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LEXINGTON, KY (Feb. 6, 2013) – Keeneland officials announced today that the Keeneland Library has secured the Thoroughbred Times library collection, which was recently sold via an online auction.
Approximately 10,000 volumes and 57 file cabinets comprising books, journals, historic clip files and photographs are among the contents acquired by Keeneland. The collection will be open to the public once it is inventoried and cataloged.
“The Thoroughbred Times library is an extremely well-crafted collection,” Keeneland Library Director Becky Ryder said. “Much of it will fill gaps in Keeneland’s collection, and some of it will be used in future digitization projects. The photographs and photographic negatives are unique, priceless resources that will greatly enhance the work of researchers.”
Books and journals, some dating from the 19th century, which cover an extensive range of Thoroughbred-related topics, highlight the Thoroughbred Times collection. Featured among its other contents are complete runs of such fundamental titles as The Blood-Horse, Daily Racing Form Monthly Charts, Thoroughbred Record and Thoroughbred Times, as well as such historical materials as The Spirit of the Times, Turf Field and Farm, Irish Racing Calendar and British Racing Calendar.
The collection includes stallion registries and stud books from Europe, Asia, Australia, Latin America and the United States.
Keeneland also acquired approximately 220,000 photographic prints and 250,000 digital images from the 1940s to the present.
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- A Texas toll road with the nation's highest speed limit will get signs warning drivers about wildlife after at least three incidents of vehicles colliding with animals in the first few days of the new 85 mph zone.
The private company that runs the 41-mile portion of Texas Highway 130 said Tuesday temporary electronic message boards were being used until permanent signs can be installed.
SH 130 Concession Co. spokesman Chris Lippincott says the company decided to put up the signs based on early driving experiences on the north-south freeway designed as a bypass around Austin. The 85 mph portion opened last week.
Authorities say there have been at least three collisions, including two with wild hogs. No one in the vehicles was hurt.
At his body shop in Lockhart, Tommy Barron is used to seeing animal collisions, just not like this.
"I think this gentleman hit 4 or 5 hogs at one time," explained Barron as he pointed to a Chrysler 300 bearing a crushed front grill, dented door, and cracked wheel.
The almost $10,000 worth of damage came in a split second. The sedan, far from the only casualty.
"They say, 'Maybe if I wasn't going so fast I would have been able to see that deer or that hog' you know?"
Urban wildlife biologist Jacob Hetzel says keeping hogs off the roads can turn expensive quickly, but one thing that might help, is time.
"Once the highway starts getting heavier usage from now on the people and the pigs will start taking notice of each other," said Hetzel, who explains hogs will learn the dangers of using the highway at night, just as drivers do.
In addition to those signs, wildlife agencies are trapping feral hogs. Officials say so far the numbers aren't going down, but they do hope to keep them in check. | <urn:uuid:d6ec5c98-43c4-414b-94b1-1511cbee6741> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kvue.com/video/yahoo-video/Wildlife-signs-set-after-collisions-in-85-mph-zone-176471331.html?ref=prev | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968802 | 387 | 1.890625 | 2 |
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Pray for Peace but Pay for War?
by Maurice F. McCrackin
I do not think of the defense in this trial as a defense of me as a person, but rather the defense of a principle and that, the right of a Christian, yes, a Presbyterian Christian to follow what he believes to be God's will as it has been shown to him in Jesus Christ.
In June 1945 I was offered the position of co-pastor of the West Cincinnati St. Barnabas Church. Since the church was in a racially inclusive neighborhood and because of my deep Interest in church union and cooperation, I gladly accepted the opportunity to share in this venture undertaken by the Episcopal and Presbyterian denominations, and began work in August of the same summer. Two months later we opened a settlement house at what was the St. Barnabas Episcopal Church building. Before the federation of the two congregations Negroes were not welcome at either church, and so children and teenagers came by the hundreds to enjoy the activities at the new settlement house. Soon we organized a community council and tried to come to grips with community problems. Ties in church and settlement house were growing strong and meaningful. Camp Joy opened to children of all races and creeds, and with integrated camping and a racially mixed staff, children and teenaged young people grew in self-awareness and in respect and love for one another.
All the while our community work was expanding, cold war tensions were increasing. Nuclear bombs were fast being stockpiled and reports were heard of new and deadlier weapons about to be made. Fresh in my mind were the bombed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the crowded, deprived areas of these two cities were people working as we were now working in Cincinnati to build a happier, healthier community. There were nurses, teachers, domestic workers, laborers, and secretaries. There were babies, children, young people, and adults living together, playing and working together, and praying together. The bomb fell and they, their institutions, their community organizations, all were destroyed.
It came to me that if churches, settlement houses, schools, if anything is to survive in Cincinnati or anywhere else, something must be done about the armaments race, a race which has always resulted in war. I preached against violence, against hatred, against wars, cold or hot. I preached about the dangers which the entire world faced and which had been made so vividly clear by renowned scientists. I was preaching, but what was I doing? We must build peace in our local communities; this we were doing but what about the international community? When I thought of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and of other cities in so-called enemy countries, which we were preparing to incinerate with even more deadly and devastating weapons, I said to myself, "I can no more give consent to the committing of this terrible atrocity against cities in Japan, Russia, or any other country than I would give my consent to such acts of barbaric cruelty being committed against my friends and neighbors surrounding the church and neighborhood house."
Long before, I had decided that I would never again register for the draft nor would I consent to being conscripted by the government in any capacity. Nevertheless each year around March 15 without protest I sent my tax payments to the government. By giving my money I was helping the government do what I so vigorously declared was wrong. I would never give my money to support a house of prostitution or the liquor industry, a gambling house or for the purchase and distribution of pornographic literature. Yet year after year I had unquestionably been giving my money to an evil infinitely greater than all of these put together, since it is from war's aftermath that nearly all social ills stem.
Income tax paid by the individual is essential to the continuance of the war machine. Over 50 percent of the military budget is paid for by individuals through their income tax payments and 75 to 80 percent of every dollar they pay via income tax goes for war purposes.
Again I examined what the principle of personal commitment to Jesus meant to me. Through the years I have tried to achieve a personal relationship with Jesus. This is the burden of the Christian gospel, that Jesus can be known personally and that he can bring a saving power into a man's life. For us Christians to know Jesus personally has reality only as we try earnestly to grow more like him "unto the measure of the stature of his fullness." If we follow Jesus afar off, if we praise his life and teachings but conclude that neither applies to our daily living, what are we doing but denying and rejecting him? Jesus speaks with authority and with love to every individual. "Follow me. Take up your cross. Love one another as I have loved you." What would Jesus want me to do in relation to war? What must I do if am his disciple? This was the conclusion I reached: If I can honestly say that Jesus would support conscription, throw a hand grenade, or with a flame thrower drive men out of caves, to become living torches-if I believe he would release the bomb over Hiroshima or Nagasaki, then I not only have the right to do these things as a Christian, I am even obligated to do them. But if, as a committed follower, I believe that Jesus would do none of these things, I have no choice but to refuse at whatever personal cost, to support war. This means that I will not serve in the armed forces nor will I voluntarily give my money to help make war possible.
Having had this awakening, I could no longer in good conscience continue full payment of my federal taxes. At the same time I did not want to withdraw my support from the civilian services which the government offers. For that reason I continued to pay the small percentage now allocated for civilian use. The amount which I had formerly given for war I now hoped to give to such causes as the American Friends Service Committee's program and to other works of mercy and reconciliation which help to remove the roots of war.
As time went on I realized, however, that this was not accomplishing its purpose because year after year the government ordered my bank to release money from my account to pay the tax I had held back. I then closed my checking account and by some method better known to the Internal Revenue Service than to me, it was discovered that I had money in a savings and loan company. Orders were given to this firm, under threat of prosecution, to surrender from my account the amount the government said I owed. I then realized suddenly how far government is now invading individual rights and privileges: money is given in trust to a firm to be kept in safety and the government coerces this firm's trustees into a violation of that trust. But even more evil than this invasion of rights is the violence done to the individual conscience in forcing him to give financial support to a thing he feels so deeply is wrong. I agree wholeheartedly with the affirmation of Presbytery made in February of 1958, that, "A Christian citizen is obligated to God to obey the law but when in conscience he finds the requirements of law to be in direct conflict with his obedience to God, he must obey God rather than man."
Disobedience to a civil law is an act against government, but obedience to a civil law that is evil is an act against God.
At this point it came to me with complete clarity that by so much as filing tax returns I was giving to the revenue department assistance in the violation of my own conscience, because the very information I had been giving on my tax forms was being used in finally making the collection. So from this point on, or until there is a radical change for the better in government spending I shall file no returns.
The nations seem unable to agree on any negotiated disarmament, and certainly there is little hope that in the foreseeable future any will do so unilaterally. At no time in human history, therefore, has there been such an acute necessity for individuals to disarm unilaterally, to behave as moral and responsible human beings, and to do what they know to be right, beginning now. Some have said that this is the age of the common man. However, if we are to survive, it must become the age of the uncommon man. Unilateral, personal disarmament means that we will accept only work which contributes to the peace, welfare, and uplift of mankind. One by one people are responsible for the most horrible crimes. These are not bad people; they are good people, many socially concerned, pillars of church and society. Yet, with little or no inward protest they respond to the state's demands to do all kinds of ghastly jobs-to perfect the H-bomb or the more terrible cobalt bomb, to work in laboratories co perfect still more deadly nerve gas or to help spawn insects which will be more deadly germ carriers. The state persuades these and others that they are not really responsible for what they are doing, that they are only small cogs in a big machine and if they have guilt it is so slight they shouldn't worry over it.
Leo Tolstoy described this evil process of rationalization in his book The Kingdom of God Is within You. He asks, "Is it possible that millions of men can go on calmly committing deeds which are so manifestly criminal, such as are the murders and tortures they commit, simply from fear of punishment? Surely these things would not exist were not the falsehood and brutality of their actions hidden from all classes of men by the system of political organization. When such deeds are committed, there are so many instigators, participants, and abettors that no single individual feels himself morally responsible. The rulers of the state always endeavor to involve the greatest number of citizens in the participation of the crimes which it is to their interest to have committed. Some demand it, some confirm it, some order it, and some execute it."
This evil chain of violence and death must be broken and it will be broken when enough individuals say to the state, "You may order me to do something I believe wrong but I will not execute your command. You may order me to kill, but I will not kill nor will I give my money to buy weapons that others may do so." There are other voices that I must obey. I must obey the voice of humanity which cries for peace and relief from the intolerable burden of armaments and conscription. I must obey the voice of conscience, made sensitive by the inner light of truth. I must obey the voice heard across the centuries, "Love your enemies, pray for those who despitefully use you and persecute you." In obedience to these voices lies the only path to brotherhood and peace. And these are the voices I must obey.
From Instead of Violence, Beacon Press, Boston 1963
This reading is from The Class of Nonviolence, prepared by Colman McCarthy of the Center for Teaching Peace, 4501 Van Ness Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20016 202/537-1372 | <urn:uuid:869872c2-7ab4-4657-a863-8890987fa8bc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://salsa.net/peace/conv/8weekconv7-5.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98232 | 2,247 | 2.75 | 3 |
Research is a lot like volunteer work because every medical student will have it on their application. Therefore, so should you. However, unlike volunteering, lying about research when you have not done any is more problematic. Since research is more technical than that "touchy-feely volunteer work" stuff, it is harder to pull off having done some when you really haven't. If you want to say you have done some research, it is important for you to be able to back it up with things like talking about how important your research is to all of society and dropping scientific terminology. Otherwise it is best not to mention research at all.
There are two kinds of research: clinical research and basic science research. Clinical research involves a lot of talking to patients and crunching data. It will be pretty easy for you to get a publication out of clinical research because clinical researchers will publish anything.
On the other hand, basic science research involves you spending a lot of time in a dirty old lab, doing a lot of science experiments which fail most of the time. For this reason, it is more difficult to get a publication out of basic science research. Another reason is that most professors in charge of labs are socially inept and have no desire to help you succeed. Even with all these drawbacks, medical schools like seeing basic science on applications more than clinical research because they know that clinical researchers do not actually do any work. | <urn:uuid:280af34c-94ef-459c-9367-59847be33d8c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://medschoolishard.blogspot.com/2008/06/research.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963497 | 285 | 2.046875 | 2 |
According to Hill, Lodovico Luti 'is presumably the man, an enemy of Pandolfo Petrucci, who was murdered in Florence on 26 June 1498'. Petrucci was the brutal tyrant who ruled Siena between 1487 and 1512. Niccolò's medal identifies Luti 'of Siena'; from his clothing he may have been a merchant. It is not possible to tell if this is a posthumous portrait, although given Luti's fate the motto on the reverse seems particularly pertinent - prius mori qua turpari, or 'rather death than dishonour'.
Niccolò's work has been characterised as follows:
Whatever the size of the medal, the portrait is distinctive and confident, dominating the circular field, although in most cases the lettering is not as elegant. Each head is strongly individualized and modelled in fairly high relief. The economical style includes the essential contours and features, while conveying a feeling for the plasticity of flesh and the bone structure that brings the subjects to life, despite their presentation in strict and impersonal profile. Few other Renaissance medallists were able to produce so evocative a series of portraits, but this was, perhaps, to be expected in the environment of Quattrocento Florence. By contrast, the reverses of Niccolò's medals are mostly either clumsy, derivative, repetitive or inappropriate. At best, they exhibit a rough charm ...
Like several other medallists of the time, Niccolò did not always pay much attention to the appropriateness of the reverse theme. In this instance, Fortune, the goddess of antiquity, is associated with the chances of the sea and mariners' lives. She is shown here on a dolphin, with a billowing sail to remind the viewer of the inconstancy of fate. An ermine watches from the shore. Prius mori qua turpari may have been a family motto, and the ermine a family emblem. It may possibly refer to Luti's occupation as a furrier or fur-trader, and thus dependent on fickle Fortune.
This reverse was used for at least two other medals Niccolò, one of Alessandro Vecchietti 1498, whose family arms include five ermines, and the other of Nicolas Tranquier 1503. Hill judged the Luti medal reverse as 'probably the original'; this seems possible given a likely latest dating of 1498. | <urn:uuid:5ced3a72-0e34-48fb-9614-3eca8c8e59e6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nga.gov.au/International/Catalogue/Detail.cfm?IRN=54563 | 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 | 0.944517 | 514 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Cases in Financial Reporting by Michael Joseph Sandretto consists of solutions manual and new instances on subjects for accounting and related programs. Valuable history notes go with instances on crucial topics including fair-value reporting, discounted cash flows, and retiree benefits. Short Excel-based instances and complete teacher notes consist of two levels of evaluation questions and recommended remedies. These up-to-date situations are ideal for use in financial accounting, reporting, valuation, governance, as well as other MBA classes.
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Cases in Financial Reporting
Michael J. Sandretto
South-Western College Pub; 1 edition
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Review: The 7 Ages Of a Business by Dragos Roua
First of all, don’t start reading this book at 2 A.M. unless it’s Friday night. Otherwise, you’ll have hard time explaining to your boss why are you so late .
Ok, so what does Dragos writes about in his book?
From a perspective of an experienced entrepreneur, Dragos describes the ages that a business goes through from its birth till it’s (successful) end. In a simple, yet effective way, every age is described from the viewpoint of the entrepreneur: through his thoughts, wishes and, most importantly, actions. Everyone starting or running a business will have no problem identifying the age in which their business is.
The biggest value of the book lies within the do’s and don’ts for every age. Not all actions are always good or always bad in a business’ lifetime. Nor do they bring the same benefits in all ages. That’s why Dragos tells you in which age to apply what action to make the most out of it.
I highly recommend reading this book every couple of months if you’re running your own business. It will give you the big picture of your standpoint and both help you and remind you which road to take when faced with difficult decision-making. | <urn:uuid:1891deb6-53c9-4eb5-815d-bfe6c54495d4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dejanmaric.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/review-the-7-ages-of-a-business-by-dragos-roua/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954337 | 279 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Crime Magazine is about true crime: organized crime, celebrity crime, serial killers, corruption, sex crimes, capital punishment, prisons, assassinations, justice issues, crime books, crime films and crime studies.
Sept. 23, 2010
William Hare and William Burke
William Burke and William Hare are the most famous grave robbers of 19th century Scotland, but none of the 16 fresh corpses they turned over for dissection in the anatomy classroom of Dr. Robert Knox at 10 Surgeon Square in Edinburg, came from any graveyard.
by Mark Pulham
Up the close and down the stair,
In the house with Burke and Hare.
Burke’s the butcher, Hare’s the thief
Knox, the man who buys the beef.
It is dark, and the only sound is that of someone digging. As quietly as they can, the grave robbers remove the earth from the newly interred and remove the lid of the coffin. Fearful of capture, they remove the corpse and hurriedly get away before someone discovers them. It is a profitable and fast growing business. And the most famous body grave robbers of all are Burke and Hare. In films and stories, they are shown committing this dreadful act. But the films and stories got it wrong, Burke and Hare never dug up a body. No, they were far worse.
In Britain, the Murder Act of 1752 made it illegal for any doctor to perform a dissection on a corpse, unless the corpse was that of an executed criminal. In the 1700’s, any number of crimes could result in the death penalty. Even petty crimes such as cutting down trees, pick pocketing more than a shilling, stealing a horse or a sheep (hence the phrase, “may as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb”) or being out at night with a blackened face could result in an execution. As a result, there were hundreds of corpses available each year.
By the 1800’s, as the number of medical students began to grow, the demand for cadavers increased, but by now laws allowing more lenient punishments were on the books and the number of criminals executed had fallen to as low as 50 to 60 a year.
As always, with demand outstripping supply, someone would provide the bodies. Anatomists would turn a blind eye when the resurrection men came around with a recently interred corpse. Body snatching became a lucrative business and was so common that many graveyards built high walls and railings around them and erected watchtowers. | <urn:uuid:26f73939-ff64-430b-8ad8-7c3726f27bef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://crimemagazine.com/burke-hare-%E2%80%9Cburkers%E2%80%9D?page=5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96579 | 530 | 3.359375 | 3 |
FLOWER MOUND (CBSDFW.COM) – Celebrating independence seems as natural as baseball, hot dogs, and apple pie, but a Harvard study of voters born between 1920 and 1990 suggests attending just one July 4 celebration under the age of 18 has an effect.
These children, the study says, have a two percent greater likelihood of growing up identifying themselves as Republican, and four percent will vote Republican. North Texas families attending similar events weren’t so quick to buy into that, though.
“Oh, I would be suspicious of how the study was conducted,” said Mario Covarrubias, whose wife and five kids joined him at the Children’s Independence Day Parade in Flower Mound. “I think that Republicans and Democrats both celebrate the 4th of July; I think patriots are on both sides of the aisle.”
Parade attendee Abbey Stanford agreed with him.
“I don’t think it really makes a difference. I celebrate all the holidays with my daughter, because she gets into it, I think it’s something to celebrate because it’s the independence of America. I don’t really think it has a reflection on whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat.”
Harvard is hardly a conservative think tank. So why this conclusion?
“I don’t think Democrats should be tremendously worried about it,” said UNT Political Science Professor Valerie Martinez-Ebers.
She teaches American government, and she believes the Harvard study over-samples whites and under-samples lower income workers as it depends partly on an earlier study of American voters, the American National Election study.
“We don’t know what their partisanship is of their parents, we don’t even know where they lived as children; we just know where they live now – which is in Republican-dominated counties, which is where they find the effects.”
And she believes Independence Day celebrations are important – no matter party affiliation – and that’s what residents should see as the bottom line.
“The importance of parents teaching their children about what a national holiday is, and the significance of what the 4th of July is, of course. “
Back in Flower Mound, one of the primary July 4 sponsors is the Summit Club of Flower Mound, which gave away 3,000 hot dogs at the event.
It says specifically in its literature that it is a “non-political organization.”
Club member and Vice President Claudio Forest said political involvement has nothing to do with the club’s service.
“I can’t say that I’ve voted strictly Republican or strictly Democrat, so I don’t think that’s a valid point,” he said.
Cooking hot dogs alongside him was Scott Baker, who added, “in this area no matter whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat, if you love your country you’re out here and you’re enjoying your community, your friends, and your family.” | <urn:uuid:636ad227-fbf7-448a-93c7-48e0f0b8a2e9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/07/04/harvard-study-kids-at-july-4-events-more-likely-to-side-with-gop/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967119 | 654 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Eight King’s College students, under the direction of history department faculty members Daniel Clasby and Thomas Mackaman, have conducted extensive research on the 1919 Baltimore Mine Tunnel Disaster in Wilkes-Barre.
The research effort was undertaken in response to a request to King’s from the Wilkes-Barre Mayor’s office for assistance. The Mayor’s office was contacted by Katie Laverly, a local resident whose two uncles were among the 92 miners killed in the incident.
Anabaptist scholar Dr. Donald Kraybill of Elizabethtown University will discuss “What’s Amish about Amish Business? Ethics, Economics, and Entrepreneurship,” during a free public lecture at King’s College at 3:30 p.m., Monday, Feb. 4, in the Burke Auditorium, William G. McGowan School of Business, located on North River Street. In case of inclement weather, the event will be held on Feb. 6.
Forty-seven King’s College students have begun a 14-week student teaching experience at area elementary, junior-high, and senior-high schools. The supervised student teaching experience is necessary to fulfill King’s degree requirements and to obtain a Pennsylvania Teacher Certificate.
King’s College is a Catholic College Sponsored by the congregation of Holy Cross.
Ten King's College students are studying in foreign countries for academic credit during the spring semester.
Sarah Costa, Shannon Rowan, and Vanessa Wagner will study at University College Dublin in Ireland. A junior majoring in marketing, Costa will study at Quinn School of Business. Rowan is a junior majoring in English and Wagner is a sophomore majoring in physician assistant studies. | <urn:uuid:e9c64603-0487-442e-a3d9-2e0e53faa129> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kings.edu/news_and_events?page=7 | 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 | 0.938706 | 362 | 2 | 2 |
The only time visitors to Turkey are asked not to wear shorts and women are requested to cover their arms and legs is when they visit a mosque. This is asked as a gesture of respect, much as when tourists visit European cathedrals. While, for cultural or religious reasons, many Turkish women do cover their heads, it is not obligatory for a tourist to do so. You may barrow a scarf at the entrance of the mosque.
The major restaurants usually do not add tips to bills,therefore the general tendency is to leave approximately %10 tip of total bill.
We highly recommend you to bargain with shop sellers at the Grand Bazaar.
DID YOU KNOW ?
Ataturk (the founder of the modern Turkish Republic) stayed here when in Istanbul and died here on the morning of November 10, 1938. Clocks throughout the palace are permanently stopped at five minutes past nine, the time of his death.
The Grand Bazaar (Covered Bazaar)
The Grand Bazaar is the oldest covered bazaar in the world, with more than 3,500 shops.
The Tunel Metro is the shortest underground railway in the world and also one of the oldest, built in 1871-76. It takes just 90 seconds to travel between Tunel square and Karakoy Square.
WHAT TO PACK
We recommend that you exchange at least a little money - just enough to cover airport incidentals and transportation to the hotel - before you leave home, so you can avoid queues at the airport ATMs.
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When we learned of a new statewide policy allowing EMTs to leave dead people in their homes it sounded callous, like a dump-and-run scheme designed to benefit ambulance companies.
But after some research and talking to state officials, we understand it as a justifiable response to changing times and technology. But it may take some time for that understanding to spread.
Some older readers may remember when funeral directors were the ambulance drivers for many rural areas. Some funeral hearses were even built to serve double duty with interiors that could be switched out depending upon the type of run.
In urban areas, firefighters trained in first aid were responsible for moving people from an emergency or illness at home to the hospital.
The premium then was placed on packing up a sick or injured person and rushing them — with lights flashing and sirens wailing — to the closest hospital.
As a result, many of us still have the expectation that when an ambulance arrives, the first priority should be loading up and moving out as quickly as possible.
Over the decades we learned how the first 10 or 20 minutes in a medical emergency can be the most critical.
We have responded by greatly expanding the training to the EMT level and vastly increasing the technology carried by crews to quickly assess and stabilize a sick or injured person.
EMTs now spend more time in the home working to save a life rather than rushing patients away to care that might be too late in coming.
But a recent change in practice has raised some eyebrows in Maine.
In December, Maine updated its EMS Prehospital Treatment Protocols giving EMTs and paramedics the authority to stop resuscitation efforts after 20 fruitless minutes.
Before, first responders would contact a medical control, such as an ER doctor, to make that call.
When patients are treated on the scene, more of them are going to die on the scene rather than in the back of a speeding ambulance.
And that has been an adjustment for families and ambulance crews.
Now, many families will learn in their own living room that their loved one has died … and an EMT will likely tell them.
After that, the rescue crew may pack up and leave while the family waits for a funeral home vehicle to arrive. And that may create, well, an awkward moment.
Yet family members have been dying at home since the beginning of time.
When you think about it, the last wish of many older people is to die at home rather than in a hospital.
Those who have attended a family death can probably attest that it is painful and vivid, but also a loving moment when everyone realizes a circle has been closed.
The new policy may allow for more of those quiet moments.
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Astronaut Dr. Don Pettit is currently orbiting the earth onboard the International Space Station, and is known for regularly sharing his cool on-orbit experiments. His latest experiment made me particularly excited, because it showed that there are craft tools in space! Pettit reveals that in his “crew preference” he has a few knitting needles. He admits to not having a lot of time for “knittin’ up here” but goes on to show a rad physics demonstration that includes droplets of water actually orbiting around the knitting needle. It’s hard to capture the beauty of this process in a still shot, so be sure to watch the video to learn all about why this happens. I imagine you’ll also enjoy Pettit’s charming way of saying “knittin’ needle.” I’ll also be dreaming of a day when knitting needles and embroidery hoops can be used for both cool physics experiments and crafting in space someday. Thank you for sharing, Dr. Pettit! | <urn:uuid:18e3c6ed-03ab-4cba-a3b8-77de5d61a2cf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.makezine.com/craft/water_droplets_dancing_around/?like=1&_wpnonce=dee27eefe3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949667 | 215 | 2.265625 | 2 |
One of the biggest reasons that people are denied the privilege of education is because they can’t afford it. However, today we live in a world where knowledge and information are at our finger tips like never before. Technology has leveled the playing field so that anybody with an interest and an internet connection can receive a world class education. Bloggers, podcasters, search engines and digital content creators of all types of have made it possible for us to learn virtually anything we want to even if we don’t have the money. If you want to learn anything chances are there is somebody creating content about the subject and sharing it with the world at no cost. Self Motivation is Not Optional
A stunning and eye-catching icon is an asset to any web design, but icons used in Mobile Web Design become an essential part of the user interface. What makes a mobile icon effective and stimulating is a large shape, unique visual style and the ability to communicate its intended use clearly, without requiring a lot of additional context. Free web elements, especially beautiful icon resources, can be found in nearly every designer’s toolbox. Below are 17 stand-out and free icon resources you can add to your own toolbox to aid in designing brilliant mobile apps and websites. Each set is licensed under a Creative Commons license . Advertisement
Though there’s a broad variety of fonts available for download online, designers keep on tracing the fresh ones to enhance their design copy, a website, brochure, or even an advertisement in a brand new an’ awesome way.
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MPP1031 - Exploring Christian Ministry
A course giving special attention to the personal and professional character of the minister and the practice of ministry.
The following learning objectives will be achieved by this course:
- Gain understanding and perspective about the role of Christian ministry.
- The ability to develop a philosophy of ministry that will enable an individual to gauge his/her effectiveness in ministry.
- Gain understanding and confidence in conducting Christian rituals.
- To help build basic skills for ministry in the 21st Century.
- To encourage the student minister to strengthen his/her personal relationship with Christ, especially in the areas of personal spiritual disciplines.
- To reinforce the importance of your personal God-given call to ministry.
The following competencies as outlined in the Sourcebook on Ordination: United States of America Edition, 2006 to meet the educational requirements for Ordination within the Church of the Nazarene will be achieved by completing this course:
- Ability to write an integrative philosophy of ministry that will answer, "why I do what I do when I do it".(CP-4)
- Ability to envision, order, participate, and lead in contextualized theologically grounded worship and to develop and lead appropriate services for special occasions (i.e. wedding, funeral, baptism, and Lord's Supper).(CP-21)
- Ability to understand and apply the unique ethical dimensions of spiritual leadership in the church.(CH-4)
- Ability to apply Christian ethics to the issues of the integrity, specifically as they relate to ministers and laity for authentic Christian faithfulness and public witness.(CH-5)
- Ability to practice faithful stewardship of personal relations including gender relationships, marriage & family, personal finance, and professional conduct.(CH-12)
- Ability to describe and cultivate healthy inter-personal relationships through personal communication skills, conflict resolution skills, nurturing relational strategies for marriage/family and congregational interaction.(CH-13)
- Ability to maintain a healthy balance between family, church, and community commitments.(CH-14)
- Ability to develop and utilize existing ministry forms such as evangelistic preaching, pastoral care preaching, doctrinal/teaching preaching and preaching Christian seasons/calendar by which individuals, families, and congregations may be formed in Christlikeness. (CP-23) Deacon, Chaplaincy
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Andy Dayton, associate web producer
These slides are from the results of a study released by the Yale Project on Climate Change in the autumn of 2008, which surveyed Americans on their ideas and attitudes about climate change (you can download a PDF of the report here).
This report made its way here last September when several SOF staff members attended an American Public Media conference on sustainability coverage — which also included producers from Marketplace, American Radio Works, and Minnesota Public Radio. Edward Maibach, one of the Yale study’s principal investigators, was also there to talk about the conclusions of the “Six Americas” — six different profiles of U.S. dispositions on climate change:
The Alarmed (18 percent of the U.S. adult population) are the segment most engaged in the issue of global warming. They are very convinced it is happening, human-caused, and a serious and urgent threat. The Alarmed are already making changes in their own lives and support an aggressive national response (see graphs below).
The Concerned (33 percent) are also convinced that global warming is a serious problem and support a vigorous national response. Members of this group have signaled their intention to at least engage in consumer action on global warming in the near term, but they are less personally involved in the issue and have taken fewer actions than the Alarmed.
The Cautious (19 percent) also believe that global warming is a problem, although they are less certain that it is happening than the Alarmed or the Concerned. They do not view it as a personal threat, and do not feel a sense of urgency to deal with it.
The Disengaged (12 percent) do not know and have not thought much about the issue at all and say that they could easily change their minds about global warming.
The Doubtful (11 percent) are evenly split among those who think global warming is happening, those who think it isn’t, and those who do not know. Many within this group believe that if global warming is happening, it is caused by natural changes in the environment. They believe that it won’t harm people for many decades, if at all, and they say that America is already doing enough to respond to the threat.
The Dismissive (7 percent), like the Alarmed, are actively engaged in the issue, but are on the opposite end of the spectrum. Most members of this group believe that global warming is not happening, is not a threat to either people or non-human nature, and strongly believe that it does not warrant a national response.
After looking through information on the subject, I’m pretty sure that I sit safely in the larger “concerned” category.
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Perry’s portrait of bourgeois Britain
Do Agas and Birkenstocks make us good people? Richard Godwin unpicks the artist’s vision
08 June 2012
Grayson Perry, the Turner Prize-winning artist, has described his new tapestries as a “commonplace tale of social mobility in average Britain”. The six intricately detailed images are inspired by William Hogarth’s classic etchings The Rake’s Progress, only instead of telling the tale of an 18th-century philanderer they depict a 21st-century software developer named Tim Rakewell. He is a man of his age. Born in working-class Sunderland, he moves up the social and economic ladder, acquiring a Kentish wife, many products designed by Terence Conran and a heavy dose of liberal guilt.
The Annunciation of the Virgin Deal is the fourth tapestry in the sequence of six. It shows Rakewell in his second home near Tunbridge Wells. He is seated on the right holding his baby; his wife is buried in her iPhone. In the centre is his business partner, his “angel” (note the wings), congratulating him on selling his media firm for £270 million to Virgin.
Like Perry’s excellent Channel 4 series, In the Best Possible Taste, the tapestries use everyday items to illuminate social differences. For, as the late sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, author of Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, would have told you, a Cath
Kidston bag is not just a flowery way for the middle class to yearn for a mythical past — it is a subtle instrument to communicate their own superiority.
Mindful of this, Perry has compiled a subtle and loaded Where’s Wally of bourgeois Britain. Here’s what we spotted in the needlework.
On a distressed table is a “still-life” representing the “bounty” of the Rakewells’ life, according to Perry. The iPad displays a Financial Times story announcing the deal that will make the family still richer. A Cath Kidston bag growls next to it. There are those ubiquitous Penguin Books mugs (even I have one!) with punning titles: Knowing Laughter by Ewan Nonyew and Class Traitor by Chip E Prole. I’m not sure what the balls in the bowl represent, but I am sure I have seen such orbs in fashionable London homes.
The artisanal jam label reads: “Allotment Organic Home-Made Local” — all values close to the bourgeois heart. But the organic vegetables themselves are a puzzle. The Guardian (headline: “Katie Price to Judge Booker Prize”) on which they rest indicates that it is January 3, so tomatoes, carrots and squashes would not all be in season. Is Perry suggesting that for all the emphasis on the local and seasonal, the middle classes remain oblivious to the circles of time? Perhaps that’s why the keys to the Citroën parked outside hang from an Alexander McQueen skull key-ring, a chic reminder that one day, we will all die.
The interior décor
The Rakewells have opted for a confident blend of classic and modern, complete with feature-wall, and vintage Swedish chairs. The sofa is aristocratic — but it has been rakishly reupholstered. The floor looks like Dalsouple in jade, which is only available commercially, so exclusive stuff. The Union Jack cushion is available at Liberty for £69.95, though possibly, now that the Jubilee is over, you might find one discounted? A second cushion reads Bourgeois and Proud (a clear sign of insecurity). Further markers include the Conran-style lampshades and. In the centre is a retro sunburst mirror of the kind your nan might have had, and you always thought was a bit grim, until you saw one in an Upper Street boutique for £395. (If you look closely, in the centre of it, you see the reflection of Perry himself, photographing the scene.) The child plays on an Afghan rug woven with a tank and a gun, indicating a love of travel, but also hinting at the far-flung wars fought in these people’s name. The blackboard is especially significant. They remind us of childhood, perhaps our only period of authentic innocence, while suggesting that life too can be wiped clean.
At the heart of the Rakewell’s kitchen, as in any Chipping Norton homestead, is an Aga Classic in cream, the impractical marker of rural affluence. Resting on the hot-plates are a Le Creuset casserole dish in turquoise and an Italian-style espresso maker, no doubt acquired on an Umbrian holiday. The tiles are from Fired Earth (79p per tile). Also visible are a pestle-and-mortar (Jamie Oliver, Perry’s “God of Social Mobility”, is always banging on about them); a basket of eggs, convenient trays for recycling, and a Make Tea Not War tea-towel — a popular slogan from the ineffective Anti-War March of 2003.
The church, representing spirituality, lurks irrelevently in the rear left. Never mind. On the feature wall are portraits two modern Gods, the late Steve Jobs of Apple and Bill Gates of Microsoft. Jobs dreamt up most of our operating systems, including the iPod, iPad and Central Nervous System; Gates meanwhile, has used his billions to fund immunisation programmes in Africa, though Microsoft’s products are less stylish than Apple’s. Hang on: is that a Faber edition of Philip Larkin’s poems on the sofa?
Tim is barefoot and wears geek glasses: the classic touchy-feely modern dad; a discarded pair of Birkenstock sandals lie to his side. His wife’s look is classic Boden catalogue: his business partner wears a Marni-esque power print. His boho mother-in-law is in Issey Miyake; his daughter wears a faux-Victorian smock.
A pug, a mutant breed prone to cute and debilitating deformities, lies on the sofa, an emblem of the Rakewells’ indolence and a tribute to pug-lover Hogarth.
In the bottom left corner, we see not only washable nappies, but washable maternity bra-pads (no area of life is more fraught with status anxiety than parenting). The Rakewells’ older daughter plays with wooden dolls — plastic toys are a bit working class. Outside, stands her tricycle and a brace of chickens, so she can learn about nature.
On the floor, behind the sofa, is a small inscription that gets close to the nub of Rakewell’s predicament: “He wants to be good.”
The Vanity of Small Differences is at Victoria Miro Gallery until 11 August (Victoria-miro.com, 020 7336 8109).
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America needs legislation to improve the safety of toxic chemicals, according to a coalition of advocates, scientists and health experts.
Chemicals and other environmental toxins have been implicated in diseases and disorders as varied as autism, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s, and asthma.
Two bills were introduced in Congress in 2010 to improve the safety of toxic chemicals and reform the 34-year old Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The outdated law only authorizes the Environmental Protection Agency to call for safety testing for chemicals that have already been shown to pose health risks.
The Toxic Chemicals Safety Act in the House and the Safe Chemicals Act in the Senate would not only empower EPA to take steps to minimize risks from chemicals proven to be dangerous, but would also require safety testing of all industrial chemicals, and require businesses to prove chemicals are safe before using them. Currently, only 200 of the more than 80,000 chemicals in existence have been tested for safety.
Dr. Philip Landrigan of the Mount Sinai Medical Center has said environmental causes are strongly associated with autism.
“Over the last decade, we’ve developed very good scientific information that links three or four classes of chemicals to brain injury in babies if the exposure occurs during pregnancy,” Landrigan told Examiner.com in 2010. “We’ve found that phthalates, brominated flame retardants, and certain pesticides are linked to loss of intelligence, attention deficit disorder, and Pervasive Developmental Disorder in children.”
Dr. Sarah Janssen, a scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council, told Examiner.com in 2010 that chemicals play a role in autism. “There are concerns that many chemicals in the environment are linked to autism, in particular, heavy metals and pesticides,” Janssen said. “The passage of this (Toxic Chemicals Safety) act would make a major impact not just on autism but all neurodevelopmental disorders in children and adults.”
And at a press conference sponsored by Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families last month, a panel of experts told reporters that toxic chemicals, already linked to autism, cancer and other health problems, have also been linked to an increase in reproductive health ailments such as infertility, early puberty, decreased sperm counts, breast cancer and prostate cancer.
Tracey Woodruff, a scientist with the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment at the University of California, San Francisco, told reporters that chemicals such as phthalates and bisphenol A (BPA), which are pervasive in many plastic products, can interfere with reproductive health and normal hormone function.
When asked about the role of chemicals and other environmental toxicants in autism, Woodruff told Examiner.com that the developing brain is especially vulnerable to certain chemical substances.
“Chemical prenatal exposures can adversely affect the developing brain in some way whether affecting behavioral or cognitive function,” Woodruff said.
“Mercury is an identified neurodevelopmental toxicant, meaning that a number of studies show that exposures that occur prenatally can adversely impact neurodevelopment. Phthalates have been implicated in affecting brain development in terms of how the children behave when they’re older.”
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This year's co-chairman Craig Sencindiver said organizers received a good response from the Hagerstown area, reaffirming his belief that the support comes because heart disease and stroke affect so many people.
"It's so personal to everyone," Sencindiver said.
Sencindiver, of Chambersburg, suffered a heart attack three years ago. A quick diagnosis and stents allowed him to regain better health and strength.
"It really comes from research dollars raised through events like the Heart Walk," he said.
The American Heart Association funded research for bypass procedures, pacemakers, valves and CPR, event organizer Sharon Strike said.
"That's how we make a difference," she said, saying the organization also serves as a legislative advocate for things like the Clean Indoor Air Act and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversight of tobacco.
The latest focus is on quality physical education in schools, Strike said.
Jamie Reynolds started volunteering with the American Heart Association when she was in high school. At age 12, the Greencastle native underwent a heart transplant after a virus destroyed her heart.
She credited the American Heart Association with providing "lifesaving research" for procedures like the one that allowed her to return to school in only two months.
"I think in my case it's important because without the research, the techniques wouldn't be available," Reynolds said.
On Sunday, she celebrated the 20th anniversary of her heart transplant and walked with her husband, William, and their two sons. Zakary Reynolds, 6, said he was glad the weather wasn't as hot as in 2008.
"They've grown up doing this," Reynolds said of her sons.
Ocker said she tries to make people aware that heart defects can be simple, like a hole in the heart, or complex, like the one suffered by her son. She supports research into pediatric treatments.
"Unless you've been through that, you don't know," she said.
As of 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Strike reported that a net amount of $107,000 had been turned in for the American Heart Association's premier fundraising event. But she hastened to add that some teams would report their pledges later, hopefully swelling that figure nearer to the $157,690 goal.
Erin Dowling served as this year's Red Cap spokesperson, representing all heart and stroke survivors.
Walkers could choose between a four-mile or 1.2-mile route.
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Toilet testing company Maximum Performance has developed dummy
poo made out of extruded soybean paste in order to assess how well
a particular toilet's flush performs.
Soybean paste is used to create the synthesised faeces because
it has similar physical properties such as density and moisture to
human waste. The testers place extruded cylinders of the paste into
toilet bowls along with toilet paper in order to test the
performance of toilet flushes.
The original testing protocol used soybean paste that had been
extruded through a 2.2 centimetre die and then cut into
10-centimetre-long 50g specimens. The size of the fake faeces being
placed in the bowl is made progressively larger (in 50g increments)
until the unit fails to clear the bowl in two or three flushes.
The minimum performance benchmark used by MaP was initially 250g
of waste -- that is, a toilet unit should be able to completely
evacuate 250g of waste in a single flush action. This value is
based on a 1978 study from the medical journal Gut,
of Colonic Function in Healthy Subjects. The study identified
that 250g was the average maximum faecal size of the male
participants in the study.
However, the US Environmental Protection Agency has adopted 350g
of the soybean paste as the minimum performance threshold for "high
Since the team started testing toilets in 2003, the average
score of tested toilets has moved form around 350g to more than
The team has also developed an "encased specimen" -- where the
soybean paste is enclosed in a thin latex membrane, much like how a
sausage is made. This means that the test poo can be reused up to
100 times, making it easier and cheaper for toilet manufacturers to
test their units at their own factories.
For more information about Maximum Performance's toilet tests,
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History of Perkin Discovery
Sir William Henry Perkin
At the time, Perkin was working as an assistant to August Wilhelm von Hofmann at the Royal College of Chemistry (now part of Imperial College) in trying to synthesize quinine which was an expensive natural product used for the treatment of malaria.
Perkin carried out research on coal-tar extracts at his home in East London during the Easter break and it was on 23 March 1856 that he made the discovery that aniline could be partly transformed into a crude mixture that when extracted with alcohol, gave an intense purple colour.
Bringing purple to the people
Until that time, almost all commercial dyes were natural products and expensive. The discovery of purple, the colour primarily associated with royalty because of its expense, occurred at the time of the Industrial Revolution in England which had been brought about largely by the advances in textile production. Therefore, purple became inexpensive and fashionable overnight and made Perkin a very rich man.
Perkin went on to study the ability of organic compounds to rotate polarized light and found the syntheses for coumarin, one of the first synthetic perfumes, and cinnamic acid, which became known as the Perkin Reaction.
Significance for the chemical industry
Until the discovery the organic chemical industry had been mainly confined to manufacturing soap from fats & oils so the accidental discovery of mauveine gave birth to the synthetic dyes industry, revolutionized fashion, sparked enormous interest in the commercial applications of chemistry. It was also indirectly responsible for enormous advances in medicine, perfumery, food, explosives, photography and other chemical products isolated from coal tar and the growth of industrial giants such as Bayer AG and ICI.
In 1906, Perkin was presented with the Perkin Medal by the American section of the London-based Society of Chemical Industry at a gala celebration in New York which was held to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the coal-tar dye industry. Fifty years after the discovery of mauveine it was estimated that the Perkin's work had led to the existence of 2,000 artificial colours.
A fun way to find out more about the discovery of the synthetic dye mauveine
European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences
Further details about the life of William H. Perkin
The Society of Dyers and Colourists
The SDC is a registered charity and its aims and objectives are 'to advance the science of colour' in the broadest sense
Society of Chemical Industry
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The Landmark Trust. St Augustine's Road, Ramsgate, Kent.. Augustus Welby Pugin (1812-1852), with some later alterations and additions by Edward, Peter Paul, and Cuthbert Pugin. Yellow brick with stone dressings. Main work, 1844-45, now faithfully restored by
Photographs, captions, and commentary by Jacqueline Banerjee. [You may use these images without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite it in a print one.]
Left to right: (a) Entrance gates to The Grange, added by Pugin's eldest son, Edward. (b) North Courtyard: this space also owes much to Edward Pugin. (c) Approaching the front door through Edward Pugin's covered walkway. (d) Augustus Pugin's stout, studded front door.
The Grange, part of a complex that includes St Augustine's Church, St Edward's Presbytery and the Cartoon Room or stained-glass studio, was the second home that Pugin built for himself. The first was St Marie's Grange, Aldebury, near Salisbury. Originally a fortress-like building, built in 1835 and sold by auction in 1841, this earlier house has been much altered, and remains in private hands today. During his years there, however, Pugin had useful practice in building plainer houses, mostly for the clergy, and came to prefer simpler designs (see Hill 292). So there is no whimsical dry moat and drawbridge arrangement in this second Grange. From the outside, some reminders of the first house are the protection of the family home within an inner courtyard (hence the rear view here); the little chapel projecting to the east, and the stout tower adorned with battlements. The latter feature is not just a fanciful medieval flourish: it houses the water tanks, and was also very useful to Pugin in his role as sailor-salvager, commanding wonderful views across the coast. The house used to be entered from an alley by a small side gate, until the more status-conscious Edward Pugin added the present large gates with a pair of heraldic lions on its gateposts. Edward also added the extended porch or timber-and-glass walkway leading to the front door. The door itself is Pugin's own, stout and iron-studded, further evidence of his lifelong dread of burglars.
Left to right: (a) A corner of the hallway. The openwork of the balustrade relieves the rather overwhelming effect of the typical Pugin wallpaper, the martlets (heraldic birds) on which are echoed in the hall chairs. These chairs are copies, but an original chair is exhibited in the Walker Gallery in Liverpool. (b) The library, showing where Pugin would work with his patron saints looking down on him from the stained-glass lights in the upper part of the bay window. (c) The compartmented ceiling, with a shield in each square, continues on into the sitting room on the other side of the green curtain: Pugin preferred this arrangement to a door, which might slam.
The most striking feature about the interior is the large hallway; all the main downstairs rooms open off it This plan might seem perfectly "rational" now (Newman 424), but only with hindsight. Pugin had created a superb galleried "Great Hall" for Scarisbrick Hall in Lancashire, but for himself he was just designing a small house, where family and servants would all be constantly coming and going in the same space. The fundamentally Gothic feature was revolutionary in such a context, but it was to prove practical and popular in later Victorian housing. For instance, a similarly large hallway is found in a house at Norham Gardens, North Oxford, on an estate where Pugin's inspiration has been acknowledged (see Long 5). But many, many people still live in Victorian or later homes with this kind of hallway. "The staircase itself, rising round three walls to a first floor balcony, is of Georgian generosity," continues John Newman, who then goes to the other side of the world to describe the "balustrading of panels of diagonal braces" as "à la chinoise" (424-5). In fact, as a later footnote points out, the attractive open-work pattern comes from old timber-framed houses in France, as shown in Pugin's own earlier Details of Antient Timber Houses (1837). Such puzzlement is proof, if any is needed, of how unusual this staircase was for its time.
Of the rooms opening off the hall, the most important is the library, described by Pugin's young assistant John Hardman Powell as "the most picturesque room in the house," where Pugin had his drawing board by the beautiful bay window. "Around the cornice are the Arms of his special friends; the walls are shelved for his multitude of sketches and books of reference, 'all handy'. And here he worked, only interrupted by chapel, food and daily walk" (Powell 13)..
Left to right: (a) Portrait of Pugin, by J. R. Herbert; the original hangs in the Pugin Room, now used as a tea-room in the Houses of Parliament. (b) Corner of the dining room: the central shield over the fireplace shows the Pugin martlet and the Knill lion; the birds depicted on the fireplace look like martlets as well. (c) The only original piece of furniture in the house: the kitchen dresser.
Pugin was fond of interconnecting rooms, and the library opens into the drawing room (which also opens off the hall). Perhaps the most immediately eye-catching items in here are the companion portraits of Pugin and his third wife Jane, née Knill, reproductions of those by J. R. Herbert and G. A. Freezor respectively. Their gilded frames catch the lamplight, making them hard to photograph in their entirety. Herbert's portrait gives little idea of his subject's restless, driven personality, but does manage to hint at the mixture of the alert and the visionary in his nature. The panelled ceiling in here, like that in the library, has been restored, and the "En Avant" wallpaper faithfully copied from surviving scraps. Important original features are the windows (again, discussed separately), and the fireplace.
However, the latter is less impressive than the one in the dining-room on the other side of the hall, adjacent to the library. Though small, the dining room was another vital space for Pugin. "Like all men of vigour he had a strong appetite," says Powell, explaining that the larder of The Grange was always well stocked: "He liked nothing better than a roast leg of mutton, and on Family Feasts he would deal out with strict impartiality almonds and raisins, or a slice of cake' (15). Newman describes the fireplace in here as having "an excellently crisp chimneypiece under a hood stretching from side to side of the room" (425). The main relief on the stone shows St Augustine, the great Christian missionary who first landed in Kent, with angels on either side; the text on the long beam above is from the Magnificat.
Nearly opposite the dining room is the kitchen wing, the kitchen still sporting its original solid dresser. This is the kind of good "honest," functional but beautifully finished piece that would inspire William Morris, the very antithesis of the elaborate reception-room furniture produced by the High Victorian designers. Past the dining room on one side and the kitchen wing on the other is the little chapel and its sacristy, facing east, where the family gathered regularly for worship.
Left to right: (a) The passage from the landing, with light pouring in from every doorway; Pugin designed with such factors as light and vistas in mind, paying attention to the views framed by each window. (b) Pugin's bedroom, papered with the same blue "En Avant" wallpaper that was found in his wife's room, with which it connects. (c) The fireplace in Pugin's bedroom. (d) Detail of the fireplace hood; notice the Pugin martlets, and the motif created from intertwined initials.
Left to right: (a) The much more ornate fireplace in Jane's bedroom, by Edward Pugin, immediately illustrative of his High Victorianism. (b) The original fireplace in the children's bedroom, with suitable nursery motifs, initials and family shields; in keeping with Pugin's sense of family togetherness, there was no separate nursery suite for the children. (c) View of St Augustine's Church from a window on the tower stairs. (d) John Hardman Powell's bedroom in the tower.
The plan for the upstairs rooms is equally "rational," with the long passage allowing Powell "peeps into differently coloured bedrooms, with their mullioned windows, quaintly carved fireplaces and furniture, all hung with old paintings, choice impressions of etchings and engravings, Durer being prominent" — as Powell concludes, "a treat for Artists" (13). Pugin's and his wife's bedrooms were linked by a short passage, possibly used as a dressing room. Edward Pugin's taste is more evident in Jane Pugin's bedroom than in any of the other rooms, since it has been deliberately preserved here in order to show the change in style after Pugin's death. Fireplaces like the one in here, removed elsewhere, "would have been anathema to Pugin with their faux-Corinthian capitals," writes Caroline Stanford (35). When Pugin settled down here, there were a dozen people in the household, including the children, the domestic help and the chaplain he engaged partly to tutor the eldest boy, Edward. Powell's arrival brought the number up to thirteen. He would alarm his master by reading in bed with a flickering candle, and by sleepwalking noisily in his little tower room: "the other night he knocked his head dreadfully in figting (sic) in his room," complained Pugin (qtd. in Wedgwood 6).
Left to right:(a) View from the tower across St Augustine's Churchyard, towards Ramsgate ferry terminal. (b) View from the tower across St Augustine's Church and part of the Abbey opposite (for which Edward Pugin built the residential block); note the different roofs for different parts of the buildings, (c) The Cartoon Room in front of the main house
Pugin would watch from the tower in rough weather, and put out to sea in his lugger Caroline on rescue and salvage missions. Some of the sailors who drowned, despite his and his crew's efforts, are buried in the churchyard. But the view inland is more telling: from this height one gets a better idea of the whole community that Pugin planned, where family life, work and worship could proceed hand in hand in harmony.That is not to say that there were no boundaries, because Pugin was a man who loved order in his daily routines, and this is reflected in his plans. "Each part of the building is treated as a separate unit, different in size and covered by a different roof," as Stefan Muthesius points out, praising the "picturesque utility" of the layout (6). Even this is only part of a much larger vision. In Pugin's delightful view of the yet-to-be completed site, painted to display at the Royal Academy in 1849, children are shown playing on the lawn behind the house, under the watchful eye of adults or maybe older children seated on a garden bench; a small funeral service is being held in the adjoining graveyard; and people work in the fields nearby. The Cartoon Room, an entirely separate small building in the courtyard, where stained glass was designed, and where Powell had his workshop, is also clearly visible (see Stafford 18-19). Pugin strove to carry through into his daily life this noble vision of work, pleasant sociabilty and worship amid the natural cycle. But, alas, he suffered greatly from the pressure of his own high standards, and increasing ill health. The tranquillity of the scene, like the tall spire which he awards his church, would prove as elusive for him then as it is for us today.
- The stained glass windows in The Grange
- St Augustine's Church, Ramsgate
- Stained glass windows in St Augustine's Church/li>
- St Augustine's Abbey
- "A Marvellous Man" (Review of Rosemary Hill's God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain)
- "Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin" (by Charles L. Eastlake)
- St Marie's Grange, Aldebury
Hill, Rosemary. God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain. London: Penguin, 2008.
Long, Helen C. Victorian Houses and Their Details: The Role of Publications in Their Building and Decoration. Oxford: Architectural Press, 2002.
Newman, John. North East and East Kent (Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of England). 3rd ed. London: Penguin, 1983.
Muthesius, Stefan. The High Victorian Movement in Architecture, 1850-1870. London: Routledge, 1972.
Powell, John Hardman. Pugin in His Home: Two Memoirs by John Hardman Powell. Ed. Alexandra Wedgwood. New enlarged edition. Ramsgate: The Pugin Society, 2006.
Stanford, Caroline. The Grange. Maidenhead: The Landmark Trust, 2008.
Wedgwood, Alexandra. Introduction. Pugin in His Home: Two Memoirs by John Hardman Powell, by John Hardman Powell.
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If you didn’t see it already, our friend and fellow space tweep @milesobrien did a great job in his post defending shuttle workers today. It is just too bad that we even needed defending. Apparently a reporter at WESH (Central Florida) misconstrued the facts to make it sound as though NASA was investigating possible actions of its contractor workforce to delay the shuttle manifest. In other words, he made it sound like NASA suspected us contractors of deliberately dragging out the program to delay the inevitable end of the shuttle program in order to keep our jobs longer.
This couldn’t be further from the truth. Miles’ article is a great read for explaining exactly why that is such a ridiculous claim. The highest member of management in our company at KSC sent out an email to every employee this morning to let us know that neither our company, nor NASA was contacted for this story, and that the “facts were distorted to sensationalize a story.”
The email went on to ask us to please ignore this irresponsible journalism and not let it distract us from our jobs. We were assured that NASA has the utmost faith in our work and that the claims in the
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TORONTO — Alberta Premier Alison Redford has a plan to move us beyond all the acrimony over Alberta’s oil sands and the pipelines that transport the black, carbon-intensive gold they contain. She calls it a “national energy strategy.” That’s strategy, not program, before you crack wise — and she’s going to grab this bull by the horns, not Ottawa.
“I see this as one big country with an awful lot of Canadians who have an interest in what our economic future will be,” Ms. Redford told reporters in Toronto on Wednesday.
Her big idea, outlined at a lunchtime address at the Royal York Hotel sponsored by the Economic Club of Canada, is that in a fact-based regulatory process, oil sands skeptics in the government and NGO communities will abandon their prejudices. They will agree to measurable targets for greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental goals, with results published independently and proactively. This calmer attitude would spread to Toronto, Ottawa, Nebraska, the White House and beyond.
No more firewalls; no more tears. “We are a mosaic of peoples, regions and interests and we have always celebrated this diversity,” she said of Canada. “Energy should be no different. We are blessed with many sources, which is a strength rather than a liability.”
“The indecision around the Keystone XL pipeline demonstrates the necessity of looking to new markets,” she added. “But no matter where our search takes us, we can deliver. In Alberta’s case, this is thanks to Ontario.”
Yes, that was the the Premier of Alberta thanking Ontario for something — specifically for “invest[ing] in the oil sands at a time when other businesses were pulling out.”
“I speak for all Albertans when I say I am grateful for your support,” she added.
Many Albertans might disagree with that. And while Calgarian Jim Prentice, the former federal cabinet minister who is now a Bay Street bigwig at CIBC, referred to her on Wednesday as “the first woman ever elected to the position in our province” — true in its way — she’ll have to face opponents from other parties soon enough.
Still, if her outreach-and-conciliation approach seems naive, the oil sands debate in its current form is dreary and threadbare. When laissez-faire climate change skeptics duke it out with the oil-is-evil crowd, the simple reality — that the world will need this oil, and Canadians will need the money that comes from selling it, for the foreseeable future — too often gets ignored. This leads politicians to do impulsive and undesirable things, like punting a controversial pipeline downfield sooner than deal with it during an election campaign.
Some extremists, Ms. Redford concedes, are beyond reason’s reach. But whereas her predecessors overtly tried to “sell” the oil sands to skeptics, Ms. Redford promises a smarter, cooler-headed approach.
“I’m prepared to sit down with people and say, look, I know you’ve got concerns, let’s talk about them,” she explained. “Let’s get the facts right. We still may agree to disagree. But I think there’s an awful lot of back-and-forth right now — a lot of language, a lot of emotion — that isn’t actually getting us to an outcome.”
The challenges Ms. Redford faces are no less daunting for her conciliatory rhetoric, of course. “Facts” and data and targets — for emissions, water recycling, land reclamation, forest conservation — are only helpful if they demonstrate progress. Boasting of a one-third reduction in per-barrel emissions over the past 20 years doesn’t impress the carbon-phobics, for example, because it still represents more carbon released into the atmosphere.
In a meeting with the Calgary Herald’s editorial board this week, Ms. Redford came close to kiboshing any future carbon capture and storage projects. They cost staggering sums of money, but so does everything that might make the oil sands cleaner. That’s the main reason they haven’t been done before — and to many of her opponents to the right, they’re unnecessary and foolish anyway.
Ms. Redford’s worldly résumé is impressive — to Torontonians, anyway. While apparently not a fiery orator, she answers reporters’ questions with aplomb and substance. She’s certainly better suited than her predecessors to convince skeptics the oil sands aren’t so bad. The question is whether those opinions can soften enough to change the debate and the politics outside of Alberta — and whether Albertans are willing to mollify their energy policy even if they think they shouldn’t have to.
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Klaus Müller explains the history behind metering pumps and details how digital dosing enables their full potential.
“Flow monitoring allows pump speed adjustment as system conditions change”
From rudimentary machines relying on crude mechanical adjustments for controlling pump capacity in the 1940s to the vast improvements of handling difficult liquids and reduced operational costs of today, the evolution of technologies used in metering pumps demonstrates how changes have driven the industry to better control functions.
Applications where precise metering of liquids is important include the dosing of chemicals into water for pH adjustment or disinfection; addition of chemicals in process applications; and the metering of colors, flavors, or vitamins into foods, drugs, or personal care products.
The first commercial metering pump, developed in the late 1930s by Milton Sheen and son Robert used a packed plunger, driven through a gearbox by a foot mounted motor and a slider crank mechanism. The Sheens added a method of changing the plunger’s stroke length by adjusting the crank arm to vary the pump’s capacity. Later, Sheen added check valves to fit onto the pump head, and the first dosing pump was born.
Packed plungers used on all metering pumps typically leaked around the packing, reducing the pump’s accuracy so in the 1960’s diaphragms were introduced. To actuate the diaphragm, designers applied a closed volume of hydraulic oil between the plunger and the diaphragm. PTFE diaphragms made the pumps leak proof and chemical resistant.
A variation of this metering pump permitted control of capacity by adjusting the amount of hydraulic fluid activating the diaphragm, and eliminated mechanical linkages associated with stroke length adjustment, thus reducing metering pump cost.
A less costly alternative to the hydraulic system, mechanically actuated diaphragm pumps were developed which mechanically attached the reciprocating plunger to the diaphragm. This reduced the complexity and cost, especially for relatively low-pressure applications.
The 1970s introduced solenoid drive technology. The diaphragm was actuated by energizing and de-energizing a solenoid, and with only a few moving parts and an electronic signal, accurate dosing of chemicals was achieved at a much lower cost. Despite shortcomings of the solenoid pumps ― reduced life caused by diaphragm stress and increased intensity of pressure pulsations ― the simplicity and lower cost resulted in exponential increases of the number of applications of diaphragm metering pumps.
In the 1980s, another low cost alternative to the solenoid metering pump employed a constant speed synchronous A.C. motor and a mechanically actuated design. Throughout the 1990s, variable frequency drives, stepper motors, and servo motors were incorporated, permitting the pump’s capacity to be controlled by varying the stroke length and pump speed. This provided increased capacity range for a metering pump which broadened a pump’s application capabilities.
Introduced next were automatic stroke length adjustment mechanisms, but due to the absence of software controls, switching back and forth between stroke length and speed adjustment was cumbersome. Also, confirming the capacity setting of the pump being achieved was still elusive.
In recent years, a new generation of diaphragm metering pumps, incorporating digital technology to improve accuracy and process control, saves users money by lowering the amount of chemicals used, and reduces the number of pump sizes required.
Using stepper or brushless D.C. motors and software for improved electronic control, achieves consistent full stroke length, allowing for huge turndown ratios (eg. 1000:1), easier priming and more accurate handling of difficult liquids.
Key innovations incorporated into digital dosing pumps include precise and continuous monitoring of pressure, flow and amp draw on the motor. If the pump’s accuracy is being compromised due to air or gas bubbles, cavitations or leaking check valves, the pump can be set to self-adjust to compensate for these effects. Flow monitoring allows pump speed adjustment as system conditions change. By combining dosing, measuring, and regulating into the pump means that the user doesn’t have to calculate to determine the flow setting, but merely inputs the desired flow rate.
New generation metering pumps allow for more concentrated chemicals to be used, eliminate the need for other accessories, and significantly reduce costs.
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Museo Playa Girón
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Museo Playa Girón (Bay of Pigs Museum) in Cuba is dedicated to the Bay of Pigs invasion.
In April 1961, during the Cold War, approximately 1,400 Cuban exiles invaded the Bay of Pigs - Playa Girón – with the aim of overthrowing Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
This attack failed in its entirety, with most of the force being taken prisoner and around one hundred being killed. The Bay of Pigs invasion was particularly humiliating for the US government under President John F Kennedy, who supported the exiles in their attempted coup by land and by air as well as training them.
Today, Museo Playa Girón is a small museum near the exiles’ landing site and battle sites. It houses a collection of photographs and other historic pieces relating to the invasion, whilst outside there lie the remains of an American aircraft as well as other military vehicles. Museo Playa Girón does not currently offer any English translation of its exhibits.
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Christ Died for the Ungodly By Horatius Bonar
“And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually†(Genesis 6:5).
The divine testimony concerning man is, that he is a sinner. God bears witness against him, not for him; and testifies that “there is none righteous, no, not oneâ€; that there is “none that doeth goodâ€; none “that understandethâ€; none that even seeks after God, and, still more, none that loves Him (Psa 14:1-3; Rom 3:10-12). God speaks of man kindly, but severely; as one yearning over a lost child, yet as one who will make no terms with sin, and will “by no means clear the guilty.â€
He declares man to be a lost one, a stray one, a rebel, a “hater of God†(Rom 1:30); not a sinner occasionally, but a sinner always; not a sinner in part, with many good things about him; but wholly a sinner, with no compensating goodness; evil in heart as well as life, “dead in trespasses and sins†(Eph 2:1); an evil doer, and therefore under condemnation; an enemy of God, and therefore “under wrathâ€; a breaker of the righteous law, and therefore under “the curse of the law†(Gal 3:10). The sinner not merely brings forth sin, but he carries it about with him, as his second self; he is a body or mass of sin (Rom 6:6), a “body of death†(Rom 7:24), subject not to the law of God, but to “the law of sin†(Rom 7:23).
There is another and yet worse charge against him. He does not believe on the name of the Son of God, nor love the Christ of God. This is his sin of sins. That his heart is not right with God is the first charge against him. That his heart is not right with the Son of God is the second. And it is this second that is the crowning, crushing sin, carrying with it more terrible damnation than all other sins together.
“He that believeth not is condemned already; because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God†(John 3:18). “He that believeth not God, hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record which God gave of his Son†(1 John 5:10). “He that believeth not shall be damned†(Mark 16:16). And hence it is that the first sin which the Holy Spirit brings home to a man is unbelief; “when he [the Holy Spirit] is come he will reprove the world of sin because they believe not on me†(John 16:8-9).
Man need not try to say a good word for himself, or to plead “not guilty,†unless he can shew that he loves, and has always loved, God with his whole heart and soul. If he can truly say this, he is all right, he is not a sinner, and does not need pardon. He will find his way to the kingdom without the cross and without a Saviour.
But, if he cannot say this, “his mouth is stopped,†and he is “guilty before God.†However favourably a good outward life may dispose him and others to look upon his case just now, the verdict will go against him hereafter. This is man's day, when man's judgments prevail; but God's day is coming, when the case shall be tried upon its real merits. Then the Judge of all the earth shall do right, and the sinner be put to shame. This is a divine verdict, not a human one. It is God, not man, who condemns; and God is not a man that He should lie. This is God's testimony concerning man, and we know that this witness is true. It concerns us much to receive it as such, and to act upon it.
“Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else†(Isa 45:22), a “just God and a Saviour†(v21). “Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon†(Isa 55:7).
Turn your eye, the eye of faith, to the cross and see these two things—the crucifiers and the Crucified. See the crucifiers, the haters of God and of His Son. They are yourself. Read in them your own character. See the Crucified. It is God Himself; incarnate love. It is He who made you, God manifest in flesh, suffering, dying for the ungodly. Can you suspect His grace? Can you cherish evil thoughts of Him? Can you ask anything further, to awaken in you the fullest and most unreserved confidence? Will you misinterpret that agony and death, by saying either that they do not mean grace, or that the grace which they mean is not for you? Call to mind that which is written—“Hereby perceive we the love of God, that he laid down his life for us†(1 John 3:16). “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins†(1 John 4:10).
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"Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after a powerful earthquake flattened the president's palace, the cathedral, hospitals, schools, the main prison and whole neighborhoods. Officials feared thousands — perhaps more than 100,000 — may have perished but there was no firm count.
Death was everywhere in. Bodies of tiny children were piled next to schools. Corpses of women lay on the street with stunned expressions frozen on their faces as flies began to gather. Bodies of men were covered with plastic tarps or cotton sheets.
said he believes thousands were killed in Tuesday afternoon's magnitude-7.0 quake, and the scope of the destruction prompted other officials to give even higher estimates."
Find links here to the Red Cross and other organizations where you can donate to help the relief effort in Haiti.
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Although almost no one can tell you when data is "big" or not, we all want do “something” with big data.
But collecting terabytes of data doesn’t guarantee we will also use the available data very useful. Three recent trends begin to change the status quo.
Methods for analysing big data have improved, so we are better able to focus on the important data and ultimately make a shift from analytics to actual actions.
Economists at some point decided that consumers make informed product purchases: A good balance between price and quality.
For decades, however, this view is falling apart, as consumers’ decisions are not rational. In my opinion this explains the differences in conversion between online and offline stores.
Successful (online) companies are organised to experiment continuously. This is preaching to the choir, something we all agree on.
But what exactly is the best way to experiment as a company? We don’t necessarily agree on the answer to that question.
This article deals with one of the most used types of online experiments, A/B tests.
I would like to explain why you should stop running them.
A colleague of mine, Arjan (@arjanharing), is a great table tennis player. And when I say great, I mean great: I have witnessed a table tennis tournament in our offices during a BBQ with over a 100 people, and nobody – repeat nobody – was able to return his service.
Now, I must admit that his service is definitely his main strength in the game. I mean, he is a good player, but the exceptional service makes him a player who is hard to compete with even for the well trained and the profs.
But recently, “they”, the people who run the table tennis rules, decided to change the rules of the game.
The change might seem minor to you and me (assuming here that you are, like me, not a trained table tennis player): they changed the way in which you are allowed to hold your hand when throwing the ball into the air to serve.
When I heard about it—and tried it—I could not really tell the difference. However, to Arjan, a trained expert, the little change of rules made him loose his extraordinary skills. A drop from exceptional to mediocre, by a little change of the rules.
Now, why would you care about changes in the rules of table tennis? Well, that’s because the emotions that overwhelmed Arjan when notified of the change share lots of similarities with the emotions that are overwhelming internet marketers all around the world: “They” are changing the rules of the game. | <urn:uuid:6cd64dc6-ec62-46ca-96f8-2664f77bb701> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://econsultancy.com/il/blog/authors/maurits-kaptein | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967579 | 550 | 1.890625 | 2 |
What are the different types of diabetes?
Finally, diabetes occurs much more frequently in women with a prior history of diabetes that develops during pregnancy called the gestational diabetes.
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However, 25%-50% of women with gestational diabetes will eventually develop type 2 diabetes later in life, especially in those who require insulin during pregnancy and those who remain overweight after their delivery.
Patients with gestational diabetes are usually asked to undergo an oral glucose tolerance test about six weeks after giving birth to determine if their diabetes has persisted beyond the pregnancy, or if any evidence (such as impaired glucose tolerance) is present that may be a clue to the patient's future risk for developing diabetes.
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Yes, and from Hyderabad — the stronghold of its traditional meat-rich avatar.
Hyderabadi haleem is not just another dish –– it is a culinary tradition with religious association, as Muslims break the Ramzan fast with it. It was even granted GI certification in 2010. Cooked over 12 hours on firewood in a copper vessel, it is quite the slow-food star in Hyderabadi cuisine.
But vegetarian haleem? Like vegetable biriyani, this might sound like an oxymoron, or even laughable, to those who relish this traditional Ramzan fare characterised by generous helpings of meat. Foodie friends swear these veg versions are nothing like the real thing, and don’t even deserve the name because there is much too much compromise in taste and aroma.
Nevertheless, diehard vegetarians like me will persist in looking for meatless versions and feeling gratified by them. So imagine my joy at discovering the famed Hyderabadi haleem, no less, in a vegetarian version.
The city’s much-loved Pista House first prepared it in 2003. Inputs from 100 haleem-experts, a year of trials, feedback from different age groups, and nearly 50 rejected-recipes later they finally zeroed in on the perfect veg haleem with a spicy, melt-in-the-mouth richness.
M.A. Majeed, founder-owner of the Pista House restaurant chain, says: “We created this since we noticed many vegetarians interested in tasting haleem, and many non-vegetarians turning to vegetarian dishes for health reasons.” The meat is substituted with dry fruits and fresh vegetables while the spices remain the same. “Depending on the season in which Ramzan falls, there might be a slight alteration in recipe and taste,” he adds.
A veg haleem is now part of the Ramzan special menu at Taj Deccan. Spicy, soft, flavourful, and rich in nuts, ghee and vegetables, it looks similar to the non-vegetarian original.
Says Executive Chef Sajesh Nair: “The base of the vegetarian version is broken wheat or daliya. We substitute vegetables for the meat. Cauliflower, white pumpkin, potato, etc., give body to the veg haleem. It is finished off with carrot, French beans, and broccoli.” Taj Krishna and Taj Banjara offer this dish on request.
Despite health concerns -– haleem, whether veg or non-veg, is a calorie-rich delicacy - the novelty factor of the veg haleem is attracting a fan following. Zeba Khan has been making a vegetarian variant for Ramzan for the past seven years - ever since her septuagenarian father-in-law and his sister turned vegetarian for health reasons. “Now, my extended family and friends have taken the recipe and they make it too," she says.
On the other side, of course, are the many Hyderabadis who insist that vegetarian haleem simply does not make the cut. Says businessman Ali Ahmed, who divides his time between Hyderabad, Oman and Qatar, and follows Ramzan traditions no matter where he is: “There is a unique taste to gosht haleem which no other version can, or should replicate.”
Nevertheless, the veg version is holding its own at Pista House, with sales increasing every year, including home-delivery orders, says Majeed. At Taj Deccan, many sample it out of plain curiosity and/or because they happen to be vegetarians, says the chef. Some, of course, are captivated by the sheer audacity of such a culinary creation, which somehow seemed to belong in the realm of the impossible. That is… until now. | <urn:uuid:e83a5c45-ba3b-4eb3-bc7b-196fc0ea069f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/features/life/article3713100.ece?ref=wl_features | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937793 | 813 | 1.539063 | 2 |
I received a very fair question (which in hindsight, we should have addressed as part of the campaign) in connection with our current fundraising campaign, where we're seeking to raise $20,000 before the en of March.
A member of the community asked me:
In review of the $20k that the Diabetes Hand Foundation is looking to raise, I'm curious how the funds are planned to be used? It would make giving a little easier.
If I type a note like this, I'm curious how many more have had the same thought and did nothing about it.
I thought it would be a good idea to share with the whole community the reply I sent out, in case there are more of you who share the same question:
The funds for the campaign are not earmarked (unless you, as a donor want to designate your donation for a specific use). When we receive non-earmarked donations, here's what happens with them:
* For every dollar donated to Diabetes Hands Foundation, 78.5 cents go towards making our Programs possible for the benefit of people touched by diabetes, 18 cents are spent in Management and Administration, and 3.5 cents go towards Fundraising efforts (such as this very type of fundraising campaign). You can read more into the past use of funds on our most recent Annual Report, covering May 1, 2010 - April 31, 2011 (our Fiscal Year will be changing starting January 2013, when we will shift to a calendar year-based Fiscal Year.)
* As we move forward, the key areas we are focusing on are:
1) TuDiabetes (in English) and EsTuDiabetes (in Spanish): our two social networks, that serve nearly 40,000 registered members and almost 200 thousand non-registered visitors every month. Thanks to the two social networks, all these people no longer feel alone in their lives with diabetes and they can connect with and learn from others like themselves.
2) Big Blue Test: a program that emphasizes the importance of physical activity for diabetes management. In the past two years, more than 10,000 people have done the Big Blue Test. As a result, just as many people with diabetes in need have received life-saving help in the form of insulin, diabetes supplies and education.
3) Diabetes Advocates: this program serves as a platform for connecting individuals and organizations that have taken a leadership role in improving the world for people touched by diabetes. Members of the program (more than 100 project in 2012) are individuals and organizations that have taken a leadership role in improving the world for people touched by diabetes (BTW, 2012 membership applications for Diabetes Advocates is open until this Sunday).
4) DHF Seeds: a fund to foster and support forward-thinking ideas to empower, connect and inform people touched by diabetes. We launched this program in 2012 to support creative ideas from members of the diabetes community focused on making a better life with diabetes possible, by providing them with an outlet and the necessary resources to help take them to the “next level” (applications to DHF Seeds are restricted to Diabetes Advocates members and US-based 501(c)(3) nonprofits; applications close at 5 pm PDT, Monday, April 2, 2012).
In short, rather than looking at the disease, Diabetes Hands Foundation seeks to understand the people living with diabetes and gives them the outlets to share ideas and experiences.
Don't hesite to let me know if you have any additional questions whatsoever.
Manny I will get it together and send $10 to u guys but right now it won't happen. I just want to make sure I got it b/f I send it to u so maybe it will be on the last day but u know my money will be sent by mail so I kinda doubt it will get there by the deadline u DHF so don't worry it's comming.
No worries, Doris. You give SO MUCH more with your daily dedication to the community, Amiga.
Since you guys answered my request, I now have an automatic payroll deduction through the state of California that supposedly goes to you guys monthly. It comes out of my paycheck monthly, anyway.
I really appreciate the hard work you guys put in. You have definitely changed my life. I have been Type 1 since 1984, and sometimes the loniest place to be is surrounded by type 2 diabetics who only check their bg one time a day. Many people assume we diabetics are all the same. I found you guys about 3 years ago and I have learned we are all different.
Thank you so much, Baby Tee!!!!
Hello I have just joined your group and am from NZ I have t1 diabetes if I was to donate is there an account no that you can give thanks
Welcome to the TuD family belinz! I'll make sure the right person sees your post and send you the info to donate. Thank you!
We are in the process of changing our fundraising platform to support donations from outside the US. By May tops the platform will be in place.
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Publishing Company Under Fire for Putting Warning Label on Constitution
By Diane Macedo
Published June 09, 2010
A small publishing company is under fire after putting warning labels on copies of the U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence and other historical documents.
Wilder Publications warns readers of its reprints of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, Common Sense, the Articles of Confederation, and the Federalist Papers, among others, that “This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written today.”
The disclaimer goes on to tell parents that they "might wish to discuss with their children how views on race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and interpersonal relations have changed since this book was written before allowing them to read this classic work."
Walter Olson, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, says the company may be trying to ensure that oversensitive people don't pull its works off bookstore or library shelves.
"Any idea that’s 100 years old will probably offend someone or other," Olson told FoxNews.com. "…But if there’s anything that you ought to be able to take at a first gulp for yourself and then ask your parents if you're wondering about this or that strange thing, it should be the founding documents of American history."
The warning seems to be offending more people than the documents themselves.
Amazon.com’s customer reviews of Wilder’s copy of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Articles of Confederation show an overwhelming number of people speaking out against the disclaimer, describing it as “insulting,” “sickening” and “frankly, horrifying.”
Another review for Wilder’s edition of the Federalist Papers calls for an all-out boycott of the publisher, sarcastically pointing out the "dangerous ideas" it’s trying to protect children from: "limited government, checks and balances, constrained judicial review, dual sovereignty of states and federal government, and deliberative democracy."
And though warning labels are usually posted to protect a company from potential lawsuits, constitutional attorney Noel Francisco says this disclaimer has no legal benefits.
"Would it ever be a legal concern that selling the Constitution would expose you to some kind of liability? No. Never,” Francisco told FoxNews.com. "The Constitution is the founding document of the country, an operative legal document."
As for the idea that this warning label might help keep these works from being yanked off bookshelves, Francisco says it is more likely to have the opposite effect: people not carrying the book because it has the disclaimer.
"By putting on the warning, you’re making controversial something that’s not controversial: our Constitution, our Declaration of Independence," he said.
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The trouble with time-out
Overheard at a mother's group earlier this week, "I keep putting my four year-old in time-out, but it doesn't seem to work. Nothing changes!"
One of the most popular discipline methods parents employ is time-out. This typically consists of responding to your child's challenging behaviour with the direction that she should sit somewhere boring and free of distractions for a set amount of time to ‘think’ about what was wrong with her behaviour.
After that period of time, your child is meant to be remorseful, having learnt her lesson. And while there are many fans of time-out, parenting researcher Justin Coulson suggests that despite the fact that time-out may get some short-term results, it doesn’t really teach children how to correct their own behaviour.
What is time-out?
“Time-out is really a politically-correct euphemism for something I'm more inclined to call ‘forcible isolation’.” Coulson says. “In real terms, time-out involves a person of higher power (the parent) using that power to hand down a sentence of solitary confinement to an essentially powerless child. Time-out is withdrawal of love and attention. Can you see your child sitting in the bedroom or on the "naughty mat" thinking "I see that I behaved foolishly and appreciate your wisdom in placing me here to reflect on my actions. I won't behave in such a disappointing fashion again."
“It's not likely. Instead she is more likely to sit and stew about her punishment - and if another sibling was involved she may also start plotting her revenge.”
Coulson adds that researchers have discovered the following things about children who experience forcible isolation through time-out:
- Children become distressed when their parents threaten to leave them, particularly when the threat is associated with a child's challenging behaviour.
- Children will become highly compliant with a parent's requests at the threat of love withdrawal.
- Time-out may be worse than other punishments despite there being no physical threat (or even any material threat) because children find it more devastating emotionally when a parent threatens abandonment or separation – while the parent knows it is temporary, very young child don’t.
- A child who is repeatedly given time-out is far more likely to experience anxiety about love from parents. Time-out leaves kids in greater emotional distress for longer periods than smacking!
- Kids who experience love withdrawal through the use of time-out and/or threats of abandonment (even for short periods) also typically have lower self-esteem, poorer emotional health, and are prone to increased challenging behaviour.
There are many parenting experts who claim that time-out is the most effective way to teach children but others disagree.
Coulson believes that time-out is a power-based discipline. “The power we have as parents is used to make our child suffer to change behaviour,” he says. “So time-out certainly teaches children that the big person is always right - and even if the big person isn't right, he or she can make the smaller person do unpleasant things.”
Alternatives to time-out
When your child is being challenging, it is important to have a strategy for dealing with difficult behaviour before you find yourself in the middle of a situation where emotions are running high. Coulson provides three simple suggestions which, he points out, are often the exact opposite to our typical reactions in challenging situations with our children.
“Research has shown, again and again, that love-based discipline using reason, empathy, induction, and education, has far more positive effects on changing behaviour in the long-term, though not always in the short-term. Rather than creating a vicious circle where our withdrawal creates emotional distress which then prolongs our withdrawal, which then escalates our child's emotional state there are other ways to teach better behavious.”
- Cuddling your child who is distressed will typically calm her quickly. Children cannot be "taught" (truly disciplined) when their emotional levels are high. But when calm, they soon become rational - and teachable.
- When your child refuses cuddles, offer options, but never make threats. As your child sees that you are trying to help rather than hurt, emotions can be regulated faster, and soothing occurs.
- If more than one child is involved in a challenging situation, it is often best to go straight to the victim and offer soothing and emotional first-aid. This will help the aggressor to see that challenging behaviour will not get her any attention. It also teaches empathy and kindness. Once the victim is treated, then attention can be turned to the offender. Calmly - because you’ve now had a few minutes to calm down! - your child can be taught what is appropriate behaviour.
The move from a power-based discipline to one of love is a challenge. But our efforts will be worth it - in the long run. The only thing that should be made to sit on the naughty mat is time-out.
When time-out works
Even critics of time-out think there are instances when this style of discipline is appropriate. Coulson argues that time-out has some merit when used in one of the two following ways:
“Firstly, as a parent, giving myself time-out when I become frustrated I am better able to control my own responses to my child's challenging behaviour. She also gets the message that I'm upset when I remove myself and that can lead to her remedying her own behaviour without my intervention.
“Secondly, when we can give our child the option to go someplace of her choosing so she can work through her emotions, we respect their autonomy. The time-out is chosen, rather than being banishment.”
Parenting tips by Justin Coulson:
- The no-fighting guide to disciplining your kids
- The trouble with time-out
- Raising smart, curious children
- What parents must know about play dates
- Teaching your child resilience
- Teaching girls resilience
- Teaching boys resilience
- How to bond with older, independent children
- How to be a happy parent
- How to get kids to listen
- My toddler is hitting and throwing things
- How to stop nagging
- Why routine and structure benefits your toddler
- Fussy eaters: what affects toddler eating behaviour
- Fathers and parenting: Do dads matter to toddlers?
- Toilet training: Teaching your toddler to use the toilet
- Why kids should not be on facebook
- Make-up and guiding your girls as they grow
Divorce and separation articles by Justin Coulson:
- The five Cs of separation and divorce
- How to work with your ex-partner for the sake of the kids
- How to tell your children you're separating
School articles by Justin Coulson:
- Why children don't need homework
- What to do about cruel school friends
- Study tips for kids
- Why my kids won't do the NAPLAN
- Teaching children to manage their study
- Peer pressure at school
- Differences between teasing and bullying
- When your child is being teased at school
- Motivation for school
- School success for your child
- Extra curricular activities
- Managing school projects (without doing them yourself!)
- Easing school test anxiety
- Successfully studying at the computer, not socialising
Articles about teenagers by Justin Coulson:
- Teens and mobile phones
- The bumpy transition from childhood to adolescence
- Challenges CAN make our teens stronger
- Making the transition from primary school to high school
- Helping your teenager with friendship problems
More articles by Justin Coulson:
This article was written for Kidspot by Justin Coulson, Ph. D. Justin is a relationships and parenting expert, author and father of five children. Find him on Facebook, Twitter, and at happyfamilies.com.au.
Last revised: Saturday, 6 November 2010
This article contains general information only and is not intended to replace advice from a qualified health professional.
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Formally Informal English Garden...a work in progress.
by Warren Bonesteel
A few plants put in.
First, a quick background: I have four years experience working in landscaping and landscape maintenance in Scottsdale, Arizona and surrounding areas. I also have more than fifteen years experience in buildings and grounds, including management. Most of this experience was gained in upscale apartment complexes (topiary, flowerbeds, sprinkler systems, etc.). As an adult, I've always, where practical, had and maintained some sort of a garden.
My wife and I retired and moved to Oklahoma in March, 2011. We bought an old fixer-upper in the wrong part of town. The house was quirky and we liked it. The landscape? Not so much. It was beyond 'quirky.' Drainage problems had to be addressed ... immediately.
I ultimately ended up with a (more or less) formal layout for a partition garden. Lots of paper, dozens of drafts, hours-days-weeks spent learning which plants I could grow here with any semblance of success. Then, I ran lots of string lines and did lots of digging and toting.
The plan, however, is to use edible trees, bushes and plants while allowing those plants, trees and bushes to maintain their normal shapes.
I allowed for drainage within the garden by grading everything to run towards the center of the garden. The walkway, with a base of landscape fabric and sand, is to be covered by another layer of landscape fabric and pea gravel, will act as a deep well, holding and retaining any run off from rain or irrigation.
The raised beds will - eventually - be level and plumb ad approx. eighteen inches deep. The planks around the beds should be installed by this time next year, although the raised beds will be in use and productive by then.
I've incorporated a central walkway in the shape of a solar cross or an extended Celtic Cross. There is a simple square labyrinth in the garden, as well. The center bed and walkway, with a squint, will reveal a 'squared circle.' The overall design resembles a very simplified Mandala. I've allowed for colors and textures throughout the seasons, including a fall display, fading from reds to oranges and yellows from front to back. Spring and early summer will be an explosion of white blooms in different shapes and textures.
Major plantings will be installed next fall and will include: Persimmon, Peach, Apple, Paw-paw, Cherry, Saskatoon, Jostaberry, red and white currants, spice bush, elderberries, blueberries,huckleberries, raspberries and blackberries.
Keep in mind that this is being done on a very limited budget and that it has all been done by hand. (By a crippled up, half-blind old fart). Literally, I'm doing it all with a bucket, a shovel and a piece of string. Aside from the sand, edging and stakes, so far, I've only used materials that were already on the property.
I should have everything installed by fall of 2013 and finishing touch-ups by spring or summer of 2013.
Update April 2012:
I spent most of the winter re-landscaping and grading the back yard. So, consequently, I didn't make much progress with the front garden.
This summer, I hope to finish the walkway in the front garden, get the pH adjusted in the beds and have the mulch installed before I start ordering the major plantings for our front yard's Informally, Formal English Garden.
By this time next year, I hope to have most of our major plantings installed. The summer after, I hope to start building the boxes around our raised beds.
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In the first big David Foster Wallace documentary since his suicide, the BBC’s Professor Geoff Ward discusses the author’s childhood, legacy, preoccupations and battles with the gentleness of a true fan but the exactitude of a scholar. On the radio missive, which first aired on the BBC on February 6th, Ward interviews Wallace’s contemporaries (Rick Moody and Mark Costello, who was also Wallace’s college roommate), Don DeLillo, Michael Pietsch, editor of Infinite Jest, Wallace’s agent, Bonnie Nadell and his sister, Amy Wallace. He also mines archives of interviews with DFW — some of the most wonderful are with Wallace discussing irony — and accents his ruminations and conversations with passages from Infinite Jest as well as the forthcoming The Pale King.
If you’re a reader, a writer or even just a member of the television saturation generation, it’s worth a listen, and if you’re a fan of Wallace, the program may tug at your heartstrings, suggesting what might have been, but celebrating the man as he was. As Don DeLillo tells Ward, “I can’t think of anyone quite like him, at all… Wallace stands alone.” Click through to hear the documentary in its entirety.
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San Mateo is among the most treacherous areas on the peninsula to expand to four tracks for high speed rail because the existing Caltrain tracks run through dense residential neighborhoods and downtown blocks where the available right of way width is significantly less than 100 feet. The city is a "ground zero" of future grade separations: it is home to one-fifth of the grade crossings on the entire peninsula rail corridor (9 out of 46). To improve safety and traffic circulation, the city has long had plans to grade-separate all of its rail crossings; high speed rail will only hasten this process. The San Mateo County Transportation Authority has been carrying out a series of preliminary grade separation footprint studies in support of these plans.
San Mateo finalized a Rail Corridor Transit-Oriented Development Plan in April 2008, covering the vicinity of the Hillsdale and Hayward Park Caltrain stations and including the re-development of the Bay Meadows racetrack site.
Station Area and Downtown
The San Mateo Caltrain station was rebuilt in 1999-2000 to alleviate auto traffic congestion. The new $11 million station with underground parking (photo above by ibison4) replaced a sparse older station a few blocks to the south. Every time a train stopped at the old station's center boarding platform between 3rd and 4th Avenues, auto traffic on 2nd through 5th Avenues was paralyzed, exacerbating rush hour congestion.
With some foresight, albeit a bit fuzzy, the new station's underground garage and surrounding structures were reportedly built so as to allow the tracks to be relocated underground. This would not only grade-separate the tracks through town, but also accommodate a future BART subway, as was envisioned in the late 1990s while construction of the SFO extension was underway.
The problem is now this: the new station building and underground parking encroach on the railroad right of way and do not leave the necessary clearance for four tracks, as likely required for Caltrain and HSR, whether at, above, or below grade. Worse, a couple of blocks south of the station, San Mateo's new downtown cinema and Main Street parking garage were completed in 2003 and encroach on what was once railroad right of way, leaving just 50 - 60 feet for the tracks (see Caltrain right of way map).
There will be no easy or cheap solutions to these constraints. In discussions about a preliminary grade separation footprint study for downtown, city staff makes the following key observations:
- The vertical alignment of all the downtown rail crossings must be consistent, since their close spacing does not allow sufficient space for rail grade changes;
- Any grade separation alternatives with the tracks at grade or near grade is infeasible because of the need to lower or raise downtown streets in a manner that severely impacts frontage on both sides of these streets;
- The two remaining vertical alignment alternatives leave the streets at grade, with the rails either fully elevated or underground--the latter being the city's stated preference;
- The right of way required to build a four-track underground trench is 110 feet wide, far more than the 50 - 60 ft available;
- Moving the horizontal alignment of the tracks to the east (with impact to Railroad Ave and frontage) is preferable to impacting the new train station, Main Street parking garage and downtown cinema;
- The underground alignment presents significant technical complications, with residential property impacts just north of downtown where the tracks would ramp down, possible street closures, as well as the technical difficulty of crossing San Mateo Creek underground.
The issue of track alignment through downtown San Mateo is discussed in much greater detail in Threading the San Mateo Narrows. That discussion includes diagrams showing various track configuration options such as the elevated shown below.
For more details, read all about Threading the San Mateo Narrows.
North Central San Mateo
North of downtown, the tracks curve through dense residential blocks on right of way that ranges from 60 to 90 feet wide, less than the ~75 feet required to run four tracks on a retained embankment, and certainly less than the ~110 feet required to excavate a trench or tunnel. The tracks cross four residential streets (Poplar, Santa Inez, Monte Diablo and Tilton avenues) on low-clearance bridges that have long been slated for refurbishment.
The key question for downtown and the North Central neighborhood will concern the vertical alignment of the tracks. The close proximity of these residential blocks to downtown, combined with the gentle track gradients required for freight trains (yes, freight trains), will require that these areas be considered as one.
Vertical Alignment Considerations
The vertical profile of the existing tracks in San Mateo is shown in the figure below. This figure was created from Caltrain track survey data, with the vertical scale greatly exaggerated. The grade level of cross streets is estimated from the known vertical clearance at each location; the level of creeks is likewise estimated.
We make a few assumptions (for more background on where these came from, read about The Shape of Palo Alto):
- Vertical track radius is constrained to a minimum of 10 km
- Gradient limit of 1 to 1.5% for freight trains, 2.5% for passenger trains
- 20-foot clearance from underpass road surface to top-of-rail (to clear trucks)
- 30-foot clearance from overpass road surface to top-of-rail (to clear freight trains)
- Tracks must be close to level for 750 feet north of First Ave, for Caltrain platforms
- Tracks are elevated at Peninsula Ave., an area with adequate clearances and commercial frontage that would favor this minimum-cost solution.
Scenario #2: trench through downtown. To shorten the sloping approaches and reduce the depth of the trench, we assume each road is raised by 5 feet (something that can be done with little impact to adjoining frontage), with rails depressed by 25 feet. Even this 25-foot trench penetrates below the water table and will require constant pumping to keep dry. With the 1% gradient limit desirable for freight trains, this design would require the closure of Villa Terrace, Bellevue, Poplar, Santa Inez, Monte Diablo and Tilton avenues, unless those streets were either raised or depressed with considerable impact to frontage on either side of the tracks.
Scenario #3: trench through downtown, with steep approaches. With a less stringent gradient limit just a shade over 2%, difficult for freight trains but easily handled by high speed trains and Caltrain, the approaches to the trench are much shorter. This allows underpasses at Villa Terrace, Bellevue and Poplar and reduces the need to close cross-streets. Santa Inez, Monte Diablo and Tilton would likely still be closed.
Scenario #4: tunnels. While this alternative will no doubt be studied by the CHSRA, it is unlikely to be implemented due to a host of disadvantages, not the least of which is the astronomical cost. The sloping approaches to a tunnel diving under downtown are likely to present even greater interference with cross-streets than the depressed trenches described above.
Whatever alternative is ultimately favored, one must keep in mind that the biggest constraints on the vertical alignment of the tracks come from freight trains, which don't handle steep grades well and require very high vertical clearances. The more nimble electric trains used by HSR and Caltrain would easily handle steep gradients up to 2.5%, and would require about 3 feet less vertical clearance. In short, freight trains may have a direct impact on San Mateo neighborhoods.
Southern San Mateo
The southern half of San Mateo is an area currently slated for extensive re-development. It does not have nearly as much access across the tracks as northern San Mateo, and the available right of way is far less constrained, generally greater than 100 feet (see maps for mileposts 18, 19 and 20). The area encompassing the Hayward Park and Hillsdale Caltrain stations (and the former Bay Meadows race track) is slated for redevelopment as described in San Mateo's Rail Corridor Transit-Oriented Development Plan.
Hayward Park includes a reverse curve in the tracks (curving right, then left). The northern curve at milepost 18.8 has a radius of just 1100 meters, good for about 95 mph. This curve made #5 on our list of Top Ten Worst Curves on the peninsula. While it was already flattened by shifting the tracks 20 feet westwards in the year 2000, this curve may need to be straightened some more so that high speed trains don't need to slow down as much in this area. This may not please residents of South Boulevard.
The Hayward Park Caltrain station was rebuilt in 2000 and moved slightly to the south of its former location. The original station provided convenient pedestrian access across the tracks at 16th Ave; the City is now considering a new pedestrian underpass at this location to restore the access that was lost after the move. The new Hayward Park station was built for three tracks, although it currently has only two tracks. The southbound platform already includes a cut (see photo at right) allowing it to be trimmed back to make room for a third passing track. Whatever the original intent of this configuration, the station will likely be entirely rebuilt when high speed rail comes through town.
The Route 92 overpass (actually two side-by-side bridges, seen in the background of the photo) provides ample clearance for four tracks.
The Hillsdale Caltrain station is already planned for relocation to the site of the former Bay Meadows station, and will be located between newly constructed grade separations at 28th and 31st avenues, connecting the west side of El Camino to the newly developed Bay Meadows area. The tracks will be elevated over 25th, 28th and 31st, linking up to the existing grade separation at Hillsdale Ave. These long-standing plans by the Caltrain JPB and the City are unlikely to be altered by the HSR project, except for quadruple tracking; for a detailed description, refer to Chapter 4 of San Mateo's Rail Corridor Plan. The resulting vertical profile is shown in the diagrams above.
South of Hillsdale, the frontage along the east side of El Camino Real is already owned by Caltrain, Samtrans or Union Pacific; while businesses on that narrow strip of land will likely be displaced, plenty of land is available for expansion of the tracks.
San Mateo promises to be one of the biggest design challenges on the peninsula. The CHSRA certainly has its work cut out for it, with a 50-foot right of way threaded through dense city blocks surrounded with residential neighborhoods, with a creek thrown in for good measure.
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Born in New Orleans in the late 1920s, Nehemiah Atkinson was engaged by the sport of tennis at an early age. Despite the realities of racial barriers during those times, Atkinson did not let them discourage his love of the game, developing into a standout player who would go on to give lessons to hundreds of young players from all different ethnic backgrounds. He spent 23 years as a tennis instructor and supervisor for the New Orleans Recreation Department, retiring in 1995. He was also an active volunteer with the American Tennis Association and the established the Nehemiah Atkinson Scholarship Foundation.
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The Joshua Basin Water District’s Cadre of Volunteer Docents, along with those interested in becoming one, will ramp-up this new season with a one-hour gathering at the District Office next week Friday, September 28th, from 3PM-4PM. This is a special year, as the District will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2013!
A list of activities will be offered including educational workshops, up-coming public outreach events, as well as, information on local water wise plants that may bloom in autumn if given minimal landscape watering. Some educational opportunities may be especially interesting for high school and college students focusing on environmental studies.
While many docents train to offer garden tours, there are other activities that may be just as appealing for those who are less inclined to be water-wise gardening “gurus”. This program is ideal for local residents throughout the Morongo Basin who love nature, people, and preserving our desert’s most important natural resource: water!
There are no member fees or participant expenses associated with becoming a Water District Volunteer Docent. Bring a friend who may enjoy interacting with people while helping to make a difference! For more information, call Kathleen Radnich at 760-218-2822, or by Email at firstname.lastname@example.org, and remember: “JOSHUA TREE… It’s the water!” | <urn:uuid:f220a050-8ab0-45f8-bc64-c733a24bfc52> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.vote29.com/newmyblog/archives/40033 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943561 | 292 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Valerie and the Silver Pear
By Benjamin Darling, illustrated by Dan Lane
Valerie and her grandfather pick many pears from the old tree, hunting for the silver pear that her late grandmother always gave away to friends. They then take their sweet harvest and make some wonderful pies with a recipe (included!) from Grandma's cookbook. A lovely picture book that celebrates family and family traditions. | <urn:uuid:54ccb941-7932-4c4f-919b-e2bf53c7bda3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://history.librarypoint.org/Valerie_and_the_Silver_Pear | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973281 | 81 | 1.6875 | 2 |
New Assessments Capture Talent Faster
by Chuck Russell
For many employers, the challenge is no longer one of hiring the best person for the job. It is one of hiring someone for the job. A robust economy has reduced unemployment to record lows across the country. This has resulted in fewer candidates for jobs at all levels, and the competition for those few candidates is intense. The good news is that a few of the newest assessment tools can give businesses significant advantages in this kind of employment market.
A critical factor in determining the level of candidates that a business has to choose from is how long it takes for that business to make a job offer to a desirable candidate. Each population of applicants contains 3 kinds of potential employees: STARS (marvelous model employees who set records for achievement), OK’S (average performers), and OOPS (disastrous employees who set records for problems). After receiving the job application, most selection systems focus their attention on identifying the best available candidates. This may include multiple interviews, reference checks, various testing processes, committee discussions, and more. No matter how valuable each step may be, each one increases the amount of time between the initial meeting and the job offer. Experience suggests that in many employment markets, a delay of one week in the job offer can eliminate most of the desirable candidates from the available pool of talent. In other words, they get another offer sooner. These very careful selection processes still end up selecting the best available candidate, except that these candidates are usually only the best of the leftovers. It is similar to having one of the last picks in a professional sports draft. The players are professional-caliber, but they are not going to win a championship anytime soon.
The newest assessment tools enable companies to achieve their hiring goals more effectively in competitive hiring situations. BestWork DATA can assist in quickly screening out those candidates whose strengths are poorly matched to the job in question. Once the unsuitable candidates have been eliminated, it is possible to select any of the others with a relatively low risk of poor performance. Therefore the interview process becomes one of evaluating how each of the remaining candidates may best meet the skills, experience and attitude criteria for the job. BestWork DATA assists in the interview process by generating a complete package of interview materials, including behavioral event interview questions for the candidate. It is quite possible to issue a contingent job offer either on the same day or the next day with this level of confidence and low risk. (The contingency is for background checks and any other necessary testing.) By collapsing the time-to-decision, the company is better able to capture top talent.
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The Nobel Prize is awarded annually in recognition of achievements in
the fields of medicine, physics, literature, and chemistry, as well as
for peace. Since 1901, the best and brightest minds across the globe—776
of them, in fact— have had the distinct privilege of being honoured
by the Swedish Nobel Committee for their work and efforts in these fields.
The International Atomic Energy Agency and its Director General, Mohamed ElBaradei, were awarded the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize. Although this is a tremendous achievement for the Agency, it is by no means an isolated one within the UN family. The IAEA award is the eighth time the United Nations or partner international organization has won the Peace Prize. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the UN shared the 2001 prize; the UN Peacekeeping Forces were honored in 1988; the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) in 1965; the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in 1981 and 1954; and the International Labor Organization in 1969. The late UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold won the prize posthumously in 1961.
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BOB MILLER has spent 14 years trying to improve the lives of children with cerebral palsy.
Mr Miller, 65, was honoured for service, particularly through contributions to people with a disability, in his work as a director of the Cerebral Palsy Alliance, previously known as The Spastic Centre. When his son Christopher was born prematurely at 26 weeks in the mid 1970s, Mr Miller had to wait to see if cerebral palsy symptoms developed.
''It takes a year or two for symptoms to surface, and it's common in premature babies,'' he said. ''Thankfully he didn't but that experience hasn't left me; you never forget waiting two whole years to see what's going to happen.''
Mr Miller was ''astonished'' at the recognition he has received.
One in 360 children develops cerebral palsy. Mr Miller said the organisation's research into its causes, treatment and education contributed to Australia being the world's leader in the field.
''It's not a glamorous position, but I'm a proud Australian,'' he said.
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Imagine what it would be like to attend a National Basketball Association game and the basketball still had laces on it. Or, think about going to a National Football League game and the players still wore leather helmets and rather than kicking field goals, the players used the old drop-kick.
In today's modern age of sports that sounds far-fetched; but just take a look under the hood of a NASCAR Winston Cup and Busch Series stock car.
Sitting on top of the engine is an object that can't be found on today's modern passenger car engines: a carburetor.
Carburetors haven't been used on passenger cars in 30 years. Today's cars use a fuel-injection system that allows the engine to produce more horsepower with less fuel. In turn, less gasoline is dumped through the engine and expelled out the exhaust system, creating a cleaner burn with less pollution.
While much of today's NASCAR looks high-tech, the engine is essentially the same 1955 short-block V-8 that is fast approaching its 50th birthday. Nearly every other major form of racing uses fuel-injection engines. Could NASCAR be next?
A Case For ChangeTeam owner and master engine builder Robert Yates would like NASCAR to be the next sanctioning body to put the carburetor in a museum, along with manual chokes, running boards, and jumper seats.
"If I had to close down my engine shop and lay off all of my guys, they wouldn't be able to get a job at a car dealership because they've been working on antique engines," says Yates, who owns the cars driven by Dale Jarrett and Elliott Sadler. "I'm not saying NASCAR needs to do it next year or the year after, but it's time we take an open mind to this situation for a lot of reasons."
While some believe NASCAR has resisted fuel-injected engines because it would be harder to control and police, others argue that the technology may be even easier to keep speeds in check.
"We have modern technology all through the engine, but not with the air/flow process," Yates says. "The manufacturer of our vehicles supports this sport. It's how we got here. I've been working on the four-valve engines for the Grand American series and I'm beginning to finally see what is under the engine of my passenger car. A fuel-injected engine will put on just as good a show as we've been seeing and I think it's healthy that we allow the manufacturers to move into modular-designed engines."
Yates believes fuel injection, over time, would be more cost-effective than the current carburetor.
"We need to start thinking about it," Yates says. "I think the manufacturers will look at it. NASCAR has never designed nor built the first engine. NASCAR is the promoter; the manufacturers are the ones that supply it. Bring the product, get it right, spend some time with the teams, and then the manufacturers can say, 'In 2010, this is what we are going to race and this is what we are going to support.'
"Let's modernize this sport. I would be the first one to lose a job because I don't know how to use a computer. But I want to see my son and grandsons move into the future a little bit. It will not screw the cars up one bit and you might have more cars running at the finish."
Inevitable?Today's NASCAR Winston Cup engine produces over 800 horsepower. By comparison, the high-speed, fuel-injected Indy Racing League engines used in the IndyCar Series produce 675 horsepower. The reason the cars in the IRL run so much faster is they weigh half as much as a stock car, have wings for downforce, and huge tire contact patches.
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brought up the report, of the Committee of Supply, relative to the grant of 9,250l. for the Roman Catholic College of Maynooth: and on the question that the Resolution be agreed to,
§ Sir J. Newport
contended that the reduction of the grant of last year was calculated to irritate the great body of the Catholics, and particularly to alienate the priests, whose influence had been so much talked of. The question now was, whether the priests should be educated or uneducated, for priests would be at all events found. The reason why the Roman Catholic nobility and gentry did not educate their sons for the priesthood was, because it afforded them neither prospects of honours or emolument. When he looked to the situation of the empire and of Europe, when he considered the exclusion of the Catholics from education on the continent 122 by the revolution in Lisbon, when he looked to the recent promotion of individuals who had distinguished themselves by heaping obloquy on the Catholics, and who were fitter for other institutions than for the councils of his majesty, he did not think this a fit time for any reduction of the grant, and therefore he moved that the Report be re-committed.
§ Sir A. Wellesley
stated in reply, that when he had asserted in a former debate, that the Catholics had originally proposed to support this institution, he had done so on the authority of their original memorial to government, a copy of which had been furnished him by Dr. Troy. This memorial was dated the 14th of Jan. 1794, and shewed that the object in the contemplation of the Catholics at that time was to be permitted to establish the institution with their own funds.
§ Colonel Montagu Mathew
expressed his astonishment, that the hon. general who came forward as minister for Ireland, should be more ignorant of its situation than an humble individual like himself. He could tell that hon. member, that the private seminaries were only preparatory schools for the college of Maynooth. He had been within the last ten days at Maynooth, and he could assure the house, that unless the whole of last year's grant should be voted, the buildings upon which former grants had been expended, would fall. There was no lead on the roofs, and the rain penetrated through them. He declared himself to be a supporter of the Catholics, and having lived on terms of intimacy with the people of the South of Ireland for several years past, he could declare for them also. The hon. colonel then alluded to the offer made by order of Buonaparte, to induce Irish Students to go for education to France from Lisbon and Ireland, upon a promise of a restoration of all the Irish bourses, and read an extract from the answer of the Irish Catholic Bishops, stating their gratitude to the government for the liberal support of Maynooth, and denouncing suspension against any functionaries, and exclusion from preferment in Ireland against any students, who should accept the offers of the enemy of their country. Would any one say after that, that the Catholics were not to be confided in? If they were not to be trusted, why not dismiss them from the army and navy? Why allow them to vote at elections? Why had lord Westmoreland come down to the Irish parliament 123 and said, that nothing was to be granted to them, and why had he in six weeks after said that they were the best subjects in the realm, and that they should get the elective franchise and other privileges?—Why had the duke of Portland, the present prime minister, said the same? But this was not the act of ministers. He was sorry to be obliged to allude to the conduct of any of the royal family. But, however, it was rumoured that even the ministers were disposed to agree to the grant, till they went to St. James's Palace, and were closeted for several hours with a royal duke, after which they resorted to the present reduction. That royal duke was the chancellor of the University of Dublin; he was chancellor of a Protestant School, and might wish to put down the education of the Catholics, but no man who knew or valued Ireland as he did himself, could countenance such a project. Unless they acted liberally by the Catholics, they would run the hazard of losing Ireland.
Mr. C. Wynne
lamented the secret influence by which the measures of the government were defeated, and the interests of the country sacrificed. Even the cabinet could not be agreed upon this reduction. Neither the duke of Portland, lord Camden, a right hon. secretary, not then in his place, nor a noble lord high in his majesty's councils, who was also absent, could have concurred in this proceeding. If any one duty was more imperious than another upon that house, it was that of providing for the education of the great body of his majesty's subjects in Ireland.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer
disclaimed the odious principle of intolerance. The memorial of the Catholics which led to the establishment at Maynooth, claimed no pecuniary aid. The Catholics promised to defray the whole expence themselves, and though the government and parliament gave them 8000l. in aid of the object, that was no reason that the country should be subject to constantly increasing demands, for a purpose of which there was no precedent in any age or country, that of educating at the public expence the priesthood of a religion differing widely from the established one. He thought it was as much as reasonably could be asked, to educate 250 persons at the public expence, who, with 111 educated in a private manner, were an abundant supply for the Catholic ministry. He took tins opportunity to deny all knowledge of any 124 interposition of a high personage to influence the conduct of his majesty's ministers upon this question, and declared on the faith and honour of a man, his firm belief that no such influence had been exercised in any quarter.
§ Lord H. Petty
was not surprised that the right hon. gent. was so indignant at the imputation of secret influence, when it was so well known that the present administration was formed on principles particularly repugnant, to that sort of influence! The proceedings with respect to a late measure (the Reversion bill) were fully illustrative of this point. The absence of the right hon. gent.'s colleagues on the present occasion, was probably owing to a sort of compromise which did not yield obedience to such influence, nor yet decidedly resist its interposition. The money which was the subject of the present debate, was in amount little to give, but was every thing to refuse. It was not a fourth part of what within the last 24 hours had been voted for a more ample provision for the Scotch judges, a provision very proper where service had been done to give a claim to it, but in his opinion, not so proper where there had been no service. The principle of the education of the Catholic clergy had received the countenance of the nominal head of the present administration, who, if he preserved a shred of any principle, was bound to support it now. It had also received the countenance of lord Westmoreland and lord Camden, both members of the present cabinet, when in the situation of lords lieutenant of Ireland. It had been sanctioned by the revered lord Cornwallis, the respected lord Hardwicke, and the late chief governor of Ireland.
§ Mr. Wilberforce
considered the present as a subject of considerable delicacy, and the difficulties arising out of the subject itself were not a little aggravated by the manner in which it had been discussed, and which tended to produce irritation rather than conciliation. He should have expected something better from the patriotism of the noble lord, and of those with whom he acted, and it was not without very great pain that he had heard the mode of argument to which they had this evening resorted. Toleration, he said, as explained both by Mr. Locke and Rousseau, was to leave to others the right of professing and teaching their own religious principles in their own way, as far as was compatible with the peace and security of society, 125 This degree of toleration was denied to Ireland some years ago, but it was now extended to that country; and as far as an establishment was supported at the public expence, for the purpose of instructing a particular class, differing in sentiment from the established religion of the country, we went beyond the bounds of toleration, and instead of acting upon the principles of bigotry and intolerance, we exercised a degree of liberality unknown in any other country. When he recollected the history of past times, it was impossible for him not to be jealous of the Roman-catholic religion. We could not judge of the nature and tendency of this religion from its influence on certain individuals of high rank, whose minds were, liberalized by intercourse with the most refined classes of society. The only way to judge of it was, to see its effects upon the great bulk of the people. No man was a greater enemy to persecution, or a greater friend to toleration, than he was; but, he hoped to be forgiven for entertaining some solicitude that the protestant religion should at least have fair play.
§ Lord Milton
doubted his hon. colleague's practical regard for toleration, when he recollected his opposition to a bill to enable dissenters to hold commissions in his majesty's service. He was as warm a friend to the protestant religion as his hon. colleague; but it was because he was a friend to protestantism that he wished to enlighten the catholics; for this was the most likely means of gaining them over to the protestant faith.
§ Mr. Laing
contended, that the present was not a question of toleration or of bigotry, but of pure legislation. It was only by conferring benefits upon the Roman-catholics that their affections could be gained, and that they could be rendered good and loyal subjects. In this view he considered it as highly impolitic to sacrifice so important an object for a consideration so extremely inconsiderable as 3,000l.
(of Kerry) was of opinion that, in the present circumstances, curtailing the former grant to the Irish catholic seminary was one of the most impolitic measures that could be devised.
did not wish to take up the time of the house; but, at the same time, it was impossible not to notice what had fallen from the chancellor of the exchequer. No person was indeed better 126 entitled than that right hon. gent. to deprecate the raising of cries on any subject! But, were these cries about religion; such could never come from him! He was above them! He would be the very last person to tell us that the Church of England was in danger! He was undoubtedly above all tricks and artifices of this kind, and the house ought to follow his advice, in adopting a similarly dignified and becoming line of conduct. When out of power, he had set them a brilliant example of resignation, and of a desire to promote unanimity and good order. The house had additional encouragement to unanimity and christian love coming from another hon. gent. (Mr. Wilberforce), who was himself clothed and wrapped up in a cloak of religion and good will towards all mankind, except towards gentlemen on the side of the house to which he (Mr. P.) unfortunately belonged. According to that hon. gent.'s estimation, ministers were all wisdom and all excellence; but the opposition was distinguished by nothing but faction and discontent. That hon. gent. would have the house go and instil into the minds of the people of Ireland the liberality, bounty, and tolerance of ministers, whether they believed in them or not. The tolerance of the chancellor of the exchequer seemed to go the length of 9000l.; but whenever 13,000l. was talked of, the establishment would step in.
§ Mr. Stephens
adverted to one or two of the general objections which Protestants have to the Catholic faith; but only so far as was necessary to repel some harsh attacks of the opposition speakers, and support his declared opinion that we could not, as members of a Protestant communion, consistently or conscientiously educate clergymen for the Catholic Church, a ground on which he would have opposed that particular mode of assisting the Catholics of Ireland, if the question of founding the Maynooth College were then before the house, and on the same principle felt himself bound to oppose the further, and as he conceived, needless extension of that establishment. He was sure that the feelings of sincere and pious Papists would revolt at the idea of educating, at their own charge, clergymen for the Church of England, to propagate what they deemed heretical doctrines; and sincere Protestants, who regarded the distinguishing tenets and rites of the church of Rome as corruptions of Christianity, were bound on the same principle, not to be directly 127 instrumental in teaching what, in a religious view, they deemed to be dangerous errors, by educating men for the Catholic priesthood.—At the same time that the hon. member avowed his sense of the importance of those distinctions which separate the two churches, and expressed his surprise that any gentleman in that house should treat them as matters of indifference, he strongly reprobated every degree of intolerance in religion, and disclaimed not only the vile principle of persecution, but the illiberality of disliking, or forming harsh judgments of men, on account of their errors in faith. For his part, he respected and regarded a man of whatever denomination of Christians, when he found him sincere and in earnest in the religion which he professed.—Towards the Catholics of Ireland in particular he declared that he felt nothing but good will, and a disposition to conciliate their affections to their protestant fellow subjects by all practicable means. As to the general education of their laity, if not already in a sufficient degree provided for by the state, he thought it an object that we were particularly bound to promote. He intimated even, that the giving a maintenance to their clergy would not in his judgment be liable to the same objections, or by no means in an equal degree, that he felt as a Protestant to the proposition now before the house.—He added, that in his sincere opinion, pious Catholics must rather feel unfavourable sentiments towards us, than gratitude or attachment, on the score of this very objectionable mode of assistance; and that it was calculated rather to injure, than serve the Protestant cause in Ireland; for it would be an argument, not easily to be answered, against our sincerity in our religious tenets, and against all those civil distinctions which had occasioned discontent, and of which the Catholics of Ireland, till lately, had too much reason to complain, that Protestants thought the differences between the two Churches so immaterial as to train up clergymen, at their own expence, to teach the Roman faith.
§ Mr. Grattan
was sorry to see gentlemen enter so largely into an attack on the religion of one-fifth of the subjects of these kingdoms. He believed they spoke in the sincerity of their hearts, and from the purest motives; but these would produce consequences deadly to the interests of this country, and advantageous to France. To discourage the education of the catholic 128 clergy in Ireland, and thereby to drive them to the continent, in other words, to receive the precepts and charity of Buonaparte, was to throw them at his feet, and of course to teach them to detest England.
read the oath of the catholic priests, in order to shew that they paid an obedience to the pope, which was inconsistent with the king's supremacy. The provisions for the education of the established clergy, fell short of those proposed to be granted for the priests at Maynooth. There were in the University of Dublin, 30 poor scholars, who got but a dinner once a day; and 72 scholars of the house that got a dinner once a day, and no lodgings. He described the catholics as bad subjects and hostile to the state.
§ Mr. Barham
to order, objected to the use of such language in speaking of 4,000,000 of his majesty's subjects.
repeated his former sentiments. He declared, that if any one would move to withdraw the public aid altogether from Maynooth, he would second the motion.
§ Mr. W. Smith
could not help congratulating the councils of his majesty, and the British empire, on the wisdom and liberality they were likely to acquire in the person of the learned gent, who had just sat down, and who, if report spoke correctly, was about to assume the title of 'right honourable.' If ever there was a mark of wisdom in the councils of any country, it was to be found in this latter circumstance, joined to the refusal of the higher grant now moved for. Ministers were now about to recommend to his majesty to take into his councils a gentleman, who told that house that four millions of his majesty's subjects were hostile to his government, and would, in case of emergency, be its bitterest enemies. He called on the hon. gent. (Mr. Wilberforce), to say where was now the liberality of which the government had to boast; and he appealed to him, whether the language of the gentleman alluded to, was not most vilifying and disgraceful?
§ Mr. Barham
expressed his abhorrence of the language used by Dr. Duigenan, declaring that never words were uttered so dangerous, abominable, and false; or so likely to separate the kingdom and to deluge it in blood. Of the religion of the hon. gent. (Mr. Wilberforce) he had at times been inclined to think well, but if bigotry and Protestantism had so much blinded him that he could not see that the catholics worshipped the same God with himself, his was not a religion in which he (Mr. B.) would either wish to live, or be content to die.
§ Mr. Tierney
wished simply to ask the right hon. gent. opposite, whether the learned gentleman who had been alluded to was of the Privy Council of Ireland, or was about to be?
§ Mr. Tierney
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§ Sir A. Wellesley
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Severe Storms Pummeling East Coast, N. Rockies
UPDATED 9:45 PM EDT, July 1, 2012
UPDATED By WeatherBug Meteorologist, Seth Carrier
While the powerful derecho
that tore a path from northern Illinois to the East Coast is still fresh on the minds of many, more severe weather is tearing through some of the same places this evening, along with the Deep South and Northern Rockies.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches are in place from southeastern North Carolina to eastern Georgia. This includes Charlotte and Wilmington, N.C., Columbia and Charleston, S.C., and Savannah, Ga.
Other Severe Thunderstorm Watches have also been issued for southern Indiana, eastern Ohio, northern Kentucky, West Virginia, and the western portion of Virginia. These watches include the cities of Cleveland, Louisville, Ky., Charleston and Morgantown, W. Va., and Roanoke, Va.
Not to be outdone, additional Severe Thunderstorm Watches are now in effect for much of Montana, western South Dakota, northeast Wyoming, and far western North Dakota. This includes the cities of Helena and Billings, Mont., Williston, N.D., and Rapid City, S.D.
The boundary between the record-breaking heat and humidity baking the Tennessee Valley and somewhat cooler, drier air farther north is sparking a string of storms racing through the Carolinas and into the Deep South. These storms already have a history of producing large hail and damaging wind gusts.
More storms are moving through the Ohio Valley along the same stationary front, and these storms will make a beeline for the Appalachians and Mid-Atlantic tonight with damaging winds and large hail. Even more storms are forming in the Northern Rockies where a cold front is slamming into an unstable air mass across eastern Montana. Here, strong winds aloft will help to produce storms capable of creating large hail and damaging wind gusts.
Today`s powerful storms have already produced more than 600 severe weather reports across the eastern U.S. In Gilead, N.C., two people were killed when a tree fell on their golf cart. Another man died in Calico, N.C. when a shed collapsed on him.
Elsewhere, egg size hail pummeled Pageland and Chesterfield, S.C., while Frankfort, Ohio endured baseball size stones. Near the town of Rural Retreat, Va., two people were injured by falling trees and the roof of a concession stand was blown off. Another person was injured near Hope Mills, N.C. when a tree fell on their vehicle. In Winfield, Ill., a wind gust estimated at 90 mph pulled down trees and did damage to a roof.
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Sir Robert Watson, Former Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to speak at WWS, April 2
Sir Robert Watson, chair of the intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) from 1997 to 2002, will speak at the Woodrow Wilson School on Monday, April 2, 2012, at 4:30 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall. Watson's talk, titled, "Environment and Development Challenges: The Imperative to Act," is part of the School's "Energy and Environment" thematic lecture series. Watson is visiting the Wilson School as part of its "Leadership and Governance Program," which brings prominent policy makers to Princeton for a two to three day visit so that students can meet and learn from exemplary public leaders.
Watson, who has worked on atmospheric science issues including ozone depletion, global warming and paleoclimatology since the 1980s, is currently chief scientific adviser at the United Kingdom’s department of environment, food and rural affairs. He is also professor of environmental sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA), located in Norwich, United Kingdom, and serves as director of strategic development at the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research, which is headquartered at UEA. The Center brings together scientists, economists, engineers and social scientists who are working to develop sustainable responses to climate change.
Watson is the former chief scientist and director for environmentally and socially sustainable development (ESSD) at the World Bank. Prior to joining the World Bank, Watson was associate director for environment in the office of science and technology policy under President Clinton. Prior to joining the Clinton White House, Watson served director of the science division and chief scientist for the office of mission to planet earth at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Watson was knighted at the beginning of 2012 in Britain’s New Year honors list. In 2010, he received the Blue Planet Prize, an international environmental award which is said to be Japan's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Other awards for his contributions to science include the National Academy of Science’s Award for Scientific Reviewing in 1992, the American Association for the Advancement of Science Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility in 1993 and the insignia of Honorary Companion of St. Michael and St. George from the British Government in 2003.
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An Israeli soldier occupies the minaret of a mosque in the Old City of Nablus.
7 March 2007
Most of the jeeps pulled out late Monday night, but we all knew they would be back. Israeli officials announced that the operation was not over, as they had not yet achieved their objectives. Typically, the army will withdraw for several hours or a whole day, hoping the wanted men will move around and be spotted by a collaborator working with Israel, and then the army can pounce. Soldiers also remained in occupied houses, where they typically set up hidden sniper nests.
Ghareb Selhab lies unconscious at Al-Watani hospital
In the hospital we met family members of Ghareb Selhab, a man in critical condition since the day before. According to his son, Ghareb was in the bathroom when tear gas began to fill his home. He gasped to his wife that he could not breathe, and went into cardiac arrest. The family immediately called for help, but soldiers prevented the ambulance from reaching Ghareb’s home for over an hour. By that time Ghareb had stopped breathing and fallen into a deep coma. By the time he reached the hospital, he had no pulse, and it was too late. Doctors hooked him up to a breathing machine, and five days later (last Sunday) the family decided to pull the plug. He was 47 years old, the father of seven.
UPMRC volunteer, Alaa
Yara overheard someone being beaten next door. The raid was just one of many incidents of the army detaining medical relief workers. We interviewed our friend Alaa, who was detained while making rounds with a doctor on Monday. Alaa was handcuffed in a jeep for seven hours, scolded when his hands shook (he has a weak pulse condition), and hit anytime he raised his head. He was released five miles south of the city at midnight, but back delivering medicine with UPMRC on Wednesday after the soldiers reinvaded and curfew was imposed again.
The second invasion seemed heavier than the first, with even more soldiers and jeeps around every corner. More and more families were going incommunicado, which we understood to mean their homes were being occupied. Sometimes people would call for help, but when we arrived nobody would answer. Neighbors were sure that the families hadn’t left, so we would yell to the soldiers that we knew they were there and just wanted to deliver medicine. After some insisting sometimes they’d answer, sometimes not.
Once we were made to wait forty minutes outside one occupied home. As we waited, soldiers escorted detained men in and out, including one group of at least ten medical volunteers from the Red Crescent and UPMRC. After half an hour they let the medical relief workers go on the condition that seven would leave the area and the other three would stop doing distributing medicine.
Sometimes the detainment was unofficial. Soldiers demanded at gunpoint the IDs of the four volunteers we were accompanying, and then refused to give them back for a full hour. Because it’s extremely dangerous to be caught breaking curfew without an ID, we were forced to wait instead of delivering insulin to a diabetic who was waiting. The soldiers claimed they were checking the IDs, but spent the hour chatting, eating lunch, and taking pictures of us waiting.
There were so many stories that I stopped writing them down. But one that stuck with me came from Nova and Yara, who were delivering bread and medicine with three friends from UPMRC when soldiers called them from far away to approach their jeep. One by one, our friends were ordered to open their jackets, pull their pants down, turn around, and put their hands up against the wall. Nova and Yara averted their eyes with shame as the men were forced to strip in front of them. The soldiers let them go afterwards, but we have scarcely seen our friends since — I can only imagine their embarrassment, in a culture where modesty and gender boundaries are so important.
Palestinian men detained by Israeli soldiers.
Something about humiliation is worse that physical punishment. I’ve heard stories of young women detained, photographed naked, and threatened that if they don’t collaborate with the army (as spies), their pictures will be distributed, shaming them and their families beyond repair. This can be more effective that bribery and even torture. It’s interesting how many of the detainees are young people, sometimes not more than 13 years old, who say they aren’t questioned about the wanted men at all. Instead, soldiers use various techniques to encourage them to collaborate.
Jihan was not the only young human shield used this week. One family told us how the soldiers invaded by breaking a hole through their wall, herding 27 family members into one room, and taking two kids to open doors in front of them as they raided the rest of the neighborhood. After six hours, the women and older men were released while the human shields and all other men were handcuffed and taken away. One of the men, Abdallah, gave us his testimony:
We were five in total, ages 17 to 30. They led us away from our home via the hole that they’d made in our wall. It was hard to climb through the hole without the use of our hands. Then we had to walk up the steep and rocky hill behind our house, which was also very difficult with our hands behind our back.The soldiers returned twice more to Abdallah’s house during the invasions, and they will probably be back. The third time they destroyed many things in the house, turning over furniture and breaking glasses and windows. As illustrated by Abdallah’s story, it’s not clear whether the raids and detainment are as much about getting information as general harassment, or at best disregard for residents’ rights.
The soldiers brought us to a home in the Raas Al Ain quarter. We were not allowed to use the toilet at all for the next ten hours, but my need was very urgent during most of that time. After the first couple hours, we asked when our hands would be untied — we were having pain in our shoulders, especially my brother who is overweight so he cannot remain so long with his hands stretched behind. A soldier came behind us and instead of opening our hands he tied the handcuffs tighter as punishment for asking. It was very painful for us. Soon I could not feel my hands and I asked another soldier if he would loosen the cuffs. He said we would be released soon.
Instead, we were taken into jeeps, blindfolded, and driven to Huwwara military base south of Nablus. The Mukhabarat [Israeli Intelligence] were waiting there and when we arrived they took off our blindfolds, looked at our IDs, checked them, and asked a few questions: What’s your name? Where are you from? What do you do? We answered their questions in two minutes, and then they put the blindfolds back on for six more hours. You cannot know the feeling of being detained, handcuffed, and blindfolded for 17 hours. Try closing your eyes and tying your hands for just one hour — it will feel like an eternity, and you will begin to feel you are losing your mind.
Between 9pm and 3am they led us around to different jeeps. We kept tripping because we could not see anything or use our hands. At 3am they took off our blinds and handcuffs, gave us a paper saying in Hebrew that we’d been at Huwwara, and told us we could go. We could not understand the logic of detaining and handcuffing us for more than ten hours without food, water, or access to a toilet just to ask us a couple silly questions that they probably already know the answers to.
Because of the curfew there was no transportation so we had to walk the eight kilometers [five miles] back to Nablus. Actually, we ran part of the way because we were scared — there are many dogs on the road, plus we were afraid of being caught in clashes between Palestinians and the army. We arrived at home almost two hours later, around 5am.
We documented another raid at one student dormitory of An Najah University, where soldiers arrived at 4:15am, threw sound bombs and demanded that everyone evacuate or the building would be destroyed on top of them. Students and family residents fled out in their pajamas and were brought to the basement of a nearby building. Women and children were kept in one room, while all the men — as young as fourteen — were handcuffed and sat in another room. For the next six hours, the thirty men were forbidden to speak, open a window for fresh air, or even lean against a wall to sleep.
A family describes their experience being woken up and detained from 4am-10am with students from an An-Najah dormitory.
The door to a Al-Najaa dorm room after being destroyed by Israeli soldiers.
I apologize if these reports of detention, raids, human shields, and the obstruction of medical treatment seem repetitive. I tell them not only because I believe they each deserve to be heard, but more crucially because with enough reports the seemingly arbitrary harassment can no longer be dismissed as isolated incidents or simply unfortunate side effects of conflict, but must be recognized as unspoken policies of the Israeli Army. If the intention is security for Israeli citizens, these policies are not only ineffective but counter-productive in my opinion. If the intention is to scare the people of Nablus, then this is terrorism and should be recognized and condemned as such.
All images by Anna Baltzer
Anna Baltzer is a volunteer with the International Women’s Peace Service in the West Bank and author of the book, Witness in Palestine: Journal of a Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories. For information about her writing, photography, DVD, and speaking tours, visit her website at www.AnnaInTheMiddleEast.com. | <urn:uuid:61c9bb6d-6e69-42d7-889d-62c7be069a6c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://electronicintifada.net/content/nablus-invasion-diary-ii-human-shields-and-medical-obstruction/6807 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985882 | 2,070 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Feb. 3, 2013 New design guidelines from researchers in Singapore simplify the development of targeted therapies for muscular dystrophy and other diseases.
The dystrophin protein offers critical support to muscle fibers. Mutations affecting dystrophin's expression cause the muscle-wasting disease muscular dystrophy. In Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), these mutations take the form of small sequence changes that make much of the dystrophin gene (DMD) untranslatable, yielding nonfunctional protein or no protein at all.
Therapies based on a strategy known as 'exon skipping' could undo the damage from these mutations. Development of such treatments is set to accelerate, thanks to research by a team led by Keng Boon Wee of the A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing and Zacharias Pramono of the National Skin Centre in Singapore.
Proteins are translated from messenger RNA transcripts of genes; however, only certain RNA regions -- known as exons -- actually encode protein, and these are enzymatically spliced together prior to translation. Several clinical studies have demonstrated that small 'antisense oligonucleotide' (AON) molecules that bind mutated DMD exons can induce elimination of those defective exons during splicing, yielding shorter but largely functional versions of dystrophin. "We are cautiously optimistic that AON-induced exon skipping could be the first effective therapy for DMD patients," says Wee.
Unfortunately, DMD arises from many different mutations, and targeted AON design remains a time-consuming, trial-and-error process. To address this challenge, Wee and Pramono sought to define the characteristics of AONs that efficiently promote exon-skipping. They used computational analysis to zoom in on exonic sequences that coordinate splicing. They also identified regions of suitable length within dystrophin RNA transcripts that span these sequences and would be accessible to AONs in living cells.
The researchers thus derived a set of guidelines enabling them to effectively design AONs that targeted nine different exons affected in DMD patients. For each exon, at least one AON proved capable of boosting dystrophin expression to clinically relevant thresholds in cultured muscle cells (see image). "Our proposed set of factors resulted in a reasonable success rate of designing efficient AONs -- 61% versus 38% using semi-empirical methods," says Wee. Clinical studies have already demonstrated the promise of efficient exon skipping in treating DMD patients.
Wee notes that other diseases arising from abnormal RNA processing could also benefit from this approach. However, his team is also exploring this method as a general strategy to abort production of disease-causing proteins in cancer and other conditions. "In contrast to small-molecule inhibitor drugs that can target only about 10% of the human genome, this approach could downregulate most human genes," Wee says.
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The above story is reprinted from materials provided by The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR).
- Pramono, Z. A. D., Wee, K. B., Wang, J. L., Chen, Y. J., Xiong, Q. B. et al. A prospective study in the rational design of efficient antisense oligonucleotides for exon skipping in the DMD gene. Human Gene Therapy, 2012 DOI: 10.1089/hum.2011.205
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USA Route 66 Cross Country Road Trip Map, Data, Summary, Photos, Equipment Used: http://www.defreesproductions.com/road-trip-route-66-cross-country-usa-2012 ...
I saw this video on an Atlantic Cities article and was struck by the rural and "off-the-beaten path" feel that timelapse of the Mother Road manages to capture. Route 66 looms large in Americana, in part because it represents a bygone era, a time when the automobile was new and exciting. This empowered many to make a cross-country road trip, but during this time the car was not so ubiquitous that it was the overwhelming force that is so visually prominent in urban landscapes as it is today. The historical and cultural critique of the U.S. automobile culture in the Pixar movie Cars may be fictional and for a child audience, but it is quite accurate in noting that cities disconnected from the interstate system sharply declined and were never the same. These places represent for many people then, a classic pop culture landscape of yesteryear.
Tags: transportation, landscape, place, culture, timelapse.
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Girlfriend – do you struggle with your work-life balance?
(Or am I the only one?!) Actually, if you don’t, then you need to leave your girlfriend advice in the comments. If you do try to multi-task your life, you – like me, may feel like all the things you’re juggling might crash down around you any minute. Between kids, partners, parents, jobs, volunteering, taking care of a home and the people in it, trying to find time to exercise, and all the other responsibilities we face, I feel pretty safe guessing that you have times where work + life ? balance.
Fortunately, we have a great girlfriend to share her wisdom when it comes to this trying topic of time management and managing our crazy lives. Thanks to girlfriend SUE GLEW for this guest blog. (And, check out her interview with us on our BlogTalkRadio show!)
The Balancing Act – Work-Life Balance, by Sue Glew, Best Friend Errand Service
What is it?: Definition – For every person work-life balance has a unique formula and definition. We all have 24 hours in each day, but we each find our own way to spend that time. We have work, sleep, family, friends, activities, entertainment, etc. The key is that we find comfort in the way we allocate our time.
Who needs it? Many think that only married people with kids need to find a work-life balance, but if you work and if you have a life you need balance. Interestingly, it appears that different generations have different ways to value and prioritize it.
Those among us who are baby boomers probably grew up with a hardworking family that worked all day and came home at night and spent time doing family things. Work was work and family was family and rarely would the two meet. Now, we are often under the impression that the Gen X people don’t work as hard and all they do is spend time on their blackberry even when they are at their child’s ball game or out to lunch with friends. In fact, they are just trying to balance work and life and they are managing them so that they may overlap. Work and life are sharing the day.
How do you get it? You have to ask for it! I had a college professor who once said “You don’t get what you don’t ask for”. That may be all I remember from that class, but it was an important lesson. The key here is that you have to decide who to ask.
Here is my simple list (in order) of who to ask:
1. Yourself – what can you change to bring balance? (re-arrange your schedule, eliminate some commitments, delegate or outsource tasks, etc)
2. Your employer – Do they offer any options for flexibility? (job sharing, flex hours, tele-commuting, concierge services, etc.)
3. Your friends and family – Do they have time to share/spare? Can you: arrange meals together where each does half of the cooking, carpool to work or activities, work together in the yard. It may not be your idea of a great time, but anything you do with a friend makes it more fun and adds balance to your life.
Nobody said life is easy and the same holds true for finding the perfect balance between work and life. Just remember the key is to find comfort in your day and friends and family to help you along the way!
Sue Glew is an entrepreneur, a wife, a mother and an overall busy and happy woman. Her concierge company, Best Friend Errand Service, has been the ultimate in work, life and friendship balance. She works with individuals and businesses (for their employees, etc.) to make their lives better and more balanced by her services, staff and knowledge. (Shown here, Sue and her team won the Land’s End Business Outfitters Team Makeover Contest!)
How do you manage your work-life balance? Share – please!!!
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I do this to encrypt a single file:
openssl aes-256-cbc -a -salt -in file.txt -out file.enc
and then type in some regular plaintext password.
I do not understand how
-salt enhances the security of this. The reason is that the salt is stored right there in the beginning of the file like this:
Salted__<eight salt bytes>
The salt being available to the cracker in such an obvious manner, what is the purpose of it? I don't see how it would make a dictionary attack harder ... especially given the fact that, as far as I know,
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In July 1936 insurgent Spanish troops organised a military coup to oust the elected republican government in Madrid. The generals in charge of the uprising hoped that the regime change would be quick and clean but it was not. What followed was a bloody civil war. Hundreds of thousands died and the country was torn apart in what became a dress rehearsal for the even greater conflict to come – World War II.
The siege of Madrid was the key battle of the war. As General Franco’s nationalist troops closed in on the Spanish capital in the autumn of 1936 Europe watched and waited for city to fall. Instead Madrilenos fought tooth and nail to defend themseleves and helped by volunteers from other countries – the International Brigades – they held out against all the odds until almost the end of the conflict in 1939. Their slogan “No Pasarán” (they will not get past)” has become a clarion call for anti-fascists around the world since that time.
Despite its importance the siege of Madrid remains a topic remains too sensitve for officialdom: the city offers no information for the intelligent, interested visitor let alone a guide to sites of historical interest associated with the battle. Yet off the beaten track, from the University district in the city centre to the mountains of Guadarrama an hour away, the remains of the war can still be found – gun emplacements, bunkers, trenches and occasional debris. This site tells you where to find them and something about the history which surrounds them.
Spanish Sites fills a gap left by all other guides. It offers virtual and real tours of the battlefield. You can just browse here or book a guided tour during a stay in Madrid. Following the steps of four famous authors and artists associated with the International Brigades – Ernest Hemingway, Gerda Taro, Charlie Donnelly and John Cornford – we will leave the usual tourist trail far behind and enter the fascinating world of the war which shaped modern European history.
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VOC Abatement is not really a dehumidification process, but it looks very much like it. Munters rotor technology is used to optimise the VOC Abatement process by using a Zeolite rotor instead of a desiccant rotor.
What is a VOC?
VOC stands for Volatile Organic Compound. Volatile chemicals produce vapours at room temperature. Organic is a chemical containing carbon molecules. Volatile Organic Compounds include industrial chemicals, solvents, alcohols, and even gasoline. VOC's combine with sunlight to form atmospheric ozone, or smog.
What is Zeolite?
Zeolite is a naturally occurring mineral, in crystal form. Natural zeolite is made of hydrous aluminium silicates of sodium, calcium, potassium or barium.
Natural zeolite is hydrophilic (water loving) and readily adsorbs and desorbs water. Synthetic zeolites have been developed for commercial applications. Over 70 types of synthetic zeolites have been created.
Hydrophobic zeolite is an inorganic crystal with properties suited to adsorbing VOCs. Hydrophobic zeolite is a stable crystal. The zeolite's inert properties mean that it does not promote chemical reactions. It is also non-flammable to extreme temperatures and will not react with strong acids.
How do Zeolites Work?
The basic structure of a zeolite is a tetrahedra or pyramid formed by silicon dioxides (SiO2) The tetrahedra have one silicon atom in the center and oxygen at each of the corners.
Zeolites are linked by sharing the oxygen atom. Linked zeolites form pores. The size of the pores is determined by the number of zeolite molecules that are joined together. As a crystal the zeolite has a set structure, therefore each type of zeolite has a distinct arrangement of zeolite molecules. As each type of zeolite is unique each pore size is unique.
The size of the organic compound determines which zeolite pore size is best suited for adsorption. Munters Zeol uses a mixture of hydrophobic zeolites with different pore sizes. This mixture allows a wide range of organic solvents to be adsorbed. Most commercially available solvents are adsorbed by our hydrophobic zeolites.
A VOC is attracted and held in the zeolite pore by a weak attractive force. (This is a weak physical attractive force between chemically neutral compounds.) The VOC will remain in the pore until energy (e.g. heat) is applied. The heat overcomes the attractive force and the VOC breaks free from the zeolite and is released into the air.
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The European Court of Justice has ruled that customers have a right to resell software they purchase regardless of whether the software was originally distributed on a physical medium or downloaded over the Internet. The ruling is a defeat for Oracle, which had argued that the court should uphold provisions in its license agreement prohibiting such transfers.
Software vendors have long argued that software is "licensed, not sold." This claim is in tension with the doctrine of copyright exhaustion (called the first sale doctrine in the United States), which holds that copyright law does not give rightsholders control over used copies of their work. And the principle has gotten even more murky as software is increasingly distributed directly over digital networks, meaning that there's no physical copy of the work to resell.
Oracle distributes its software online. Once a customer has signed a licensing agreement, they have an unlimited right to download copies of the database software from Oracle's website, and to install as many copies of the software as specified in the licensing agreement. A company called UsedSoft acted as a broker for used Oracle licenses, allowing Oracle customers who no longer need their licenses to resell them to another firm that could put them to better use.
Oracle sued UsedSoft, arguing that UsedSoft was merely facilitating piracy of its software. The database giant noted that its license agreements specifically state that licenses are nontransferable. And it argued that the exhaustion doctrine only applied to physical copies, like CDs or DVDs, not to copies downloaded from a website.
On Wednesday, the European Court of Justice, the EU's highest court, decisively rejected Oracle's arguments.
"It makes no difference whether the copy of the computer program was made available by means of a download from the rightholder’s website or by means of a material medium such as a CD-ROM or DVD," the court ruled. "Even if the rightholder formally separates the customer’s right to use the copy of the program supplied from the operation of transferring the copy of the program to the customer on a material medium, the operation of downloading from that medium a copy of the computer program and that of concluding a license agreement remain inseparable from the point of view of the acquirer."
The court noted that if it accepted Oracle's argument, then "suppliers would merely have to call the contract a ‘license’ rather than a ‘sale’ in order to circumvent the rule of exhaustion and divest it of all scope."
"From an economic point of view, the sale of a computer program on CD-ROM or DVD and the sale of a program by downloading from the internet are similar," the court ruled. "The on-line transmission method is the functional equivalent of the supply of a material medium."
The court also rejected Oracle's contention that even if the original software license was transferable, the new owner was not entitled to use the free updates Oracle supplied with the software.
But the court did place some important limits on customers' rights to resell used software licenses. First, if a customer purchases a multiseat license, it is not allowed to split the license up into parts and sell them separately.
The court also held that after reselling the software, the previous owner must render his own copy of the software inoperable. Oracle had argued that this would be impossible to enforce in practice. But the court noted that this difficulty isn't unique to online software sales—the same problem arises when a customer resells a CD or DVD after using it to install software on his own computer.
European software purchasers now enjoy substantially stronger first-sale rights than their American counterparts. While the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has upheld the right to resell used CDs, the same court has been more deferential to software vendors, ruling that no-resale clauses in licensing agreements are enforceable. And since software companies invariably insert such clauses into their EULAs, the Ninth Circuit's ruling places used software sales under a legal cloud. | <urn:uuid:5120efd6-fc45-4650-9a6a-12cc7288ec2c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/top-eu-court-upholds-right-to-resell-downloaded-software/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958815 | 814 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Learning and Education in the Networked Society [Report]
Ericsson recently produced an excellent documentary film on that posed many questions on the new skills and educational platforms are redefining our educational systems and institutions. In conjunction with this, they have released a report that describes some of the key changes and challenges associated with a new networked society and education.
“We are on the brink of a fundamental shift in society. As we journey towards the Networked Society we are unlocking the full potential of learning and education. Students and progressive teachers, empowered by technology, are turning established models on their heads while new skills and educational platforms are redefining our systems and institutions.”
This is a short and snappy report, with some nice graphics and statistics that is nice to have a quick read through. Some of the case studies are also interesting to follow up on, and use as examples of how countries around the globe are using technology for education e.g. T-Smart in South Korea. | <urn:uuid:95732c6b-71ef-4a53-a055-d5b20d2bf61c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.avatargeneration.com/2012/11/learning-and-education-in-the-networked-society-report/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964586 | 201 | 2.390625 | 2 |
The Magic Dreidels
by Eric Kimmel Illustrated by Katya Krenina
Reviewed by Dylan D. (age 7)
Dylan D. is a student in Mrs. Okamura's 2nd Grade Class
Jacob gets three magical dreidels from a goblin in the well. Every time he tries to take a dreidel home to his family Fruma Sarah switches it with a regular one. The first dreidel spun out latkes. The second dreidel spun out gelt. Fruma Sarah kept those dreidels until the goblin and Jacob tricked her by bringing her a dreidel that spun out fleas. After that Fruma Sarah gave the good dreidels back to Jacob. Then everybody celebrated with latkes and gelt, including Fruma Sarah.
I liked this story because it was funny when the fleas attacked Fruma Sarah. I liked it when the goblin gave Jacob the dreidels. My favorite character was the goblin because I've never seen one before. I did not like Fruma Sarah because she stole the dreidels from Jacob. This story reminds me of Hanukkah because we played with dreidels when we learned about Hanukkah.
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from History of West Virginia, Old and New and West Virginia Biography -- Chicago: American Historical Society, 1923. v.2, p. 206
LOUIS E. SCHRADER. Almost an entire generation of the bar of the West Virginia Panhandle have come to know and appreciate the services of Louis E. Schrader, the official court reporter at Wheeling. He is also widely known over the state, since for many years he has been the official reporter for the State Senate.
Mr. Schrader was born at Wheeling, April 5, 1869. His father, Charles F. W. Schrader, as born in Germany in 1838, and as a youth learned the carriage maker's trade. About the time he completed his apprenticeship he came to the United States, located at Wheeling, and was one of the skilled men of his trade and active in business in that city for many years. He died at Wheeling in 1886. He was a democrat and a member of the Lutheran Church. His wife, Christiana Stifel, was born in Wheeling in 1849 and died in that city in 1909.
Louis E. Schrader, only child of his parents, was educated in Wheeling's public schools to the age of fourteen. His early training both in the law and in stenography was acquired while in the law offices of Russell & Stifel, a prominent law firm with which he remained five years. He later continued his shorthand studies at the Cincinnati School of Phonography and the Phonographic Institute of Cincinnati. The proficiency he developed took him into the profession of court reporting, and has been in that line of work continuously for nearly thirty years and has been official court reporter of Ohio County since 1893. His offices are in the Court House at Wheeling. For twenty years he has been official reporter of the West Virginia Senate. Mr. Schrader is now serving a term as member of the City Board of Education. He is a republican, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, belongs to the Rotary Club and is affiliated with Wheeling Lodge No. 28, B.P.O.E.
In 1908, at Wheeling, he married Miss Alberta Prince, daughter of William and Isabelle (Close) Prince, now deceased. Her father was a steamboat captain on the Ohio River. Mr. and Mrs. Schrader have one son, Henry, born in 1909.
Picture of Mr. Schrader from same source.
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Is it my parents’ fault if I’m losing my memory? It may be. Research shows that there is a genetic link between your genes, the shrinkage of a key brain area called the hippocampus, and your vulnerability to memory loss.
Is It My Parents’ Fault If I’m Losing My Memory?
The results of the research are described in ScienceDaily, but here are the key findings.
The first study, based on a genetic analysis of more than 9,000 people, has found that certain versions of four genes may speed shrinkage of a brain region involved in making new memories. The brain area, known as the hippocampus, normally shrinks with age, but if the process speeds up, it could increase vulnerability to Alzheimer’s disease, the research suggests.
Apparently bigger is better where it concerns the hippocampus.
The gene variants identified in the first study do not cause Alzheimer’s, but they may rob the hippocampus of a kind of “reserve” against the disease, which is known to cause cell destruction and dramatic shrinkage of this key brain site. The result is severe loss of memory and cognitive ability.
Scientists calculated that hippocampus shrinkage in people with these gene variants accelerates by about four years on average. The risk of Alzheimer’s doubles every five years beginning at age 65, so a person of that age would face almost twice the Alzheimer’s risk if he or she had these versions of the gene.
Looked at another way, if a person with one of these variants did get Alzheimer’s, the disease would attack an already compromised hippocampus and so would lead to a more severe condition at a younger age than otherwise, the research suggests.
“This is definitely a case of ‘bigger is better,’” said DeCarli. “We already know that Alzheimer’s disease causes much of its damage by shrinking hippocampus volume. If someone loses a greater-than-average amount of volume due to the gene variants we’ve identified, the hippocampus is more vulnerable to Alzheimer’s.”
Why the aging hippocampus normally decreases in volume is unclear.
If you’re up to reading a rather scientific article, you can do so here.
Many of us worry about the possibility of future memory loss, especially when we look at our family members. Is it my parents’ fault if I’m losing my memory? It could very well be.
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ATF Transfers Historic Alexander Hamilton Letter To National Archives
Handle With Care — Acting Director Kenneth Melson and Adrienne Thomas, Acting Archivist of the United States, during the Hamilton letter transfer ceremony. Photo by ATF
Another small piece of American history was preserved for posterity on September 24 when Acting Director Kenneth Melson transferred, to the National Archives, a 219-year-old letter written by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. The document had been in ATF’s possession for more than three decades.
The manuscript is dated December 18, 1790, barely 14 months into Hamilton’s term as Secretary. In the document, Hamilton discusses a device that can be used by customs agents to determine, for tax purposes, the alcohol content of imported spirits such as St. Croix rum.
“The letter is highly significant for ATF, because it is one of the foundation documents of our bureau, enabling us to trace our beginnings all the way back to 1790,” Melson said during the transfer ceremony at the National Archives.
According to the letter’s authenticator, autograph expert James Lowe of New York, the manuscript may actually be Hamilton’s very first attempt to use a tax on alcohol to collect revenue for the U.S. Government. In 1789 and again in 1790, Congress imposed alcohol tariffs to help pay off the new nation’s Revolutionary War debts.
In his letter, Hamilton states that he is providing each port with a hydrometer, a device used to determine the gravity and density of liquids, so that customs officers can more accurately determine the proof of imported beverages.
Taking no chances, Hamilton goes on to note that he intends to provide an additional hydrometer to every port; one to be used as a standard, or gauge.
“But it is not possible in the first instance to send both,” he writes. “Hence one only will accompany this letter.” In a postscript, he adds that he is also sending along a tin cylinder to hold the liquor while its alcohol content is being carefully measured.
In the mid-1970s, ATF employee and avid autograph collector Howard Criswell Jr. bought the letter from an autograph dealer in New York City. He purchased it for $100, intending to include the document in an ATF exhibit celebrating the Nation’s bicentennial. The letter remained in an ATF safe for about 35 years, until it was rediscovered during the agency’s 2005 move to its new National Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
ATF Historian Barbara Osteika, who works tirelessly to preserve the little bits and pieces of the bureau’s past, quickly realized the letter’s importance and contacted the National Archives. “I knew we’d found something big,” she said.
The rest is history.
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THE “DASHING” EIGHTH
The Beginning: 1636-1861
The Eighth Massachusetts Infantry was a Regiment organized within the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia (M.V.M.) which had its origins dating back to Colonial times as far as 1636. Prior to the Civil War, the Massachusetts Militia had participated with distinction in every major American military conflict including the French and Indian Wars, the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 and the Mexican-American War.
Massachusetts Regiments and Brigades were based on geographic location within the Commonwealth and were formed from local militia Companies which were headquartered in individual communities. The Eighth Regiment was comprised of companies from the “North Shore” communities of Gloucester, Ipswich, Lynn, Marblehead, Newburyport, Salem and Saugus. Initially organized as the East Regiment in 1636, it was re-designated as the Essex Regiment in 1643 which it remained until 1775 when it became known as the First Essex Regiment. In 1840 the regiment was renamed the Sixth Regiment of Light Infantry before finally being changed to the Eighth Infantry in 1855.
In 1792, Congress passed a law which remained in effect until 1903 requiring all able-bodied males aged 18-45 to enroll in the organized Militia (the unorganized militia included the entire male citizenry of age who were also expected to possess and maintain their own personal arms).
As the Militia was the foundation for the common defense of both community and country, participation in the ranks was expected of all male citizens and involved regular drills, inspections and annual encampments where the men participated in maneuvers and competitions involving military skills such as marksmanship, wall-scaling, etc. Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs) were elected by the rank and file based on respect, leadership skills and experience as well as financial contribution to the unit’s support (in some cases). Participation in the militia was considered a social activity as much as a civic obligation, and it was an invaluable opportunity for developing the character of young men. The organization of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia continued without much change from its inception until the Civil War in 1861.
The Civil War: 1861-1865
Following the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln requested 20 companies of infantry from Governor John Andrew to assist in protecting the Capitol at Washington, D.C. On April 16, 1861 the companies of the Eighth Infantry reported for duty at Faneuil Hall, Boston. Company K was first formed at this time in order to complete the Regimental organization at 10 companies per the regular U.S. Army standard. The regiment entrained and traveled through New York to Pennsylvania where it seized a large railroad ferry called the Maryland to cross the Susquehanna River, arriving off Annapolis on April 21. The arrival of the Eighth Infantry protected the USS Constitution (“Old Ironsides”) from certain capture or destruction by Confederate forces. On April 22, Company K was detailed to reinforce the garrison at Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor (of “Star Spangled Banner” fame), where they remained until May 16 when they rejoined the rest of the regiment outside of Baltimore. The Eighth secured the Northern railroad supply and communication line to Washington (Baltimore & Ohio Railroad), ensuring a flow of Federal reinforcements at a rate of up to 5,000 troops per day into the Capitol. On July 21 during the first Federal defeat at the first battle of Bull Run, the Eighth Infantry remained stationed at Baltimore. On July 29, the regiment was relieved and returned to Massachusetts.
The Eighth Infantry was redeployed on November 25, 1862 to New Berne, North Carolina, traveling by the transport Mississippi to anchorage at Beaufort on November 29. The regiment disembarked on November 30 at Morehead City, N.C. and traveled by train to New Berne, N.C. where Company K was detailed to defend Fort Totten which contained 25 guns and commanded the westerly approach to the city. On February 15, 1863 a Confederate attack under the command of Gen. D.H. Hill was successfully repulsed, and on April 8 the Eighth joined the unsuccessful march of a relief column headed for Washington, N.C. to support besieged troops under Gen. Foster of the Department of North Carolina. On April 9, elements of the regiment were engaged with Confederate forces at Blounts Creek, N.C., and on April 16 the Eighth joined a reconnaissance force under Gen. Prince and captured many prisoners during a six-day operation near Core Creek, N.C.
On July 1, 1863 the Eighth Infantry arrived at Baltimore, Maryland where it remained until July 7, when following the Battle of Gettysburg it led the brigade advance to re-occupy Maryland Heights and intercept the retreating forces of Gen. Robert E. Lee. On July 12 the Eighth Infantry then joined the Second Division, First Corps of the Army of the Potomac at Boonesboro, MD and advanced into Virginia where it arrived at Middleburg on July 21 before receiving orders to return to Boston on July 26, 1863.
The Eighth Infantry was called to duty for a third and final time during the Civil War on July 6, 1864, arriving in Baltimore by July 26 where it guarded the Northern Central Railroad from attack by Confederate guerillas. After a brief garrison and provost duty in the city of Baltimore, the Eighth returned to Massachusetts and was mustered out of Federal service on November 10, 1864.
Building The Armories: 1888 Onwards
From the beginning, the local Companies of the Massachusetts Militia had assembled for drills and inspections in their respective communities in meeting places which were selected by the officers with rent charged against the local corporation. In general, these “headquarters” were simply the largest halls that could be obtained in the areas where the Companies were located. Larger assemblies of Regiments or Brigades were accomplished through the annual encampments which could utilize large, open spaces during the Summer and Fall months.
After the Civil War, State Armories for the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia were constructed throughout the Commonwealth under a Legislative Act of 1888 which provided funding for the purpose. Every city and town in the Commonwealth that possessed two or more Companies took advantage of the provisions of the Act, and the state-wide building initiative continued from 1890 through the turn of the Century.
The Somerville Armory was built in 1903 and originally housed the Somerville Light Infantry. By 1912, subsequent unit reorganization had made the Somerville Armory home to Companies K and M of the 8th Infantry Regiment when Sam Avery first enlisted. The 3rd Battalion to which Co. K belonged was headquartered at the Lawrence Armory and Regimental HQ was based at the Cambridge Armory.
The Spanish-American War: 1898-1899
The Eighth Infantry including Company K was again mustered into Federal service as the Eighth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (or 8th Massachusetts Infantry, U.S.V.) during the Spanish-American War on May 14, 1898. The regiment assembled at the State Camp Ground in South Framingham, Mass. which was known at the time as Camp Dalton.
The Eighth Infantry was stationed at Camp Thomas in Chickamauga, Georgia and Camp Lexington in Lexington, Kentucky through the end of the war on December 10, 1898. On January 7, 1899 the Eighth Infantry sailed for Cuba as part of the occupation force and remained on the island at Matanzas until April 4 when it returned to the United States. Once again, the Eighth Infantry was mustered out of Federal service in Boston on April 28, 1899.
The Militia Act: 1903
The Militia Act of 1903 (also known as the Dick Act) provided reform and reorganization of the militia as a military establishment following the Spanish-American War which had revealed weaknesses in both the historic militia system and the regular United States Army. The Act of 1903 gave permanent Federal status to the organized militia of the various States, renamed the militia as the “National Guard” and further required units to attend 24 drills and 5 days of annual training per year for which the troops would be paid. Militia units were also subject to inspection by the Regular Army to ensure they met Federal standards. Under this new system, the Land forces of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia were redesignated as the Massachusetts National Guard on November 15, 1907. The Eighth Mass. Volunteer Militia had now become the Eighth Mass. National Guard, although both designations would continue to be used interchangeably (especially by veterans like Sam) until 1916.
The Mexican Border Campaign: 1916
In response to the Mexican Revolution and the crisis on the Mexican Border caused by increased guerilla incursions into United States territory in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson dispatched a Regular Army force into Mexico under Gen. John J. Pershing in pursuit of Francisco “Pancho” Villa. At the same time, President Wilson activated the National Guard to secure the Border region in what was the first large-scale deployment of National Guard troops to support Homeland Security and defend against terrorism. Each of the states contributed troops for a deployment period of approximately 90 days (in keeping with the Act of 1903) from 1916-1919. The “Dashing” Eighth Infantry would stay for longer.
The Eighth Infantry with Company K assembled once again in late June, 1916 at the State Camp Ground in South Framingham, Mass. and entrained for El Paso, Texas. The regiment secured the Border region including transportation and manufacturing infrastructure around El Paso, Texas opposite Juarez, Mexico and came under occasional sniper fire, attempted infiltration and sabotage. After being relieved by elements of the Georgia National Guard, the Eighth Infantry returned home to wait and watch the ongoing Great War in Europe.
The National Defense Act: 1916
The National Defense Act of 1916 finally transformed the militia from individual state forces into a formal reserve component of the U.S. Army and made the term “National Guard” mandatory. All units now shared a common Federal status with standardized officer qualifications established by the War Department. The old elective system of promotion for Officers and NCOs was replaced by an appointment system based strictly on qualification. The number of required drills were increased to 48 and annual training days to 15 per year.
In contrast to the National Guard of the United States (which was deployable on orders from the President in a national emergency), Section 61 of the National Defense Act of 1916 also provided for separate and distinct “State Guard” units which were recognized as parallel State-based volunteer military organizations (Home Guards) under the control of their respective Governors. These units were reserved for employment during local emergencies and for domestic support of national defense, but were not eligible to be sent overseas. The distinction between the National Guard and the State Guards (currently known as State Defense Forces) is frequently misunderstood but remains in effect today.
The End: 1917-1919
Following the entry of the United States into the Great War, the companies of the Eighth Mass. Infantry including Company K mustered in their armories for the last time in July, 1917 before being disbanded and absorbed into the new U.S. Army divisional structure suitable for modern warfare. The men were screened to determine their fitness for overseas duty according to stringent U.S. Army standards. Those who were passed found themselves assigned to different units within the newly-formed 26th Division without consideration for their origins or prior experience. Those who did not “pass muster” for whatever reason were reassigned to newly-formed State Guard units on the home front instead.
Subsequent references to the “Home Guard” in Sam’s writings indicate that the new Massachusetts State Guard took up the mantle of the volunteer citizen-soldier still active in the local community while those in the National Guard had lost their local or regional identities and were absorbed into the anonymity of the vast new U.S. Army.
In February, 1918 while the original members of the “Old Eighth” were already in the trenches with the 26th “Yankee” Division in France, the skeletonized remainder of the Eighth Massachusetts Infantry was re-designated once more as the Fifth Pioneer Infantry. The men of the 5th Pioneer Infantry served under federal status until January, 1919 but remained in the United States as depot or “non-divisional” troops at Camp Wadsworth in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
After their return to the United States in April 1919, the men of the 26th “Yankee” Division were all discharged together at Camp Devens. Once again, there was no regard for whether they had been originally mustered into Federal service as veteran National Guardsmen or recent draftee replacements. All were summarily returned to civilian status. Unfortunately for Sam, there would never be an opportunity to return to Company K and the “Old Eighth.”
“There has always been a small group of citizens who, either as professional soldiers in the regular forces or as civilian soldiers in the military organizations voluntarily maintained by the different states, have kept alive the traditions of the best of our military history, and the practical knowledge of the military methods of the day… The national guard, another proof of our warlike qualities, could not exist except for this military enthusiasm of numerous civilians. It has offered to many that opportunity for experience which has given a basic knowledge, in many cases soon turned in war into successful leadership.”
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Pregnant Women Reminded to Get Flu Vaccine
Expectant mothers are more vulnerable to the dangerous effects of flu infection, experts warn
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Pregnant women should get a flu shot to protect themselves and even their newborn from the flu, experts say.
Pregnancy increases the risk of serious complications of flu, such as bacterial pneumonia and dehydration, according to the March of Dimes.
Not only does getting vaccinated offer protection from the flu for moms-to-be, the vaccine can also confer protection to the baby once it's born, said Dr. Alan Fleischman, March of Dimes medical director.
"The flu vaccine has been shown to be safe and effective. As an added bonus, during pregnancy, mothers pass on their immunity, protecting babies in those early months of life," said Fleischman in a March of Dimes news release. "We urge all pregnant women, and women who expect to become pregnant, to get their influenza immunization because the flu poses a serious risk of illness and even death during pregnancy."
During pregnancy, normal changes to women's immune system, heart and lungs make them more vulnerable to the dangerous complications of the flu. One out of every 20 deaths in 2009 from H1N1 was a pregnant woman.
Despite this increased risk, only half of all expectant mothers received the vaccination during last year's flu season, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Pregnant women can take additional steps to protect themselves from the flu by:
- Staying home when ill and avoiding contact with other people who are sick
- Coughing or sneezing into a tissue or your arm, not your hands
- Avoiding touching your eyes, nose and mouth.
- Washing your hands with soap and water often.
- Using hand sanitizers at work or in public places.
- Thoroughly washing dishes and utensils.
- Avoiding sharing dishes, utensils, drinking glasses or toothbrushes.
The March of Dimes noted that anyone who lives with a pregnant woman or has regular close contact with one should also be immunized. The group also advised that any expectant mothers who experience flu-like symptoms seek medical attention right away.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides more information on the flu and pregnant women.Mary Elizabeth Dallas SOURCE: The March of Dimes, news release, September 7, 2011 Related Articles
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On June 18, 6 foreign nationals, 3 Britons, 1 American, and 2 Kenyans, were given jail terms up to 15 years for illegally bringing in US$3m to pay a ransom for an unspecified ship in Somalia. 8 days later, all 6 were granted a presidential pardon, with the ransom money confiscated and an order to pay US$100 000 to have their planes released.
This event comes in the same week as a new Prime Minister was named, after Abudallahi Mohamed was forced to step down, after a political deadlock with incumbent president, Sahrif Sheikh Ahmed.
There are 3 things that can be deduced from this, first, instability and volatility in the executive means that there is always scope for influence to be put on the Somali authorities.
Second, there is now a public acknowledgement that ransoms occur in Somalia, previously the government banned them, this is tacit knowledge that ransoms are paid to pirates.
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A recent study notes some of the newer trends regarding "trust" in the media, including the following:
- Almost three-quarters of people (72%) said they followed the news closely every day, with national TV (82%) and national or regional newspapers (75%) the most trusted news outlets, according to the poll.
- Online news sources were the first choice among 19% of 18-24 year-olds, compared to just 3% of those aged 55-64.
- Some 77% prefer to check several news sources rather than simply rely on one, a habit particularly evident online.
- Blogs are among the online sources that people are consulting, although few place ultimate trust in their content: 25% said they trusted blogs, with almost the same number (23%) distrusting them.
- Just 3% of all respondents said blogs were their main news source. The only exception to this trend was in South Korea (17%), where online news is highly popular.
- Younger web brands were also shown to have won significant public trust: Google (30%), Yahoo! (28%) and Microsoft/MSN (27%).
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Many people assume that since they have no obvious health issues then their cholesterol level is great and they are fit and healthy. On the contrary, cholesterol builds up in the system slow and silently. It is not until you suffer from cardiac arrest or angina that you realize your health is at risk.
It is essential to know your cholesterol levels and ensure that you find the best means to lower it in order to avoid its long term negative impact on your health. Cholesterol tests should be one of the many procedures taken annually in order to stay healthy.
How do we know what foods have LDL? Low Density Lipoprotein or LDL is the bad cholesterol that experts warn we should avoid. LDL is found in saturated fats while HDL is found in non-saturated fats.
Saturated fats are found high in content in meat, poultry and dairy products such as cheese, cream, ghee and high fat milk. One of the best ways to lower cholesterol is to watch what foods go into your meals and avoid foodstuff that has saturated fats.
Some of the healthy foods recommended by experts to lower body cholesterol include vegetables such as spinach, broccoli, asparagus and carrots. Fruits which should always form a huge part of your daily meals is another important food group.
Fish and seafood contain a lot of essential oils. The Omega-3 fatty acids found in these food group has very little LDL and so should be taken regularly to replace fatty meats. Other food groups include nuts, legumes and grains. Lean meat and skinned poultry should be eaten in moderation.
So what foods should be avoided to lower body cholesterol? Today’s society is used to fast food outlets as a means to reduce time wastage. Unfortunately, most of these meals bought on fast food chains have been associated with high body cholesterol.
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18 Ways to Impress a New Employer
It can take four to 14 months to find the right job... and fewer than 90 days to lose it. According to executive coach Linda Seale, most professional and managerial dismissals are due to failure to understand and fit into a company's culture.
It is during these first weeks on the job that your boss and colleagues form the most lasting impressions about you. But remember, they don't expect you to be perfect. As long as you show intelligence, versatility and a willingness to work and learn, people will be happy to have you aboard and rooting for you to succeed.
Here are 18 ways to make sure you get off on the right foot:
1. Take a break. Take a week's break between jobs to clear your head. At the very least, get a good night's sleep before your first day so you'll be at your best.
2. Check your interview notes. Recall the names and titles of everyone you met and interviewed with so you will be able to greet them and pronounce their names correctly.
3. Study up. Collect back issues of the company's newsletters, annual reports and press clippings. Check out your competitors' literature, too, to get a better handle on the "big picture."
4. Work full days. Know where and when to report on day one. Get there 30 minutes early and leave when or after most of your co-workers do. Notice people's schedules and work habits, so that you'll know the optimal times and means to connect with others.
5. Project positive energy. Look and act as if you're happy to be joining the team.
6. Look good. All eyes are on you, so pay attention to your grooming. Dress tastefully and slightly above dress code.
7. Keep a journal. Write down procedures, names of key people and contact numbers, so that you'll look like a quick study.
8. Be flexible. Expect and embrace the inevitable challenges of your position. A flexible attitude will decrease stress for you and others.
9. Show appreciation. Be kind and appreciative to everyone who helps you learn the ropes.
10. Listen 80 percent; Talk 20 percent. Resist offering opinions or assessments -- that road is full of land mines. You'll get more respect by listening and absorbing what your co-workers have to teach rather than by showing off how much you know.
11. Get to know your boss. Observe your boss' personality and work style, and tailor your interactions to his or her preferences.
12. Clarify expectations. Make sure you and your boss are on the same page. Find out:
-- What priorities and issues need to be immediately addressed.
-- How often and in what format you should provide project updates.
-- How your performance will be evaluated.
13. Connect with colleagues. Get to know as many people as you can especially your teammates and those with whom you will work regularly. Establish the foundation for a relationship, and trust and information will follow.
14. Identify key players. Find out who the decision-makers, influencers, stars and up-and-comers are. Notice the traits they have in common and try to emulate them.
15. Uncover hidden agendas. Identify any political forces at work. While you want to avoid getting involved in politically charged situations, it's helpful to be aware of undercurrents.
16. Take initiative. As you finish assignments and are ready to handle a bigger workload, ask for more. Pick projects that have support from upper management and buy-in from your staff.
17. Don't make major changes. Even if your interviewer told you the company was looking for fresh ideas, proceed carefully. Show respect for those who have invested energy in a project or system before trying to change it. There may be obstacles you aren't aware of. Ask why things are done the way they are and seek feedback from people whose support you need. Applaud what is being done right and frame changes as enhancements.
18. Be a team player. Don't engage in gossip. Always make your boss look good. Share credit with your workmates.
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I have been searching Youtube, Adobe Manuals etc. for tutorials, information and basically how to's regarding Smart Objects.
Foremost I would like to learn how to go about editing a Smart Object. I've read that you can edit them though thus far I haven't been able to locate anything that'll teach me how exactly I go about editing a Smart Object and then how to reinsert it back into the artwork.
I made a calender icon where one Layer is a Smart Object. I later wanted to change the color of that layer. So, I clicked on the Smart Object Layer and it opened in an other window but when I chose a new color and tried to Fill it I was unabel to do so.
So, if you are already aware of a place where I can learn more I would greatly appreciate any links you may have.
I'm still not very good with key words to search for what I need but I am learning.
As always thank you for your time
Sounds like you are talking about Photoshop.
Or do you mean Illustrator’s Symbols?
So, I clicked on the Smart Object Layer and it opened in an other window but when I chose a new color and tried to Fill it I was unabel to do so.
In Photoshop that would have to be a problem you caused yourself, for example selected Layer locked etc.
But with what information you provided it is not clear … screenshots can be really helpful on these Fora by the way.
I'm so sorry ... I didn't mention that I'm reffering to Photoshop because I thought this forum was for Photoshop stuff only.
Silkrooster ... I do not know if it is something new or not because I have only been using Photoshop for about 3 months and I just started learning Illustrator a few weeks ago.
Both Ps and Ai have Smart Objects.
c.pfaffenbichler .... I know screen shots are awesome but my Print Screen key doesn't work. I just downloaded Jing today and plan to learn how to use it 2mar'o. I think I can do screen shots without using my Print Screen key. Or I would post a shot.
The layer wasn't locked. That was the first thing I checked.
All in all I'm just looking for some help to understand what Smart Objects are exactly, how to edit them (generally speaking) and any other information about them that could help me learn how to use them.
I use CS6, I'm a newbie and I have windows 7 64 bit
Also, I don't know what other info I can provide. I clicked to open the Smart Object layer and it opened in an other tab/window but I was/am unable to perform any actions on it whatsoever.
In photoshop, double click the thumbnail in the layers panel. It will open the smart object so you can edit it. Be sure to save to update. Any more info on photoshop, feel free to create a new post over in the photoshop forum, that c.pfaffenbichler kindly posted for you.
Blushing ..... ..... blushing ..... So sorry ... I just realized I posted in Illustrator Forum and not Ps.
I could have sworn I chose Ps forum from the list.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to create any confusion.
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Hirschfield, Alex (2010) Exploring guardianship and broken windows in the context of terrorism: how far are there parallels with crime? In: ECCA Brisbane: Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis Symposium 2010, 5th - 7th July 2010, Morton Island, Brisbane, Australia. (Unpublished)
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There are distinct differences between terrorism and crime risk. Despite heightened levels of fear, acts of terrorism are extremely rare, especially, when compared with high volume crime (e.g. burglary, auto theft, criminal damage) and even crimes against the person such as violence and assault. There are clear differences between criminal offenders and terrorists in motivation, ultimate goals and target selection. For example, economic gain and personal gratification underpin most criminal offending, whereas, terrorists are driven by ideology and seek advance a political, ideological or religious cause. For offenders, suitable targets include property, cash, vulnerable people, but for terrorists, may be iconic buildings, establishment figures and religious gatherings.
However, when it comes to capable guardianship against terrorism and crime there appears to be less of a difference with much of this being provided through the vigilance of residents, visitors, employees, law enforcement agencies and surveillance systems.
This Paper looks at the nature and role of guardianship in blocking off opportunities for terrorism and how far this differs from its use as a means of protection against crime. Factors that constitute ‘guardianship’ in the context of terrorism are explored (e.g. vigilance against ‘radicalisation’); those with the capacity to guard against terrorism are identified and the challenges of providing effective guardianship against terrorism are discussed.
Particular attention is paid to how far the mechanisms embedded in the notion of ‘broken windows’ as a trigger for crime, also apply to terrorism. The focus here is on whether or not equivalent factors to indifference to anti social behaviour and vandalism, that signal to offenders that they have the ‘green light’ to offend unchallenged, exist as precursors to terrorism. Possible candidates include desensitisation to and acceptance of hate speech and incitement leading to the justification of and ultimately perpetration for terrorist acts.
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December 15, 2009
$2,000,000,000,000 More in Debt? You Bet.By Andrew Foy and Brenton Stransky
On Thursday, December 10th, congressional Democrats led by Speaker Pelosi put forth legislation to raise the treasury's debt ceiling by nearly $2T to $13.9T. Pelosi is hastily lining up a vote before the end of the year because the treasury expects the Congress to hit their existing debt ceiling later this month, essentially "maxing" their available credit.
In the midst of a $1.1T spending bill voted on this past weekend, a $700B stimulus bill passed earlier this year, and the expectation of a $9T federal budget deficit over the next ten years, it would have been easy to miss this news among other colossal numbers. But increases to our public debt burden might be the greatest threat to our country.
A minority of representatives recognize this danger and stand opposed to it. During a Bloomberg radio interview on Thursday morning, Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) talked about his opposition to increasing the deficit, citing that for the first time, Moody's rating agency is considering a downgrade to the U.S. sovereign debt. He also quipped that a country running a deficit-to-GDP ratio as high as ours is now wouldn't even be considered for entrance into the European Union.
We should be deeply concerned, but perhaps not surprised, that more of our representatives aren't opposed to a 15% increase in the debt. Most of the 535 members of Congress who steer the economy have negligible business or economic experience, which might explain why the Houses of Congress lack even the most basic understanding of finance and the consequences of their actions.
What happens if we can't find buyers for this new debt? After all, we have increased our debt significantly over the last two years. China's and the rest of the world's appetite for our debt is finite. Earlier this year, the United Kingdom (with the same AAA sovereign debt rating as the U.S.) failed in a debt offering, meaning people (or foreign governments) did not fund the debt needed.
This fundamental problem of no access to debt would plague business executives because they know it would inevitably force them into bankruptcy. We must wonder if our representatives even grasp the significance of the problem. If our representatives had a stronger business background, they would probably not increase our debt by this magnitude, which puts our debt rating at risk (not to mention the chance that the government can pay its loans).
In the first week of this month, the cutting of Greece's credit rating rocked the world debt markets. The turmoil was caused because lower ratings mean a higher probability of default on Greece's debt, threatening inflation, government bankruptcy, and worse. Of note, the downgrade resulted because Greece has a government budget deficit of 13% of GDP (according to Business Week, 12/21/09), and a total debt that amounts to 113% of total economic production for one year. The United States' budget deficit for fiscal year 2009 (which ended in September) is 10% of GDP, and total debt will amount to 100% of GDP if the ceiling is increased.
The dangers of increased spending are perhaps closer than we care to admit.
The United States government is the largest economic entity in the world -- a "business" of sorts. Total government spending in 2009 is expected to be $6,143 billion, or an estimated 230% more than China (the world's next largest economy) spends.
But who is at the helm of this financial juggernaut? As is indicated above, the preponderance of our senators are attorneys (58) or career government employees (13) who have little or no direct business experience. Is it any wonder that our elected officials display a lack of understanding of the most basic laws of economics and business?
Based on data that we compiled from the Senate's website, only fourteen of our hundred senators have any experience in the world of private business, and far fewer (only six) have an MBA. It's sadly ironic that only one senator (Tom Carper, D-DE) was an economist before being elected to office, which is the same occupational representation as comedians (Al Franken, D-MN) before being elected to office.
Perhaps it is our congressmen's lack of fundamental business knowledge and the corresponding ignorance of their overreaching fiscal policies that have landed us in our current situation.
Over the last several decades, our representatives have expanded the welfare state while promising us that we would never feel the pain of these government handouts. It might be fair to say that these easy spenders bought the votes of yesterday's elections at the expense of tomorrow's generations. Under the surface, the debt to which they have regimentally added year after year is sinking the ship.
The total debt that the federal government has taken out in our names now amounts to $12.1 T (or $87K per worker), and the interest owed each year on the debt by each and every working man and woman alone amounts to $1,820. In perspective, the 2008 median household income in the United States was $61,521, so this $1,820 owed solely to service the debt is 2.96% of that average family's pay. While seemingly small compared to the multitude of sales, income, state, local, property, and other taxes we pay today, the federal government's historic level of taxation (as a percentage of GDP) did not permanently move above the 3% level until our entrance into World War I, or for the first 143 years of our history.
The problem with using revenue to service old debt is that this debt does not add to the overall expansion of a country's wealth. While it might be argued that this debt was needed to avert some previous catastrophe, these assertions can never be proven. However, what is unmistakable is that the cost to service the debt acts as a constricting tax, and if we've learned from the mistakes made during the Great Depression, raising taxes in a time of economic instability only widens the instability. Simply speaking, more deficit spending permanently reduces economic growth.
Yet everywhere we turn and from every media outlet we hear more news of higher spending and deeper deficits, a more intrusive government, and more handouts.
How about Medicare for people over 55 instead of 65? Sure, as if the program already isn't running a massive deficit.
How about we hand out free cell phones for everyone? Why not?
How about we pay voters $8,000 to buy a house? Sounds about right!
And they'll need a car, so how about $4,500? Of course!
Beyond any reasonable doubt, the greatest threat to our republic is the lust for spending by our government -- and the resulting debt that peers above the waterline like an iceberg. Those with business experience would be fearful of the future of a company in a similar situation; a student of political philosophy would be likewise wary of a country that spends exponentially greater sums, as is the case in Greece. Still, our representatives assure us that their spending is righting the ship, that we might be better suited to brace for impact.
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"From the mountains, to the prairies To the oceans white with foam, Every Native American Must leave his home." l. Imagine that someone comes to your home and forces you at gunpoint to leave. Your response might be termed "savage." "Savage" was how the New World invaders described American Indians. Settlers chased them across the continent, as the government signed treaties that they later broke.
They also subjected the native inhabitants to horrible atrocities. Author George E. Saurman, a World War II veteran and proud American, explores what really happened to Native American Indians, examining • Native American Indian tribes and their customs; • the actions of early settlers, including William Penn and his holy experiment; • contributions of the Native American Indians; and • conditions on reservations today. Saurman also considers how the Bureau of Indian Affairs handled relations between natives and settlers, as well as what Native American Indians from the past and today have had to say about events. Even today, broken promises obscure what's really going on in Native American Indian communities. It's time that a serious effort be made to rectify the situation, and it starts by realizing that We've Done Them Wrong .
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Everyone likes candy for Christmas, and there’s none better than eye candy. Well, that, and just more of the stuff. Today we’re going to combine both of those good points and look at how to create a beautiful background image that goes on and on… forever!
Of course, each background image is different, so instead of agonising over each and every pixel, I’m going to concentrate on five key steps that you can apply to any of your own repeating background images. In this example, we’ll look at the Miami Beach background image used on the new FOWA site, which I’m afraid is about as un-festive as you can get.
1. Choose your image wisely
I find there are three main criteria when judging photos you’re considering for repetition manipulation (or ‘repetulation’, as I like to say)…
- simplicity (beware of complex patterns)
- angle and perspective (watch out for shadows and obvious vanishing points)
- consistent elements (for easy cloning)
You might want to check out this annotated version of the image, where I’ve highlighted elements of the photo that led me to choose it as the right one.
2. The power of horizontal lines
With the image chosen and your cursor poised for some Photoshop magic, the most useful thing you can do is drag out the edge pixels from one side of the image to create a kind of rough colour ‘template’ on which to work over. It doesn’t matter which side you choose, although you might find it beneficial to use the one with the simplest spread of colour and complex elements.
Click and hold on the marquee tool in the toolbar and select the ‘single column marquee tool’, which will span the full height of your document but will only be one pixel wide. Make the selection right at the edge of your document, press ctrl-c / cmd-c to copy the selection you made, create a new layer, and hit ctrl-v / cmd-v to paste the selection onto your new layer. using free transform (ctrl-t / cmd-t), drag out your selection so that it becomes as wide as your entire canvas.
It goes without saying that the trusty clone tool is one of the most important in the process of creating a seamlessly repeating background image, but I think it’s important to be fairly loose with it. Always clone on to a new layer so that you’ve got the freedom to move it around, but above all else, use the eraser tool to tweak your cloned areas: let that handle the precision stuff and you won’t have to worry about getting your clones right first time.
In the example below, you can see how I overcame the problem of the far-left tree shadow being chopped off by cloning the shadow from the tree on its right.
The two elements are obviously very similar but it doesn’t look like a clone because the majority of the shape is ‘genuine’ and only a small part is a duplicate. Also, after cloning I transformed the duplicate, erased parts of it, used gradients, and — ooh, did someone mention gradients?
4. Never underestimate a gradient
For this image, I used gradients in a similar way to a brush: covering large parts of the canvas with a colour that faded out to a desired point, before erasing certain parts for accuracy.
Gradients are also a bit of an easy fix: you can use a gradient on one side of the image, flip it horizontally, and then use it again on the opposite side to make a more seamless join.
Speaking of which…
5. Sewing the seams
No matter what kind of magic Photoshop dust you sprinkle over your image, there will still always be the area where the two edges meet: that scary ‘loop’ point. Fret ye not, however, for there’s help at hand in the form of a nice little cheat. Even though the loop point might still be apparent, we can help hide it by doing something to throw viewers off the scent.
The seam is usually easy to spot because it’s a blank area with not much detail or colour variation, so in order to disguise it, go against the rule: put something across it!
This isn’t quite as challenging as it may sound, because if we intentionally make our own ‘object’ to span the join, we can accurately measure the exact halfway point where we need to split it across the two sides of the image. This is exactly what I did with the FOWA background image: I made some clouds!
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In light of the unpredictable and unexplained vacillations in the clinical course of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, selection of appropriate surgical procedures at a given stage of the disease becomes a formidable, albeit critical, task. The authors of this treatise outline possible operations for each joint at multiple stages of the disease, give the indications, advantages, and disadvantages, describe the surgical technique, and, in most sections, document a series of patients wherein each operation was employed. This they do with clarity and with as much precision as the nature of the disease permits.
The book, written by several distinguished physicians and surgeons and often expressing their individual opinions, originated from a conference on rheumatoid arthritis. The chapters by Drs. Cruess and Mitchell summarizing the guidelines for selection of knee and hip operations provide extremely valuable information. Some sections direct attention to procedures too often forgotten in the management of the | <urn:uuid:4f8dbdb8-bf9e-44e1-98ad-6b12e4b24243> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=341999 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937575 | 181 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Las Vegas — Things are not always what they appear to be in this city of dreams and disappointments. When a single street is lined with facsimiles of the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Palace of the Doges, a medieval castle and an Egyptian pyramid, what you see is not necessarily what you get.
The pretense usually doesn't extend to the city's art galleries. But a new exhibition, "Claude Monet: Masterworks from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston," has raised questions about the relationship between the venerable museum that owns the pictures and the high-toned gallery that is presenting them.
The beautifully installed assembly of 21 paintings -- including trademark images of the cathedral at Rouen, waterlilies at Giverny and a grain stack at sunset -- surveys the artist's career from 1864 to 1905. With an illustrated catalog and a $15 admission fee that includes a recorded tour, the exhibition resembles a miniature museum retrospective.
But Boston's MFA hasn't established a Las Vegas branch, like the joint venture of New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and St. Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum. The Monets are on loan to the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, a commercial enterprise at the luxurious Bellagio hotel-casino. The gallery is operated by PaperBall, a division of PaceWildenstein gallery in New York.
This is not the first time a nonprofit art museum has loaned artworks to a for-profit galley, although loans as large as this are extremely rare. And -- thanks to the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum and the Wynn Collection, a small display of paintings owned by casino mogul Steve Wynn -- it's no longer a novelty to see splashy advertisements for blue chip art on the Strip.
What has the art world talking is that the Boston museum stands to reap an enormous return from the Monet show -- a sum reported by Newsweek as a minimum of $1 million.
"That figure is speculative," says Malcolm Rogers, the museum's director. He also deflects questions about additional revenue based on attendance. But he doesn't deny the profit motive: "There are financial arrangements, which I can't discuss in detail but which are beneficial to the museum."
And therein lies the controversy. Even as leaders of financially stressed museums all across the country seek creative ways to bring in more people and money, they wrestle with just how far they can -- or should -- go.
"Professional Practices in Art Museums," published by the Assn. of Art Museum Directors, offers this guideline: "In any decision about a proposed loan from the collection, the intellectual merit and educational benefits, as well as the protection of the work of art, must be the primary considerations, rather than possible financial gain."
Rogers says that cashing in wasn't his primary concern when he was approached about the show. "We first of all looked to see if we could actually do an exhibition of Monets," he says. "Did we have enough that weren't needed for our own walls or promised to other exhibitions? We wanted to fill the Las Vegas space beautifully with an exhibition that would tell a coherent story and represent each phase of Monet's career."
With 39 works by Monet -- 36 paintings, two pastels and one drawing -- the Boston museum has one of the largest holdings of the artist's work outside France. Rogers and curator George Shackelford decided they could assemble the desired exhibition by taking five paintings off the walls and 16 others out of storage. "There have been some adjustments made in our display," Rogers says, "but I suspect that visitors will not find what we have on our walls disappointing."
Rogers has come under fire for reorganizing the museum's curatorial departments, dismissing staff and presenting an increasingly lowbrow program, including a planned exhibition of fashion designer Ralph Lauren's car collection. But he says the museum's trustees and curators are united in their support for the Monet show.
"This is a very interesting opportunity," he says. "We love to have our works seen in new cities by new audiences, and we are always looking for new funding sources. Unlike most of the major city museums of the country, Boston is entirely privately funded." With a 350,000-piece encyclopedic collection and 1,000 employees, the museum operates on an annual budget of about $50 million.
"This will make a very nice contribution to our overhead," he says, "as well as bring great masterpieces to new audiences. The money will pay salaries, heating and lighting -- keep this museum open."
At the Bellagio, the Monet show is a coup for gallery President Andrea Bundonis and her husband, Marc Glimcher, president of PaceWildenstein. They share responsibilities at PaperBall, formed in 2001 to, as Glimcher puts it, "do all the fun stuff that doesn't fall into the category of selling art." That includes licensing artists' images for products, but the company's primary activity is running the gallery in Las Vegas. | <urn:uuid:e2021a59-f260-431e-85d9-d8643a138f95> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://articles.latimes.com/2004/feb/04/entertainment/et-muchnic4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964576 | 1,051 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Keeping your family healthy and happy is no easy job. With work and schools commitments, safety issues, urbanisation and stress, it is tough job to try and balance everything and keep everybody happy.
Fun things to do with the family
An active and healthy family is a happy family and working towards this should be an important goal for all parents.
The Active & Healthy Program is designed to get whole family active. The program provides activities young kids, teenagers, parents and even the grandparents can do together. Come along to an active & healthy activity and have some fun with us. A range of free and low cost family activities including fishing, rock climbing, family fitness fun, drumming, craft, surfing and parks alive and much more are an offer in parks all across the Gold Coast each weekend.
Resources for parents
Parenting is not an easy job. It is a constant learning process that is full of decisions to make, issues of discipline, education, social skills and relationships to consider.
Regular exercise during pregnancy can prepare your body for the rigours of labour and can help in keeping your energy levels up when caring for a newborn. There are some general cautions to be guided by though and always consult with your doctor or physiotherapist before beginning a new program.
The Active & Healthy Program has a number of activities that you will be able to participate in while pregnant and after the child is born. Activities such Original Stroller group, Pre Natal and Mums and Bubs Yoga and Swiss Ball workshops are all run by qualified exercise professionals who are trained in pre and post natal exercise prescription. The activities are a great way to meet other mums, exercise with your baby and get some healthy exercise too.
Active kids are healthy kids
Regular exercise helps kids control their weight and build strong bones. It protects their heart and it may benefit their mental health as well. Active children are healthier, stronger, do better in school, sleep better and generally grow up to be fit adults.
Tips for encouraging your kids to be active include keeping exercise fun, let them play, offer a variety of things to do and be a good role model. Allow your child to actually be a kid and have fun - encourage them to laugh, run, dance, skip, giggle and have fun whenever you can.
The Active and Healthy program offers a range of active and fun activities for kids of all ages and all ability levels. Kids with special needs are encouraged to join in too.
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Davis proposes a new role for inspectors general
Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), ranking member on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, offered an amendment that would empower inspectors general to expose redundant programs and report to Congress with legislative proposals on how to end the programs.
Davis said unnecessary programs are a result of Congress bad habit of haphazardly establishing new programs to achieve short-term solutions whenever a problem arises.
For example, Davis said, there are 70 programs in 13 federal agencies that provide substance-abuse prevention services for young people. He went on to list more duplicative programs scattered throughout the government from wastewater treatment to job training.
We have the IGs, he said. Lets utilize that expertise for suggestions [about] how we can reduce waste, fraud and abuse in government.
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the committees chairman, said he disagreed with Davis amendment. Waxman said IGs primary role is to find waste, fraud and abuse. IGs should not be reorganizing agencies, he said.
The House passed Davis amendment to add the IG provision to the Improving Government Accountability Act. It did so without Waxmans support.
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REJOICE IN THE LORD - ALWAYS
John 16:33 "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world."
The world experiences joy and happiness in direct proportion to their circumstances. Bad circumstances produce depression and sorrow, while good circumstances produce joy and peace. That's bondage, and does not have to be the case for a Christian. Our joy is not dependent on things, but rather on the person of Jesus Christ. He is our peace and joy.
The way we take advantage of this joy and peace in the midst of tribulation, is to have our minds and hearts stayed on things above and not on things of this earth. The invisible things of God are eternal while the visible problems on earth are only temporary. All the problems of this life grow very dim when we compare them to the glory of God that is ours through Jesus.
We can rejoice in the Lord always (Phil. 4:4) because rejoicing is an action, not a reaction to our environment. Joy is a gift from God that was given to us at salvation. It was placed within our born-again spirit and it doesn't fluctuate or diminish; it is constant. The Lord has put the joy inside us and we are to "work it out" by choosing to obey this command in scripture.
We are commanded to rejoice "IN THE LORD." Many people are not experiencing true joy because their joy is in their circumstances. That is, they are waiting to rejoice when things in their lives are going good, and that doesn't happen very often. We are supposed to "rejoice in the Lord always."
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Sunday, November 15 is America Recycles Day, the only nationally recognized day dedicated to encouraging Americans to recycle and to buy recycled products. Celebrating its 12th year, it has grown to include millions of Americans pledging to increase their recycling habits at home and work and to buy products made with recycled materials.
Recycling is a standard practice at the National Aquarium. With 1.4 million visitors a year and a staff of nearly 300, there is plenty of waste to be recycled at the Aquarium. We are committed to recycling and each year our efforts grow! In honor of America Recycles Day, we are holding a special recycling themed contest. For a chance to win an Eco-Aquarium prize pack, please read below:
How much does the Aquarium recycle?
Here are some of our recycling numbers from 2008:
- 56 tons of plastic, glass, aluminum recylced through Waste Management.
- 21,832 lbs of cardboard recycled through Waste Managment.
- 200 lbs of techotrash through Green Disk. Together with Green Disk, the Aquarium recycles CDs, DVDs, floppy disks, cords, handheld devices and other pieces of technological garbage. For more information,
- Hundreds of pounds our old computers, tvs, printers and other electronic devices were given to charities through CDM eCycling in Baltimore -Second life cycle program.
If you noticed, one very important item is missing from that list. Paper! Can you guess how many pounds of paper the Aquarium recycled in 2008?
Please post your guess in a comment to this post. The contest will end at noon (12:00 p.m. EST) on Monday, November 16. The person with the answer closest to the actual amount of paper recycled will win an Eco-Aquarium prize pack that includes an Aquarium themed reusable bag, water bottle, and lunch tote!
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Learn the lessons of the water claim to help NZ fulfil its potential as a nation
The Maori King, Tuheitia, has never called a national hui of the sort happening today on water and its significance extends well beyond water rights to all of the other resources and issues Maori are making contemporary claims about. It was reported earlier in the week that some Ngapuhi claimants will lodge a claim for the commercial use of wind with the Waitangi Tribunal.
Over and above historical claims, Maori are able under section 2 of the Treaty of Waitangi Act to ask the tribunal to investigate contemporary claims relating to any enactment, policy or practice adopted or an act done or omitted by the Crown after September 21, 1992 which breaches the Treaty of Waitangi.
As of January this year, there were over 200 contemporary claims filed with the Waitangi Tribunal. Customary rights to water is one example, but there are many more. Some have failed; others have succeeded, like the water claim. But all of these claims concern the actions of successive governments since 1992 showing that Maori believe breaches of the Treaty are continuing and that until the Crown starts treating them as a proper Treaty partner, the grievance cycle will continue.
A government can never stop people suing over a contentious policy, but it can act to take away the grievance or to minimise their chances of succeeding in court.
Contemporary claims are here to stay, so the Government has to find a more effective and efficient modus operandi than it adopted for water, especially given its policy on oil and gas exploration.
As Lord Cooke said in the Lands Case, "the principles of the Treaty do not authorise unreasonable restrictions on the right of a duly elected Government to follow its chosen policy. Indeed, to try and shackle the Government unreasonably would itself be inconsistent with those principles."
Any approach to contemporary claims has to factor in the prior decisions of the courts and the Waitangi Tribunal about what Maori do and do not have rights and interests in and to. Forgetting that this jurisprudence exists doesn't work.
For example, the contemporary petroleum claim in 2000 also resulted in an urgent Waitangi Tribunal report due to the Government's intention to sell the Crown's interests in the Kupe licence. The breach alleged was the Crown's nationalisation of petroleum resources without paying compensation to the landowners or providing for the ongoing payment of royalties.
The tribunal found (very similarly to the interim water reports issued this year) that where land rights were lost in a Treaty breach, then there is a residual Treaty right that should be remedied in natural resources like petroleum.
The Government's current tender round for oil and gas exploration permits closes on October 15. It also released a March discussion paper inviting submissions on Crown minerals reform, which includes "improving dialogue between regulatory agencies, iwi and other important stakeholders, as it relates to the Crown Minerals Act".
Another example is the Wai 2224 claim lodged in December 2009, which argues that the electromagnetic radio spectrum is a taonga and that Maori have interests in the 4G radio spectrum to be used by telecommunications companies to connect smartphones to cellular networks. The claim is currently on hold to give the Crown and Maori time to develop a joint approach to the spectrum.
However, time is running out. By December 1, 2013, the Government intends to implement the "digital switchover", forcing television broadcasting to go digital which will free up the 4G radio spectrum for commercial use. Resisting this Maori claim will be made harder given that the previous Labour-led Government gave Maori one quarter of the 3G spectrum.
We are also still waiting for the Crown's response to the Wai 262 investigation into flora, fauna and cultural and intellectual property. This claim took the Waitangi Tribunal over 21 years to investigate and addressed the work of more than 20 government departments and agencies which concern Matauranga Maori.
The many recommendations include a revamped Maori language commission, the establishment of a new commission to protect Maori cultural works against offensive and unauthorised uses, that the Department of Conservation take the lead in developing a Treaty-compliant bio-prospecting regime and that measures be introduced to give greater recognition to the Maori interest in genetic modification.
There are also a good many historical claims which have significant contemporary implications for New Zealand's constitution. The current tribunal inquiry into Northland (Te Paparahi o te Raki) is considering claims that Maori never ceded their sovereignty or tino rangatiratanga (full chieftainship) in 1840.
The tribunal's Te Rohe Potae inquiry in the King Country is looking at the Crown's relationship with the Kingitanga movement. Claims for greater recognition of Maori authority now are inherent in many of these historical claims.
We have to learn lessons from the water claim, or it will be deja vu all over again, as Yogi Berra would say, with other contemporary claims. That won't help either Treaty partner in pursuing our shared interest in New Zealand fulfilling its full potential as a nation and in terms of our economy.
Mai Chen is a partner in Chen Palmer and author of Public Law Toolbox
Disclosure: Chen Palmer advises clients on contemporary claims including the water claim
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Sometimes referred to as a type of middleware, application servers occupy a large chunk of computing territory between database servers and the end user, often connecting the two.
Looking for a server that meets specific requirements? Please select key criteria from the features noted below. (Hint: To maximize results, check off only the most critical requirements.)
In many ways, collaboration software, once called 'groupware,' demonstrates the original power of the Web.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) makes it possible to move files from one computer to another via the Internet. Although one of the oldest Internet services, FTP has kept pace with the times.
Today, many FTP servers include user authentication, file transfer policies, and detailed activity logging.
List servers offer a way to better manage mailing lists, whether they be interactive discussions open to the public or one-way lists that deliver announcements, newsletters or advertising.
Ubiquitous and critical, mail servers move and store email over private networks and across the Internet
Operating systems provide a software platform on top of which other programs, called application programs, can run. It is the engine that drives the server.
A proxy server in a network architecture is what its name implies: a stand in. A proxy server sits between corporate client machines and the Internet. Sometimes it is a stand-alone product; more often, it is functionality built into other software. A forward proxy stands in the way of the Internet and receives data from client machines bound for the Internet and forwards it on on their behalf. A reverse proxy stands in the way of servers within the corporate network and receives data bound for them, and distributes it on.
Our real-time communication server category consists of chat servers, instant messaging servers, instant messaging gateway servers, and IRC servers.
In the fast-paced world of IT, servers come and go. This section is for those servers that are no longer sold or supported but that an organization, for whatever reason, may be interested in learning more about.
A telnet server enables users to log on to a host computer and perform tasks as if they're working on the remote computer itself.
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Looking somewhat like a floating black pudding, this massive "airship" really is a site to behold.
The giant 8 Metre tube of light-weight black film works like a hot air balloon, but warmed by the heat of the sun (so thankfully no blowing or pumping to get it airborn!).
The included blurb claims that it can reach altitudes of up to 30,000 feet on a reasonable day, which is pretty damn impressive. I must however confess that my lack of a light-weight altimetre and desire not to freak out any 747 pilots prevented me from testing this claim.
"Why is it pointless?"
Even when we got it to lift a mini-digital camera we couldn't think of a way to take the picture. Excellent, pointless fun.
"Why is it cool?"
The site of a massive floating blackpudding stops traffic (possibly air-traffic).
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Congratulations! If you just graduated from college, there’s a good chance that you’ll make more money in 2008 then you did in 2007.
You: That’s what they tell me.
In fact, you’ll also make quite a bit more money in 2009 than 2008.
You: How do you know that? You know my raise?
Nope, but in all likelihood, you’ll work less than eight months full-time in 2008. In 2009, you’ll work the whole year. So even if you don’t get a raise at all, your income should dramatically increase from 2007 to 2008 and again from 2008 to 2009.
You: That’s cool, I guess. But where’s the opportunity?
You: Sounds boring.
You: Okay. Go ahead, bore me.
Last week, I told you how to determine how little you can withhold without owing the IRS any interest or penalties. If you are a recent graduate who will make dramatically more each year than the previous, you have a major opportunity to increase your net pay right from the outset.
You: Increase my net pay? Maybe this isn’t as boring as I thought.
You don’t want a big income tax refund, right?
You: Right. I don’t. We covered why an income tax is a bad idea earlier.
If you just complete Form W-4 without any thought, you’ll probably put in “1″ for the number of allowances (line 5). As a result, you’ll wind up with a big refund, since the amount withheld each paycheck assumes that you’ll earn your salary for 12 months. Since you’ll only earn that salary for a few months of 2008, too much tax will be withheld. That’s the first reason why you’ll want to increase your allowances to lower your withholdings.
You: Is there a second reason?
<Think game show voice-over man speaking:> In fact there is!
<Back to normal voice, whatever you might think that is:>
Since you only need to withhold the amount of your prior year’s tax (virtually nothing in 2007 if you were a full-time student), you can even further increase your allowances and thereby dramatically reduce your withholdings.
Increasing your net pay in this manner will allow you to get more money in your hands when you need it most, thanks to the start-up expenses of life including a security deposit, work clothes, and initial emergency fund savings. Just make sure you have enough around next April to pay the piper (should you actually owe the IRS). You can use this handy withholding calculator to help you calculate your allowances (designed to make it so that you neither owe much or get a big refund) or you can spend four days and use the one available at this site.
Figuring this all out is worth it. Personally, I put 10 allowances my first two years of working after graduate school, and still got refunds each year. Not as big as they would have been without adjusting my withholding, but having that money in my initial paychecks to use as needed definitely allowed me to save far more far earlier in my career than I otherwise would have been able to.
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Like all aspects of business, the role of the financial manager is changing as the economy becomes more global, the capital markets move to a 24/7/365 environment, and the pace of change quickens. Still, the fundamental questions remain the same:
- What investments should be made?
- Where and how should funds be obtained for those investments?
- How should the day-to-day flows of funds be managed?
If you want to help businesses large and small make these decisions, you need to have an understanding of the internal workings of the organization and the external environments in which it operates. You can gain that perspective with a liberal arts education from Juniata College and a POE in Finance.
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Life Is Just A Bowl Of Bing, Rainier & Columbia River Tart Cherries
CAPSULE REPORT: Chukar Cherries is located in the heart of America’s cherry-growing region, in Prosser, Washington. Their line is extensive; other products are reviewed in the corresponding sections of THE NIBBLE. Here in the Fruit Section, we review three distinctively different types of dried cherry that show, with a nod to Gertrude Stein, that a cherry is not a cherry. And...surprise...though we thought we’d prefer the sweet cherries (Bing and Rainier) to the tart one, the tart (Montmorency) cherries won our heart.
Americans love cherries, deep and succulent. In season they’re a treat, and when they’re not, there’s still cherry vanilla ice cream, cherry pie from canned cherries, cherry preserves, black cherry soda, cherries galore. About 15 years ago, dried cherries entered the marketplace, looking like redder raisins and providing a closer affinity to cherry sweetness all year around.
When the French settlers from Normandy emigrated to the Midwest, they planted cherry pits along the Saint Lawrence River and in the vicinity of the Great Lakes. A Presbyterian missionary from Michigan, Peter Dougherty, is credited with beginning modern-day cherry production. In 1852 he planted cherry trees near Traverse City, Michigan. But while sour cherries were becoming an industry in Michigan in the 1850s, sweet cherry orchards were thriving in the Willamette Valley near Salem, Oregon, thanks to a man named Henderson Luelling and his brother Seth (who spelled his last name “Lewelling”). Henderson had planted his orchard in 1847. Seth joined his brother at his orchard and took over it in 1854. He developed a sweet and succulent cherry and he named the variety Bing, after a Manchurian workman who he employed during the 1870s and 1880s.
Cherries belong to the Rosaceae, subfamily Prunoideae, genus Prunus, along with the other stone fruit—plums, apricots, peaches and almonds. Cherries are in the subgenus Cerasus. There are two types of cherry cultivars, sweet (Prunus avium L.) and sour (Prunus cerasus L.), and within these two groups are numerous varieties.
Sweet Cherries include varieties such as the Bing, Lambert, Napoleon (also called the Royal Ann) and Rainier.
Sour Cherries include the Montmorency, which accounts for 95% of all production. Early Richmond and English Morello are two other tart cultivars of importance.
All varieties of cherry have very short growing seasons. Bing cherries are generally available from the end of May to early August, with peak season in June and July. Rainier are available until about mid-August. The growing season of sour cherries such as Morello and Montmorency is very short—both begin and end in July. The cherry varieties that appear earlier and later in the season than Bings are softer and less sweet. Any fresh cherries found in the market after August are most likely from cold storage, although there are some imports from New Zealand during the winters.
That’s why dried cherries offer an opportunity to enjoy this fruit favorite all year long. Chukar sells 100% natural, dried Bing, Columbia River Tart Cherry (a variety of Montmorency) and the Rainier.
All three are naturally juicy and sweet with no preservatives. The Bing and Rainier have no sugar added; the Columbia River Tart Cherry has a little sweetener. They deliver extra flavor and aroma since they are dried naturally with no additives.
Each would be perfect for adding to your favorite recipes or for snacking.
But each tastes very different from its cousins, so what you buy will depend on what your palate prefers.
Bing Cherry. The Bing is the leading commercial sweet cherry in North America. The fruit is firm, juicy and a deep, mahogany red when ripe. It has an intensely sweet, vibrant flavor. Dried, the dark, purple-red flesh and dark ruby skin turns nearly black. It is the largest and darkest in color of Chukar’s cherries, looking like tiny dried plums. The flavor is a bit plummy too.
Columbia River Tart Cherry (Montmorency). Naturally sour, lightly sweetened with cane sugar—but still with a tart, tasty flavor. The cherries are very bright red in color and much smaller than the sweet varieties—the size of large raisins. The flavor is ripe and red too. They have much more pizzazz than the Bings: if Bing is the stodgy banker, the tarts are the dancing flappers.
Bing, the most stately in flavor—and looks.
Rainier Cherry. When fresh, the Rainier is an exceptionally large, yellow cherry with a bright red blush. The cultivar was developed at the Washington State University Research Station by Dr. Harold Fogle, and named after Washington’s highest mountain. Sweet, firm-fleshed and delicately flavored, it dries into succulent morsels, tasting the most like cherry preserves without the added sugariness.
How Do You Like Your Cherries?
Columbia River Tart Cherries. These are Montmorency Cherries, one of the largest variety of sour cherries grown in the U.S. With its sweet-tart, rich “red” flavor, it’s our favorite of the three.
In cereal, yogurt and pancake and waffle batters
On ice cream and sorbet, puddings (amazing in rice pudding) and other desserts (sprinkle on top of cheesecake to make “cherry cheesecake” without the glop)
In recipes: salads, sauces,
compotes, stuffings, salsa
As garnishes on plates and cheese trays
In fruit soups
In baking (they’re great in chocolate chip cookies)
Food historians can’t pinpoint the exact origin of the cherry, but believe it came from somewhere between the Black and Caspian seas of Asia Minor (the vicinity of Persia, today’s Iran).
In Persian cuisine, sour cherries, both fresh and dried, are often served with meats. Here’s a recipe for Persian sour cherry rice.
Cold sour cherry soup, made with sour cream and spices, is a popular Hungarian dish in the summer for the brief time sour cherries appear. Every family has its own recipe—some include wine or apple juice. Find some recipes and experiment.
Soak some cherries in Kirsch, a liqueur made from crushed cherry pits and the distilled juice of black cherries. Use them to top fruit sorbets, or to perk up fruit salads. You can also add them to tea, to update the Russian tradition of a spoonful of cherry preserves to sweeten a glass of plain tea (no milk!).
Berry & Pecan Mix.
Berry & Nut Mixes
We found that the dried Bing cherries came to life when mixed with dried cranberries and nuts in the premixed assortments:
Berry & Almond Mix. Dried bing cherries, dried cranberries sweetened with cane sugar and roasted almonds.
Berry & Pecan Mix. Dried bing cherries, dried cranberries sweetened with cane sugar and honey-roasted pecans.
Berry & Pistachio Mix. Dried bing cherries, dried cranberries sweetened with cane sugar and roasted pistachios.
Dried cherries are a treat that could make you forget all those raisins and Craisins®.
CHUKAR CHERRIES Dried Bing, Columbia River Tart and Rainier Cherries
Certified Kosher by KOF-K
Dried Cherries Any Variety
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After Dan Cathy’s negative remarks on gay marriage, the dust is finally settling.
It appears that Chick-fil-A will continue to sell chicken sandwiches and gays will continue to be alienated by the fast food chain for the foreseeable future.
But as the country moves on to the next controversy of the hour, the Chick-fil-A saga will continue to resonate with students at UNC Charlotte.
When hunger causes a rush to prospector, the campus Chick-fil-A sits; ready to serve up chicken sandwiches with an understated side of gay prejudice and politics as it eats away your precious db.
It has been a while since Dan Cathy’s remarks on gay-marriage and the campus Chick-Fil-A is alive and well. When looking for justification in removing Chick-Fil-A from our grounds, it would be easy to mark Cathy’s comments as openly prejudice.
Admittedly, his comments seemed more a matter of a man sharing his personal views on a social issue rather than an attack on the gay community. While no one will confuse him with George Wallace or Hitler, Cathy’s comments have still had a negative impact on a lot of people.
A stigma now comes along with Chick-Fil-A, and that should be the basis for any argument for our universities disassociation with the franchise.
In fact, the removal of our campus installment of the southern fast food chain should have moved to the top of the to-do list for Chancellor Dubois for several reasons.
The first is that Cathy’s comments made it clear that he and his company do not support same sex marriage on a religious basis, with Cathy saying that we as a generation are “inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say, ‘we know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage’”. Cathy is entitled to his opinion, but these comments have still alienated a certain segment of American society; a segment that exists on our campus.
This is where the morale obligation of the university should come into play, because UNC Charlotte is more than just an academic institution. It is a community, one that students call home, and we must be mindful of how the actions of others affect our own.
UNC Charlotte prides itself on the values of diversity and inclusiveness. The morale stance that Cathy took for him and his company in regards to gay marriage is in stark contrast to these values.
Cathy’s comments also expressed Chick-Fil-A’s stance on gay rights, the biggest social issue of our generation. In doing so he has turned Chick-Fil-A into more than just a place to eat. The company is now a symbol of conservative values.
There isn’t anything wrong with this stance. There just should not be a place for vendors like Chick-Fil-A on a campus as diverse as UNC Charlotte.
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Kids’ dairy and snacking: 10 case studies in marketing and innovation
About this report
Snacking is the over-arching trend in food and health, not least in the kids’ food market. But the market for healthier kid-specific snacking products is a tough place in which failure is more common than success.
This report outlines the factors for success in kids’ snacks – factors that the six companies in our snacking case studies are using to their advantage.
In dairy, too, innovating successfully is one of the most difficult challenges. There is a narrow spectrum within which consumers – specifically, mothers – will accept innovative dairy products. Product developers’ innovation efforts in kids’ dairy are taking one (or more) of five possible routes, as the four dairy case studies in this report demonstrate.
How to successfully market to mothers: companies are changing the way they market to mothers. Effective marketing to mothers is starting to shift from traditional messaging that was directed at mothers to campaigns that evolve with them – increasingly delivered via social media. Mothers are the strongest-growing group of users of social media – and the companies in our case studies have had success with social media campaigns targeting moms – yet there remains room for improvement in marketing to mothers, with 75% of mothers saying they are portrayed in marketing in ways that are stereotypical and outdated.
New approaches to distribution and marketing are also fuelling success, with forward-thinking companies tackling the challenges of how to take new products to market in ways that enable companies to earn better margins, to build better relationships with consumers and give new ideas a chance to grow.
Table of contents
Five elements of innovation in the tough world of kids’ dairy
A wealth of innovation opportunities
Secrets of marketing to mothers
Dairy Case Studies
Case Study 1: Can Frumoo lure kids back to milk?
Case Study 2: Kraft turns granola bars into kids’ dairy snacks
Case Study 3: Schools welcome Dean’s reduced-sugar chocolate milk
Case Study 4: Playing a long game with probiotic chocolate milk
Snacking Case Studies
Case Study 5: Crunch makes the difference for freeze-dried fruit snacks
Case Study 6: Snikiddy goes “all natural” and “all family”
Case Study 7: Snacks king Organix aims to take bite out of kids’ meals market
Case Study 8: Buzz Strong brings healthier cookies to schools and vending
Case Study 9: Benjoy puts convenience, taste and nutrition at heart of toddler snacks
Case Study 10: Castus cracks Denmark’s snack bar market – UK is the next focus
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Stomachache or appendicitis? How you can tell
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- If your child tells you he or she has a stomach ache and it hurts worse than usual, pay attention, because they just may have appendicitis. We have what parents need to know to decide if their child has a garden variety stomachache or appendicitis.
Aubrey Grabein knew that this stomach ache was different.
"It wasn't like my normal stomach pains I've had. It was only on one side, one spot and it was like cramping and squeezing," Grabein said.
"It was just different, it wasn't like I ate something bad. It was a different kind of complaining," Aubrey's mom, Kristen Grabein, said.
Both Aubrey's parents had their appendix taken out, so they recognized the right-sided pain.
"We just decided not to take any chances and take her in to our local pediatrician," her dad, Craig Grabein, said.
That day, Aubrey had her appendix removed. How do parents tell if a child has appendicitis or an everyday stomachache? Location.
"The pain would be above the right hip," said Dr. Ruben Rodriguez, a Texas Children's Hospital pediatric surgeon. "The appendix doesn't explode like a grenade it's more of a rotting process like a banana."
Surprisingly, appendectomies are common in kids. About 1,000 children a year have their appendix out at Texas Children's Hospital. But many wait too long, until the infection has spread.
Four out of 10 children who came to Texas Children's with appendicitis last year got here late. And the difference? After having surgery a child can go home in a day, versus five to seven days. So don't wait.
"If it's hurting really bad ask to go see the doctor," Aubrey said.
Because a quick trip to the doctor if you're not sure, could help your child avoid a week in the hospital.
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I think the wikipedia is pretty clear on the difference of the soy sauce, but I will give you little hints about Chinese and Japanese soy sauce. I am a Chinese.
I think you can categorize the soy sauce from the 2 countries by their eating habits.
Usually Chinese eats saltier cuisine, so their soy sauce is usually saltier, for example: frying, deep-frying, roast. The most common one is fresh soy sauce (生抽), which is saltier. And there are premium version for fresh soy sauce, for example, tóuchōu (simplified Chinese: 头抽; traditional Chinese: 頭抽) which claims to be richer in taste. Actually I think they are very similar in taste because the salty favour dominates your taste buds. Another kind of commonly used soy sauce is old soy sauce (老抽), which is less salty, sweeter in taste. Usually we use old soy sauce to give dark colour to cuisine so that it looks better. A Chinese old enough to cook will use these 2 kinds of soy sauce to combine the salty and sweet favour, of course, with the help of other things such as sugar.
As for Japanese soy sauce, I am not so sure about differences between all kinds of soy sauce. As far as I know, and from the Japanese cuisine I've eaten, the soy sauce they use is usually sweeter in taste. (of course not as sweet as candy) You can figure out the reason behind their sweeter soy sauce from their eating habits. Japan is surrounded by the sea which is a very good source of fish, shrimp and other seafood which is sweeter and fresher in taste than pork/beef. Japanese consume the most salmon in the world. In order to have a better taste of the seafood, some of their soy sauce may also contain fish and Kombu for sweeter and fresher taste. Yes, Japanese soy sauce is good with seafood.
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Mohe Travel Guide
Mohe in Heilongjiang Province, located at the northern extremity of China, bordering Russia, is the prefecture which has the highest latitude in China. Mohe is nicknamed "China's Arctic Town", and it is the only place in China where people are able to enjoy the atmospheric phenomena of the aurora borealis and the midnight sun. The best location for tourists to see these marvelous spectacles is in Arctic Village.
Mohe Prefecture is located to the north of the Greater Hinggan Mountains and on the south bank of the Upper Heilong Jiang ('Black Dragon River', also known as the Amur). Being surrounded by splendid mountains and rivers, Mohe is famous for its picturesque scenery.
The Heilong Jiang, which gives its name to China's most northerly province, is the great boundary river between China and Russia. It is the 11th longest river in the world and the third longest in China (its source is in Mongolia and mouth in Russia). The river is first called the Amur in Mohe in Mohe (upstream it is known as the Argun), and its water is clear and fast-flowing. Along its banks, the scenery is charming and wild. You can see a large stone tablet there, on which there are four Chinese characters which mean 'the northern end of China'. The ancient forest around Mohe is dense with trees. This is the place where tourists like to make their camping expeditions.
Mohe is famous for its historical relics from the time of the Qing Dynasty (1368–1911) and the period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937–1945).
Mohe is also famous for its abundant natural resources. Mohe has more than 100 years of history in gold mining. The "Golden Path" and "Rouge River" are famous gold mining areas.
Mohe is home to many rare animals like sika deer, wild boars, brown bears, snow hares, pheasants, sables, roe deer, reindeer, red deer and others. Mohe is a great place for hunting and fishing. The cold water fish in Heilong River are highly commended by international tourists. Mohe also has plants used for brewing wines and other drinks, and there are more than three hundred kinds of valuable herb medicines there, which contribute a lot to Chinese medicine. | <urn:uuid:9126d0dc-40e5-4be4-97b4-da51d3f05b80> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.chinatravel.com/mohe-travel/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965045 | 498 | 2.40625 | 2 |
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Mohiniattam is one of the major classical dance styles of India. There is a considerable amount of disagreement among scholars regarding the origin of this traditional dance form of Kerala
. It has only been in recent decades that Mohiniattam has risen in popularity and acceptability. Mohiniattam though born out of the fusion of Kathakali
, has developed its own identity. In the word Mohiniattam, `Mohini` means a maiden who charms the onlooker and `attam` means dance. The Mohiniattam dances describe episodes from the epics and legends through graceful steps, rhythmic movements of her arms and facial expressions.
Origin of Mohiniattam
The first reference to Mohiniattam is found in Vyavaharamala composed by Mazhamangalam Naryanam Namboodiri, assigned to the 16th century A.D. Most of them agree that it was during Maharaja Swathi Thirunal`s rule in the 16th century that Mohiniattam achieved its refined form. Mohiniattam is mentioned in some eighteenth century texts, but the practical aspect of the style was revived in the 19th century, Swathi Thirunal, the enlightened ruler of Travancore in Southern Kerala promoted its study. He composed many of the musical arrangements and vocal accompaniments, which are hymns in praise of Lord Vishnu, and provide the musical backdrop for the Mohiniattam dancers` performance.
Type and Theme of Mohiniattam
Mohiniattam is also known as the `Dance of the Celestial Female magicians`. It is essentially a solo dance, performed by female dancers. However, the basis of this dance also signifies the transformation of Lord Vishnu into a female form and also the concept of Ardhnareeshwara that is male and female as one. Like many other dance forms, this was also restricted to the Devadasis. The theme of Mohiniattam is love and devotion to god. Delicate themes of love are performed with suggestive abhinaya
, subtle gestures, rhythmic footwork and lilting music. Mohiniattam signifies the dance of enchanters that causes destruction of the wicked and brings delight and pleasure to the good. Unlike other classical dance forms, Mohiniattam draws upon secular and social themes rather than religious mythology, the age-old stirring tales from the Ramayana
and Indian Puranas
Style and Technique of Mohiniattam
The distinctive style of Mohiniattam is the complete absence of heavy stamping and rhythmical tension, where the footwork is gentle, soft and sliding. The movements are never abrupt, they are dignified, easy and natural, but the vertical line of the body is never broken. Hence, among the styles detailed by Bharata Muni in the ancient Indian treatise on dance, Natyashastra
, Mohiniattam resembles the Kaisiki type meaning graceful.
Performance of Mohiniattam Dancers
Mohiniattam performances depict love and devotion to god. The dancers mostly depict the verses from Meghdoot and Geeta Govinda in their dances. The spiritual essence of the ethereal love of Lord Krishna
not only coloured Mohiniattam but also glorified it.
Music in Mohiniattam
The main musical instrument used in Mohiniattam is Edakka. Even the instruments such as violin, veena
provide musical accompaniment to the dancers. The vocal music for Mohiniattam is Carnatic Music
. The lyrics composed by Maharaja Swathi Thirunal and Irayimman Thampi are in Manipravala (a mixture of Sanskrit and Malayalam). The music also accentuates these movements by being extremely lyrical, sensuous and concentrating more on bhava than trying to articulate the swara patterns. This mode of singing is called Sopanam.
Costumes of Mohiniattam Dancers
One of the distinctive features of Mohiniattam is the simplicity of the costumes. There is a typical costume for Mohiniattam, which is a mixture of white and gold. It usually consists of a choli and a white, cream or off-white coloured Kasavu saree with a gold or red border.
The first renowned Mohiniattam dancer was Kalyaniamma. She also taught in Shantiniketan
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Antarctic women rock!
The history of human endeavors in Antarctica is very brief compared to other epochs of exploration. Amundsen and Scott led the first men to the South Pole only back in 1911, less than a century ago. Since then, men have been bravely advancing the human presence down at the bottom of the world, making the first flight over the South Pole, building permanent structures allowing them to spend the entire winter in a dark frozen wasteland, carrying on that pioneering spirit inspired by those intrepid early visitors who triumphed and perished.
What about the women? According to Bill Spindler, our Title II inspector in 2005 and the foremost historian of Antarctic history and specifically South Pole lore, tells me that women came down to Pole for the very first time in 1969 when a group of 6 female scientists got to spend a few hours here on a boondoggle trip. It wasn't until 1974 that women actually came down here to work and Elena Marty and Jan Boyd were the first female contract workers at 90 degrees South latitude. And a real trailblazer is Michele Raney, the physician in 1979, who became the first woman ever to spend a winter at the South Pole.
Now, women are part of the fabric of life down here. We have just about every trade represented by the fairer sex. The men still outnumber the women by quite a large margin down here, but no one bats an eye at the sight of a woman slinging a heavy tool belt, driving a loader or sewing up a patient.
This winter, out of the crew of 54, we have 11 women. We are a cook, an Ice Cube scientist, an electrician, a greenhouse technician, three various materials specialists, a safety engineer, a facilities engineer, a work order scheduler and a PA.
Bill Spindler shared some fun stats with us recently. To date, there have been only 152 women to have ever spent a winter at the South Pole.
126 have wintered once
19 have wintered twice
6 have wintered three times
1 has wintered four times
About that last woman who is crazy enough to spend four winters down here…that would be me. It’s a dubious record to have I suppose, and I’m not sure if I should be too proud of it but what can I say except maybe I’ve found my niche. At least for the time being. For a great expose on what it’s like to spend a winter down here, see Neal’s post and then tell me how crazy you think I really am for doing 4 winters here.
So today, I give a cheer to my fellow female crew mates, each one a terrific person and a great addition to the club. We rock!
Ladies Spa Night - on floor L to R: Kari, Katie, Lynette. Standing L to R: Claire, Liz, Dainella, Leah, Terry, me, Laura and Francie.
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As health centers move towards 2011, facilities like Jefferson Parish and Daughters of Charity are moving toward Meaningful Use compliance by implementing a Patient Portal which address 15 of the 25 measures for Meaningful Use qualification. Listed below are a short list of measures:
Electronic Copy of Health Information, upon request
Computerized Order Entry
Maintain Activate Medication List
By beginning with a Patient portal and collaborating with a Health Center’s EMR provider. This provides the visibility into the work flow issues that must be addressed when working to meet meaningful use requirements like:
Educating the patient on accessing the system
Creating patient communication mailbox with access for the appropriate teams
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