section five of this article.
(h) "Streambank and shoreline protection system" means the consistent use of vegetation or structures to stabilize and protect banks of streams, lakes, estuaries, or excavated channels in order to stabilize or protect banks of streams, lakes, estuaries or excavated channels for one or more of the following purposes:
(1) To prevent the loss of land or damage to utilities, roads, buildings, or other facilities adjacent to the banks;
(2) To maintain the capacity of the channel;
(3) To control channel meander that would adversely affect downstream facilities;
(4) To reduce sediment loads causing downstream damages and pollution; or
(5) To improve the stream for recreation or as a habitat for fish and wildlife.
(i) "Stream channel stabilization system" means an established structure for the stabilization of the channel of a stream.
(j) "Stream crossing or access plan" means the maintenance of a stabilized area to provide for crossing of a stream by livestock and farm machinery, or to provide access to the stream for livestock water.
(k) "Waste management system" means a planned system in which all necessary components are installed for managing liquid and solid waste, including runoff from concentrated waste areas at an agricultural operation, in a manner that does not degrade air, soil or water resources.
(l) "Waste storage facility" means a waste impoundment made by constructing an embankment or excavating a pit or dugout, or both, or by fabricating a facility for the storage of waste from livestock or poultry.
(m) "Waste treatment lagoon" means an impoundment made by excavation or earthfill for biological treatment of animal or other agricultural waste.
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Every day, college students help their communities in a variety of ways, from tutoring and mentoring children, to raising funds for worthy causes, to helping families recover from hurricanes and other disasters. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the nation has witnessed a significant upsurge in volunteering by college students.
The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) is committed to building on this momentum and supporting a culture of service on college campuses. Each year, we invest more than $150 million in expanding service-learning and campus volunteering through grants; Segal AmeriCorps Education Awards; and research, recognition, and other initiatives.
CNCS is working with other federal agencies, colleges and universities, higher education and student associations, and nonprofit organizations to encourage even greater levels of college student volunteering and to ensure that college graduates embark on a lifetime of service.
This page describes the ways we can support your civic mission and engage more students in making a difference in their communities. It also gives information on colleges and universities that are providing tuition aid, academic credit, and other assistance to students who have served their communities and country through the AmeriCorps national service program. | <urn:uuid:b917073a-6520-408f-9526-ee5cff5426fa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cns.gov/special-initiatives/communities/colleges-and-universities | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953418 | 242 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Pickups come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, with so much tonal variety, it can be a daunting task for a novice to find out what pickup would suit his (or her) needs. It is imaginable that a player who plays predominantly jazz would rather have a pickup with a very clear and articulated tone, so his complex chords don’t turn in to a tonal mush. On the other hand, a jazz player would want his tone to be warm at the same time for his solo’s. A guitarist who plays metal would want something different. Aggression, tightness of the lows and lots of output is what many metal players want to cut through the band mix when playing with heavy gain.
Choosing the right pickup set can be a daunting task. Not only because there are so many wishes but also because there are so many pickups to choose from. To make things even worse, the field of pickups to choose from gets even more complicated because there are a lot of pickups that have a bridge and a neck version! In this blog I will try to explain my views on the neck and bridge versions of pickups in general: why they exist and how they differ from each other and how you can use bridge and neck pickups in another way you might not have thought about.
The differentiation of pickups in neck – and bridge categories is because it’s easy. Because the amplitude of the string is bigger near where the neck pickup is positioned you can use a pickup with less output near the neck than a pickup near the bridge in order to balance out the output differences between the pickups. The manufacturer will always list the best application for a pickup, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t use a pickup in a spot of your choosing!
The JB is a classic pickup in the bridge position of many guitars. In the eighties it was used extensively in superstrats. Many records were recorded using the JB in the bridge of a superstrat, and to this day, the JB is still highly popular. Yet, the JB works great in the neck position of a strat with a hard ash or maple body too! It will result in a fat, singing lead with enough bite to cut through the mix like a hot knife through butter.
The Jazz comes in two flavors: the neck and bridge versions. The neck version (in the neck position) is a classical combination with the JB in the bridge position in a guitar with a carved maple top on a mahogany back with a mahogany neck. It will result in a very clear, warm tone with great articulation. Some players like the clarity but find that the jazz neck lacks some power, some creamyness to their tone. To negate that problem they can either choose to put in a different magnet (an alnico 8 is a great choice to boost the output of a pickup and get a warmer tone at the same time; ask the sales representatives to have a production floor custom mod on your pickup of choice!). Another option is to just buy the bridge-version of the pickup. Since the neck and bridge versions are wound to sound similar (but not the same of course!) the tone of the two will be close to each other, yet with subtle differences.
In essence, neck and bridge versions of a pickup are chosen because they fit together in terms of output, resonance frequency and general voicing, simply to make it easier on the user. There is something to be said to just name each pickup individually and ignore the neck/bridge differentiation. On the other hand, the way the pickups are being named by Seymour Duncan makes matching pickups that have a higher chance of working great together in neck and bridge positions easier. In the end there is no best way. Always keep in mind that if you are unsure on how to proceed with choosing your pickup, just take a step back and analyze in detail what problems you are experiencing. If you have (bought) a pickup that doesn’t work for you just drop the customer service an email for advice. | <urn:uuid:a19814b7-93ef-4927-94c4-eb299e272167> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/the-tone-garage/neck-versus-bridge-pickups-differences-or-a-hoax/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967895 | 827 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Iona College Libraries provide more than 70 databases so that you can have the best resources for your research. Why so many different databases?
Here's why. Some online databases are very general in scope, covering many different disceplines. Others cover specific subjects such as Sociology, Literature and Language, Biology and so on. Because the world of information is so complex, and getting more specialized all the time, it makes sense to have two different types of databases: general and subject-specific.
Examples of general databases:
Examples of subject-specific databases: | <urn:uuid:e8352b31-8f52-4f4d-b87d-fe7835184806> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.iona.edu/library/help/tutorials/tutorial/journals/genandsub.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905301 | 115 | 2.203125 | 2 |
A Fireside Chat with Wolfgang Fuchs
“ It is the basic thing of every music style, to play together, to work together. Without this, nothing would happen because you cannot play music together or in your mind and in your thinking, you are at another place with other persons. ”
As the leader of the King 'b' 'rchestr', Wolfgang Fuchs' place in the European improvisation lineage is safe. Moreover, Fuchs' '89 recordings of various duets with Evan Parker, Louis Sclavis, and Hans Koch on the FMP label (Duets, Dithyrambisch) is a case study in duel improvisation. In particular, Fuchs and Parker are monsters. Fuchs sat down with the Roadshow on a recent trip to Los Angeles, where he played the line space line Festival. I am honored to have Wolfgang Fuchs as a guest, unedited and in his own words.
All About Jazz (AAJ): Let's start from the beginning.
WOLFGANG FUCHS (WF): When I was younger, I played in a mandolin orchestra. I was a boy of twelve or thirteen years. We played in different places and I realized that people like music. This is very simple. So I thought this must be something and it must be important to do this. I think it was a kind of social aspect for me. Later, when I started with this improvised stuff, it was also again, this kind of social aspect because I think in improvised music, it is the most direct way to communicate between people because there is nothing in between. There is no score, no composition, no conductor. It has to do with one person on a very direct way to the other person or persons.
AAJ: The capacity to communicate defines the effectiveness of the music.
WF: It is the basic thing of every music style, to play together, to work together. Without this, nothing would happen because you cannot play music together or in your mind and in your thinking, you are at another place with other persons. Yeah, it is the basic thing of all music.
AAJ: Classical trained, did you find a need to break away from convention?
WF: Yeah, the thing is, I went to this music academy in Karlsruhe to study first saxophone and then clarinet. I wanted to do a lot of things, but then I realized what they were teaching and their thinking about music, I would not like to do it, so I stayed there for a while, but I didn't study. What I build up for my own as the idea of playing together with musicians and therefore, I had to find my own way to work. I was there, but in reality I was kind of an odd duck.
AAJ: Let's touch on your collaborations with Alex von Schlippenbach.
WF: I met Alex when I went to Berlin. This was in 1974 because I knew he lived there as well as Sven-'ke Johansson. One day I met him through Sven-'ke because he was building up a group with Berlin musicians and so I met him and so our working together through the years started not in very special groups, but always in add hock formations, also duets and we did film and improvised music stuff together and other bigger combinations together with Sven-'ke.
AAJ: Improvising to film poses the challenge of taking an audible medium to coincide with a visual medium.
WF: Yeah, a good question. I think it is different, but I can't tell you why at the moment because when you look at films, it goes through the eyes in your head and something happens. I don't know exactly what happens. We did it because of this ir I did it because of this, what happens with my own music when I am confronted to look at the film at the same time. For me, I did it also with dances and I did it also with poetry, as well as playing solo. I always have to think about in a new way how I work with my material.
AAJ: Who is King 'b'?
WF: King 'b' is the main figure of a theater play written by Alfred Jarry, the French surrealistic writer, ending of the 18th century. It is 'b' roi, King 'b', a figure of this theater play.
AAJ: Why did you form the King 'b' 'rchestr'?
WF: This started in 1982, '83. It came out of a combination which was called Xpact, this quartet together with Paul Lytton, Hans Schneider on bass, and Erhard Hirt. We always wanted to build up a big group, a big improvising group or an orchestra because we all had heard the great music of Globe Unity and also London Jazz Composers' Orchestra. We knew we had to try this and this came out of this and this was the beginning Eighties.
AAJ: Various members of King 'b' are becoming recognized stateside.
WF: As you mentioned, Paul Lytton is quite well known on the scene and in America as well as Phil Wachsmann, Radu Malfatti. Maybe only some people know our new member Fernando Grillo, the double bassist out of Italy. I think a lot of people know Melvyn Poore, Peter van Bergen, Axel D'rner as a kind of newcomer I suppose.
AAJ: A tentet presents challenges that go far beyond music.
WF: Yeah, it is a European band, but it was not planned like this because to bring ten players together out of different countries is a question of money and you have to find an organizer or festival who will pay for it. It wasn't possible over the years to invite players out of the USA unless they were around in Europe for a longer time. It is very, very difficult. A lot of organizers, when they think about 'b', they would like to do it. They also have to think about how much money it is and of course, to bring eight to ten people together out of these different countries in Europe, it's an expensive group and I am not talking about very high fees. It is expensive, traveling expenses, hotel, and then comes the fee. They say that for this money they can do two or three other groups. So it is very difficult, but some organizers like it and they do it. We try to bring it also to this year's Total Music Meeting, but it depends whether we get extra money from the Berlin government for this year's very special 'b' project to work with the text of the theater play. | <urn:uuid:77e498b4-d152-42e1-a5aa-6c57f98491d0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=1169 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980494 | 1,384 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Spray Dormant Oil
Winter thaws provide provide an opportunity to spray dormant oil on ornamental trees or shrubs that had insect problems last summer. You can spray dormant oil when temperatures will stay above freezing for twenty-four hours following the treatment. You must also do the spraying before the buds show green -- while the plant is still dormant. Follow the label instructions carefully to avoid damaging the plant.
Don't Start Seeds Too Early
It's so tempting to get into the springtime mood by starting seeds, but don't be fooled into starting them too early. Many plants require only six to eight weeks before transplanting into the garden, so count backward from the average last frost date for your local area and mark your calendar when to start each type of plant. Starting them too early may result in spindly seedlings because they don't receive enough light, and the transplanting process also can cause more transplant shock when the plants are larger.
Bring Home Fragrant Flowers and Plants
Nothing helps ease the winter doldrums like the fragrance of spring, so pay a visit to the local florist or greenhouse to find something to lift your spirits. A miniature calamondin orange tree or Kaffir lime tree or gardenia will bloom for many weeks in winter and spring. You may find forced hyacinths for sale, and many types of cut flowers are available.
Check for Frost-Heaved Plants
With winter thaws come frost-heaved plants. Check your perennials to see if they've been lifted out of the ground by alternating freezing and thawing temperatures. Gently replant them -- don't step on the soil to push them down. Cover them with evergreen boughs leftover from holiday decorating, or any leftover mulch that's not frozen solid.
Order Bare-Root Fruiting Plants
Now is the time to order bare-root fruiting trees and shrubs. They will be shipped in late winter or early spring before they start to grow, in time for planting in your area. They will need to be planted immediately upon arrival, so plan your spot now. | <urn:uuid:28094789-59b1-4443-aded-38f2a935fdad> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.garden.org/regional/report/arch/reminders/2010 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92655 | 434 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Ok, we've been getting these problems lately and our teacher is making us review them and I did horrible on my last test because of a problem similar to this, I don't understand this at all, all I do know is that it involves moving the sine or cosine graph and anything after that our teacher was very vague about and let us wander on our own. If anyone can explain anything from this problem that would help, I'd be grateful
The temperature during the day can be approximated by a sinusoidal function. At 4 am, the temperature was a low at 65 fahrenheit, and then at 4 pm, the temperature hit a high of 103 fahrenheit
a) write an EQ which allows you to predict the temperature at t hours after midnight
b) find the temperature at 11 am
c) find the first time in the day when the temp reaches 98 fahrenheit
d) approximate the rate of change of the temperature at 2 pm
e) at what time is the rate of change of the temperature with respect to time the greatest? | <urn:uuid:47f66832-0b7b-45f1-8054-17e52649e290> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mathhelpforum.com/pre-calculus/84579-sinusoidal-functions-predicting-temperature-when-given-time.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962016 | 219 | 3 | 3 |
What is pneumonia?
Pneumonia is a
lung infection that can make you very sick. You may cough, run a fever, and
have a hard time breathing. For most people, pneumonia can be treated at home.
It often clears up in 2 to 3 weeks. But older adults, babies, and people with
other diseases can become very ill. They may need to be in the hospital.
You can get pneumonia in your daily life, such as at school or work. This
is called community-associated pneumonia. You can also get it when you are in a
hospital or nursing home. This is called healthcare-associated pneumonia. It
may be more severe because you already are ill. This topic focuses on pneumonia
you get in your daily life.
What causes pneumonia?
Germs called bacteria or
viruses usually cause pneumonia.
Pneumonia usually starts when you
breathe the germs into your lungs. You may be more likely to get the disease
after having a cold or the
flu. These illnesses make it hard for your lungs to
fight infection, so it is easier to get pneumonia. Having a long-term, or
chronic, disease like
asthma, heart disease, cancer, or
diabetes also makes you more likely to get pneumonia.
What are the symptoms?
Symptoms of pneumonia
caused by bacteria usually come on quickly. They may include:
- Cough. You will likely cough up
mucus (sputum) from your lungs. Mucus may be rusty or
green or tinged with blood.
- Fast breathing and
feeling short of breath.
- Shaking and "teeth-chattering" chills.
You may have this only one time or many times.
Chest pain that
often feels worse when you cough or breathe in.
- Feeling very tired or feeling very weak.
Nausea and vomiting.
When you have mild symptoms, your doctor may call this
Older adults may have different, fewer, or
milder symptoms. They may not have a fever. Or they may have a cough but not
bring up mucus. The main sign of pneumonia in older adults may be a change in
how well they think. Confusion or
delirium is common. Or, if they already have a lung
disease, that disease may get worse.
Symptoms caused by viruses
are the same as those caused by bacteria. But they may come on slowly and often
are not as obvious or as bad.
How is pneumonia diagnosed?
Your doctor will ask
you about your symptoms and do a physical exam. He or she may order a chest
X-ray and a
blood test. This is usually enough for your doctor to
know if you have pneumonia. You may need more tests if you have bad symptoms,
are an older adult, or have other health problems. In general, the sicker you
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"This is a timelapse of the Phoenix Sandstorm from Maricopa, AZ that hit at 5.30 PM" on June 16, YouTube poster whittakerbrock wrote.
Dust storms are common in the southwestern U.S. during the summer, which is the region's monsoon season. During the monsoon, an overall shift in winds across the Southwest draw in tropical moisture, resulting in a significant increase in thunderstorm activity and rainfall.
Thunderstorms that develop can produce strong downdrafts, or "downbursts", which are powerful winds that blast downward and outward from the thunderstorms.
When this happens, dry, loose sand on the desert floors can get kicked up, creating a wall of dust that travels outward, spanning a much larger area than the thunderstorm itself.
Dust storms that develop in this way are also called haboobs. They can happen in desert regions across the world.
Some of the warmest weather of the year will continue across Alaska over the next few days, challenging more records.
Join us on Thursday for AccuWeather LIVE, we will discuss the debate of climate change and hurricane frequency and the top five things you need to know about summer weather.
Warmth is forecast to build over much of the eastern half of the nation by July, with Alaska of all places helping out.
A brief synopsis of the top five worst weather events of last summer.
The storms could affect cities from St. Louis to Evansville, Ind., Louisville, Ky., Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio to Huntington, W.Va.
A tornado touched down at Denver International Airport as a severe weather system moved through the area.
New Brunswick, NJ (1835)
Great New Brunswick Tornado; 5 dead, 17-mile path through the center of town; in all, 145 buildings were damaged. This is the worst tornado catastrophe in New Jersey history to date.
Philadelphia, PA (1994)
Strong thunderstorm winds blew off a large section of a hanger roof and also damaged two aircraft.
Central Illinois (1964)
19th-20th) Hail as large as grapefruits battered more than 50 counties, causing crop and property damage totalling $9.2 million. | <urn:uuid:4adbebc6-dedf-46d2-b0b8-1ce5423ec36e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/phoenix-sandstorm-haboob/66694 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935749 | 459 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Fathers come in all shapes, sizes and personalities – and they are priceless and a valued treasure. Father's Day also comes as summer vacation and family activities begin. Here are books that celebrate both. All are picture books and are good for all ages, unless indicated.
I Love My Daddy, by Giles Andreae, and brightly illustrated by Emma Dodd, is a fun read-aloud that showcases a delightful and humorous rhyming text that toddlers will enjoy. "He lifts me on his shoulders high, Until I nearly touch the sky. And when we're playing on the swings, He does all sorts of silly things." Each page is filled with a different bold background of color and features dad and youngster action bound.
Daddies Do It Differently, by Alan Lawrence Sitomer, and painted with a wash of watercolors by Abby Carter, is a fun-loving book that actually contrasts the ways Mommy and Daddy spend time with their child. When Mommy fixes breakfast, the table is nice and organized and there's a discussion of the day's plans. When Daddy fixes breakfast, a fort is built out of waffles and sometimes they eat cereal right out of the box. And so it goes. But ultimately, both parents end the day with expressing their great love for their child.
Little Treasures: Endearments from Around the World, by Jacqueline K. Ogburn, and painted with his award-winning trademark ink, watercolor and gouache by Chris Raschka, exhibits the tender, sweet expressions that parents give to their children the world over. English speaking parents may call their offspring: pumpkin, sunshine or babycakes. In Finland, they may express affection as flower bud or star eye. Hindi-speaking parents may call their beloved children my princess or my sweet little moon. These are just a few examples that showcase these expressions the world over. There's even a pronunciation key under each expression as well as the way it's written.
How To Babysit a Grandpa, by Jean Reagan, and wonderfully painted digitally by Lee Wildish, has the vital instructions youngsters will need to inform them about what to do when Grandpa comes to tend. Included in this fun, and funny, book are what snacks to have: "Ice cream topped with cookies / Olives served on fingertips / Anything dipped in ketchup / Cookies topped with ice cream". Other instructions include "How to take Grandpa on a walk" and "How to play with Grandpa". I especially like the last instructions on how to say goodbye to him because it's so sweet and endearing.
A Perfect Brightness of Hope, by David S. Baxter, is a book to help members of the Church get through difficult times. I've included this outstanding new book in this section of my review because so many people have arduous relationships with parents or other family members and circumstances can often be resolved in how we look at life. Our attitudes can become like an avalanche of hope if we just look into ourselves and how the Lord has blessed each of us to help make our lives a little happier. This book is best suited for teens through adults.
The rest of the review features books about outdoor fun and activities. Into the Outdoors, by Susan Gal, has so many teachable levels that can easily be taught as a family goes to a wooded hillside to set up camp. There are prepositions that are highlighted in a different color as the family sets out to explore. As they head across a river and up a mountain side, animals are doing the same movements in the background. The charcoal drawings and digital collage create a natural setting of great beauty. Be sure to check out the delightful end-pages. After reading this book, be prepared to get your camping equipment out for the ready!
When You Are Camping, by Anne Lee, is another wonderful camping tale that will surely invigorate the camper in all of us. Hazel and Tilly are about to experience all that awaits them in the great outdoors as they wake up in their tent to see that it’s raining. They get hot chocolate in their tent and after the rain they run through wet grass and into the woods. By day's end, they get to sit by the campfire and enjoy family time. The watercolors are beautifully painted giving off the air of outside.
A Stick is an Excellent Thing: Poems Celebrating Outdoor Play, by Marilyn Singer, and illustrated with pencil and ink and painted digitally by LeUyen Pham, captures what summertime should be for kids: getting outside and playing. Some of the poems include "Edges" which is about balancing along the edge of curbs and sidewalks, "Jump" which is about jumping to the beat of jump rope and "Hide-and-Seek" which about playing that game that time may have forgotten. I love this book!
Go Out and Play! Favorite Outdoor Games From KaBoom!, is a great handbook for parents and families who want to go outside and play organized games. Some of these games take just two to play, others require more and some games need some kind of a ball, but all need the great outdoors. The instructions are easy and the space, number of players and equipment is highlighted at the bottom of each page. There are some fond memories here as I remembered games that perhaps kids don't know about that I grew up with, which include "Red Rover", "Steal the Bacon", Ghosts in the Graveyard, and "Four Square". This book is a must! | <urn:uuid:1d5c37b7-8981-443e-8b47-e1a23e748084> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ldsmag.com/article/1/11008 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966962 | 1,133 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Nicolas Ier of Russia
Nicolas Ier Pavlovitch ( Nikolai Pavlovitch Romanov , in Russian НиколайПавловичРома́нов ) (July 6th 1796 - March 2nd 1855) was emperor of Russia, king de Pologne and large-duke of Finland of February 1st 1825 until its death. It is about the sovereign of the Russian Empire whose influence was surely most important and who gave to this last his apogee on the international plan. It is known for the autocratic mode which it founded and which allowed moreover a greater development of the Russian Empire.
He marries in 1817 the princess Charlotte of Prussia, which is called from now on Alexandra Feodorovna. Charlotte is the girl of the king Frederic-Guillaume III of Prussia and of the princess Louise de Mecklembourg-Strelitz. Charlotte and Nicolas had seven children:
- Tsar Alexandre II (1818 - 1881), which married the princess Marie de Hesse and of the Rhine
- Large-duchess Maria Nicolaïevna of Russia (1819 - 1876), which married the duke Maximilien de Leuchtenberg then Gregoire Stroganoff.
- Large-duchess Olga Nicolaïevna of Russia (1822 - 1892), which married the king Charles Ier of Wurtemberg
- Large-duchess Alexandra Nicolaevna of Russia (1825 - 1844), which married the landgrave Frederic de Hesse-Cassel
- Large-duke Constantin Nicolaevitch of Russia (1827 - 1892), which married the Alexandra princess of Saxony-Altenbourg
- Large-duke Nicolas Nicolaevitch of Russia (1831 - 1891), which married the princess Alexandra d' Oldenbourg
- Large-duke Michel Nicolaevitch of Russia (1832 - 1909), which married the princess Cécile de Bade
Nicolas Ier completely missed spiritual and intellectual width of his brother. It was a very autocratic colossus, called Nicolas the Cudgel. Born in 1796, it had been high during the time of the revolutionary Guerre S and Napoleonean, at the time of the coalitions against the liberal France. It had kept of it a savage hatred for liberalism. The episode of the revolt decembrist accentuated this hatred.
It was a soldier who liked to surround himself by soldiers that it used as special correspondents to make apply his policy in the provinces. Formed with the military discipline, he wanted that its orders were carried out quickly. The respect of the hierarchy and the discipline involved at his place the will to defend the established order. At the same time, the disorder reigned because the civil administration did not support the capacity of the soldiers.
Nicolas only controlled because it had short circuity the traditional bodies of the capacity. The Senate, the Council of State and the Council of Ministers had been put in sleep. Nicolas used especially the Special Committees. These bodies temporary were made of Favori S of the tsar, joined together to discuss a particular problem and to regulate it. They were thus very numerous, and had only little result. The tsar also rested on the Secretariat of His Majesty, relay of his personal capacity. The Secretariat of Its Majesty was divided into 6 sections. Most important were the second, third and fifth sections.
La second section carried out a very large legislative work under the direction of Mikhail Mikhailovich Speranski.
La third section was the political police in charge of the monitoring of the Russians, in all the aspects of their life. It made also imperial propaganda, defending the governmental design of Nicolas, and controlled the press by the censure. It was directed by Prince Alexis Orlov. It showed the limits of its effectiveness at the time of the episode of Petrachevtsy, groups extremist who discovered and was dismantled by the traditional police force.
La fifth section was to reform the statute of the peasants of State. It failed, and its work was entrusted in 1837 to the Ministry for the Fields of State.
The government exerted the censure and other controls direct on education, the publication and all the manifestations of the public life. In 1833 the Minister for education Sergueï Ouvarov specified this authoritative program: " autocracy, orthodoxy and genius national" would be the principles guiding the mode. People should show their honesty with the unlimited authority of the tsar, the traditions of the Russian orthodoxe church, and, in a vague way the Russian nation. The repression in particular of nationalities not-Russian and other religions was exerted. For example the Church Uniate in Ukraine and Bielorussia in 1839. See also Cantoniste S.
Official insistence on the Russian national feeling contributed to a debate on the place of Russia in the world. A group, the Westerners, believed that the fatherland remained late and primitive and was to go towards more Europeanization. Another group, the Slavophiles, supported with enthusiasm the Slaves and their culture and habits hating technicality with the rationalism of the west. Some thought that the common Russian country-woman, or to mir , offered a possible alternative to Western capitalism and would be a social and ethical saver. The Slavophiles, therefore, represented a form of messianism.
The literature, through works of Alexandre Pouchkine, Nicolas Gogol, Ivan Tourgueniev and well of others, gained a stature and international recognition. The ballet was acclimatized after its importation of France and the classical music was established firmly with the compositions of Mikhaïl Glinka.
As foreign politics Nicolas acts like guard of the forces in places and obstacle with the revolutions. He was at the beginning of his reign particularly influenced by the Austrian ambassador Charles Louis de Ficquelmont, conservative proven near to Metternich and having of cease only to fight the revolutionary ideas that he had undergoes being young Lorraine prince in the storm which followed 1789. On his councils, Nicolas served the policy of the large Austrian chancellor. Its offers of repression of the revolts in Europe were worth to him to be regarded as the gendarme of Europe . In 1830, after the Glorious Three in France, the Poles in the Royaume of the Congress rebelled in what is known like the Insurrection of November. Nicolas broke it, abolishes the Polish constitution, and reduced this country to the statute of simple Russian province. In 1849 it intervened at the request of the Habsbourg and helped them to reduce the insurrection in Hungary. He also insisted near the Prussia so that she refused the liberal constitution. Having helped the preserving forces to push back the spectrum of the revolution, Nicolas seemed to dominate Europe.
But it was an illusion. Whereas Nicolas sought to maintain the status quo in Europe it adopted an aggressive position with respect to the Ottoman Empire. Nicolas considered that the Eastern Question would be solved by the partition of the Ottoman Empire. It was the traditional policy of Russia. It wished to maintain protection Russian on Christians orthodoxe of the Balkans, then largely under the control of the Turks in the Années 1820. Russia was military successes against the Ottoman Empire in 1828 and 1829 and obliged it with the Traité of Unkiar-Skelessi in 1833.
The European principal parties believed that the treaty contained a secret clause granting Russia the right to send warships through the straits of the the Bosphorus and of the Dardanelles. By the Convention of the straits of London of 1841 they affirmed the Othoman control of these straits and prohibited with some power including Russia to send military boats by these passages. Based on his role in the suppression of the revolutions of 1848 and his erroneous belief that it had of the British report/ratio, Nicolas engaged against the Othomans who declared the war in 1853. Fearing an easy victory of Russia the the United Kingdom and the France were combined as regards known like the Crimean War. The Austria offered to the Othomans a diplomatic support and the Prussia remained neutral, leaving Russia without combined on the continent. The allies unloaded in the Crimea and reflect the seat at the Russian base good strengthened of Sébastopol. After one year of confrontations the base fell, exposing the incapacity to defend a fortification inside its territory. Nicolas died before rendering but he had already recognized the failure of the mode. Russia made then vis-a-vis the choice beginning major reforms or losing its statute like principal European power.
LegacyNicolas 1st left with his successor a Russia more plain and stronger as well on the economic plan, as political and military. Its reign was rate/rhythm by an expansionism strong (wars of the Caucasus, conquests in minor Asia and on the Ottoman Empire, etc.), an important interventionism and a dynamic foreign policy. It adopted a policy side-Slavist and considered the union under the crown of Russia of the Slavic people of the Balkans and the annexation of the Empires Othoman and Persian, but its step was blocked by the Franco-British intervention of 1854-1855 (Crimean War).
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Perhaps you have heard of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) operated by European Center for Nuclear Research or NAMBLA, err I mean CERN.
For those of you who haven't. Its a monstrous 8 Billion dollar machine outside Geneva, constructed for the purpose of smashing tiny particles into each other at unbelievable levels of energy and speed to recreate conditions a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.
Why, well to do science requires observation. We cannot exactly observe that instant back in time, so why not recreate it.
The problem is, a couple of people think its a really, really bad idea. The kind of idea that could end life as we know it on earth, either through the production of stranglets or a micro black hole that could swallow us all. Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho feel so strongly that they are suing CERN in Hawaii asking for "a temporary restraining order prohibiting CERN from proceeding with the accelerator until it has produced a safety report and an environmental assessment."
Why Hawaii has any jurisdiction over an international science organization in Switzerland, is anybody's guess.
All of this is reported in today's NYTimes and covered by Slashdot and various Tech rags. And leads us directly to The QUOTE OF THE DAY:
Dr. Arkani-Hamed said concerning worries about the death of the Earth or universe, “Neither has any merit.” He pointed out that because of the dice-throwing nature of quantum physics, there was some probability of almost anything happening. There is some minuscule probability, he said, “the Large Hadron Collider might make dragons that might eat us up.”
When are they planning on firing this thing up? I want to be ready, my suit of armor is still out being repaired.
CERN has a page dedicated to these concerns. They get second place for Quote of the Day with this.
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Absinth versus Absinthe.
One is a brand name, one is the correct generic name. By brand name I mean a producer uses it to refer to theirs. Will get back to you which way round it is.
...two minutes later:
Q. Why the different spelling of Absinth / Absinthe?
A. Absinthe with the "e" is the French spelling, but since 1914 Absinthe in France has been illegal, so most production of Absinth moved to Eastern European countries such as the Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia) where they do not use the "e", so the spelling is ABSINTH.
(Sebor is a brand sold widely in the UK).
N.B Re the brand name/generic thing I said earlier(!), to further confuse things; it is a brand name thing for the company Sebor. I.e. Sebor Ltd. have a product the called "Sebor Absinth". Which is an absinthe as opposed to a tequila spirit. | <urn:uuid:1062aecd-0a83-4224-bdae-39ede0a836ed> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/showthread.php?t=46739&page=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929346 | 215 | 1.796875 | 2 |
|Catechism of the Catholic Church|
IntraText - Text
"I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT"
687 "No one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God."7 Now God's Spirit, who reveals God, makes known to us Christ, his Word, his living Utterance, but the Spirit does not speak of himself. the Spirit who "has spoken through the prophets" makes us hear the Father's Word, but we do not hear the Spirit himself. We know him only in the movement by which he reveals the Word to us and disposes us to welcome him in faith. the Spirit of truth who "unveils" Christ to us "will not speak on his own."8 Such properly divine self-effacement explains why "the world cannot receive (him), because it neither sees him nor knows him," while those who believe in Christ know the Spirit because he dwells with them.9
The Church, a communion living in the faith of the apostles which she transmits,
is the place where we know the Holy Spirit:
- in the Scriptures he inspired;
- in the Tradition, to which the Church Fathers are always timely witnesses;
- in the Church's Magisterium, which he assists;
- in the sacramental liturgy, through its words and symbols, in which the Holy Spirit puts us into communion with Christ;
- in prayer, wherein he intercedes for us;
- in the charisms and ministries by which the Church is built up;
- in the signs of apostolic and missionary life;
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In 2009, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, a standard-setting and regulatory support body comprised of chief insurance regulators from all 50 states, reached a historic agreement.
Beginning in 2010, the organization announced, insurance companies would be required to disclose, to regulators and investors, "the financial risks they face from climate change, as well as actions the companies are taking to respond to those risks."
In a matter of months, that agreement fell apart.
"It got tied up a great deal in the politics," said Mike Kreidler, the insurance commissioner for the state of Washington. "For many insurance commissioners -- some are elected but most are appointed by governors, and if they came from a state where climate change was not a topic that was resonating with their supporters, well, being governors, they certainly didn't want to see their insurance commissioners getting out in front on this issue."
That might soon change. As the East Coast and large swaths of the Midwest continue to climb out of the 1,000-mile wide path of destruction left behind by this week's megastorm Sandy, which killed more than 80 people in the U.S. and resulted in what will certainly be tens of billions of dollars in damages, the industry whose business it is to absorb those losses is back in the spotlight. And many critics are suggesting that U.S. insurance companies, along with the people and businesses they insure, are failing to take seriously the risks of climate change -- a problem that could threaten the wider economy.
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sara | July 1, 2009
Yesterday I did a spot of gardening whilst we have this spell of glorious weather. I had sown lupin and courgette seeds ages ago and hadn’t potted them on so I finally go around to it.
I now have 8 courgette plants in pots and when they get a little more established I will put them [...]
sara | July 31, 2008
I was delighted to receive this fantastic reader’s recipe for Roasted Courgette And Parmesan Soup by Tony from Cambridge. I thought that it sounded so good that I would share it with you all.
Hi, roasted courgette and parmesan soup is good. I don’t really have a recipe.
Just roast a load of courgettes with an onion [...]
sara | May 1, 2008
Courgettes are always a great success in my vegetable garden
The TopVeg website always provide me with excellent seed sowing information.
Farming Friends & TopVeg have now collaborated to create a How To Grow Courgettes growing card.
Click on the image to enlarge and if you wish to print off this growing card, right click on the enlarged image and then click print picture to print [...]
sara | February 25, 2008
“What, exactly, IS a courgette? Sounds like some type of squash. Must be a British thing,”asked Boggywoggy.
A courgette is;
A small squash or marrow.
The fruit from the plant.
Also known as a zucchini.
Yellow, green or light green in colour depending on the variety.
Known scientifically as the cucurbita pepo.
Often shaped like a cucumber.
Used like a vegetable rather than [...]
admin | September 11, 2007
I love chocolate and I love courgettes, but not at the same time I hear you cry! Actually yes! I found a recipe for chocolate and courgette cake over at Pumpkin Soup ages ago and decided to try it at the weekend.
As I mixed the ingredients together I was a bit dubious as to how [...]
admin | August 21, 2007
Back in early September 2005 I decided to use up some of the courgette and green tomatoes which kept growing in my veg garden by making courgette and green tomato chutney. I had never made chutney before but I thought I would give it a go. I am pleased to say that this chutney is [...]
sara | August 11, 2007
Last night Steve harvested my first courgette from the flood damaged courgette plants that managed to survive a week under water.
We only used half of this beauty which we just boiled and served with mince, new potatoes and cabbage.
I will consult my courgette recipe list for more ideas on what to do with the rest [...]
admin | August 4, 2007
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Does losing your job up the risk of a heart attack?
'Losing your job can be deadly, because it increases the risk of having a heart attack by up to two-thirds,' The Daily Telegraph reports.
The news is based on a US study that examined the association between different aspects of unemployment (such as number of job losses and time spent out of work) and the risk of having a heart attack.
The researchers followed 13,451 older American adults for a period of up to 18 years and found that unemployment status, multiple job losses and short periods without work are all significant risk factors for a heart attack, even with adjustment for conventional risk factors such as smoking.
Despite the authors' findings, there are several limitations to this study:
- heart attacks were self-reported and not verified by medical records
- this was a US study, so there may be economic and social factors that may not be applicable to the UK population, such as the fact that Americans have to pay for their healthcare
- people who took part in the study were older adults – arguably the last generation who grew up with the concept that a job would be for life – and younger adults better adapted to a world of job insecurity would possibly not react in the same way
Of note, the reason for job loss was not explored by the researchers. This could potentially have provided more meaningful results, as it may have revealed other possible confounding factors that could be involved in the link between job loss and heart attack risk.
However, the study does seem to suggest there is a link between job and economic insecurity and ill heakth.
Where did the story come from?
The study was carried out by researchers from Duke University in the US and was funded by the National Institute on Aging and the Social Security Administration. It was published in the peer-reviewed journal Archives of Internal Medicine.
Once past the attention-grabbing media headlines, the story is covered appropriately by the papers, although none of them report that the reasons for 'job loss' were not investigated by the study.
What kind of research was this?
This was a prospective cohort study looking at the associations between different aspects of unemployment and the risks of heart attack (acute myocardial infarctions, or AMI) among adults in the US.
While previous research has examined the association between employment status and AMIs, as well as other types of diseases, little is known about the cumulative effect of multiple job losses and unemployment on the risk of heart attack. This was a question the researchers tried to address in this study.
The researchers say that information about employment status and the risk of heart attack could improve our ability to screen individuals with a high risk of having a heart attack.
What did the research involve?
The researchers used data from the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS). The HRS comprises a nationally representative sample of adults over the age of 50 who were followed up by the researchers every two years from 1992 to 2010.
The sample used by the researchers included 13,451 participants aged 50 to 75 years, 9,824 of whom were from the original HRS cohort (people born between 1931 and 1941).
The remaining participants were made up of two age groups added to supplement the HRS cohort:
- people born between 1942 and 1947 (the 'war cohort')
- people born between 1948 and 1953 (the 'early baby boomer cohort')
The researchers collected information on the participants' past employment histories (number of jobs, job losses, and so on) at the start of the study.
Every two years the researchers carried out follow-up interviews to ask the participants about:
- employment status (employed or unemployed, excluding retirement)
- cumulative number of job losses (0, 1, 2, 3, or more than 4)
- cumulative time unemployed (0 years, more than 0-1 year, 2-4 years, more than 5 years)
All employment information was self-reported by the participants and the researchers considered participants who reported themselves as 'not employed' and 'not retired' as unemployed.
At each interview participants were also asked whether or not they had a heart attack or myocardial infarction in the past two years, and if so when it had occurred.
The researchers made adjustments for a number of confounders known to be associated with an increased risk of a heart attack:
- socioeconomic factors such as education and income
- behavioural factors such as smoking status, alcohol use and physical activity
- psychological factors such as depressive symptoms
- clinical factors such as body mass index, cholesterol, diabetes and high blood pressure
They also examined the association between job instability and heart attack risk by sex and race or ethnicity.
What were the basic results?
A total of 1,061 acute myocardial infarction events were reported during the study period (7.9% of all participants). Following adjustments, the main results of this study were:
- the risk of heart attack was significantly higher among participants who reported being unemployed (hazard ratio 1.35, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.10 to 1.66)
- compared with no job loss, the risk of heart attack grew with an increasing number of job losses – for example, with one job loss the hazard ratio was 1.22, 95% CI 1.04 to 1.42, compared with four or more cumulative job losses, where the hazard ratio was 1.63, 95% CI 1.29 to 2.07
- the risk of heart attack was significantly higher within the first year of unemployment (hazard ratio 1.27, 95% CI 1.01 to 1.60) but was not found to be significant for longer periods of unemployment
- retirement was not associated with an increased risk of heart attack
The researchers found that the adjusted findings were comparable to other major risk factors for heart attack, such as:
- smoking (hazard ratio 1.44, 95% CI 1.24 to 1.69)
- diabetes (hazard ratio 1.51, 95% CI 1.30 to 1.75)
- high blood pressure (hazard ratio 1.62, 95% CI 1.42 to 1.86)
How did the researchers interpret the results?
The researchers conclude that unemployment status, multiple job losses and short periods without work are all significant risk factors for acute cardiovascular events, or heart attacks. They say that the increased risks associated with multiple job losses were comparable to other traditional risk factors for heart attack such as smoking, diabetes and high blood pressure.
One of the researchers, Dr Linda George, is quoted in the media as saying that, "We think it is the stress of dealing with unemployment that may explain this. And, probably, job loss has a stronger effect than a stressful job".
Overall, this study provides some evidence of an association between unemployment and the risk of a heart attack. Importantly, there are some limitations to this study which may restrict the findings. These include:
- Employment status and heart attack events were self-reported by participants. It is possible that participants did not accurately report these events, which makes the results less reliable. Self-reported data validated by medical records would have provided more accurate information.
- The researchers report that no data was available for certain clinical factors such as the treatment and control of high blood pressure and diabetes, as well as other preventative measures taken to reduce the likelihood of a heart attack. This information would have made the results more robust.
- The researchers also report that job characteristics – such as whether the job was office-based or manual work – were not recorded, including the reasons for job loss. This would have provided more information on the type of job loss, for example whether it was the end of a contract, a redundancy or a voluntary choice other than retirement.
- Interestingly, the researchers considered participants who reported not being employed or retired as unemployed. This does not take into account participants who may have gone back to study for a period of time or who worked on a short-term contract basis.
It is important to note that this research does not prove that there is a direct cause-and-effect link that unemployment leads to heart attack – it can only say that there is an association.
The authors report further research in this area should consider the influence of other job-related factors such as seasonal employment, under-employment, multiple jobs, family demands and the timing of job loss.
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The Office of the Dean of Students provides leadership for defining and promoting campus-wide expectations for student conduct and behavior. These are expressed in the Compact for a Civil and Caring Academic Community, a set of principles that describes how those who live, study and work together as members of our college community should treat each other: with civility and respect, with care and concern, and with a commitment to the academic purpose for which Buffalo State College exists. The Compact, found here, is meant to foster conversation, interaction, and reflection on behavior as a way to promote understanding of self and others in the context of a shared community. We encourage use of the Compact to help promote the expectations arising from its premise that Buffalo State is and should be a Civil and Caring Academic Community.
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where the tradesmen will be situated. The "scholars' city" prevails in the distance on the 200 foot high bluff. This is where the congregation's public buildings and the church will be constructed.
A proposal to publicly auction off pieces of land in the commercial district to anyone regardless of whether they were members of the congregation was rejected because it caused many quarrels. The New York contingent of the congregation, by far the most experienced and practical group, did not want strangers in its midst and would withdraw from the enterprise even though this would be detrimental to the welfare of the other members of the congregation.
For the most part confusion and chaos prevail resulting in discouragement and depression. While people are making grandiose plans to establish a city and a seminary, they neglect to take the necessary actions to provide roofs over their families' heads. Of the 500 people living there, some live in a few farm houses - these privileged few include the pastors, the congregation administrators and the overseers. Some live in shelters with roofs but no walls. Others live in cloth tents and a portion live under the cover of trees at the shoreline. The scarce food supply is rationed out to families, mostly bacon and rice. Able bodied men work mostly at clearing the land * and putting up fences **
** A fence is an enclosure erected to keep cattle and grazing horses from roaming the open range and the cultivated fields. [Remainer of footnote from page 120] Naturally these structures must be fairly high and they are quite costly and time consuming to build. Return to text
but not much is accomplished because they lack experience, skilled leadership and above all else, draft animals. There are 50 or so supervisors and managers, who do nothing themselves and who generally contradict each other. Epidemic disease has not yet broken out however exhaustion and depression are widespread due to the unusual work, the unaccustomed climate, the lack of food and bad housing. The weather is damp, the insects plague them and the terrain is treacherous.
There have been many changes in the leadership but this has done nothing to improve matters or offer greater hope and security for the future of the congregation.
Every so often Bishop Stephan comes over from the other side of the Mississippi and approaches portions of the congregation to seek financial assistance in order to make himself more comfortable. He is considering going to court to reclaim his property, which he asserts was forcibly taken from him by illegal means. He will find support among some of his American neighbors, who think he is a personage of distinction. They are also intrigued by the story of one of his concubines, who after receiving church penance from the congregation sneaked off to rejoin her lord and master.
The near future will show to what extent these chimeric plans are fulfilled. However for now only constant work, stringent frugality and complete halting of all unnecessary spending will guarantee the colony a sustainable existence. Unfortunately under the current circumstances we see little hope.
One must see the many impediments and difficulties to land clearing before they grasp the concept of how costly and time consuming the undertaking is. The settlers might enjoy the fruits of their labors in a year or so but until then they still have to sustain themselves. When we take into account the number of elderly people, women and children in the congregation who are incapable of undertaking such difficult work, when we add the number of ministers, candidates, etc. who do not work and yet must be fed, and when we factor in the sad state of their finances, we arrive at the tragic conclusion that their continued existence under the current conditions is an impossibility. It produces staggering disillusionment which saps the settler's spiritual and physical resources. People filled their heads with thoughts of the second Canaa. Now they do not even have a quarter of the possessions they had in the familiar and dispised homeland that they abandoned. They left everything behind to follow a man who enticed them. Now this man stands before them as the most dreadful and sinful of creatures. The dream has disappeared and harsh reality fills their disillusioned vista. Most assuredly this situation
will not fortify these unfortunate people to face unknown hardships and strengthen them to make unaccustomed sacrifices.
It is our sad duty to inform the reader of the worst tragedy of this entire disasterous enterprise. It is the unfortunate fate of the ship Amalia, whose end we can scarcely doubt. The ship sailed from Bremenhafen with the Olbers but had not arrived at its final destination by the end of July. Even now no one has heard a word about its passengers and people are becoming ever more certain that the Amalia sank off the coast of France during a storm which raged between November 28th and 30th of 1838. Further reports we have received tend to support this conclusion. The crew of the Olbers investigated during its return trip from America and no information was found concerning the Amalia. When they communicated with the marine authorities in London it was reported that they had received no signals from the ship when it would have passed along the English coast. It's assumed they met up with disaster.
We list here the passenger manifest of the Amalia (with 58 passengers):
We close with the wish that this narrative will not pass into obscurity but serve as a warning to everyone of how false and perverted religious zeal may lead people astray and how dangerous it is to believe the word of pious hypocrites, especially when they
act as servants of God. Furthermore may this small tract show how dangerous pietism can be when it works hand in hand with deception to lure näive people of faith into its nets. This nest of vipers never rests in its dark business. It is the sacred duty of every friend of religion to expose these stealthy toads wherever he finds them before they inject their poison into the hearts of their victims. It is the sacred duty of every friend of religion to confront this evil brood with the torch of reason and the sword of truth so that the Augean stable may be cleaned before it continues in its gradual attempt to infect the realm of healthy faith.
However when our readers look back with displeasure to the head of the congregation and his helpers' helpers, when they can find no pardonable motives in the sinful initiatives of these seducers and can only deem their actions with horror and distain, they will most certainly feel sympathy and regret for the unfortunate victims who were innocent of any wrong doing!
Page 37 line 13 from the top. In mentioning the New York congregation 2 names were switched. Instead of "Brother Spröde and a man by the name of Rudloff" it should read Brother Rudloff and a man by the name of Spröde. The same mistake occurs on line 14 from the bottom. Where it states "the elder Rudloff" replace the name with Spröde. It was this latter man who took the trip to Germany. Return to text
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The South Devon (which is different to the North Devon) originated in South West England around 400 years ago, in an area of Devon known as the South Hams, from here they spread right across the counties of Devon and Cornwall.
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The Retinta breed evolved from a combination of breeds such as the Andalusian Red, Extremadura Red and Andalusian Blond, it is an indigenous breed to the south and southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Red skinned cattle, in different shades, have existed in the Iberian Peninsula since ancient times.
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The defeat of Tony Bennett as Indiana’s state superintendent of education was attributed to many factors. Yet, as one post-election analysis indicated, the size of the vote for his rival, Glenda Ritz, suggests that the most likely reason was Bennett’s support for, and attempt to implement, Common Core’s badly flawed standards.
Common Core’s English language arts standards don’t have just one fatal flaw, i.e., its arbitrary division of reading standards into two groups: 10 standards for “informational” text and nine for “literature” at all grade levels from K to 12. That’s only the most visible; its writing standards turn out to be just as damaging, constituting an intellectual impossibility for the average middle-grade student — and for reasons I hadn’t suspected.
The architects of Common Core’s writing standards simply didn’t link them to appropriate reading standards, a symbiotic relationship well-known to reading researchers. Last month I had an opportunity to see the results of teachers’ attempts to address Common Core’s writing standards at an event put on by GothamSchools, a four-year-old news organization trying to provide an independent news service to the New York City schools.
The teachers who had been selected to display their students’ writing (based on an application) provided visible evidence of their efforts to help their students address Common Core’s writing standards — detailed teacher-made or commercial worksheets structuring the composing of an argument. And it was clear that their students had tried to figure out how to make a “claim” and show “evidence” for it. But their problems were not a reflection of their teachers’ skills or their own reading and writing skills. The source of their conceptual problems could be traced to the standards themselves.
At first glance the standards don’t leap out as a problem. Take, for example, Common Core’s first writing standard for grades six, seven and eight (almost identical across grades): “Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.” This goal undoubtedly sounds reasonable to adults, who have a much better idea of what “claims” are, what “relevant evidence” is and even what an academic “argument” is. But most children have a limited understanding of this meta-language for the structure of a composition.
So I explored Common Core’s standards for reading informational text in grades three, four and five (and then in six, seven and eight) and discovered nothing on what a claim or an argument is, or on distinguishing relevant from irrelevant evidence. In other words, the grades six, seven and eight writing standards are not coordinated with reading standards in grades three to eight that would require children to read the genre of writing their middle school teachers are expecting them to compose. Middle school teachers are being compelled by their grade-level standards to ask their students to do something for which the students will have to use their imaginations.
Do elementary and middle school teachers need this problem spelled out for them? Yes, I also discovered in talking to several of the teachers at this event. They apparently knew nothing about the research on — and value of — prose models, a well-known body of research just a few decades ago.
This raises a common-sense question: How can middle-grade children be expected to understand how to set forth a “claim” and provide “relevant evidence” to support it if they haven’t been taught (and won’t be taught) how to identify an academic argument, a claim and irrelevant evidence in what they have read? No wonder New York City teachers are spending an enormous amount of time creating worksheets to structure students’ writing, and their students are spending an enormous amount of time filling these worksheets in.
One teacher, for example, admitted spending a lot of time trying to help her students come up with a topic sentence (it is close to a “claim” but is also not mentioned in Common Core’s reading or writing standards).And her worksheets showed the dutiful efforts of a few children to do this. A topic sentence doesn’t come easy to many middle-school students, especially if they haven’t read a lot of well-written articles with topic sentences that the children have been asked to identify until they really know what one is and what one does for the rest of the paragraph.
Two other teachers had first assigned some short stories (maybe to engage their students?) before asking their students to come up with a “thesis” or a “claim” and produce “evidence” for it. Needless to say, the children’s writing didn’t show a “claim.” Not surprising. The only prose models the children had been given were two- to three-page stories.
But some teachers were forging ahead despite the conceptual difficulties of their students. Another teacher, for example, acknowledged the lack of a visible “literary thesis” or “claim” in her middle school students’ writing (most were not strong students). She was pleased they were learning to cite page numbers for the location of their “evidence,” even though their “thesis” or “claim” had to be “inferred.”
The problem deepened when I examined another writing standard for middle school. Common Core’s architects did suspect that writing was related to reading. They just didn’t know how it was. The ninth writing standard for grades six, seven and eight asks students to apply grades six, seven and eight reading standards as they “draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.”
What are these reading standards? Here are the first two:
“Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.”
“Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.”
The problem here is that the reading standards are almost identical in grades six, seven and eight for both literature and informational text. It seems that children are also being expected to analyze literary and non-literary texts as if they are both genres of expository prose. No well-trained English teacher would expect children reading a short story or novella in grade six to figure out first its “theme” and then “analyze its development over the course of the text.” That’s something one would do with children with a controlling idea in the introductory paragraph of an informational piece. The architects of these standards don’t have a firm grasp on the differences between literature and informational texts.
Years ago, it was common practice for English teachers to introduce students to the art of the essay in grade nine. Now students in grade six are to attempt composing an essay with a thesis or a claim. One New York City teacher saw this as a healthy “challenge” for her weak students. Others might see this challenge as a Utopian expectation, with teachers the ultimate scapegoat.
Some children, already strong readers, are, of course, going to get it. Their English teachers will eventually figure the problems out, or their parents will. But guess which children are going to be the most confused? Probably the least able readers and writers, the very ones Common Core wants to make “college-ready.”
It’s time for the standards that the National Governors Association and the Council for Chief School State Officers have copyrighted to be drastically revised. The problem here is: Who is to do the revisions? And what should Indiana be doing while the legal issues get sorted out?
Here is my two-cents worth: 1) The Indiana state board of education should readopt its own, first-class English Language Arts standards (with perhaps minor changes), as well as its own first-class math standards (which the latest Trends in Mathematics and Science Study results suggest are working well in Indiana); and 2) label them Indiana “college-readiness” standards just as other states have labeled their own standards. | <urn:uuid:aa6b6d42-94b5-4585-8145-6e842c7e46f0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121231/EDITORIAL/121239963/1051/YOURVOICE_OPINION | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969149 | 1,740 | 2.984375 | 3 |
For years, the United Arab Emirates appeared to be off the target list for terrorist groups. Its ultramodern city-state, Dubai, has emerged as the Switzerland of the Middle East, a place where Iran, al Qaeda, and neighboring oil kingdoms parked their money in banks that rarely asked and rarely told. After the 9/11 attacks, soft targets in Amman, Riyadh, and Baghdad were hit—as were Egypt’s resorts. But Dubai and the UAE’s capital, Abu Dhabi, escaped al Qaeda’s wrath.
That looks like it’s changing. On Wednesday, the UAE official news agency reported the country’s security service, working in conjunction with Saudi Arabia, rolled up a terror cell planning attacks for the emirates and other Gulf States. The report made reference to “the deviant group,” the preferred euphemism that state-run media there uses for al Qaeda.
Two U.S. officials confirmed the arrests. One said the cell, which included both Emiratis and Saudis, served as a “support network” for groups with links to al Qaeda, but was not in the final phase of planning a major attack. The UAE state press quoted an official as saying the cell was “planning on carrying out actions that infringe on the national security of both countries and brotherly nations.”
“The reality is the UAE is not immune to terrorism,” said Juan Zarate, a deputy national security adviser for counterterrorism under George W. Bush and a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.
Zarate, a pioneer in tracking and disrupting the financial networks of terrorist groups, added, “Dubai has always served as a crossroads for the movement of people, goods, and money. It has been attractive to lots of legitimate commercial activity as well as lots of those the United States considers to be enemies, including the Taliban, Iran, and al Qaeda affiliates.”
For years, Dubai’s permissive banking environment gave American spies a rare look into the financial doings of some of its worst adversaries, U.S. intelligence officials said. These days, the city-state is home to a large U.S. consulate from which American spies monitor Iranian actions across the Persian Gulf; the diplomatic outpost also coordinates visas to Iranian academics and former officials seeking to visit the United States for the unofficial talks known as “track two” diplomacy.
While the UAE was never an adversary of the United States, the federation of seven emirates at times appeared to play both sides of the fence. The 9/11 Commission, for example, disclosed that in 1999 an official aircraft of the UAE, along with senior government officials, were in the same Afghanistan location as Osama bin Laden’s compound. Until the U.S. attacks, the UAE was one of three countries (along with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan) to have diplomatic relations with the Taliban government in Afghanistan that was hosting bin Laden at the time.
After 9/11, this changed. “In the years after 9/11, the UAE decided that the way forward was to be strongly allied with the United States,” said Simon Henderson, the director of the Gulf and Energy Policy program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “It now has strong day-to-day relations with U.S. military in the region, which makes for an attractive target for al Qaeda and other groups that hate the United States.”
“There are groups now and individuals who have separate and discreet agendas that may now see the UAE as a legitimate and prime target.”
For example, in November 2002, UAE authorities arrested Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the man U.S. authorities say was the mastermind of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen. In 2010, UAE authorities played a role in unraveling a Qaeda plot to smuggle bombs onto airplanes by embedding the explosives in printer cartridges. Until this year, the UAE was the primary funder of a Somali counterpiracy force being trained by security contractors in the port city of Bosaso, in Somalia’s autonomous Puntland state.
The arrests Wednesday are not the first time UAE authorities have taken action against al Qaeda-linked groups on its on soil. In 2009, authorities arrested a cell that targeted landmarks in Dubai, but did not announce the arrests publicly.
In September, the UAE arrested more than 60 members of a local Islamist party known as al-Islah, though that group does not have any known links to al Qaeda.
In some ways al Qaeda does not have the capability to conduct elaborate large-scale attacks the way it did in the last decade. Many of its top leaders—including bin Laden—in Pakistan have been killed. Instead, the new threat against the UAE is emerging from local jihadists.
“The threat is more autonomous now, the local cells are driving their own agenda,” Zarate said. “Even if there had been an understanding in the past or a desire not to disrupt the money flows through Dubai, there are groups now and individuals who have separate and discreet agendas that may now see the UAE as a legitimate and prime target.” | <urn:uuid:a684588f-262f-4ab7-8163-ee628b95780f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/27/is-al-qaeda-s-attention-now-turning-to-united-arab-emirates.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967016 | 1,088 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Pope calls for peace in Syria, across globe
Benedict also hopeful for dialogue Israeli-Palestinian conflict
On Christmas, Pope Benedict XVI spread a hopeful message to his followers, calling for peace in many of the world's hot spots.
From Syria to northern Nigeria, the leader of the Catholic Church urged dialogue and the protection of civilians.
"In this world, there is a good soil God has prepared," the pope said. "Consequently, there is hope in the world; a hope in which we can trust, even at the most difficult times and in the most difficult situations."
Benedict spoke to a crowd of about 50,000 gathered at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City.
He called for an end to the bloodshed in Syria, where a civil war has claimed more than 40,000 lives.
"May peace spring up for the people of Syria, deeply wounded and divided by a conflict which does not spare even the defenseless and reaps innocent victims," Benedict said. "Once again, I appeal for an end to the bloodshed, easier access for the relief of refugees and the displaced, and dialogue in the pursuit of a political solution to the conflict."
Benedict also asked for dialogue in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"May peace spring up in the land where the redeemer was born, and may he grant Israelis and Palestinians courage to end long years of conflict and division and embark resolutely on the path of negotiation," he said.
Regarding China, where there have been tensions this year between the Catholic Church and Chinese authorities over the oversight of church leaders there, Benedict called for expanded freedom of religion.
Addressing China's new leaders, he expressed hope that, "in fulfilling this task, they will esteem the contribution of the religions, in respect for each, in such a way that they can help to build a fraternal society for the benefit of that noble people and of the whole world."
Benedict also expressed concern about violence in Mali and Nigeria, "where savage acts of terrorism continue to reap victims, particularly among Christians."
And he expressed hope that the citizens of Egypt will "build societies founded on justice and respect for the freedom and dignity of every person."
The pontiff added, before delivering Christmas blessings in 65 languages: "May every land become a good earth which receives and brings forth kindness and truth, justice and peace. Happy Christmas to all of you."
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Allergy injections; Allergen immunotherapy
What Are Allergy Shots?
An allergy shot is a when a very small amount of an allergen (such as mold spore, dust mite, animal dander, pollen, or venom from an insect) is injected into your body. A doctor or nurse will give you shots during several visits over the course of 3 - 5 years. A series of allergy shots may help to reduce your allergy symptoms.
First, you will need to work with your doctor to identify which allergens are causing your symptoms. This may be done through allergy skin testing or blood tests. Your doctor will include only the allergens you are allergic to in your allergy shots.
Allergy shots are just one part of an allergy treatment plan. You may also take allergy medications while having allergy shots. Your doctor may recommend that you reduce your exposure to allergens as well.
How Do They Work?
Allergy symptoms occur when your immune system tries to attack the allergen in the body. When this happens, your body creates mucus. This can cause bothersome symptoms in the nose, eyes, and lungs.
Allergy shots are also called "immunotherapy" since they work with the immune system. When a small amount of the allergen is injected into the body, the immune system makes an "antibody" that blocks the allergen from causing symptoms.
After several months of injections of a specific allergen(s) known to cause some of your symptoms, you may feel relief of some or all of your symptoms. The relief of symptoms can last several years. For some patients, allergy shots can prevent new allergies and help asthma symptoms.
Who Can Benefit from Allergy Shots?
People with well-controlled allergic asthma, allergic rhinitis, allergic conjunctivitis and insect bite sensitivity can benefit from targeted allergy shots. Patients with eczema (a skin condition) caused by dust mite allergy may also benefit from allergy shots.
Allergy shots are effective for these common allergens:
- Weed and tree pollen
- Mold or fungi
- Animal dander
- Dust mites
- Insect stings
Adults, including the elderly, as well as children may receive allergy shots.
People with severe asthma or heart conditions are generally not good candidates for allergy shots. If you take medications, such as ACE inhibitors or beta blockers, you should discuss the risks of allergy shots with your doctor. Pregnant women should not begin allergy shots, but they may be able to continue allergy shot treatment that has already started.
Food allergies are not treated with allergy shots.
Getting Your Allergy Shots
Allergy shots are typically given in your doctor’s office about 1 - 3 times per week for 3 - 6 months. This is called the "build up" phase. Additional doses are given for 3 - 5 years every 4 - 6 weeks. This is called the "maintenance" phase. The shot is usually given in the upper arm area.
Keep in mind that many visits are needed to feel the full effects of this treatment. Your doctor will assess your symptoms on occasion to help decide when you can stop your allergy shot treatment.
Side Effects of Allergy Shots
An allergy shot may cause a reaction on the skin (such as redness, swelling, and itching) or a mild nasal stuffiness or runny nose.
Though rare, it can also cause a severe life-threatening allergic reaction called anaphylaxis. As a result:
- You may need to stay in your doctor’s office for 30 minutes after your shot to check for a reaction.
- You may be asked to take an antihistamine or other medication before your allergy shot appointment.
Reactions to allergy shots can be treated in your doctor’s office right away.
When to Call the Doctor
- You continue to have symptoms after several months of allergy shots.
- You have questions or concerns about the allergy shots and/or your symptoms.
- You are having trouble keeping appointments for your allergy shots.
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The other day at lunch I ran into a friend at McDonalds’s. As we were waiting in the order line, he said, “I feel like you need to know Spanish just to make an order.” As I looked at the pretty girl at the cash register she looked like she could be Mexican. As we got closer, she sounded just like the two of us and I could detect no accent. She sounded like a plain, old Utahan. Her English was perfect … according to anyone from Utah.
As I have reflected on the statement of my friend, I realize that I have frequented many fast food businesses that hire a lot of Spanish people, some with heavy Spanish accents. This also includes hotel, resorts, restaurants and many other service related businesses. Years ago I read an article about a person who hired a lot of people and he commented that he found his best employees were immigrants. He said they worked much harder and were more loyal than the people born in the United States. So when he was looking to hire, his preference was to find someone wanting to work that came from another country.
A few years ago, a man from Mexico worked for me. He was well educated, loyal, honest, resourceful and a very hard worker. Whenever I gave him a job he did it fast and he did it well. I just pointed him in the right direction and let him go at it. He could do construction work; painting, electrical and you name it. He could do it all. As we worked together I found he could even repair my automobile whenever I had a problem. I found he could do anything and everything I needed done.
One day I asked him how he had learned to do so many things. He told me his father owned an auto repair business and he had learned to repair engines and do body work as he was growing up. Then he went to a University in Mexico City and received a Civil Engineering Degree. I found he could do almost anything I needed done. He was an invaluable employee. It took me about a year to find out who he really was.
The one thing I have not told you is that he spoke hardly any English and I spoke hardly any Spanish. We made a great team. We resorted to the use of sign language, pointing, drawing and things like that to communicate and sometimes an interpreter. I found he could read English if I gave him something written down. He could follow diagrams but he couldn’t speak the language. The very sad thing is that I paid him a menial wage and no one would pay him anymore because he could not speak English.
Eventually he went back to Mexico feeling he could make a better living. What a disservice we, as a country, are doing to these immigrants that come to our country looking for the American Dream. These bright, motivated, industrious people could be valuable assets to us … if only we would require them to learn English so they could be more functional. We have wonderful ESL language courses that are easy to us and cover many different languages for people coming here to find their American Dream. | <urn:uuid:ed923b01-d30d-45a1-be0e-b32da9db8a8c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pimsleurmethod.com/blog/2011/03/08/order-please/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.994302 | 635 | 1.796875 | 2 |