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Published: Feb. 15, 2011
Updated: Feb. 15, 2011
In 2008, Anne Rice lost the sight in her right eye because of a fungal infection that occurred as a complication of cataract surgery. Because Rice has 20-20 vision in her left eye, her retinal specialist predicted that in just a little while, she wouldn’t notice the difference.
But she did notice, especially when she backed into another car in a grocery store parking lot. “I had looked over my right shoulder when I backed up, but I failed to remember that I didn’t have the full range of vision that I had before,” she says. “You are continually reminded of your loss in vision efficiency.”
The referral was part of a formal protocol that Whitaker has developed to help retrain adults who have lost vision in just one eye (monocular vision loss), whether that loss is caused by trauma, infection, or tumor.
It takes more work than most might think to adjust to this type of sudden loss. “Some people assume that if you have one eye with good vision, you will function the same way you would if you have two eyes. In fact, many eye doctors have underestimated the time required to adjust to losing one eye,” Whitaker says.
But studies have shown that adults who lose the sight in one eye have declines in their abilities to accurately track moving objects, to judge distances, and to perceive depth. That means that they will have to learn how to consciously use one eye and their other senses to gather the information that their two eyes once collected effortlessly.
“The automatic pilot no longer works automatically,” Rice says. “It was so refreshing to discover Dr. Whitaker and the help she can give because she truly understands, as much as a person with two eyes can.”
Whitaker’s intervention prescribes training in three specific activities. The first -- reaching for and grasping objects -- is covered by one or more hour-long sessions with an occupational therapist.
“Both the speed and accuracy of the grasp is negatively affected by loss of binocular vision. For example, they will grab for something and not get it on the first try, or they will be pouring coffee or tea and miss the cup,” Whitaker says.
Rice learned to remedy this by wrapping one hand around the cup while she pours with the other hand. Adding the non-visual signal (from the sense of touch) helps the brain judge the distance and location more accurately, Whitaker says.
Adults who lose vision in one eye also have more collisions when walking, especially on the side where they lost the vision. That’s where sessions with an orientation and mobility specialist can help.
“The emphasis is on helping people to judge distances by using monocular clues, such as something called motion parallax. If you’ve ever seen a cat moving its head or eyes side to side before it jumps, that’s motion parallax,” Whitaker says.
“You can train a person to do this by using more side-to-side head movements.” Rice says that to avoid bumping into people in crowded stores, for example, she’s learning to stop and check her right side before she moves.
The final part of the intervention is learning new techniques for driving safely with vision in only one eye. “The loss of depth perception means that people have a hard time judging their vehicle’s distance from another car, or whether their car can fit into a parking space,” Whitaker says.
“We can train people to turn their head more toward the non-seeing eye, and some driving instructors may recommend special interior or exterior mirrors that can help improve field of vision as well.”
Rice says the driving evaluator helped her tremendously. They went out in her own car, and he assessed her strengths and weaknesses while driving and parking at places that she frequents, such as her church and her bank. Now she turns her head more and makes a conscious effort to scan her full visual field.
“You’re scanning all the time when you have two eyes that work, and you also can do that with one eye, but you don’t realize how much your two eyes were working together, especially in judging distance,” Rice says.
“When you don’t have that second eye working for you, you have to take some overt steps to remedy that deficiency. The training improved my ability to drive, and it also gave me a new level of confidence.”
“Traditionally, we assume a six- to nine-month adjustment period is normal to help someone adjust to having vision in only one eye,” Whitaker says. “The intervention expedites this recovery and can help patients avoid losing work time. It also lessens their anxiety about the functional challenges they are experiencing.”
Whitaker is now studying the results of the intervention to quantify how much it helps and determine the reduction and adjustment time.
Rice and Whitaker hope to start a support group for adults who have lost vision in one eye. “It can be easy to get discouraged,” Rice says. “Dealing with this requires learning some new skills, and those are things you can share with other people.” | <urn:uuid:35f6b524-b0aa-42fb-bac7-6ed849cf36c9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dukehealth.org/health_library/health_articles/learning-to-live-with-one-eye/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971337 | 1,126 | 2.9375 | 3 |
All program times are subject to change without notice.
Now Open on Level 1
KidsTown is a spot where children under 48’ tall can explore their world in a town designed just for them. Fun abounds for even the littlest scientist in this pint-sized town. This miniature town introduces science concepts through whole-body experiences, hands-on interactives and opportunities for imaginative role-playing. Water tables, automotive garage, orange juice processing plant and more invite the joyful hands-on creative play that is so important to the cognitive development of young children.
Make something special for that special somone! Making Valentine’s cards can be fun and easy. Here are directions to make it environmentally friendly as well. This is one way to make this Valentine’s Day unique by using everyday items that can be found around your house.
3-D Recycled Valentine Day Cards
YOU WILL NEED
Heart-shaped cookie cutter
Bowl of water
Old newspaper or leftover tissue paper
Glue wash (equal parts glue and water)
An old greeting card
A clean plate
1. Tear newspaper or tissue paper into small pieces. Place the cookie cutter on the plate. Making sure each piece overlaps, position a few pieces of the paper inside the cookie cutter to create a thin layer. Dip your fingers into the bowl of water and then press it gently on the paper layer, making the paper damp. Continue layering, dipping, and pressing until the cookie cutter is about half full. Let it dry for at least a day.
2. When the paper mold is completely dry, gently press down on the mold and carefully lift off the cookie cutter. Using a clean paintbrush, apply a light coat of glue wash to the mold. As it dries, move on to step three.
3. Cover an old greeting card with things from around the house, such as construction paper, magazines, newspapers, or doilies. Write a poem or message inside the card and then glue the 3-D heart to the front. Now you’re ready to give this Earth-friendly valentine to someone you love!
Who says playing with your food can’t be delicious and fun? Stay active inside all winter with this simple recipe for homemade peanut butter play dough. This is perfect for all ages, especially the little kids in the family. Clean up is sure to be a breeze, play and then enjoy! The kids will certainly help with cleaning up this mess.
3 ½ cups peanut butter
4 cups confectioners’ sugar
3 ½ cups honey
4 cups dry milk powder
In a large bowl, cream together peanut butter and confectioners’ sugar, then beat in honey and fold in milk powder. Divide into 15 equal portions and refrigerate or freeze until ready to use.
Written by Melanie Turner
09 December 2010 Posted in
Hello everyone! Hope your week is going well. Those who have been to KidsTown this past week have seen the scaffolding that went from KidsTown floor all the way up to the fourth floor. We had a team of people using the scaffolding to place tint on all of our windows. This will help us to keep KidsTown and other places in the building cooler during the warmer parts of the year and will also help us to conserve energy.
As most of you may have experienced, this week has not been one of our warmer parts of the year, it has been quite chilly. Now is a good time to talk about what happens when things cool down or even freeze. What is the freezing point of water? How are snowflakes formed? What conditions are required to have snow fall? Why is it that we do not have usually have snow in Florida?
The Florida Dairy Farmers have sponsored a new display in our KidsTown area, which provides fascinating facts on how milk moooves from the farm to our fridge. Check out the giant interactive milk glass just inside KidsTown.
Answer questions correctly about milk's journey from cow to cup and watch the giant drinking straw at the top of the display fill up with white liquid. But watch out - a wrong answer drains the milk from the straw. While kids enjoy the tasty trivia, parents can relax and learn about Florida's dairy industry from an engaging video presentation (available in both English and Spanish).
The new milk display is located in the former home of the Super Service Center, but don't despair car lovers...we're just giving the beloved display a complete overhaul. It will be back soon, and better than ever, in its new home inside the All Aboard exhibit on Level 2. | <urn:uuid:2a9fdc9a-ccb1-4a02-b000-a57a55db294f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://osc.org/~orlando1/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=5&Itemid=13&limitstart=10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932363 | 947 | 2.75 | 3 |
The bogey, the term for a go-cart in Glasgow, has been made across generations by children to drive and play in. Given the DIY character of the bogey and use of scrap materials from old wheels and abandoned pushchairs, the premise of the exhibition, Blueprint for a Bogey, takes the absence of regulations concerning a bogey’s construction or play, to explore concepts surrounding play – the right to play, how we play, and the boundaries of play.
Attention is a collection of 130 silkscreen posters by Corin Sworn, Ciara Phillips and Nicolas Party, of which about 80 are on display. The choice of printing posters was inspired by Palle Nielsen, in particular his installation of printing equipment at a festival in 1969 in Denmark, which handed over the control of communication techniques to the public, and whose printed materials became the festival’s flyers and leaflets. With a visual imagery and language derived from safety literature during the artists’ childhoods in the 1980s, the appropriation provokes thought on the relationship between visual culture, regulations, and aesthetics, and the way that the playfulness is now harnessed back from a domain that has imposed boundaries and norms on the interactions within play.
Hazel stick throw comprises a series of photographs that documents one of Andy Goldsworthy’s ephemeral works, using the act of throwing, randomness, and the interaction of the sticks with gravity to create sculptures formed by the lines and directions of the sticks suspended in the air. Working with materials found in natural environments, Goldsworthy’s work conceives of play as a means of entering into, and experiencing the processes of chance, transience, growth and decay as inherent within nature.
David Sherry intervenes into conventional ways of acting and perceiving, on occasion subjecting himself to stipulated routines or instructions, as gestures which underscore the humor and vulnerability of human action. Coloured Hair Performance is a photograph of Sherry’s performance at the Basel Art Fair in 2009 where he lay on the ground with orange paint poured around the edges of his hair. His hair was then cut away from the paint two hours later, leaving an artwork on the ground.
For Blueprint for a Bogey, Sherry created Electrical Appliance, which he performed at various locations in the gallery. Sherry, connected to an enlarged electrical socket, lies inert almost as if waiting to be charged, challenging our notions of common phrases and objects through playful reinvention of their uses. | <urn:uuid:b6fe88c0-6d76-47ce-9f59-a29e8408b0f5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dailyserving.com/2011/06/blueprint-for-a-bogey/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961846 | 512 | 1.773438 | 2 |
March 29, 2012. The Kadar and their Forests
The work of numerous Kadar in helping ornithological research on South Asian hornbills has inspired them to formally request greater involvement in the overall management of forest resources in Kerala. The Indian Forest Service appears to be favorably inclined to support their initiative.
The Deccan Chronicle reported last week that eight Kadar communities in the Athirappilly gram panchayat had filed an application to the secretary of the Indian Forest Service. They asked to be designated as the managers and protectors of the forests in their region. They also requested the legal right to collect forest products, something they have done for millennia.
The paper indicated that officials in the forest department support the Kadar, due to their active involvement in existing projects, such as the research on the hornbills, which has been described more fully in earlier news reports. Their assistance in the hornbill research has also gotten them involved in forest plantation work, fire protection, and eco-tourism, all with the support of the forest service.
M. Manikyaraj, a Kadar, said that the law—the national Forest Rights Act—should allow them the rights to manage four forest ranges in the Vazhachal Forest Division: Chapra, Vazhachal, Kollathirumedu and Sholayar. Apparently about 1500 Kadar last week attended a meeting in Thrissur, a major city in Kerala, where they passed a resolution demanding their rights to manage the forest resources.
The full, correct, name of the Indian law is the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act of 2006. It has been a highly controversial piece of legislation, pitting forest and wildlife protection advocates against those who try to promote the interests of the many tribal societies that live in or near forest lands. The law gives rights to the so-called tribal peoples to lands from which they have traditionally taken minor forest products for their own uses or for sale. It seeks to preserve the rights of the tribal peoples to protect, conserve, manage, settle in, and own forest lands.
An unnamed forest official expressed his support for the Kadar objective. “The main aim of the [Forest Rights] Act is to ensure stability of [the] habitat of primitive tribes,” he said. “We will soon set up an ecological monitoring protocol to prevent excessive exploitation of forest resources.” | <urn:uuid:d68f291e-507d-435e-a669-cabf83286af0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.peacefulsocieties.org/NAR12/120329kada.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961294 | 510 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Battle of Peleliu - Conflict & Dates:
The Battle of Peleliu was fought September 15 to November 27, 1944, during World War II (1939-1945).
Forces & Commanders
Battle of Peleliu - Background:
Having advanced across the Pacific after victories at Tarawa, Kwajalein, Saipan, Guam, and Tinian, Allied leaders reached a crossroads regarding future strategy. While General Douglas MacArthur favored advancing into the Philippines to make good his promise to liberate that country, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz preferred to capture Formosa and Okinawa which could serve a springboards for future operations against China and Japan. Flying to Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt met with both commanders before ultimately electing to follow MacArthur's recommendations. As part of the advance to the Philippines, it was believed that Peleliu in the Palau Islands needed to be captured to secure the Allies' right flank (Map).
Battle of Peleliu - The Allied Plan:
Responsibility for the invasion was given to Major General Roy S. Geiger's III Amphibious Corps and Major General William Rupertus's 1st Marine Division was assigned to make the initial landings. Supported by naval gunfire from Rear Admiral Jesse Oldendorf's ships offshore, the Marines were to assault beaches on the southwest side of the island. Going ashore, the plan called for the 1st Marine Regiment to land to the north, the 5th Marine Regiment in the center, and the 7th Marine Regiment in the south. Hitting the beach, the 1st and 7th Marines would cover the flanks as the 5th Marines drove inland to capture Peleliu's airfield. This done, the 1st Marines, led by Colonel Lewis "Chesty" Puller were to turn north and attack the island's highest point, Umurbrogol Mountain. In assessing the operation, Rupertus expected to secure the island in a matter of days.
Battle of Peleliu - A New Plan:
The defense of Peleliu was overseen by Colonel Kunio Nakagawa. Following a string of defeats, the Japanese began to reassess their approach to island defense. Rather than attempting to halt Allied landings on the beaches, they devised a new strategy which called for islands to be heavily fortified with strong points and bunkers. These were to be connected by caves and tunnels which would allow troops to be safely shifted with ease to meet each new threat. To support this system, troops would make limited counterattacks rather than the reckless banzai charges of the past. While efforts would be made to disrupt enemy landings, this new approach sought to bleed the Allies white once they were ashore.
The key to Nakagawa's defenses were over 500 caves in the Umurbrogol Mountain complex. Many of these were further fortified with steel doors and gun emplacements. At the north of the Allies' intended invasion beach, the Japanese tunneled through a 30-foot high coral ridge and installed a variety of guns and bunkers. Known as "The Point," the Allies had no knowledge of the ridge's existence as it did not show on existing maps. In addition, the island's beaches were heavily mined and strewn with a variety of obstacles to hamper potential invaders. Unaware of the change in Japanese defensive tactics, Allied planning moved forward as normal and the invasion of Peleliu was dubbed Operation Stalemate II.
Battle of Peleliu - A Chance to Reconsider:
To aid in operation, Admiral William "Bull" Halsey carriers commenced a series of raids in the Palaus and Philippines. These met little Japanese resistance led him to contact Nimitz on September 13, 1944, with several suggestions. First, he recommended that the attack on Peleliu be abandoned as unneeded and that the assigned troops be given to MacArthur for operations in the Philippines. He also stated that the invasion of the Philippines should begin immediately. While leaders in Washington, DC agreed to move up the landings in the Philippines, they elected to push forward with the Peleliu operation as Oldendorf had begun the pre-invasion bombardment on September 12 and troops were already arriving in the area.
Battle of Peleliu - Going Ashore:
As Oldendorf's five battleships, four heavy cruisers, and four light cruisers pounded Peleliu, carrier aircraft also struck targets across the island. Expending a massive amount of ordnance, it was believed that the garrison was completely neutralized. This was far from the case as the new Japanese defense system survived nearly untouched. At 8:32 AM on September 15, the 1st Marine Division began their landings. Coming under heavy fire from batteries at either end of the beach, the division lost many LVTs (Landing Vehicle Tracked) and DUKWs forcing large numbers of Marines to wade ashore. Pushing inland, only the 5th Marines made any substantial progress. Reaching the edge of the airfield, they succeeded in turning back a Japanese counterattack consisting of tanks and infantry (Map).
Battle of Peleliu - A Bitter Grind:
The next day, the 5th Marines, enduring heavy artillery fire, charged across the airfield and secured it. Pressing on, they reached the eastern side of the island, cutting off the Japanese defenders to the south. Over the next several days, these troops were reduced by the 7th Marines. Near the beach, Puller's 1st Marines began attacks against The Point. In bitter fighting, Puller's men, led by Captain George Hunt's company, succeeded in reducing the position. Despite this success, the 1st Marines endured nearly two days of counterattacks from Nakagawa's men. Moving inland, the 1st Marines turned north and began engaging the Japanese in the hills around Umurbrogol. Sustaining serious losses, the Marines made slow progress through the maze of valleys and soon named the area "Bloody Nose Ridge."
As the Marines ground their way through the ridges, they were forced to endure nightly infiltration attacks by the Japanese. Having sustained 1,749 casualties, approximately 60% of the regiment, in several days fighting, the 1st Marines were withdrawn by Geiger and replaced with the 321st Regimental Combat Team from the US Army's 81st Infantry Division. The 321st RCT landed north of the mountain on September 23 and began operations. Supported by the 5th and 7th Marines, they had a similar experience to Puller's men. On September 28, the 5th Marines took part in a short operation to capture Ngesebus Island, just north of Peleliu. Going ashore, they secured the island after a brief fight. Over the next few weeks, Allied troops continued to slowly battle their way through Umurbrogol.
With the 5th and 7th Marines badly battered, Geiger withdrew them and replaced them with the 323rd RCT on October 15. With the 1st Marine Division fully removed from Peleliu, it was sent back to Pavuvu in the Russell Islands to recover. Bitter fighting in and around Umurbrogol continued for another month as the 81st Division troops struggled to expel the Japanese from the ridges and caves. On November 24, with American forces closing in, Nakagawa committed suicide. Three days later, the island was finally declared secure.
Battle of Peleliu - Aftermath
One of the costliest operations of the war in the Pacific, the Battle of Peleliu saw Allied forces sustain 1,794 killed and 8,040 wounded/missing. The 1,749 casualties sustained by Puller's 1st Marines nearly equaled the entire division's losses for the earlier Battle of Guadalcanal. Japanese losses were 10,695 killed and 202 captured. Though a victory, the Battle of Peleliu was quickly overshadowed by the Allied landings on Leyte in the Philippines, which commenced on October 20, as well as the Allied triumph at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. The battle itself became a controversial topic as Allied forces took severe losses for an island that ultimately possessed little strategic value and was not used to support future operations. The new Japanese defensive approach was later used at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. In an interesting twist, a party of Japanese soldiers held out on Peleliu until 1947 when they had to be convinced by a Japanese admiral that the war was over. | <urn:uuid:3c60be0b-f9ed-44fc-8274-563c63bebb4b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/WWIIPacific/p/World-War-Ii-Battle-Of-Peleliu.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973447 | 1,744 | 3.515625 | 4 |
playstation psx emulator on a mac
An emulator is a chunk of software made to simulate the instruction set and behaviour (the architecture) of a microprocessor in an environment where that microprocessor isnt available (yay! I remembered something from my electronics degree!) that means that you can run software designed for one architecture on another architecture using the emulator.
playstation (PSX) emulators for mac
there are a couple of playstation emulators available for the mac:
pcsx-Reloaded is the one I use.
is the best – it has the most options and seems to be the one that doesnt crash!
there are a few things you need:
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A Noguchi Sculpture Garden in Mobile
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"The Museum Loan Network gave our city and our city employees an opportunity
to participate in this exhibit for the city of Mobile. It reaffirmed again
what we define as our strategic plan - to put arts at the center of what
Mobile is, what Mobile should be - this was brought about because MLN gave
us the opportunity to participate in this partnership."
Alfred Stokes, Executive Assistant to the Mayor, City of Mobile
When Joseph Schenk, Director of the Mobile Museum of Art, traveled to
Long Island Cityís Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum to discuss the possible
loan of a Noguchi sculpture, he had no idea that months later he would
be adding a new Japanese garden to the outside of his museum. The collaboration
grew to include not only the Museum Loan Network, the Mobile Museum of
Art, and the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, but also institutions and departments
throughout the city of Mobile. The result was the unveiling in November
1996 of the marble Awakening, the bronze Birdís Song, and
the steel Rain Mountain, three Noguchi sculptures in a Japanese
garden setting that revitalized the museum and city of Mobile. | <urn:uuid:05f95ecc-ad8e-49aa-8b84-cd33a8157ed6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dl.lib.brown.edu/mln/exhibitions/mobile.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924879 | 291 | 1.507813 | 2 |
THREE LITTLE PIGSOriginal Medium: Theatrical Animation
Released by: Disney
First Appeared: 1933
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It was the Great Depression that made this cartoon a hit, or so the story goes. Allegedly, when Disney released it as part of the Silly Symphony
series in 1933, the playful frivolity of "Who's Afraid of The Big Bad Wolf" helped people to forget the wolf at the door.
Be that as it may, Three Little Pigs won an Oscar for its director, Burt Gillett (Molly Moo Cow) — the second one ever given for animation. Its characteristic song became Disney's first musical hit.
It also sparked a number of sequels. The Big Bad Wolf (1934), directed by Gillett, Three Little Wolves (1936), directed by David Hand, and The Practical Pig (1939), directed by Dick Rickard, are less well known than the original, but at the time, they went far toward establishing both Pigs and Wolf as regular members of the Disney pantheon. Big Bad even made an appearance in Mickey's Polo Team (1936), directed by Hand.
In 1945, the Pigs became supporting characters in an unusual comic book series titled "Li'l Bad Wolf", which ran in the back pages of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories. There, they played foils to Li'l Bad's father, The Big Bad Wolf, in a series that has lasted decades, and still produces occasional new stories in various parts of the world.
As stars in their own right, the Pigs never made it big in either comics or cartoons. But as supporting characters, they've proven to be enduring favorites. And their original cartoon retains its appeal through good times as well as bad. | <urn:uuid:381ceb7f-bf62-45f7-a960-44126e3d3b0d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.toonopedia.com/pigs.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971474 | 378 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Professor Nick Drake
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2798
Department of Geography
King's College London
K4U.06 Strand Campus
London WC2R 2LS
'Geography is a great way of linking cutting-edge technology with encounters of people and place, both past and present.'
remote sensing, geomorphological analysis and geochemical analysis of landforms and processes of landform change in semi-arid and arid environments
soil erosion models and mixture models applied to remotely-sensed imagery
Nick Drake obtained his BSc (Honours) in Environmental Science at Plymouth Polytechnic in 1983 and his Master of Applied Science in Geochemical Exploration from the University of New South Wales in 1986.
From 1986 to 1992 Nick worked as a research fellow conducting remote sensing research at the Department of Geography, Reading University. He worked on the development of improved algorithms for image classification and the characterisation of desert surfaces for geomorphological mapping using remote sensing. During this time he completed a part-time PhD entitled ‘Mapping and monitoring of surface cover types and processes in southern Tunisia using remote sensing’.
Nick joined King's Department of Geography in 1992 and was made Reader in 2000. He has continued to develop his interests in theoretical and practical aspects of remote sensing while broadening his interests into geographical information systems and spatial modelling.
During the last few years Nick's interests have focussed on applying his expertise to arid lands and, in particular, the Sahara Desert. He is the leader of the Sahara Megalakes Project, an international project that involves nine universities and coordinates research on giant ancient lakes in Chad, Libya and Tunisia. He has recently been asked to join the editorial board of the Journal of Arid Environments.
Nick has published 37 papers in journals, 18 book chapters, and was co-editor of Spatial Modelling of the Terrestrial Environment published by Wiley in 2004. He is a member of:
the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetric Society
the Royal Geographical Society
the British Society for Geomorphology.
Nick has been most active in the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetric Society where he has organised a number of sessions for annual conferences, was invited to become a member of the organisation committee of their Special Interest Group in Modelling and Advanced Techniques in 1997, and was the group convenor from 1999 to 2004.
Nick has played an active role in departmental, King's and University of London administration. He joined the University of London Subject Area Board (SAB) for Mathematical and Physical Sciences in 1998. He was invited to be deputy-chair in 2004. In 2005 he was appointed to the University of London Senate and became the chairman of the SAB in 2006.
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All Saints Parish, established on July 1, 2009, is a cluster of seven Roman Catholic churches in the midcoast area of Maine. These seven churches formerly were six parishes with one mission. Bishop Richard J. Malone Pastoral Letter "Telling Anew the Story of Jesus Christ" written in 2005 set the stage for these former parishes to plan a new future together. After much work, communication, compromise, and planning the historical day of July 1, 2009 happened. More than 200 years of parish histories came together.
All Saints Parish Mission Statement:
All Saints Parish is a Roman Catholic faith community on the coast of Maine. Our common mission is to become the saints of today as disciples, evangelists, and stewards of Jesus Christ. We are empowered by the Holy Spirit, formed by His Word, and nourished by the Eurcharist. We believe and we share.
All Saints Parish consists of:
- Our Lady Queen of Peace, Boothbay Harbor
- St. Ambrose Church, Richmond
- St. Charles Borromeo Church, Brunswick
- St. John the Baptist Church, Brunswick
- St. Katharine Drexel Summer Chapel, Harpswell
- St. Mary Church, Bath
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One-Moment Meditation for Managers
- 2011 September-October
How an MBA turned to meditation and in the process managed to turn meditation upside down.
While a student at the Yale School of Management, I decided to invite all the students, staff, and faculty to an informal discussion that I titled “Spirituality and Management?” This was in 1987, when the idea that spirituality and management could have something in common was very strange indeed. It was before yoga mats had become fashionable urban accessories, back when meditation was still seen as esoteric and foreign, back when the memory of the 1960s had been overshadowed by Reaganomics.
I decided to host this conversation because although I was enjoying my studies, there was some part of me languishing beneath the spreadsheets. I had already had some Zen-like realizations, some mystical openings, and had become an avid student of my dreams. From these experiences, I knew there was something more to life—something intangible, immaterial, uncountable—that could not be included in decision analysis and strategic plans. I sensed that a fundamental part of management education was missing.
A Brief History of Management Education
The practice of providing formal education to aspiring business managers—the typical MBA curriculum—began in the late nineteenth century, before the service economy and the information age, when the concerns of business were primarily industrial production. Although the goal was to bring a scientific approach to management, the scientific understanding of reality at that time was fundamentally different than it is now. It was before quantum physics, when matter was still solid and certainty was within our grasp. It was before theories of complexity and chaos revealed that we are embedded in systems far too complex for easy prediction. In other words, the first century of management education focused on things—things that could be counted and measured, things that behaved predictably. Good management was essentially a mechanical problem, a Newtonian endeavor. (And humans were just “resources.”)
This history of management influenced even the Yale School of Management, a relatively young and innovative business school, where many of the students came from a background in social activism and not-for-profit management. Thus, our core curriculum in the 1980s was still heavily dominated by accounting, data analysis, economic theory, and quantitative tools for decision making. It was still based on a linear, mechanical model of reality: if you do x, then you should get y.
Why Why I Fled the Head
To my surprise and delight, about thirty students (and one adjunct faculty member) took my bait and turned up to discuss the possible intersections of spirituality and management. We had an interesting conversation and even met a second time. But inevitably, we were drawn back into the practical demands of our course work, as well as that pervasive “extra” course in business school: crafting the perfect résumé, securing the perfect job, planning the perfect life. Sadly, I came to the conclusion that spirituality and management were just plain incompatible.
The way I saw it, management is primarily concerned with the material and measurable, whereas spirituality is all about the immaterial and immeasurable. More to the point, a “good” manager has to be in control. She does not want to be surprised, astonished, or humbled. A “good” manager is not expected to show vulnerability, make mistakes, or admit that she does not know. She wants life to go according to plan; she needs to deliver expected results. But a spiritual seeker is just the opposite: she lives to be humbled, astonished, amazed, and to discover that her view of reality is limited. She likes the fact that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in her philosophy.
And so on graduation, the only clear path for me was the unclear one. Instead of looking for a management job, I moved to Ireland, where, at that time, there was still ample time in the day for wondering. I studied and practiced experiential psychotherapy, learning how the body contains wisdom of which the head is unaware. I studied breathwork with Dr. Stanislav Grof, the dean of non-ordinary states of consciousness, and in my breathwork experiences, I had my assumptions about reality shattered repeatedly. I wrote plays, collaborated with artists from other cultures, and studied the symbolism of dreams. I began to practice Zen where, sitting for long periods of time, I learned again and again how little I knew. In this period of my life, the very idea of goal setting became almost sinful to me. I was generally not interested in results; process was everything. My time was devoted to the timeless.
Getting Back to Business
And then one day, about 15 years later, I was asked to teach meditation to a group of corporate lawyers. At first, I assumed that this would be a fairly typical meditation class; that we would have at least several hours outside the office in a lovely setting. I assumed that the lawyers would wear relaxed clothes; that for them, it would be “time out.”
But it was actually the opposite.
The team leader informed me that all of their training sessions were just an hour long and always held in-house. And although I was assured of having a beautiful room for this, the “beautiful room” turned out to be the boardroom. And the hour turned out to be the lunch hour. And the boardroom table was laid with trays of elegant sandwiches, potato chips, cakes, coffee, and tea.
When the lawyers entered, wearing sharp suits, sharp skirts, sharp shoes, and very sharp minds, I realized that their mood was far from that which you would encounter at a typical meditation retreat. These were type-A people (as I had once been)—highly verbal, skeptical, heady, driven. And whereas I had come to teach meditation, they had come for lunch.
The Moment of Decision
So I jettisoned my plans. After a very brief introduction, I explained that we would jump right in with a short meditation, and I asked them not to eat beforehand. Although the concept of doing short meditation was rather unusual (in fact, I’d never tried it before), I said that it would work better if they would really “go for it.” This is not a typical meditation instruction, of course, but these lawyers appreciated the challenge.
To my great surprise, something happened. Several of the lawyers reported that they felt a small but significant shift in their state of mind. More interestingly, the whole tone in the room changed. Everything seemed quieter, as if there were more space in the air. The lawyers, when they spoke, spoke more quietly, as if their words were more considered, and they were listening a bit more. From this experience, I realized just how useful brief meditation could be. These lawyers could use brief meditation before arguing a case (to settle their nerves), before making a difficult phone call (to focus their minds), or at the end of the day (to leave their stress at work).
Gradually, I began to refine this idea, developing a philosophy of meditation (and an approach to meditation training) that I call “One-Moment Meditation.” One-Moment Meditation begins with an exercise that takes just one minute a day. Yes, just one minute. The point is to learn that it doesn’t take much time to make a meaningful change in your state of mind. Then, as the training progresses, you learn how to do this same exercise in less and less time, until you can do it in just a moment. In the blink of an eye.
On the surface, this practice has immense appeal for anyone who is busy, for whom even five minutes — in our crazy-busy world — seems like an eternity. But it is deeper than that. It is based on the idea that one moment of focused attention can have an enormous impact. It is based on the idea that just one moment really can change your life. It is based on the idea that this moment, right now, is really all there is, so you might as well get right to it.
Why Not Now?
There is some spiritual justification for this unconventional approach. For although our greatest spiritual teachers were those who spent many years in contemplation—people who left the ordinary world for many years “in the wilderness”—their core teaching comes down to this: Be here now. And if the ultimate teaching is to be here now, then why not start right here and now? Why wait for the end of the journey in order to begin it?
I began to see that our belief that meditation requires a long time or a special place actually can be a form of procrastination. I am not against longer periods of meditation, and I continue to practice in that way. But I believe that instead of thinking about how long it takes to meditate or how long we can sustain meditative awareness, we really should just get right to it. We should do a moment of meditation right now. And right now. And right now.
Meeting the Mind of a Manager
As I began to teach One-Moment Meditation in workplaces — to corporate executives, doctors, nurses, and to many stressed-out office workers — I began to see how useful the meditative mind could be in the world of work. By stripping meditation of many of its cultural associations, right down to its core idea, and making it very portable, I had discovered a point of contact with the managerial mind. Indeed, in the book The Drucker Difference, Jeremy P. Hunter, PhD, of the Drucker School of Management, writes that meditation can help managers with what he calls “self-management.” Mindfulness meditation, he believes, can help managers focus better, direct their attention better, overcome multitasking, and become more sensitized to their reactive (i.e., unconsidered) emotions. In other words, managers can use meditation to get a grip on themselves and therefore manage better.
For me, however, this doesn’t go far enough. Meditation can also help managers learn that it’s okay, from time to time, to stop managing. For it is in the unmanaged moments—those moments when we are not in control, when we not sure of the answer, when we are curious, humble, and quiet—that inspiration is most likely to strike. Meditation training can also help managers listen better, relate better, and by developing a calmer personal presence, promote calmness in times of anxiety. Meditation training can help managers become more aware of their values, make more enlightened decisions, and bring more compassion into their actions.
Through coaching and workplace training, I am now helping leaders and teams to get in the habit of pausing periodically to clear their minds, to “refresh their browsers,” and tap into a deeper stillness within them. But stillness is not the be-all and end-all; the meditative mind is actually quite dynamic. Meditation also helps you cope with change, respond to external situations more appropriately, and take appropriate and effective action.
A Way Forward
In the 25 years since my graduation, the nature of management education has changed considerably. The Yale School of Management has a new curriculum, more rooted in the real complexity of the world and with a strong emphasis not just on management but on leadership.
And the study of leadership requires the development of character, for which the primary issues are values, personality, judgment, and wisdom. Leadership training recognizes that different people have (and different situations require) different leadership styles, and that people, in all of our unpredictability, are part of the picture. In other words, the study of leadership puts the mystery of human psychology firmly at the center of the conversation. And as contemplative practices continue to become more mainstream, I imagine a future in which more managers will be leaders in the best sense of the word—helping people not just achieve goals but also become wiser and more realized. I imagine a day when meditation, already a proven tool for growing consciousness, will become a standard practice in the education of leaders. I imagine a day when leaders are skilled at taking time out for reflection and insight, and teams pause regularly to center themselves. And I also imagine a time when the meditative mind will be considered a vital tool in the development of organizations, helping whole systems be more awake, flexible, responsive, vibrant, and “in the moment.”
Learn One-Moment Meditation Online
Martin Boroson has developed an online course, OMM365, that gives you gradual training in One-Moment Meditation, a little bit at a time, over the course of a year. You receive a lesson — one per week for 52 weeks — via email or directly through his website. Once you download these to your computer or MP3 player, you can listen to them whenever and wherever you like. You also get a written transcript each week to keep as a course book. In these lessons, each one just 5 to 15 minutes long, Martin personally guides you in the art of One-Moment Meditation, one step at a time. Some of the lessons are more practical, some more philosophical, but each one gives you an exercise to try that takes just one minute (or less) each day.
OMM365 is structured to give you a gradual but profound transformation in every area of your life. You will learn how to use One-Moment Meditation to calm your mind, make better decisions, cope better with stress, and help you with insomnia, anxiety, emergencies, and allof life’s challenges, from job interviews and traffic jams to panic attacks and difficult transitions. You will learn how to tap the power of just one moment to refresh your day and give you a whole new start, right now.
How to Meditate in a Moment
Although the purpose of One-Moment Meditation is to help you to tap an experience of deep peace in just a moment, we start with a minute. This is because a moment goes by so quickly, you’d have to be a master to notice one. A minute, however, is like a moment with handles on it. You know where it begins and ends, so it’s easier to grasp. So we begin with an exercise that I call the “Basic Minute.”
Try to do the Basic Minute in a quiet place, once a day. The only equipment you will need is a timer. The timer is essential because for this exercise, it is important for you to let go of your own anxiety about time, to stop “holding” time for yourself, and to prove to yourself that this exercise really only takes a minute. You can do the Basic Minute several times a day, but please don’t do it for longer than a minute at one time. If you want to do longer meditation, that is great; just do it some other time. This is because the whole point of the Basic Minute is for you to learn that you truly can tap a deep experience of peacefulness in a very short amount of time. If you do it longer, you’re cheating.
It is very likely that while you are doing this exercise, you will get distracted. That is perfectly normal. But when that happens, just say something nice and nonjudgmental to yourself, like “hmm,” and bring your mind back to your breathing. You may not experience perfect peace or complete enlightenment during this exercise (though it is possible). But even if you just manage to turn down the volume of your thinking, even if you manage to just reduce your stress level a little bit, isn’t that valuable? You will then approach the next minute in a much better frame of mind.
When most people first do the Basic Minute, they feel that it goes by very quickly. But with practice, you will drop into a state of peacefulness more quickly and more deeply, and in doing that, you will discover that there is actually a lot of time in a Minute. In other words, the more you settle into the Minute, the more space you will find there. Once you’ve practiced the Basic Minute, you might like to try more advanced training in One- Moment Meditation, which shows you how to make a Minute much more useful and flexible, with exercises such as the Portable Minute, the Emergency Minute, the Bonus Minute, and the Surprise Minute. You then will learn how to reduce the length of the minute gradually, until you can get the same sense of equanimity in just a moment. Then you can experience peacefulness wherever you are and stillness even when you’re on the go.
You will also learn the enormous power of just a moment. For although we think of a moment as fleeting and therefore rather insignificant, the word “moment” actually comes from a Latin word meaning “a particle sufficient to turn the scales.” In other words, one moment is revolutionary. A moment can change everything.
The Basic Minute
1. Find a place of solitude.
2. Sit down.
3. Place your legs in a relaxed but fixed position.
4. Sit up.
5. Set your alarm for exactly one minute.
6. Place your hands in a relaxed but fixed position.
7. Close your eyes.
8. Focus on your breathing.
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Biarritz (French: Biarritz, ; Gascon Occitan: Biàrritz; Basque: Biarritz or Miarritze) is a town and commune which lies on the Bay of Biscay, on the Atlantic coast, in southwestern France.
It is a luxurious seaside town and is popular with tourists and surfers. Biarritz also boasts some of the best beaches in Europe and has won multiple awards for their top class standards.
Biarritz is located in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département
, in the Aquitaine région
. It is adjacent to Bayonne
and 11 miles (18 kilometres) from the border with Spain
. It is in the traditional province of the French Basque Country
who invaded Gascony
in 840 settled in Biarritz, which later participated in the whaling
trade. Biarritz is a Basque
name with locative suffix -itz (cp. Isturitz) attested Bearriz in 1170, Bearids in 1186, Bearritz in 1249. The Scandinavians settled in the area above the Gardague
Beach. It has been suggested (disputedly) that the remaining Vikings became "Agots
," a social group in Gascony not allowed to mix with the population at large. Segregation
among these communities—there were many in Gascony and Navarra
— disappeared only in the early 20th century.
Biarritz has long made its fortune from the sea: as a whaling settlement from the 12th century onwards, in the 18th century doctors recommended that the ocean at Biarritz had therapeutic properties, inspiring patients to make pilgrimages to the beach for alleged cures for their ailments.
Biarritz's became more renowned in 1854 when Empress Eugenie (the wife of Napoleon III) built a palace on the beach (now the Hôtel du Palais). The British royal family regularly took vacations in Biarritz: European royalty such as Queen Victoria, Edward VII, and Alfonso XIII of Spain were frequent visitors.
- the Asiatica Museum, which houses a significant collection of Asian art primarily from India, Nepal, Tibet, and China.
- The Museum of the Sea, which boasts 24 aquariums containing sharks and seals
- The annual Biarritz Surf Festival founded in 1993 at the Côte des Basques is one of the premier surf events in Europe and longboarding events in the world.
- St-Martin's Church, constructed in the 12th century, and restored in the middle of the 16th century.
- The Russian Orthodox Church in Biarritz, constructed in the 19th century for visiting Russian aristocrats, with its famous blue dome.
- The Chapelle Imperiale built for Empress Eugenie, which has an intricately decorated roof interior, and elegant wall tiling.
- A Museum of Chocolate, which explains its history and manufacture.
- Two large Casinos, the Barriere and the Bellevue, on the waterfront by the Grande Plage.
Spectacular cliffs and lookouts lie to the west of the main beach.
Surfing at Biarritz is of a world-class standard and first appeared in 1957 , and the town has a strong surfing culture.
The town is home to a prominent rugby union club, Biarritz Olympique.
Basque pelota is a very popular sport of the Basque country. Several local or international competitions take place in Biarritz.
The golf course, near the lighthouse (Le Phare), was created in 1888 by British residents. In addition to this the town has a large circular golf range area on the border with illbaritz.
Biarritz is easily accessible from Paris by France's high-speed train, the TGV, which departs from Gare de Montparnasse. Furthermore, as of April 2008 a 'discotheque' night train runs this route.
Biarritz has an airport Aéroport de Biarritz-Anglet-Bayonne located about 4 kilometers away from the city in the inland. Its very near at N10 road towards Anglet, it is joined airport with Anglet and Bayonne.
The town lies in Basque territory, and Basque flags and symbols are prevalent throughout Biarritz.
Biarritz's casino (opened August 10, 1901) and beaches make the town a notable tourist centre for Europeans.
Biarritz was the birthplace of:
- Augusta, Georgia, United States, since 1992
- Cascais, Portugal, since 1986
- Ixelles, Belgium, since 1958
- Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, since 1996
- Zaragoza, Spain, since 1986
- Mar del Plata, Argentina since 1996
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Everyone sleeps, and everyone has something to say about sleep. Relate your sleeping habits, schedule or misadventures to your fitness lifestyle. How does it effect, improve or collide with your workouts or eating? Do you enjoy sleep? Or is it a nuisance to your schedule?
Well, here is a topic that affects me every day. I have suffered from chronic insomnia since the age of 5. (And as a result, I have tried every therapy, medication, herb and habit change that could be suggested, so please don’t) It seems no matter what is done to combat this lack of sleep, it doesnt seem to help. What this means for me is that I probably maintain about 3 hours of sleep, for every 3 nights. Sometimes I get lucky, but that is the usual pattern. Not only does this make energy and concentration hard, it can be the most aggrivating thing in the world!
So having shared my personal experience, I am going to use this week’s FitPoint to get out another article I had been working on, to share what has worked for me to help facilitate better chances for sleep, as well as to make the sleep we can get more fulfilling.
Tips for better Sleep:
Use an eye pillow: Absolute darkness makes a world of difference. I used blackout curtains, and unplugged everything that might glow, but this still did not prevent the sunlight seeping in through the window in the morning, reminding me that another sleepless night had come to its conclusion. An eye pillow, however, kept everything dark, all night! Not only does this make it easier to slip into sleep, it keeps you from staring at anything that might keep you awake.
Toss the clock: To have glowing numbers glaring at you telling you just how much sleep you have missed out on is not about to help you sleep any better. In fact, the constant awareness of the time will further prevent falling asleep. If you must have the time, then it is better to wear a wristwatch with a light. It will not be staring you in the face, and you will not have to actively rise and look for it.
Give up the Caffeine: This is something that most people should be kicking, especially soda. But coffee can be just as agitating to the insomniac as anything else. Caffeiene addiction not only keeps you from the sleep you need, but will inhibit the production of the alertness chemicals of the brain, which then requires more coffee. It is a vicious cycle, one that insomniacs in particular need to avoid! This is an especially important point if you drink energy drinks! Set your body right – skip excess caffeine and reap the benefits.
Set the Stage: The mind is a powerful tool. Therefore, if you have trouble sleeping, your bed needs to become a place of sleep. To read or watch TV in bed prevents you from entering sleep mentality when you get there, so to form the proper mental constructs, do these things elsewhere!
White Noise: You may shun the ocean or rain forest sound machines, but white noise is helpful! By having something that makes constant sound, you are less susceptible to the alertness arbitrary sound might cause. I know this is a huge problem for me as a light sleeper – anything can wake me up! Having any sort of constant white noise in the background makes that less likely.
Make Routine: Go to bed, and wake up at the same time every night despite how tired, or lack thereof you may be. Setting a schedule helps regulate your body and how it reacts at different points of the day, and will eventually lead to easier sleep. Regardless of what time I actually did (or did not) fall asleep, I get out of bed the same time every morning,as well as go to bed at the same time as often as possible. In doing this, my body is more likely to respond to the idea of sleep.
Exercise!!! A healthy body leads to a healthy mind, and a healthy sleep shedule! The production of seratonin and adrenaline, chemicals that make us feel more alert, also help us find natural sleep. Since I begun exercising just under a year ago, I have slept better than I have in my entire life!!
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sellers in India took part in a one day strike to protest against Microsoft's anti-piracy activities.
The strikes spread out from Gujarat and included about 350 dealers. They were organised by the Surat-based South Gujarat Information Technologists Association (SITA).
It all started when six dealers in Gujarat received notices from Vole for selling pirated copies of Windows. Microsoft wanted $4,955 and a fine of $39,638 if the vendor continued to sell pirated copies of the OS.
However Microsoft gleaned its information by sending a fake customer into the stores asking for a copy of Windows be installed on their PC.
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Ariel Baxter has just moved into the neighborhood of her dreams. The chaos of domestic life and the loneliness of motherhood, however, moved with her. Then she meets her neighbor, Justine Miller. Justine ushers Ariel into a world of clutter-free houses, fresh-baked bread, homemade crafts, neighborhood playdates, and organization techniques designed to make marriage better and parenting manageable.
Soon Ariel realizes there is hope for peace, friendship, and clean kitchen counters. But when rumors start to circulate about Justine’s real home life, Ariel must choose whether to believe the best about the friend she admires or consider the possibility that “perfection” isn’t always what it seems to be.
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By Anne Carson
Alton Kersey leans back in his chair on his peaceful screened porch that looks down Back Creek and closes his eyes. Solomons is his home. He cares so much for this place, it hurts sometimes.
To visit the Kersey home, one enters a hidden drive that beckons through spreading laurel and azalea bushes, then circles the three and one half acres in expansive view of 1,100 feet of waterfront. Gentility has shaped the landscape here, and a visitor could get the notion that Alton Kersey has lived the life of a gentleman of privilege. He graduated from Virginia’s prestigious College of William and Mary, where he met his wife Joann, and together they raised three children who were also well schooled.
But Alton Kersey’s determination to bring tribute to Solomons’ working man was honed out of his own grit and twenty-two years of sun-up to sun down toil, “working on the payroll like everybody else,”at the J. C. Lore & Sons Oyster House on the island, and he will spend the rest of his days making sure reverence is shown to those who carved an honest living out of the water. Evidence of his ambition goes beyond the swells of the Patuxent River that flow past the Watermen’s Memorial, an imposing granite and marble monument, erected on the island by Alton’s dogged persistence.
“Seventy thousand had to be raised for the monument, and that was no easy task,” Alton acknowledges, but pertinacity clothes this man like boots on a waterman and time does not deter him. As we speak of years past when resourcefulness equaled survival, he gestures toward his carefully constructed water bank. “It took thirty-five years to build this seawall.”
“He placed every stone on the seawall himself. Every single one. And if it didn’t fit, he hammered it until it fit,” says Joann Kersey. She is soft-spoken and gentle, devoted to family and easily loved by all who know her.
“And behind the walls are oyster shells,” continues Alton. “In those days, there wasn’t filter cloth.”
In those days, money was hard to come by. Alton went to college on a baseball and basketball scholarship, and he learned to value life’s lessons beyond the books. “My parents sent me five dollars a week. When you don’t have anything, that was a lot,” Alton speaks from clear memory.
He married his college sweetheart, the lovely Joann Lore in 1954, and they settled into family life. Alton had a ten-year teaching certificate, but because his father-in-law, J. C. Lore, Jr., had been so good to the young couple, Alton decided to work for him. Joann’s grandfather had founded the J. C. Lore & Sons Company in 1988, at the height of the Chesapeake oyster industry, and in 1912, he established a packing house that became one of the most successful seafood packing companies in Southern Maryland. By 1956, the year Alton Kersey began working at the oyster house, the original structure, destroyed in a storm, had been replaced by the 1934 building in evidence today. It was a setting that was to change Alton’s life.
But the work was demanding, Alton recalls vividly. “Out on the floor, ten dollars a day, six days a week. Wasn’t any eight hour day either, six in the morning until six in the evening. I worked mainly in the packing room, unloading boats or doing whatever needed to be done. J. C. Lore & Sons were actually planters and packers. We had our own oyster seed beds that we planted every year and harvested about every three years. At that time, the Wm. B. Tennison (now the historic 1899 cruise boat at nearby Calvert Marine Museum) was our working dredge and buy boat, and it could take up probably 600 to 700 bushels of oysters a day, “ Alton speaks proudly of the log-built bugeye, now a National Historic Landmark, that both he and his son, Joe, captained.
Through the years at the oyster house, working with the watermen and experiencing the harvest of the waterways, Alton grew to love the life like a man who draws his breath from the rise and fall of the tides. As he took over more of the business details, his propensity for leadership served him well, but he drew stature from his own sweat and the examples of those around him. “A fella named Joseph T. Gross worked there practically all his life. Was a laborer, couldn’t read or write, but a worker-he could work you under the table. He was a model of a working man . I don’t know a man I respect more than him,” Alton reflects.
In 1978, when he saw the business failing due to the demise of the oyster crop and labor lost, with shuckers getting up in age or finding jobs at the power or gas plants recently established north of Solomons, he realized he had to close the house to salvage what was left. Alton grimaces as the memory hits. “Can you imagine? A business that was founded by my wife’s grandfather, and here an upstart from Virginia shows up to close it down.”
Alton speaks haltingly now, “Last day I worked there, I took a load of oysters to Baltimore. Then, I took my boots off. Was enough to bury me.”
Two years later, Calvert Marine Museum purchased the facility and the packing equipment inside, and with restoration and adaptation for exhibits, opened the venerable building to the public. By June of 1984, the J. C. Lore & Sons Oyster House was named to the National Register of Historic Places.
Today, it houses two major exhibits: “Seasons of Abundance, Seasons of Want” which presents the history of the region’s commercial finfish, crab, oyster, eel, and clam fisheries and “Built to Work” which portrays the present traditions of wooden workboat building in the area. One of the actual shucking rooms and the packing room have been restored to their original appearance and much of the equipment remains where it was when the building was functioning. Black and white photographs of a young Alton Kersey working alongside his mentor Joseph Gross are treasured mementos as are the worn shucking stalls, where oysters were pried apart one by one, and the gleaming oblong skimmers, where they were filtered, that keep a haunting vigil of a era gone, on uneven flooring that floods at high tide but holds steady with oyster shells piled solidly underneath.
“All the way down to the Methodist Church.” Joann Kersey sweeps her arm to show how high and far the piles of oyster shells went. Joann refers to the building like a second home. “When my sister and I were little, we used to go down there, because it was cool. We would hide under the table when Daddy came around, so we could stay.” She speaks of the familiar details with laughter sweetened by memory.
“And, the sign outside says three generations of Kerseys but it’s really four generations. Because all of our children worked there, even Melissa, our youngest, when she was six years old. She went over to the post office, which was right next door, and filled out an application for a social security number so she could work,” Joann adds.
“At least, when my father-in-law went down the road, while he was still alive, he could take pride in the building he created,” summarizes Alton.
Alton Kersey can take pride in what he has done for the watermen and his community of Solomons. In 1993, the year the Watermen’s Memorial was erected, the Board of Directors of Calvert Marine Museum recognized Kersey as one of the museum’s principle founding fathers. And in 1977, the Board of County Commissioners commended Alton Kersey for his commitment to having a pavilion built on the island and who according to their citation, “took it upon himself to oversee the design and construction . . . and personally helped build components of the pavilion.”
The personal involvement and commitment of Alton Kersey to his family, his community, and his fellow workers have set him apart as a liaison for those who, in his words, “gave it their heart and the best shot they had,” to cull a living from the waterways during a time when a man’s word counted as much as his backbone. Such persons would need an individual worthy of the calling.
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A new contemporary office scheme replaces an aging 1960s building
ESA Architecture Design recently completed a new office scheme providing contemporary open floor plans that replaced an aging 1960’s building in the heart of Marylebone, London.
Iain Wadham, project associate, explains, ''We understood that Westminster would require a traditional design approach to Bentinck Street. In this case we found that by drawing on established architectural design tools such as rhythm, mass and proportion we showed historical and contextual respect; this then enabled a departure to a more contemporary approach in its detailing. The balance is very important to enable the building to proclaim itself as new whilst having sufficient respect for its neighbours.”
Internally there was more scope for design freedom. A lightwell has been sunk mid-plan, such that from basement level one is treated to a view rising six stories to roof level. At second floor the main accommodation and that of the mews has been separated via an external 'green roof' area and a minimal glazed link. The external skin to the mid-level green roof is a fully glazed curtain-walling system with sliding oak louvre panels. The louvre panels, Iain explains, 'have arisen from a planning requirement for some opacity, countered by an environmental and energy-saving need for as much natural light as possible.'
The design team made sure the building has a low-energy performance. The internal lighting loads are reduced by locallised dimming according to the amount of natural light entering, and are also zoned via movement sensors ensuring that any zone left unused is not left with its lights on.
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September has always been my month for writing about kids and schools.
My father always said that the two most difficult Sundays in the year for which to prepare sermons were Christmas and Easter. When I found myself in that situation many years later, I understood what he meant.
It’s all been said before, over and over again, in a thousand different ways. Here are the same old problems and the same old challenges and the same old issues, and I’m supposed to say something interesting and new.
Well, I have news for you: I’m still into the same old topics that everyone else has talked about. Sorry.
“School days, school days, good old Golden Rule days.” I’m not sure who wrote that foolishness, but he wasn’t in my class. It had to be a he because a she would have had more sense. On the other hand, girls were never subjected to that other definition of The Golden Rule: “Do unto others before they do unto you.”
Girls never got involved in overt physical action and reaction, but we didn’t hear the sharp jibes that were whispered about each other, especially when some girl looked different or was obviously too poor to dress without patches and darns. Remember darning?
Today, students have to have designer jeans and designer everything. Parents and teachers decry that attitude, but they don’t understand where it comes from. Not having those Reeboks means that you are somehow different, not just different but less than, not being capable of running (absolutely no pun intended) with the “in” crowd.
It marks you as being one of that most unfortunate groups of people: the poor. Being poor says things about your parents and the fact they are at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder, and you’re down there with them. There are boys you can’t date and parties you can’t attend. Students would do almost anything to avoid that stigma, which is why they insist to the point of rebellion on having those designer jeans.
In my day, it was patches and darns. But in the schools I attended, the majority of us had them. You stood out if you didn’t. You would have to look long and hard among my schoolmates to find pants that didn’t have knees with a patch over each one, and not necessarily of the same material or colour. Few of us went around without at least one patch on the arse of our pants.
So, we didn’t bully each other over the clothes we wore as they so often do now. More often, it had something to do with the way one looked or the perception that one was stun.
I don’t know if one was any worse than the other. I do know that kids in all times and for all reasons have been bullied. I was the minister’s son and I know. Back then, I didn’t see any of it as being wrong, just something that had to be endured.
This little anecdote is absolutely true. One day when I was about 12, a bigger (honestly) and meaner boy gave me a pretty good going over during recess in front of most of the other kids, which unfortunately included girls. I went home sniveling as much from embarrassment as the physical discomfort.
My father came home and heard me still crying down in the basement. (This all had a time frame of less than a half-hour.)
“What’s wrong with Ed?” he asked.
“Ernest Long beat him up,” my mother answered.
I’ll never forget the tone of my father’s voice when he spoke. It was a mixture of irritation and disappointment.
“Seems to me somebody is always beating him up.”
Which was fairly accurate. Understand this was someone who had never lost a fight in his life.
The words went through me like a serrated knife. I resolved then and there to get even with Ernest Long, if it was the last thing I ever did.
I rushed “over the road” and found him with some other boys and tore into him like a Tasmanian devil. Of course, I got beaten up all over again, but this time I did not let my parents hear me cry. In fact, I don’t think I ever again cried as a result of a fight.
Point is, I do know the embarrassment of taking a licking from other boys. I know what it’s like to go to school afraid, although I overcame that one in time. What’s the difference between my school and a St. John’s school trying to cut down on bullying? Mainly we were a lot smaller and the potential for real damage therefore a lot less. Everyone knew everyone else in the school and everyone else’s parents and older brothers. If someone crossed the line, it was a lot more difficult to hide away from all of them.
Finally, everyone had his champions and friends. Bullying or hazing couldn’t go too far without some of them getting involved.
In the meantime, I never came home with more than a bloody nose or an occasional split lip. Everyone knew the limits. When I finally got to be older and bigger, my own problems were over. My regret now, along with some still fairly strong guilt feelings, is that I wasn’t a champion and a friend as often as I should have been to those who were being embarrassed and “picked on.”
In the bigger schools and more complex student and adult societal structures of today, there is no room for hazing that causes pain of any kind, and my hat is off to those schools that are leading the way in doing something about it.
A lot of students are still waiting for their champions.
Ed Smith is an author
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One of the first questions frequently asked upon encountering the Brahma Kumaris is, “Is this a women’s organisation?” The answer is “no”. Although primarily administered by women, it is an organisation in which both women and men participate equally.
The Role of Women
In October 1937, Brahma Baba formed a Managing Committee of eight young women and in February 1938, he surrendered all his property and assets to a Trust administered by them. The soundness of his decision to choose women and young girls as administrators and spiritual teachers has been born out by the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University (BKWSU) becoming a respected global institution under their leadership. Brahma Baba also correctly foresaw that core values based on traditionally feminine qualities – patience, tolerance, sacrifice, kindness and love – would increasingly become the foundation of progress in personal growth, human relations, and the development of caring communities.
Brahma Baba’s vision of the future world was one of harmony between the sexes and of partnership rooted in spirituality, for spirituality is the key to trust and respect. Today, although women head the organisation, there are many men coordinating centres and playing other key administrative roles. | <urn:uuid:b31857cd-2014-4608-8675-bf6ffb382993> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bkwsu.com/srilanka/whoweare/spiritualleaders/print | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964732 | 250 | 2.53125 | 3 |
I know that story can have a different meaning for people in the area I live in having had a 500 year flood in middle and west Tennessee at the beginning of March. Also, those in other areas that have flooded that don't normally. I am going to focus on how the parable relates to our families though, from a spiritual sense.
Matthew 7:24-27 (NKJV)
24 “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: 25 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.
26 “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: 27 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”
While we are raising our children and making sure they become well rounded individuals with good self esteem, are we missing something? The wise man and the foolish man both built a house. I am sure they both took great pride in their work and did the best that they could. The difference though was the foundation.
It's easy to get caught up in our children's development and activities. There is academics that they have to do, sports and extra curricular activities. Then if you are active in your community and church there are other distractions. The question comes down to, are the children learning about Jesus?
Academics, sports, community involvement, volunteering, obligations are church, are all wonderful things to do. The thing is, if the focus isn't on Jesus, then it is all for naught.
Jesus is to be our foundation, or the corner stone in the foundation. Jesus is key because without Him, nothing else matters.
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OLD SANTA ANA
Portolá camped on the bank of Santa Ana River in 1769, and José Antonio Yorba, a member of the expedition, later returned to Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana. El Camino Real crossed the river in this vicinity. The place was designated Santa Ana by travelers and known by that name until the present town of Santa Ana was founded.
Registration Date: 6/20/1935
NW corner of Lincoln Ave and Orange Olive Rd, Orange
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The secrets of top-class terrain modelling are revealed and demonstrated by Richard Windrow, one of the world's leading diorama modellers, in this new addition to the successful Masterclass series. Everything from medieval castles to the destruction wrought upon modern cities by war is covered in this wide-ranging and accessible approach. Explore the difficulties of creating an effective desert environment from the sandstone of Arizona to the wastelands of North Africa. Discover the delicate handiwork needed to create the barbed wire death traps of No-Man's Land and the frozen wilderness of Russia in winter.
This variety of seasons, environments and historical periods are detailed in over 200 full color step-by-step photographs so that a range of modeller's "how to" questions are easily answered. Accompanying the photographs is an invaluable guide to the materials and techniques needed to create top quality terrain, providing the essential reference volume for the military and non-military modeller alike.
"This text is a must for the modeling fan, military or non-military, as it provides some unique techniques unlikely to be found elsewhere." -Timothy Baghurst, The Traveller (November 2007)
"His descriptions of materials and layout tips can be applied to all kinds of model layout, both military and civilian in subject, and pairs close-up color photos with the author's descriptions of how he built each landscape, and the special challenges involved. An intriguing survey, this would be the perfect addition to any collection appealing to hobbyists." -California Bookwatch (October 2007)
"...an extraordinarily well presented, informative and inspirational book." -Jim Rae, Aeroscale (August 2007)
"There are few books as truly useful as ones like this. Modelers of every skill level will be able to find things that they can do to help improve the look of their presentations. Thanks to the copious number of quality images that accompany each article, those with the will should be able to follow what was done with ease. It is a book that I can most highly recommend to you." -Scott Van Aken, modelingmadness.com (August 2007) | <urn:uuid:e2115709-ce69-4d80-9d99-07c481cfb8d3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.randomhouse.com/book/192172/advanced-terrain-modelling-by-richard-windrow/9781782005100/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924467 | 437 | 1.71875 | 2 |
29 December 2008
Grant's Tomb at Greenwood Memorial Park
Did you know that Ulysses S. Grant is buried in Greenwood Memorial Park in San Diego?
The stone just says "Grant." The Historical Walking Tour handout obtained from Greenwood says:
"Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. (1852-1929): The son of President Ulysses S. Grant came to the San Diego area in 1893 for his wife's health. He was active in real estate and promoting the San Diego area. He built the U.S. Grant Hotel as a memorial to his father. The bronze Angel of Death is the work of Henry Lukeman, a prominent eastern sculptor who had studied with Daniel Chester French (Sculptor of the Lincoln figure in the Lincoln Memorial). The stone was cast in 1911. Henry Lukeman later worked on the Stone Mountain Memorial in Georgia." | <urn:uuid:7c2eb1bb-abdc-4d50-9e9a-25aa485da180> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ssdcgraveyardrabbit.blogspot.com/2008/12/grants-tomb-at-greenwood-memorial-park.html?showComment=1231042620000 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972492 | 181 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Tom shared his lifelong fascination in potatoes and tomatoes (tater & mater). For 56 years he has been crossing and selecting on potatoes and tomatoes, and he still has many ideas to improve varieties. Tom is best known for his tomato Green Zebra.
It is a pleasure to dive deep in to details with such an experienced breeder as Tom. He showed us how the first flower in a cluster often have a deformed style. The shape makes it more sensitive to later insect pollination, at a point we would think we had control of the pollination. He also recommended looking at the little scar in the flower end of the ripe tomato. Is it a tiny spot, the style was well shaped, a larger irregular brown scar suggest the style was deformed, with an increased risk of unintended crossing.
Tom gently tear off the anthers of a tomato flower. Then he knock it over his thumb nail to release any pollen, to learn if there is any ripe pollen. There was none, meaning this flower can be crossed. He already had noticed the green shine in the yellow anthers, suggesting they were not releasing pollen yet.
Then he pick a well developed flower of an other tomato variety, knock it gently over a brown clay tray and we can all see the pollen collected on the tray. With the tip of a brush he transfer the pollen from the tray to the stigma. Then he removes the petals, so insects will not be attracted, and add a tag to remember what he did to the flower (later tomato). Last he pick the older flowers, not letting them take any energy from his pollinated flower.
Tom Wagner thinks in combining good genes. For both potato and tomato this include resistance to late blight. He also want hairy plants, as insect find the plant fur unattractive. In this way both insect damage and insect transfer of disease by their bites are reduced.
He has developed potato varieties that can stay in ground all winter for eating or replanting in April, without any sprouting. They do need a mulch in case of severe frost.
He has also develop a potato I think of as a CO2-reduced potato. It is tasty, yellow fleshed and only take a 5 minute boil before eating. A 75% reduction of CO2 in the boiling process.
For the tiny garden he developed a series of potatoes with huge flamboyant flowers, the photos made me think of Dahlias, with more usefull tubers.
As Tom has no land of his own, he is totally dependent of others cooperating with him. Tom sends out a lot of not yet stabilised hybrids to others, for them to select on according to his guidance for some generations. He find that they usually stabilise in the 5th. or 6th. generation.
One of Toms interesting techniques is the preselection. He has gained the capacity to read the phenotype already at the seedling stage, allowing him to sort out most of the unattractive seedlings before transplant. This saves a lot of space in the gardens. In the shape of the young leaves he read the shape of the tubers to come later, round or elongated. When he wish a potato resistant to late frosts, he look for seedlings that will be first in afternoon to gather their leaves on top of the growing tip, thus protecting it from frost. These techniques show how deep he understand these crops.
At transplant of potato seedlings, it is very important to bury 1 or 2 of the normal leaves in the ground, otherwise you won’t get a proper tuber production.
Tom believe we ordinary people should take responsibility to maintain and improve the heritage form our ancestors. He believe we should do the F1 hybrids bottom up (by ourselves), and share them generously, keeping hybrids fertile in future generations and maintain the inherited gene pool. We can afford the longterm investment, whereas the few remaining multinational seed companies breed for the next ten years only, and for shareholders that’s a very long perspective compared to the normal 5 year perspective.
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If you are using Canon EF series lenses you should get the AF
confirmation light in manual focus. If you don't then there is
likely something wrong with your technique, the lens or the
camera. If the confirmation light doesn't seem to agree with what
you see through the viewfinder then consider the following:
In most autofocus cameras, light has to get to 3 different
places: the film plane, the viewfinder, and the AF module.
(Usually, the exposure is determined from light bled from the
viewfinder image.) It is possible that they are not perfectly
aligned, resulting in differences in the length of the light
path, and ultimately, disagreement as to what is "in focus".
The disagreement between the AF module and the focusing screen
may be more readily apparent in cameras with optional split image
focusing screens (600 series or EOS-1), or when using long lenses
with large apertures (i.e. shallow depth of field). If your
camera is under warranty, it's probably worth calling Canon
service to see if they can check the alignment for you.
If you must test it yourself, try any of the "home brew" lens tests.
Set yourself up with high-resolution (i.e. slow) film, a tripod, and a
target of some kind (a page from a newspaper with varying type sizes is
the cheapest). Try shots with AF, using MF, and maybe a few others
around the distances selected with either of the first two methods.
TAKE DETAILED NOTES! A large (24"x36") resolution test target is
available from Edmund Scientific (609 573 6259) if you want to do more
scientific tests and actually put numbers on the "sharpness" of the
images. It is their part number A83001, "Resolving Power Chart", and
costs $17.95 (+ shipping etc.).
Then, decide for yourself if you have any focusing problems and
whether you want to take your camera in for adjustment. Both the
AF sensor and viewfinder screen can be adjusted. For example the
screen on the 10s is adjusted by shims and its poition can be
changed in 50 micron steps (1/20mm). You should probably be
prepared for about a $100 charge for this kind of adjustment
(type B repair), but that would include a full cleaning of the
EOS cameras with interchangeable focusing screens seem to have
better correlation between AF and MF. This may be because Canon
assumes that someone who wants interchangeable screens wants to
use a focusing aid and manual focus at least some of the time.
Cameras with fixed matte screens are assumed to be manually
focused rarely, if at all. On the other hand maybe our sampling
is too small to really establish a good correlation here.
Note that the "green dot" AF confirmation light will only work
as a manual focus "in focus" indicator when manually focusing EOS
EF compatible lenses, i.e. lenses with the EOS electronic
interface. It will not work with fully manual lenses, such as,
for example, Tamron MF lenses used with the Tamron EOS compatible
Adaptall mount, or mirror lenses like the Sigma 600/8.
On most of the non-professional lenses, the focus throw is short
to allow for quicker AF. To keep costs down, only a simple
gearing mechanism is provided for MF, making the throw slightly
longer, but still not that precise.
On some "L" lenses with USM, there is "electronic gearing" with
the "electronic focusing ring".Indeed, the gearing can change
depending on the focal length setting of the zoom lens. On "L"
lenses with AFD, a more sophisticated gearing mechanism is
included to give longer throw.
1) To get more precise movement of the focusing ring grip the
ring towards its back edge so that your fingers also touch the
lens barrel. This will give more friction, a slower turning
speed, and therefore, more precise focusing. By varying the
amount of pressure put on the lens barrel with your fingers, you
can vary the amount of "braking force", and therefore the
precision of focus. [This is the technique I used for precise
adjustment of Apple ][ game paddles in my "youth". :-)]
2) Another technique is to use just one finger to focus. Gently
tap/nudge the focusing ring in the direction you want it to
travel The theory is that you shorten the amount of time you are
manipulating the ring, and thus don't "overshoot" the zone of
precise focus. This technique can be combined with the first.
[This second technique was told to me by a salesman at a local
camera shop. I've never gotten much out of it, but it is included
"just in case".]
Speed is the reason. There are times when the AF sensor does not
detect any obvious detail upon which to focus. This tends to
occur when the lens starts out far out of focus or when there is
no detail available to the AF sensor. To cover the case of the
lens simply starting at a bad position, the AF system will "hunt"
(scan back and forth through the entire focusing range) in the
hopes of putting useful detail on the sensor.
By having ranges on the AF switch, the photographer gives the
camera extra information to allow the camera to reduce the amount
of hunting. This can help reduce the time the AF system takes in
finding focus. This feature is particularly useful on lenses
which may be used in action situations (like the 300/2.8L for
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Breastfeeding your new baby can be an incredibly fulfilling experience that bonds you and your new baby. While it can be initially uncomfortable and does take time to master the technique, the benefits your baby receives from breastfeeding can be pivotal to his development.
Some of the benefits for the infant include:
· A source of nourishment that changes based on the baby’s stage of development so that the child’s needs are most fully met
· Improved jaw and tooth development from the act of nursing
· Improved hand/eye coordination from negotiating distance between mouth and breast
· Reduced risk of cavities
· Reduction in gas and fussiness because milk is easier to digest than formula
It is advisable to take a class on breastfeeding to prepare you for the common challenges that you may face. Do keep in mind that no amount of books, videos, or classes can prepare you for exactly what you will face. Classes can, however, provide you with the support you need from other women facing many of the same difficulties and challenges. St. Petersburg General Hospital offers breastfeeding classes for new moms. Check our online calendar for a time that suits your schedule.
Here are a few basics for breastfeeding to get your started:
· Put your infant to your breast and start him breastfeeding as soon as possible.
· Nurse often, every two to three hours during the day and no more than four at night, to encourage your milk to come in.
· Do not wait until your baby is crying or upset to nurse.
· Breastfeed not only for nourishment but also for comfort.
· Offer both breasts while nursing, with 10-15 minutes at each breast before switching and alternate sides during the next feeding.
· Do not be upset if your baby feeds frequently for hours and then can’t be roused for his next feeding. As long as he is eating enough, there is no reason for alarm.
While it is important to be conscious of your diet while breastfeeding, it is not as difficult as you might think to maintain a diet that will not affect your breast milk.
Don’t go overboard on dieting. Yes, you want to lose the baby weight, but aim for slow weight loss. Do not try to diet until at least two months after your have given birth.
Choose the good fats. Fatty foods can change the composition of your breast milk and be harmful to your baby.
Be careful to avoid contaminants. Drink filtered water, avoid foods that could be contaminated by pesticides, and choose lean meats, removing the skin before cooking.
Avoid alcoholic beverages. While a single glass likely won’t hurt you or your breast milk, it is a good rule of thumb to avoid alcohol altogether while breastfeeding.
Take your vitamins daily. Be sure to get the recommended dosage of calcium and vitamin D.
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An important ability in life is the ability to act automatically. Once we have learned how to ride a bycicle it will work without much – if any – conscious effort or control being required. This is certainly a good thing. However, sometimes we function on autopilot when it might be less useful or we may respond in an automated fashion, without being quite aware that we are responding, not to mention how exactly we are responding. This is not only true for our physical actions where we may have killed a complete chocolate bar before even recognising that there was one, but also for our mental life. Thoughts and emotions may impulsively and without much control pop up in our mind and colour our experiences in a habitual fashion, without us even recognising it. We may be wearing the proverbial coloured glasses without even recognising it.
In the lab, psychologist have been studying our ability to control or inhibit such automatic behaviour for a long time. Already in 1935 an experimental paradigm was presented that is still in use today: Look at the image below and name the colour each of the words is printed in. Quite straightforward for the three words on the left. But did you try those on the right? – If you are anything similar to the thousands of volunteers who have done this task you will find it more difficult with these three words. Did you manage to name the three colours: green – blue – red correctly? Did you feel that you have to pay more attention and are more prone to make a mistake?
Psychologists call this the “interference effect” or “congruency effect”. It results from the fact that we automatically read, whenever a word appears, if we want it or not and even if we are asked not to read it.
We were curious to find out whether meditators fare better on such task – after all not responding in an automatic, impulsive fashion is port and parcel of every meditation we do. We try not to scratch every time it itches somewhere and also don’t jump on every train of thoughts that passes by.
In 2009 we published the results of a study where we compared a group of buddhist meditators with a control group in the same age range. And indeed, we found that the meditators were faster in naming the print colour of the incongruent words and also made fewer mistakes.
So, can we conclude that this improved cognitive control or cognitive flexibility is the result of the meditation practice? Well, not directly! It could, for instance, be that those guys in the meditation group were already better in this task before they ever meditated; Maybe because of their special skill they even fancied meditation more than others.
To find out more about this, we conducted another, more comprehensive, study that was published last week. We trained participants who never meditated before in a simple mindful breathing meditation and asked them to practice this for 16 weeks for around 10 minutes every day. We also tested them on the above colour naming task before, half way through and at the end of the training, while at the same time recording their brain activity with EEG. To be sure that the changes over time we might find have something to do with the meditation practice and not just with repeating the same task a few times, we also included a control group of people who did not meditate. The results were pretty interesting:
We found that meditation led to an increase in brain activity that was related to focussing the attention on the colour words (for the geeks: the N2 event related potential) in those brain areas that are involved in processing of words (left medial and lateral occipitotemporal areas) especially when the stiumuli were congruent, while the opposite pattern was true for the control group.
For brain activity related object recognition and inhibitory processes (the P3 component) we found that as a result of meditation practice a decrease in activity appeared especially for incongruent stimuli, suggesting that through meditation practice the perceptual processing of incongruent stimuli becomes less resource demanding.
Thus overall these two studies show that meditators perform better than non-meditators on tasks that require congitive flexibilty and deautomatisation or inhibition of automatic responses. Furthermore, brain activity that is involved in processing such tasks becomes more effective after 16 weeks of brief mindfulness meditation practice.
Moore, A. & Malinowski, P. (2009). Meditation, mindfulness and cognitive flexibility. Consciousness & Cognition, 18(1), 176-186. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2008.12.008
Moore, A.W., Gruber T., Derose, J. and Malinowski, P. (2012). Regular, brief mindfulness meditation practice improves electrophysiological markers of attentional control. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6, 18. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00018
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When evaluating a company as a potential income investment you look at its calculated fair value, ability to generate cash, debt position and the net present value of its dividend stream compared to alternative “safe” investments. The advantages dividend stocks have over "safe" investments are potential capital appreciation and dividend growth. Not only are your earnings compounding, but the rate of earnings is growing.
Below are several companies giving their shareholders a raise with increased cash dividends:
Invesco Mortgage Capital (IVR) focuses on investing in, financing and managing residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities and mortgage loans. September 20th the company increased its quarterly dividend 35% to $1.00/share. The dividend is payable on October 27, 2010 to shareholders of record on September 30, 2010. The ex-dividend date is September 28, 2010. The yield based on the new payout is 17.59%.
Arlington Asset Investment (AI) invests in mortgage-related assets. September 21st the company raised its quarterly dividend 71.4% to $0.60/share. The dividend is payable on October 29, 2010 to shareholders of record on September 30, 2010. The ex-dividend date is September 28, 2010. The yield based on the new payout is 10.08%.
ConAgra Foods (CAG) is one of the largest U.S. packaged food processors. September 21st the company increased its quarterly dividend 15% to $0.23/share. The yield based on the new payout is 4.27%.
Microsoft (MSFT) is the world's largest software company. It develops PC software, including the Windows operating system and the Office application suite. September 21st the company raised its quarterly dividend 23% to $0.16/share. The yield based on the new payout is 2.60%.
The First of Long Island Corp. (FLIC) provides financial services through its wholly-owned subsidiary, The First National Bank of Long Island. September 22nd the company increased its quarterly dividend 10% to $0.22/share. The dividend is payable on October 15, 2010 to shareholders of record on October 5, 2010. The ex-dividend date is October 1, 2010. The yield based on the new payout is 3.55%.
McDonald's (MCD) is the largest fast-food restaurant company in the world, with about 32,500 restaurants in 117 countries. September 23rd the company raised its quarterly dividend 11% to $0.61/share. The dividend is payable on December 15, 2010 to shareholders of record at the close of business on December 1, 2010. The ex-dividend date is November 29, 2010. MCD is a Dividend Aristocrat and has raised its dividend for 34 consecutive years. The yield based on the new payout is 3.25%.
Covidien (COV) develops, manufactures and distributes medical devices and supplies, diagnostic imaging agents, pharmaceuticals and other health care products used in both clinical and home settings. September 23rd the company increased it quarterly dividend by 11% to $0.20/share.The dividend is payable on Nov. 8 to shareholders of record on Oct. 4. The ex-dividend date is Sept. 30. The yield based on the new payout is 2.04%.
Lockheed Martin (LMT) is the world's largest military weapons manufacturer and is also a significant supplier to NASA and other non-defense government agencies. September 23rd the company raised its quarterly dividend 19% to $0.75/share. The dividend is payable on Dec. 31 to shareholders of record on Dec. 1. The ex-dividend date is Nov. 29. The yield based on the new payout is 4.17%.
Sanderson Farms (SAFM) in an integrated poultry processing company that produces, processes, markets and distributes fresh and frozen, processed, and prepared chicken products in the United States. September 23rd the company increased its quarterly dividend 13.3% to $0.17/share. The dividend is payable October 19, 2010, to stockholders of record on October 5, 2010. The ex-dividend date is October 1, 2010. The yield based on the new payout is 1.64%.
Selecting stocks with increasing dividends is critical for an income growth strategy. The above list contains stocks that recently raised their dividends; it is not a list of recommend buys. As always, due diligence should be performed before buying or selling any stock. For a list of stocks with a long string of consecutive cash dividend increases, see this list.
Full Disclosure: Long MCD. See a list of all my income holdings here.
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In September of 1957, MinniJean Brown, left, walked into Central High School amidst much public scrutiny and vocal harassment as one of the Little Rock Nine. In October of 2006, MinniJean visited the booth with her sister, Phylis, to talk about how MinniJean’s expulsion from Central High broke up the family. After allegedly dumping a bowl of chili on a white student’s for harassing her, MinniJean was sent to New York to attend a new high school. Phylis explained in the interview how the desegregation process, although integrating the schools, separated her from her sister. While MinniJean was in New York, Phylis was left alone dancing to the records that she used to dance to with her beloved sister.
Earlier that week, facilitators Ryan Murdock and Mitra Bonshahi visited Central High to soak in the atmoshphere of such a pivotal place in history. Ryan and Mitra decided to make the excursion after hearing about the desegregation process in Little Rock. What a surprise and honor it was for them to have MinniJean in the booth a couple days later.
This week infamous Boston storyteller, Brother Blue, visited the booth with his wife, Ruth. Brother Blue is well known in Cambridge where he tells stories to all who will listen in Harvard Square. He is also a minister and has a PhD in playwriting. He dresses in blue from head to toe, and is fond of saying “storytelling is God: to God, for God, of God, from God. It’s a way of life.”
Back in Little Rock, we found a bit of nature in an unexpected place: The Peabody hotel.
Every morning, promptly at 11 am , Duck Master Lloyd Withrow gathers the famous five ducks from their “Royal Peabody Duck Palace” upon the roof of the hotel and escorts them down the elevator.
Lloyd uses his brass duck-head cane to lead them towards the fountain as John Philip Sousa‘s “King Cotton March” resounds thoughout the lobby.
The ducks then walk upon the crimson carpeted steps to enter their pond where they will spend the rest of the day until they are called back to their palace at 5 pm. What a hard life these ducks must have!
Over Columbus Day weekend in Boston, MobileBooth East really became about family. Facilitator Pat’s husband, Gene, and facilitator Maddy’s mother, Rolla, both came for a visit. Here they are explaining StoryCorps to all the family’s that passed us on the street. Since both have participated in interviews and have loved ones working in the booth 24/7, they really understand the project!
86 year old Johnnie Tyson, pictured right, laughs with her niece, Sandra Fleming, after their StoryCorps interview. Johnnie shared with us her experiences growing up during the Great Depression with the disease of obesity. Johnnie was born weighing 13 lbs and grew to 329 lbs by age 15. But thankfully, in the 60′s, the government approved intestinal bypass surgery, and Johnny was able to shed the extra pounds. “You accept life if you’re wise” she quipped, but as you can see here, she always approached life with a great deal of laughter. You go girl!
On Monday, facilitators Pat and Maddy teamed up to interview Edgar and Hana Krasa, pictured here. They had both survived the concentration camps, and met in Prague after the war. They were, hands down, two of the sweetest most personable people ever to grace the booth. When asked to define their relationship, Edgar shrugged and jokingly said, “Eh- tolerable.” But the love between them was overwhelming, as was their goodwill.
George Brown drove his mother, Virginia Alexander, to the booth for an interview even though at the age of 99, she takes the wheel herself at times. Another sign of Virginia’s vivacity is that she boasts still having 5 original teeth. “The Three A’s” have been Virginia’s key to a long, prosperous life…
…Here she is after her interview chatting with our next participant, Leonard Griffe. Upon learning that Leonard was a mere 91, Virginia proudly declared, “Well, I’m 99!” – and then proclaimed that “Activity, Attitude, and Apple juice (slightly fermented)” were the Three A’s that kept her living long. We’ll toast to that.
The booth sat under the clear blue Arkansas sky the morning of opening day. The curved facade of the Cox Center is a remnant of the days when the building served as a warehouse for Thomas Cox & Sons Machinery Co. The railroad tracks ran right past where the booth sits now.
KUAR’s Laurie Pierce brought in her 11 year old son, James Richard IV to find out how he’s adjusting to his first year of Junior High. When asked about teasing his younger brother, James mentioned that he usually gives him “noogies and wedgies – you know, the classics.”
93 year old Lucile Shivley came in with her friend Patrick Watson to talk about her late husband, Charles. During the interview, Patrick discovered that Lucile has always wanted ride a motorcycle, but has never had the chance. He confided to us that he plans to set up a ride for Lucile’s 94th birthday on Oct 21. Vroom Vroom!
Before we said our goodbyes, Lucile confessed that “I think if I had a choice between talking and eating I ‘d chose talking… That is until I got hungry.” Now that’s what we like to hear.
We arrived safely to our new home in Boston, in front of the Public Library in Copley Square. The mobile booth will be here until October 17th, when we will move to Boston City Hall Plaza for a week. In Boston we are working in partnership with WBUR (90.9 fm). They will be airing StoryCorps clips twice a week on Mondays and Fridays during "Morning Edition." There are no reservations left, but keep checking the website for cancellations!
One of the classic StoryCorps questions is "have you ever experienced a miracle?" Well, on the last day in Portland, facilitators John and Pat found an answer. As Pat joined the tour (and facilitator Maddy) to move on to Boston, John miraculously learned to ride a bike. Here they are waving goodbye to each other and to Portland. They were sad to leave their new friends at BLUNT Youth Radio and WMPG, who had become like a family in Maine, but excited to move on to Beantown!
Before we left Kansas City, we took a long hard look at the Missouri River and felt some fleeting nostalgia for the days of Lewis & Clark.
Without a map or compass, facilitators Ryan Murdock and Mitra Bonshahi set off on their journey into uncharted waters.
As the crow flies Ryan and Mitra should have stayed on the “Big Muddy,” but somewhere along the line they veered off track and found themselves on the Arkansas River. Land ho! They soon saw the shores of Little Rock and knew immediately they had found their destination.
To their surprise, the booth made it to Little Rock just before sundown where it is parked at it’s new home in front of the Cox Creative Center, which houses a great used book store, coffee shop, and art gallery.
Lobstermen have long been central to the culture of Portland, Maine, as evidenced by this downtown statue in their honor. Pete Morse, a real life lobsterman, came to the MobileBooth with Blunt Youth Radio member Katie Freddoso to talk about his passion for the sea’s daily adventure, and pass on the best local spots to snag an authentic lobster roll.
As our stay in Kansas City drew to a close, we wanted to share some images from our lovely site in downtown City Market. Here you can see a wide variety of produce, plants, and people every Saturday, Sunday, and Wednesday.
Kansan farmer and market seller John Goode proudly displays his favorite crop: Heirloom tomatoes. John joined us for an interview and joked how he’s been told that he has a “radio face.” He then went on to describe (in his best radio voice) the connection he feels with nature while tending the earth.
The market was always full of enticing smells…and sounds. These marimba players made our booties shake one Saturday afternoon. Luckily, Airstream made the MobileBooth soundproof, so the dancing was checked at the door.
We had many wonderful volunteers who helped us spread the word that we were in town. Here KCUR Program Director Bill Anderson chows down with volunteers at our thank you pizza party.
Just before the booth pulled away, we grabbed a picture with Kevin Alexander, our KCUR host. Thanks Kevin and the rest of KCUR for making Kansas City a great stop for the Mobile Tour! We will miss you dearly.
This week facilitators Maddy and John took their portable equipment to South Portland’s Long Creek youth correctional facility for an incredible day of field recording. Three pairs of incarcerated teens (including Melissa Bowden and Nicole Hycock, pictured above) shared their struggles with being "trapped in the system," and their simple wishes to get out of jail, get an education, and make an honest life with a family of their own. In the photo below Shane Hall showed us his tattoos, which he designed himself.
We were invited by Mrs. Betty Crow to record some stories at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in the historical 18th & Vine jazz district of Kansas City.
Established in 1917, many Kansas City jazz cats belonged to Local No. 627, an African-American musicians union affiliated with the American Federation of Musicians. The best KC jazz can still be found here on Friday and Saturday nights, starting at 1am and going till 5 am, way past our bedtime.
Drummer Horace Eugene Washington and Garland Smith (pictured here) shared their favorite memories of the KC jazz scene and their definition of music which Horace explained as “organized noise.”
Singer Myra Taylor and longtime friend Pearl Thuston Brown reminisced about their favorite gigs, recording sessions and neighborhood characters.
Pearl was quite the sensation as a piano player in the style of Erroll Garner, whom she once replaced on a New York bill when Erroll couldn’t perform.
Here Myra Taylor sings along with Charlie Parker (far left). The “Bird” was Kansas City’s most nationally acclaimed musician and he cut his chops playing at the Local 627 starting in 1936. At the age of 90, Taylor occasionally performs and even visits the recording studio. Her most recent album, My Night to Dream, was released in 2001.
Three’s company when we have each other…
…Excuse me, did you say something? I’m busy listening…
…Who said kids don’t pay attention…
….What better way to end a day than with a good bedtime story.
Portland has a thriving art scene, and is home to many galleries, theaters, music venues, and even a ballroom dancing school. On the "First Friday" art walk, all the local cultural organizations came outside to celebrate Portland. Some dancers tangoed on the stage outside the booth. Good things come in pairs: tango dancers, StoryCorps participants, and mobile facilitators!
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A few days ago I posted on WSJ and NYT articles talking about the opening of new law schools in the midst of a crash in law student applications. Since then, a couple of other professors have posted comments on the topic, and I thought I’d flag them. NYU law professor Robert Howse, writing at Prawfslawblog, argues that the gloom and doom is overwrought, and suggests that American law schools will be able to look to foreign students, not just to fill LLM slots, but JD classes as well:
Application for JD slots are down-we all know that. But even assuming that’s a longer-term trend rather than a reflection of th economic anxieties and difficulties of the last years, there is no reason for panic or despair. The potential of America’s law schools is only starting to be realized.
The global market for US legal education was traditionally regarded as composed of a relatively small group of foreign-educated lawyers seek advanced degrees. But this changing. Increasingly, a US JD degree is an attractive option for foreign students. And you have probably noticed more non-US JDs in your classes. In most countries law is the subject of a first degree after high school. The market could be expanded of US law schools were to offer a combination undergraduate degree in another discipline and a law degree-what about a 5 or 6 year program that leads to a BA in economics or political science or philosophy and a JD?
The fact is that American law schools have a competitive advantage. To be sure there is excellent legal education in some other countries. But my considerable global experience suggests to me that those countries are few. In most places, legal education is dominated by old-fashioned rote learning and by professors who spend much if not most of their time in private practice. Innovation is rare and slow. Class sizes are often huge.
If we are not distracted by US News rankings, we will observe that in all kinds of law schools all across the US there are world class intellectuals and leading specialists on the faculty. Of course national law schools abroad have a captive audience of students who can’t study in English and/or whose first and immediate priority is to qualify for the local bar or who can’t afford foreign study (though we can reach out to the last group through distance education and foreign campuses). But overall the number of students with global ambitions, and the prevalence of English as a global language of law, are growing, from what I can tell.
This post prompted some pushback by my Opinio Juris colleague Kevin Jon Heller, an American legal academic who has moved to Australia to be a law professor at Melbourne University:
It is nice to see someone dissenting from the conventional doom and gloom, and Rob [Howse] makes a number of valuable points. But I feel compelled to take issue with (1) his description of non-American legal education, and (2) his assessment of the potential for American law schools to attract large numbers of foreign students ...
I am also skeptical of Rob’s belief that foreign law students represent a vast and largely untapped market for American law schools. His point about the greater value of a JD on the international market is well taken; my law school, Melbourne, recently shifted to a JD-only model precisely in order to maximize the international marketability of our law graduates. I also agree that a graduate law degree can be a significant draw for students in countries where law is an undergraduate subject; approximately 15% of our JD students come from outside Australia.
That said, I question whether American law schools are particularly well-situated to attracting foreign students who don’t intend to practice in the US. Most obviously, American legal education is absurdly insular — far more so than legal education anywhere else in the world. Outside of the elite American law schools, students receive almost no education in international law. Comparative law is almost non-existent. All, or nearly all, of the professors are American. Exchange options are limited — and many foreign law schools are off the table, no matter how elite, because they don’t offer graduate-level classes. How much do most non-elite American law students know about how law functions in the rest of the world when they graduate? I’d venture it is vastly less than law students who graduate from law schools almost anywhere else.
And then, of course, there is the expense of American legal education — something that Rob doesn’t even mention. Why would a large number of foreign students want to spend $200,000 on an American JD when they can get law degrees in their home countries for next to nothing (even at the most prestigious law schools) or can attend elite non-American law schools for half the price? (Melbourne falls into the latter category.) Rob suggests that universities create five or six year joint BA/JD programs to attract foreign students. Barring a radical transformation in financial-aid practices, however, attending such a program would simply mean more debt for a foreign student — perhaps more than $300,000. How many non-wealthy foreign students would want, or could handle, that expense?
To be sure, for students able to afford Yale, Stanford, or NYU, the additional expense of a JD may well be worth it — even taking into account that starting legal salaries tend to be much lower outside of the US. But lower-ranked schools? I don’t see it.
Professor Howse has responded at Opinio Juris:
[T]hese days the notion of American decline is it seems so widely held among pundits and professors that saying that America remains a leader in anything may start sounding atavistic and unappreciative of the genuine achievements of other societies. My sense is that the demand for high quality legal education cannot be met in many countries by existing institutions in those countries as they now operate. That’s not based on some kind of personal arrogance but two decades of globetrotting as a legal academic. Mostly I am reporting the judgments of students and professors themselves in the countries in question.
I hope I did not say or imply that the foreign JD market is “vast”. Indeed, I mentioned one of the main limits of that market in my original post-law is a first degree in most countries and so we would need to rethink our own approach to address that extremely important factor.
Kevin makes a very important point about the expense of an American law degree compared to the cost of studying in one’s own country (or even an elite institution in a third country). Some of my readers took me to be suggesting that I think students will pay that cost because they will have access to high-paying jobs at prestigious law firms as a result of the American degree. That is far from certain, and we shouldn’t be marketing ourselves based on that premise. I’ve talked to foreign students who have chosen JD study in the US, and not only in the so-called “elite” law schools. The reasons they give for this choice are multiple, but usually involve both a perception of the relatively higher quality of US legal education to that which would be accessible to them at home and additional reasons for choosing the US over some of the great institutions in other countries that Kevin mentions. Again, I emphasize that I am not talking about a “monopoly” by any means. But rather that we have a degree of competitive advantage in a real market that we need to understand better, and better serve.
Volokh Conspiracy readers might also be interested in a new leader in the Economist this week, “Guilty as Charged: Cheaper legal education and more liberal rules would benefit America’s lawyers – and their clients.” This editorial is not very persuasive, in my view, though phrased in the Economist’s house style of unshakeable self-confidence. One reason is that it runs very distinct things together. It talks about the cost of legal education and asks whether the third year of law school is worth it, and also asks whether it would be better to make law a graduate, rather than undergraduate, degree. Certainly these are ideas under discussion. But it then turns to claim that a proximate cause for why the costs of legal education are so high is the guild rules that won’t allow law firms to have non-lawyer owners (save in the District of Columbia) or have public shareholders.
Does the capital financing of law firms really have much bearing on the cost of legal education? Of course in some general way, restricted access to capital puts upward pressure on legal fees, but even so, wouldn’t things like the availability of student loans be more relevant to law school costs? As a law professor, much as I would like to blame the massive costs of legal education on the financing of law firms, that hardly seems the direct or primary culprit.
As to the Economist’s outré idea, public shareholders for law firms, it is anything but obvious to me that law firms stand in need of that kind of capital or that it would produce very much besides mischief and unintended consequences. What is public shareholder capital required for, anyway? Not to render legal advice; a chief reason would be to finance lawsuits, I suppose. Given the general criticisms the Economist has made over the years of America’s lawsuit industry, making (more) capital available to finance lawsuits does not seem like such a brilliant idea. Traditionally law firms were partnerships, in order to ensure attention to things like lawyer ethics (both through unlimited partner liability but also by not having shareholders and the conflicts of interest they present). But it was also also because professional partnerships don’t require massive amounts of capital in order to provide professional advice; they are not engaged in industrial production. (The Economist seems to think that the fact that an Australian law firm has gone public shows how unremarkable the idea is; as with so many of these facile cross-border comparisons, the below-decks dissimilarities greatly outweigh the above-decks similarities).
Far from undermining clients’ interests, allowing non-lawyers to own equity in law firms would reduce costs and improve services to customers by encouraging law firms, many of which are still knee-deep in paper, to use technology and to employ professional managers—the kind of people who tend to expect stock options as part of their package—to focus on improving firms’ efficiency. Anyone who thinks American lawyers do not already face pressure to make money could use the services of a different kind of professional.
Other countries have started liberalising their legal professions. Australia has the world’s first publicly listed law firm, in which anybody can buy shares. Britain has blessed “alternative business structures”: lawyers can now link up with other professionals, be bought by private-equity firms and even go public. America should follow.
Finally, several readers emailed me to comment on the reasons why high achievers on the LSAT – 170 or 175+ scores would be skipping law school, given some modest softening of the competition at the top schools. One suggestion was that these LSAT takers could essentially “bank” the score and take up law school at a top school later; they retained the option to do so. Could well be, though I don’t think LSAT scores remain valid forever and re-taking the LSAT years and years down the road does entail some risk. I also query whether the next year or two might not mark a bottom on terms of competition among students applying to the very top schools, as students realize that competition is indeed less stiff at the very top, and they then apply and arbitrage it away. I’m speculating, that’s all.
My general sense about the foreign student market is, first, that for a decade at least, high education in the US, including the law schools, have been anticipating that it would be its salvation as the baby boomlet tapers off in the US. I think there are many problems with that scenario, both from the business model of the university and the educational and mission model as well. That, for universities generally, another day. But for law schools, it’s simpler, I think – speaking as someone who teaches many, many LLM students from around the world, at a mid-tier school with a very strong reputation worldwide among potential LLM students. There aren’t that many potential LLM students to go around and certainly not enough at the rates US schools charge; I’ve had family members of LLM students from past years tell me that they just can’t afford a US LLM, much as they’d like to do one. The JD of course even more so. Attempts to brand a law school in China and capture value back to the home US school might conceivably work for a handful of schools – NYU, perhaps, or a few others, but that model is not going to save the bricks and mortar US law schools and their professors, I think.
So I don’t think foreign students will save the law school business model, and in any case, all these considerations point to a basic conclusion. The fundamental problem is less quality than cost. | <urn:uuid:3c06836b-75c9-41fd-8ede-3d87ed06d38c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.volokh.com/category/legal-profession/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970892 | 2,739 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve, 1504 − National Gallery of Scotland
EDINBURGH.- This summer the National Gallery of Scotland presents a unique display that examines the work of the 16th century German artist Albrecht Dürer and his enduring influence, spanning five centuries. "Dürer’s Fame" showcases a selection of his magnificent prints from the Galleries’ collection, together with contemporary and later copies of his work. These objects will be augmented by a selection of illicit imitations and surprising tributes, including a 21st century tattoo. The exhibition is on view from June 9th through October 11th, 2011.
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was the most important artist of the Northern Renaissance and is one of the most celebrated artists of all time. He excelled as a painter and draughtsman, but it was his skill as a printmaker that spread his fame across Europe. The printmaking process allowed for multiple copies of his work to be produced which could easily be sold and distributed. This accessibility, combined with his technical brilliance and highly individual style, made him a much admired and imitated artist.
The display includes many of Dürer’s famous prints, most of which have not been shown in Edinburgh since 1971, like his iconic "Melancholy", "Saint Jerome in his Study" and "Knight, Death and the Devil". To demonstrate the extent of his impact, 'Dürer’s Fame' also displays famous examples by Italian and Netherlandish artists alongside the original works. This includes Marcantonio Raimondi’s "The Circumcision of Christ (from The Life of the Virgin)" and Johan Wierix’s "Melencolia" of 1602.
In addition this exhibition includes works by the Scottish artists John Runciman (1744-1768/69) and William Bell Scott (1811-1890), whose response to Dürer’s art is less well known. , was inspired by Dürer’s woodcut of the same subject. Whilst Scott’s painting, of 1854, imagines Dürer seeking inspiration on the balcony of his house in Nuremberg, highlighting his romanticized reputation in the 19th century.
The display concludes by considering Dürer’s continuing relevance in the 21st century. An example of work from an installation which filled a Nuremberg square with 7,000 plastic hares in 2003, and a poster of German handball star Pascal Hens sporting a tattoo based on Dürer’s "Study of Praying Hands" will demonstrate the artist’s enduring influence today.
Albrecht Durer, Melencolia I, 1514. Engraving on paper: 23.90 x 16.80 cm. National Gallery of Scotland
Albrecht Durer, Saint Anthony. Engraving on paper: 9.60 x 14.30 cm. National Gallery of Scotland
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By Malini Hariharan
News is slowly trickling in on the status of Japanese petrochemical plants. Only four of the country's 14 crackers have shut down while a few are running at reduced rates, reports ICIS news.
JX Nippon Oil & Energy has shut its 460,000 tonnes/year cracker at Kawasaki while Maruzen Petrochemical has shut its 520,000 tonnes/year cracker at Chiba. And Mitsubishi Chemical has shut two crackers, with a total capacity of 828,000 tonnes/year at Kashima after a power outage. Mitsubishi has also shut its phenol plant at the same site.
And Japan Polypropylene has had to stop operations at its two polypropylene (PP) plants with a total capacity of 669, 000 tonnes/year.
Nearly 22% of the country's refining capacity of 4.52m bbl/day is estimated to have shut down. This includes JX Nippon's refineries in Sendai, Kashima and Negishi, as well as the Chiba refineries of Cosmo Oil and Kyokuto Petroleum.
A fire at JX Nippon's storage tanks at Sendai has yet to be put out and storage tanks at Cosmo Oil's in Chiba, were also still ablaze.
Shutdowns extend beyond petrochemicals across a wide range of sectors. For instance, Suzuki Motors is reported to have halted production at six of its factories while Toyota Motor has halted operations at all its 12 plants.
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World Hockey Association (1972-1976)
Born: 1972 – WHA founding franchise.
Died: August 9, 1976 – The Crusaders relocate to St. Paul, Minnesota.
Team Colors: Purple, White & Black
The Cleveland Crusaders were one of twelve original franchises in the World Hockey Association in the winter of 1972-73. The franchise originally intended to play in Calgary, but after reaching a dead end in Alberta, the club ended up in the hands of Nick Mileti, the owner of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers and the Cleveland Indians. Mileti was also the former owner of Cleveland’s previous hockey team, the Cleveland Barons of the minor league American Hockey League, and he owned the downtown Cleveland Arena that the Barons and the Cavs called home.
Like the American Football League and the American Basketball Association before it, the WHA was formed with the intention of challenging the establishment league (in this case the NHL) for the best markets and the best talent. The WHA really got on the map when the Winnipeg Jets signed Bobby Hull away from the Chicago Blackhawks for $1 million. The Philadelphia Blazers lured away Boston Bruins star Derek Sanderson with a deal that briefly made Turk the highest paid athlete on Earth. The Crusaders also landed one of the biggest stars in the new WHA, signing away goaltender Gerry Cheevers from the Boston Bruins with a seven-year contract that paid $200,000 per season. One of the top goaltenders on the planet at the time, Cheevers earned two Stanley Cups in Boston and established an NHL record 32-game unbeaten streak in net during the 1971-72 season.
The Crusaders storyline was a tough, defensive minded club that played well in the regular season and then folded in the postseason. The Crusaders made the playoffs in all four of their WHA seasons, but never advanced beyond the second round.
The Crusaders played their first two seasons at the Cleveland Arena, while owner Nick Mileti worked on development of the 18,500-seat suburban Richfield Coliseum. The Crusaders moved into the Coliseum in November 1975, but the new arena require a long drive out into the middle of nowhere between Cleveland and Akron. Crusaders attendance improved only marginally from the team’s days in the big old barn downtown, hovering between 5,200 and 7,000 for all four seasons of the club’s existence.
After the team’s third season (and first in Richfield), Nick Mileti sold controlling interest in the team to one of his investment partners, Jay Moore. Moore presided over a contentious fourth and final season of Crusaders hockey in the winter of 1975-76. In late January 1976, Crusaders GM publicly criticized Cheevers, accusing the All-Star of not providing “major league goaltending” to the club. Cheevers, fed up with Vivian, prepared a retirement statement, while the GM slapped a fine and an indefinite suspension on the goalie. A week later, attorneys for both sides agreed to void Cheevers contract and he left the WHA to return to the Boston Bruins.
Two weeks later, Vivian and owner Jay Moore incensed the remaining Crusaders players by traveling to Kansas City, Missouri, allegedly to pitch the NHL’s troubled Kansas City Scouts franchise on relocating to Cleveland. The players viewed this as a betrayal of the team and a dereliction of management’s duty to stay in Cleveland promoting the team they had. On March 10, 1976, the Crusaders took the ice at the Richfield Coliseum wearing black armbands to protest the actions of team management. Vivian resigned the next day, realizing he had lost control of the club.
After the Cruaders’s annual rite of spring – an early playoff exit – Jay Moore attempted to sell the Crusaders to former World Football League owner Bill Putnam, who planned to move the team to Hollywood, Florida and call them the Florida Breakers. The deal fell through and Mileti ended up stepping back in to take the team back from Moore. Meanwhile, the NHL was relocating to Cleveland after all. It wasn’t the Kansas City Scouts, but rather another troubled club – the California Golden Seals. With the NHL coming to town, Mileti realized the Crusaders’ days were numbered in Cleveland.
The WHA granted approval to move the team to St. Paul, Minnesota on August 9, 1976. The Crusaders became the second edition of the Minnesota Fighting Saints, replacing an original WHA franchise the ran out of money and folded during the season in February 1976. Mileti was never a big money guy in any of his sports dealings – he put deals together with loans and other people’s money. In St. Paul, Mileti could not find local investors to buy into the club and as a result the “New Fighting Saints” ran out of funds after just a few months play in January 1977. Minnesota’s WHA franchise folded in mid-season for the second year in a row and that was the end of the franchise that began life as the Cleveland Crusaders in 1972.
==Crusaders Games on Fun While It Lasted==
|1972-73||1/30/1973||@ New England Whalers||L 4-1||Program|
|1973-1974||10/23/1973||@ Los Angeles Sharks||L 4-3||Program|
|1973-1974||11/29/1973||@ Quebec Nordiques||T 4-4||Program|
|1973-74||2/9/1974||vs. Toronto Toros||W 4-3||Program|
|1974-75||11/8/1974||@ Vancouver Blazers||W 2-1||Program|
|1974-1975||11/30/1974||@ Houston Aeros||W 5-4||Program|
|1974-1975||12/28/1974||@ Phoenix Roadrunners||L 3-2 (OT)||Program|
|1975-76||11/9/1975||@ Edmonton Oilers||L 4-1||Program|
|1975-76||3/20/1976||vs. Toronto Toros||L 6-5||Program|
21 minute featurette on Cleveland Crusaders Hall-of-Fame goaltender Gerry Cheevers.
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The 10 Best States to be a Young Dental Hygienist
First, let me say congratulations, dental hygienists. You can pick where you want to live, but the future is bright regardless of location. According to a Huffington Post article, a dental hygienist has the fourth best career, topping a career as a mathematician, a financial planner, and an occupational therapist. The Huffington Post also published an article earlier this year that ranks dental hygienist as the best high-paying job that doesn’t require a bachelor’s degree.
Of course, you still care about where you live. In a recent article from the finance section of Yahoo, an author advised that it might be wise for young adults to look “off the beaten path” when searching for a place to live. The hotspots that we might fantasize about – New York City, San Francisco – are actually not the ones with the most welcoming arms for young, often struggling (and unemployed) adults. But say you have a job as a dental hygienist and you’re still looking forward to enjoying evenings and weekends free. Where do you see yourself?
I’ve compiled a list of the best places for young dental hygienists to live and work by averaging the scores from our own “Best States to be a hygienist” article, CNBC.com’s America’s Top States for Business 2012, Business Insider’s The 10 Best States to be Young in America, and Money magazine’s Best Places to Live: Youngest. Points were awarded for position on each list, plus bonus points for each city that was mentioned in the Money magazine article.
Take a look — these might not have come into your mind when you imagined your life as a dental professional, but read about what they have to offer. You might just get an itch to move.
1. North Dakota — You read that right: North Dakota trumps our list with 148 total points. North Dakota got a ranking of fourth for best places for dental hygienists and ranks as the best state for young adults. It has the lowest median rental cost, ranks fifth for the quality of life, second for the state economy, and fourth for business friendliness, according to CNBC. Grand Forks was ranked 18th for cities for young adults, being called a “cultural oasis” by Money magazine. Love culture? Sports? Bitterly cold winters? North Dakota is your state!
2. Iowa (tie) — I say “Iowa,” you say... “caucus?” We are definitely off the beaten path now, but according to the ranking on our list as the best state for dental hygienists, and the rank of third best state for young adults according to Business Insider, Iowa stands out. Money magazine ranks the Iowan city of Ames at number 15 for the best places to live if you’re young. With the lowest insurance premiums in the nation and a low median rental cost, Iowa is one of the best states for those living frugally as well. (Not that you have to live frugally, you successful dental hygienist, you!) If all that sounds like a delicious Midwestern ice cream sundae, let me put the cherry on top: CNBC ranked it third for the state economy and fifth for the cost of doing business in 2012. What are you waiting for? Pack your bags!
2. South Dakota (tie) — I literally can’t write about a tasteless stereotype of South Dakota because I hear crickets when I think of the name. But it ranked second on our list for RDH and second on the list for best states for young people, which says something: it’s winning at being second best. But seriously, the state is showing off in other rankings: first in business friendliness, third in cost of business, and some cheap apartment rental costs. The only downfall I’ve come across? It’s not known for its plethora of hip stores, according to the Yahoo list. I guess you’ll have to get creative, RDH fashionistas.
2. Utah (tie) — I know, I’m shocked too. Where did this come from? Utah used to be just one of those angular states in the southwestern part of the United States that nobody really paid attention to. I suppose it’s tired of being under the shadow of Las Vegas, because three of its cities ranked on the top 25 for young adults. As far as its dental ranking, it only got a 15 on the list for RDH, but the state ranking is nine and the city of Orem (also called Family City, U.S.A.) is ranked number one for young adults, and two other Utah cities – Provo and Layton – ranked at 13 and 19, respectively, for the best “young” cities.
5. Nebraska — Don’t like crowds? Like those wide open spaces? Head to the prairies of Nebraska. The eighth-least densely populated state in the nation, Nebraska ranks fifth on our list for young dental hygienists. CNBC ranks it as the sixth best for overall business, Yahoo ranks it at fifth for the best young states, and it comes in at eighth place on our list for best places for hygienists overall. And not having a dense population comes in handy when you’re looking for a job: Yahoo claims you have a much better chance at finding a job here than most other places in the US.
6. New Hampshire — Alright, we’re out of the plains, for now. With a more interesting landscape comes much more expensive prices. The average apartment rental is about twice as much as it is in Nebraska, but you’ll find many more fitness clubs, bars, and “youth-oriented” stores. It also ranks first for quality of life on the top states for business list and second for business friendliness on the same list. I suppose you may get what you pay for. New Hampshire also ranks higher on our RDH list, coming in at third — and it has a solid position of tenth for the best states for young people. Start working on that accent!
7. Montana — And we’re back to the West. Ranked the fourth best state for young people and the 16th best for dental hygienists, Montana averages out on our list quite nicely. Into health and exercise? Montana has a pretty high number of health clubs for its population size, not to mention tons of things to do outside if you’re into hiking and river rafting, among other activities. Enjoy a nice brew after work? You won’t be at a loss for a local bar either – there may be as many of those as there are health clubs.
8. Vermont — I’m really sorry to keep jerking you from west to east. Here we are again in the Northeast, and Vermont is trying to woo you. Say you like working out, but you need to be in a more populated area. Vermont has more fitness clubs per capita than any other state in the nation. It also ranks high on the RDH list at sixth, and the seventh best state for young people. It also ranks third for quality of life and fourth for education according to the top states for business article. Downfalls? College tuition prices are some of the highest in the nation, and it ranks at 39th on the best states for business list.
9. Virginia — And now, to the South. Virginia ranked at seventh on the RDH list, but it didn’t rank at all on the states list. How can it be in ninth place? The city of Harrisonburg ranked third on the best cities for young people list – the median age is 24.3. The state did get one positive rating as a whole: it came in third for best states to do business.
10. Delaware — Delaware gets points for being the sixth best state for young people, but it didn’t come in on top for RDH. It ranked at 19 on our hygienist list. But if you’re into fashion and socializing, there are many bars and more of those “youth-oriented” stores to visit. Just be prepared to either take public transportation or spend a lot on car insurance: it has the highest car insurance rates in the nation for the 20-24 age group.
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Moral Dilemma #3: The Drummer and the Drug Rep
Need to get up to speed with the first part of the dilemma? Read it here and vote or comment before moving on to The Wrinkle.
Now we’d like to complicate the story just a bit more by telling you what happened next…
Kara tells Robert to stay where he is and makes him promise not to do anything to hurt himself. She gets in her car and immediately heads over to Robert’s apartment. While in the car she decides that she will ask one of the doctors she knows to see Robert and — if the physician believes Robert needs medication — she will provide the samples.
Robert is clearly glad to see her when she arrives. Kara offers to take him to the emergency room but Robert tells her that he feels better now that she is there. As far as Kara can tell, he does seem calmer and less desperate than he was on the phone but she is uncomfortable leaving him by himself right now. She sits down on his couch and begins to talk with him about what he’s been going through.
The way Robert describes it, his life over the past four years sounds like an emotional roller coaster marked by bouts of anxiety and depression that have occassionally become suicidal. The way he describes his family history, it sounds like his father had real problems with alcohol that led to his early death. In addition, Robert’s mother commited suicide five years ago.
Make your choice here.
What’s the right thing to do?
- Take the job but put herself and her company at risk by trying to help Robert anyway
- Take the job, but back off her offer to help Robert (he seems relatively uninterested now anyway)…she will just try to keep an eye on him
- Use the new money she makes to buy health insurance for Robert
- Turn down the job for “personal reasons” and go through with what she promised, hoping she won’t get caught
- Take the job and tell Robert about her new predicament and hope that he’ll understand and find help elsewhere
None of these sound right to you? Want to qualify one of the above answers?
Kara tells Robert that she has decided to ask a physician to see him for free and that, if necessary, she will be able to get him medication as well. He tells her that he appreciates the thought and that he’ll think about it, but now that he’s feeling calmer he thinks that maybe he just needed to be with a friend.
Over the next two days Kara continues to try to convince him to take the help she offered. At the end of a particularly long day she is called into her boss’s office where she is told that, due to a shake-up at the company, some positions were now vacant and they were giving her a promotion to be a supervisor for reps spread over a three-state area.
The promotion means a lot more responsibilty as well as a decent pay increase (tied in part to the performance of the reps she will supervise.) It turns out that the “shake-up” at the company that led to this offer was caused by improper promotional practices between some of her company’s reps and doctors. As a way to avoid serious penalties, her company has told the government that they would institute much stricter oversight on their drug reps’ relationships with doctors.
The new job would involve more money, which would enable Kara to pay off her substantial student loans as well as lead a more comfortable life. She may even be able to get out from behind the eight ball financially enough to think long term about getting into medical school herself so she can help people more directly.
The new job would also mean that Kara would be responsible for making sure the drug reps she supervises don’t engage in the kind of practices she promised Robert she would do on his behalf.
Time for you to decide again. What’s the right thing for Kara to do now?
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Journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski has died. His book, The Shadow of the Sun, which is a series of the writer's episodes in Africa, is one of the most gripping books I have ever read. You can read my review of it for Sojourners here.
In a tribute The Nation writes, "Kapuscinski's beautiful, poetic prose, sometimes compared to magic realism of Latin American writers, appeared effortless. Deceptively. His harrowing trips were preceded and followed by painstaking research--countless hours spent in his secluded study, filled with books, maps and newspaper clips. He did not have a phone there, he never used the Internet and he couldn't even be persuaded to use a computer. He shunned modern equipment. But he was an avid reader. He would enter into dialogue with generations of historians, writers, thinkers who had traveled the path he was about to take. Out of this dialogue came the richness of his work and the depth of his insights."
Kapuscinski is the journalist I always longed to be. I wish we could read more by this sensitive soul. | <urn:uuid:b28d62ad-e1f1-408b-81ab-609e06b345c1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://almas-soulfood.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986269 | 231 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Format and Style
ALL THE KAIFENG SIFREI TORAH were written in black ink on sheets of sheepskin or goatskin that were strongly sewn together with silk threading rather than, as is ordinarily the case, with animal tendons. The Kaifeng scrolls I have seen are com- posed of skins that are approximately twenty-three inches high and contain from one to six columns of text, each column being approximately twenty inches in height. The widths of individual columns vary from somewhat more than three inches to eight inches. The number of lines per column is generally (but not always) forty-nine. Originally, a wooden rod, somewhat more than half an inch in diameter and about twenty-seven inches long, was attached to each end of each scroll. These rods could have been used for rolling and unrolling only, since they are too short and thin to be used for lifting the heavy scrolls. A knob has been carved at one end of each rod.
Of the seven Kaifeng scrolls I have succeeded in locating, six were prepared by scribes whose calligraphic styles are quite similar. The seventh, that at the American Bible Society, is pieced together of skins written in several hands and in a different calligraphic style from that employed in the other six copies. All seven texts are worded identically, except for minor discrepancies that were obviously caused by scribal carelessness, ineptness or ignorance. Some of these scribal defects, moreover, are traceable from one exemplar to another, a fact that suggests (as will be indicated later in this study) that the claim which is met with in the literature dealing with the Chinese Jews that all the copies were made directly from the Scroll of Moses should not be taken literally.
The ink with which the six surviving seventeenth-century Kaifeng scrolls were written has not been as drastically affected by the passage of time as one might suppose. Although there has been a considerable amount of fading in portions of the lettering of these Torahs, the browned characters are generally very legible. How- ever, because the oldest of the seven scrolls, that held at the American Bible Society, was put together of sheets salvaged from the flood waters which destroyed most of Kaifeng in 1642, its condition leaves much to be desired. The exemplar itself, moreover, is not complete.
Certain Masoretic traditions for the writing of Torah scrolls are adhered to in all the Kaifeng scrolls I have seen; others are totally ignored, presumably because the Kaifeng scribes were not familiar with them; and still others are observed in some copies but not in others. The more we learn about the scribal practices of the Kaifeng Jews the more, therefore, we may hope to discover about when and from where their ancestors came to China. This, as has previously been noted, is one of the principal reasons behind the need for a thoroughly detailed study of the stylistic and physical characteristics of the Kaifeng Torahs.
A numbering system running from one to twelve was used by the Kaifeng Jews to distinguish their individual Sifrei Torah, though the Scroll of Moses, one may surmise, was left unnumbered. Each Torah's number was written in black ink, in the appropriate Hebrew character(s), on the lower portion of the reverse side of the last skin of Deuteronomy. Since all the text of the ABS scroll following Lev.18:19 is lacking, it is not possible to determine what this Torah's number was or, indeed, whether it ever had a number. The six other scrolls I have seen bear the following numbers: British Library), 2; Cambridge University Library, 4; Bodleian Library, 5; Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, 6; Jewish Theological Semi- nary; and Bridwell Library, 12. I have been unable to find any references in the literature listing the particular numbers of any of the missing exemplars, except in the instance of the scroll that was sent to Hong Kong, and which was numbered 9. The scroll that was formerly at the London Society and is now missing is reported to have had no number; but it is known to have been incomplete and, like the American Bible Society scroll, may have lacked the final skins of Deuteronomy.
With occasional exceptions, there are also Hebrew numbers written on the reverse sides of the individual skins comprising each of the scrolls I have seen (except, that is, the American Bible Society scroll, which has no numbers whatsoever). These numbers appear at the very top of the individual skins, and represent pagination which may run sequentially from the first or second skin of the scroll to its very end, or may start over again with the first skin of each of the five books of the scroll. When the latter style of pagination is utilized, the skin numbering of the individual book does not necessarily begin with that book's opening verse. Thus, the final skin of Genesis may include a number of the initial verses of Exodus. Skin 1 of Exodus would then start with the text coming immediately after the last verse of Exodus already appearing in the previous, and final, skin of Genesis. | <urn:uuid:7432fedc-d01f-4e66-9721-4139328d941d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://smu.edu/bridwell_tools/publications/chinesetorahscroll/pt1ch3.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971957 | 1,062 | 2.484375 | 2 |
"From early on, very early on, I understood that art is not about what you say. It’s about these other things that you don’t say."
Mary Heilmann was born in 1940 in San Francisco, California. She earned a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1962), and an MA from the University of California, Berkeley (1967). For every piece of Heilmann’s work—abstract paintings, ceramics, and furniture—there is a backstory. Imbued with recollections, stories spun from her imagination, and references to music, aesthetic influences, and dreams, her paintings are like meditations or icons. Her expert and sometimes surprising treatment of paint—alternately diaphanous and goopy—complements a keen sense of color that glories in the hues and light that emanate from her laptop, and finds inspiration in the saturated colors of TV cartoons such as "The Simpsons." Her compositions are often hybrid spatial environments that juxtapose two- and three-dimensional renderings in a single frame, join several canvases into new works, or create diptychs of paintings and photographs in the form of prints, slideshows, and videos. Heilmann sometimes installs her paintings alongside chairs and benches that she builds by hand—an open invitation for viewers to socialize and contemplate her work communally. Mary Heilmann has received the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation Award (2006) and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She has had major exhibitions at Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York (2009); New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2008); Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (2008); and Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California (2007), among others. Her work has appeared in three Whitney Biennial exhibitions (1972, 1989, 2008) and is in many collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Orange County Museum of Art. Mary Heilmann lives and works in New York.
303 Gallery, New York
Hauser & Wirth
Crown Point Press
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Update (07/02/13): The ruling moderate-Islamist party of Tunisia has announced that it will dissolve the government, and is to hold elections as soon as possible in a move to quell public anger at the incident reported below.
The prominent opposition politician Chokri Belaid was shot dead outside his home in Tunisia’s capital city Tunis on Wednesday.
Mr Belaid, a leading member of the secular opposition to Tunisia’s Islamist led government, was shot in the head and neck by an unknown assailant on his way to work.
President Moncey Marzouki, who cut short his visit to France and canceled a planned trip to Egypt upon hearing the news, described the murder as a blow to the Arab Spring which began in Tunisia. “The murder of Belaid is a political assassination and the assassination of the Tunisian revolution. By killing him they wanted to silence his voice,” he said.
Around one thousand protesters took to the streets outside the headquarters of the Interior Ministry.
Politically tensions are running high in Tunisia, after talks to include a wider range of parties in the coalition government led by the Ennahda party broke down recently. Last Saturday Mr Belaid acussed the Ennahda party of hiring “mercenaries” to attack a meeting of the Democratic Patriots – the left secular wing party of Mr Belaid. The Democratic Patriots party has led calls for the government to do something to tackle the increasing levels of political violence in Tunisia.
Although Tunisia has experience a relatively peaceful transition to democracy since its Arab Spring revolution, the country is increasingly under threat from al Qaeda and other Islamist militants, and political violence has surged.
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Art styles came and went, but painterly leftist Jack Levine had the last laugh .
I’m not a child of Cézanne,” Jack Levine told me once. “I’m a child of Daumier. I have a right to be. It’s a free country.”
Levine, who died in November at the age of 95, loved his zingers, particularly when the target was most of the art made during the last century. The inspiration for his own works—satires skewering the rich, the powerful, and the pompous—came from much older masters, the brushwork from Rubens and Titian and the righteous indignation from Hogarth, Daumier, and Goya. These qualities made the Boston-born child of Lithuanian immigrants a young art star; when he was 25, in 1936, his impastoed beady-eyed fat cats were grinning from MoMA’s white walls. The next year, the museum accepted an extended loan of The Feast of Pure Reason (1937)—depicting an unsavory trio of cop, politician, and capitalist—despite initial fears that trustees might take offense.
The son of a shoemaker on Boston’s South End, Levine was considered a prodigy. At 14 he started studying with Denman Ross in Harvard’s art department, then got a job with the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project. He was drafted, got married. Art styles changed, but Levine didn’t. His art was outside of “-isms”—including, contrary to what many obits said, social realism, which he disdained for its conviction that it could actually change anything. He was tickled, though, when Welcome Home, his 1946 “comic Valentine” depicting the dissipated guests at a society banquet honoring a returning general—included in a State Department exhibition of American art that traveled to Moscow—annoyed Dwight D. Eisenhower.
As the New York School waned and Minimalism came and went, Levine kept his brand of lefty expressionism focused, unfashionably, on the figure—in images of civil rights protesters, the 1968 Democratic Convention, arms brokers, Vegas showgirls, and Jewish heroes, from Moses to Maimonides. He stayed in the spotlight with a traveling retrospective organized by Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art in 1952 and another organized by New York’s Jewish Museum in 1979. But later in life Levine fell out of fashion, and art-world consciousness. Though the Modern, the Met, the Whitney, the Hirshhorn, and the Brooklyn Museum, to name a few, own his work, it’s been years since any of them have shown it. Insufficiently ironic, unironically ethnic, relentlessly anti-modernist, Levine never received the belated attention afforded to artistic relatives like Alice Neel and Leon Golub. At the time of his death, only the de Young Museum in San Francisco had his work on display—Birmingham ’63 (1963), a searing portrayal of protesters and police dogs, hangs in the museum’s lobby. He used to be bitter, his admirer Pete Hamill wrote of Levine in the catalogue for his 90th-birthday show at DC Moore, in New York, his longtime gallery (along with George Krevsky in San Francisco). “But he has outlived them all.”
When I visited his Greenwich Village studio in 1997, Levine was working on a painting called Finger of Newt—a Macbethian-titled picture featuring the then-Speaker of the House. Levine was having trouble with the hand, which was performing a rude gesture. “He’ll be out in two years and I won’t be done,” Levine growled.
Eventually he finished the painting. Sure enough, amidst a lineup of jowly, sour-faced politicos, there was Gingrich, grinning. He was giving the finger.
Of course, the picture is as relevant as ever. Jack Levine has had the last laugh, once again.
Robin Cembalest is executive editor of ARTnews.
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Millions of dogs and cats become lost each year.
Tragically, few are reunited with their owners. Many lost pets end up in shelters where they are adopted out to new homes or even euthanized. It is important that your pet has identification at all times. Collars and tags are essential, but they can fall off or become damaged. Technology has made it possible to equip your pet with a microchip for permanent identification.
How it Works
A microchip is about the size of a grain of rice. It consists of a tiny computer chip housed in a type of glass made to be compatible with living tissue. The microchip is implanted between the dog's shoulder blades under the skin with a needle and special syringe.
The process is similar to getting a shot. Little to no pain is experienced - most dogs do not seem to even feel it being implanted. Once in place, the microchip can be detected immediately with a handheld device that uses radio waves to read the chip.
This device scans the microchip, and then displays a unique alphanumeric code. Once the microchip is placed, the dog must be registered with the microchip company, usually for a one-time fee. Then, the dog can be traced back to the owner if found.
Things You Should Know
Microchips are designed to last for the life of your pet. They do not need to be charged or replaced.
Some microchips have been known to migrate from the area between the shoulder blades, but the instructions for scanning emphasize the need to scan the pet’s entire body.
A microchipped pet can be easily identified if found by a shelter or veterinary office in possession of a scanner. However, some shelters and veterinary offices do not have scanners.
Depending on the brand of microchip and the year it was implanted, even so-called universal scanners may not be able to detect the microchip.
Microchip manufacturers, veterinarians and animal shelters have been working on solutions to the imperfections, and technology continues to improve over time.
No method of identification is perfect. The best thing you can do to protect your pet is to be a responsible owner. Keep current identification tags on your pets at all times, consider microchipping as reinforcement, and never allow your pets to roam free. If your pet does become lost, more identification can increase the odds of finding your beloved companion.
Polk County has a unique licensing program where a licensed pet is not required to wear its license tag as long as it has a microchip. To take advantage of this program your pet’s rabies license tag must be current and you must register the microchip with our agency. Registration forms are available at Animal Control or you can click here to download the form. | <urn:uuid:1b71ef9e-86a7-4a98-941e-0236b82ad1d8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.polksheriff.org/InsidePCSO/LE/SOD/BOSO/AC/Pages/MicrochipYourPets.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949192 | 568 | 3.046875 | 3 |
By Angela Glover Blackwell, PolicyLink
As part of our 75th anniversary, Irvine commissioned a series of posts from California experts and thought leaders who discuss the state’s most important trends and how we might collectively respond to them. This is one of those posts and we invite you to check back throughout the fall to read more of these entries and share your reactions below.
At a hearing of the California State Assembly Select Committee on the Status of Boys and Men of Color last spring, Joshua Ham, an African American 11th grader, described a typical day at Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles. Ninety-nine percent of students are Latino and African American, and as they approach the building, “tall prison-looking gates with large hooks on the top” point toward them. Police cars cruise the streets. Security guards search backpacks. Classrooms are under-resourced and teachers are overwhelmed. “How can we truly be expected to achieve at a high academic level when we are experiencing conditions that are more like a prison and less like a school?” Josh asked the committee.
Young people like the Manual Arts students are the future of California, and California is the future of America. The state has led the country in the most significant demographic transformation in United States history — a majority of Californians are people of color, a shift that will occur nationwide within 30 years. Seventy-three percent of Californians under 18 are youth of color. They must succeed if our state is to succeed.
California can show America how to respond to, and invest in, these changes by blazing the trail toward a new economic model focused on equity, inclusion and prosperity for all. And we must begin by listening to the voices of tomorrow.
Once we did exactly that. We invested in our future, proudly. An unrivalled public school system, robust community colleges, a world-class public university system, model infrastructure and health programs — government investments gave generations of young Californians hope for the future and the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve. The payoff was huge for the state, the nation and the world. These investments drove California’s fabled economic innovation, development and leadership in many fields, from computers, to aerospace to retailing to genetic engineering.
Today we talk far more about slashing programs than building them. While we like to point the finger at our budget woes, the current mood reflects a racial and generational collision. California’s largely white older population, including the political establishment, does not see itself reflected in the multi-hued faces of our children. Leaders and elders are drawing up the ladder behind them, just when they should extend a hand to pull the next generation up the rungs.
The latest Kids Count data by the Annie E. Casey Foundation tells the story. California ranks 45th in economic wellbeing: 22 percent of children live in poverty. We’re 43rd in education: three-quarters of fourth graders are not proficient in reading, and an equally appalling percentage of eighth graders are not proficient in math. We spend $1,000 less per student than we did five years ago.
California can have a future as dynamic as our past only if we tap the talents and nourish the promise of all young people. Every child must live in a healthy community, with clean air, safe streets, exercise opportunities, access to healthy foods and medical care — the essentials for wellbeing. Every child must enter kindergarten ready to learn. Every child must have access to high-quality education through 12th grade and beyond, and to training for the jobs of the future. This is not the wild dream of an idealist; it is an economic imperative. And we can achieve it by building public will to restore and sustain California’s greatness.
Philanthropists, advocates, business executives and community leaders have roles to play in the effort. We must spur frank, even painful, public conversation about the most taboo subject in American discourse — race — and we must engage in those discussions ourselves. We must develop messaging and media outreach that acknowledges both the enormous opportunities in the changing face of our state and nation, and the fears that it engenders.
We must challenge the older establishment to recognize that California’s destiny lies in communities of color. And we must challenge communities of color to step up and embrace that destiny, through robust economic, political and social participation. Perhaps most important, we must lift up local leaders, especially young people like Joshua Ham. His experience in school would (rightly) anger anyone who cares about fairness and quality in public education, but his direct, powerful, courageous demand for something better for communities of color should inspire and guide us all.
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A man. A philosophy. A voice. A voice that spoke to millions; a voice that inspired millions. A voice so calm, so even, so informed, nobody could refuse it.
This year marks the 35th anniversary of the launch of the Voyager I probe. As Carl Sagan said about the contents of the Golden Disk aboard the exploratory vessel, "... the launching of this 'bottle' into the cosmic 'ocean' says something very hopeful about life on this planet." We hope that International Talk Like Carl Sagan Day can cast a "bottle" of scientific discovery into the "ocean" of our internet culture.
Carl Sagan was, and remains, a treasure to the human race, and an inspiration to future generations. Celebrate his legacy by honoring International Talk Like Carl Sagan Day on September fifth. Talk like Carl, talk about Carl, but, above all, talk.
We like to think that's how Carl would want it. Share space with your friends this September fifth.
So how do you talk like Carl, anyway? It's easy! Anybody can talk like Carl Sagan with a little practice. Here are some tips from our voice experts.
1.) Slow it down! Carl was never in a rush to convince you -- he had the facts, and he knew there was time to put his point across. One of the best things about Carl's voice was his mellow cadence.
2.) Mellow out! If you're getting angry in your sound, then you aren't doing it like Sagan. Carl always let the syllables drift out gently, caressing the listener with his gentle lilt.
3.) Don't fuss! It's okay to be passionate about things, but Carl would never throw around cusswords and resort to ad hominem arguments. Try to keep it in perspective while you talk about the universe.
4.) The cadence. Carl definitely had a fun cadence to his voice. Was it a result of growing up in a Jewish family, or was it a product of his Brooklyn upbringing? Who knows? Carl's lilt is just another brilliant element of his legacy -- have fun emulating it! | <urn:uuid:063ae2cb-d55d-4679-9e97-e99a481049e6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://talklikecarlsaganday.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967662 | 442 | 2.265625 | 2 |
What Vocabulary Program would be complete without teaching students how to use context clues to find a words meaning? I've created a cute poster that you can use to help your students remember to use context clues.
The poster encourages students to look for words that have the same or opposite meaning of the unfamiliar word and things or ideas related to the word. They can also ask themselves "Is the word a noun, verb, adjective, or adverb?" Then after they have thought of all of the clues surrounding the word they then need to prediction the meaning of the word and ask themselves does the sentence now make sense.
This is an idea by Brown, Phillips, and Stephens (1993), in which, students have bookmark that they can write down unfamiliar words that they come across. This is a great way for students to monitor their own understanding of what they are reading. This activity also allows students to make their own vocabulary word lists so the words that they are learning are individualized.
| || |On the front of the bookmark students will write the title of the book they are reading along with the author of the book. On the back students will write new words that they come across. It is suggested that you can laminate the bookmarks to use them repeatedly but I prefer for students to use a new bookmark for each book that they read. This way students have a record of all that they have read. If you have students keep a vocabulary journal you can have them transfer the words they collect on their vocabmarks to their journals. If you would like more ideas for teaching vocabulary you can visit my vocabulary activities or vocabulary games pages.
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Postal Service Looks At Smart Mail
The recent spate anthrax-laced letters have put the United States Postal Service squarely on the front lines of the bio-terrorism battlefield.
A special task force looking at ways to better secure the U.S. mail this week released recommendations that included broadening the use of information technology to make it easier to trace the source of letters and packages.
Michael Critelli and John Nolan, co-chairs of the Mailing Industry Task Force, issued the recommendations to make more widespread the practice of digital-stamping of letters, packages & flat mail to create "intelligent mail."
Critelli, chairman and CEO of Pitney Bowes Corp., and Nolan, Deputy Postmaster of the U.S. Postal Service, made the announcement at the National Postal Forum this week in Denver.
"No one could have anticipated recent events, or how someone could target the mail to carry out such evil purposes," lamented U.S. Postmaster General John Potter. "But we cant sit back and let the nations confidence in the mail erode."
To combat that, Potter announced the formation of a "Mail Security Task Force" at the forum.
High-tech programs already exist that turn packages and letters into intelligent mail, reducing the senders anonymity and making the bad guys easier to root out. Currently they come in the form of downloadable postage available to anyone with a PC and internet connection, at Stamps.com or USPS.com.
"Each digital stamp is unique, creating an intelligent mail piece that makes it very easy to track and trace suspicious items right back to the sender," says Gerry Kreienkamp, a USPS spokesman, in Washington.
Data-rich, machine readable portable data file barcodes are embedded into postage, revealing information like the exact computer to which it was downloaded and when the letter arrived at the destination post office. A portable data file is a communication protocol, developed by Symbol Technologies that carries a kilobyte of data in a square inch, and is instantly readable by laser scanning or imaging devices.
While these "smart" barcodes are also used by large mailers, like catalog marketers and credit card companies, Symbol, of Holtsville, N.Y., believes their use should be extended to uses beyond downloadable stamps.
The Postal Service has already started pilot-testing ATM-like machines where consumers can buy postage at their convenience.
The U.S. Postal Service is a colossal enterprise. It delivers more mail on the average day – approximately 680 pieces – than United Parcel Service delivers in a week. Six months ago, the USPS convened a "Mailing Industry Task Force" that included representatives of private companies with a stake in the mailing industry, to come up with strategies for enhancing mail services.
These security measures carry great economic importance. "The mailing industry comprises nearly 8 percent of the domestic Gross National Product," Nolan said. "We want to leverage its economic power." | <urn:uuid:3193cb32-de3b-4077-917c-37aefffa9029> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.eweek.com/print/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Postal-Service-Looks-At-Smart-Mail/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92467 | 603 | 1.96875 | 2 |
I read nearly all of the “gun violence“ postings on Join Together Online. Most of the time they are condensed versions of news stories with an anti-freedom spin. Occasionally they will have their own writers or a VPC or Brady Bunch press release or ‘report’. Here is a story from someone who I believe to be one of the Join Together Online staffers:
With the recent passage of a “shall issue” handgun law in Ohio, the number of states that have eased restrictions on concealed gun carrying has risen to 35. But in the face of this onslaught, four heartland states are holding fast to their long-time laws that prohibit the carrying of concealed guns by people other than police officers.
Activists in these states say that the task of keeping shall-issue laws from passage is a difficult one, but as Bonavia stated during the recent legislative fight in Wisconsin, “Proponents of (concealed carry) laws claim that concealed weapons will provide individuals with an unparalleled means of self-defense while offering society an effective method of decreasing crime. Experts, scientific evidence, experience, and common sense contradict these claims.”
If it isn’t painfully obvious to them then surely it is to all rational people–if people legally carrying personal protection tools are a threat to society then why isn’t there data to support that conclusion. Is the best conclusion their “scientific evidence“ can come up with is this?
… Stanford University Law School economist John J. Donohue has conducted an exhaustive study of the effects of all shall-issue states and found that these laws don’t reduce crime and may actually increase it.
The vast majority of studies show violent crime is reduced when people are not prohibited from exercising their inalienable right to self-defense. They found one researcher who was willing to say it “may actually increase it“? If it did actually increase it then with all the states recognizing peoples right to self-defense should provide lots of data to support that claim. The data doesn’t exist and all they can do is whine about it. It’s about time they had to come face-to-face with their lies. It makes me smile. If I didn’t know that these people won’t give up until someone, figuratively, drives a wooden stake through their hearts I would open a bottle of champagne and toast to their demise. Anyone have some wooden stakes? I haven’t had a glass of champagne in a long time. | <urn:uuid:bb00b348-52a1-4989-a73c-5a774b37f19a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.joehuffman.org/2004/06/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964832 | 524 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Martin Luther writings on display 2011.09.14
An important piece of history has been restored and is on display at Northwest State Community College’s McDougle Center.
Luther’s Werke is a collection of writings by Martin Luther, a German priest instrumental in the protestant reformation. They were printed from 1824 to 1860. The collection, which was restored with funds from the American Heritage Preservation Grant, is now on permanent display and is accessible to the public.
Northwest State acquired the writings through the assistance of Edwin Oberhaus in 2008. Sixty-five of the sixty-seven total volumes are at NSCC, creating one of the most complete collections of Martin Luther’s writings in the United States.
“Germans were one of several groups that migrated to the Midwest and settled in northwest Ohio. There’s a large population here with German ancestry and Lutheran heritage,” said Peter Wilhelm, coordinator of historic preservation at NSCC. “The College is excited to share these works with the community, and we feel the documents are valuable for immigration history and cultural perspective.”
NSCC received the American Heritage Preservation Grant in 2010 and has recently completed the work included in the grant. The focus of the project was to repair and stabilize the collection and prepare the books for community access. This included de-acidification, cleaning and repairs to the books; installing special shelving for storage; and installing a monitoring device for temperature and humidity in the storage area.
The newly restored works are on display in the McDougle Center, a research and special collections room located inside the NSCC Library. The McDougle Center is open to community members and students during regular library hours.
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By ANDREA VARGO
People wonder why Harlan Anderson of Cokato tries so hard to get new recruits into the dairy business.
"It makes me feel good," he remarked. "I don't get a penny out of it."
Anderson loves farming, and the dairy industry needs a cheerleader, he said.
In conjunction with Roger Strom of WCCO Radio, Anderson helped coordinate a week-long series of programs that asked a lot of hard questions about the dairy industry.
Anderson was featured on the last program of that week, and he used his time to promote dairy as an excellent lifestyle that also makes money.
Strom had some questions as to why Minnesota dairy cows produce more milk when they are sold to other states.
"Maybe it is cow comfort. It could be that farmers don't pay enough attention to this," said Strom.
Strom described cow comfort as everything from bedding and environment to checking the inflation level on milking machines.
"Look at the ages of the older dairy producers. Perhaps they are not open to change as much as the younger producers," said Strom.
There are people out there who are making money on $12 or $13 dollar milk, he said, but sometimes our work ethic gets in the way.
According to Strom, if a dairyperson produces milk in an inefficient way and wants to make more money, he just says, "I'll work harder and longer."
Instead, he should work smarter, said Strom.
Anderson agrees with a lot of the things Strom said, but adds other items to the dairy equation.
He said he can see the infrastructure of the dairy business falling apart: fewer experienced veterinarians, lower quality replacement animals available, and fewer people interested in the lifestyle.
Because there are fewer dairy farms, veterinarians don't have the chance to practice enough pregnancy checks to be 100 percent accurate, and they should be accurate, he said.
Farmers who want replacement heifers in the future may have difficulty finding them, said Anderson.
"We supply Texas and other states with heifers, and they are willing to pay top dollar for the best breeding and the best animals.
"We have been draining the best animals out of Minnesota and Wisconsin for a long time now," he said.
Loss of dairy producer numbers is another problem, and this is where Anderson says the industry needs a cheerleader.
In order to get new producers started, Anderson advocates a program that lets the neophyte get his or her feet wet (yes, women are going into business for themselves, too).
His advice to the new recruit is to find a dairy operation that is appealing and work for them for six months.
"If the enthusiasm is still there, as a mentor, I'll buy a herd of cows and rent a barn for six months," he said.
"Either one of us can quit at any time," said Anderson.
The new dairyperson can take about eight milkings per month off, whichever ones make sense with his/her life.
"In my experience, it has never been a problem to take several days a week off.
"I have a list of experienced relief milkers that just won't quit," said Anderson.
Most farmers don't bother to take those days off. They like what they do, he said.
With the right plan, it can be fun, pleasant, and it can pay well, he said.
"I can usually tell in two months if it is going to work," he said.
If this is what that person wants to do, we find a source of capital, get 100 percent funding, and rent a barn.
"There are oodles of nice facilities sitting out there empty, so we can be pretty choosy," Anderson said.
"If the bank asks for money down, the creameries are willing to back that. To the best of my knowledge, no creamery has ever spent a dollar."
In this way, the dairyperson gets into milking full-time with no money down.
Early in the plan, the disposal of manure needs to be addressed, said Anderson. If there is a farmer willing to accept the manure, there is usually not a problem.
"Generally speaking, there is always a crop farmer who appreciates the addition of organic matter to his soil," he remarked.
"We avoid spreading manure on hot, muggy days in order to keep the odor less offensive. It is easier to address problems before they become mountains. We try to be good neighbors."
Next, a feed supply is located. Most feed companies are happy to wait until that feed is turned into milk. This month's feed becomes next month's milk check.
When a dairyman buys all his feed, he sometimes gets talked into stuff he doesn't need. Anderson said people are not always as honest as they could be.
"We (as farmers) are not very good buyers of commodities. The big corporations have professional buyers, so they make very few mistakes," he said.
There is a place for a professional buyer in this system. The school system (vocational or university) is where these people are going to come from in the future, he said.
Right now we have good people who are already in the system. Lots of these retired farmers are the talent that will need to be tapped, Anderson said.
"Wright County has some really good dairy farmers, and I think society will pay a price if they are not encouraged to participate in the future of the dairy industry", he said.
Some of those farmers are retired, said Anderson, but they have a lot of knowledge and expertise to offer younger farmers.
Some of those people are good feed buyers, and others are good at herd management, etc.
A group of farmers might use one of these experienced people as a feed buyer. This buyer might have a variety of feedstuffs available, then a nutritionist needs to come into the picture to determine the proper mix for each farmer's situation, he said.
Because cash flow is a very big issue, new producers are not allowed to raise young stock. It takes two years to see any revenue from young stock he said.
It can take about $1,200 to raise a heifer, and she can be sold for $900 to $1,000.
Unless they are raised in sufficient numbers with a carefully constructed plan for a profit, it just isn't worthwhile at first, said Anderson.
Dairy is value added, he said. If the farmer sells his corn, it is gone and that is the end of it.
If that same corn is run through a dairy cow, labor is needed to milk the cows, move the manure, feed the cows, and grind the feed, etc.
In addition to profits for the dairy farmer, other businesses profit from dairying as well.
The machinery dealer, plumbers, electricians, hardware stores, the local lumber company, feed dealers, stores that sell pitchforks and clothing all make money from the dairy farmer.
The more money from the operation that is spent in the local area, the more value that original corn has.
"If we ship our corn to Texas, and those farmers milk the cows, the money is gone right away.
The closer we stay to the end user, the more value we can put on our product," Anderson said.
There is a place for everyone in the dairy business, said Anderson, from the small operator with 17 cows to the large operation with 1,200 cows.
Size is not as important as working smart, he said, and the lifestyle is good.
Anderson describes the dairy business as very desirable for family life.
"I feel like I've raised my family in a great atmosphere that has supplied a great product," he said.
As times change, changes are needed in the dairy industry,
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Facilitated discussions will cover topics including: designing learning spaces to engage specific user populations, fostering knowledge creation, partnerships and services in learning spaces, and library staffing innovations.
A half-day hands-on assessment workshop will explore ethnographic assessment techniques.
The Innovations Showcase will feature a series of 20-minute presentations by architects and other vendors about the innovative spaces they have created in partnership with academic libraries. A reception highlighted by juried poster presentations will showcase learning spaces, services, and assessment projects related to academic learning spaces.
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A Common Sense look at education reform
The case for school choice
By Quentin Langley
Dateline 06 May 2005
Do you trust politicians? Do you think they always have your best interests at heart? Or your children’s interests? My experience is certainly that most people who go into politics do so with a desire to do good, as they see it. But they come under a lot of pressure. Pressure from ‘experts’ who always know best. Pressure from lobby groups with plenty of money. Some of the most dangerous fall into both categories: public sector unions.
Governments are too inclined to listen to unions. For a union’s allegiance is always to its members. That will sometimes overlap with the interests of consumers, but not always, or even often. Perhaps the best example is in the case of schools.
Teachers’ unions and politicians can’t be trusted to look after your children’s future. But you can. Parents always want the best for their children. If you can be trusted to decide where your children will live, what they will eat and what they will drink, you should also be able to choose what they will learn. And where.
There is a myth that ownership by the government means ownership by the people. When you last visited your children’s school, did you really feel like you were the owner? Did they treat you like the owner? Did they explain things to you the way they would if the owner of the business was visiting? Did they even treat you like a valued customer?
This is the problem, and putting parents in charge is the solution. Open enrolment for schools – where parents choose a state school, and schools are paid per pupil – is a good start, but it is not enough. After all, outside big cities few parents have a realistic choice of schools, because even the second nearest school is too far away. (Though let us not sneer at even this small progress. Some parents will always live almost equidistant between two schools. And big cities often face the worst problems. So giving realistic choice to some parents has to be a good start.)
But a realistic school choice program has to involve vouchers. A voucher you can present to any school – public or private, big or small, established or new – or which you can use to fund home-schooling, forces every school to improve.
There are already businesses which set up and run schools at a profit for about the same money per pupil as state schools get. Some parents would certainly be willing to top up the voucher if that is what it took to get their children into a better school. Opinion polls regularly show that a clear majority of parents would choose private schools if they could afford it.
Wealthy politicians happily choose schools for their own children, while saying that voters are not fit to make the same choice. It is long past time we learned to trust parents. Parents know and love their own children. Children are not all the same. The school that suits one child will not always suit another – just because they happen to live in the same street. Children have different interests, different abilities, and different personalities. They respond to different teaching styles and educational philosophies.
I do not believe in a single, state run, uniform model of schooling. I will believe it is right to eliminate diversity in schooling, the day someone eliminates diversity in children.
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Maiden, Mother, Crone: The Three Faces of the Goddess by D.J. Conway
June 4, 2008 § Leave a Comment
Date of Publication: 1994
Number of Pages: 229, including index
Synopsis (from back cover): The feminine divine is the balancing principle that has been missing from our human spiritual evolution for too long. Maiden, Mother, Crone explores our lost but vital connection with the Goddess in all her diverse and glorious myths and archetypes, with goddess lore from around the world.
Meet Siren, Ceres, Freyja, and others as you become reacquainted with your inner goddess through understanding each aspect of her: Maiden, from infant to puberty; Mother, adult and parent; and Crone, the wise elder. The simple rituals and guided meditations will help you attain awareness and strengthm while a dictionary of mythic symbols lends practical support.
Review: This was my first foray into the realm of Goddess worship, and this book is great for beginners. Conway explains the three faces of the Goddess and why she was obliterated from modern religions. The book introduces you to the Goddess slowly, then delves not only into the details of each aspect, but provides numerous examples of each face of the Goddess from around the world. I found the similarities between goddess of Asia, America, Europe, and Africa to be quite startling. It seems that almost all cultures have recognized these three aspects of the Great Goddess, and had incorporated them into their mythologies. When patriarchal societies took over, many thousands of years ago, these goddesses were lost or demoted: a great tragedy.
I found myself identifying with all three faces of the Goddess, especially the Maiden. But each can correspond to all stages in life, and I found myself relating to all of them. The meditations and rituals were helpful as practical guides, as was the symbolic dictionary (you want to know what an Ankh is? Or the significance of a cauldron?). This book can show modern people, used to living in patriarchal societies, how to reconnect to the feminine divine in their lives, leading to a more peaceful existence. I would recommend this book to anyone who is ready to start that journey and bring the Goddess back into their lives. | <urn:uuid:d68b554c-45b7-4c36-8414-683ec8db4c37> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://crescentmoonreviews.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/maiden-mother-crone-the-three-faces-of-the-goddess-by-dj-conway/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963043 | 454 | 2.078125 | 2 |
"We are in the initial stages of figuring out which sites will receive the funds," said Rick Vonk, the district's technology services manager. "We are trying to find out, we are checking on the information."
Eligible schools include those in which 40% of the students receive free or reduced-price meals through Title I, a federal funding source for education, Vonk said.
Vonk added that the voucher amount is between $98 to $150 per student for Burbank schools.
At least five Title I schools, including Providencia, Walt Disney, Washington, McKinley and Miller elementary schools are eligible to receive the technology funds.
"We know that we have five elementary schools that qualify," said Sue Boegh, director of educational support services. "It is our understanding that comprehensive high schools that receive students from those feeder schools will also receive funding."
Schools qualifying for the vouchers will be required to spend 50% of the funds on computer hardware and 50% on computer software, equipment and technology infrastructure, Boegh said.
"What we are waiting for is guidance, for the state to identify the basis to which the high schools will be able to receive the amount they can expect," Boegh said. "There is not a clear definition of the amount."
In order to participate in the voucher program, the district must complete an application and submit it to the California Department of Education.
Applications will be issued to districts in mid-September or October, Boegh said.
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The U.S. Government Accountability Office issued the report on Wednesday. The GAO says data collected by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration doesn't require operators to fill out certain time-related fields.
The report comes a month after a 20-inch line owned by NiSource subsidiary Columbia Gas Transmission ruptured in West Virginia, triggering a massive fire. The Dec. 11 inferno destroyed four homes and charred a section of Interstate 77. No one was seriously injured.
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Feature Article of Monday, 12 December 2011
Columnist: Otchere Darko
By Otchere Darko
*[Readers who are not sure about this writer and get confused about his name and identity may please read the information placed at the bottom of this article.]
Re: “We are going to come out with a new law that will ban the importation of second vehicles into Ghana,” she [Sherry Aryeetey] said. “We’ve done a lot of research into these areas.” [Culled from Ghanaweb General News of Saturday, 10 December 2011; Source: Joy Online]
The quotation above by Environment Minister Sherry Aryeetey, if true, is a piece of good news for Ghana, except that a ban on importation of [ALL] second-hand vehicles would be a step too far, too harsh and too unnecessary.
What the Government should do is to ban the importation of second-hand vehicles that are above a certain specified age. I have written a couple of times in the past and have suggested that the Government should ban the importation of overused vehicles ; that is, those vehicles that have been used outside Ghana for over five or ten years, depending on make and type; or those vehicles that have done more than seventy-five thousand miles on the road. Apart from the damage they do to our environment, old vehicles are also a major cause of road accidents and deaths arising from them.
A ban on the importation of old second-hand vehicles will not be complete, unless the Government bans the importation of second-hand spare parts also. If the Government fails to ban the importation of second-hand spare parts, in addition to any ban on the importation of old second-hand vehicles, dealers in second-hand vehicles will beat the ban by buying and dismantling such second-hand vehicles before shipping them to Ghana as spare parts, [but only to be re-assembled].
Apart from beating any ban on importation of second-hand vehicles, second-hand spare parts pose additional risks. While the ages of second-hand vehicles can easily be known, the ages of vehicle spare parts and components cannot be known and that [absence of information on age] makes second-hand spare parts more unreliable and excessively more dangerous to use than using second-hand vehicles per-se. In other words, driving an imported second-hand vehicles is dangerous, but driving an imported second-hand vehicle that is regularly repaired with second-hand spare-parts or vehicle components whose ages and records of use are unknown makes matters even worse.
For a ban on importation of old second-hand vehicles and ‘home-used’ spare-parts to work, the Government must encourage automobile manufacturing companies to set up vehicle assembling and spare parts/components manufacturing plants in Ghana to produce cheaper and locally suitable vehicles and spare-parts that will appeal to Ghanaian drivers and vehicle buyers, and thereby induce them to switch to the use of new vehicles and spare-parts to help reduce environmental pollution and vehicle break-downs that lead to road accidents. Apart from encouraging Ghanaians to stop importing second-hand vehicles and spare-parts, if new vehicles and spare parts were produced and obtained locally, the local plants that produced them would provide employment for Ghanaians and help them to develop the technical know-how that could form the basis for Ghana’s technological development and advancement.
Conclusion: I strongly urge the Government to go ahead and ban the importation of second-hand vehicles; but only those that have exceeded specified ages or mileages should be banned. To make such a ban solid and unbeatable, the Government must, in addition, ban the importation of all forms of second-hand vehicle spare-parts and components, including [and especially] second-hand tyres.
Source: Otchere Darko; [Personal Political Views].
*About the Author: [This appendage is for the information of only readers who confuse this writer with another or other columnist[s] using the same set of Ghanaian names. Ignore this appendage, if you are not one of such readers.]
*This writer is just one of hundreds, and possibly thousands of Ghanaians who use the name “Otchere Darko” or its variant spelling “Okyere Darko”, either on its own or in combination with other names. This writer, who has officially used this simple two-part name from his school days to university and after, attended the School of Administration of University of Ghana, where he finally completed in September 1977........ [the year that students embarked on the UNIGOV demonstration]. This writer has never, before or after September 1977, been a student of the Ghana Law School. He is also not working [and has never worked] for the Danquah Institute. He is currently not a member of the New Patriotic Party, or any other political party registered in Ghana. *Readers who mistake this writer for another or other user[s] of the same name, please take note of this clarification and stop drawing conclusions that sometimes lead you to attack the wrong person. Thank you for taking note. | <urn:uuid:6f4e6288-13c8-41a3-a986-86bcf978f441> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=225369 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949287 | 1,072 | 1.609375 | 2 |
a sermon on Luke 24:13-36 for the Second Sunday of Easter
preached on April 15, 2012, at the First Presbyterian Church of Whitestone
Last Sunday, as you may remember, we heard a very tentative Easter proclamation from the gospel according to Mark. The faithful women who had gone to anoint Jesus’ body fled from the tomb in fear and amazement after finding it empty and hearing that Jesus had been raised. Last Sunday, I suggested that this Easter story at least is something of a divine game of “Where’s Waldo?” where we have to keep our eyes open for Jesus in the world – so I want to start out this week by checking in. Did anyone see Jesus this week? Does anyone have a story of encountering Jesus that they would like to share this morning? I hope you’ll share your observations in the comments.
I suspect that as many of us as saw Jesus right away had a really hard time finding him in our lives, and if we have struggled to see Jesus this week, we are not alone. In our reading this morning from the gospel according to Luke, we hear about two disciples who were struggling to see Jesus – until he actually showed up with them! After learning that Jesus was not in the tomb, the disciples weren’t quite sure what to do, so they kept on with their normal tasks for the first day of the week. Two of them began a brief journey to Emmaus, a village about seven miles from Jerusalem.
As they walked and talked about the events of that very saddening week, a stranger along the road joined in the conversation. He acted as if he knew nothing about the distressing things that they were discussing, but soon this seeming stranger jumped in with his own take on everything that had happened. He suggested that there was a lot more to Jesus’ death than they had originally understood. He told them that the Messiah would have to suffer as Jesus did if he was to receive the glory they wished for him, and he helped them to see how Jesus was connected to all the things that they had learned before from scripture.
As the two disciples reached Emmaus, the stranger who had joined them along the way said that he would keep going on the road, but they urged him to stop with them:
Stay with us, because it is almost evening and the day is nearly over.
When he joined them inside, they sat at table together and began to share a meal. He took the bread at dinner, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them, and then they realized that it was none other than the risen Jesus who had been with them all day long! Even though he disappeared right away, they knew who it was, and so they hurried back to Jerusalem – seven miles in the dark, along a dangerous road! – to tell the other disciples.
The stories of encountering Jesus continue all around us. We see Jesus in so many different ways, when we look in the eyes of a stranger, when we offer the gift of presence in the midst of despair, when we share time with beloved friends, when we seek to serve those who are in great need. All the stories of encountering Jesus we have heard this morning and experienced in our lives remind us that Christ is risen, that Jesus is still on the loose in our world, that death does not and will not have the last word, that God is not done with us yet. And every time we gather at this table to share even the simplest of meals, we trust that we will see Jesus again, that he will be made known to us too in the breaking of bread.
My friend Ben, a pastor in North Carolina, told me his own story this week about seeing Jesus. The church where he serves has supplied food to feed hungry students and their families at a local elementary school where his wife teaches. Over the years, they have realized that many children get their only good meals of the day at school, and the weekend for them means less a break from their studies and more the loss of healthy meals for two days. Before Easter, Ben’s wife told him about how Jesus had shown up along the way. The mother of a first grader who gets a bag of food each week came to the office one day to ask why her child was bringing a bag home each week. When the office explained the food was for the family for the whole weekend, the mother had a curious look on her face – the bag had been coming home nearly empty, just a bag of rice and one caned good. They discovered that her daughter had been giving the food away to her classmates on the bus ride home, because she thought they needed food, too, and that the gift she had been given was worth sharing.
The gift of the risen Jesus among us is like that. He shows up in unexpected places – in strange walks and talks with the disciples along that Emmaus road, in the experiences we have shared, at the table where we will soon gather, and in the wonderful simplicity and giving of a child who is as concerned about others as she is about herself.
May we keep seeing Jesus all around us in this Easter season and beyond. Alleluia! Amen. | <urn:uuid:133fb8f8-3a53-4235-91fa-9f1035130c1a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bluedrift.com/tag/seeing-jesus/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990177 | 1,072 | 1.515625 | 2 |
File this one under crazy…or crazy inventive.
According to MSN, an English vegan named Becky Folkard intends to protest animal cruelty — particularly in the dairy industry — by branding a man with a hot iron.
The public event is scheduled to happen in March in London, and Folkard will label at least one volunteer with the number “269,” just as dairy cows and calfs are tagged. Apparently, the “10-minute protest will feature volunteers being held down, branded by someone in a scary black mask and then shackled like animals.”
Folkard knows that some people might find the protest extreme, but she thinks it’s worth it. She told the Daily Mail, “If one person goes away and researches a vegan lifestyle because of this it will have been worth it. We’re taking a huge risk because so many people will see what we’re doing as extreme, but in the past you had suffragettes, which was hugely controversial. Females only have a vote now because women chained themselves to railings and ran in front of horses. We have to move with the times.”
Wild as it sounds, it’s not the first time something like this has gone down — and it won’t be the last.
Folkard is actually following in the footsteps of an October protest in Tel Aviv and similar events are slated to take place in England, the US, Germany, Argentina, Australia and the Czech Republic.
She said of the Israeli event, “My initial reaction to seeing the Israeli film was admiration. I don’t see it as a particularly shocking, although of course I accept that others will. But I’ve been desensitized because of research I’ve done on the dairy industry. I immediately wanted to be involved and thought, ‘God, I couldn’t do the branding – that sounds terrifying.’ But then I thought about it more and realized why not – I’ve never felt so passionately about anything.”
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Like all early exploration and settlement, cultural contact and conflict are the hallmarks of Florida's development and the Castillo's existence. From this page you will connect to the stories of the Timucuan, Spanish, Seminole, French, British, Apache and other groups whose paths have intersected in northeast Florida.
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Three years later, I have come to realize that healthy arts organizations have equally robust campaigns focused on new acquisition and retention, and increasingly we are focusing on improving the overall lifetime value of our ...
In this environment, new marketing approaches are needed that can help you position your organization for different communities, make the most effective programming decisions and deeply engage your community.
This article identifies the importance and need for diversity in programming for all performing arts organizations. Appealing to one set over another polarizes your organization, and Orlando Ballet seems to be doing a wonderful job of balancing their programming to appeal to as wide of a net as possible. Besides, creating art that *everyone* likes? Borrrrring. -M@
Michael Kaiser's latest column is centered around the notion that art is no longer exciting, relevant, nor daring. In short, he says that we do not have enough excellent art being created. To me, and Kaiser himself says this, it *does* feel a bit like "Dad" saying "films aren't what they used to be" or "back in my day..." It's no better, no worse, just different. New technology, competition, and creative outlets have changed the game immensely. However, his very last message is pinpoint accurate and arts marketers need to be aware of the role they play in the creative process - when and how they become involved. Michael Kaiser: "...the institutional nature of our arts ecology, a relatively recent phenomenon, means that groups of people are now more responsible for arts making than the individual. Boards, managers and producing consortia are overly-involved. And these groups are misbehaving. They are overly-conservative, subject to "group think" and so worried about budgets that they forget that bad art hurts budgets far more than risk-taking does." -M@
What if you could find a unique, fun way to get your funder’s name out, front and center? What if you could almost guarantee them that every single audience member would see or hear their name? What if you could promise them that they would be the only company (or name) mentioned in a fun, interactive, and engaging way? How would your donor value this kind of attention? -M@
Here's an interesting Facebook promotion that a minor league baseball team is using. The tactics they're employing may be extremely difficult (if not impossible) for many performing arts groups to pull off, but it's a great way to get the mind going on ways to build and integrate your Facebook fans. Can they take a vote on the outcome of a show? Can they vote on what poster design you should sell (and include an offer for it)? Can you include them as a "thank you" in your program (without, of course, devaluing your donor listing)? The tricky part with doing something like this in the arts is that you do not want to alienate your patrons who do not use Facebook. It needs to be an experience for your Facebook Fans to enjoy on a different level, without infringing on the enjoyment of your core patrons. -M@
"Here's a cool way to use your credit or debit card to gain a little cultural capital -- without spending a dime. Bank of America and Merrill Lynch cardholders can receive free entry to more than 150 museums nationwide on selected weekends merely by showing their cards."
Why you should randomly reward your purchasers (and donors!), woot.com and Costco-style! PLUS some ideas on how and what to randomly reward. What ways or added value items can you think of that you can use to randomly reward your fans?
Let's talk QR codes really quickly. They're ugly. Face it, they ug up your ad. However, I do like that the Cleveland Museum of Art made it *part* of their creative. Secondly, certainly we can think of much more fun things to link to than only our ticketing page, right? Why not exclusive content or downloads? A special discount? A page that allows the user to actually *upload* a video, photo or message? What if an art museum or historical society used them for an interactive tour? What about a city-wide scavenger hunt? Is there a way to tell a story about certain landmarks *at* the landmark? Any ideas you'd like to share? -M@
Social media's been 'tweet' for London arts organizersLondon Free PressAn Oakridge secondary student back in the day, Honey founded Honey Design, a London brand and marketing design agency in 1989. She is a member of the The ARTS Project board.
The rise of live storytelling in recent years is remarkable, both for its bottom-up, scrappy scene (headquartered in Brooklyn, of course) and its rehabilitation of a historical form of entertainment and conviviality.
By that I mean marketing is seen as a tool or a “tricks” department to get (as I said in What Is Arts Marketing?) “butts in seats” or “eyes on walls.” This is as opposed to being a partner in the larger venture of connecting the arts ...
I don't often delve into the theater marketing discussion. Partially because others do it better, and partially because I hate the phrase “butts in seats,” which you're obligated to use at least twice whenever you write about arts ...
From the article: "A new NEA study finds the group of people who regularly attend arts events is both shrinking and getting less active." I think there are a number of factors at play that result in the 'decline' of arts attendees from younger generations. In fact, I would argue that the number of people participating in and appreciating the arts is at an extremely high-level. We now live in a user-generated, information-gathering era. Not only can we easily create and promote films, books, photographs and other artwork, we can now appreciate art from afar, without ever experiencing it live. That's becoming acceptable to our new generations. I'm reminded of my favorite line from 'Good Will Hunting': "So if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot about him. Life's work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientations, the whole works, right? But I'll bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling; seen that." I think that arts marketers need to drill that into people's heads. People can read and see anything they want online, in books or on TV. Or they can even go to a movie theater and see it in 3D. In fact, if I were still marketing the arts, I'd try to push through a tagline like, "Live theater: the first and best in 3D entertainment." -M@
Some great ideas to connect your audience with performers. I've always enjoyed the idea the of professionally filmed and edited vignettes to show to the audience prior to a dance piece (obviously for appropriate reps). Imagine a "So You Think You Can Dance" style performance where the audience sees a well-put together 2.5 minute video segment of rehearsal, featuring the personality of a couple of dancers. The hard part in this is finding eloquent, personable dancers (not that they all aren't, socially, but some can be camera-shy). It does raise the question, however: does connecting to a dancer take away from the piece as a whole? That is to say, would taking this approach create "stars" out of the dancers and patrons begin watching the dancers as opposed to the piece? My only other disagreement in the article is breaking the fourth wall. This is just a personal thing as I would prefer that people see the "magic" on-stage, as it's intended to be. -M@
On the importance of a film's title: "A bad movie title can hurt a good movie's marketability but a good title has only a neutral effect on a bad movie." Some good lessons can be learned here on determining a title for your next piece, including who should be involved in the process and at one point. -M@
"For its 2011 season, the non-profit company will schedule its production lineup based on audience demand..." Could your arts org survive with this hybrid model? The thought of announcing lineups 90 days out is terrifying for some, and may be a great idea for others. -M@
I couldn't agree more with Seth's statement here: "We could really use more older people with disposable income and a history of philanthropic giving in our audiences." Cultivating a younger audience is important, but please remember not to alienate your older audience members who's population is increasing greatly. Rather than fight for a younger audience's attention and lowering your average price per seat, why not fight to maintain (or elevate) your price per seat and grow your audience by appealing to baby boomers? -M@
Thanks to Stanford, we marketers now have academic confirmation about our social marketing strategy - mainstream media drives immediate interest while bloggers have more influence over time. This works great for brands that sell products continuously; what about arts events that aren't sold on a continual, consistent basis? For me, the key takeaway is to also approach both groups with different strategies. I would look to engage the mainstream media to generate the immediate interest needed to sell tickets to a show. Simultaneously, I would engage the blogging community with branding messages to cultivate conversations around the organization as a whole. What strategies work best for your organization? Do you prefer to utilize the same strategy for both mainstream media and bloggers? -M@
As an arts marketer who has used both systems (Ticketmaster and Outbox) I lean toward Outbox as a preference. It's just as reliable, integrates well with the venue's website (as in, it doesn't link out to its own site as Ticketmaster does) and gives the arts marketer greater access to data faster and easier. -M@ | <urn:uuid:34f28236-a10f-4a07-ab72-e409d47e50e9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.scoop.it/t/arts-marketing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96561 | 2,080 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Marjorie and Bill Springer Center for Excellence in Internships
Students are encouraged to gain a competitive advantage by participating in career-related work experiences prior to graduation. Through internships, cooperative education, and summer or part-time employment, the Marjorie and Bill Springer Center for Excellence in Internships provides students with opportunities for professional development that integrate classroom theory with supervised work experience.
Students have a choice of several options to follow. The part-time option allows students to attend classes while working part-time with a local employer. The full-time option allows students to work full-time during an academic semester or summer. The full-time alternating option is based upon alternating periods of full-time study and full-time work. All the above options correspond with the academic calendar.
A series of job search workshops is offered to assist students in the co-op or intern process. Employers review resumes and/or conduct interviews to make hiring decisions. Placement is not guaranteed. Student-developed jobs may be approved if they meet the work-learning criteria.
While on a registered full-time co-op/intern assignment, students are considered to have full-time student status, making normal progress toward a degree in a recognized University program, and are entitled to all student privileges at the University. Also while on a full-time co-op/intern assignment, students may register for additional hours of classroom study upon departmental approval.
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It is hard to believe, but it’s already May! Report cards will be due soon, promotion ceremonies must be planned and end of the year testing is upon us. So what is a teacher supposed to do when the only thing greater than the looming to do list is the students’ desire to be on summer vacation? Here are some tips to keep students engaged in curriculum without adding too much to our already overextended schedules.
Leverage the Power of Technology:
There are so many awesome online resources available that can easily be aligned to our curriculum and common core standards.
Find a site that works for you and sign up for some computer lab time! A well-placed webquest, multimedia presentation project, or interactive online experience can solidify concepts in new ways without demanding a ton of prep work or grading. Some of my favorite online and computer resources are:
- Prezi or PowerPoint: Students can create presentations covering any subject they’re learning! Creating and delivering presentations is an important language arts skill for students to learn and it can do double duty if they are presenting information related to science, history, literature, or other content areas. In my experience, upper grade students love to create cool presentations and the accountability of presenting to their peers spurs them on to do their very best work. Note: Prezi is a little more complicated and requires an email address to sign up, so it is most appropriate to use with older students who are highly computer proficient. I suggest you make some teacher prezis for lessons before you teach students to make them. PowerPoint may be the best option for starting out this kind of project.
- Starfall: This is a great resource for lower grade students. There are a variety of phonics and literacy resources for students to work at their own level.
- Arcademic Skill Builders: This website is dedicated to engaging and exciting K-8 students in math, literacy, geography, and more all in a safe environment! You can use this site for free, but if you sign up for the subscription, you can customize game content, track student achievement, and help students earn awards for performance.
Leave us a comment and share your favorite online resources for students.
Tip: Be sure to research the site, understand how it works, and check to make sure it won’t be blocked from your school’s internet filter before you take your class to the lab.
Get Kids Moving with Kinesthetic Learning Activities:
We all know that many kids learn best from active, hands-on activities, but we don’t always have the budget or time to create elaborate, new kinesthetic activities. Worry not, my fellow tired teacher, I recently attended a Kagan Cooperative Learning seminar where I picked up fun strategies for getting students up and moving that can be used across subjects and grade levels. These are definitely easy and fun tools to keep in your pedagogical toolbox!
- Quiz-Quiz Trade: Students make flashcards (or are provided with flashcards) for academic vocabulary or facts that you are learning in class. Each student needs to have a set of flashcards that match everyone else’s set, but shuffled up in different orders. Then, everyone stands up and picks a partner. It is best if you have a big open space in the classroom or outside. I love to take my class out to the field next to my classroom on a beautiful spring day. Partner 1 quizzes partner 2 on just one flashcard, and partner 2 is praised or coached by partner 1. Next, they switch and Partner 2 quizzes partner 1 on one flashcard with praise or coaching. Once both have had a chance to ask and answer one card, they trade the used cards and find new partners. The whole class continues to mingle for an allotted amount of time quizzing, quizzing, trading, and finding new partners. I love this activity because it gets students’ blood flowing while also developing vocabulary and study skills! It can work in almost any subject.
- 4 Corners: The teacher asks students to stand in the middle of the room and then announces “corners” and a question with four possible answers. For example, the teacher says that the four corners of the room represent 4 characters from Charlotte’s Web: Charlotte, Wilber, Templeton, and Fern. Then, the teacher asks, “Which character from the book can you relate to most?” After a short “think time”, students go to the corner labeled with the character that they can relate with most. Once there, they must find a partner and discuss their reasoning. Later, students can write about this topic with a plethora of ideas gleaned from their own thinking and discussions with others.
- Stand up, Hand up, Pair up: When reinforcing concepts and continuing to develop academic vocabulary, it is helpful for students to have a chance to discuss their ideas, but all too often I find the same hands raised and the same students dominating the conversation. To get everyone in the class talking, try asking students to walk around the room shaking hands and greeting their classmates. This helps mix up the usual friend-partners and work on social skills. After a minute or so, tell everyone to stand with their hand in the air and high five one person near them. The high five partners turn into discussion partners. Once the partners are picked, the teacher asks a question and each partner has an allotted amount of time to answer. After both have answered, students sit down and the teacher calls on a few students to re-tell partner’s answers. This gives all students a chance to speak, listen, and participate actively.
Check out more Teacher Created Resources Creative Classroom Ideas! I especially love the hands-on projects found in each section of the literature guides, like this one about the novel Holes. What are your favorite kinesthetic learning strategies? Leave us a comment and share the love!
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CalCars Goals for 2007
We’re now at CalCars 3.0. Here’s our "version history:"
- 1.0 was "What’s a plug-in hybrid?" (2002-04)
- 2.0 was "How can I get one?" (2005-06)
- 3.0 is "Let’s get PHEVs from car-makers!" (2007-??)
We’ve come an incredibly long way in 2006. Plug-in hybrids are now a solution endorsed by leaders in business, government at every level, environmentalists, citizens groups, policy analysts, academics — and car-makers. Some days the news has been so amazing it seems unreal. Also see our year-end review about all that’s happened.
Meanwhile, we’re advancing a range of projects to achieve our paramount goal: getting car-makers to mass-produce plug-in hybrids. We list the most ambitious items first:
- Emphasize PHEVs’ value as "carbon killers" — get emerging grass-roots/community/ business coalitions to adopt them as a leading climate crisis solution we can begin to build with no new technology. Continue promoting PHEVs’ energy security and economic benefits, reducing dependence on oil with no new infrastructure.
- Refine and implement our "No-Worry" fleet plan to eliminate batteries as an impediment for car-makers, speeding creation of a demonstration fleet of thousands of "good-enough" PHEVs from carmakers and integrators — and building a pathway to mass production.
- Find ways to accelerate the frustratingly slow pace of conversion deliveries; this may involve spinning off a for-profit company, while continuing CalCars.org — it’s taking a while to put the many pieces in place.
- Work to enact the bi-partisan, bi-cameral Vehicle and Fuel Choices for American Security Act; advance other steps to significantly expand state and federal government programs (including the "No Worry" plan) incentivizing and supporting PHEVs.
- Launch targeted efforts specifically directed at individual automakers, combining public advocacy campaigns and private cooperative business proposals.
- Pursue technology projects to demonstrate new batteries, enable do-it-yourself conversions and convert hybrids other than Prius.
- Working with Plug-In Partners, Plug In America, and others, evangelize for PHEVs; bring our converted cars to events that engage, educate and activate new constituencies and support the growing number of distributed cars and advocates worldwide.
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Latest update: March 8th, 2012
While the personal relationship between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu thankfully seems to have taken a turn for the better, and on several issues they had a meeting of the minds – it seemed almost like a minuet – there is no escaping the reality that sharp policy differences remain on some fundamental issues.
Thus, for example, both spoke of Israel’s right, as a sovereign nation, to make its own decisions regarding its security. Both also spoke of the unacceptability of a nuclear Iran, and that military action to thwart it was on the table. Yet differences emerged – differences that should not be attributed to some nefarious design on the part of Mr. Obama.
There is no escaping the reality that there are different facts of life for the United States and Israel in terms of the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear program. Because the U.S. has an enormously greater military capacity than Israel, each country has a different calculus as to when resort to military force becomes urgent. This has come to be known as the “zone of immunity” issue – that is, when exactly will it become impossible to destroy Iranian nuclear facilities? Further, in the long run, the U.S. would have more time than Israel to respond to an Iranian nuclear attack, which gives this country more of an edge when it comes to deterrence.
The U.S. obviously has a greater window than Israel, but Israel maintains that it cannot cede to America responsibility to act thwart Iranian nuclear designs. This is obviously a legitimate dilemma for both countries: The U.S. cannot precipitate a premature, and possibly unnecessary, war, while for Israel there can never be a guarantee that President Obama may not change his mind based on the exigencies of the moment.
Thus, separate and apart from the personalities of the players, the U.S. and Israel are driven by different dynamics.
There is, however, something to note in President Obama’s speech to AIPAC regarding the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians. After recounting his list of pro-Israel security initiatives he said that “there are those who question not my security and diplomatic commitments, but my administration’s ongoing pursuit of peace between Israelis and Palestinians. So let me say this: I make no apologies for pursuing peace.”
This week’s interchange between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu was focused on Iran. But one wonders whether the president’s endorsement of Israel’s sovereign right to make decisions extends to determining its own borders.
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A lurid and rather sensationalistic book about murderers that I recently read featured the case of Mary Bell, who committed two murders as a child of ten. In the years since, Mary has disclosed horrific child sexual abuse committed and/or facilitated by her mother, Betty. The author, Paul Roland, finishes with the following observation: “However, one has to wonder, if all Mary has claimed is true, why she invited Betty to live with her and her daughter in the latter years of her mother’s life (2008 p. 165).”
Perhaps, in a book of this nature, sensitivity and knowledge about the many effects of child sexual abuse were hardly to be expected, but what concerned me was the using of Mary’s ongoing relationship with her mother as a reason to doubt her disclosures of abuse. One thing survivors don’t need is people acting out of ignorance discounting them and fuelling myths about the unreliability of people who say they were sexually abused.
And yet, the question, “Why would a person who experienced sexual abuse want to be close to the very people who did it?” is genuinely puzzling to people who may never have experienced incest or other parental abuse. Partners of survivors may feel disgust and confusion or a natural protectiveness towards their partners – and it is very concerning when children are exposed to danger from an abusive grandparent. Some survivors themselves are baffled as to why they feel drawn to keep going back to their abusive parents.
Why does this happen? Why would a woman raped by her father let him give her away at her wedding? Why does the son subjected to sexual abuse by his mother continue to submit to demands for his money? Why would incest survivors eat Christmas dinner with people who continue to degrade them? This article will look at some of the reasons.
Damaged Self: Many of us will have encountered children that cling tenaciously to parents who have hurt them terribly, and sadly some of us were those children. Judith Herman (1992 p. 103) writes that child abuse causes children to form a core image of themselves as “bad.” This is essential for their emotional survival. At the expense of their very selves, children rationalise that they caused the abuse in order to preserve an image of mother and father – those people on whom they must depend for care and protection - as “good.”
This is not hard to understand until the survivor becomes an adult. What then? Aren’t they grown-up now? Don’t they have the choice to get away, and shouldn’t they know better? No, that core of inner badness remains as it is until healing begins. Those who listen to adult survivors try to reassure them that abuse is never a child’s fault, only to hear assurances that if their own parents could be so cruel there must be something fundamentally wrong with the survivor. A survivor carrying that sense of their own badness, with mother and father as “good” cannot separate until the self-blame stops, and responsibility is more realistically directed towards the abusers. Most survivors know that this is far more easily said than done.
Inability for Self-Protection: Survivors abused by one or both parents, or who were harmed and not supported, may believe that they in fact have no rights, or that they don’t deserve to be protected from further abuse. Again, we hear from Judith Herman (1992, p. 112):
Survivors may feel truly helpless to stand up to an abusive parent, and to not be at their beck-and-call. Healing and change is about much more than what other people might see as “common-sense.” A person chronically abused by their parents does not necessarily perceive that they have different options now that they’re grown up. They require – and deserve - help, compassion and patience.
Grief: Many of us have experienced the terrible grief of letting go of the image of the “good” parent, and we know that the act of separation from even the most abusive parent can feel like an amputation without anaesthesia. Even as we know that separation is for our psychological benefit, this primal wound reverberates through every part of us, and the children we were.
The losses are huge. Survivors who separate from abusive parents often find that their whole families turn on them too, branding them crazy or even cruel: “How could you do this to poor mother?” Their children are ostracized; the survivor may be frankly persecuted by his or her family. It’s no wonder that some survivors prefer not to “rock the boat.”
Guilt: I’ll share my experience: As the victim of abuse by a narcissistic and very violent mother, I grew up believing that I was responsible for mummy; responsible for making her sick, responsible for making her better; responsible for nurturing her. Unable to manage the ambivalence of my feelings, I felt terrible for being angry with her. I felt that if I abandoned her, she might die, and this was played by her for all it was worth; she threatened suicide many times. My guilt was exacerbated by memories of when she’d tried to be a good mother. Consequently, she continued a pattern of devaluing and manipulating me until I began to put a stop to it when I was twenty-six. One morning, my mother rang me and told me a bogus story – one among many – that she was at a Melbourne cancer hospital having treatment. It felt like leaping into a precipice for me, but I hung up in her ear. That was to be the first of many attempts at setting boundaries around her abusive behaviour, and it took much practice. I didn’t know how to stop feeling the long-entrenched guilt and responsibility for her until I had been in therapy for a few years. I had to learn different lessons from those when I was a little girl; it had always been mummy first. I had learned that not forgiving poor mummy who had a lot of problems was selfish and cruel; I didn’t see that I had rights too. Relearning was hard but empowering work.
Concern for other family members: Some survivors maintain links with abusive parents so that they can keep a protective eye on younger siblings or other children who may be exposed to abuse. This is not a bad thing in itself, but the survivor needs to practice self-care too.
Disassociation and Denial: Sexual abuse by a parent can be so terrifying and such a wrenching betrayal that a survivor may prefer to pretend it didn’t happen. The nature of the trauma may mean that the survivor is in a state of numbing. Disaasociation is something that many survivors of child abuse come to effortlessly do (Herman 1992 p. 102) By disassociating from the memories, or from the feelings, a survivor is able to preserve a relationship with an abusive parent – usually on the abuser’s terms. As a young survivor, I didn’t understand the process of trauma, and thus believed that if I had no feelings, I must be okay. The lack of feeling made me think that the abuse didn’t matter, which left the way open to continue a relationship with my mother. Denial can contribute to survivors putting their own children at risk from abusive grandparents.
Ambivalence: In writing about survivors who maintain contact with abusive parents, Laura Davis says “Survivors rarely feel one way toward their perpetrators, particularly when the abuser is a family member. Most feel some combination of love, anguish, hatred, rage, confusion, fear, loyalty and longing (1991, p. 212).” The same father who abused the survivor may also have bought them ice-cream when they were sick. It is very hard to let go of the “good” parent. Because there were good times, a survivor may wonder if he or she is “overreacting” about the abuse. Or, perhaps the sexual abuse was the only time when any affection was displayed. Even though survivors don’t like the abuse, it’s extremely painful to lose the source of an affection that may have been the only sustenance that the survivor received. A person starved of water will drink from a poisoned well if that’s all there is.
I mentioned above that I was not able to cope with my own ambivalence. Rage and hatred for my mother was “bad.”, and of course many children learn that they must love mother and father no matter how bad the abuse is. I have learned that it’s okay to allow my compassion and my rage to exist side by side; it has become easier to just be wherever I’m at – but even if I am feeling compassionate about my mother, I still owe it to myself to have strict boundaries with her.
Hope for change: Laura Davis writes, “Even when they are treated terribly, children hold onto the hope that they can change things by altering their own behaviour (1992, p. 212).” One of the hardest things for many adult survivors is to come to terms with the fact that, regardless of what they do or don’t do, the parent will not change and give the survivor the love they always needed. As long as there is the remotest chance that the abusive parent might change, the survivor clings. Linda Martinez-Lewi writes about the lifelong extremely abusive behaviour of Pablo Picasso toward his son, Paulo, and yet: “…Paulo remained tied to his father like an infant sucking on a cold mother’s milkless teat (2008, p.17).” Letting go of the hope for change is a huge step towards freedom, but is still a massive healing task for a survivor. The other side of that can be immense grief.
Dependency: A survivor may carry into adulthood the very natural childhood sense that he or she needs mother and father. Some survivors believe that an abuser is the only person they can really depend on, and this is something that an abusive parent fosters in order to keep control. They may have deliberately isolated their child from other avenues of sustenance. Abusers may pop up at the right moments with offers of help – with the understanding, of course, that the survivor must maintain respectful silence about abuse, and agree that the abuser is wonderful. Wealthy abusers may tie their adult children to them with financial dependency, and threats of disinheriting. Young or newly divorced survivors may have little option than to live with abusive parents. If a survivor is ill – mentally or physically - this can be a prime occasion for an abuser to take charge. And some survivors are deliberately made ill by abusive parents; Susan Forward (1990, p.63) tells us that some parents would rather their children were mad than knew the truth. I have seen the most solicitous-seeming parents, whom I knew were abusers, visit their poor, sick daughter in a psychiatric ward and make a great show of consulting with her psychiatrists to try and get her “well.” But the charade actually fosters the illness.
Conforming to the silence: A rule of many abusive families is silence. Children watch their mothers being beaten; they are sexually abused and beaten, yet the parents are pillars of the local church. The image and the silence must be maintained at all costs. Adult survivors grow up schooled in the rule of silence, and they keep it, hiding their shame and internal damage. When they begin to break that rule, it can be terrifying. Some survivors may see their siblings getting on with mother and father, and feel that they are deficient for their feelings. It can be particularly horrifying when the survivor knows that other family members know about the abuse, but continue to support the perpetrator anyway.
Fear: Some survivors have been threatened about consequences for upsetting the family applecart. Mother might commit suicide; families will be ruined, father will get into trouble, or even that they will be killed. One task for many survivors is to gently encourage their abused inner children to stop believing the abuser’s threats, perhaps realizing that if there is trouble in the family, that is a consequence of the abuser’s behaviour. But initially, this can be a very tall order. For some survivors, too, their fears are not groundless; they must move interstate to stop stalking, harassment and other terrorism from abusive families. In Australia some 15 years ago, a young woman walked into a police station and told of repeated rape by her stepfather. He pulled up next to her at a set of traffic lights and shot her dead. Her mother married him while he was awaiting trial. Outcomes such as this are not usual, but it isn’t hard to understand a survivor’s fear.
Religion: When I was seventeen, my mother beat me badly and strangled me. I fought her off and fled in the night to a refuge. The next morning I went around to see my pastor, who reminded me to “honour thy mother and father.” He said that since I was seventeen and still under my mother’s jurisdiction, I should go home and behave myself.
Some communities of faith promote the idea of forgiveness as something one must do as if there was no wound committed. So, because they believe it is pleasing to God, survivors appear to “forgive” an abusive parent and continue to suffer further abuse, while their rage is called “sinful” and dangerously suppressed.
Genuine reconciliation: On occasion, an abusive parent may make a full and frank admission and apology, seeking to make amends for the pain they’ve caused. When a healing survivor knows that this is genuine, it can be an affirming choice to have some sort of a relationship.
Acceptance: Many survivors get to a stage where they accept that there will be no change. They put strong boundaries in place around what they will and won’t tolerate, they have learned to protect themselves and they choose to maintain some contact with abusive parents – but this time on the survivor’s terms. In my years of knowing many other survivors – particularly though Pandora’s Aquarium, I have come to see what I can only describe as a beautiful and extraordinary grace. These survivors accept the flaws of abusive parents, and are able to show kindness – but no longer at their own expense. Of course for some survivors, continued interaction with an abusive parent is extremely dangerous physically or psychologically, and it is necessary to cut off completely. But some survivors are able not to do this, for good reasons.
Traumatic Bonding: Traumatic bonding occurs in abused children, battered women, prisoners of war and other situations in which people find themselves in a state of captivity. An abuser may also be the source of intermittent rewards and comfort – and torturers recognize this as a powerful means of asserting control. The abused feel love, gratitude, empathy and loyalty towards the abuser (Herman, 1992 p. 72). If hostages who had no prior favourable bond with their captors, bond traumatically, how much easier is it for a child to do so with a parent, who is seen as the source of their very lives? An unhealed survivor carries this into adulthood too.
So, as we see there can be many factors – and some beyond the above, why adult survivors may interact with abusive parents. It is never a good enough reason to believe that the survivor is lying about or exaggerating the abuse.
If you are a supporting partner worried about the survivor you love maintaining contact with abusive parents, I strongly recommend that you read Allies in Healing by Laura Davis. This book gives excellent advice on caring for the survivor, keeping children safe, and validating your own very natural feelings of anger. It will also help if you are in a position where you’ve been drawn in to liking the abuser yourself.
If you are a survivor who feels stuck with abusive parents, or helpless to protect yourself from ongoing abuse from them in any form, it’s important that you seek help. You deserve it. It’s possible that the contact is continuing to trigger or otherwise hurt you.
I learned that life after mother contains powerful gains as well as losses. The gains are being free to know who I am outside of the way she defined me, my little inner child knowing she is worth standing up for, and having cut mother’s pernicious games off at the knees. I wouldn’t want to create the impression that it’s easy; I would admit that the hurt has been ongoing; I watch other women with mothers who love, protect and support them and I am glad they have this. But whoever said you don’t miss what you never had was talking utter crap. I do; sometimes I fiercely crave a mother. I can nurse myself through the recycled grief and ask for support if I need it; it’s normal and it’s okay.
It’s sad for those of us whose parents either did not or could not love us or who sometimes did love us but then became terrifying and abusive. We have been abused and frightened by the very people we looked to for protection, and it’s natural to want to keep believing in them. If you wish to continue some kind of relationship, you deserve to make sure it isn't because you feel the same entrapment and powerlessness you felt as a child.
Always feel free to post about this on Pandora’s Aquarium; we have many survivors in various stages of relationships with, or separation from, abusive parents.
Remember that YOU have a place in the scheme of fairness and love, and that you deserve to be safe.
- Davis, L. Allies in Healing: When the Person you love was sexually abused as a child, HarperCollins, New York, 1991
- Forward, S. Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life, Bantam, New York, 2002
- Herman, J. Trauma And Recovery: From Domestic Abuse To Political Terror, Basic Books, USA, 1990
- Martinez-Lewi, L. Freeing Yourself from the Narcissist in Your Life, Tarcher/Penguin, New York, 2008
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DEL Ozone Sanitation Systems
Five years after its founding in 1975, DEL began shipping ozone systems for Advanced Sanitation Solutions. Since then, it has accumulated an enviable track record of innovation and leadership in its industry, both as a technology leader and antimicrobial regulatory educator. DEL Ozone provides a critical service by offering affordable, safe, and sustainable solutions for effective sanitation systems.
Highlights in DEL’s Development of Ozone Sanitation
DEL’s leadership in applied ozone technology has been expressed in many ways. Here are a few milestones in this on-going story.
- DEL Ozone has produced and sold more than 2,000,000 ozone systems worldwide.
- DEL Ozone generators can supply any amount of ozone from .3 grams per hour to 1200 grams per hour to match application demands, and most of these systems include sophisticated controls for ozone management.
- DEL developed the first UL listed ozone systems for pools and spas.
- DEL has supplied the vast majority of manufacturer-installed portable spa ozonators over the last decade.
- DEL developed the first NSF-listed ozone systems for commercial pools.
- DEL engineering developed the first commercially prominent corona discharge ozonator for spa applications, and on-going innovation in this space sees the third generation of this application introduced in late 2010 using a new technology for better performance at lower cost.
- DEL Ozone has participated in the development of the emerging Model Aquatic Health Code (MAHC) of the Centers for Disease Control to create standards for improved sanitation safety and efficacy in commercial pools.
- The MAHC draft protocols identify ozone as one of the approved options for secondary sanitation in public swimming venues.
- DEL sponsors and/or participates in on-going research by qualified and accredited third-party organizations to identify and quantify ozone's antimicrobial efficacy in various applications including public safety and food safety.
- A 2010/2011 study conducted by the Ohio State University, with co-funding by DEL and the USDA, is evaluating ozone performance in Clean-in-Place (CIP) beverage applications.
DEL Ozone Sanitation Systems Continue to Evolve
DEL Ozone will introduce new products into various markets over time. Ozone sanitation systems are appropriate for a wide-range of applications, such as: drinking water, food processing, swimming venues, and industrial sanitation systems. Today, DEL Ozone is working on advanced ozone technology to deliver cost effective ozone sanitation for constantly evolving applications. | <urn:uuid:6680f148-fa2c-43e8-ba40-274db7af0907> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.delozone.com/about-del/history.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915134 | 510 | 1.765625 | 2 |
It what seems to have been a temporary fissure in the Great Firewall of China, users of the heavily-censored Chinese internet were able to access usually barren Google+ yesterday, spamming US President Barack Obama’s official page with messages of freedom, dissent and requests for green cards.
Exactly how Chinese users were able to breach the great firewall is unknown. According to Reuters, Google took no action as to make the social networking site available to Chinese users while others speculate that the site became available through mobile phone networks that may have been overlooked by censors.
Time magazine has reported that an internal glitch in China’s incredibly robust censorship system was to blame for the breach.
Some of the commenters took the security breach as a rare opportunity to address the West, pleading for Obama to “free us." Such comments seemed to irk China's Foreign Ministry spokesmen Hong Lei, according to Voice of America, the US government’s foreign news agency. After stating that Chinese citizens should express themselves according to Chinese law, the spokesman was then asked if he be believed that the Chinese government considers citizens who criticize it on the internet as violating the law.
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Only a few weeks left to left observe the official International Year of Natural Fibres (yes, we’re sticking with the international spelling here). For browngrotta arts and many of the artists we represent, of course, promotion of natural fiber in art and otherwise is a lifelong pursuit. In 2009, however, we had the assistance of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, which declared this year the International Year of Natural Fibres
If you haven’t been there, the website naturalfibres2009.org offers a wealth of material — informative videos, lush images of natural fiber sources and production methods, interviews with producers and more fibre facts than you can shake a spindle at. The website even includes images of 15 natural fibres under the microscope. (I don’t know why they are there — but I found them interesting in a nerdy way.) Mostly, I just enjoyed the photographs of rice fields at sunset; workers knee deep in cotton and angora bunnies and cashmere goats, just being themselves, but I learned a couple of things.
In case you’ve ever wondered:
• ramie is a natural fibre, one of the strongest in fact and its grown mainly in China, Brazil, the Lao PDR and the Philippines.
• Hemp fibres are also used to reinforce molded thermoplastics in the automobile industry; abaca yarn is used in automobile parts by Mercedes-Benz.
• The biggest producer of mohair is South Africa, but Texas is also important, too, with 200,000 head of mohair goats. Just 20% mohair added to a wool blend provides crease resistance.
Why is the UN urging us to choose natural fibres? Because they are:
• a healthy choice. As most people know, natural fibres provide natural ventilation. Coconut fibres used in mattresses have natural resistance to fungus and mites. Hemp fibre has antibacterial properties, and studies show that linen is the most hygienic textile for hospital bed sheets.
• a responsible choice. Natural fibres are vital to the livelihoods and food security of millions of small-scale farmers and processors. They include 10 million people in the cotton sector in West and Central Africa, 4 million small-scale jute farmers in Bangladesh and India, one million silk industry workers in China, and 120 000 alpaca herding families in the Andes. By choosing natural fibres we boost the sector’s contribution to economic growth and help fight hunger and rural poverty.
• a sustainable choice. Natural fibres are a renewable resource. Growing one ton of jute fibre requires less than 10% of the energy used for the production of polypropylene. Natural fibres are carbon neutral. Processing produces residues that can be used in biocomposites for building houses or to generate electricity. At the end of their life cycle, natural fibres are 100% biodegradable.
• a high-tech choice. Natural fibres have good mechanical strength, low weight and low cost, which has made them particularly attractive to the automobile industry. India has developed composite boards made from coconut fibre that are more resistant to rotting than teak. Brazil is making roofing material reinforced with sisal. In Europe, hemp wastes are used in cement, and China used hemp-based construction materials for the 2008 Olympics.
• a fashionable choice. Natural fibres are at the heart of an eco-fashion or “sustainable clothing” movement that seeks to create garments that are sustainable at every stage of their life cycle, from production to disposal.
More Natural Fibre Fun to Come: Wood was intentionally excluded from this year’s promotion. The International Year of Forests will be in 2011.
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COVINGTON -- The paramount question on the minds of emergency personnel Monday was whether Tropical Storm Ida will bring a repeat of September's flooding woes, and they were urging at-risk residents to begin forming emergency plans in case of flash flooding.
While the rainfall is not expected to be as devastating as the previous flood events, Newton County Emergency/Risk Management Deputy Director Jody Nolan said the National Weather Service is warning that 4 to 6 inches of rainfall could fall between today and Wednesday morning.
"They're saying it will be a 24-hour rain event, beginning between 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. Tuesday and run through 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. Wednesday," Nolan said. "We have a very good possibility of it raining here the entire time."
Nolan said the area that is being monitored most closely in Newton County is the RV section of Riverside Mobile Home Park.
He said anyone who is in an area at risk for flooding should be ready to move quickly to higher ground quickly and plan to have a place to go should that become necessary.
"A flash flood watch means that conditions may develop that lead to flash flooding," according to the National Weather Service Web site. "Flash flooding is a very dangerous situation. Now is the time to take any necessary precautions to protect life and property ... before the rain begins. You should monitor NOAA weather radio or commercial radio and television for the latest information on this developing weather situation."
Nolan said, of course, predictions could change.
"We may get less, we may get more. People just need to keep their eyes and ears open," he said.
He also cautioned that there would be times of very heavy rain and motorists should be prepared to slow down and assume water will be standing on the roadways.
"Don't follow too closely and stay below the posted speed limits," he said, adding that hydroplaning is a major cause of accidents during times of heavy rainfall.
County officials had no plans Monday afternoon to close roads or bridges as a precautionary measure, according to County Engineer Kevin Walter.
"We're certainly going to be very vigilant to inspect our roads, especially Crowell Road, and bridges, to make sure we keep a close track on their condition," he said.
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Archives are essential components of any strategy aimed at improving information access, both for the public at large and for specialised groups. Since its creation, UNESCO has contributed to the reinforcement of these types of services.
The development of information technologies, and in particular the Internet, has created a completely new environment in which the role of traditional information services must be thoroughly revised. The potential of networking, cooperation and digitisation modify substantially the functions of acquiring, storing and disseminating information and knowledge. Here, special attention must be paid to the least developed countries so that they do not lag behind technological advances.
In the area of archives, UNESCO, through its Records and Archives Management Programme - RAMP (established in 1979) aims at:
- Making the general public and decision-makers aware of the importance of records and archives for planning and development safeguarding of the national heritage;
- Assisting Member States in the establishment of efficient records and archives management infrastructures through standardization , archival legislation, training, and enhancing infrastructure (buildings and equipment);
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Waiting out yet another flight delay? The Department of Transportation reports that only about 77 percent of U.S. flights arrive on time. Luckily, your e-mail, the latest news headlines and that trashy gossip blog you can't resist are just a mouse click (and perhaps a credit card) away.
The use of laptops, PDA's, smartphones and other electronic gadgets is on the rise, and airports are wooing tech-savvy travelers by offering wireless Internet access -- also known as Wi-Fi -- throughout their terminals.
Of course, not all airport Internet options are the same, and you'll have to come to the terminal prepared. Does your airport charge for wireless Internet, or will it let you connect (albeit sometimes at frustratingly slow speeds) for free? For some travelers wishing to log on, swaggering into the airline club lounge might be the savviest choice. For others, the in-air connection will do the trick. And what about that ever-present threat of the dead battery? Grab your gizmo and read on for the latest in airport Wi-Fi.
Traveling with a Smartphone: Cut Costs Overseas
While you should be prepared to pay to use the Web at most airports, either at a wired kiosk or via Wi-Fi, there are a number of places that offer the service as a "courtesy." The largest U.S. airport offering free Wi-Fi is, ironically, Las Vegas ("Nothing's free in Vegas, baby"), and connectivity reviews have been very complimentary. Other major freebie airports include Philadelphia, Boston, Charlotte, Denver and Fort Lauderdale.
Outside the U.S., cities that will give you a Wi-Fi fix for free include Hong Kong, Vancouver, Toronto, Vienna, Oslo and Osaka, to name just a few.
For a comprehensive list of who makes you pay and who's free, as well the general locations where you'll be picking up a signal, visit TravelPost.com. (Be sure to double-check this information against your airport's own Web site, as wireless plans change frequently.)
But free of charge doesn't necessarily mean free and easy. The overall consensus seems to be that the free services can be spotty. And some airports put a cap on how long you can surf for free (for example, the Athens airport starts charging after an hour).
Computer Travel Tips
In the airports where you must pay, your wireless radio will often pick up a number of different providers. Some of the most popular are Boingo, T-Mobile, Sprint and AT&T, all of which require a credit card for payment. Most of the services cost between $8 and $10 for a full day. Of course, you'll be in the airport for a fraction of that time (unless your flight is seriously delayed), but not all providers offer hourly or per-minute rates.
Subscribe to T-Mobile's HotSpot add-on (which can be added on a monthly basis for subscribers on the company's standard cell phone plans, or purchased on a daily basis) and you'll have access to Wi-Fi at a large number of airports and/or airport lounges, as well as more than 45,000 other locations around the world.
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If you're a frequent global traveler, Boingo's monthly plan is another option. The Boingo network gives you access to more than 400,000 locations worldwide for a flat rate of $59 per month ($9.95 a month for just North and South America, or $7.95 a month for worldwide smartphone access). The system basically piggybacks service providers around the world, at hotels, airports and thousands of McDonald's. So if you're on an extended sojourn and need to keep in touch, it's an excellent option.
Airports Without Internet
"Does it have Wi-Fi?" has long been replaced by "Does it have free Wi-Fi?" as the airport-related question business travelers and nerds ask most frequently. But not so fast. There are an ignoble few, relics of the space age, still lacking wireless capabilities. Have a layover in Fairbanks, Alaska? Killing a flight delay at Kauai's Lihue Airport? Forget about e-mail and RSS news feeds.
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Other Charge Issues
Battery life is a frequent concern for those using electronic devices in the airport. Many airports, especially those well frequented by business travelers (O'Hare, Philadelphia, JFK), have installed popular charging stations where you can restore battery life in your cell phone, laptop or other device.
Other airports feature only traditional outlets, often oddly located, requiring those in need of a charge to camp out on the floor. And where outlets are few, demand will be high.
A few years back, a writer on Girlawhirl.com, a lifestyle Web magazine catering to the woman on the go, suggested packing an adapter that can turn one outlet into four. It may look like all charge options are taken, but if you come prepared and ask politely if other travelers would be willing to share ... problem solved.
One last note: If you're traveling to an international airport, don't forget to consider plug style and voltages. For more information, see Electricity Overseas.
The Airline Club
Complimentary drinks, snacks, comfortable seating, a clean bathroom -- and Internet access. That's the domain of the airline lounge, that private sanctuary of elite business travelers and a few everyday travelers willing to pay for the privilege of entrance. Most airline lounges these days feature complimentary Wi-Fi, as well as data ports where you can hook up your computer to the Internet. (Don't forget your Internet cable.)
Day passes for airport lounges run about $50 per visit or $300 - $500 per year. Interestingly enough, passes for airline lounges that are bought ahead of time and not used often end up on eBay -- and sell at more than 50 percent off. Is it worth paying $25 for unlimited snacks, cocktails, Internet use, plus an exceedingly comfortable place to relax before an exceedingly uncomfortable flight? (That's a rhetorical question, as you've guessed.)
For information on specific airport lounges at specific airports, try LoungeGuide.net, a user-generated resource featuring reviews of airline clubs around the world.
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Wi-Fi in the Air
In another step toward satisfying the need to stay connected seamlessly from earth to air -- Internet access on the inside of the retina will be next -- several carriers have now begun adding in-flight Wi-Fi. (Technically, you'll have to wait until you're in the air and permitted to use approved electronic devices, so there will be a small usage gap.)
As of this writing, Virgin America and AirTran have rolled out Wi-Fi across their entire fleets, while most other major U.S. airlines have begun adding the service on select aircraft.
The most common in-flight Internet provider is a company called GoGo, which costs $4.95 for Internet access on a single flight up to 90 minutes, $9.95 for a flight of an hour and a half to three hours, and $12.95 for a flight longer than three hours. You can also buy daily and monthly passes.
If you're connecting in the air, don't expect flawless service -- simply said, it isn't easy to provide solid connectivity at 37,000 feet. Reviews have been generally complimentary, expectations being rightly set, but video watching in particular is said to be a bit choppy.
Battery life will be another concern. Some planes, such as those in the Virgin America fleet, have laptop power sockets at all seats. On the American Airlines planes offering Wi-Fi, not all seats are equipped with sockets. So if you can't snag one of those, be prepared for limited computer use, or bring another battery -- something to consider before shelling out the fee.
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Bakersfield Memorial Hospital dedicated its new main entrance Tuesday. The new pavilion is named in honor of the late Dr. Hans E. Einstein. He is perhaps best known as the world's leading expert on Valley Fever and for his determined efforts to develop a vaccine for that disease.
Dr. Einstein died last month of of congestive heart failure and kidney failure but his work will always be remembered. Now when you walk into Memorial Hospital you will be welcomed by a tribute to Dr. Hans Einstein.
Work began on the project more than a year ago before Dr. Einstein's passing. After Tuesday's ribbon cutting, his colleagues spoke about the late doctor's achievements and love for helping people.
"There was no more deserving person to name it after other than Dr. Hans Einstein. Dr Einstein was a huge advocate for improving patient care, improving the patient and physician experience at the same time. His work on Valley Fever was world renowned and respected around the world. He was truly a genius in the field," said colleague Dr. Robert Laughlin.
The pavilion stands as a tribute to the physician, the medical mentor, and the researcher who was the driving force behind a campaign to cure Valley Fever.
These thoughts from Dr. Einstein on the pavilion named after him, were recorded several months before his death. "I feel very touched and honored by this. It's not something that's customary, certainly, and it's totally free of ulterior motives. It's very touching."
The more than $1 million raised for the project came from 117 doctors that knew and worked with Dr. Einstein. The lives he has touched reach across the globe, including the people he has touched here, such as Carmen Langfield who was treated by Dr. Einstein for Valley Fever in the 1960s.
"He was caring. He didn't just leave you that way. He checked up on you and he made sure that in the end everything was taken care of. You don't find doctors like that anymore. He gave his all to everybody. He was there and he knew what he was doing. He had a big heart. He took care of everyone," recalled Langfield.
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Delmarva Braces For Sandy's Brunt
With Hurricane Sandy expected to make landfall around their region, stations covering the so-called Delmarva Peninsula, incorporating parts of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, are prepping for a rough night.
Delaware has announced a state of emergency, which means no cars on the road–expect official vehicles and the media. In Salisbury, Maryland, residents are asked to stay off the roads.
WMDT Salisbury currently has power and a dry basement, though it is prepared for anything.
“It is all hands on deck,” says Kathleen Mclain, general manager at WMDT, of her news crew of 25. “Or in the field, I should say.”
WMDT is getting some assists from its corps of “Weather Watchers”–25-30 weather aficionados in the market who pitch in with photos and readings around market No. 144.
Mclain says the true test will occur tonight, when the storm makes landfall and the winds pick up. With the trees still retaining lots of leaves (though that’s changing by the minute) and the region’s sandy soil, it will make for lots of downed limbs, and entire trees.
“We’re keeping out fingers crossed,” she says. “We take our responsibility to keep the community safe very seriously.”
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Temperatures to hit 29°C tomorrow as the UK laps up September sunshine
BEACHES and theme parks were packed today as temperatures soared to 28°C, sparking a £760million tourism bonanza.
Tomorrow is set to see temperatures nudge 29°C (84°F) - making it hotter here than in Mexico and leaving us verging on the hottest September day for six years.
Today's heatwave has made the UK three degrees hotter than both Mexico City and Naxos in Greece (both 26°C).
If the mercury pushes to 29.3°C tomorrow it would make it the hottest September day since Heathrow recorded 30.2°C on September 11, 2006.
MeteoGroup forecaster Andy Ratcliffe said: "We're expecting Sunday to see 28°C in London and East Anglia, and we could squeeze a 29°C where the sun shines longest."
MeteoGroup said even Yorkshire would enjoy up to 26°C - but Scotland and the far West will see only 17°C with cloud and occasional showers.
A rush of hot air from the continent is sending temperatures soaring up to 11°C hotter than average September highs of 18°C.
The September sizzle is seeing beaches double their usual autumn visitor numbers after sunlovers were kept at home by the wettest summer for 100 years.
A surge of last-minute bookings and day trips means Brits' average weekend tourism spend of £380million is also expected to double to £760million.
Brighton beach was packed with 200,000 weekend visitors descending on the south coast hotspot - all 12,500 hotel beds were fully booked.
A resort spokeswoman said: "We're busier than summer after a rush of late bookings."
Bournemouth expected 100,000 weekend sunseekers as ice cream sales rocketed.
Hoteliers' chief Andy Woodland said: "It's great for accommodation providers and all traders."
Blackpool is enjoying its busiest week of the year as 150,000 weekend revellers enjoy sunny spells, illuminations and fireworks.
A spokesperson said: "It's our busiest time of year and the weather's helped."
Sainsbury's said weekend burger sales quadrupled and lager, cider and rose wine sales shot up 30 per cent.
Asda expected to sell 940,000 burgers and 435,000 sausages over the weekend, up 25 per cent.
Around 800,000 Thames Festival weekend revellers were sweltering, while 50,000 fans saw Kylie add sparkle to the Last Night of the Proms concert in Hyde Park and 55,000 partied at Bestival, Isle of Wight.
Fan Tom Kiss tweeted: "Perfect sunshine, pumping music, quaffing cider."
Paralympics fans will enjoy ore good weather for tonight's closing ceremony.
But brollies will soon be needed again as the Met Office said showers would hit many parts from Monday, with temperatures falling to just 18C by Tuesday.
The Mountain Weather Information Service said Scotland - which had its first snow of winter in August in the Cairngorms - is due its first widespread mountain snow from Monday across Scottish peaks.
And The Weather Channel warned the tail end of Hurricane Leslie would strengthen a low pressure system set to soak Scotland by midweek.
The Met Office said there is a risk of 50mph severe gales in the North later in the week.
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POSTED: 10:22 a.m. HST, Jun 01, 2012
LAST UPDATED: 10:25 a.m. HST, Jun 01, 2012
LOS ANGELES >> It's a spectacle that won't repeat for another century — the sight of Venus slowly inching across the face of the sun.
So unless scientists discover the fountain of youth, none of us alive today will likely ever witness this celestial phenomenon again, dubbed a "transit of Venus."
It's so unique that museums and schools around the globe are hosting Venus viewing festivities — all for a chance to see our star sport a fleeting beauty mark. Even astronauts aboard the International Space Station plan to observe the event.
The drama unfolds Tuesday afternoon from the Western Hemisphere.
Skygazers who want the full experience are flocking to Hawaii, considered one of the prime viewing spots since the whole transit will be visible. From the world-famous Waikiki Beach on Oahu to the summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island, eclipse glasses will be passed out so that people can safely see Venus crossing without damaging their eyes.
Just remember to have patience.
"There's no one big climactic moment. It takes longer to happen" than a solar or lunar eclipse, said Larry O'Hanlon, who does outreach at the W.M. Keck Observatory on the Big Island.
Venus will appear as a small black dot gliding across the disk of the sun. As in a solar eclipse, do not stare directly at the sun; wear special protective glasses.
The entire transit, lasting 6 hours and 40 minutes, will be visible from the western Pacific, eastern Asia and eastern Australia.
Skywatchers in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, and the northern part of South America will see the beginning of the show before the sun sets. Europe, western and central Asia, eastern Africa and western Australia will catch the tail end after sunrise. Those who don't want to leave their homes can follow live webcasts by NASA and various observatories.
"Anything silhouetted on the sun looks interesting. Seeing Venus is extremely rare," said astronomer Anthony Cook of the Griffith Observatory.
Perched on the south slope of Mount Hollywood in Los Angeles, the observatory is girding for heavy traffic Tuesday afternoon as throngs were expected to peer through telescopes with special filters set up on the lawn.
The second planet from the sun between Mercury and Earth, Venus is about the same size as Earth. It appears as one of the brightest objects in the night sky because its thick clouds reflect much of the sunlight back into space.
There will be no obvious change to the brightness of the sky during the event; Venus only blocks out a tiny fraction of the sun.
"You have to know it's happening," said David DeVorkin, a senior curator at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.
Venus is the third celestial show to grace the sky in less than a month. Just a day earlier, a partial lunar eclipse will be visible from western North America, South America, Australia and eastern Asia. And there was the much-hyped "ring of fire" solar eclipse on May 20.
Unlike eclipses, Venus transits are truly rare. They come in pairs, separated by more than 100 years. The last one occurred in 2004 and next pair in 2117 and 2125.
Since the German astronomer Johannes Kepler first predicted it in the 17th century, only six have been observed. The upcoming one will be the seventh.
Only two people were said to have seen the transit of 1639. The 1882 transit was a bigger deal — people jammed the sidewalks of New York City and paid 10 cents to peek through a telescope. John Philip Sousa even composed a score called "Transit of Venus March."
The one in 2004 was viewed by millions — in person and online.
University of Alabama astronomer William Keel was determined not to miss the 2004 transit, the first one in 122 years. But he only caught 45 minutes of the action before clouds rolled in. This time, he plans to set up telescopes on the roof and hopes for clear skies.
The early Venus viewings were a big deal to scientists who used the alignment to measure the size of our solar system. The technique is still used today to search for alien worlds outside our solar system.
Highlights of Bishop Museum’s Transit of Venus Festival on June 5
For Hawaii, the transit of Venus will start at 12:09 p.m. on June 5 and end at 6:42 p.m. Bishop Museum has planned a host of programs for the celestial event:
>> During the festival the museum will offer showings of the full-dome show “When Venus Transits the Sun” (30 minutes) at 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m, 1:30 p.m., and 3:30 p.m. This planetarium show from Bays Mountain Planetarium explores the nature of the transit of Venus and covers the famous 1769 expedition of Captain Cook to observe the transit from Tahiti.
>> The museum will also debut a new dome program called “Rekindling Venus” (22 minutes) which will show at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. on June 5. Bishop Museum is taking part in the international debut of this program. “Rekindling Venus” is not primarily about astronomy but rather about the sea; the program immerses the viewer in the intricate, complex life of the marine environment.
>> Also, the live sky tour “The Sky Tonight” is scheduled for 12:30 and 4:30 p.m. (30 minutes)
>> At 10:45 a.m. and 2 p.m., Michael Chauvin will present a talk titled “A Transit of Venus and a Transient Romance: Bernice Pauahi Bishop and Chester Smith Lyman.” Chauvin will discuss the 1874 transit of Venus from Hawaii, the topic of his Bishop Museum Press book “Hokuloa: The British 1874 Transit of Venus Expedition to Hawaii.”
>> At 11:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Gareth Wynn-Williams, professor of astronomy, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii at Manoa, will discuss the transit. Wynn-Williams will discuss the history of transits of Venus overall, and provide an overview of the 2012 event.
>> At 1:00 and 3:45 p.m., Paul Coleman of the Institute for Astronomy will give a talk on “Astronomy and the Transit of Venus in Hawaii”. Coleman will discuss how astronomy in general, and the transit of Venus in particular, are important in the history of Hawaii.
>> At 3:00 p.m., Peter Mouginis-Mark, of the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, UH-Manoa will talk about “The Geology of Venus.”
>> Volunteers from the Hawaii Astronomical Society will be on campus from noon to 5 p.m. with their telescopes, to allow safe viewing of the transit through solar filters.
>> A performance of John Phillips Sousa’s “Transit of Venus March” at 12:45 p.m.
>> “Venus: The World Beneath the Clouds” (20 min), a new program for Science on a Sphere, allows visitors to explore our sister planet Venus at 11 a.m., 1 p.m., and 3 p.m.
Before June 5
In addition to the events on June 5, the museum will offer this additional programming in the run up to the transit:
>> Daily (except Tuesdays) from May 26-June 4: “When Venus Transits the Sun.” This full dome planetarium program about the transit will be shown at 2:30 daily except Tuesdays (30 minutes.) The program is included in regular admission to the museum.
>> Weekend of June 2-3: Special programming for the weekend before the transit. Programs are included in regular museum admission. The programs include: Staff from NASA Goddard’s Space Flight Center talk about the transit of Venus (at 1 p.m. at Atherton Halau); the planetarium show “When Venus Transits the Sun” at 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.; the Science on a Sphere program “Venus Below the Clouds” at 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Source: Bishop Museum
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Release Date: 3/11/2013
Carmen Chinchilla, a 2009 Ozarks graduate, has always felt a calling to work for the good of others. Now, she is fulfilling that calling as director of development for Hillside Health Care International, a non-profit organization that provides medical services to impoverished areas of Belize.
Chinchilla, originally from Honduras, graduated from Ozarks with a degree in political science and English. She then went on to earn a graduate degree in international development at the University of Denver in Colorado.
Carmen Chinchilla, a 2009 Ozarks graduate, is working in Little Rock, Ark., as director of development for Hillside Health Care International.
"I've always had an interest in international relations. And, being from Honduras, I've always wanted to be in a position where I could help others who are living in poverty," Chinchilla said. "My graduate studies taught me the theoretical aspect of poverty alleviation in an international setting but also the skills I needed to work in that sector. I was very fortunate and blessed that despite the economy at the time, I was hired within two months after graduation by Hillside Health Care International."
Chinchilla works out of her Little Rock, Ark., home for Hillside, which has its international headquarters in Wisconsin. The organization offers a free-health clinic in an extremely underprivileged section of southern Belize where the people have little to no access to medical services.
"The clinic is located in a very impoverished district of the country, and as is true in most developing countries, areas that are not close to main cities do not receive as many important government services, such as healthcare," Chinchilla said.
"Hillside is able to provide free primary care to thousands who would not otherwise be able to afford it. We also provide many services that are not available in the area, such as home care nursing, physical therapy, and dental varnish programs for school-aged children. Hillside volunteers also take mobile clinics to more remote villages where the Belizean Ministry of Health does not have the resources to reach. One other very important aspect of our clinic is that we hire and train Belizeans to work at the clinic, as well as have a student loan fund available to our workers who wish to pursue a degree in medical care," she explained.
Chinchilla believes in Hillside's mission and the crucial service they provide in Belize. While her position as director of development is more behind the scenes, her work is vital to their success.
"Non-profits can never have enough donations to support the good works they do," she said. "Hillside is no different. As director of development, I am in charge of fundraising at Hillside. Among other things, I am responsible for the organization's fundraising efforts through annual campaigns, events, grant research and writing, and donor outreach. At this moment, we are working on a March Madness-themed fundraiser that our basketball fan supporters really love."
Chinchilla said that she could not have gotten where she is today without the support of her Ozarks family.
"I know this may sound like a cliché, but I would say the entire Ozarks experience was invaluable. The organizations I joined, my courses and professors, internships, and even the C-minus I received for an art class all taught me valuable lessons I needed to learn. Ozarks did a great job of preparing me for my future," she explained.
In fact, Chinchilla's ultimate goal is to provide others in her home country with similar opportunities for higher education.
"I hope to in the future be able to create or join a nonprofit that provides university loans to students in Honduras," she said. "The United States is very fortunate to have government subsidized loans available to people who want to further their education. However, these types of loans are not really available in many developing countries, such as Honduras."
Chinchilla advised other Ozarks students to never take for granted what Ozarks offers. "Ozarks is full of experiences and opportunities that are just waiting for you to seize them. Don't miss out," she said.
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Archive for September, 2010
From Follow the Way of Love More and more, fathers have been discovering how their involvement in parenting enriches both their children and themselves.
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Here is a book for anyone who has experienced a marital affair. “Getting Past the Affair” deals with the immediate trauma of an affair, examines factors that made the relationship vulnerable to an affair and guides the partners in making decisions about the future.
“Grief is the price we pay for love.” (Diana Lampen) When a stranger is rude, or gets sick or dies, we feel bad but move on. When the same thing happens with a spouse, child, or close friend, it hurts much more and longer. We hurt because we love.
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Travel: The Big Easy Is BackNew Orleans is no longer struggling to recover from Hurricane Katrina. Instead, the Crescent City is alive and kicking—and the place for upscale travelers to visit this winter.
Photo: Steve Allen/Getty Images
"Hurricane Katrina didn't destroy our culture. There is an irrepressible vibrancy to the culture here and a spirit of expression that is renewed since the flood," says Kevin Molony, a singer and founder of the Royal Insider (royalinsider.com), a company that organizes customized trips for luxury travelers. Kevin is also a die-hard New Orleanian. "Yes, it was an enormous life-changing experience for every single person," he says of the terrible event in 2005 that killed 1,464 people, left more than 10,000 homeless and created about $81.2 billion in damages. "But it was the catalyst for new creativity in food, arts and the music that we live and breathe by," Kevin says.
That renaissance makes New Orleans the hottest destination du jour. Although "80 percent of the city was flooded," at one point, according to Mary Beth Romig, director of communications for the New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau, the devastation was a call to arms for many New Orleans natives to reinvest in their beloved Big Easy.
In May 2005 Slade Rushing and Allison Vines-Rushing left their jobs as chefs at Jack's Luxury Oyster Bar in New York. The pair packed up and headed south, opening a restaurant on Common Street soon after. "I'm from Louisiana and Slade is from Mississippi," Allison says. "It was natural for us to come back to where we know and are from. And to stay when this city needed support."
"Following Hurricane Katrina, we didn't have any incoming business for six months," adds Kevin, who lives in the French Quarter, just a block from Jackson Square. "But people barely left Bourbon Street before the hurricane hit. Now we are seeing more discerning travelers who want to explore the luxury and culture of New Orleans." Why? Many upscale establishments used the lull in business to carry out major upgrades. The Ritz-Carlton closed for 15 months post-Katrina for a $150 million renovation. Its spa was enlarged to 25,000 square feet, with 22 treatment rooms, and stocked with swanky Prada products.
Meanwhile, the genteel Maison Dupuy Hotel dreamed up a new concierge service. Today, no demand is too over-the-top: One couple requested a flock of albino peacocks for their wedding last year and the staff was happy to oblige. And in June 2009, the $100 million–plus Roosevelt Hotel, a renovated Art Deco tower, will open as part of the Waldorf-Astoria chain.
Photo: Courtesy Ritz-Carlton
So it's no surprise that tourism in New Orleans more than doubled between 2006 (3.1 million visitors) and 2007 (7.3 millin). It's still down from the pre-Katrina number of about 10 million a year, but the New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau anticipates that this year numbers will be well up again. And "people are spending more while visiting," Mary Beth adds.
The new, more luxe New Orleans has lured a host of boldfacers from the Big Apple recently: Martha Stewart, Russell Simmons, Tommy Hilfiger and Steve Madden have all visited in the past few months. And the rich and famous aren't just visiting the Big Easy these days—they're also living there. "Even when we are troubled, we are so hospitable here it is sickening!" says Irma Thomas, a Grammy Award–winning soul singer and longtime New Orleans resident. "People who come here get filled with love for this city and end up moving here."
In fact, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie bought a home on Decatur Street in the French Quarter in January 2007, living there while Brad filmed The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Nicolas Cage, Lenny Kravitz and John Goodman all have homes in the city, while Ugly Betty actor Eric Mabius and his interior-designer wife, Ivy, moved to New Orleans 18 months before Hurricane Katrina and live in the Garden District with their two boys. "New Orleans is our country's greatest asset. Culturally speaking, it's the center of our country," Eric says.
Celebrity chef (and owner of three New Orleans restaurants) Emeril Lagasse moved to the Big Easy to jump-start his culinary career back in 1982. "It was an instant love for me and my wife," says Emeril, who originally comes from Fall River, Massachusetts. "It's the architecture, the food of course, the music, but mostly, it was the people." While he spends a lot of his time in New York now, Emeril considers New Orleans home, especially after Katrina. "I'm trying to spend more time here. There is a lot of great promise for this city. It's come a long way from where it was," he says.
It's the bonhomie that draws most folks to the Crescent City. "Life here is reduced to two things—music and food—no matter where you're from, what you do, what your politics are," Eric says. Mardi Gras (which, pre-Katrina, attracted a million revelers) is New Orleans' greatest example of its infamous love of a shindig. In 2006, the year after Katrina, 700,000 people attended the bacchanal, but in the last two years, the crowd has reached close to 800,000 and area hotels reported a 95 percent occupancy rate throughout the final weekend of the party. This year, even more partygoers are expected to hit town when the celebration starts on February 13.
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The French Quarter, with its quaint streets, is still the quintessential enclave for eating and drinking in the city. "There's something in the water and the soil that makes the food different," Emeril says. "People here don't eat to live, they live to eat."
"It's the most difficult place to be vegan in the world," adds hip-hop magnate Russell Simmons. "I have found a lot of vegan food and vegan jambalaya, but the other food is so attractive!"
But post-Katrina, another enclave has emerged as a trendy hot spot. Faubourg Marigny (faubourg is French for "suburb") is downriver and next to the French Quarter. Bohemian even by New Orleans standards, it is known for its eclectic shotgun-style homes, now popular with hip homeowners priced out of the French Quarter in recent years.
The 'hood boasts charming remnants of the city's industrial past too: The Hubigs Pies' factory still operates, while an old coffee-roasting facility now provides a home for the city's artists and musicians. And an urban renewal project has grand plans to revitalize the entire riverfront of the suburb in the coming months.
Frenchman Street, in the heart of Faubourg Marigny, is where live music spills out from the strip of bars and clubs. The always-packed Spotted Cat is known for live gypsy jazz. "Faubourg Marigny is so hip it's in danger of becoming too popular!" Kevin says. "It's historic, affordable and low-key. No gentrification means all sorts of lifestyles are welcomed without judgment. In addition to many artist types, you'll find a voodoo peristyle [place of worship] where ceremonies take place every week and whose mambo [priestess] is a prominent and well-loved citizen."
"More restaurants are opening up now than ever in history," continues Kevin about New Orleans in general. And the rebirth of imaginative mixology can be attributed to many of the city's innovative bartenders. "There are new spins on the French 75, the Sazerac, the mint julep, the Pimm's Cup," lists Kevin, who suggests new French Quarter bar Iris for trying up-to-the-minute takes on old classics.
No matter where you go in the city for Southern comfort, you'll be treated well, says Eugenia Rainey, a guide for the Haunted History Tours, a two-hour excursion that visits cemeteries (including one where fictional Interview With the Vampire character Lestat de Lioncourt has a plot). It also includes drives by John Goodman's double gallery–style abode (previously owned by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor) and New York Giant Eli Manning's childhood home, a shotgun-style house on First Street. Halfway through her jaunt, Eugenia stops at the corner of First and Chestnut Streets, where Interview author Anne Rice used to live—and relates every tragic detail of the writer's private life. "That's New Orleans for you," Eugenia says. "A warm greeting followed by the dirt on everyone."
How to Party Like a Pro in New Orleans
Photo: Courtesy Café Du Monde
A beignet (essentially a French doughnut) and a cup of chicory coffee are a good start to a morning in New Orleans. Try Rue de la Course (3121 Magazine St.; 504-899-0242) or the iconic Café Du Monde (800 Decatur St.; 504-525-4544).
Streetcars are a romantic way to get around and feel like you're a part of the city. (In the Lower Ninth Ward, you'll find the street named Desire, where the famed streetcar ran.) Take one to Magazine Street, the six-mile funky shopping road where charming clothing boutiques, jewelry shops and antiques are housed in adorable Creole cottages.
Make a point of visiting Central Grocery (923 Decatur St.; 504-523-1620), the birthplace of the muffuletta, a sandwich of Sicilian bread covered with marinated olive salad, capicola, salami, mortadella, Emmentaler and provolone.
For an authentic local experience, Ugly Betty's Eric Mabius has a suggestion. "Go to Big Fisherman [3301 Magazine St.; 504-897-9907;
bigfishermanseafood.com], get 10 pounds of crawfish to go and go down to 'the Fly' [a river lookout facing the Mississippi River] with a daiquiri and watch the boats go by. That's the best thing ever to do."
Photo: Robert Holmes/CORBIS
For an injection of culture, visit the sculpture garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art in City Park (1 Collins Diboll Cir.; 504-658-4100; noma.org), filled with 20th-century and contemporary sculptures by artists like Antoine Bourdelle and Henry Moore. The Ogden Museum of Southern Art (925 Camp St.; 504-539-9600; ogdenmuseum.org) is well worth a stop too—and hosts after-hours performances by local bands like the New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars.
Burn off all that good food and drink on one of the Garden District's walking tours. There are a half-dozen, including trips to the secret gardens dotted around the city.
Where to Stay
Since its post-flood renovation, the Marriott Renaissance Pere Marquette Hotel (817 Common St.; 504-525-1111) ranks as the chicest Marriott in New Orleans, complete with an outdoor pool. Standard rooms start at $99 a night and suites top out at $750. Windsor Court (300 Gravier St.; 504-523-6000; windsorcourthotel.com) is Tommy Hilfiger's hotel of choice post-Katrina. "I dig the whole ambience of the French Quarter, where we're close to all that food and the antique shops," the fashion designer says. Rooms cost from $370 to $3,700 (for the penthouse) per night.
Degas House (2306 Esplanade Ave.; 504-821-5009; degashouse.com) is the former home of French Impressionist Edgar Degas, and is filled with reproductions of the artist's work and his journals. Each room is delightful: Desiree has a two-person Jacuzzi; Estelle boasts a Victorian claw-foot tub and is lit with a chandelier. Rates start at $149 a night.
Where to Eat and Drink
Slade Rushing and Allison Vines-Rushing were named two "chefs to watch" in Esquire magazine last year. At their restaurant, MiLa (817 Common St.; 504-412-2580), the menu changes according to what's freshest and in season. Mother's (401 Poydras St.; 504-523-9656; mothersrestaurant.net) has been dubbed the "world's best ham" restaurant, and it serves up thousands of pounds of the other white meat every year. Shoe designer Steve Madden loves the gumbo. "There's only one on the menu and it's fantastic," he exclaims.
At August's, (301 Tchoupitoulas St.; 504-299-9777; rest-august.com) James Beard Award–winning chef John Besh keeps his ingredients Louisiana local: Since Hurricane Katrina, he's spearheaded a movement for New Orleans eateries urging them to use homegrown produce.
New Orleans is a three-hour flight from New York.
JetBlue, Delta and Continental Airlines fly from Newark, JFK and LaGuardia for about $200 round-trip. An airport shuttle to the French Quarter is $15 each way; a taxi is approximately $30. And there is still time to book flights and accommodations for Mardi Gras, according to the New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau. | <urn:uuid:6b0fc430-759d-4498-96f6-1cf2ea7f9e59> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nypost.com/pagesixmag/issues/20090125/Travel+Big+Easy+Back | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937439 | 2,942 | 1.59375 | 2 |
The TM01 features the only aerobar attachment system that combines structural adjustability and a streamlined shape. The nose extending off the front of the BMC is a modular stem assembled with three independent shim pieces. These pieces—one wedge, one short rectangle and one long rectangle—can be swapped or removed to change the bike’s fit. The final piece, which can be flipped to adjust fit, clamps a standard aerobar to the bike. The Profile Design T2+ BMC spec’ed on the bike is also highly adjustable and well- suited to more upright positions. Although this system cannot reach fits as tall as some aerobar attachment systems, it creates a remarkably sleek and thin structure that can be micro-adjusted to cover a multitude of positions in an exceptionally stiff package.
Although BMC only produces the TM01 in four sizes, it squeezes two distinctly different fit styles into those frame sizes. Three of the four sizes have fit coordinates that are slightly aggressive but not extraordinarily demanding. These three frames fit the same riding style. Combined with BMC’s stem system and the ability to use any aerobar, these frames can cover a broad range of fit coordinates without compromising ride quality. We tested the stem assembly in the tallest configuration and found it to be extremely stiff.
Many new tri bikes are being designed with geometry that allows the rider to sit in a position that is more upright than the three standard frame sizes allow. BMC acknowledges that some triathletes ride positions that are more upright than these three sizes are designed to reach, and it has a unique strategy to meet the needs of triathletes who cannot fit these bikes. Although the fourth size has identical features and shapes, its geometry is remarkably different from the other three. It might have the most upright frame geometry of any triathlon frame. It certainly opens this bike to athletes without the ability to ride low, but only for the select few who fit that fourth frame size. Currently the M-S is the only model offered with this geometry scheme.
The TM01 conforms to the regulations imposed by cycling’s governing body, the UCI. Its tube shapes aren’t outrageously deep, and the frame lacks integrated hydration or storage options. Despite restricting the design to the limits of another sport, the TM01 still boasts features triathletes can take advantage of. The tube shapes are all truncated airfoils, piggybacking on the Kamm tail shapes Trek brought to the world of cycling with the Speed Concept, with a raised segment at the leading edge. BMC asserts this helps reduce drag at wide yaw angles by preventing the passing air from fluttering away from the tube longer.
The integrated brakes—BMC’s own design—are essentially old-school mountain bike-style brakes. These V- brake style stoppers have two arms that pivot about an axle on each fork blade when the cable, strung along the top, pulls the arms against the rim. This structure creates a more powerful stopping feel than most integrated calipers, and the arms blend back into the bike when the rider is on the gas. It has no integrated storage features, except for the Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 battery. | <urn:uuid:ddea2e65-5a80-450b-9bb4-b9cb19165950> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://triathlete-europe.competitor.com/2012/05/18/tri-bike-review-bmc-tm01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931155 | 655 | 1.554688 | 2 |
The first case against Donald comes from Germany. Will there be more to follow?
New legal documents, to be filed next week with Germany’s top prosecutor, will seek a criminal investigation and prosecution of Rumsfeld, along with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA director George Tenet and other senior U.S. civilian and military officers, for their alleged roles in abuses committed at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison and at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The plaintiffs in the case include 11 Iraqis who were prisoners at Abu Ghraib, as well as Mohammad al-Qahtani, a Saudi held at Guantanamo, whom the U.S. has identified as the so-called “20th hijacker” and a would-be participant in the 9/11 hijackings. As TIME first reported in June 2005, Qahtani underwent a “special interrogation plan,” personally approved by Rumsfeld, which the U.S. says produced valuable intelligence. But to obtain it, according to the log of his interrogation and government reports, Qahtani was subjected to forced nudity, sexual humiliation, religious humiliation, prolonged stress positions, sleep deprivation and other controversial interrogation techniques.
So why in Germany?
Germany was chosen for the court filing because German law provides “universal jurisdiction” allowing for the prosecution of war crimes and related offenses that take place anywhere in the world. Indeed, a similar, but narrower, legal action was brought in Germany in 2004, which also sought the prosecution of Rumsfeld. The case provoked an angry response from Pentagon, and Rumsfeld himself was reportedly upset. Rumsfeld’s spokesman at the time, Lawrence DiRita, called the case a “a big, big problem.” U.S. officials made clear the case could adversely impact U.S.-Germany relations, and Rumsfeld indicated he would not attend a major security conference in Munich, where he was scheduled to be the keynote speaker, unless Germany disposed of the case. The day before the conference, a German prosecutor announced he would not pursue the matter, saying there was no indication that U.S. authorities and courts would not deal with allegations in the complaint.
In bringing the new case, however, the plaintiffs argue that circumstances have changed in two important ways. Rumsfeld’s resignation, they say, means that the former Defense Secretary will lose the legal immunity usually accorded high government officials. Moreover, the plaintiffs argue that the German prosecutor’s reasoning for rejecting the previous case â€â€? that U.S. authorities were dealing with the issue â€â€? has been proven wrong.
It’s going to be an interesting couple months…and I wonder what Christopher Hitchens has to say…
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January 07, 2011
Shuttle launch dates still uncertain
If you're planning to go see one of last launches of the Space Shuttle, you'll need to move to Florida or keep your schedule flexible this spring.
The last flight of Discovery, STS-133, originally planned for November, has now been delayed to at least the last week of February--no earlier than February 24. The window remains open until March 6.
The repairs to the big orange external tank couldn't be completed by the earlier Feb. 3 launch window.
No word on the possible launch date for STS-134, the last flight of Endeavour. That had been tentatively planned for the first week of April if Discovery launched the first week of February.
The third shuttle, Atlantis, which flew the last mission in May of 2010, is in the Orbiter Processing Facility at KSC being prepared for a possible rescue flight designated STS-335. Congress authorized a final flight with Atlantis which was tentatively slated for June 2011, but no funding was made available for this flight.
Updates on the shuttles are available on the NASA Shuttle site: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html.
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To the stars,
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Steve and Jackie Smith were early adopters of geothermal energy in the 6,000-square-foot home they built in Prairie Grove in 2002. Their three geothermal units provide almost all the heating and cooling, as well as hot water, they need in their McHenry County house.
"Since we were building a bigger house, we thought a geothermal energy system would reduce our impact on the environment," said Steve Smith.
It also slashed the couple's monthly energy expenses. Smith estimated they spend about $200 per month of their electricity bill on running the compressors and pumps of the geothermal system, compared to possibly $100 more per month if they had gone the traditional natural-gas route.
When the system doesn't generate enough heat on the coldest days, electric coils built into the units kick in to provide the boost they need, said Smith.
Using geothermal energy to heat and cool your house is about 500 percent more efficient than natural gas and can save homeowners 20 percent to 70 percent on their monthly energy bills, said Sachin Anand, a mechanical engineer and principal at dbHMS, a Chicago firm that designs heating and cooling systems. That offsets its installation costs, which are higher than a traditional heating and cooling system.
"With oil [flirting with] $100 a barrel and natural gas prices rising, there's a lot of concern about energy consumption for homeowners," said Keith Dinehart, vice president of marketing and sales at Goldberg General Contracting, a local residential and commercial builder using these systems in a handful of projects. "Application of this technology isn't out of reach anymore for the average homeowner. It costs far less than the Euro kitchen you're planning to throw in."
Besides, it's a renewable resource.
Getting thermal energy out of the ground requires a small amount of electricity to raise or lower the temperature and pump it through the home via ductwork or radiant floors, a network of pipes just below the flooring. A geothermal heat pump replaces a furnace, taking up the same amount of space.
Some Chicago architects and engineers report inquiries about geothermal systems have increased."Last year was the tipping point in how people talked about energy efficiency," says Doug Farr, an architect and president of Farr Associates, who recently wrote a book, "Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature," published by John Wiley & Sons. "Three years ago, it was rare that anyone would raise the issue of geothermal energy. Now we get clients who say they want a green home and geothermal increasingly comes up as one of the technologies they ask about."
Since 2005, 14 Chicago homes have received fast-track permits from the City of Chicago's Green Permit Program that have included a geothermal system, said Richard Rodriguez, commissioner of the Department of Buildings.
The cost of these systems can present a drawback for some homeowners. Depending on the size of your home and the number of holes that must be drilled into the ground, a geothermal system can run about $17,000, said Anand, with the payback taking up to 10 years.
Currently, only about 10 companies in the Chicago area install the systems, said Anand. He foresees a significant decline in prices and increase in providers here in the next five years.
Michael Yannell, a self-described environmentalist, said he was tired of spending $500 a month to heat his 3,600-square-foot home in Lakeview with natural gas. Yannell, a clinical pharmacist at Rush University Medical Center, last year decided to rid himself of the "energy-hog home."
So the 43-year-old is building a 2,700-square-foot house in Ravenswood that will incorporate many forms of renewable energy, including geothermal.
Jonathan Boyer, a principal at Farr Associates and the architect in charge of the project, says it's expected to be one of the first homes in Chicago that produces more energy than it consumes -- a "net-zero energy" home.
The well-insulated home will have solar panels on the roof and huge windows facing south for passive solar energy. In the yard, drillers have dug nine wells, each about 250 feet deep that will connect to heat pumps in the house to supply radiant heat and cool air, said Boyer. Other features include a green roof and specially designed walls that store energy in a thermal space that's emitted at night.
The house is pricey at about $500 to $600 per square foot, or at least $1.3 million, Yannell said. That compares with a typical home with conventional heating and cooling systems that costs about $160 to $175 per square foot. The higher price tag also includes photovoltaic solar panels, a gray water system, and other sustainable features. (So the cost of Yannell's home is approximately 2.5 to 3 times the cost of a traditional single-family home.)
However, Anand says Yannel should start recouping his renewable energy investments in about seven years -- sooner than most homes with geothermal -- since he'll be generating his own electricity to run the system. The home won't even have a hook-up for natural gas, he said.
On some colder, darker days, the home will draw some electricity from an outside source (such as Commonwealth Edison). However, on other sunnier, warmer days, the design team anticipates the home's photovoltaic panels will generate more electricity than the home needs and will send some of that energy back onto the "grid" for ComEd use for other customers.
They expect the home ultimately will send more electricity back to the provider than it will use in a year's time (hence the description "net-zero energy" home).
"I wanted to make changes in my life where I could have a big impact on reducing consumption of fossil fuels," Yannell said. "The natural heat of the earth is unlimited, and it's clean."
Here, here, says Julian Dawson, an architect and structural engineer keen on reducing his carbon footprint.
He moved into a 2,000-square-foot home in Bronzeville last December that he designed to run largely on renewable energy, including geothermal.
The house cost about $300 per square foot, or about $600,000, Dawson said. He estimated the same home using conventional heating and cooling would cost about $245 per square foot. In his calculation, he excluded the geothermal system, as well as the photovoltaic solar panels, higher-grade insulation, solar water heating system and insulated shutters.
The geothermal system, which he plans to use as a backup heating-and-cooling source, cost only $9,000. Without passive solar energy, Dawson estimated he'd have to spend closer to $18,000 on his geothermal system, but the home would have cost significantly less.
Geothermal is not just for new construction, as existing ductwork can be retrofitted to a geothermal system, said Anand. The challenges generally lie in where to drill the holes for the ground loops in small Chicago lots.
Geothermal systems also are beginning to crop up in multifamily dwellings around Chicago. An upscale, 22-unit condo slated to break ground in late spring is Deming on the Green, which touts geothermal radiant heat as one of its eco-friendly attractions, according to Scott Borstein, an attorney representing Silverleaf Development Corp. The apartments, steps away from Lincoln Park, range in price from $500,000 to $3.3 million. Assessments will range from $125 to $800 per month, he said.
Kevork Derderian and his wife Rolanda purchased a penthouse unit in the building after scouring the city for a condo with renewable energy features.
"We were looking for value over the long-term," said Derderian, a real estate developer and an originating board member of the U.S. Green Building Council. "We bought in a high-end designed building, but we know that geothermal will help keep our assessments low, as well as [lower] energy costs for our own unit." | <urn:uuid:26c88b64-48e9-4958-bc6c-04432f3e1b15> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kansascw.com/kscw/lifestyle/chi-0802070714feb10,0,6485477.story | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00072-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963742 | 1,689 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Last week, at a lecture in which David Wolfe, creative director of The Doneger Group, spoke about Spring 2009 trends, he began with the topic of appropriation. Nothing new can come of fashion, he warned us, and consequentially appropriation will be a great battle in the years to come. Also touched upon, was Wolfe's articulation that one of the most interesting ways for designers to find newness is to look to art and architecture for inspiration. There, he said, newness is abundant.
A parallel story, in this narrative of appropriation, are artists like Richard Prince (who recently collaborated with Marc Jacobs, a designer not free of appropriation scrutiny) who recycles cultural material to make his own (even if it simply involves enlargement). Prince is not alone, that is, hundreds of Parson's and Chelsea College graduates are investing in their pop-saturated upbringing in this way (Parson's is also notorious for lecturing it's fashion students on the impossibility of newness, and the delicacies of fashion plagiarism), by openly sampling images or media to use as the basis of their work. The trick, it seems, is appropriating content from another medium.
Today we discovered another young artist in the Prince/Warhol gamut, Shane Bradford, pointed to us by our London-based Coutorture partner, StyleBubble. Bradford gives us more evidence of the entwining concept of property in art, where if only designers appropriated art (and not other designs), they'd be off the hook.
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"WELL, a parish in the eastern division of the wapentake of HANG, North riding of the county of YORK, comprising the townships of Snape and Well, and containing 1059 inhabitants, of which number, 370 are in the township of Well, 4 miles S. from Bedale. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Richmond and diocese of Chester, rated in the king's books at £8. 13. 7., endowed with £400 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £1100 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of Charles Chaplin, Esq. The church, dedicated to St James, contains several monuments of the lords of Snape. This place derived its name from a celebrated well, dedicated to St. Michael, which, at all times of the year, is supplied with water by a spring issuing from a rock. An hospital, in honour of St. Michael the Archangel, for a master, two priests, and twenty-four poor brethren and sisters, was founded here, in 1342, by Sir Ralph de Neville, Lord of Middleham, which at the dissolution had a revenue of £42.12. 3. Thomas, Earl of Exeter, in 1605, established a charity, called Neville's workhouse, for the maintenance of a master and mistress and twelve poor girls, the latter of whom are also educated. A school for boys, and another for girls, were founded here, and two others at Snape, in 1788, and are supported from these funds, which amount to about £100 per annum."
"SNAPE, a township in the parish of WELL, eastern division of the wapentake of HANG, North riding of the county of YORK, 8 miles S. fromBedale, containing 689 inhabitants, who are principally employed in wool-combing for the worsted-spinners in this part of the county. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. An almshouse for eight aged persons, and free schools for children of each sex, have been founded and liberally endowed by the Nevilles." | <urn:uuid:fc8e545f-cc59-4beb-8d9c-41f04e1c77e3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Well/Well35.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9658 | 442 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Independent International Interdisciplinary
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) conducts research on the conditions for peaceful relations between states, groups and people.
Researchers at PRIO work to identify new trends in global conflict, as well as to formulate and document new understandings of and responses to armed conflict. We seek to understand how people are impacted by, and cope with, armed conflict, and we study the normative foundations of peace and violence. Key questions on PRIO's research agenda are:
- Why do wars break out?
- How are wars sustained?
- What does it take to build durable peace?
PRIO is a leading institution in peace research, and strives to be at the cutting edge both analytically, and in the impact of peace research on policy and practice. | <urn:uuid:d9d5d6c5-16a7-40fe-8939-b3feaa12878c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.prio.no/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94003 | 160 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Information Technology Services
Computer Equipment Replacement
Effective as of the 1995-96 academic year, the University established a technology fee to be paid by all students for the purpose of "technology renewal and replacement." A major portion of this money is expended each year for the upgrading and/or replacement of personal computer, networking, infrastructure and computer laboratory equipment. The remaining money is held in reserve for major equipment (servers, telecommunication switches/routers, etc.) replacement.
The Office of the Dean of Information Technologies acts as the clearinghouse for requests dealing with office and computer laboratory upgrades/replacements. The requests are reviewed by the Technologies Advisory Committee that meets the first of the Fall Semester to prioritize requests for laboratory upgrades. Lab equipment is usually replaced on a rotational basis. Among the criteria influencing replacement decisions are the age of the lab equipment, student usage, and any special needs of the lab.
Also, during the Fall Semester the Committee solicits faculty and staff requests concerning the replacement of office computers and peripherals. This solicitation, usually conducted by e-mail, outlines procedures for making the requests. Upon recommendation by the Committee, the Dean of Information Technologies initiates equipment orders based on the amount of money available.
As the primary purpose of the technology fee is for equipment upgrades, discipline-specific software usually is not considered for order. The amount of the technology fee is insufficient to finance these software requests, which departmental and college budgets should ordinarily cover. | <urn:uuid:42c34626-94ad-4513-8377-54d1097422c0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://una.edu/its/computer-replacement-policy.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93633 | 297 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Grand Arcade Condos
Another example of a historic rehab, the Grand Arcade features 1-2 bedroom condominiums for resale. These condos are priced between about $95,000 for a one bedroom and about $180,000 for a two bedroom. They are perfect for someone who works downtown or simply wants to be in the middle of all the excitement and convenience the warehouse district has to offer. The best part is these condos provide that lifestyle at an affordable price. The only drawback to these units is that they don't include parking, but it is available right across the street for about $100/month.
History of the building compliments of warehousedistrict.org
Grand Arcade, City Mission (architect unknown, 1883) 408 St. Clair Avenue
Once the city's tallest structure in 1883, the Grand Arcade headquartered numerous iron ore and oil companies, as well as railroad lines and a manufacturer of industrial cleaners.
Note the balance of the horizontal and vertical elements on the main facade. This balance is achieved through the use of piers and stringcourse walls. Originally the Grand Arcade had an iron skylight that allowed natural light to reach most parts of the building's interior.
The building's owner, William C. Scofield, founded Scofield, Sherman, and Teagle, a pioneer firm in the oil industry and prominent competitor to John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil. By the 1890s, tenants included Pickands, Mather & Company (see Perry-Payne Building), Western Union Telegraph and the Phoenix Oil Company, a manufacturer of industrial and home cleaners, including Murphy's Oil Soap.
In the early 1930s, the building was occupied by the Standard Drug Company. By the 1940s, Standard Drug had become Cleveland's largest drug store chain. It vacated the Grand Arcade in 1961 when the company was purchased by Regal Drug Stores, which later became part of the Revco chain. Rehabilitated in the early 1990s, the Grand Arcade now houses apartments. | <urn:uuid:b09b8718-df55-4402-94ed-9dfb27e31ade> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.highrises.com/cleveland/grand-arcade-condos/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955161 | 409 | 1.53125 | 2 |
(CNN) -- From her seat on the stage at the World Economic Forum, Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi told a packed room what she was thinking as her plane prepared to land in Thailand for her first foreign trip in 24 years.
The Nobel laureate said she was sitting in the cockpit at the invitation of the pilot and was "completely fascinated" by the shimmering lights of Bangkok on the ground below.
"I thought, 30 years ago, the scene that met my eyes on landing in Bangkok would not have been very different from what would have met my eyes on landing in Rangoon. But now the difference is considerable," she said.
On leaving Myanmar three days ago for an historic trip to Thailand, Suu Kyi said locals were holding candlelight protests across the country against electricity cuts "that have been plaguing us for a month or so."
Of seeing the lights of Bangkok, Suu Kyi paused, smiled and said, "I have to say very frankly that what went through my mind is that 'we need an energy policy'."
A ripple of laughter and applause ran through the audience in recognition of Suu Kyi's enduring commitment to change in a country ruled for 50 years by a military junta. For many of those years, she was held under house arrest for daring to call for reforms.
During that time, Myanmar's moribund economy forced millions to leave the country in search of work in neighboring countries. Human rights groups estimate there are around three million Burmese migrants in Thailand alone.
Suu Kyi, the founder of Myanmar's National League for Democracy party, has received a celebrity's welcome on her first foreign trip since winning a seat in Parliament in April. Her ability to leave Myanmar safe in the knowledge she can return marks another step forward for a government which in the past two years has made a number of surprising concessions.
In the run-up to the first free and fair elections in decades, opposition parties were allowed to campaign. Suu Kyi was even given a platform on state television and radio.
In the months before, the government pardoned hundreds of political prisoners, secured a ceasefire with Karen rebels and agreed to negotiate with other ethnic rebel groups. The concessions prompted many Western governments to review their long-standing economic sanctions against the country.
However, despite all the changes, Suu Kyi has warned against what she called "reckless optimism" about the country's current pace of reform. "Optimism is good but it should be cautious optimism. I have come across reckless optimism. A little bit of healthy skepticism is in order," she said.
Suu Kyi said that the priorities for the country were basic education and the rule of law. "We need the kind of education that will allow people to make a decent living for themselves."
The NLD leader said Myanmar was not short of good laws, but that the country lacked a "clean and independent judicial system" to uphold them. She urged potential investors to keep that in mind so that any money plowed into the country aided, not hindered, its progress.
"We do not want investment to mean more possibilities for corruption," she said. "We do not want investment to mean greater inequality. And we do not want investment to mean greater privileges for those already privileged."
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- Marx’s Politics by Alan Gilbert
Martin Robertson, 326 pp, £16.50, August 1981, ISBN 0 85520 441 9
- The History of Marxism. Vol. 1: Marxism in Marx’s Day edited by Eric Hobsbawm
Harvester, 349 pp, £30.00, January 1982, ISBN 0 7108 0054 1
- Dialectic of Defeat: Contours of Western Marxism by Russell Jacoby
Cambridge, 202 pp, £15.80, January 1982, ISBN 0 521 23915 X
- Analytical Foundations of Marxian Economic Theory by John Roemer
Cambridge, 230 pp, £19.50, August 1981, ISBN 0 521 23047 0
- Karl Marx: The Arguments of the Philosophers by Allen Wood
Routledge, 304 pp, £13.50, January 1981, ISBN 0 7100 0672 1
Up to a fairly recent time it was the case that all good books on Marx were hostile, or at most neutral. Correlatively, all the books that espoused Marx’s views did so in a way that could only dissuade the reader who approached Marx with the same canons of scholarship and argument that he would apply to any other writer. What is called for is a blend of charity and scepticism. When choosing between interpretations of equal textual plausibility, priority should be given to the reading that makes best substantive sense or fits best with what Marx writes elsewhere. Yet charity stops here, for once one has arrived at an idea of what Marx was trying to say, his views should be evaluated according to the usual criteria of consistency, fertility and veracity. To extend charity from interpretation to evaluation was, and still largely is, a pervasive defect in writings on Marx by Marxists. It has led to Ptolemaic Marxism of various kinds, embodied in such phrases as ‘determination in the long run’, ‘relative autonomy’, ‘tendential laws’ and the like. To withhold charity even from interpretation has, of course, been the symmetric error of anti-Marxist writings, often perpetrated by ex-Marxist writers such as Karl Wittfogel.
Marxist scholarship, however, does not consist only of books on Marx. In history, philosophy and the social sciences there have been attempts to develop theories and explanations that are broadly speaking Marxist in inspiration, yet do not claim to be literal applications of views held by Marx. The only field in which these attempts have met with some success is history, where several generations of Marxist scholars have done much to shape our understanding of social and economic history. As for Marxist philosophy, up to very recently one could only concur with A. J. Ayer’s statement that there is no such thing. Within the social sciences, there has gradually developed a branch of Marxist economic theory that has shed the tendency to wishful thinking characteristic of much early work. Yet the work of, say, Morishima and Steedman has mainly tended to show that Marx’s most cherished theories, such as the labour theory of value or the law of the falling rate of profit, are false or useless. And with few exceptions I believe it fair to say that within the other social sciences Marxist theories have been vitiated by a conspiratorial-cum-functionalist attitude that makes it boringly predictable how any social phenomena will be explained.
This, clearly, was a depressing state of affairs for someone who, like myself, believed that Marx’s theories of exploitation, class struggle and dialectics, suitably modified and generalised, were crucial tools for, respectively, normative, explanatory and methodological purposes. Yet over the last decade the situation has, slowly, been changing. The most striking developments have occurred within philosophy. Analytically-trained philosophers have applied their tools to the Marxist theory of justice, the theory of collective action, and historical materialism. The outstanding work in this respect is the book by G.A. Cohen, Karl Marx’s Theory of History. Within economics there are some instances of Marxism making a positive contribution to economic theory, if not yet to our understanding of actual economies. But there is a long way to go before one can talk of the state I have described as a thing of the past.
Let me single out five sets of problems that throw some light on how Marxist studies came to develop in the way they did. First, there is Marx’s ambiguous attitude to Hegel, reflected in the strongly divergent views that later Marxists have held in this respect. As observed by Russell Jacoby, this also corresponds to a dual strain in Hegel himself – a tension between the Phenomenology of Mind and the Science of Logic. To embrace the latter has usually involved a commitment to a pseudo-scientific version of Marxism, in which one could get away with murder by invoking the distinction between the essence and the appearance, or – at a pinch – by denying the principle of contradiction. Of the present authors, Wood is the only one to present a sustained defence of this mode of reasoning, albeit in a diluted and therefore less absurd form.
Secondly, much confusion has been generated by the twin errors of treating Marx and Engels either as identical in all respects or as radically opposed in their philosophical outlook. An instance of the first fallacy is provided by Chapter Three of Alan Gilbert’s book, titled ‘Chartism and Marx’s Second Revolutionary Strategy’, yet almost exclusively concerned with Engels. The history of the second fallacy is traced by Jacoby, with particular emphasis on the little-known Italian opposition to Engels around the turn of the century. A useful treatment is that of Gareth Stedman Jones, in his contribution ‘Engels and the History of Marxism’ to the volume edited by Hobsbawm. This issue is linked to the first, since those who embrace the Science of Logic also tend to hold that the views of Marx and Engels on dialectics were identical. Wood, for instance, claims that with respect to the dialectics of nature, the attempt to drive a philosophical wedge between Marx and Engels ‘has no basis whatsoever’. The claim, however, is true only if the dialectics of nature is so defined as to exclude the philosophy of mathematics. In some of the most reckless pages of Anti-Dühring Engels invokes the mysterious fraction 0/0 as proof of the power of dialectics to get something for nothing, showing by his argument that he understood little of the calculus. Marx was far more careful. He wanted to bring out the rational form of the calculus in which it can dispense with contradictions, whereas Engels invoked calculus to prove the reality of contradictions. | <urn:uuid:9fd74d4f-68f3-4c6b-ae09-80ff7801e77b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lrb.co.uk/v04/n05/jon-elster/marxismo | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94797 | 1,385 | 2.234375 | 2 |
James Boswell's uncle John was a member of a sect known as the Glasites.
William Maxwell - 3rd Baronet of Springkell
William MaxwellBorn Dec 01, 1739
Died Mar 04, 1804
Son of William Maxwell (1703-1760), 2nd of Springkell, and Catherine Douglas (d. 1761), dau of William Douglas, 2nd of Kelhead. Married (1764) to Margaret 'Peggy' Stewart. They had at least 6 children. Sir William was Boswell's first cousin once removed, Catherine Douglas being Boswell's first cousin on his mother's side.
Boswell stayed with Sir William and family at Springkell from October 7 to October 13, 1762. On this occasion he described Sir William as "a man of a handsome figure and genteel air, [who]carries in his external appearance the character which is much talked about and seldom found, a gentleman. He has a great deal of good sense, sweetness of disposition, and delicacy of taste. He is perfectly easy and polite, and may be styles, in every sense of the word, a pretty man".
Boswell also met with Maxwell at few times in London, shortly before he left for Holland in the summer of 1763. Margaret Stewart, who married Maxwell in the spring of 1764, was an early love interest of Boswell, who seriously considered marrying her during his first months in Holland. When Boswell received news of her marriage to his cousin it galled him, i.e. it made him bitter.1 | <urn:uuid:fa60f200-da88-4d44-89bd-cb8b99b68a25> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.jamesboswell.info/biography/william-maxwell-3rd-baronet-springkell | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980954 | 326 | 2.03125 | 2 |
New Chief Medical Officer Named at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
New Brunswick, N.J. – A Belle Mead (Somerset County) resident has been named the new chief medical officer at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ). Deborah L. Toppmeyer, MD, an associate professor of medicine at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, was recently appointed by CINJ Director Robert S. DiPaola, MD. CINJ is a Center of Excellence of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Dr. Toppmeyer joined CINJ in 1995 from the Dana Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School. She is an expert in breast cancer, breast cancer genetics and the design and implementation of clinical trials that offer promising new therapies targeted to specific types of breast cancer. As chief medical officer, she will be responsible for compliance with all clinical medical policies, regulations and clinical performance standards of the state, the federal government, and accrediting bodies. She will have oversight and responsibility for all of CINJ's clinical objectives and serve as CINJ's ultimate authority on medical issues.
Through her role as director both of CINJ's Stacy Goldstein Breast Cancer Center and of the LIFE (LPGA pros In the Fight to Eradicate breast cancer) Center, Toppmeyer helps patients navigate through treatment options while encouraging enrollment in clinical trials. She is also the chief of solid tumor oncology at CINJ.
"Over the past 16 years, Dr. Toppmeyer has played an integral role in the advancement and success of CINJ. As a renowned researcher and clinician, Dr. Toppmeyer has drawn upon and shared that wealth of experience in order to successfully meet the needs of patients while growing CINJ clinic operations and clinical trial accrual. I have every confidence that in her new role, she will help move CINJ forward in an even greater capacity" noted Dr. DiPaola, a professor of medicine at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Toppmeyer is the author or co-author of more than 40 publications and serves on the editorial board of the journal Clinical Cancer Research. She also serves as a core member for the Breast Committee of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group, which is one of the nation's largest clinical cancer research organizations that conducts clinical trials in all types of adult cancers.
About The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (www.cinj.org) is the state’s first and only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center dedicated to improving the detection, treatment and care of patients with cancer, and serving as an education resource for cancer prevention. CINJ's physician-scientists engage in translational research, transforming their laboratory discoveries into clinical practice, quite literally bringing research to life. To make a tax-deductible gift to support CINJ, call 732-235-8614 or visit www.cinjfoundation.org. CINJ is a Center of Excellence of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TheCINJ.
The CINJ Network is comprised of hospitals throughout the state and provides the highest quality cancer care and rapid dissemination of important discoveries into the community. Flagship Hospital: Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. System Partner: Meridian Health (Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Ocean Medical Center, Riverview Medical Center, Southern Ocean Medical Center, and Bayshore Community Hospital). Major Clinical Research Affiliate Hospitals: Carol G. Simon Cancer Center at Morristown Medical Center, Carol G. Simon Cancer Center at Overlook Medical Center, and Cooper University Hospital. Affiliate Hospitals: CentraState Healthcare System, JFK Medical Center, Mountainside Hospital, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton (CINJ Hamilton), Somerset Medical Center, The University Hospital/UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School*, and University Medical Center at Princeton. *Academic Affiliate | <urn:uuid:857f966d-b93a-4e0c-9451-5816edde0e8c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cinj.org/PressReleases/ToppmeyerChiefMedicalOfficer | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934197 | 828 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Yahoo! is planning to give free access to code for its Mail service in a bid to encourage mash-ups and independent application development.
The move, which will happen later this year, was announced as part of a ‘Yahoo! Hack Day’ aimed at helping programmers to build apps using the portal’s various services.
It sees Yahoo! taking a leaf out of Google’s book and aiming to replicate development communities which have sprung up around services such as Google Earth and Maps.
Yahoo Mail! has over 250m users, but its code has so far been restricted to certain broadband partners of Yahoo! like AT&T and BT.
Chad Dickerson, head of Yahoo!’s software developer relations programme, told Reuters: “Yahoo! is a very large company but we can't build every applications that a user might want. You can imagine tens of thousands of niche applications [springing] from Yahoo! Mail."
Smart move, we think.
It would be great to see more client organisations in the UK developing APIs. How might a more open approach to code and third party developers help your business? Or do you feel threatened by this sort of thing?
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Q. I recently inherited a pile of old family photos that includes tintypes and daguerreotypes. How should I care for these unique old photos? Can I store them in my albums?
A. "Cased" images such as tintypes (shown in the peach frame) and daguerreotypes (matted in brass) arc some of the earliest forms of photography. Tintypes date from 1856 to the early 20th century, while daguerreotypes go back as far as 1840 and remained popular for the next 20 years or so. Both processes involved printing the images on metal.
Your scrapbook isn't the best place for these one-of-a-kind photos. Instead, make copies to use in the album, then safely store the originals. David Mishkin, president of Just Black & White, a Portland, Maine, photo-restoration lab, recommends placing tintypes and daguerreotypes in envelopes made from acid-free, lignin-free paper; polyethylene; or Mylar. They're available from archival suppliers.
Once they're in envelopes, store tintypes and daguerreotypes in an acid-free, lignin-free box for additional protection. Keep the boxes in a temperature-and humidity-controlled environment. Ideally, the temperature should be 68 degrees and the relative humidity shouldn't exceed 50 percent (10 to 20 percent lower is acceptable in both cases). One of the best and easiest storage spots: a safe deposit box at your local bank.
To create copies of the cased images for your album, you can enlist the help of a professional or use a digital camera to photograph them in good but diffused lighting (to prevent glare). Learn more about digitizing your family archive in our Photo Rescue e-book
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President Obama quotes Paulo Coelho's The Valkyries in his speech in Brazil
On March 20th President Obama made a speech to 2,000 Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro and he closed it quoting Paulo Coelho's The Valkyries:
'It's that sense of possibility, that sense of optimism that first drew pioneers to this New World. It's what binds our nations together as partners in this new century. It's why we believe, in the words of Paulo Coelho, one of your most famous writers, "With the strength of our love and our will, we can change our destiny, as well as the destiny of many others.'
Aleph is #1 in Amazon.com
30th September 2011
Aleph has topped the book charts in Argentina, Australia, Bulgaria, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, South-Korea, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Ecuador, Finland, The Netherlands, Hungary, India, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Serbia, Turkey, Venezuela and the USA. The novelís been sold to more than 40 publishing houses in different nations and itís been translated to more than 33 languages.
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To be or not to be???moral, that is
Earlier this week, David Brooks floored readers—and vindicated nostalgic old grumps—when he detailed new research out of Notre Dame showing that young adults lack an ability to discuss, or even define, morality. That’s the bad news. The good news comes from Paul Tough. In his NY Times Magazine piece, Tough profiles two disparate school models—one, an elite Gotham private school; the other, the KIPP network—and how they are both deliberately (and successfully) infusing lessons on character, grit, and morality into the veins of their students. Both schools even appraise their students’ moral fiber using a twenty-four item questionnaire developed by researchers at UPenn. (The questionnaire assesses students on both “performance” character and “moral” character—whether you can persevere through hardship, and whether you can remain compassionate while doing so.) Kudos to Riverdale Country School and KIPP for tackling these tough issues—and for giving old grumps a reason for hope.
|Click to listen to commentary on Brooks's column from the Education Gadfly Show podcast.
“What if the Secret to Success is Failure?,” by Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine, September 14, 2011.
“If It Feels Right…,” by David Brooks, New York Times, September 12, 2011.
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Opioids and related disorders
Opioids are a class of drugs that include both natural and synthetic substances. The natural opioids (referred to as opiates) include opium and morphine. Heroin, the most abused opioid, is synthesized from opium. Other synthetics (only made in laboratories) and commonly prescribed for pain, such as cough suppressants, or as anti-diarrhea agents, include codeine, oxycodone (OxyContin), meperidine (Demerol), fentanyl (Sublimaze), hydromorphone (Dilaudid), methadone, and propoxyphene (Darvon). Heroin is usually injected, either intravenously (into a vein) or subcutaneously (under the skin), but can be smoked or used intranasally (i.e., "snorted"). Other opioids are either injected or taken orally.
The manual that is used by mental health professionals to diagnose mental disorders is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The latest edition of this manual was published in 2000, and is also known as the DSM-IV-TR. DSM-IV-TRlists opioid dependence and opioid abuse as substance use disorders. In addition, the opioid-induced disorders of opioid intoxication and opioid withdrawal are listed in the substancerelated disorders section as well.
Recovering from opioid dependence is a long, difficult process. Typically, multiple treatment attempts are required. Relapsing, or returning to opioids, is not uncommon even after many years of abstinence. Brief periods of abstinence are common.
Inpatient detoxification from opioids alone, without additional treatment, does not appear to have any effect on opioid use. However, other treatments have been shown to reduce opioid use, decrease illegal activity, decrease rates of HIV-infection, reduce rates of death, and increase rates of employment. Benefits are greatest for those who remain in treatment longer and participate in many different types of treatment (individual and group counseling in addition to methadone maintenance, for example).
Very little is known about the course of opioid abuse.
- Inpatient detoxification program. Typically, this would be from three to seven days. The withdrawal can be medically managed. Clonidinemay be administered to help reduce some symptoms of withdrawal.
- Outpatient methadone detoxification. Methadone would be substituted for the illicit opioid and the dose would be gradually reduced. Detoxification from methadone is easier (i.e., the symptoms are less severe) than from heroin. However, the withdrawal or abstinence syndrome also lasts longer. Clonidine may also be administered during the methadone detoxification to help reduce withdrawal symptoms.
There are no clear-cut causes of drug use other than the initial choice to use the drug. This decision to use may be highly influenced by peer group. Typically, the age of first use of heroin is about 16 years old, but this age has been dropping in recent years.
Certain social and behavioral characteristics, however, are more commonly seen among individuals who become dependent on opioids than those who do not. For instance, many heroin users come from families in which one or more family members use alcohol or drugs excessively or have mental disorders (such as antisocial personality disorder). Often heroin users have had health problems early in life, behavioral problems beginning in childhood, low self-confidence, and anti-authoritarian views.
Among opioid-dependent adolescents, a "heroin behavior syndrome" has sometimes been described. This syndrome consists of depression (often with anxiety symptoms), impulsiveness, fear of failure, low self-esteem, low frustration tolerance, limited coping skills, and relationships based primarily on mutual drug use.
OPIOID DEPENDENCE.The DSM-IV-TRspecifies that three or more of the following symptoms must occur at any time during a 12-month period (and cause significant impairment or distress) in order to meet diagnostic criteria for opioid dependence:
- Tolerance: The individual either has to use increasingly higher amounts of the drug over time in order to achieve the same drug effect or finds that the same amount of the drug has much less of an effect over time than before.
- Withdrawal: The individual either experiences the characteristic abstinence syndrome (i.e., opioid-specific withdrawal) or the individual uses opioids or similar-acting drugs in order to avoid or relieve withdrawal symptoms.
- Loss of control: The individual either repeatedly uses more opioids than planned or uses the opioids over longer periods of time than planned.
- Inability to stop using: The individual has either unsuccessfully attempted to cut down or stop using the opioids or has a persistent desire to stop using.
- Time: The individual spends a lot of time obtaining opioids, getting money to buy opioids, using opioids, being under the influence of opioids, and recovering from the effects of opioids.
- Interference with activities: The individual either gives up or reduces the amount of time involved in recreational activities, social activities, and/or occupational activities.
- Harm to self: The individual continues to use opioids despite having either a physical or psychological problem (depression, for example) that is caused or made worse by the opioid use.
OPIOID ABUSE.The DSM-IV-TRspecifies that one or more of the following symptoms must occur at any time during a 12-month period (and cause significant impairment or distress) in order to meet diagnostic criteria for opioid abuse:
- Interference with role fulfillment: The individual's use of opioids repeatedly interferes with the ability to fulfill obligations at work, home, or school.
- Danger to self: The individual repeatedly uses opioids in situations in which it may be physically hazardous (while driving a car, for example).
- Legal problems: The individual has recurrent opioidrelated legal problems (such as arrests for possession of narcotics).
- Social problems: The individual continues to use opioids despite repeated interpersonal or relationship problems caused by or made worse by the use of opioids.
OPIOID INTOXICATION.The DSM-IV-TRspecifies that the following symptoms must be present in order to meet diagnostic criteria for opioid intoxication:
- Use: The individual recently used an opioid.
- Changes: The individual experiences significant behavioral or psychological changes during, or shortly after, use of an opioid. These changes may include euphoria initially, followed by slowed movements or agitation, impaired judgment, apathy("don't care attitude"), dysphoric mood (depression, for example), or impaired functioning socially or at work.
- Opioid-specific intoxication syndrome: The pupils in the eyes get smaller. In addition, drowsiness or coma, slurred speech, and/or impaired memory or attention during, or shortly after, opioid use occur.
OPIOID WITHDRAWAL.The DSM-IV-TRspecifies that the following symptoms must be present in order to meet diagnostic criteria for opioid withdrawal:
- Abstinence: Either the individual has stopped using (or has reduced the amount of) opioids, or an opioid antagonist (i.e., a drug, such as naloxone, that blocks the action of opioids) has been administered.
- Opioid-specific withdrawal syndrome: Three or more symptoms develop after abstinence. These symptoms include dysphoric (negative) mood, nausea or vomiting, muscle aches, runny nose or watery eyes, dilated pupils, goosebumps, or sweating, diarrhea, yawning, fever, and insomnia.
- Impairment or distress: The withdrawal symptoms must cause significant distress to the individual or impairment in functioning (socially, at work, or any other important area).
- Not due to other disorder: The withdrawal symptoms cannot be due to a medical condition or other mental disorder.
There are at least 600,000 individuals with opioid dependence living in the United States. It has been estimated that almost 1% of the population has met criteria for opioid dependence or abuse at some time in their lives.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, individuals who were dependent on opioids were primarily white and from middle socioeconomic groups. However, since the 1920s, minorities and those from lower socioeconomic
Males are more commonly affected by opioid disorders than females—males are three to four times more likely to be dependent on opioids than females. Age also is a factor in opioid dependence. There is a tendency for rates of dependence to decrease beginning at 40 years of age. Problems associated with opioid use are usually first seen in the teens and 20s.
Diagnosisof opioid-related disorders are based on patient interview and observations of symptoms, including signs of withdrawal such as dilated pupils, watery eyes, frequent yawning, and anxiety, among others.
The best single thing an individual can do to prevent opioid-related disorders is never to use illicit opioids such as heroin. Opioids are powerfully addicting, especially if used intravenously. The risk of becoming dependent on appropriately prescribed opioids, however, is generally low except for individuals who already have a substance use disorder.
On a larger scale, comprehensive prevention programs that utilize family, schools, communities, and the media can be effective in reducing substance abuse. The
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Most of the (things) you think you absolutely “have to do” isn’t actually (things) you have to do at all.
You don’t have to check your email on your phone when you first wake up. You don’t have to respond to voice messages right away. You don’t have to use Twitter. You don’t have to drink at happy hour or own an iPad or wear heels or watch the news. You don’t have to be an entrepreneur and you don’t have to love yoga and you don’t have to do a 3-day juice cleanse. You just… don’t.
And you know what else? All of the things you really do want but aren’t doing because you think you need more time or more money or more whatever are actually things you could start doing right now. Today. No matter what.
If you want to write a book, write a () book. Write the title, or the first page, or the last chapter. You don’t have to write a perfect first draft and you don’t have to wait until you’ve done more “research” and you don’t have to worry about who’s going to publish it or what other people are going to think because none of that matters unless you just start writing.
If you want to change your life, change your life. Change your story and then change your habits and then just do one small thing after another to move you in the direction you want to go. It doesn’t matter how slow you’re moving as long as you’re moving. As long as you’re making relentless forward progress. And guess what? Part of forward progress means pausing sometimes and getting off track sometimes and wandering around in circles and taking sixteen steps back because that’s what real change in real life looks like.
The key is not to give up. To never give up.
You feel like something is holding you back? Guess what, so do I. So does everyone. We all have eleventy thousand excuses for why we’re not doing everything we want to be doing. But, at the heart of it, do you know what’s really holding you back? The fear of starting. So just start. Do something. Do anything. The only way to get what you want is to start and then to keep going and to try things and see what works and when something works, keep doing it, and when something doesn’t work, just stop.
If you’re unhappy with your relationships, fix them. If you want to quit your job, quit your job. If you hate a TV show, stop watching it. If you want to be blonde and ride horses and drink fancy coffee, then dye your hair and sign up for a () riding lesson and start buying the fancy coffee.
Think you need permission? You don’t.
You don’t need to be told that it’s okay to wear red lipstick and you don’t need a certain body to wear a bikini and you don’t need to be fast to complete a half marathon.
Who cares if you feel like you’re not doing it “right”? There’s no one right way to do anything because there are lots of ways to do everything and it’s time to step back and recognize what you do because you think you “should” and what you do because you’ve been doing it and then realize that just because you’ve been doing something one way for a very long time doesn’t mean you need to keep doing it that way for even another minute.
Because listen, I spent eight years of my life going from one shot of tequila to another and one bad decision to another and I heard over and over that people can’t change because we are who we are – and yet, despite all odds, yesterday was my two year sober-versary.
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Which convergence between classic author and modern technology is more off-putting: the University of Virginia’s William Faulkner recordings, or this YouTube video of Leo Tolstoy sawing wood?
What exactly do you find off-putting about each?
I found the intersection between modern technology and classical authors a bit off-putting, for lack of better phrasing. It’s incongruous, to me, to see one of the great Russian writers on YouTube, a medium I associate most often with videos of people’s cats. The Faulkner recordings are a bit less bizarre in that respect.
I can see your point but it is because the video isn’t of cats that I’m glad it is there. Although the video exists on YouTube now, it was initially filmed during Tolstoy’s lifetime (as the Faulkner recordings were done during his). Without the internet, I’d have to travel to Virginia to hear Faulkner. I’d have to track down the documentary containing the Tolstoy footage (if I even knew it existed) and get it through Interlibrary Loan or something. It’s the resurrection of talent from the past, faint glimmers though they may be in the darkness of cat videos, that makes YouTube worthwhile.
You won’t hear any disagreement from me.
My off-the-cuff remark was referring to how substantial content is harder to find on the internet than, say, a video of Maru the Cat. Takes more digging, or a better curator. For all its charms and potential, the internet (like many other things) often buries its gems beneath troves of trivial novelties.
But you’re right to point out that “off-putting” was sloppy phrasing on my part. I usually write these Curiosities before I’ve had my coffee.
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$2M Available for Environmental Community Grants
Assistance is available for community-based parnterships to develop local environmental priorities; the deadline for application is March 22.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is making approximately $2 million available in 2011 to reduce pollution at the local level through the Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE) program.
CARE is a community-based program that works with county and local governments, tribes, non-profit organizations, and universities to help the public understand and reduce toxic risks from numerous sources.
EPA will award CARE cooperative agreements in two levels. Level I awards range from $75,000 to $100,000 each and will help establish community-based partnerships to develop local environmental priorities. Level II awards range from $150,000 to $300,000 each and will support communities that have established broad-based partnerships, have identified the priority toxic risks in the community, and are prepared to measure results, implement risk-reduction activities, and become self-sustaining. (Due to appropriation law concerns, until Congress provides separate authorization, EPA can only award CARE Level II cooperative agreements to applicants that have already received CARE Level I cooperative agreements).
Applications are due by 4 p.m. EST on March 22. EPA will conduct three webcasts to answer questions from prospective applicants about the application process from 1 to 3 p.m. on Feb. 8 and 23 and March 2.
For more information about the CARE assistance agreements and the webcasts, visit www.epa.gov/care/.
For the 2011 CARE request for proposals, visit www.grants.gov.
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