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Graham, Robert (d.1701) (DNB00)
|←Graham, Robert (d.1437)||Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 22
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GRAHAM or GRIMES, ROBERT (d. 1701), colonel and Trappist monk, was son of a certain 'Colonel' William Grimes, who is described in the contemporary letters of Lord Manchester as a lieutenant of horse under John Graham of Claverhouse, viscount Dundee, who was afterwards commander of the Bass Rock, later a recipient of Jacobite bounty in Edinburgh, and (in 1701) an alleged conspirator against the life of William of Orange. He had two sons, both notorious libertines who turned monks, the elder becoming a Capuchin friar as Brother Archangel, the younger a Trappist, Brother Alexis. The life of the younger was a stormy one. He had been whipped in his boyhood by a presbyterian tutor for attending a Romish service in Edinburgh, which led to his being transferred to the guardianship of a kinsman, Lord Perth; but when that nobleman's affairs became involved he passed into the hands of a gloomy presbyterian uncle, whose harsh asceticism no doubt influenced his after course. His name cannot be traced with certainty in the military entry books in the Public Record Office, but he appears to have served in Flanders under William III. His excesses are said to have startled London, Flanders, and Paris, and when he left the service and was presented to James II at the fugitive English court at St. Germain he was one of the most accomplished scoundrels of his day. After alternate fits of rioting and fasting, of drinking and religion, he entered the monastery of La Trappe, and became one of the most ingenious and cruel of self-tormentors so that he may be said virtually to have committed suicide. Before he died it was the custom of English courtiers serving either king to visit the recluse, to whose cell King James and bevies of court ladies were wont to repair. His death, early in 1701, deprived the English court of one of its most edifying distractions.
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The introduction of the Williamson Amplifier in the late 1940s changed the hi-fi world forever. Throughout the 1930s, technicians and inventors had made great progress in developing technologies that resulted in improvements in the sound quality of music and sound systems. For instance, microphones introduced in the 1940s were made to deliver the full range of audible frequencies with low distortion. FM radio, introduced in the late 1930s, provided listeners with a new source of music and entertainment with excellent fidelity. There were changes in sound technology that were transformed from expensive, commercial systems, such as those used in the movie industry, to inexpensive consumer items. One of these was the famous Williamson Amplifier circuit.
D. T. N. Williamson was an English engineer working for the M. O. Valve Company. He later worked for the Ferranti Company. His amplifier circuit design was first published in a series of articles in the magazine Wireless World in 1947, and it immediately attracted a lot of attention. The design was not very complex, but it was carefully worked out to maximize the performance of the tubes and other components involved. Williamson recommended the use of a type of tube called the KT66 that remains in use today. Part of what gave his amplifier such good sound was the use of a very expensive, custom-made output transformer. Transformers are used in the electric power system to convert high voltage to low voltage or vice versa, but in an audio amplifier, transformers are used to make the output of vacuum tubes suitable for use in operating loudspeakers. They are a crucial stage between the electronics and the ears, and so they must be very carefully designed and constructed.
There have been many high fidelity amplifier designs since that time, but the Williamson circuit has remained popular. Interestingly, Williamson himself never formed a company to make amplifiers, but instead offered his design to others for free. Many companies offered products using his circuit, and many hobbyists built their own Williamsons over the years. | <urn:uuid:aec99e69-90e8-496d-a2b2-a91f2de5662a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php?title=Williamson_Amplifier&oldid=6586 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977748 | 397 | 3.40625 | 3 |
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Do I need a certificate, permit or license before I can purchase a pesticide for use on my own property?
Generally, if you purchase pesticides labeled for “home use” you would not need a certificate, permit or license. However, if you are growing an agricultural crop or commodity (including pasture and rangeland) then you will be required to obtain an Operator Identification Number or Restricted Materials Permit from our office before you purchase and use pesticides. If you are purchasing and applying a California restricted material, you will also need to obtain a Private Applicators Certificate (PAC). A PAC is obtained by taking and passing an examination at our office.
Do I need to submit a Pesticide Use Report? When are Use Reports due in your office?
Any pesticide or chemical with an EPA registration number that is applied to an agricultural crop or commodity (including pasture and range land) must be reported. Use reports can be obtained at any County Agricultural Department or on our website. Completed use reports are due in our office on the 10th of the month following application. They can be faxed, mailed, submitted in person or electronically.
How often must training occur?
All employees who handle pesticides must be trained on an annual basis, prior to the handling of any pesticide by a California certified commercial applicator or a California certified private applicator. The training must be documented annually and cover specific topics which are listed in Title 3 California Code of Regulations, Section 6724. The program used to train the employee must be put in writing. This written training program must describe the materials and information that was used to train the employee. Fieldworkers must be trained every five years, at a bare minimum. Although there are currently no requirements for a written training program for Fieldworkers, a training record form is available online and at our office.
If I have concerns about nearby pesticide use, what can I do?
If you would like to review or copy any pesticide use data, please read our Access to Public Information Policy. You must also fill out and submit a Request to Inspect Public Records. If you have any questions about this process, or need to submit your request, please call our office at (707) 253-4357.
How do insect traps benefit our county?
The traps are placed in specific trees and plants and target specific insect pests such as fruit flies and the Glassy-winged Sharpshooter. They are the best means of early detection of these pests. Through early detection, our office and the California Department of Food and Agriculture have a better chance of containing and eliminating the pest before an infestation becomes too large to eradicate.
What if I do not want to have a trap on my property?
If we have placed a trap on your property and you do not wish to participate in this program, please contact our office at (707) 253-4357 and ask to speak to the trapping program coordinator. Explain that you wish to have the trap removed, and the trap will be removed as soon as possible.
Why is the Glassy-winged Sharpshooter a threat to Napa County?
The Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter (GWSS) damages a variety of plants and spreads lethal diseases to crops such as almonds and grapes. It can stress the plants it feeds on, sucking xylem fluids from plants and trees such as crape myrtle, magnolia, oak, hydrangeas, citrus, apples, eucalyptus, flowers and many others. GWSS spreads Pierce's Disease, a bacterial disease that kills grapevines and for which there is no known remedy or cure.
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Why is Napa County so concerned about the Glassy-winged Sharpshooter when it is only a threat to vineyards?
The County of Napa has developed a reputation over time as one of the premier wine growing regions of the world. This has attracted foreign and domestic corporate entities to the region as well as individual winemakers, grape growers and others who desire the unique combination of climate and soils in which to practice their wine-producing craft. The competition within the local market for plantable acreage has created a situation where land values have risen to extreme levels. There are few, if any, commodities that could replace in large scale, the vineyard plantings and maintain the economic returns and conditions landowners require to maintain debt-service and ultimately, land ownership. The result of the GWSS/PD scenario would be the wholesale loss of agricultural lands to the "ultimate harvest"--residential and commercial development.
With existing Pierce's Disease infections causing an estimated $25 - $42 million annual loss to vineyard owners today, with the relatively inefficient Blue-Green Sharpshooter as the main vector, it is clear, and has been articulated by many experts that the Glassy-winged Sharpshooter should be prevented from introduction to Napa County at any cost, since the results to the Napa wine industry and to the entire economy of Napa County would be disastrous. In addition, the integration and interdependence of the wine industry and hospitality industry, the other major economic contributor to the local economy, creates a situation where the hospitality industry would suffer greatly if something catastrophic were to happen to the local wine industry.
What is Napa County doing to stop the spread of the Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter?
We are doing everything we can to prevent an infestation from occurring. In a cooperative program with participating retailers, nurseries and landscapers, we inspect all incoming plant material to stop the insect from being transported into Napa County on plant shipments. We also run a county-wide urban and rural GWSS trapping program. The traps, made of sticky yellow cardboard, are located in front yards and vineyards throughout Napa County.
What can I do to prevent Glassy-winged Sharpshooter from entering Napa County?
You can help by buying plants from local nurseries, retailers and landscapers that are complying with the County's inspection program. Look for their Certificate of Compliance from the County Agricultural Commissioner that indicates that they offer plants that have been inspected for the Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter.
Where can I find information about ant control and ant bait stations?
You can find more information about the control of Argentine Ants in vineyards in
Argentine ant management: Liquid bait program for vineyards
. The document, written by Monica L. Cooper and Kent Danne, includes instructions for assembly of a UC-designed ant bait station.
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UC Cooperative Extension Construction of Ant Bait Station
Where can I send my plant or soil sample to be tested for disease and/or deficiencies?
Please note that the laboratories provided in these listings are for informational purposes only and do not constitute any sort of endorsement or recommendation by the Napa County Agricultural Commissioner's Office or the University of California Cooperative Extension.
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Where do I go to have a plant or weed identified?
You can bring in a specimen to the UC Cooperative Extension's Master Gardeners for identification. The Agricultural Commissioner's staff can also help identify landscape plants or unwanted weeds.
Napa County Master Gardeners are available:
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Where do I go to have an insect identified?
First, check the
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An Outline History of Professional Photography in Sussex from 1841 to 1855
The Earliest Photographic Studios
The first commercial photographic portraits were produced by the daguerreotype process. This early form of photography, which involved fixing an image on a silver-coated copper plate, had been introduced by Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre in 1839. The earliest daguerreotype portrait studios had to be licensed by Richard Beard, a former coal merchant and patent speculator, who held the patent rights on the daguerreotype process in England and who was the proprietor of England's first photographic portrait studio. Richard Beard had opened the first professional photographic portrait studio in Britain at the top of the Royal Polytechnic Institute in Regent Street, London on 23rd March, 1841. As the sole patentee of the daguerreotype process in England and Wales, Beard had a virtual monopoly in the production of photographic portraits using Daguerre’s method of photography. Until the patent rights of British Patent No 8194 expired on 14th August 1853, any person who wanted to legally carry out the art of daguerreotype portrait photography on a commercial basis had to apply to Richard Beard, to either purchase the right of patent in a prescribed geographical area or to purchase a licence to work the process in a particular town or city.
By June 1841, Richard Beard was issuing licences for the establishment of photographic portrait studios outside of London. At the end of July 1841, William Bishop, a carver and gilder, opened England's first provincial photographic studio at his business premises in Plymouth. Over the next few months, daguerreotype portrait studios were set up in Bristol, Cheltenham, Liverpool and Nottingham.
[ABOVE ] An early daguerreotype studio, as depicted in an engraving by George Cruikshank in 1842. The original woodcut appeared with the title "PHOTOGRAPHIC PHENOMENA, OR THE NEW SCHOOL OF PORTRAIT-PAINTING" in George Cruikshank's Omnibus, published in 1842. Early photographic studios were often situated at the very top of a building and had a glass roof to let in as much light as possible. At the top left of the picture, the subject sits on a posing chair placed on a raised platform, which could be rotated to face the light. The sitter's head is held still by a clamp. Two simple box cameras have been placed on a high shelf, directly opposite the sitter's head. The photographer can be seen standing on the step-ladder in the centre of the illustration. The photographer has opened the door of the camera to expose the sensitized metal plate to the light. The photographer examines his watch as he times the exposure. [ see the DAGUERREOTYPE PROCESS for more information ]
[ABOVE ] A hand-coloured daguerreotype self-portrait by William Constable (1783-1861), the first person to operate a photographic studio in Sussex. [Photograph courtesy of Jennifer Smith ]
Early Daguerreotype Artists in Sussex
The first photographic portrait studio in the county of Sussex was established at Brighton, a rapidly growing seaside resort on the south coast. William Constable, a former high street draper and accomplished surveyor and engineer, opened his Photographic Institution on Monday, 8th November, 1841 at 57 Marine Parade, a large house situated on Brighton’s eastern seafront. William Constable had paid £1,000 to Richard Beard for a licence to take daguerreotype portraits in Brighton. Holding an exclusive licence from Richard Beard, William Constable had a virtual monopoly in the production of photographic portraits in Brighton and the surrounding area between November 1841 and 1851.
There is evidence to suggest that a licence to take daguerreotype portraits in an area around Chichester was issued sometime before 1847. On 26th June 1847, an advertisement appeared in the Sussex Chronicle offering to sell a daguerreotype licence which covered a "circuit of fourteen miles, and including six towns". A sales advertisement for the same daguerreotype licence, published in The Times on 4th September 1848, provides more detail : " PHOTOGRAPHY - To be SOLD, a LICENSE for a district embracing a circle of 14 miles, taking the city of Chichester as the centre. The district includes Chichester, Bognor, Littlehampton, Arundel, Petworth, and Midhurst ".
In 1849, Richard Beauford, who described himself as a ' Steliographist', began taking what he described as "Miniatureotype Portraits" at the Assembly Rooms in St. Leonards on Sea. Beauford was clearly making portraits using the Daguerreotype Process, but he studiously avoids using the term, probably fearing legal action from Richard Beard, the sole patentee of the daguerreotype process in England. Around August 1850, Beauford opened a second studio at 6 East Parade in Hastings. Early in 1851, Richard Beauford employed the services of his married sister, Mrs Maria King, a professional artist from London, to take portraits at his branch establishment in St Leonards. Mrs King, therefore, has a claim to be one of the earliest professional woman photographers in Sussex. ( William Constable was assisted by his two nieces, Caroline and Eliza Constable, at his Photographic Institution in Brighton during the 1850s and Madame Agnes Ruge is listed as a daguerreotype artist in the Trades Section of a Brighton Directory published in 1854).
Richard Beard's patent on the daguerreotype process was not due to expire until 14th August 1853, but some itinerant daguerreotypists occasionally made an appearance in Sussex during the early 1850s. In early June 1851, Messrs Blagrove and Moore were taking daguerreotype portraits in Lewes on Brack Mount, a mound near Lewes Castle.( Daniel Blagrove, one of the partners in this team, later established a permanent photographic studio on the High Street of Lewes ).
Although through his licence, William Constable had exclusive rights on the production of daguerreotype portraits in Brighton, at least on one occasion, a daguerreotype artist felt confident enough to challenge Constable's monopoly. In the Summer of 1852, Joseph Meurant, a French daguerreotype artist from Paris opened a Daguerreotype Room in East Street, Brighton. Meurant remained in Brighton for less than nine months before moving on to London.
Calotypes and Talbotypes
In 1839, the same year that Daguerre announced his method of fixing images on a silvered copper plate, William Henry Fox Talbot, an English landowner, scholar and scientist, published 'The Art of Photogenic Drawing', an account of how he had managed to capture images permanently on paper.
Talbot's early pictures
were small, required very long exposure times and lacked the sharpness of detail
and brilliance of the daguerreotype. Talbot continued his experiments and
improved the quality of his photographs by coating his paper with silver iodide
and developing the images with a gallo-nitrate of silver solution. Talbot
patented his new process in February 1841, describing his pictures as 'Calotypes'.
Talbot protected his photographic inventions by filing a number of all-embracing
patents. In August 1852, relaxed his control over the production of calotypes,
allowing amateurs and artists to use the process, but he insisted that all
professional photographers who wanted to use his calotype process for taking
portraits had to purchase a licence, which usually involved an annual fee of
between £100 and £150.
In 1852, Thomas Henry Hennah, a young London artist, together with William Henry Kent, a photographic artist from the Isle of Wight, purchased a licence from William Fox Talbot to make portraits using the calotype process. The photographic prints were called 'Talbotypes' in honour of the inventor. By 1854, Hennah and Kent had established a Talbotype Portrait Gallery in William Henry Mason's Repository of Arts at 108 King's Road, Brighton. In the summer of 1854, the studio of Stephen Grey and William Hall was also producing Talbotype photographs in Brighton.
The Collodion Process and Photographs on Glass
In March 1851, Frederick Scott Archer, a sculptor and a member of the Calotype Photographic Club, published details of his "wet collodion process", which involved coating a glass plate with a mixture of potassium iodide and a sticky substance called collodion. Also known as "gun cotton", collodion was a transparent and adhesive material that was first used in surgery to dress wounds. The coated glass plate was then sensitized in a bath of silver nitrate. The highly sensitive wet plate was then placed inside a camera and exposed by uncapping the lens. Earlier methods using glass plates coated with albumen (egg white) provided exposure times of between five to fifteen minutes and so were unsuitable for portrait photography. Archer's "wet collodion" process could produced high quality negatives after exposures of only a few seconds. Unlike Beard with the daguerreotype process and Talbot with the 'calotype', Archer chose not to patent his discovery and offered his invention free to all photographers.
Lane, a picture frame manufacturer who had established a Photographic
Apparatus Depot in Brighton, was promoting the new process of making "portraits
and views taken on glass" as early as September 1852. In an advertisement placed
in The Times, dated 10th September 1852, Lane claimed that "any person can
produce in a few seconds, at a trifling expense, truly life-like portraits."
Early in 1853, William Lane's Cheap Photographic Depot was offering a "complete
set of apparatus for the glass or paper process" for the sum of 4 guineas (£4.
4s/£4.20p). By October 1853, the proprietor of The Royal Chain Pier
Photographic Rooms in Brighton was advertising "Portraits superior to
engravings by the new process on glass."
The Growth of Photographic Studios in Sussex after 1853
With the introduction of Archer's Collodion Process and the end of Richard Beard's Daguerreotype Patent in August 1853, there was a sudden increase in the number of photographic studios operating in Sussex.
In 1851, there was only one photographic studio in Brighton - William Constable's Photographic Institution on Marine Parade. When W. J. Taylor's Original Directory of Brighton was compiled for the year 1854, ten photographic studios were listed in this seaside town. In March 1853, even before Constable's daguerreotype licence became worthless, Robert Farmer, a chemist with a shop in North Street, Brighton was taking cheap daguerreotype portraits at his Daguerreotype Rooms. By the end of 1853, William Lane and Edward Collier were also making daguerreotype portraits in Brighton. Taylor's Brighton Directory of 1854, provides the following names under the heading of "Artists - Daguerreotype" - Edward Collier, the brothers Charles and John Combes, William Constable, Lewis Dixey, Robert Farmer, Stephen Grey and William Hall, Jesse Harris, Thomas Hennah and William Kent ( who were using the Talbotype process), William Lane and Madame Agnes Ruge.
1853, Jacob Henry Connop took over Richard Beauford's Daguerreotype
Portrait Gallery at 6 East Parade, Hastings. By the Summer of 1854, two more
daguerreotype artists, Mr D.Gates and Frederick Brookes had each
set up photographic studios in Hastings. In April 1855, William Martin,
described as a Photographic Artist and an Artist in Hair, was offering his
customers in St Leonards the unique opportunity " to have their HAIR
blended with their PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS." In the Summer of 1855, a
journalist with the Hastings and St Leonard's Chronicle interviewed
James Maginn, an itinerant photographic artist who had set up a studio at
No.9 Wellington Place, opposite Wellington Square in Hastings. The Hastings
reporter concluded that photographic portraits were now so cheap " that there
are few families who are now without a 'portrait gallery' in the shape of a
collection of photographic miniatures."
The growth in the number of photographic studios in Sussex was most noticeable in the seaside towns of Brighton and Hastings, but from around 1855 the inhabitants of smaller towns had the opportunity to secure a photographic likeness. In January 1855, John Craig, an itinerant photographer from Kent, visited Cuckfield with his photographic apparatus to exhibit his daguerreotypes and take portraits of local residents. In May 1855, Edward Charles Cortis (Stanford), a young Professor of Chemistry, was offering to take photographic portraits at his father's chemist's shop at 12 South Street in Worthing. By 1858, Edward Reeves, formerly a watch and clockmaker, had built a photographic studio at his business premises at 159 High Street, Lewes.
Before the end of the decade, photographic studios would be established in Bognor, Chichester, Eastbourne, Horsham, Rye and Walberton. In the 1861 Census, around 90 photographers were recorded at work in the county of Sussex and when a Sussex Trade Directory was published in 1862, thirty-seven photographic studios were listed. There were at least 20 photographic portrait studios and independent photographers operating in Brighton at this time and over half a dozen photographic studios were in business in Hastings & St Leonards. The 1862 Trade Directory also mentions photographic artists in Chichester, Cuckfield, Eastbourne, Lewes, Seaford, Shoreham, Walberton and Worthing.
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Amanda Ryan leads the TDOR down Elgin St.
Trans people and their allies marched together in solidarity to Parliament Hill for Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR) on Nov 20.
The day was commemorated in the city with an event hosted at the Ottawa Police Services, where a banner, designed for TDOR in Ottawa was unfurled. Participants then walked down Elgin St to meet up with another group, which for personal and political reasons chose to stay away from the event at the police station
Together, the two groups walked toward Parliament, where Bill Siksay spoke in support of Bill C-389.
Nearby, protesters dropped a large banner reading "Remember Stonewall" from the Queensway overpass at Elgin St. Police appeared within minutes. The banner was removed, and two people were arrested on mischief charges
TDOR is an annual event to commemorate trans people who have been victimized by violence, especially those who lost their lives. It was started to commemorate the life of Rita Hester
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Residential customers are provide a 90 gallon container for their household garbage and small amounts of yard waste. This material may be mixed together and your container is collected twice each week. Some residential condominiums and apartments are provided with dumpster service. These dumpsters are serviced on a schedule which is based upon the volume of refuse generated by each customer.
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In addition to garbage collection twice a week, the City collects recyclables and yard waste once a week from residential customers. Consult the schedule below to determine your pick-up days or contact the Solid Waste office at (352)728-9878.
The City provides Bulk collection of certain household items on your first scheduled pickup day of the week, and large piles of yard waste are picked up on your second scheduled pickup day of the week. In some cases a fee will be charged for the services.
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|Ut unum sint|
Ioannes Paulus PP. II
1995 05 25
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The ministry of unity of the Bishop of Rome
88. Among all the Churches and Ecclesial Communities, the Catholic Church is conscious that she has preserved the ministry of the Successor of the Apostle Peter, the Bishop of Rome, whom God established as her "perpetual and visible principle and foundation of unity" 146 and whom the Spirit sustains in order that he may enable all the others to share in this essential good. In the beautiful expression of Pope Saint Gregory the Great, my ministry is that of servus servorum Dei. This designation is the best possible safeguard against the risk of separating power (and in particular the primacy) from ministry. Such a separation would contradict the very meaning of power according to the Gospel: "I am among you as one who serves" (Lk 22:27), says our Lord Jesus Christ, the Head of the Church. On the other hand, as I acknowledged on the important occasion of a visit to the World Council of Churches in Geneva on 12 June 1984, the Catholic Church's conviction that in the ministry of the Bishop of Rome she has preserved, in fidelity to the Apostolic Tradition and the faith of the Fathers, the visible sign and guarantor of unity, constitutes a difficulty for most other Christians, whose memory is marked by certain painful recollections. To the extent that we are responsible for these, I join my Predecessor Paul VI in asking forgiveness.147
89. It is nonetheless significant and encouraging that the question of the primacy of the Bishop of Rome has now become a subject of study which is already under way or will be in the near future. It is likewise significant and encouraging that this question appears as an essential theme not only in the theological dialogues in which the Catholic Church is engaging with other Churches and Ecclesial Communities, but also more generally in the ecumenical movement as a whole. Recently the delegates to the Fifth World Assembly of the Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches, held in Santiago de Compostela, recommended that the Commission "begin a new study of the question of a universal ministry of Christian unity".148 After centuries of bitter controversies, the other Churches and Ecclesial Communities are more and more taking a fresh look at this ministry of unity.149
90. The Bishop of Rome is the Bishop of the Church which preserves the mark of the martyrdom of Peter and of Paul: "By a mysterious design of Providence it is at Rome that [Peter] concludes his journey in following Jesus, and it is at Rome that he gives his greatest proof of love and fidelity. Likewise Paul, the Apostle of the Gentiles, gives his supreme witness at Rome. In this way the Church of Rome became the Church of Peter and of Paul".150
In the New Testament, the person of Peter has an eminent place. In the first part of the Acts of the Apostles, he appears as the leader and spokesman of the Apostolic College described as "Peter ... and the Eleven" (2:14; cf. 2:37, 5:29). The place assigned to Peter is based on the words of Christ himself, as they are recorded in the Gospel traditions.
91. The Gospel of Matthew gives a clear outline of the pastoral mission of Peter in the Church: "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church and the powers of death shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven" (16:17-19). Luke makes clear that Christ urged Peter to strengthen his brethren, while at the same time reminding him of his own human weakness and need of conversion (cf. 22:31-32). It is just as though, against the backdrop of Peter's human weakness, it were made fully evident that his particular ministry in the Church derives altogether from grace. It is as though the Master especially concerned himself with Peter's conversion as a way of preparing him for the task he was about to give him in his Church, and for this reason was very strict with him. This same role of Peter, similarly linked with a realistic affirmation of his weakness, appears again in the Fourth Gospel: "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? ... Feed my sheep" (cf. Jn 21:15-19). It is also significant that according to the First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians the Risen Christ appears to Cephas and then to the Twelve (cf. 15:5).
It is important to note how the weakness of Peter and of Paul clearly shows that the Church is founded upon the infinite power of grace (cf. Mt 16:17; 2 Cor 12:7-10). Peter, immediately after receiving his mission, is rebuked with unusual severity by Christ, who tells him: "You are a hindrance to me" (Mt 16:23). How can we fail to see that the mercy which Peter needs is related to the ministry of that mercy which he is the first to experience? And yet, Peter will deny Jesus three times. The Gospel of John emphasizes that Peter receives the charge of shepherding the flock on the occasion of a threefold profession of love (cf. 21:15-17), which corresponds to his threefold denial (cf. 13:38). Luke, for his part, in the words of Christ already quoted, words which the early tradition will concentrate upon in order to clarify the mission of Peter, insists on the fact that he will have to "strengthen his brethren when he has turned again" (cf. 22:32).
92. As for Paul, he is able to end the description of his ministry with the amazing words which he had heard from the Lord himself: "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness"; consequently, he can exclaim: "When I am weak, then I am strong" (2 Cor 12:9-10). This is a basic characteristic of the Christian experience.
As the heir to the mission of Peter in the Church, which has been made fruitful by the blood of the Princes of the Apostles, the Bishop of Rome exercises a ministry originating in the manifold mercy of God. This mercy converts hearts and pours forth the power of grace where the disciple experiences the bitter taste of his personal weakness and helplessness. The authority proper to this ministry is completely at the service of God's merciful plan and it must always be seen in this perspective. Its power is explained from this perspective.
93. Associating himself with Peter's threefold profession of love, which corresponds to the earlier threefold denial, his Successor knows that he must be a sign of mercy. His is a ministry of mercy, born of an act of Christ's own mercy. This whole lesson of the Gospel must be constantly read anew, so that the exercise of the Petrine ministry may lose nothing of its authenticity and transparency.
The Church of God is called by Christ to manifest to a world ensnared by its sins and evil designs that, despite everything, God in his mercy can convert hearts to unity and enable them to enter into communion with him.
94. This service of unity, rooted in the action of divine mercy, is entrusted within the College of Bishops to one among those who have received from the Spirit the task, not of exercising power over the people—as the rulers of the Gentiles and their great men do (cf. Mt 20:25; Mk 10:42)—but of leading them towards peaceful pastures. This task can require the offering of one's own life (cf. Jn 10:11-18). Saint Augustine, after showing that Christ is "the one Shepherd, in whose unity all are one", goes on to exhort: "May all shepherds thus be one in the one Shepherd; may they let the one voice of the Shepherd be heard; may the sheep hear this voice and follow their Shepherd, not this shepherd or that, but the only one; in him may they all let one voice be heard and not a babble of voices ... the voice free of all division, purified of all heresy, that the sheep hear".151 The mission of the Bishop of Rome within the College of all the Pastors consists precisely in "keeping watch" (episkopein), like a sentinel, so that, through the efforts of the Pastors, the true voice of Christ the Shepherd may be heard in all the particular Churches. In this way, in each of the particular Churches entrusted to those Pastors, the una, sancta, catholica et apostolica Ecclesia is made present. All the Churches are in full and visible communion, because all the Pastors are in communion with Peter and therefore united in Christ.
With the power and the authority without which such an office would be illusory, the Bishop of Rome must ensure the communion of all the Churches. For this reason, he is the first servant of unity. This primacy is exercised on various levels, including vigilance over the handing down of the Word, the celebration of the Liturgy and the Sacraments, the Church's mission, discipline and the Christian life. It is the responsibility of the Successor of Peter to recall the requirements of the common good of the Church, should anyone be tempted to overlook it in the pursuit of personal interests. He has the duty to admonish, to caution and to declare at times that this or that opinion being circulated is irreconcilable with the unity of faith. When circumstances require it, he speaks in the name of all the Pastors in communion with him. He can also—under very specific conditions clearly laid down by the First Vatican Council— declare ex cathedra that a certain doctrine belongs to the deposit of faith.152 By thus bearing witness to the truth, he serves unity.
95. All this however must always be done in communion. When the Catholic Church affirms that the office of the Bishop of Rome corresponds to the will of Christ, she does not separate this office from the mission entrusted to the whole body of Bishops, who are also "vicars and ambassadors of Christ".153 The Bishop of Rome is a member of the "College", and the Bishops are his brothers in the ministry.
Whatever relates to the unity of all Christian communities clearly forms part of the concerns of the primacy. As Bishop of Rome I am fully aware, as I have reaffirmed in the present Encyclical Letter, that Christ ardently desires the full and visible communion of all those Communities in which, by virtue of God's faithfulness, his Spirit dwells. I am convinced that I have a particular responsibility in this regard, above all in acknowledging the ecumenical aspirations of the majority of the Christian Communities and in heeding the request made of me to find a way of exercising the primacy which, while in no way renouncing what is essential to its mission, is nonetheless open to a new situation. For a whole millennium Christians were united in "a brotherly fraternal communion of faith and sacramental life ... If disagreements in belief and discipline arose among them, the Roman See acted by common consent as moderator".154
In this way the primacy exercised its office of unity. When addressing the Ecumenical Patriarch His Holiness Dimitrios I, I acknowledged my awareness that "for a great variety of reasons, and against the will of all concerned, what should have been a service sometimes manifested itself in a very different light. But ... it is out of a desire to obey the will of Christ truly that I recognize that as Bishop of Rome I am called to exercise that ministry ... I insistently pray the Holy Spirit to shine his light upon us, enlightening all the Pastors and theologians of our Churches, that we may seek—together, of course—the forms in which this ministry may accomplish a service of love recognized by all concerned".155
96. This is an immense task, which we cannot refuse and which I cannot carry out by myself. Could not the real but imperfect communion existing between us persuade Church leaders and their theologians to engage with me in a patient and fraternal dialogue on this subject, a dialogue in which, leaving useless controversies behind, we could listen to one another, keeping before us only the will of Christ for his Church and allowing ourselves to be deeply moved by his plea "that they may all be one ... so that the world may believe that you have sent me" (Jn 17:21)? | <urn:uuid:323e9f2f-4973-4fc9-841d-c4528b589804> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.vatican.va/edocs/ENG0221/__PT.HTM | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968844 | 2,653 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Amy Rice's Playing with Stencils book: order now!
Long time Stencil Archive friend and participant Amy Rice (see her Archive here) has a new book coming out. When I looked through my book "Stencil Nation" with people, Amy's unique stencil style would always stand out from the other sections. She also holds the honor of being my mom's favorite stencil artist!
Here's what her publisher is saying about the book:
Learn how to design and cut stencils from your own drawings or photographs with Playing with Stencils! You'll discover how a simple doodle or series of shapes can have great impact when made into a stencil. The projects run the gamut from ideas for walls, floors, rugs, furniture, stationery, and posters to cake and cupcake stencils, stencils to customize your bicycle and garage door, and even an outdoor mural! All the templates for the featured projects are included.
Stencil art has been around for years, often used for home decorating and for simple crafts, but has gained current interest and cache due it's guerilla use as street art (often making a political statement), and has become a worldwide subculture. Stencil graffiti has given stencil art a new sheen of coolness. This book will show you how to incorporate that look into your work, your accessories, and your home. You’ll become inspired to use stencils in your journaling, in collage, on fabric, on totes, and in art pieces designed to be hung on walls—and you will know how to create fantastic custom designs.
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March 14, 2012
At least 40 percent of women working as research scientists report delaying childbirth while other scientists -- both men and women -- report having issues finding that balance between their career and personal lives, a new study from the Association of Women in Science shows.
Fifty four percent of the researchers and scientists who participated in the study indicated they had problems fitting in work demands with their personal schedules at least two to three times a week, according to an AWIS press release. Data was collected from more than 4,220 scientists and researchers working worldwide. Of the total group of respondents, 64 percent reported working for universities and some 24 percent of respondents came from the U.S., reported Inside Higher Ed.
Those working in the research and science fields often have difficult tasks to complete, especially when it comes to the goal of achieving tenure. These tasks, which can include grant-writing, extensive lab time and publishing, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education, could put extra pressure -- and take time away from the home -- when it comes to advancement.
In fact, just one out of three people surveyed indicated they worked for a family-friendly institution, noted The Chronicle. Inside Higher Ed also reported that the results seemed to indicate that universities worldwide may not be family-friendly to workers.
"If there's one-third of scientists who are unhappy, then we might lose a lot of people who are playing a role in science," Donna Dean, an AWIS board member, told Insider Higher Ed. "The goal, of course, is to have robust, diverse and enthusiastic workplaces. We have to question what these numbers mean for those coming into the system."
More women (48 percent) than men (39 percent) reported being unhappy about the balance between work and personal life, according to The Chronicle. However, it was this lack of work-life balance that caused nine percent of all the respondents (both men and women) to indicate this was the primary reason they planned to leave their job within the next year.
"This is not a gender issue, this is atmosphere-related," Dean said in The Chronicle. "Both men and women are struggling with this."
Typically, much of the research related to STEM -- science, technology, engineering and math -- fields focuses on women. More often than not, they represent women as the ones who have difficulty finding the right work-life balance. However, this study shows that both males and females struggle.
"These findings confirm that work-life conflict is not gender-specific in the scientific community," Janet Bandows Koster, AWIS Executive Director and CEO, said in the press release. "The real issue is that the academic workplace is still modeled on an ideal that no longer exists nor complements the realities of today's global workforce."
"If researchers who want a fulfilling home and work-life are being driven out of the industry through archaic working practices, it's time to address the system itself," she said.
Compiled by Maggie O'Neill
"Elusive Balance," insidehighered.com, March 9, 2012, Kaustuv Basu
"The Work-Life Integration Overload: Thousands of Researchers Weigh in on Outmoded Work Environments, Unfriendly Family Policies," awis.org, March 8, 2012
"Work-Life Balance is Out of Reach for Many Male and Female Scientists," chronicle.com, March 8, 2012, Audrey Williams June
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HP may have been in the news in 2011 for its boardroom antics more than its products, but now it is coming to light just why its plans for webOS went awry.
According to interviews with a number of ex-Palm and -HP employees, it was because the technology behind its mobile operating system was just not up to scratch.
Speaking to the New York Times, Paul Mercer, who used to be the senior director of software at Palm, said about the OS: "Palm was ahead of its time in trying to build a phone software platform using web technology, and we just weren't able to execute such an ambitious and breakthrough design.
"Perhaps it never could have been executed because the technology wasn't there yet."
Not prime time
Mercer believes that basing webOS on WebKit meant that it would never match the likes of the iPhone when it came to speed and the open source software also didn't capture the imagination of developers.
And no developers meant a lack of apps, which are now bread and butter for all phone users.
"If the bar is to build Cupertino-class software in terms of responsiveness and beauty," explained Mercer, "WebKit remains not ready for prime time, because the web cannot deliver yet."
There is hope for webOS, however, and it has come from the healthcare sector.
According to Mobile Health News, researchers from Stanford University have developed an app for the HP TouchPad which "operates an interventional MRI scanner and view patient respiration data".
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Roscoe Pound, (born October 27, 1870, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.—died July 1, 1964, Cambridge, Massachusetts), American jurist, botanist, and educator, chief advocate of “sociological jurisprudence” and a leader in the reform of court administration in the United States.
After studying botany at the University of Nebraska and law at Harvard (1889–90), Pound was admitted to the Nebraska bar, and he practiced law while also teaching at the state university (1890–1903). While serving as director of the state botanical survey (1892–1903), he discovered a rare lichen, which was subsequently named Roscopoundia.
Pound also served as commissioner of appeals for the state supreme court (1901–03) and commissioner on uniform state laws for Nebraska (1904–07). He taught at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois (1907–09), and at the University of Chicago (1909–10), after which he went to Harvard, where he was professor of law (1910–37) and dean of the law school (1916–36). On his resignation as dean, he received a “roving professorship” there and taught a variety of subjects until his retirement (1947). After World War II he spent some time in China reorganizing the Nationalist Chinese judicial system.
Pound’s five-volume Jurisprudence is among the most comprehensive of 20th-century legal works. His theory of sociological jurisprudence required that inherited legal codes and traditions be adjusted to reflect contemporary social conditions. The theory may have partially inspired—and was advanced by others as a justification of—the New Deal legislation of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s, which Pound nonetheless considered extreme.
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The world is a pretty big place, but it grows smaller by the day. Not because of overpopulation, but because of increasing accessibility through travel, and real-time satellite internet. Cultures may seem very different, and I will admit that I have not had the blessed privilege of being immersed in a culture vastly different from my own. But I believe that people who do spend time in different cultures would tell you that in essence, people all over the world have many basics in common. Most people want to be loved, have family, be able to provide for themselves and their family, live in peace and freedom. Most people pursue some recreation, but are fulfilled in productivity, enjoy some fellowship, appreciate nature and beauty, music and art of some form, and most people still believe in some higher power.
The Bible claims to be the Word of God, and I believe that it is. I believe that God, our Creator and the Creator of all that is, who had no beginning and has no end, who is Himself the Alpha and the Omega, gave this Word to mankind by divine inspiration to men of old, prophets, who wrote it down as they were instructed by God, and that God Himself has preserved it. I believe that God is all-powerful, all-knowing, all-seeing and omnipresent.
I believe that Lucifer, otherwise known as Satan, the anointed cherub that covereth, is the most cunning, most powerful created being among the order of angelic beings, who coveted God’s place, led rebellion in heaven in his pride, in a foolish doomed ambition to ascend above God.
I do not believe the Earth or universe are “millions of years old” as science (so-called) claims, but closer to 6000. I believe that everyone, from the most remote and isolated tribe on distant continents, to the Native Americans, to all past civilizations, carried/do carry among their civilization, remnants of knowledge of God and history that included dinosaurs/great lizards, a world-wide flood, and beings from outside this world.
I believe that like anything that is handled by humans, the knowledge gets distorted, added to, subtracted from, and where there is or has been conflict, different sides have taken different perspectives, not always honest, but as to the victor goes the spoils, also the victor writes the history books.
We humans have been created in God’s image, and thus, similar to Him, we have a vast capacity of imagination. But that has often been to our detriment, since He gave us each a will of our own as well.
I have come to believe that absolutely nothing in life is random. Despite the fact that I jokingly insist hat my mind itself is pretty random.
Here’s the thing. Lets say you used your own hard-earned resources, and invested your own efforts and time, to write some great novel, or create some great city. Was it not solely Dickens’ prerogative to write the characters in “A Christmas Carol” just as he so choose, and give them the adventures he pleased to give them? Wouldn’t a man who was building a city, owned the property, supplied all the materials, be the rightful one to decide the plans for that city? Where does our sense of “prerogative” come from?
Many people disagree on questions of morality, death penalty, gun ownership, homosexuality, but even the most hardened criminal has been known to beat a child-molester to a bloody pulp, in “righteous indignation” over the abuse of power and tormenting the innocent and weak. We like the idea of self-determining what is right and wrong, but where does our universal sense that there is such a thing even come from?
It comes from the fact that there is a God, and quite simply, He said so. He was quite specific about it, but beginning with the fall of Satan, and the subsequent temptation of Eve, mankind has been compromising and redefining it ever since.
The thing is, God never changes. And His Word is full disclosure, He has warned us to that effect. Just because mankind has chosen not to believe Him, doesn’t alter the fact one iota.
God will do what He will do.
He inspired the writing of His book, the Holy Bible, for our edification, for our good. God created humankind for one reason. He desired fellowship. God is not subject to time. Like a story in a book, from ancient history to future yet-to-be, He stands outside and above, and sees it all at a glance. He knew who would obey, preserve His Word, pass it on to future generations, and He knew who would rebel and reject it. This is what is meant by “the sins of the father being visited upon the children to the third and fourth generations”. One patriarch’s disobedience, could doom many generations of that family line to blindness to God’s truth. God has told us in His Book that a day of judgment is coming. Science says “matter is neither created nor destroyed”. But science is wrong. God created everything from nothing. God breathed all that there is, into existence by commanding it to be, by the Word of His mouth. The same body of science, claims in blatant contradiction of the first principle mentioned above, that essentially, in the beginning, there was nothing, and nothing “exploded” and then all manner of rudimentary life forms or building blocks suddenly were, and that with the addition of the passage of time, these unintelligent life forms “evolved” all on their own, into more advanced life forms.
It takes a lot more “faith” to believe that everything came from nothing, than to believe an intelligent pre-existent being created it all. Yet that is what rejection of truth will buy you. Blindness. The problem is not that people “can’t believe the Bible”. It’s that they don’t like what the Bible tells them, so they won’t believe it. Every person who comes of age makes that decision, whether it is done thoughtfully and consciously, or carelessly and not-so-consciously.
I submit for your consideration that if you landed on this post, on this particular blog today, there just may be a Divine reason for that.
There is a dis-integration taking place in this world.
Through out history, empires and nations have risen and have fallen. Some have had impressive staying power. Governments too, can be quite different one from another, but underneath it boils down to certain leaders, parties or factions, having power and dominance over other ones. They may be benign, or malevolent, they may promote freedom, or forbid it. We are all subject to some form of governmental entity. But there is a whole other realm of principality. The Bible calls them “principalities and powers”; these are the rebellious ones, and they are your enemy. Then there is God and the tens of thousands and thousands of thousands of angels who do His bidding.
At any given time in history, in any location on this earth, the “powers that be” may have attained their power by conquest, but only because God granted it. Here in America, where men who worshiped God, who had been oppressed in that worship in England, came and established a new nation based upon Biblical truths. Obedience to God affords the protection of God to the obedient. It promotes access to the blessings of God. Disobedience and rebellion do the opposite. God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Jacob, is the only “god” known to man, who does not require for you to make your way to him. Krishna, Buddah, Allah, the god of Mormans (which is not the same God but an imagined god with different attributes and requirements) the god of Jehovah’s Witnesses (their doctrine, like that of the Mormans, Muslims, Hindus, etc, were imparted by “angels” (of darkness) but God says in His Words, that if even an angel came giving a gospel other than that found in His Word, as preached by the Apostle Paul, it must be rejected.
God’s Word says in His Book, that many deceivers would come, and many false Christs. Christ is not a name, it is a title for the Messiah, the Savior of the world.
Over 300 prophecies were spoken in the old Testament about Jesus, the Christ and Messiah, and all of them were fulfilled. (More here)
It is Friday of the week, and often times I try to “lighten up” the mood on Friday, but the truth is, time is swiftly running out.
For those of you who came to this site as a source of news only, it is about much more. It is my hearts sincere desire to share with you the gospel of Jesus Christ, that you might be saved from the wrath that is to come upon this earth very shortly. Without the gospel, the news can only engender despair. The economy through out the world, is in serious trouble. Many new diseases, viruses, and bacterial infections are cropping up, as well as resurgence and mutations of old ones previously nearly eradicated. There are mass animal deaths the world over. There have been unexplained sounds and sights for several years, that have people puzzled, alarmed, scratching their heads in bewilderment. Wars are being threatened on every side, and there are thousands of ongoing conflicts, some stretching back a century, that are in progress now. Basic human compassion, civility, and morality is eroding at an alarming rate. Science and technology have ventured into areas that should make anyone nervous; A replacement living ear is about three years away from reality, nano body parts can be reproduced the same way using a newly announced microscopic 3D printer, brain scans can tell what a person is thinking, fetuses with the DNA of 3 instead of 2 “parents”. Governance and order are breaking down, and Police State tactics are rising in even the free-est of nations, while dictatorships have fallen in more oppressed areas of the world only to be replaced by regimes more evil than the previous ones. There are water shortages, famines, bizarre, extreme and out-of-season weather conditions, sinkholes all over the world, volcanoes waking up and erupting, fault-lines becoming active that had been quiet, and increase of “U.F.O” sightings, and reports of demonic encounters, including and most disturbingly, in children. Suicide is up. Corruption is spreading.
There is one absolute certainty in the life of every human being: Death!
God created us with an eternal soul. It is a lie that life ends at the grave. It is a lie that souls re-incarnate into new bodies and live multiple lifetimes until they attain heaven. It is a lie that there is no hell or that hell is a temporary place you can eventually earn your way out of.
God who made you, does not want you to go to hell. He didn’t create hell for humans. Hell was designed as a place of eternal punishment for Satan and the 1/3 of the angels who joined him in his revolt. But Satan is determined to take you with him. He knows God pretty well. He had plenty of time to observe and witness all God did when he held his anointed cherub position. He knows human nature pretty well too. He knows that we have an innate “knowledge” that we were made for something more than this existence. He knows God wrote His law on man’s heart, which is why we have a sense of justice and right and wrong at all in the first place. So Satan works within the confines God has subjected him to, using the knowledge he has, and he creates customized counterfeits according to your propensities. He perpetuates the particular falsehoods of a given culture. He offers the particular temptations that suit your personal proclivities. He lures you in and traps you, either with false religion, or with distortions of the good things God created, rather than the marriage bed and satisfaction with your mate, he offers you a “banquet” of options which promise fulfillment but only feed your lust and reinforce the chains of your addiction. He caters to your desire to be righteous in your own right, and feeds you reams of requirements to strive towards, to “earn” salvation, or penance to suffer.
When in reality, the way to reconciliation with God is so simple it seems almost to good to be true, and it cannot be earned. One must merely believe Jesus is the Son of God, who while equal with God, became a man in the flesh, and having never sinned, took the punishment for our sins, satisfying God’s wrath paying the fine, so to speak, that we owe for our transgressions of the law, which cannot save us, but can only show forth our guilt. We must repent, (that is, make a 180 degree turn from, and go in the opposite direction) of our sins and rebellion and transgression of God’s law, and ask forgiveness and ask for the atonement bought by Christ, to be applied to our “account”, for God is keeping account.
I know that time is short before Christ removes all who are saved from this Earth, (to be followed by 7 years of the most horrific conditions Earth has ever known, and then the return of Christ to establish His Kingdom) because Jesus told us in Matthew 24 what the signs would be, and Daniel and Isaiah, Ezekiel and other prophecy books of the Bible, including of course, Revelation, tell us some of the events that will happen just before, and during that period of the very end.
- False Christs and false teachers/prophets
- The “fig tree” will put forth leaves this is a reference to the Nation of Israel reborn and a regathering of Jews of each of the 12 tribes into Israel (in progress)
- False Christs and false teachers will show false (lying) signs and wonders (miracles)
- Many wars and rumors of wars with nations rising against nations
- Famines (and drought) in diverse (different from usual) places
- Pestilences in diverse places
- Earthquakes in diverse places
- Many shall be offended, shall betray one another, and hate one another
- Iniquity shall abound (as the days of Noah and Lot)
- Mankind’s love for one another will grow cold
- Many shall run to and fro about the Earth and knowledge shall increase. (This speaks to population numbers, ease of travel, and huge advances in science and technology)
- The gospel of the Kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world
- Israel will stand alone without ally, a burdensome stone in the world
- Jewish temple worship will be reinstated (which requires the rebuilding of their temple)
- Mankind’s weapons capability will be so advanced that if God did not set limits on this period of global warfare and tribulation, no human flesh would survive
- Revelation and Daniel predict the rise of a global order of government on the order of ancient Rome (will require the collapse or conquering of all current sovereign states)
- A great false influential religious leader will arise
- The Jewish temple will be desecrated for the final time.
- Faith will be a matter of life and death, mandatory allegiance will be required to a false messiah.
Isaiah 17 news:
Note: The Isaiah 17 battle which destroys Damascus could happen any day now, but it also could happen after the snatching away of the church of blood-bought born again believers.
Increase in lawlessness:
Religion a matter of Life and Death:
Growing Military State:
National Guard Air Exercise over Myrtle Beach next week(Should be interesting as it overlaps with Bike Week!)
Florida Garbage Truck Drivers Trained to Snitch on Citizens (It was only a matter of time)
Like the Days of Noah And Lot/Iniquity abounds:
Wars/Rumors of Wars:
Israel stands alone:
Breakdown of current order of governments/corruption/economies:
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Knowledge Acquisition by Means of Interactive Educational Films
April 2007 - June 2010
German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
In contrast to conventional educational AV media (e.g., VHS video cassettes), new digitized media offer various interactive features which allow the processing of their contents in an active and self-regulated fashion - comparable to working with schoolbooks. An example for this are digitized videos offering a substantial enlargement of possible control activities to the user which encloses, for example, the controllability of pace and sequence of the video as well as the direct access to film scenes by means of an index. From April 2007 to June 2010 the DFG-supported project LIAM (Learning with interactive Media) addressed several questions of knowledge acquisition by interactive films: Does the interactive video usage benefit knowledge acquisition in the context of history education? What are the patterns and mechanisms of learner-controlled use of digitized videos? Which role do the personal characteristics of the pupils (e.g., reading strategies) play?
The project has shown that interactivity can indeed level out differences between videos and print when it comes to knowledge acquisition. However, the availability of respective strategies as well as a fit between task characteristics and interactive features seems to be pivotal for an efficient use of features such as table of contents and index.The project was part of the research group for Empirical Research in Education located in Tübingen. Find more information regarding the DFG-research group "Orchestrating Computer-supported Processes of Learning and Instruction" on: http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/fg738/.
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Egyptians choose new president amid political chaos
Big questions remain for Egyptians, including what happens after election
The presidential runoff election in Egypt this weekend pits an Islamist against a symbol of Egypt's former dictatorial regime: the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi and former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik.
And there was a third option as polling began Saturday: boycott.
The stakes are high -- the future of Egypt's hard-won revolution rests in ballots cast this weekend amid political chaos. Egypt has no constitution and now, after a shocking court ruling, no parliament. It was declared invalid Thursday and dissolved Friday.
The Muslim Brotherhood rejected Saturday the dissolution of parliament as a dangerous step taken by the military and called for another referendum on the matter.
"We are calling for a referendum again on the dissolving of parliament and see it as the logical thing to do especially after 30 million people went to the polls the first time and the country spent over 3 billion Egyptian pounds in a transparent electoral process," said Mahmoud Ghozlan, spokesman for the Brotherhood.
Many Egyptians have expressed fears that their revolution is unraveling; that the military, long the central nerve system of Egypt, will never relinquish power.
"I was planning to boycott the elections because I feel neither candidate represents the Egypt we wanted, but my family convinced me," said Yousef Hamad, a retired English professor in central Cairo, who would not reveal how he voted.
"These next two days will shape Egypt's history," he said. "I am standing in the long line to vote for the more experienced candidate who will hopefully save Egypt's economy before it completely collapses."
The polls opened at 8 a.m. Saturday. Farouk Sultan, head of Egypt's Presidential Election Committee, announced that polling hours were extended by an hour to 9 p.m. The polls open again Sunday morning and remain open until 8 p.m. Votes must be counted by Monday, with final results expected Thursday.
The heat kept turnout relatively low much of Saturday, but voting picked up later.
Officials reported few voting irregularities, Sultan said.
The April 6 youth movement, behind many of the protests in Tahrir Square last year, said three dozen members were arrested, most later being released.
"The new martial law seems to be in full effect," said spokesman Hisham Mohamed. "They are obviously targeting us and we think it will get worse if Shafik is president."
Although the political situation has been difficult, U.S. Rep. David Dreier, R-California, an observer, said the election is significant.
"For the first time in 7,000 years the people of Egypt this weekend are going to elect a president and no one knows for sure who the winner is going to be," Dreier told CNN. "I think that is an accomplishment."
The excitement of being able to choose a candidate could not be underestimated. But that choice, for some, came down to the lesser of two evils.
Farouq Magdy supported Hamdeen Sabahy, a candidate who didn't make the runoff. Now, after the constitutional court's ruling and the recent release of six former Interior Ministry officials, he felt the military council was asserting its authority.
That's why Morsi, he said, was "the better of two choices."
But hotel manager Mohammed Ali said a majority of his staff was voting for Shafik.
"We need security and we want to recover economically," Ali said. "Not because Shafik is a great option, but let's say he is the best of the worst."
Or consider these two differing opinions:
"I do not trust anyone with a beard. So I am voting for Shafik," said fast-food shopkeeper Kamaal. That's a reference to Morsi, a conservative Muslim with a beard.
But jeweler Mohammed Ahmed recalled Shafik say on television last year that he would personally guarantee the safety of protesters at Tahrir Square. When it didn't happen, the least he should have done was resign, Ahmed said.
"I am voting for Morsi because I feel Shafik has betrayed Egyptians last year when he was Mubarak's prime minister," he said.
The runoff follows a May election that failed to produce a winner with a clear majority.
No one knows how much power Egypt's new president will wield. A constitution that will define his role has yet to be drafted and a new round of parliamentary elections has not yet been scheduled.
But one thing is clear. Morsi or Shafik will report directly to Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, the powerful military leaders who have been ruling Egypt de facto since Mubarak's departure.
Some disgruntled voters launched a campaign to invalidate ballots, said Mohamed Ghoneim, the founder of a group that marked X on the names of both Morsi and Shafiq, thereby nullifying their vote.
Political scientist Amr Hamzawy wrote a newspaper article on the boycott.
"There are different kinds of political and psychological blackmail taking place these days against citizens who have already made up their mind and decided to boycott the presidential runoff elections," he wrote.
"I register my intention to revoke my vote by refraining from voting for any of the rival candidates, and also place on record my respect for the rules of electoral competition and I will respect the result as long as the electoral process was characterized by integrity, and absence of fraud."
Among the boycotters was Mohamed Khamees, who handed out leaflets.
Khamees said he lost sight in his left eye from a police beating in Tahrir Square during the early 2011 protests.
"If I give this country for the Brotherhood hands, there is not going to be any more Egypt, it will be destroyed," he told CNN. "And if I give it to someone from the old system, it looks like we did nothing."
Prominent journalist Bilal Fadl attacked Muslim Brotherhood members for months for an alleged lack of performance in the parliament they dominated. But now, he has changed his mind.
"Do you still think it is better to give your voice to Ahmed Shafik so he can become the first Egyptian president since the revolution?" Fadl wrote.
"That's the revolution for which hundreds sacrificed their lives ... under the political responsibility of Shafik. Would you give your voice to someone who got his legitimacy from his being anti-revolution or give it to someone who is pro-revolution but only differs with you (in approach)?"
These are questions pondered by 50 million eligible voters this weekend.
Businessman Hussain Mahmoud voted for Morsi. Hussein doesn't want soldiers, serving or retired, to lead Egypt.
"They consider themselves superior to other human beings," he told CNN. "They're used to giving orders and those below carrying them without discussion."
Mahmoud was interrupted by Mabrouk Mikhail, a Coptic Christian, former army officer and supporter of Shafik. He insisted religion must stay out of politics.
"Frankly, the Brotherhood failed in parliament. They were a farce and nothing good came of them," Mikhail said.
Despite tensions, Saturday's polling was mostly calm, said Gen. Mohsen Mourad, head of security in Cairo.
The Supreme Presidential Electoral Commission has approved licenses for 53 organizations to observe the elections, including at least three international groups -- the U.S.-based Carter Center, the South Africa-based Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa and the Arab Network for Monitoring of Elections.
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June 30, 2009
Picture an artifact. It could be a painting, an old wooden toy, a ceramic dish. Anything will do. Who made it, where does it come from, what’s its story? Typically, these are the questions that museum curators ask when they exhibit artifacts.
But, if you place that object in the middle of a vast room. Set it on a white pedestal, and light it to bring out its best qualities, does the artifact begin to lose its significance or its story? Does it gain a new meaning or become a new piece all together?
These are the questions mixed-medium artist Andrea Carlson asks visitors to ponder when they look at her works of art. The Minnesota-based artist’s works are a sharp commentary on museums and their collections. “The museum kind of becomes the storyteller,” Carlson says. “From an artist’s perspective, when we are collected; we feel a little bit consumed.” Carlson (Anishinaabe) has 20 pieces on display at the National Museum of the American Indian’s George Gustav Heye Center in New York City through January 10, 2010.
Carlson says she tries to avoid talking specifically about her culture. “People are interested, but they feel like they can’t participate. When I took a step back and started talking about cultural things in general, everyone started talking to me. Everyone had formed an opinion.”
“The conversation needs to happen within the museum,” Carlson adds. “Staff and curators are really open. It’s other people, the visitors, who are shocked. I like that. I think that’s a good thing. It’s healthy.”
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Washington District Power Measure, Initiative 1 (1930)
in Washington State
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Its sponsors filed signatures to qualify it for the ballot as an Initiative to the Legislature. When the legislature did not take action on the proposed legislation, as provided by state constitution, the measure was placed on the ballot.
Initiative 1 became Chapter 1, Laws of 1931.
Text on the Ballot
An Act authorizing the establishment of public utility districts; providing for the construction, purchase, condemnation, acquisition, regulation, maintenance, and operation thereby of plants, properties and facilities for the development and distribution of water and electricity for all purposes; authorizing such districts to levy taxes and to create local assessment districts for the accomplishment of said purposes, and defining the powers and duties of such public utility districts and of certain officers in connection therewith.
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- Washington 1930 Election Results
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Thanks to David Greenlees over at The Old Motor for today’s street scene, though we’re sure the drivers of the cars in the photo would think of it as a parking lot scene. The cause for the backup on Boston’s Southeast Expressway, according to David, was a Boston Carmen’s Union strike of the Metropolitan Transit Authority, which forced commuters to take to their own cars and clog the highways. A little digging turns up news stories on two Boston MTA strikes in the early 1960s: one in August 1960, another in January 1961. Given that some windows are rolled down and the roads are clear of snow, it’s a good bet this is the former of the two dates. Reportedly, car traffic increased from 100,000 cars to 250,000 cars in downtown Boston during the 1961 strike. Carspotters, what do you see here?
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Distributed February 21, 2003
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Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture
Randall Kennedy to speak on politics of race and marriage March 3
Noted Harvard Law School Professor Randall Kennedy will give the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture when he speaks on “Marriage and the Politics of Race in America” Monday, March 3, 2003, at 4 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching on The College Green. This lecture is free and open to the public.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Noted Harvard Law School Professor Randall Kennedy will give the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture on Monday, March 3, 2003, at 4 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on The College Green. He will speak on “Marriage and the Politics of Race in America.”
In his most recent book, Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption, Kennedy examines the historical, sociological, legal and moral issues surrounding interracial relationships. He is also the author of Race, Crime, and the Law, which was awarded the 1998 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (2002). His writing has appeared in a wide range of scholarly and general interest publications, including The American Lawyer, Atlantic Monthly, The Boston Globe, The New Republic, The New York Times, Time, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. He has also written for and serves on the editorial boards of The American Prospect, Dissent and The Nation.
Born in Columbia, S.C., Kennedy was raised in Washington, D.C., where he attended St. Albans School. He received an undergraduate degree from Princeton University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford University; he received his law degree from Yale Law School, where he served as an editor for the Yale Law Journal. After graduating from law school, he clerked for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court.
At the Harvard Law School, Kennedy teaches courses on contracts, criminal law and the regulation of race relations. He is a member of the American Law Institute, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Association.
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The size and shape of breasts in women have many implications for their life. Inappropriately sized or unsightly shaped breasts can affect a woman’s self image, psyche, lifestyle and her overall wellbeing.
Sagging Breast Lift:
One of the common problems with women’s breasts is sagging breasts. Sagging breast (or ptotic) refers to a breast where the nipple hangs below the lower fold of the breast. This helps treat the breast sagging (ptosis) that can result from changes after pregnancy, weight loss or advancing age due to increase in breast volume the skin stretches and loses its elasticity. As a result the glandular breast hangs down within its skin envelop.
This condition can develop due to large scale weight-loss or where a woman has breast fed many children. Women’s breasts may also begin to sag when they have reached their menopause.
A breast lift, technically known as mastopexy, is a remarkable breast enhancement procedure designed to correct sagging breasts by raising and reshaping the breasts providing a youthful appearance. It is a very popular cosmetic surgery procedure. Every year, hundreds of thousands of breast lifts are performed in the USA alone.
Breast Lift Procedure:
Essentially, a breast lifting procedure consists in removing the redundant skin and repositioning the nipple-areola complex in a more “ideal” position.
A breast lift can be performed with or without the insertion of breast implants through a procedure known as breast augmentation. This depends upon the anatomical nature of the patient’s breasts as well as her needs.
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I was lying in bed Monday morning, somewhere between sleep and thoughts of what I was going to wear to work, when I heard a loud crash in another part of my apartment. Stunned and shaken, I jumped out of bed and stumbled from room to room, trying to figure out what had just happened. I saw nothing out of place in the kitchen or the dining area. The laundry room was all clear. I went to my living room and there it was: My orchid was on the floor, the green pot in which it sits broken, exposed roots everywhere.
My first reaction was frustration. (I’m still working on not becoming frustrated over things I can’t control anyway.) I knew Bijou, the kitten I recently adopted, was the culprit behind the mess on my hardwood floor. I’ve had this plant for more than a year. I wanted it to bloom again and had grown frustrated with the stalled shoots that never reached maturity, in spite of my regular watering after I bought it. As I picked up the shards of pottery and the parched root system from the floor, I saw the lesson in that moment.
In my frustration with the growth of my plant, I had neglected it in recent months. All an orchid requires is warmth, a bit of sun each day and a few ice cubes one day a week. Sounds easy enough, right? Yet, I had not watered it in weeks. It is still green and gorgeous and sprouting new leaves, but the shoots didn’t grow and they certainly didn’t come close to creating that beautiful arc that they do before they grow blossoms.
How often do we do that in other areas of our life? Perhaps we become weary with our relationships, our health, our finances or the absence of those things. It’s tempting to neglect areas of our lives that require more time, effort, patience, vulnerability and understanding than we are willing to give. When it comes to relationships, that can manifest in the form of failed friendships, family feuds and lost loves. We can also become frustrated and complacent with ourselves and deny our bodies the nourishing food, regular exercise and spiritual care we all need and so deserve. That often leads to literal and figurative brokenness and a dry, parched existence, making it unlikely that we will ever achieve the growth we say we want.
Imagine how different the world would be if we tended to the important things in our lives, rather than waiting for things to break, relationships to end, people to die, lab results to arrive or doors to close.
What in your life requires your attention? What can you do today to further engage so that you can see the growth and manifest the changes that crave you just as much as you crave them? The only thing we have is this moment. Right here and now.
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Questions about Mandarin, recommended learning material and techniques
I am learning beginner Chinese right now (conversational and a few characters) and I really enjoy learning characters but I also feel like once I've learned a lot I wont enjoy it so much. Which leaves me wondering how useful they are to learn on top of conversational skills.
What do you all think how useful is it to learn characters? What have other people done?
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I've been learning chinese for two years at uni and after that I can't tell that i'm able to make a sentence out of it.
It might would have been different if I could have been to China... But I tried to learn all caracters but they look so similar to each other, that I couldn't make it... I would rather study italian that I can get something out of it within a couple of year !
会说汉语我很高兴. 我想去中国，因为中国是大和我喜欢中国人 !
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Bias, either conscious or subconscious, dominates decision-making and perceptions of others. Whether it is stereotypes, ethnocentrism, or socialized preferences, humans are prone to making errors in judgment and biased decisions that, in the aggregate, tend to promote the status quo and restrict opportunities. Social norms are institutionalized by the successful and powerful in society creating barriers to ascending the socio-economic ladder. Without a conscious effort to eliminate all forms of bias, society will continue to preclude the advancement of the underprivileged and promote a false “diversity” in our organizations.
Young children are a blank slate of opportunity, full of promise and potential. They are influenced by social interaction and parental conditioning in their development of a sense of self as well as their perceptions of others. These values are perpetuated throughout their lives, influencing the social norms that dictate the success of every ethnic group or social class. While most businesses, organizations, and politicians superficially promote diversity and unbiased decision-making, it is impossible to divorce the ingrained perceptions and prejudices from highly subjective decisions.
Admission policies at elite schools in America are dominated by cronyism and bias. Family heritage, financial donations, and “diversity goals” are more significant factors in the process than academic achievement and future potential. Academic institutions further socialize students, ingraining in them a thought process that is often based more on self affirmation and self aggrandizement than higher education. As a result of their “prestigious” heritage, these students often receive preferential appointments and ultimately dictate access to important entry level positions that are critical to careers in many industries. The majority of gifted students, either due to a lack of financial resources or a personal heritage that deviates from the model Ivy League profile, find themselves at public universities and colleges receiving a rigorous education second to none.
Once the chosen elite have established their sphere of control, the years of socialization and conditioning emerge as a self preservation and self affirmation mechanism. Years of conditioning led these individuals to believe that they are the chosen few that are destined for power and greatness. Biases favoring candidates, colleagues, and associates that resemble themselves dominate any assessment of merit or potential. Examples proliferate, including the relative dearth of women on Wall Street, the disproportionate concentration of Indians and Chinese in engineering, and a parochial view of the ideal candidate.
Despite a broad base of qualified women candidates, the investment banking and finance industry continues to be an egotistical male dominated society. A preference for preservation of the “old boys” frat life culture of most investment banks combined with a strong aversion to emasculation by successful and powerful women leads to a distinct gender bias on Wall Street. Alternatively, the engineering industry is dominated by immigrants, with a high proportion of Indian and Chinese descent. This phenomenon is likely due, at least in part, to a degree of ethnocentrism and bias towards providing opportunities for young immigrants. The suppression of wages and tight social networks that emerge from a significant concentration of immigrant employees creates a perception of employment barriers and a lack of desirability among native employees. Finally, many managers and senior executives have a need for self affirmation through confirmation that their schooling, career path, and achievements were justified. In order to reinforce these beliefs, they pursue candidates of similar background and pedigree, once again perpetuating the status quo and a singular ingrained set of beliefs.
Bias in society is a viciously brutal phenomenon that destroys dreams and fosters resentment. Even programs designed to reduce bias, such as affirmative action, often lead to a perception that the gifted are the beneficiaries of preferential treatment while the underperformers displace other more qualified candidates from other groups. The United States will continue to perpetuate a bourgeoisie class until society embraces values of inclusion, objective acceptance, and equality. In the interim, resentment and frustration will continue to fester among the resulting proletariat class as they suffer from a lack of fulfillment and underachievement while the bourgeoisie strengthen their control over the wealth and keys to success. It is a sad commentary on America if success is determined by one’s ability to suppress the unique experiences, interests, and beliefs that distinguish one’s personality in favor of morphing into the stereotypical “ideal candidate” defined by a collective group of well conditioned drones whose only claim to power is the school they attended or the pedigree of their father. | <urn:uuid:0f0c5be2-184f-4b3c-94de-b22815a1584d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.beyondthemargin.net/2008/06/social-bias-in-workplace.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944078 | 898 | 3.078125 | 3 |
The Difference Between a Trade Name and a Trademark – And Why You Can’t Overlook Either
by Caron_Beesley, Community Moderator
- Created: June 20, 2012, 7:45 am
- Updated: January 9, 2013, 9:19 am
When it comes to starting a business, there’s often some confusion about the process of business name registration. How are trade names and trademarks different? Does a trade name afford any legal branding protection? Can your trade name be the same as your trademark?
Simply put, a trade name is the official name under which a company does business. It is also known as a “doing business as” name, assumed name, or fictitious name. A trade name does not afford any brand name protection or provide you with unlimited rights for the use of that name. However, registering a trade name is an important step for some – but not all – businesses (more on this below).
A trademark is used to protect your brand name and can also be associated with your trade name. A trademark can also protect symbols, logos and slogans. Your name is one of your most valuable business assets, so it’s worth protecting.
An important reason to distinguish between trade names and trademarks is that if a business starts to use its trade name to identify products and services, it could be perceived that the trade name is now functioning as a trademark, which could potentially infringe on existing trademarks.
To learn more about the role trade names and trademarks have in your business and how to apply for each, read on.
Registering a Trade Name
Naming your business is an important branding exercise. If you choose to name your business as anything other than your own personal name (i.e. a “trade name”), then you’ll need to register it with the appropriate authority as a “doing business as” (DBA) name.
Consider this scenario: John Smith sets up a painting business and chooses to name it “John Smith Painting.” Because “John Smith Paining” is considered a DBA name (or trade name), John will need to register it as a fictitious business name with a government agency.
You need a DBA in the following scenarios:
- Sole Proprietors or Partnerships – If you wish to start a business under any name other than your real one, you’ll need to register a DBA name so you can do business under the DBA name.
- Existing Corporations or LLCs – If your business is already incorporated and you want to do business under a different name, you will need to register a DBA.
Note that many sole proprietors maintain a DBA or trade name to give their business a professional image, yet still use their own name on tax forms and invoices.
Depending on where your business is located, you’ll need to register your DBA name through either your county clerk’s office or your state government. Note: Not all states require fictitious business names or DBA registration. SBA’s Business Name Registration page has more information about the process, plus links to the registration authorities in each state.
Registering Your Trademark
Choosing to register a trademark is up to you, but your business name and identity is one of its most valuable assets, so it’s worth protecting.
Registering a trademark guarantees exclusive use, establishes legally that your mark is not already being used, and provides government protection from any liability or infringement issues that may arise. Being cautious in the beginning can certainly save you trouble in the long run. You may choose to personally apply for trademark registration or hire an intellectual property lawyer to register for you.
Trademarks can be registered on both federal and state levels. Federal trademarks can be registered through the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Applications can be submitted online, by using the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS), or by requesting a hard copy application and mailing in a paper form. Although both methods are acceptable, filing online is a faster and more cost-effective process (less than $300).
Tip: Before you register, you’ll need to follow these steps:
- Determine whether your product is eligible for a trademark
- Conduct a trademark search using TESS (Trademark Electronic Search System)
Because it can be tricky to identify potential infringement or clashes, and the penalties for doing so are high, it’s worth talking to a good intellectual property lawyer to ensure you cover all bases.
As with trade names, registering a trademark at the state level varies from state to state. Check out the USPTO's State Trademark Information page for links to your state’s trademark office.
For a step-by-step guide to filing a trademark application, FAQs and more, refer to SBA.gov’s Small Business Guide to Intellectual Property.
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012
USS Enterprise Commemorates The Battle Of Midway
By Mass Communications Specialist 3rd Class Britney N. Epps, Enterprise Carrier Strike Group Public Affairs.
June 4, 2012.
USS ENTERPRISE, At Sea (NNS) -- Sailors and Marines aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) commemorated the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Midway with a ceremony conducted early in the morning June 4, a fitting tribute given the ship's close ties to the battle.
The previous USS Enterprise, CV-6, and her air wing played a vital role in the pivotal World War II battle that took place June 4-7, 1942.
The Battle of Midway is widely regarded as the turning point of the war in the Pacific.
"On this day in 1942, the entire complexion of the war in the Pacific changed," said Capt. William C. Hamilton, Jr., Enterprise's commanding officer, as he addressed the current Enterprise crew during the ceremony. "Thanks in no small part to the efforts of those serving aboard Enterprise."
Along with Enterprise, aircraft carriers USS Hornet (CV 8) and USS Yorktown (CV 5), along with U.S. strike forces, defeated the Imperial Japanese navy carrier task force under the direction of commander in chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Adm. Yamamoto.
Japanese losses during the battle were staggering. The Japanese Navy lost all four of the large carriers that had attacked Pearl Harbor, a heavy cruiser, 248 carrier-based aircraft and over 3,000 lives, including 100 trained pilots who could not be replaced.
Enterprise and her air wing were credited with three of the four Japanese carriers sunk that day at Midway.
"We were not without losses of our own, however," said Rear Adm. Ted Carter, commander, Enterprise Carrier Strike Group. "Although Enterprise was not attacked during the battle, her air wing suffered the heaviest losses of any air wing at sea up to that point."
At the opening of the ceremony, Carter described the heroic roles of the Sailors and Marines who fought and died during the historic battle.
"This morning, we pause for a few moments to reflect on the battle itself, the role each member of the Enterprise Strike Group played, and the sacrifices Sailors and Marines just like you made on those early days of June 1942," Carter told the crew.
Hamilton, Commander, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 1, Capt. Jeffrey L. Trent and Capt. Joseph J. Leonard, commodore, Destroyer Squadron 2, also spoke about the roles Enterprise, the air wing and the destroyer strike group played during the battle.
"Knowing this is our legacy, it is an absolute honor and privilege to remember the heroes of the Battle of Midway aboard our nation's most historic and legendary aircraft carrier, a great warship with a longstanding bond with Destroyer Squadron Two," said Leonard.
The partnership between Enterprise and Destroyer Squadron 2 began at Midway 70 years ago and continues today.
As part of the commemoration, Enterprise's First Class Petty Officer Association, detailed by Command Master Chief Dwayne E. Huff, performed a wreath-laying ceremony on the fantail aboard the ship. The fallen Sailors and Marines were also honored with a 21-gun salute and the sounding of "Taps," played by Boatswain's Mate 1st Class Timothy Lumpkin.
"While we look back on the incredible achievements of Midway and reflect on what it took for those Sailors to win, we should also look forward with great confidence," said Carter. "Midway taught us that this strength is not built upon technology and training, but rather brave, passionate Sailors and Marines just like you."
Aircraft assigned to CVW-1 performed a missing-man flyover formation June 3 to commemorate the aviators who lost during the battle.
Throughout the course of the day Enterprise went on to announce a historical timeline recounting the events of the Battle of Midway over the ship's announcing system.
"You preserve and celebrate the rich history and tradition of Enterprise," said Carter. "It is our past that has brought us to today and our past that will continue to shape our future," said Carter.
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Earthquake in Chile: A Time for Charity
The Prelate of Opus Dei sent a letter to members and cooperators of the Work in Chile as soon as he learned about the earthquake.
Bishop Echevarría has called for generous suffrages for those who lost their lives in the tragic quake and tsunami that affected many areas of Chile. As soon as he learned of it, the Prelate sent a letter to the faithful and cooperators of the Work in that country, assuring them, “I also pray, and ask everyone to pray with me, for the people who have been injured and have suffered material losses. Let us implore God that those who are suffering not lose hope.”
In particular, he invited the faithful and cooperators of Opus Dei in Chile to place themselves at the service of their fellow citizens with their work, Christian concern, and prayer, whenever possible “joining in the relief effort” promoted by the government, the Church, and social agencies. In this situation of extreme need, the Prelate especially encouraged “young people to get behind whatever measures the country’s authorities are taking.”
“I ask our Lord to sustain everyone, including the relief workers. Let us see this as a marvelous opportunity to fulfill the mandate of charity that Jesus preached. We must always practice an ardent charity among those close to us, truly loving everyone.”
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December 25, 1941 -
From Ronnie’s website:
If you research back to the George Benson Cookbooks “66” “67” on Columbia, Which have already been released on CD, You’ll find a young, early twenties baritone saxophone master. As you listen to this keep in mind that Benson and Cuber had this as a working band. His sound is something amazingly beautiful and vivid. That Benson band,from the day, was a working unit and a marvelous display of an an emerging Ronnie Cuber. As Cuber developed past his early years into a quintessential sideman for people as diverse as, Eddie Palmieri or Aretha Franklin and King Curtis. Nothing had been released under his name until the mid-seventies when he released the recording, Cuber Libre on Xanadu Records with Barry Harris,Sam Jones and Al “Tutti” Heath. At the same time in the early seventies, around 1973 and before, he had been adding one of a kind talents to personal projects with friends such as Mike Manieri’s ground breaking White Elephant Band and Bobby Paunetto’s Latin Jazz Projects. Cuber, at a point in the seventies was also in the Saturday Night Live band, Backing artists like Frank Zappa ,and playing solos with people like Zappa that to this day are light years ahead of what most people can play. For my ears – Cuber is one of the most soulful musicians ever.Bar none !! Cuber, born December 25, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York, has been composing, arranging and leading his own groups since 1959. He is acknowledged to be one of the greats among baritone saxophonists, with a sound that is an exciting amalgam of straight-ahead jazz, hard bop, soul, R& B, and Latin . In his teens he was chosen to perform in Marshall Brown’s Newport Youth Band at the 1959 Newport Jazz Festival.
By ‘ 62 Cuber had recorded with Slide Hampton. He worked and recorded with Maynard Ferguson’s band from 1963-1965. After stints with the orchestras of both Lionel Hampton and Woody Herman , Cuber augmented his New York session work by performing and recording with the great Latin bands of Eddie Palmieri, Charlie Palmieri, Mario Bauza. At the same time, Mr. Cuber was playing alongside and recording with R&B legend King Curtis and backing Aretha Franklin.Ronnie holds this association in high regard. He loved his friendship with King also. His killin’ solos with Lee Konitz’s Nonet from 1977-79 are historic as well as a study in Bari -sax-ology.. During that decade and the 1980s, Mr. Cuber also recorded with Mickey Tucker, Rein De Graaff, and Nick Brignola, and appeared with such artists as Andy and Jerry Gonzalez and vibraphone player Bobby Paunetto. Other leading artists with whom Mr. Cuber has performed include Eric Clapton, Steely Dan, the Eagles, Chaka Khan, Maynard Ferguson, Conrad Herwig, Boz Scaggs, Horace Silver, and Frank Zappa. From the 1990s to the present, Mr. Cuber has performed regularly with the Mingus Big Band and recorded several discs for Steeplechase and Fresh Sound. He created the Baritone Saxophone Band Tribute to Gerry Mulligan, and has spent summers touring with blues artist Dr. John, for whose band he has written numerous large horn section arrangements for tour and television performances. Mr. Cuber’s summer 2000 tour found him opening for Dr. John at European jazz festivals with his quartet and his old friend, organist Lonnie Smith. This is someone that has something to offer every listener of all tastes and ranges musically. Cuber is a musicians musician, as well as one of the most gifted players ever. His gift is in his ability to function with somebody like Steve Gadd and then go record with Horace Silver, at the same time do a tour with Eric Clapton. There is not one of his records that contains any half-hearted playing or musical skating. When he plays, it’s serious creative business and he tells a story. If you pick up anything under Cuber’s name, you’re guaranteed a winner. Check him out ! In this day and age, Ronnie is one of the modern day masters, and supreme creators. Do hear him ASAP! This recording, ” Ronnie”. Released last year on Steeplechase records, is some of the most vivid and personal saxophone playing ever done on a baritone saxophone. This CD is a shining example of Cubers big, beefy baritone sax tone and a fluent technique that is a one of a kind match between the gritty, down-home feeling of R&B and the advanced harmonies of bebop.
Ronnie Cuber’s Set up:
- Low A Mark VI Baritone
- Custom made metal Francois Louis mouthpiece
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Continuing the West Dean theme to my blog posts this week, here is a delightful postcard of West Dean, Sussex. You will probably get fed up with hearing about West Dean over the next few weeks, but I make no apologies, as it is one of the key places in my family history.
Not only is the picture delightful, so crisp and clear, but the card itself has lots of helpful features for the collector who wants to find out more about who published it and when. With reference to my earlier post about two West Deans in Sussex, there is no confusion which one this is, because the publisher has included a place as well as his name.
The publisher and photographer was Albert Henry Morey of nearby Chichester. The postcard was sent from West Dean on the 5th August 1914 (to an address in Watford), but from reading the description on the Sussex Postcards website (where there are some fantastic examples of his other work) it sounds like they may have been available several years earlier.
The picture is taken on the road from Chichester to Midhurst, looking roughly in an easterly direction. The large building on the right-hand side of the road is a pub, The Selsey Arms. I really must pop in next time I am in West Dean, as I have never been inside even though the bus stop is right outside. When I do I am sure I will be following in the footsteps of many of my ancestors. | <urn:uuid:784005aa-36a0-4d80-9cb1-5fcea056626d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wanderinggenealogist.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/picture-postcard-parade-west-dean-sussex/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=0df65f7478 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981957 | 301 | 1.585938 | 2 |
When I was in my first year of teaching a decade ago I was idealistic and academic. I taught English to grade eleven and twelve students and was content, maybe arrogant, enough to believe that the only way students would become better humans was through academics. I offered time after class and after-school sessions for exam prep. I inspired students through my passion and enthusiasm for literature, and even let them read books with swear words (because it was relevant and would help them relate) in them. Students loved me and some even began to learn how to read and write better. Some wanted to know what I thought they should read beyond what they were assigned.
One major stumbling block, as I saw it, were organized sports. Rugby, basketball, volleyball, soccer, football, they were all culprits in taking students’ minds off of what was really important – learning. There was nothing to be learned by throwing a ball around or hitting others at full strength and speed. Schools should be places of learning, and the community could work out the sports. And if they couldn’t do it, well, it wasn’t my problem to work out.
Now that I have children, a daughter who’s nine and a son who’s six, and I teach student leadership I realize how short-sighted and naive and ignorant I was ten years ago. Kids love to play. And, shockingly enough, kids learn so much while playing. My kids have learned confidence, patience and teamwork. They’re learning that their dad is a bit slow and out of shape and that they have to play nice with me or I get hurt. I’ve learned that life has to be experienced not just read about. I’ve learned that if our fields and gyms are empty, so our kids will be. And I learned all of this from experience in the field (sorry about the pun).
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The Sandy Bay Basic Community School Renovations 2009-11
PRIOR TO Tryall Fund's 'SUCCESS BY SIX' model program launch
Prior to 2009 the Sandy Bay Basic Community School was having little success with student academics and enrollment was on the decline, the school was having problems paying its teachers and keeping children enrolled. Three separate classes were being taugh in one room. The noise level, congestion and lighting were not conducive to learning. The overcrowded school was not meeting the basic needs of the preschool children and was only 30% compliant with the Early Childhood Commission Standards set by the Jamaican government. The school was in jeopardy of closing.
The Tryall Fund 'Success by Six' building renovations began in January 2009
The Tryall Fund also expanded the overcrowded school by renovating an adjoining building which doubled the size of the school, creating a library, computer area, principal's office and additional classroom.
The newly renovated classroom and additional space were a welcome change for the teachers, children and their caregivers.
Once building renovations were complete, additional curriculum programs were added including customized computer programs for each student based on their individual learning needs, a breakfast and lunch program for the children, health and dental
screenings, teacher training, and assessments of each child's progress.
Our 'Success by Six' program is already seeing tremendous success in the students. Our initial three year olds are now finishing their last year at the Sandy Bay Basic before heading off to Primary school in the Fall of 2012. We feel they will be well prepared for their new schools. Our first graduating class completed their first year in Primary School in May of 2011, all placing in the top 5% of their new classes!
100% of your donation goes directly to our programs.
The Tryall Fund is solely administered by
the Fund's Board of Directors and
supported generously by the Tryall Club and its members.
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When you dream of lush garden makeovers, only to wake up facing a barren yard, you may need to call in some expert help. That's what new homeowner Andy Gray decided to do after he'd cleared the scraggly bushes outside his century-old fixer-upper in a quiet town north of New York City.
Andy's home in September of 2008.
Tony Bielaczyc, deputy gardening editor at Martha Stewart Living, chose stones from regional quarries to build dry-laid (mortar-free) walls for raised beds. Besides ensuring good drainage and leveling uneven ground, the structures obviate the labor involved in digging and amending compacted soil. The beds were refilled with a growing mix of equal parts topsoil and compost.
"I get asked all the time, 'Don't gardens need to be in full sun?' Well, in fact, they don't," says Tony Bielaczyc. "Even if you're short on sunlight, you can get plenty of color from shade plants. Green is a color, and there are so many wonderful greens out there. Foliage is an amazing resource to work with."
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I am an energetic and dedicated educator that has been teaching high school science for nine years. I decided to break up this 'about me' page into two brief sections. First, my core beliefs as an educator. Second, the methods that I use to teach.
* Core Beliefs:
I believe that all of my students (as well as all students) can learn and achieve. I am a firm believer that there are many different types of learning styles and you need to find which ones work for each student. When you find what works, you will be rewarded with the success of your student!
I also believe that each student needs to understand that their teachers are personally invested in their success. I build a trusting relationship and have been very pleased with the success of my students.
Each student is unique. I implement differentiated instruction into each lesson. You have to meet a student on their ability level and then increase their understanding. I use manipulatives (hands on activities), graphic organizers and technology to enhance lessons.
Many of my students have gone onto college and excelled. I would love to assist your child as well!
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"A Gentleman of Exeter
A gentleman of Exelter,
He had but one only daughter dear.
When she was scarce sixteen years of age,..."
|A Horse Named Bill|
"A Hero of the Wrong War
I recall the afternoon, I had just come home from school
When the FBI came knocking on our door
They were looking for my dad..."
|A Hundred Years from Now|
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I had a horse, his name was Bill
And when he ran, he couldn't stand still
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New Ways Ministry has always walked a tightrope,
not opposing the official teaching that homosexual orientation is “intrinsically
disordered,” but offering consolation to Catholics who obviously chafe
under that teaching.
|I write this column on a plane
back to Rome from Louisville, Kentucky, where I spoke at the March 8-10
national gathering of New Ways Ministry. The group was created in 1977
to support pastoral ministry for gay and lesbian Catholics.
(The name of the organization,
I learned from a publication celebrating its 25th anniversary,
is drawn from a 1976 pastoral letter by Bishop Francis J. Mugavero, then
of Brooklyn, who called for the church to find “new ways” of reaching out
to gays and lesbians).
New Ways Ministry has
always walked a tightrope, not opposing the official teaching that homosexual
orientation is “intrinsically disordered,” but offering consolation to
Catholics who obviously chafe under that teaching. This tension, between
respecting the church and challenging it, was certainly in the air in Louisville.
The conference brought
together a galaxy of Catholic progressives, who came to support pastoral
outreach to the gay and lesbian community. Two bishops were in attendance,
retired Bishop Leroy Matthiesen of Amarillo, Texas, and Auxiliary Bishop
Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit. Other VIPs included Gregory Baum, a superb
theologian who was a peritus at Vatican II, and who recently retired
from McGill University in Montreal; Mary Luke Tobin, one of only two American
women to have been official observers at Vatican II, and a pioneer of reforms
in religious life; Eugene Kennedy, a psychologist, spiritual writer, and
keen observer of church affairs; Edwina Gately, an English writer and retreat
leader who lives in Erie, Pa.; and John McNeill, a former Jesuit whose
1976 book The Church and the Homosexual broke the ice on discussion
of homosexuality inside Catholicism.
At one point, Tobin and
McNeill were called up on stage to receive kudos. As Tobin returned to
her place, I stole the chance to introduce myself, since I am a longtime
fan. She insisted on telling me that she enjoys “The Word from Rome,” which
someone prints out for her each week. It’s an endorsement I am especially
proud to record.
One of the two co-founders
of the group, Sr. Jeannine Gramick, drew perhaps the most sustained ovation
when she was introduced to lead a prayer. All weekend long a film crew
followed her around, trying to finish a documentary on her life, work,
and battles with Rome. (As conflicts over her ministry came to a head,
Grammick left her original community, the School Sisters of Notre Dame,
and has been received by the Sisters of Loretto — Tobin’s order).
The other founder, Salvatorian
Fr. Robert Nugent, was not in Louisville. Unlike Gramick he has opted to
obey disciplinary measures imposed by the Vatican, including withdrawal
from ministry to homosexuals.
The event hit turbulence
before it began, in the form of a couple of Vatican shots across the bow.
Superiors of religious orders with members slated to give talks were asked
by the Congregation for Religious to ensure that the presentations adhered
to church teaching. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith wrote
to Archbishop Thomas Kelly of Louisville, asking him to tell New Ways it
did not have permission to celebrate a Mass, because it would cause “confusion
Kelly, a Dominican with
a reputation for pastoral sensitivity, handled the matter graciously. He
wrote to New Ways, suggesting (not ordering) that they scrub the Mass,
and inviting them to come to his nearby Cathedral of the Assumption for
the Eucharist instead. In the end, organizers decided to go ahead with
the Mass, which was celebrated by Matthiesen. The three-day conference
unfolded without further protest. (A full report is in this week’s print
edition of NCR).
One global observation,
while my impressions are still fresh.
It was clear that many
of the 591 people at the conference resent the church’s position on homosexuality.
Some went so far as to call it “spiritual violence,” and labeled attempts
to enforce it a form of “abuse.” Yet overall, I did not meet many angry
people. Quite the contrary; I have rarely attended a meeting where the
crowd was more warm and enthusiastic. There was great spiritual energy,
and great faith.
It is worth noting that
the participants, both gay and straight, came from the very heart of the
church. Twenty-five percent were women religious, 11 percent priests, and
one percent each deacons and brothers. Twenty percent are currently involved
in parish ministry. Many are parents of gay children.
I came away feeling that
these people are a precious resource, for whom I hope space in the church
will always be found.
* * *
I spoke on “The Vatican
and Homosexuality,” and the topic drew big crowds, motivated in part by
comments earlier in the week from Vatican press chief Joaquin Navarro-Valls.
In an interview with the New York Times, Navarro had suggested that
the ordination of a homosexual to the priesthood might be invalid.
Since those comments
sparked such consternation, I’ll reproduce here the analysis I offered
in Louisville. My general advice was, “don’t make too big a deal out of
First of all, Navarro
is not, as journalistic shorthand has it, “the pope’s spokesman.” Traditionally
the only figure in the Roman curia entitled to speak authoritatively as
to the mind of the pope is the Secretary of State. Informally, everyone
knows that if you really want to know what John Paul II thinks,
you ask Bishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, his Polish personal secretary.
Navarro is instead the
head of the Vatican press office, which means he gets paid to answer questions
from reporters. He is a papal “insider,” in the sense that John Paul obviously
understands the media and gives Navarro considerable access, but that doesn’t
mean his every word carries a papal benediction. Sometimes Navarro clears
something he intends to say with State, or with the papal household, but
usually he speaks for himself. Most of the time his comments are reliable,
but every once in a while he gets something obviously, and spectacularly,
Last May, for example,
when the soap opera surrounding Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo first broke,
Navarro told reporters that by marrying Maria Sung, the Zambian prelate
had “put himself outside the Catholic church.” Though Navarro did not use
the word “excommunication,” it was what he meant.
Under the 1917 Code
of Canon Law, a priest who married incurred an automatic excommunication.
But when the code was reformed in 1983, the list of 37 offenses that triggered
excommunication was reduced to six, and clerical marriage was among the
cuts. Hence Navarro’s statement was 18 years too late.
The proof is that on
July 17, 2001, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith threatened
Milingo with excommunication if he did not do four things, a threat that
certainly would have been redundant if he were already excommunicated.
An amusing example of
a slip-up came in February 1996, when Navarro briefed reporters covering
the pope’s trip to Guatemala about a meeting with indigenous human rights
activist Rigoberta Menchu. He even offered concrete details such as the
color of the dress Menchu had allegedly worn. Later, however, an aide had
to tell the baffled reporters to forget everything Navarro had just said.
The meeting, it turns out, never happened and nobody had bothered to tell
Navarro also got it wrong
in the present case. I consulted with one of the church’s best canonists,
and he informs me there are six criteria for a valid ordination:
Sexual orientation is not
on the list.
A validly ordained bishop
The bishop must intend to ordain
The proper prayers must be said
The bishop must lay hands on the candidate
The candidate must not be compelled to receive ordination
The candidate must be a “capable person,” meaning
a baptized male
Also in that New York
Times interview, Navarro offered an analogy between marriage and ordination.
Someone who is homosexual but who marries a member of the opposite sex
may not have had the proper disposition, and hence the marriage could be
annulled, Navarro argued, and the same reasoning could apply to ordination.
But a moment’s reflection is enough to realize this is a poor analogy.
According to Catholic sacramental theology, in marriage it is the two partners
who are the ministers of the sacrament. In holy orders, it is the bishop
who is the minister, and hence it is his subjective disposition that is
I realize it’s frustrating,
especially for Anglo-Saxons, that no one from the Vatican publicly corrects
mistakes like this. In ecclesiastical Rome, however, the way such gaffes
are handled is that everyone pretends they never happened. No curial prelate
came to Navarro’s defense when his comments drew fire; that silence speaks
This is not to say that
debate over homosexuality in the priesthood is not bubbling inside the
Vatican. Some months ago the Congregation for Catholic Education was considering
a document on seminaries, which was said to have included a ban on the
admission of gays. There was wide negative reaction, including from some
U.S. bishops. The provision was put on hold, but in light of the current
sexual abuse crisis in the American church, it is apparently back under
This Vatican discussion
is part of broader debate within Catholicism over how to respond to the
sex abuse mess, with the differing currents accurately captured in the
same Times piece that contained Navarro’s comments. Liberals tend
to stress better psycho-sexual formation, and hint that mandatory celibacy
is part of the problem. Conservatives, noting that many cases involve an
older priest with younger men, argue that the “gay culture” in seminaries
and priestly life must be rooted out.
In that sense, I suspect
the coming months will be difficult for gay priests. But at least they
can rest assured that the validity of their ordinations is not in doubt.
* * *
For me, the highlight
of the New Ways conference was a lunchtime plenary session with Matthiesen
Both bishops have been
willing to rush in where other prelates fear to tread. Matthiesen came
to prominence in the early 1980s by urging Catholics in his Amarillo diocese
to refuse to work at a Pantex plant involved in the production of nuclear
weapons; Gumbleton is a peace activist who has, among other things, traveled
to Iraq in defiance of U.S. sanctions.
Matthiesen told a story
about a meeting of the U.S. bishops when Pio Laghi, the papal nuncio at
the time, cracked a joke about the notoriously feisty character of the
American church. “When you touch the Body of Christ in Italy, nothing happens,”
he quoted Laghi as saying. “You touch the Body of Christ in the United
States, and all hell breaks loose.”
“I took that,” Matthiesen
deadpanned, “as an invitation to continue raising hell.”
Matthiesen made reference
to a 1972 document of the U.S. bishops on education entitled “To Teach
As Jesus Did,” and suggested that the time has come for a new document,
“To Live as Jesus Did.” If gospel images of Christ are our touchstone,
he argued, the church will surely find its way towards a more loving embrace
of all its members.
Gumbleton recounted how
some years ago, the U.S. bishops put up a united front when the Vatican
wanted to overhaul American norms for granting annulments. Why, he wondered,
were the bishops so engaged on that issue?
Answering his own question,
Gumbleton said he suspects part of the answer is that many bishops have
family or friends in second marriages, and hence have a personal sensitivity
to the problem. Thus he urged the New Ways crowd to seek contact with the
bishops, to write them, to invite them to events and to ask for dialogue.
“If you know someone,
if you sit down and talk with them, then you can’t hate them,” he said.
A long queue formed to
ask questions, and as I listened to both men dole out compassion and sound
advice, I marveled at how Matthiesen and Gumbleton are sometimes regarded
as wild-eyed radicals. Their responses struck me as moderate, and eminently
Catholic. Neither came off as an ideologue; both seemed led to their convictions
by a sincere, in some ways quite simple, attempt to apply the gospel. (I
don’t mean to impugn the sincerity of those who draw different conclusions,
or to suggest that only these stands can be supported from scripture. I
simply want to suggest that Gumbleton and Matthiesen understand themselves
not as “leftists” but as pastors, and even more basically, as Christians).
I felt myself in the
presence of two superb shepherds.
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Nijaz Velic spent much of his early childhood on the run.
He and his family were not alone. They were running for their lives. But while many Bosnians left for Germany, Austria or Italy, and eventually started over again in the United States, Velic and his family stayed in their war-torn country until the bitter end. They then moved to Utica.
Now the 25-year-old Velic, like so many of his transplanted countrymen, have not only survived but have thrived here.
Senior Keh Blut Soe stood nervously studying her notes before going into the exam room.
The 17-year-old Thomas R. Proctor High School student was about to take the U.S. History Regents, an exam that for her is about a foreign country in a foreign language.
Soe is one of 439 English language learners at Proctor and among 1,506 in the district.
“It certainly poses a significant challenge for the school,” Proctor Principal Steven Falchi said.
Some of them fled a war-torn country, in search of peace. Most of them immigrated to America in search of a better life.
All of them play soccer for a Thomas R. Proctor High School team as diverse as any interscholastic team, playing any sport, anywhere.
The 18th Sarajevo Film Festival is set to kick off with Aida Begic’s regional premiere of “Children of Sarajevo,” which recently won the top prize in the Cannes Film Festival’s sidebar competition Un Certain Regard.
Residents of Bosnia-Herzegovina are wearing white armbands to honor the thousands of people who were killed during a Serb ethnic cleansing campaign that began 20 years ago.
In 2008, the Bosnian Islamic Association of Utica renovated a Methodist church into an Islamic mosque on Court Street for its 580 Muslim families. Now, it’s taken the next step to solidifying its longevity in the community – building a cemetery.
In South Utica, one of the city’s traditionally stable neighborhoods, population fell by roughly 7 percent in the decade, from 10,105 to 9,353.
The new mosque, planned for 407 Kossuth Ave., would be the third such worship center within a 4-mile radius in the city, which has one of the largest concentrations of Muslims in the country.
Families of various ethnicities were scattered along the sidelines of the fields at Proctor Park Saturday chattering amongst themselves, but many were unable to understand the adjacent family’s conversation.
Almost two years ago, Zaid Abbas fled a lawless, war-torn Baghdad, Iraq, after racism and attempts to kidnap him and his family became unbearable.
He had no choice but to leave that family – parents, cousins, aunts, uncles – in Iraq.
“It’s my new family here,” Abbas said recently while cleaning up dinner with the DeMatteis family in their Rome home.
Fourteen-year-old Warsan Mohamed anxiously leaned over a balcony railing Monday afternoon and scanned a growing crowd gathering in the auditorium at the St. Francis DeSales Neighborhood Center.
Gen. Ratko Mladic, the brutal Bosnian Serb general suspected of leading the bloody massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys, was arrested in an early morning raid Thursday in Serbia after years in hiding, the country's president said.
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Subject: Accident in Chemistry and Biochemistry Building
Faculty member injured in chemistry accident
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Why this Question Matters.
“So the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the furniture of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made: and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. And he blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.”
The events of the seventh day of creation were always considered something of an enigma in the commentaries. Did God really just give everything a blessing, sit back and take it easy? Such a picture is too anthropomorphic, of course. St Augustine famously differed from the other Church Fathers in his account of the seven days of creation, but some aspects of his thought – the creation of things in their causes, for example – did enter the common tradition. If we think of the last day of creation as the first day of the unfolding of the potentiality of the newly created world, we will get closer to how the medieval commentators saw the meaning of this day. Aquinas’s task in this question, therefore, is to explain the function of the last day of the Genesis creation account keeping close to the letter of the text whilst avoiding anything too simple minded.
The Thread of the Argument
A1: How are we to understand the claim that the universe was complete by the end of the Genesis creation account? Aquinas points out that completion of something can be interpreted in a number of ways. In particular, one can talk about the initial completion of something wherein it is brought to be what it is. But one can also talk about its final completion insofar as it achieves its final end. One might talk about completing a house after one has finished building it; but equally one might prefer to consider it complete after it has served its function as the home for many generations of families. This second form of completion is, in a sense, caused by the first because it is in the first that the thing concerned receives its form; this latter is what gives it the power to be what it is.
When considering the universe as a whole, its ultimate completion lies in the perfect beatitude of the blessed at the very end of the world; however, its initial completion was realized on the seventh day. Perfect beatitude requires both nature and grace; the initial completion of nature occurred on the seventh day and the initial completion of grace lay in the incarnation of Christ. The consummation of nature and grace at the end of the world pre-existed causally in these two events.
One might object to the account of the seventh day given in Genesis because it is unclear in that account that God actually does anything; after all, He simply stops and rests! But Aquinas claims that although God did not create any new things after the sixth day, He set the completed creation on its course with its proper operations. The work of the final day of creation is to set the world on its course towards its final completion. This also accounts for the fact that God did not cease creating thing after the seven days of creation; for example, He creates new souls daily. Those things that are made by God after the seven days of creation are not so new that they do not in some sense pre-exist in the work of the seven days. As Augustine observed, many things are created in their causes and we can also observe that many things pre-exist materially in the sense that they come to be naturally out of the matter created in the first seven days. The creation of new souls may seem an exception to this pattern, but Aquinas argues that they are not new as a kind of thing. Similarly, the incarnation is rightly seen as a unique event but the components out of which it comes to be already exist either in God Himself or in the work of the sixth day.
A2: In what sense can it be said that God rested on the seventh day? After all, God is not a corporeal body capable of hard labour in the ways that humans or animals are. Aquinas identifies rest as the opposite of movement; but we still have to identify what movement means in the context of a spiritual being such as God. The word movement can be applied in a transferred sense to spiritual beings in two ways: on the one hand it can refer to any sort of operation; on the other it can refer to the tendency towards the fulfilment of a desire. So rest refers to either the cessation of operation or to the fulfilment of a desire.
Both of these two possibilities can be applied to God’s resting on the seventh day. The operation of creating new beings has ceased by the seventh day; in addition, God has completed what He willed the creation to be.
Aquinas also makes the important point that God has no need for creation, being complete in and of Himself. This is the reason, he claims, for the text reading that “He rested from them” rather than “He rested in them”; God gains nothing from creation and therefore would be wrong to visualize Him resting amongst what He has created deriving pleasure from it.
A3: As we have seen in the second article, God’s rest on the second day can be taken in two senses: ceasing to create new things; and in having completed what He willed. Corresponding to these two modes of resting there are two ways in which God’s blessing of creation on the seventh day can be taken. Reference to Genesis 1:22 suggests that the blessing is associated with their governance whereby they “increase and multiply”. On the seventh day God is turning to the governance of what He has created in the first six days; therefore we can understand the blessing of the seventh day in the sense of this governance. The second sense of blessing can be seen when we consider that the things created by God themselves rest in God; to bless is to make holy which is precisely to be dedicated to God, to rest in Him.
The objections to the idea that this blessing is appropriate to the seventh day suggest that in creating each thing God is already diffusing His goodness and that the act of creation in itself provides an individual blessing on each created thing. The seventh day seems to be a time when nothing like this should be done, as it has already been done. Aquinas’s answer has indicated the ways in which the blessing of the seventh day should be understood. From this answer it is clear that the blessing of the seventh day is associated with the divine providence whereby things that are either created, or created in their causes, unfold their being.
- The work of creation is complete by the seventh day in the sense that all the components that make the world what it is are in place. This does not exclude the evolution of the universe or the addition of new things later on; nothing radically new, however, is added to the world after its initial creation.
- God’s resting on the seventh day can be understood in two ways: God has ceased his operation of creating new beings by the seventh day; in addition, God has completed what He willed the creation to be.
- God’s blessing of creation on the seventh day can be understood in two ways: His blessing is expressed through His governance whereby things increase and multiply; and those things created by Him rest in Him.
- Aquinas makes no effort in the third article to connect God resting on the last day of creation with the requirement that man should rest on the seventh day. This seems a little odd, but he returns to this theme in IIaIIae.q122.a4. | <urn:uuid:91150822-34eb-4d6e-add6-946293e6284e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://readingthesumma.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/question-73-work-of-seventh-day.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973861 | 1,568 | 2.671875 | 3 |
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Despite the hard work of the thousands of dedicated and talented professionals that fill public schools, systemic problems contribute to a growing achievement gap that often leaves minority and low-income families at a serious disadvantage. While there is no one solution, community schools that provide high-quality academic instruction and offer comprehensive social, health, recreational and family services can help level the playing field between rich and poor.
A study published in 2009 shows that the New York State black-white achievement score gap for public school students in fourth grade is 26 points in both mathematics and reading. The 2009 Hispanic-white gap for New York fourth graders is only slightly better at 17 points for mathematics and 25 points for reading.
The Children's Aid Society has partnered with the New York City Department of Education for decades to establish dozens of community schools in NYC's most impoverished neighborhoods. The Department of Education is responsible for the core instructional programs in these schools while Children's Aid provides wraparound services including medical, mental health and dental services, after-school and recreational programming and family engagement activities. Integrating health, social and educational services has generated positive outcomes, particularly for students from low-income families. Children's Aid community schools produce better student and teacher attendance, increased grade retention, more appropriate referrals to special education services, improved test scores and higher parent involvement than similar schools. The model has won national and international recognition, as well as numerous awards.
Now, Children's Aid will be expanding its reach and implementing best practices codified over many years when it opens its first community charter school in the Morrisania section of the South Bronx in August 2012. Like all charters, Children's Aid College Prep is a public school. Its mission is to prepare elementary school students for success in middle school, high school, college and life by providing them with a rigorous instructional experience; addressing their physical, emotional and social needs; fostering a sense of pride and hope; and serving as a safe and engaging community hub. At Children's Aid College Prep, unlike our other community schools, we will be responsible for all aspects of the school -- including the academic program.
The vision of Children's Aid College Prep is to ensure that all children have the opportunity to achieve the American dream. To help reach this aspiration and close the economic achievement gap, the new school will remove the barriers to learning frequently associated with poverty and deliver programs and services to children and families that are comprehensive and embedded within the school. The rigorous instructional program is the centerpiece of the design, and it is supported by high expectations and a full set of supports for students and families, thus allowing students to focus on learning, academic achievement and preparation for college entrance and graduation.
The school day will be longer than that of a traditional public school, and the school year will extend from August until the end of June. The extended time allows increased learning and creative exploration, promotes physical activity and exercise and builds community. After-school, weekend and holiday programs will be an integral part of Children's Aid's holistic approach to children's developmental needs at the school. The programs will cover a wide variety of disciplines and interests, so that every child will find a program that builds on strengths, fills a learning gap or just sounds like fun.
Children's Aid will provide workshops for parents focusing on developing the skills, strategies and supports to reduce barriers to their children's success and to improve the school's operations. Children's Aid summer camps will be available to College Prep students, and students will have the opportunity to participate in year-round programming in sports and the arts.
Intensive case management provided by Children's Aid life coaches will be critical to the success of College Prep students. Starting with a home visit before the school year begins, the life coach and the school leadership staff will identify the family's needs and develop a plan to address those needs throughout the year.
While charter schools currently only serve 5% of all public school students, they can be valuable alternatives to existing options for the students they serve, particularly those charter schools focused on serving traditionally under-served groups of students like English Language Learners, foster children or children living in temporary housing. Children's Aid College Prep's comprehensive, multi-tier support systems more precisely address the needs of children in poverty as well as children who must grapple with an underfunded education system that lacks the resources to effectively address barriers to learning. The unique features of this school go beyond simply preparing students for tests--they will prepare students for life.
The lessons we have learned from community schools demonstrate that addressing the growing achievement gap requires a holistic and legitimate effort to refocus the system on children and their needs. These valuable lessons show that with extended opportunities for learning, proper health and medical care, engaged parents and an educational program that demands excellence, all students -- regardless of economic circumstance, race or place of birth -- can receive a solid education and a chance at a future free from poverty.
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Virtual Reality Offers Immortality and Possible Addiction
|Jim Blascovich (left) and Jeremy Bailenson (right), authors of|
Although the concept of virtual reality has lost much of its novelty over the past 15 years, its integration into the mainstream has begun changing human relations in subtle and important ways that have nothing to do with gaming. Scientists Jim Blascovich and Jeremy Bailenson continued to monitor the field of virtual reality long after many of their peers dismissed it as a passing fad, and believe that recent developments have radically redefined even basic concepts like mortality and identity.
Blascovich, the director of the Research Center for Virtual Environments at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Bailenson, the founding director of the Virtual Human Interactions Lab at Stanford University, believe that virtual reality worlds could function as a futuristic drug, an invasive form of advertising and even a path to immortality.
They detail those findings in their new book, Infinite Reality (William Morrow, 2011) and recently sat down with InnovationNewsDaily for an exclusive Q&A.
InnovationNewsDaily: How did you become interested in virtual reality?
Blascovich: I was walking past the lab one day, and saw someone in a weird getup, and she was doing virtual reality. I asked a colleague if I could try it, and I couldn't believe how immersive it was. As the years passed, Jeremy came on board, and we realized the implications of this went way beyond just a tool to do psychological experiments.
Bailenson: For me, it was a bit different. I was inspired by the novel "Neuromancer" by William Gibson. In that book, he really pushes the idea of the infinite plasticity of the digital identity. It pushes the limit of what it means to be a human being.
InnovationNewsDaily: So far, virtual reality has only been used to enhance activities that humans have engaged in for millennia, such as communication or gaming. Does virtual reality enable anything completely new?
Bailenson: Yes, for the first time, humans are able to replace their identity in a way we've never been able to do so before. You've been able to mask your identity maybe make yourself anonymous but now I can change my gender, my species and carry out interactions in a new body.
Also, there's symbolic immortality that's occurring in these virtual worlds that's never happened before. There are these mannerisms that you're leaving behind that will allow people to assemble a virtual version of you long after you're dead. It already happened to Orville Redenbacher. With the technology out there today, like a Microsoft Kinect that records exactly how you smile or move, that's recording tons of this data. Right now you have photos of your grandparents; maybe you have some videos of your parents. But for your grandkids, they will have these incredible 3-D models of you.
Instead of looking at what your family did, you will be able to step into a virtual reality world, experience their lives from the first person.
Blascovich: Another thing that's completely different is the digital footprint. No one has been able to track human behavior with the resolution and accuracy we have been able to do in the last few years. Human location, emotion, preferences, personality all those things we can glean from how they move in a virtual world.
InnovationNewsDaily: You focus a lot on identity creation, but through sites like Facebook, it seems that many users approach the Internet as a place to express their true self more transparently, not less. Are the people constructing virtual reality avatars different from the people posting their intimate details and embarrassing pictures online?
Bailenson: I would not assume they are separate people. A lot of "Second Lifers," a lot of "World of Warcraft" players also have accurate Facebook pages. The games are an expression of entertainment and play, and the Facebook pages are an extension of us. Sometimes, people are experimenting with new identities and have no desire to interact with the person behind the avatar in physical space. The other interesting thing is why are some people pushing so much of themselves on others by oversharing online?
Blascovich: The social networking we're seeing today is slightly different from the people who are playing these massive online games or using "Second Life." There has been no outrage expressed by people in these games that they can't upload photos. They are the same people doing different things in different spaces.
InnovationNewsDaily: In the book, you also mention a downside to virtual reality, and even compare it to a drug in terms of its addictive potential. Why is virtual reality so much more addictive than other digital media?
Bailenson: When you gamble online, you've got to work to imagine yourself in a casino. When you use Internet pornography, you've got to do a little work to imagine it's a real woman. When it's immersive, it will look and feel and taste like a real woman. When you're gambling, and there's blinking lights, and people are bringing you drinks, the addiction possibilities are orders of magnitude different. Think about imagining your favorite fantasy scenario, the most amazing scene you can put yourself in, you can have the perfectly optimized situation. It fools the perceptual system into thinking it's real.
InnovationNewsDaily: What's the most interesting question that your research has raised, but not answered?
Blascovich: For me, it's religious. Something like 90 percent of the people in the world profess to believe that the physical world is actually some kind of virtual world for a reality that will come later. The real life is an afterlife. Without being profane, religion is kind of based on a virtual reality concept. The icons we find in churches, the symbols just because they're not made out of hard materials doesn't mean they aren't any less real. Will communion work virtually? I won't presume to answer the question for the pope, but there's a debate there.
Bailenson: Communion is already a symbol; it's a symbol of the body of Christ. So in a sense, it's already kind of virtual. So the question isn't whether or not you allow them to set a virtual one, but a digital one. | <urn:uuid:9a57a0f3-ab4f-4b5d-a18e-23b0d17a1054> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.technewsdaily.com/4986-infinite-realities-authors-qanda-virtual-reality.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96436 | 1,297 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Wildflowers of Mount Rainier
There are hundreds of species of wildflowers found in Mount Rainier National Park, far more than can be represented here. However, this identification guide is meant to help you familiarize yourself with some of the most common and interesting wildflowers you may see during your visit to the park. For identification of flowers in the field, you can download the Mount Rainier Wildflower site bulletin, ask a ranger, or purchase a variety of wildflower identification guidebooks available in the park visitor centers and gift shops.
Though some overlap occurs, forest and subalpine areas of the park host distinct groups of wildflower species. Dense old growth forest creates cool, shady conditions suitable to wildflower species different from the ones found in the sunnier subalpine meadows. Dense forest covers the low-to-mid elevations of the park from approximately 2,000 to 4,500 feet (610-1372 meters). Subalpine meadows or "parkland" wreath the higher elevations of Mount Rainier, from about 4,500 to 6,500 feet (1372-1981 meters). This region is sometimes called subalpine parkland because at those elevations trees start thin out and grow in patches interspersed among meadow instead of continuous forest. Eventually trees disappear completely in the alpine zone (approx. 6,500 feet/1981 meters to the summit). Subalpine regions often have the most impressive wildflower displays because those regions have a very short growing season. Snow can linger in the subalpine meadows well into June or July, and the flowers bloom profusely in order to reproduce as quickly as possible before the winter snows return.
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The park recently completed building a new visitor center at Paradise & rehabilitating the historic Paradise Inn. The new visitor center is more sustainable and less expensive to operate than the existing visitor center. The Paradise Inn, after 90 years of use, was in need of rehabilitation. | <urn:uuid:6dc65d81-fe55-424e-8c18-5e86fbabb90e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nps.gov/mora/naturescience/wildflowers.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929717 | 412 | 3.375 | 3 |
In addition to providing shared storage on your network, the D-Link 323 also has five servers to provide additional function and value. With the exception of the built-in print server that doesn't require configuration, each of these servers is also configured on the Advanced tab.
I'll first cover the UPnP AV server, which enables media players located on the network to stream pictures, music and video from content stored on the NAS. While it's common for media server software to run on a PC to serve up content, more home-based storage devices are starting to include media server software. This eliminates the need to keep a PC running to ensure that content is always available.
I tested the 323's UPnP server by setting up a D-Link DSM-320RD media player and copying an assortment of .JPG, .MP3, .AVI and .MPG files to a media directory off the root. I then configured the UPnP server to use \media as the content directory. The good news is that when I installed the DSM-320RD media player, it immediately discovered the 323. The bad is that none of the content played properly. An upgrade (unreleased as of this writing) of the Media Player's firmware enabled me to play back .MP3 files, but the media player still wouldn't play either .JPG or .AVI files.
To troubleshoot the problem further, I installed D-Link's UPnP media server software on a Windows notebook and pointed it to the same directory on the 323. The software-based server was able serve up .JPG files that played properly on the media player. So it's safe to assume that there's a problem with the 323's built-in UPnP AV server that keeps it from properly serving .JPG to the D-Link Media Player. I notified D-Link about this problem and hopefully it will be addressed in a future firmware release.
I also discovered that the DSM-320RD doesn't support uncompressed .AVI files - the type commonly used by digital cameras that shoot video. So to test video streaming capabilities, I converted a video file to MPEG format, placed it in the media directory and found that the video streamed smoothly from the 323. I also discovered (and D-Link confirmed) that if you place new content on the 323, you have to log in and manually "refresh" the server. In other words, the server doesn't automatically rescan the media directories on a scheduled basis.
If you're an iTunes user, you're going to love the 323 because it also has a built-in iTunes server that's a snap to configure (Figure 10). It's enabled by default so all you have to do is enter an iTunes password (if you want one) and point it to your music directory. Any iTunes client should then be able to automatically find and connect to the 323's iTunes server.
Figure 10: iTunesServer configuration
I tested the ITunes server on both the PC and MAC versions of ITunes (Version 7.02) and found that both clients automatically discovered the server and were able to play songs from the server without incident. Note the "D-Link_NAS" entry located immediately under the iTunes Store in Figure 11 below. By the way, I also found that you also have to do the manual rescan trick each time new iTunes content is added. | <urn:uuid:e4188382-ec6b-442e-9387-9a611ad928ff> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/dlink-dns323-review-uk,review-1899-5.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943167 | 699 | 1.585938 | 2 |
[Updated at 5:20 p.m. ET] The death toll from Typhoon Bopha in the Philippines has risen to 418, with 445 other people injured and 383 missing, according the country's National Disaster Rescue Reduction and Management Council.
[Updated at 1:44 p.m. ET] The death toll from Typhoon Bopha in the Philippines has risen to 322, with 401 people injured and 378 missing, according the country's National Disaster Rescue Reduction and Management Council.
[Posted at 2:19 a.m. ET] An intense typhoon has carved across the southern Philippines, destroying buildings, setting off floods and landslides and killing at least 95 people, authorities said Wednesday.
Typhoon Bopha struck the large southern island of Mindanao, which is rarely in the direct path of tropical cyclones, fueling fears that it could be as devastating as a storm that killed more than 1,200 people there almost a year ago.
Bopha, the most powerful typhoon to hit Mindanao in decades, had top winds of 175 kph (110 mph) as it came ashore over the city of Baganga early Tuesday. Millions of people, many of whom live in remote and unprepared communities, were in the storm's path, Philippine authorities and aid groups said.
"It really is getting to be a very, very big typhoon and it's just starting," Richard Gordon, the head of the Philippine Red Cross, said Tuesday.
Trees have been uprooted and fragile houses blown away on Mindanao, Gordon said, adding that the corrugated iron roofs of some buildings were being carried through the air by the wind like "flying machetes."FULL STORY | <urn:uuid:83c6f216-f18f-4ac5-9bfc-33a1efc25588> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/05/typhoon-bopha-carves-across-philippines-killing-scores-of-people/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973503 | 351 | 2.125 | 2 |
Debbie’s Daily Dose of Food for Thought
“Most people consider life a battle–but it is not a battle, it is a game.” – The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn
I came across Florence Scovel Shinn’s small but powerful book some years ago. I read it, bought it and continue to think about it today. She gives sound advice, sprinkling in true stories to emphasize and highlight what she is saying. Here are a few things to know about Florence and her work.
Florence Scovel Shinn was a 20th century author, artist and metaphysical teacher from New York City. Her work continues to influence and inspire people around the world and has touched thousands of lives.
About the Book
The Game of Life and How to Play It was written in the early 1920s. When Florence couldn’t find anyone to publish it, she self published in 1925. The messages in this book are still pertinent and it is now considered a spiritual classic. If you enjoyed The Secret, you will enjoy Florence Scovel Shinn’s book.
Florence talks about the game, the laws of prosperity, non-resistance, karma, forgiveness and the power of the word–and using the right words in both speaking and in thought. She also teaches how to re-program your mind and how “impressing the subconscious” is so powerful.
“If one desires a home, friend, position or any other good thing, make the demand for the 'divine selection.' For example: 'Infinite Spirit, open the way for my right home, my right friend, my right position. I give thanks it now manifests under grace in a perfect way.'"
"Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail."
“One should always follow a denial with an affirmation.”
Read the Book
Her legacy lives on. The Game of Life and How to Play It is available on-line. Just click here!
Five Things to Know Today will now be featured every Monday with an offering of this week's happenings and again during the week as we find interesting topics to share. I hope you have enjoyed the varied topics and wish you luck in playing the game of life! | <urn:uuid:acaa2e77-1c5d-4038-8e8d-44cde2250816> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://branford.patch.com/groups/editors-picks/p/the-game-of-life-and-how-to-play-it-2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949193 | 490 | 1.617188 | 2 |
No one disputes Ohio is a battleground state, and key for both President Barack Obama’s and challenger Mitt Romney’s path to the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House.
And if Ohio is the ultimate bellwether state, Lake County may be the best bellwether for Ohio. As the Cleveland Plain Dealer pointed out, no county in Ohio has more closely matched the statewide voting pattern since 1960.
Bloomberg’s Matthew Dowd, who served as a campaign strategist for President George W. Bush and is now an independent, highlights why this county just outside of Cleveland is so critical in our series “Bellwethers: A 50-County Election.”
As Dowd points out, not only has the economy improved significantly in Lake County in the past few years, unemployment is 6.2 percent, down 1.6 percentage points since Obama took office and well below the national average of 8.1 percent. This bodes well for the president’s chances there come November, even though Obama barely eked out a win in Lake against John McCain in 2008. He won the county by only 1,013 votes.
Based on the latest U.S. Census data estimates, Ohio has about 11.5 million residents, 84 percent of whom are white, 12 percent black, and about 3 percent Hispanic. A wealthy county, Lake is also less diverse, with whites at nearly 94 percent. The median household income of $54,896 is above the state average of $47,358, and the number of people living below the poverty level is below the state average.
Dowd notes that the region that includes the county was part of the U.S. that was hardest hit during the recession, but also one that has recovered the fastest. Alongside the recovering auto industry and related manufacturing, the area has also benefited from being a great place for people to buy real estate and to open businesses, according to Dowd.
Next time we focus on New Mexico, just outside of Albuquerque. And take a look at some of the other posts from our Bellwether Series, focusing on Hamilton County, Ohio, Orange County, Florida, and Fairfax County, Virginia. | <urn:uuid:8ab46488-d36b-4817-bd98-41be2e60d569> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://go.bloomberg.com/political-capital/2012-09-12/ohio-bellwether-lake-county-mirrors-statewide-voting-patterns/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963235 | 452 | 1.84375 | 2 |
New Technology Will Help Transportation Operators Enhance Service and Safety
RIT and Vox Gen Inc. partner with RGRTA to implement speech technology interface
March 14, 2007
by Will Dube
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Rochester Institute of Technology’s Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies and speech technology developer, VoxGen Inc. are partnering with the Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority, also known as RGRTA, to improve vehicle maintenance procedures. The project can be seen as a benchmark for the transportation industry globally, proving that a voice-automated application can not only produce safer services but also reduce paperwork and make it easier for staff to carry out proper checks and maintenance.
RGRTA needed to employ a system to ensure that all vehicle checks are carried out efficiently and effectively and make repairs more accountable—so management knows each check has been made and by who. It was also imperative that a new system demonstrate clear value to drivers and maintenance technicians who would use it, to facilitate its acceptance and ultimate implementation.
For the project, VoxGen’s speech technology expertise was integrated into the Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies’ Life-Cycle Engineering and Economic Decision System, a decision support and data collection tool that is applied from design through retirement, allowing optimization of life-cycle costs through periodic technology upgrades and remanufacturing.
The multimodal system works by guiding the driver through maintenance checks via a wireless headset. Technicians have an additional hand-held device to lead them through their more complex maintenance and troubleshooting routines. Not only does this ensure that each required procedure is carried out in its entirety, but the system also logs the data for management reference and provides a complete audit trail. This results in increased levels of safety, reliability and vehicle availability, as well as satisfied drivers and maintenance staff.
The feedback of those testing the system on-site at RGRTA was incorporated at every stage. This user-centric approach allowed RIT and Vox Gen to develop a voice system that fits the needs of drivers and maintenance staff. RGRTA is now considering integration of the system into day-to-day operations.
“The project with RGRTA has shown how VoxGen’s technology, when combined with our software technology, can create a support tool that integrates with the daily activities of the workforce,” says Nabil Nasr, CIMS director and assistant provost for academic affairs at RIT.
RGRTA Chief Executive Officer, Mark Aesch welcomes the team’s ability to match technical expertise with a deep understanding of the needs of users.
“We needed to work with partners that we could trust to handle the relationship with end users,” he adds. “The result of this project was that the drivers and maintenance technicians had confidence in the development team from the start, and felt a sense of ownership and involvement in the project. That can only help with the acceptance and ultimate effectiveness of this kind of technology.”
The system has a wide range of potential uses, beyond the bus maintenance needs of RGRTA. That is why the project was closely watched by several U.S. military groups, which are looking to resolve the same kind of issues within their ground vehicle fleets and want to gain insights into the use of the multi-modal technology from a working model.
“The results here speak for themselves,” notes Simon Loopuit, CEO at VoxGen. “The best advocate for any system is a satisfied user, and we've got both civilian and military user groups crying out for it to be deployed in their workplace.” | <urn:uuid:2671a8cb-3bed-44d9-9e09-939fef85b4d5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=45544 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959783 | 744 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions
What is the Drouin Genealogical Institute ?
The Drouin Genealogical Institute (l'Institut Généalogique Drouin) was for nearly a century the largest Quebec company producing genealogical trees. Its internal data, which we call its genealogical patrimony, was sold as family genealogy books to its customers. The inheritance didn't include some 75,000 genealogical trees and more than 16,500 family genealogy books. Actually, the books were written and shipped to the customers and the Institute didn't keep a copy nor make a legal deposit.
In 1990, the genealogical patrimony was sold and the new company changed its mission completely. Thus, this is a break between the Institute of the 1950s for example and the Institute today. Instead of aiming at each individual, the new Institute now offers its services to the community. In other words, the company is now selling its internal material mostly to libraries and societies. This corresponds to the major part of the large collection catalogue. There is no more search made for customers. Indeed, by making the internal material available to everybody (through main libraries), it is now very easy for each individual to build his/her own family and in those conditions, we have to focus on reselling the assets to genealogical societies.
Do you still perform research ?
No. We won't perform new search for individuals However, one goal of the Institute is to find a copy of each of the 16,500 family genealogies books and tables sold by the Institute so as to gather them all and make a legal deposit in public libraries to help this patrimony to survive.
On another hand, the activities of the Drouin Genealogical Institute are now a part of the services available from Éditions historiques et généalogiques Pepin. This allows the publication of new genealogical works.
My father had his family tree made by you in 1955....
The Institute was selling three main products: a dictionary, linear ancestry charts and family books.
The dictionary, called Dictionnaire national des Canadiens-français (DNCF), was firstly a large book (11" x 17"), with an album about our most famous ancestors (a part of it forming the no. PF-001 in the numerical catalogue). This large book are later resized to 8,5" x 11" with two volumes, with a third volume based on the most famous ancestors. Those three volumes can be found in many libraries in most Quebec public libraries and in many places in North America, as 75,000 copies were sold, often with a linear chart. There is now a fourth volume made from the female index.
The linear chart, bearing a parchment color, is the line of someone or the lines of the parents of someone (i.e. a couple). In the first case, we have each generation with the name of male ancestors and spouses until the first who came to Quebec or Acadia. In the second case, we have the lines from the spouses. About 75,000 of those trees were sold..
The family books were made for the customer from a series of internal files and included the genealogical tree itself with all known ancestors instead of only the male line. The internal files used for these books are now reproduced in a collection called Dossiers généalogiques Drouin (Drouin Genealogical Files). The same material was used to add a page about the client's family and inserted in the third volume. The books themselves, more that 16,500, were not kept by the Institute. They were made years before the photocopier and the computer existed and a new book was made for each customer. About 1,500 books were made by Joseph Drouin before 1938, all with a typewriter. From 1940, his son Gabriel Drouin reorganized completely the Institute and the 15,000 books he produced with the help of a large team of employees were handwritten because they were made after reading the internal marriages catalogue (later the Blue Drouin and the Male and Female series) or the microfilms. Those 16,500 books were not copied and we are now attempting to find and copy them. Some are already reproduced through this site. If you have one, please contact us and we will discuss about making a copy at our expense..
The Honorary Membership Certificate (certificat de membre honoraire) gives no special privilege..
Who is who ?
This section will help to figure who is who in this Web site or in the Drouin Genealogical Institute of today. Sometimes, people are writing at random.
Jean-Pierre-Yves Pepin is the current owner of the Drouin Genealogical Institute, of the commercial rights of the various collections (except when the rights were resold), and of the trade marks like Institut généalogique Drouin. Mr. Pepin is a publisher and a genealogist. He takes care of buying and selling the books and of other products.
Sébastien Robert is at the head of all the digitized documents and publicity of the Drouin Institute and the webmaster of the site. He is the English representant of the Drouin Institute. His role, is to be the in-between for the English-speakers and customers out of Quebec. He is also a communication bachelor at Université de Montréal. Like Mr. Pepin, he takes care of buying and selling the books and of other products.. Despite his young age, he is a genealogy lover. | <urn:uuid:41602cc8-e75d-4c28-a878-52ed0a3466be> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.drouininstitute.com/faq.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967903 | 1,175 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Several culinary trends have converged to push pasta and rice out of the sidelines and into the limelight. For one, there’s the explosion of Asian, Latin and Mediterranean cuisines; rice and/or noodles figure prominently in all. Then there are current economic and health forces. For years, smart cooks have stretched small amounts of more expensive meat and seafood with grain-based foods, and similar recessionbusting dishes are showing up in restaurants. Finally, pasta and rice, high in complex carbs and other nutrients, can be a healthy base for a host of tasty vegetarian preps.
Operators looking to add to their pasta and rice inventory have a wide variety of choices. Both categories have specialized and expanded to meet today’s more demanding palates and nutrition needs. Here’s how three concepts are purchasing and menuing these pantry staples, followed by a look at what’s happening in each category.
Purchasing a variety of pasta shapes is still a smart way to go. But pasta buying has gotten a bit more complicated. With the push to include more grains in the diet, several companies are now incorporating whole grain flours into the manufacturing process. Barilla offers multigrain pasta in several shapes, and J.M. Swank introduced five Ultragrain pasta varieties. These products are not the fiber-rich “healthy” pastas of old; they have a ratio of 51 percent whole grain flour to 49 percent semolina for appealing texture and flavor. Gluten-free pastas are also widely available, including filled products like ravioli and tortellini.
Pasta and sauce partners
There are no absolutes when it comes to pairing a particular pasta shape with a sauce or
prep, but some make better partners than others. The culinary team at Barilla offers these
Whole grains are also making news on the rice front. Chefs have been menuing brown rice for quite some time, but recently they have started asking for single or pure grain specialty rices, according to Mike Holleman, director of culinary development for Indian Harvest, a supplier out of Bemidji, Minnesota. Indian Harvest began marketing rices such as Himalayan Red and Colusari Red as part of its blends that included white, brown and/or wild rice in the mix. “Now these colored rices are really gaining ground on their own,” he reports. “Many are heirloom varieties that we cultivate from an heirloom seed bank.”
Other pure grains that are catching on include Bamboo Rice, a short-grain pale green variety with an herbal flavor, and Purple Thai Rice, a glutinous rice similar to black or forbidden rice. “Although specialty rices add about 20 cents per serving in food costs, an operator can charge up to $1 more for that menu item. Each one has a unique back story to share,” says Holleman. “In addition to adding value, they add texture, color, flavor and versatility to the plate.” The blends are more economical—a point that’s attracting casual restaurants to these specialty rices.
Spec a specialty
The rise of Asian and Middle Eastern cuisines, including Indian, Japanese, Thai, Turkish and Persian, has turned American diners on to aromatic rices. In the recent past, varieties such as jasmine, japonica and basmati had to be imported, but now U.S. rice farmers are growing aromatics. Here’s a guide:
New York City
As its name reveals, pasta is clearly the star at this new quickserve concept. “There were so many sandwich, pizza, burger and salad concepts, we wanted to do something different in the fast-casual segment,” says Gregory Baratte, who co-founded Hello Pasta with partners Laurent Lesort and Nicolas Barthelemy. “We believe this concept is right for the times, as people are returning to comfort foods and healthy carbs. It’s also convenient—70 percent of the business is takeout.”
Hello Pasta tried many brands before zeroing in on an imported Italian pasta in organic, whole wheat and regular varieties. They also purchase a Californiamade gluten-free pasta. Six different shapes rotate in on a regular basis, including fusilli, conghiglie, penne and rigatoni; customers mix and match their favorite with one of 11 sauces. “So far, Bolognese is the number one seller, but Sausage and Peas and Arabiata are close behind,” notes Baratte. The sauces are produced weekly in a central kitchen in Maine and delivered to the two locations. “They’re made in small batches and are low in sodium and preservative-free. Many of the ingredients are locally sourced, and our ultimate goal is 100 percent organic,” he adds.
As the partners look to expand to four New York City locations and into New England, Baratte expects more competitive pricing on pasta and other products. But the business model will remain the same: providing a good portion of quality pasta with an average check of $10.
Moe’s Southwest Grill
Last March, this fast-casual chain introduced Rice Bowls as an LTO to its burritocentric menu and they were an instant hit. Now the three bowls, which combine rice with black beans, grilled veggies, pico de gallo, cheese, condiments and either tofu, grilled chicken or grilled pork are permanently on Moe’s menu. That means Kevin Vandiver, director of supply chain, is buying a bit more rice.
“We’ve always had rice in our burritos, but now we’re purchasing 2.3 to 2.4 million pounds annually,” he reports. Vandiver is fussy about the product; he specs American-grown, long-grain parboiled white rice that’s only 4 percent broken per batch. The next spec down is 20 percent broken. “Chainwide, this product gives us the best balance of quality, consistency and price. We chose parboiled rice because it doesn’t require as much skill to cook and looks better in the bowl,” Vandiver explains. Each location cooks the rice daily in electric rice cookers.
Moe’s locks in prices with its rice miller through yearly contracts, but Vandiver sees some volatility ahead. “Heat stress on crops last summer has increased the production time on parboiled product,” he claims. “These delays will push prices up slightly, but not as high as global reports are predicting.”
Pasta and rice are key to Bertucci’s Italian menu, and corporate chef Stefano Cordova is choosy about sourcing both. “Twice a year, I go to Italy to scope out pastas and find suppliers,” he reports. “I also work with companies that will make and cut pastas to my specs. I get both dry and fresh products and play with lots of different shapes and flavors, buying from several vendors to get the variety I want.” All the pasta sauces are made from scratch and tomatoes are grown exclusively for Bertucci’s.
The latest menu introductions fall under the “Brick Oven-Baked Pasta” heading and include Baked Penne Stefano (multigrain dry penne tossed in Bolognese sauce with crumbled chicken sausage, onions, garlic and fresh herbs topped with provolone) and Baked Tortellini & Chicken Gratinati (tri-color tortellini baked with three cheeses.) Fettucine, ravioli, gnocchi, cannelloni and lasagna—all fresh pastas—are perennial favorites.
“We’ll also be launching an extensive line of risottos in the spring,” says Cordova, who is currently developing variations with lobster, chicken and lemon risotto with asparagus. He is buying short-grain Arborio rice for these dishes.
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released a list (PDF) of the top complaints that consumers filed with the agency for the 2009 calendar year.
The category of videogames came in at number 30 on the list, totaling 1,185 complaints during the year, or .00089 percent of all complaints filed during the year (1,330,426). Videogame-related complaints were related to “problems with videogame companies, defective products, billing or collection, contracts, customer service, delivery, guarantees or warrantees, repairs and service.”
Complaints in the category have, however, risen over the years, from 694 in 2007 to 1,073 in 2008.
This year’s top complaint was about identify theft, which made up a whopping 21.0 percent of all complaints with 278,078 consumer inquires on the subject.
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New antitrust rules for meat industry
The Associated Press reports on new rules to regulate competition in the meat industry expected this spring from the Department of Agriculture. “The new rules will govern how meatpackers buy their cattle on an open market and what demands poultry companies can make on the independent contractors who raise their chickens,” according to the news service. The new rules were required by the 2008 farm bill, driven by concerns that large processors are pushing down the prices farmers are paid for their cattle and poultry.
Are genetically engineered seeds backfiring?
Also on the agriculture front, a new study found that the benefits of genetically modified seeds outweighed their higher prices, but that overuse of the herbicide-resistant seeds is starting to backfire. Monsanto owns patents on much of the technology that undergirds herbicide resistance and is under antitrust scrutiny for its uses of those patents.
Oracle updates My SQL
On Tuesday, Oracle released a new version of the open source software MySQL, which it acquired for $7.4 billion from Sun Microsystems last year. Whether Oracle would support MySQL was at the heart of European concerns about the deal. Brussels-based antitrust regulators thought MySQL’s lighter databases could, over time, develop into a competitive threat to Oracle’s heavier products. The Justice Department disagreed, and the dispute spilled into public view. Oracle’s message Tuesday, paraphrased by the Wall Street Journal: we told you we’d keep working on it.
The E.U. take on net neutrality
The European antitrust chief who oversaw the Oracle review, Neelie Kroes, is now the European Commission’s commissioner for the digital agenda. In that capacity on Tuesday, she talked about the net neutrality discussion in Europe, per tech Web site Ars Technica. Internet service providers are forced to share lines in Europe, which makes the industry a more competitive one there, she said. She wasn’t sure regulators needed to get involved:
“There are many ways to manage traffic: by improving infrastructure, adding tolls, creating junctions or roundabouts to improve bottlenecks. But creating new rules and crowding the street with signs does not automatically help the traffic to flow. Indeed, putting a police officer at a busy corner can often deliver the slowest traffic of all,” she said.
“So, I will not be someone who comes up with a solution first and then looks for a problem to attach it to. I am not a police officer in search of a busy corner.”
Read her full statement here.
Simon-General Growth deal on the rocks
It looks like Simon-General Growth talks may be dead. A deal, which would combine the largest shopping mall operators, is on the rocks after Simon concluded that General Growth’s antitrust counsel wasn’t dealing in “good faith,” according to the REIT Newshound newsletter.
Broadcasters’ mobile plan
Broadcasters are teaming up for a new mobile venture, according to the L.A. Times, and have had lawyers babysit the negotiations to make sure the plan doesn’t violate antitrust laws. Cox Media Group’s president told the paper: “We have vetted it extremely well,” he said, adding that the group has not “had one conversation without lawyers in the room.” | <urn:uuid:faff4861-7ebd-46fb-bfbc-f387236eaca1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mainjustice.com/2010/04/14/antitrust-update-18/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00048-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949361 | 699 | 1.875 | 2 |
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In November 1997 and in April 1999, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for documents containing the locations and personal identifying information regarding the use of the livestock protection collar (LPC) in the United States were submitted by the Animal Protection Institute (API) to U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). Responses were provided for each of the requests but cooperators’ personal identifying information, such as their names and addresses, was excluded. On August 31, 1999, API filed suit in the United States District Court in the District of Columbia alleging that APHIS had violated FOIA by withholding personal identifying information. In the lawsuit, API sought data identifying participants in the LPC program. After learning that APHIS was negotiating a settlement with API that would include release of the personal information, the American Farm Bureau, Texas Farm Bureau, and a number of unnamed individuals filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas seeking to block the release of this information by APHIS. This lawsuit has since become known as the John Doe case. In January 2000, plaintiffs added to their lawsuit a request to block the Agency from releasing the data contained in APHIS’ Wildlife Services (WS) Management Information System (MIS) database, which contains information of all WS specialists’ activities and the identities of cooperators and patrons, to Forest Guardians in response to their FOIA request to APHIS. On February 9, 2000, a modified preliminary injunction was issued by the District Court in Texas preventing APHIS from releasing cooperators’ personal identifying information to API, Forest Guardians, or anyone else while the lawsuit was ongoing. | <urn:uuid:2894e4b1-c7ce-487e-9e46-b1609f8dedf6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usdaaphisfactsheets/21/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96552 | 354 | 2.375 | 2 |
Where the (best) 6-figure jobs are
If keeping more of your paycheck is important to you, some places are much better than others.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Making $100,000 or more is nothing to sneeze at.
Only 5 percent of earners in 2004 reported making that much, according to Census data.
While entering six-figure territory can be a marker of a certain level of success, it's not always a marker of a lot of buying power.
In some cities, a $100,000 salary sounds a lot better than it is because the cost of living is high, taxes are high and, as Murphy's Law would have it, even the rate of inflation runs higher than in other parts of the country.
New York is the clearest example. Its cost of living is double the national average, according to data from ACCRA. Put another way, in New York, $200,000 is the new $100,000 paycheck.
But that $200,000 doesn't really mean you can afford the same lifestyle that $100,000 could buy in lower-cost cities like Cleveland or Denver.
Consider inflation. Over the past 12 months through May, overall inflation in New York metropolitan area was 4.8 percent. In Cleveland, the rate was 3 percent. Drilling down, you also see big differences. The cost of having a roof over your head went up 5.6 percent in New York, while in Cleveland it rose just 0.8 percent.
Next, consider taxes. State and local taxes make a big difference in how much you net, but so, too, does the federal income tax. Earning a nominally higher salary ($200,000 versus $100,000) puts you in a higher tax bracket. J. Scott Moody, chief economist at the Maine Heritage Policy Center working on behalf of the Tax Foundation, notes that a single person making $205,000 in New York would have an effective tax rate of 25.4 percent, paying just over $52,000 in federal income tax, leaving him with $153,000.
If you adjust for cost of living differences, that $205,000 salary would be worth $102,000 in Cleveland or Denver. The effective federal tax rate on that amount would be just 20.4 percent, so you would pay $20,868, with $81,480 left over.
"Even though the two incomes are equivalent in terms of purchasing power, the New Yorker has an effective rate that is 5 percentage points (or 25 percent) higher than the person living in Denver. As a result, the New Yorker suffers a lower level of after-tax purchasing power," Moody said.
Of course, the greatest number of six-figure jobs tend to be in the most pricey and populous cities, but there are also plenty of opportunities in more affordable ones.
We asked job listing sites 6FigureJobs.com and The Ladders.com to provide us with a snapshot of where they have had the greatest number of listings for six-figure jobs in the past two months.
Predictably, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. were in the top 10. But there were also a relatively high number of such jobs in Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Cleveland, Denver, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Houston, Dallas, Minneapolis and Charlotte, NC.
Besides being less costly, there is another big advantage these cities offer if you're in the running to make six figures. To attract talent, companies often will offer the same big salaries that you could earn in New York or San Francisco.
"Whenever top talent is scarce (which is always), salaries offered to those super-producers ignore any geographic pattern that would suggest a lower number," said Jim Brennan, a senior associate at the Economic Research Institute, which specializes in competitive salary surveys. "So if you want to get a key executive, you have to pay world-class dollars." | <urn:uuid:cee67c20-6d28-41a6-bbb8-8e0c5467c28e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/13/pf/six_fig_farthest/index.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955539 | 819 | 2.28125 | 2 |
If you get excited at the thought of new technology releases, you are probably keyed up for the release of the new Windows operating system on October 26. Windows 8 is the first major overhaul of Windows since the launch of Windows 95. I was lucky enough to go get a pre-release copy of the system and take it from me, it’s a big change. And change isn’t always a bad thing.
Windows 8 is designed to work effectively on a variety of devices and make it easy for users to share and interact with their friends and family.
A New Look
The first thing you notice about Windows 8 is the new look. At startup, you are no longer presented with the desktop screen cluttered with icons you keep meaning to clean up. You now get to see the ‘Modern UI’ start screen:
Designed to work well with tablets and smartphones as well as computers, it’s a lot different than the startup menu we are all have become familiar with. The Start screen’s open, task-oriented layout gives you easy access to your favorites websites, pictures, emails and just about anything in your machine. But traditionalists need not worry – once you get past the new Start screen, the old fashioned desktop is still there.
We all hate viruses and malware. As by far the most popular operating system in the world, Windows has always attracted the attention of hackers, spammers and other cyber troublemakers. Luckily, Windows 8 has beefed-up security behind the scenes and a better preferences interface so you keep track of what’s going on with your computer.
Windows 8 comes with Security Essentials, a new antivirus software tool from Microsoft created to make the Windows browsing experience more secure. Over the past few years, ‘rootkits,’ a new type of malware, have found their way onto the information superhighway. Rootkits infect computers at a deep level and in ways a normal antivirus can’t remove. Windows 8 uses a new hardware feature called UEFI that makes it a lot more difficult for rootkits and other kind of malware to get into your system.
A New Way to Get Programs
An added bonus to Windows 8 is that it is tightly integrated with the Microsoft App Store. Just like the app stores that feed your smartphone, the new Windows system makes it easy to download games and apps straight to your computer. While the Microsoft App Store is still in the process of building its offerings, it can be a great way to get that cool new app everyone has been telling you about. Best of all, you can link it to your Microsoft Live account and put the same app in up to five devices.
Stay Tuned for More
As we get closer to the launch of the Windows 8, be sure to check the Intelligence blog for more updates on Windows 8 with tips and tricks on getting the most out of the new operating system. We have also posted information on Windows 8 in the Self Help section of Geeksquad.com.
Double Agent Devin C can be found trekking in his Geekmobile in North Carolina and policing technology on a daily basis. When he is not saving clients from their technology issues, he can often be found glued to his computer chair with the warm glow of the monitor providing all the artificial light he needs to power his robot brain. | <urn:uuid:23a9c799-608d-4879-9fc4-b0eb9356e0ac> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.geeksquad.com/intelligence/blog/windows-8-just-around-the-corner/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946387 | 688 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Exams start today at St. Thomas University where I teach, so last week I asked if my first-year students had any questions about the final exam.
There was a collective gasp.
I was kidding; there was no exam — something I’d made clear from the start.
But that bad joke was my segue into a discussion of student stress, which peaks around this time each year.
Last week, St. Thomas and Dalhousie University in Halifax sponsored dog-petting sessions for stressed-out students. Half my first-year class, about 20 students, planned to attend.
After all, research shows that dogs lower blood pressure and alleviate stress. Indeed, Harvard Medical School’s library provides students (and faculty) a therapy dog to cuddle twice a week.
But some of my students figured the hassle — taking a shuttle bus from campus to a forestry complex where St. John Ambulance was providing service dogs — would be counterproductive.
“Personally, it would stress me more missing an hour of potential study time,” said Rachel Kish.
But why are students experiencing so much stress? Increased awareness may encourage more reporting. McGill University’s mental-health service receives 20,000 visits a year, twice the volume of five years ago. And as the term ends, emergency drop-ins there are increasing four-fold a day.
From my side of the lectern, however, it seems many young people are attending university who shouldn’t be there. From 1999 to 2009, the percentage of adults in Canada with post-secondary education soared to 50 per cent from 39 per cent, the highest proportion among all OECD countries, including the U.S. and Japan.
University age also coincides with peak onset of mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
After accidents, suicide is the leading cause of death for young people.
Certainly, universities are no longer ivory towers. Many students work long hours. A few have children. With large loans coming due soon after graduation, many are under intense pressure to find jobs. Some are on scholarships requiring them to maintain top marks.
“A single test could lose it for you,” one student said.
Like all adults, students face many issues. The added stressors of being inexperienced and away from home for the first time make them particularly vulnerable.
Family deaths, especially of grandparents, can throw them into tailspins.
Several students told me they have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder or depression. One young woman is struggling with flashbacks of childhood incest. Another’s partner is just back from Afghanistan and may be suffering PTSD. One student had taken his last antidepressant pill, but had no doctor in Fredericton. I urged him to go to the hospital to renew his prescription.
In my second-year class of 30 students, one in four has trouble sleeping. One-third said they are drinking more because of stress. Two-thirds, males and females alike, admitted to crying at least once during the term. Fourteen have wept on the phone to their mothers and five with their fathers.
“My mother always cries, too,” said one, as the others nodded.
I said I felt sorry for their mothers.
“Yeah, me, too,” one student answered. “But she’s the only one I feel safe with.”
And then there are the insensitive professors. With my fourth-year class joining the workforce this spring, I announced next term I was upping the story-assignment quota. Several students looked ill.
After everyone had left, one young woman burst into tears. I handed her a tissue. And another. And another. We talked. She told me she was on track with her work. She only had one exam to write.
So what was the problem?
She dabbed her eyes. “I’m stressed out about next term.”
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Jan 19, 2013 | Posted by: roboblogger
We remember Martin Luther King Jr. primarily as the eloquent defender of social justice against the forces of hatred, whose voices we hear barking to this day.
it is so sad that skin color matter back then it is just skin God made us all different for his reason he doesn't want us to all be the same or look the same he wants us to look unique in a different way but the people who made segregation didn't think about that it was not just black people it was Mexican people Chinese people Indian people it was a lot of us who hurt and disrespected my question is why does skin color matters?
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Australian Bureau of Statistics
8731.0 - Building Approvals, Australia, December 2011 Quality Declaration
Previous ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 02/02/2012
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Dwelling approvals fall in December
ABS Building Approvals show that the number of dwellings approved fell 1.0% in December 2011, in seasonally adjusted terms, following a rise of 10.1% in November.
Dwelling approvals decreased for the month of December in Victoria (-16.7%), South Australia (-9.1%) and New South Wales (-5.0%), but rose in Queensland (24.6%), Tasmania (15.6%) and Western Australia (6.0%) in seasonally adjusted terms.
In seasonally adjusted terms, approvals for private sector houses rose 0.2% in December with rises in Western Australia (6.3%) and Queensland (4.7%), while South Australia (-8.3%), New South Wales (-3.7%) and Victoria (-3.4%) fell.
The value of total building approved increased 1.9% in December in seasonally adjusted terms, following a decrease of 0.5% in November. The value of residential building increased 1.0% while non-residential building rose 3.3%.
Widespread flooding, and other natural disasters, in the eastern states during late 2010 and early 2011 have not adversely affected participation by providers in the Building Approvals collection or the quality of estimates in this release. However, these events may have had an impact on the number of approved dwellings and the value of approved work.
Further information is available in Building Approvals, Australia (cat no. 8731.0) on the ABS website at www.abs.gov.au
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I wrote about this case in an earlier post.
Decker involves a challenge to a Ninth Circuit ruling that runoff from logging roads into ditches requires a stormwater permit. Petitioners argue that the Ninth Circuit should not have held that channeled forest road runoff is subject to NPDES permitting. Because the EPA interpreted the definition of point source, petitioners argue that the courts accord Chevron deference to the agency's interpretation.
According the NEDC, the EPA’s interpretation of its regulations is either (a) inconsistent with the text of the regulation, or (b) the regulation would be better read to require permits. Relying on §1365 of the CWA, the NEDC brought a citizen’s suit in an attempt to eliminate the exemption from the permiting process..
The EPA has previously interpreted the CWA as exempting certain logging activities that cause polluted water to run off of forest roads and into ditches, culverts, or pipes from the permitting process. The Petitioners argue that a citizen's lawsuit was impermissible in this case because of §1369 of the CWA. The parties also do not agree on the level of deference that the EPA should have been given in interpreting its regulations. Furthermore, the NEDC takes issue with the way EPA interprets several key phrases in the CWA, which affects the substance of the EPA’s decision.
Since passage of the Clean Water Act, the EPA has considered runoff of rain from forest roads - whether channeled or not - to fall outside the scope of the NPDES process, and not to require a permit as a point source discharge of pollutants. Under a rule first promulgated in 1976, the EPA consistently has defined as non-point source activities forest road construction and maintenance from which natural runoff results. And in regulating stormwater discharges under 1987 amendments to the Act, the EPA again expressly excluded runoff from forest roads. In consequence, forest road runoff long has been regulated as a nonpoint source using best management practices, like those imposed by the State of Oregon on the roads at issue here.
The EPA’s consistent interpretation of more than 35 years has survived proposed regulatory revision and legal challenge, and repeatedly has been endorsed by the United States in briefs and agency publications.
The Ninth Circuit rejected the EPA’s longstanding interpretation. This conflicts with other circuits and gives no deference to the EPA in interpreting the statute and regulations it has expertise in.
The Superme Court held.
- Challenges to EPA action under 33 U.S.C. §1369(b) are not a jurisdictional bar, and does not prevent the District Court from entertaining a citizen's suit under §1365.
- EPA's recent amendment to the Industrial Stormwater Rule did not moot the issue of the lawsuit. The controversy continues when respondent may face penalties for past activities under the old rule even if the new rule provides that a NPDES permit is not applicable.
The Court found that the pre-amendment version of the Industrial Stormwater Rule, as construed by EPA, exempts discharges of channeled stormwater runoff from logging roads from the NPDES permitting scheme and that the regulation is a reasonable interpretation of the statutory term “associated with industrial activity,” §1342(p)(2)(B).
When an agency interprets its own regulation, the Court, as a general rule, defers to it unless that interpretation is plainly erroneous or inconsistent with the regulation. The Court also found that another reason to accord Auer deference (519 U.S. 452, 461) to the EPA’s interpretation is that there is no indication that EPA's current view is a change from prior practice or is a post hoc justification adopted in response to litigation. The conclusions of EPA as to logging roads has been consistent over time.
The Court also noted that the CWA gives EPA discretion in the area of stormwater runoff, and EPA could have reasonably concluded that further federal regulation would be duplicative or counter-productive in light of Oregon’s extensive rules on the subject.
To the Court, the key to the case appears to be the language of §1342(p)(2)(B), associated with industrial activity. It held that it was reasonable for EPA to conclude that the conveyances at issue are “directly related” only to the harvesting of raw materials, rather than to “manufacturing, processing, or raw materials storage areas at an industrial plant.” 40 C.F.R. §122.26(b)(14). | <urn:uuid:8fc4ccac-289e-496c-a4c5-2083e12a4010> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.indianaenvironmentallaw.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948165 | 942 | 1.632813 | 2 |
A book containing the earliest known images of the Tavernier Blue diamond later called the French Blue and now known as the Hope Diamond is now available online. The USGS Libraries have recently digitized a first English edition of “The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier” (1678) which describes the adventures of the French merchant and explorer Jean-Baptist Tavernier (1605-1689) across Persia and India.
A sketch from three angles of the Tavernier Blue is accompanied by a short description of the stone as “a Diamond cleane of a faire violet” and as one “of the 14 fairest Diamonds chosen out among all those which Monsieur Tavernier sold to the King at his last return from the Indies, upon which consideration, and for severall services done the Kingdome His Majesty honored him with the title of Noble.” After it was sold to the king this diamond was renamed the “French Blue” or the “Blue Diamond of the Crown” and it remained in the possession of the French Royal Family until it was stolen in 1792. Its whereabouts were unknown until 1812, where it made its appearance in the Francillon memo with the new cut of the Hope Diamond we know today.
Tavernier includes numerous other descriptions of remarkable jewels and gemstones that he saw or purchased in the course of his travels including the Great Mogul Diamond, French royal rubies, and the “perfect” pearl of Persia. | <urn:uuid:3abbb775-eef5-4920-b938-8cd02d5d07b6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.usgs.gov/blogs/library/2012/09/10/book-containing-images-of-the-tavernier-blue-hope-diamond-available-online/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967212 | 310 | 2.984375 | 3 |
GOD’S RIGHT HAND: HOW JERRY FALWELL MADE GOD A REPUBLICAN AND BAPTIZED THE AMERICAN RIGHT
By Michael Sean Winters
Published by HarperCollins, $28.99
Jerry Falwell: fundamentalist, evangelical, Christian, homophobic, extremist, paradoxical. He was a preacher who transcended lines. Vocal about the moral decline in the United States due to liberal social agendas, by the end of his life Falwell could count Sen. Ted Kennedy and pornographer Larry Flynt as personal friends.
Michael Sean Winters (full disclosure: I know the author) believed Falwell deserved close study. This biography proves he was correct. Not least, Winters illustrates how Falwell’s legacy is evident in current national politics.
Falwell grew up wealthy in Lynchburg, Va., the wealth due in part to his father’s extralegal Prohibition-era activities. The boy excelled in school, especially in math and science, and graduated from Baptist Bible College in May 1956. Though not raised a Christian, Falwell witnessed tragedies of biblical proportions during his childhood. Falwell’s father, Carey Falwell, shot and killed his own brother. An earlier Falwell biographer called it a duel; Winters portrays the incident as Carey Falwell defending himself from his alcoholic brother’s attack.
In his sermons, preacher Falwell used this personal tragedy to warn against the perils of alcohol and drug abuse.
Falwell became a Christian as many evangelical Christians do today, through a conversion process that can be traced to a single event. It was the decision to attend a Sunday service at the Park Avenue Baptist Church in Lynchburg, where he had heard pretty girls might be found. That night Falwell was introduced both to his Christian faith and his future wife, Macel. His devotion to both his church and family was a constant throughout his life.
By the mid-1960s Falwell was head of a growing family and head of a growing congregation, the Thomas Road Baptist Church. Falwell opened a school, as many church congregations in the South did at the time. The school would grow into Liberty Baptist College (now Liberty University), where then-President George H.W. Bush and Sen. Ted Kennedy delivered speeches.
Falwell is best-known not for his work in the fundamentalist Christian community in southern Virginia, but for his work in national politics. The personal stories Winters tells of Falwell’s formative years, while appealing to the armchair psychologist in all biography readers, recede as the author focuses on how the religious right became the constituency all national Republican politicians must pander to. Winters delves into how anti-Semitism, once an exclusively right-wing conspiracy, today is almost an exclusively left-wing ideology. He explains why compromise in Washington on almost any issue is nigh impossible. Winters then deftly reveals Falwell’s hand in all this.
Winters describes this as “baptizing the American right.” What did it entail? First, the creation of a political branch of Falwell’s growing church congregation, “the moral majority,” later, the Moral Majority organization. Through the Moral Majority, Falwell led large voter registration drives in the evangelical community, and helped deliver the 1980 election to Republican Ronald Reagan. More important to Falwell, the Moral Majority brought national attention to issues he claimed were endangering morality in America. The toxic result of this, according to Winters, is that it made all political debates doctrinal and reduced religion to ethics.
This is to say that prior to the influence of the religious right, if Democrats wanted to raise the minimum wage $1 and Republicans did not want a raise, the parties would most likely have reached a compromise of 50 cents. But now issues are painted in ethical terms. This means, according to Winters, any compromise on a political issue that the religious right stands against is a compromise of doctrinal ethics. A compromise of faith.
Like many public figures, Falwell was a part of a number of scandals: from off-color remarks about Muslims and the Prophet Muhammad following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, to his public fight with Flynt about a cartoon published in Hustler. During one of these scandals Falwell was asked if there was anything in his past that would cause embarrassment. “Yes,” he quipped, “I was raised a Democrat.”
That was Falwell’s genius. Through a clever line or a story from his past, he was able to put a human face on fundamentalist Christianity, a movement unknown to many Americans at the time.
The genius of Winters’ biography is in his objectivity. He does not downplay the harsh language Falwell used to describe homosexuals. Winters does not sidestep the dangers of fundamentalism being applied to national politics. Nor does he take this as an opportunity to bash Falwell or arbitrarily criticize him. Winters puts a human face on the man who put a human face on a movement important to many Americans.
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Better Health Pain and Wellness Center has found from it’s study that about 85 percent of people will experience lower back pain at some point in their lives, and 15 percent of people have lower back pain right at any given time. Better Health has thus come up with sophisticated technologies to help people suffering from back ache. The introduction of DRS system Better Health Pain and Wellness Centers is one such step. In Better Health Pain and Wellness Centers the Anchorage chiropractors believe that it is very important to be fit and cure any problem as naturally as possible. They have a very compassionate approach to their patient’s pain with a carefully chosen amalgamation of disciplines, the result is extra ordinary.
In Better Health Pain and Wellness Centers they have a program Better Health Alaska which is an outreach program designed by Better Health Pain & Wellness Centers to assist and educate the people of the society about the advantages in pursuing proactive health care, alternative medicine, and local resources available to them. The continued success of Better Health Pain & Wellness Centers, including the increase in treating professionals and treatment locations - is greatly due to relationships formed in efforts to promote health and wellness in the society. You will find excellent Anchorage physical Therapist at Better Health Pain and Wellness Centers.
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A German television program broadcast Friday showed old footage of a bare-chested Evgeny Nikitin playing drums in a rock band, in which a swastika tattoo partly covered by another symbol could be seen. The festival said Nikitin made his decision amid questions from a German newspaper about the significance of some of his tattoos.
Organizers made Nikitin, 38, aware of "the connotations of these symbols in connection with German history," said a statement from the festival in Bayreuth, in the southeastern state of Bavaria. It added that his decision to pull out is "in line with the festival leadership's consistent rejection of any form of Nazi ideas."
The festival is currently led by the composer's great-granddaughters, Eva Wagner-Pasquier and Katharina Wagner.
The Nazi past is a sensitive issue for the Bayreuth festival, which was founded by Richard Wagner in 1872.
Winifred Wagner, who headed the Bayreuth festival under Nazi rule, was a strong admirer of Adolf Hitler. During her reign, Hitler not only helped fund the festival but was allowed to meddle in artistic decisions.
In a brief statement released through the festival, Nikitin said that he got the tattoos in his youth.
"It was a major mistake in my life, and I wish I had never done it," he said. "I was not aware of the extent of the confusion and hurt that these symbols would cause, particularly in Bayreuth and in the context of the festival's history."
Displaying Nazi symbols is a criminal offense in Germany.
This year's festival is due to open on Wednesday with "The Flying Dutchman," and it wasn't immediately clear who might replace Nikitin.
The festival said the director, Jan Philipp Gloger, believes that the "artistic damage to the production is immense" and it may not be possible to repair it entirely before next week's premiere. | <urn:uuid:918e833b-21bb-48ae-804e-def57b4478c2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.yorkdispatch.com/entertainment/ci_21127710/russian-baritone-pulls-out-bayreuth-over-tattoo | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978488 | 403 | 1.976563 | 2 |
When you think about Netflix, you probably imagine catching up on TV series you didn’t watch new or watching movies, but did you know that Netflix has lots of great food films in their library, too?
Vegging out in front of the TV might not be your go-to for entertainment, and what I love about a food film is that it’s a chance to kick back, relax, and learn something all at the same time! I searched through the Netflix library and found some awesome food films that are available to watch right now! Check it:
- Forks Over Knives – food scientists explore how a plant-based diet can help prevent and even fight disease
- Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead – a first-person look at food’s healing powers
- Vegucated – What happens when a group of meat- and cheese-loving people eat vegan for six weeks?
- Food Matters – a look at the Standard American Diet and how we can improve what we eat and our health
- King Corn – two friends travel America’s “corn belt” to learn about how corn is affecting our diets and our health
- The Engine 2 Kitchen Rescue – Rip Esselstyn helps two families make over their diets and their health
- Food Fight – a profile of food superstar Alice Waters as she tries to promote healthy, sustainable food
- Food Beware – the story of one French town where the mayor mandated an all-organic school lunch program
- Fed Up! – this film takes a hard look at the GMOs and factory farming in our food system and how we can make our food production more sustainable
- Farmageddon – the heart-wrenching story of sustainable farms that were forcefully shut down
Do you have any favorite food films, on Netflix or otherwise? I was bummed to find that Supersize Me isn’t available for streaming right now. It’s one of my favorites! | <urn:uuid:f6087439-383c-45c4-9541-60361fc577f6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2012/12/19/10-awesome-food-films-on-netflix/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948689 | 402 | 1.570313 | 2 |
When you think about going on vacation or to a getaway trip, you probably pick somewhere warm with inviting weather, people, and beaches. Once you pick that perfect beach you want to visit, you can’t picture anything else but a warm breeze and a clear blue sky that engulfs a beautiful brown sandy beach, with minimal rocks of course.
Try picturing a beach with blue water, a crystal clear sky, and black sand. Sounds a little crazy huh? In any case, these beaches do exist. So, the next time you’re planning a vacation or looking for a new place to go to for a few days, try heading to a black sand beach.
If you can’t pick just one or you aren’t sure of any, here is a list of the most beautiful black sand beaches of the world. The one that I picked are mostly from US. So if you know any other please share with us in comments.
Vik Beach, Iceland
Vik Beach is located in a small village located in the southern part of Iceland. Though you may think Iceland isn’t the prettiest place on Earth to go to enjoy a beach. Though this beach isn’t the best one to lie out and soak up some sun, it is definitely a marvel to see.
Black Sand Beach, Prince William Sound, Alaska
This beach is located just 60 miles from Anchorage. At this beach, you will see tidewater glaciers, waterfalls, green hillsides, and wildlife you won’t find at the zoo.
Pololu Valley Beach, Hawaii
At Pololu Valley Beach you will find that you have access to an excellent view of the Kohala Mountains as well as the coastline. This beach is probably one of the smallest in Hawaii.
Kehena Beach, Hawaii
At Kehena, you aren’t alone. Here you will find dolphins, which is why this beach is sometime called Dolphin Beach. You can even swim with these dolphins if the current isn’t too bad. Most people that go to Kehena just sit in the sand and enjoy the weather and water.
Kaimu Beach, Hawaii
Kaimu Beach, though somewhat dangerous, is another great black sand beach that is a must see. During the 1990s, the beach was covered in about 20′ of lava.
Black Sand Beach, California
On the Coast of California you will also be greeted by a beach named Black Sand Beach. This beach brings about an extremely dramatic scene, with beautiful water, sand, and peaks all around it.
Oneuli Beach, Maui
At Oneuli Beach the water is perfect and the land so great that you can even camp at this beach. If you’re a natural-type of person, you would love hiking on the Lower Trail as well as the Maluaka.
Honokalani Black Sand Beach, Maui
Honokalani Black Sand Beach is located in the Wainapanapa State Park. The beach offers lava pebbles that are smooth and small. Around the beach you will find lava cliffs. You will also find sea caves, a sea arch, as well as seaside lava tubes.
Waianapanapa Black Sand Beach, Maui
Waianapanapa Beach is a great black sand beach that was formed by waves crashing against volcanic rock over decades and decades. At this beach you can find some of the most beautiful sites you’ll ever see.
Punaluu Beach, Hawaii
Punaluu Beach is located on the Big Island of Hawaii. The beach is surrounded by black sand that was created by lava from volcanos flowing into the ocean and then cooling. Taking black sand from here is strictly not allowed. | <urn:uuid:b13e3f1a-7d3b-4407-97a4-d207a47b67a6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://listphobia.com/2009/11/16/10-most-beautiful-black-sand-beaches-in-the-world/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950741 | 773 | 1.59375 | 2 |
When it comes to exercise and energy, Americans are always looking for a quick fix.
Consumers spend about $3 billion a year on energy products, and it's a fast-growing niche. Sales of energy drinks like Red Bull were up 55 percent last year.
So it's probably no surprise that candy makers are looking for a piece of the action. The Jelly Belly Candy Co. is launching a "fortified" jelly bean.
"Our new product is 'sports beans' and these are jelly beans enhanced with vitamin C and E and electrolytes," said Peter Healy of Jelly Belly.
Jelly Belly bills its new beans as quick bursts of energy for fitness-minded consumers. A bag of 15 beans will cost about a dollar.
And the Best Sweet Company is creating Energy Chews, which promise a burst of "fast energy," and are endorsed by NASCAR champion Dale Earnhardt Jr. The company says its target market is truckers and college kids.
"It's hard being a college student and trying to eat right," said Josh Calabrese. "Trying to get something to motivate you to do your homework, to study late, those products are the answer."
Six of these candies pack the same punch as two cans of an energy drink. So what's in an energy chew? Ginseng, caffeine and another stimulant, plus a lot of vitamins.
"Americans love candy," said Tonia Becker Vershaw, former publisher of the trade journal Confectioner. "If you can get vitamins or some kind of additional benefit from eating the candy in addition to tasting good, I think there is a little less guilt there."
But most doctors and nutritionists say most people don't get any major health benefits from these fortified snacks.
It's not all marketing, and there are some benefits, said Heidi Skolnik, a nutritionist and contributing editor at Men's Health magazine.
"Jelly beans do provide carbohydrates and marathoners have been using them for years," Skolnik said.
But Skolnik added these carb-rich candies could just mean extra calories for everyone but hardcore athletes.
The electrolytes in the candies and chews help the body with hydration. However, Skolnik said, you'll want to make sure you're drinking water with them to reap the benefits.
"If you don't exercise, skip it," she said. "If you're a moderate exerciser, you really want to reconsider whether you need it."
Still, Skolnik said, she thinks it's likely these energy candies will catch on with the public.
"People think if they're not exercising, if they eat something exercisers eat, somehow it makes them more fit. But you've got to do the work," she said.
While the energy chew won't hurt an adult in moderation, as the package says, they are not for children.
"I wouldn't want to see kids using this," said Dr. Bill Roberts of the University of Minnesota Medical School. "I certainly wouldn't want to see them using ginseng and extra caffeine from the candies. And I think that kids should get their nutrition from food and not from candy."
Still, candy makers are betting consumers will bite.
"You want to fish where the fish are," said Richard Tucker of Best Sweet. "You want to be where the people are in the hottest markets and the biggest sales." | <urn:uuid:8e9269fd-797f-42f2-a9c7-8117afa0079a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/story?id=921211&page=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972857 | 710 | 1.765625 | 2 |
As UK enterprises begin to use mobile cloud services, mobile cloud security issues will take center stage. In this interview Quocirca mobile cloud security analyst Bob Tarzey explains the importance of both securing the mobile client and implementing centralised mobile cloud security tactics.
Are UK enterprises now adopting true mobile cloud services with data storage and processing?
Bob Tarzey: It is fair to say that the biggest take up for mobile cloud services is from consumers rather than enterprises rushing to use them for their own ends; although they are starting to do this. This means that the enterprises at the bleeding edge are those that provide consumer services, such as retailers and others with a strong online presence that are increasingly interacting with their customers via smartphones.
One of the key things that the mobile services companies have to do in the UK is address the security issues. This year, we have been looking at application delivery controllers that you put in place almost like a proxy in front of an application that helps handle that and shapes and encrypts the traffic. There is quite a lot of investment going on in these places.
What are the major mobile cloud security issues?
Tarzey: There are three main security threats -- malware, privacy and authenticating access. There is no doubt that people are starting to target mobile devices using malware. One of the key [challenges] is that there is much more diversity amongst mobile platforms, particularly at the operating system level where these guys need to find a way in. If you want to target PCs by just focusing on MS, Microsoft’s operating system is the majority of the market and you have a huge opportunity. It is hard to know where to focus the attack with the mobile cloud.
There are other attack vectors people could potentially use. For instance, one that will work on any mobile device is an SMS message that can get to the device and persuade it to part with information. Of course it costs money to send an SMS message whereas an email can be sent for free, but they are starting to work on that.
How can enterprises protect the mobile cloud against malware?
Tarzey: There are two approaches to protect from malware. You need to keep your security up to date for email. Another problem is a lot of the threats are being perpetrated using the Internet, so they are trying to persuade you and me to click on links. That is harder with mobile devices because the Internet access is going to be a lot more ad hoc. It is going to be via a mobile network, and it is harder to do what you can do on PCs, which is to force the user back via a proxy, and therefore make sure a centralised policy and protection applies to them.
The reality is that as we move forward, organisations are going to have to look at putting in host-based security just as we do for PCs.
How can UK enterprises secure mobile access to the cloud to ensure data privacy in the light of the Data Protection Act?
Tarzey: Again, it is harder to put in place methods for protecting centralised data on mobile devices than it is on PCs. You have to have on-device protection and make sure your users are using password protection to get into the device. If you are going to have any sort of sensitive data on there you need to look at encryption. And of course these devices are much more likely to be lost, so you need to make sure that the device can’t be compromised. As well as encryption, you might want to make sure you have remote disablement and wipe capabilities.
What steps are UK enterprises taking to secure the mobile cloud?
Tarzey: There are two approaches, host-based (like on PCs) and centralised security -- which is harder to implement for smartphones than it is for PCs, although filtering content is key for both. There is a huge amount of investment to provide such protection by the carrier networks.
One of the issues is consumerisation as employees demand to use their own devices. CISOs accept that as a reality. There is one big benefit with it. Consumerisation links your care for your own device and it being available to access corporate resources. If you accept that, then you have to have the tools in place to manage security installations on a wide range of devices. Also, when an employee leaves, make sure that access is deprovisioned.
A fast growing market is mobile device management. Companies like Sybase and others are doing this to make sure the tools are in place to enable that mode of delivery of services to enterprise users.
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|Written by||Ellen Weiss|
Ernie, Bert, and Big Bird go to the Sesame Street Zoo to see the new panda, but are sad to learn that the exhibit has not opened yet. But a boy named Willie takes them on a tour to see the new exhibits. From a non-enclosed tiger exhibit to one with all the animals of Africa in one cage, they learn that there's always something new there. At the end, Willie and his mother (who works there) take them in to see the panda. | <urn:uuid:c6a1dfdc-7e46-4bfb-8e5f-60dada37f615> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/A_Visit_to_the_Sesame_Street_Zoo | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939713 | 112 | 2.09375 | 2 |
As the nation braces for flu season and a potential outbreak of swine flu, the South already appears to be dealing with a wave of H1N1 cases, setting up tents to deal with hundreds of possibly infected children each day.
The hospitals in the southeastern United States have been dealing with a high volume of likely swine flu cases several months before seasonal flu typically hits, and some fear the strain may be moving north -- and everywhere else.
Track outbreaks of the H1N1 virus across the country at the CDC's FluView Website
"It's spreading everywhere," said Dr. James C. Turner, executive director of the department of student health at the University of Virginia and president of the American College Health Association (ACHA). "It's a typical flu season, but the thing that's so bizarre is it started in late August."
In the most recent report from the ACHA, Turner noted that cases among college students in the South appeared to be decreasing. However, "there have been significant increases in disease activity in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, Northeast and Rocky Mountain regions of the country."
While Turner said his campus sees 15 to 20 new patients a day with likely swine flu, some other areas of the South are being hit harder.
"Three-hundred-fifty [kids] a day are coming in, and about half of those have flu-like symptoms," said Sara Burnett, a spokeswoman for Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center in Memphis. "We put up a tent two weeks ago to help screen those kids."
Dr. Keith English, director of infectious disease at Le Bonheur, said that the hospital's emergency department is seeing roughly double the number of patients it would at this time in a typical year.
English said roughly half of the patients presenting at the hospital showed symptoms of influenza, with about 57 percent of the patients who were tested having swine flu.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that hospitals not take samples to determine definite swine flu, so cases are classified as likely swine flu by observing the patient and making the determination in the clinic.
Le Bonheur is not the only hospital to set up triage tents for possible swine flu patients.
At Dell Children's Medical Center in Austin, Texas, tents also have been set up to deal with a daily flow of patients that has more than doubled past 330 when compared to typical totals -- around 160 during this time of year.
Similar problems are happening elsewhere in Austin.
"We are overflowing with patients -- none of whom are very ill -- thank goodness," said Dr. Ari Brown, a local pediatrician, in an e-mail to ABC News. "I saw one young man with flu who was the 17th player of his varsity football team to have [swine flu] -- [it's] spreading like wildfire."
And officials at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville told "World News" they have seen more than 5,000 patients with flu-like symptoms so far this month. Its children's emergency department has increased its staffing by 50 percent.
While it is difficult to be certain about why the swine flu has spread in the fashion it has, physicians did have some possible explanations.
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2008 Conference Report
Yellowstone Historic Center
West Yellowstone, Montana
In June of 2008, the Yellowstone Historic Center in West Yellowstone, Montana celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first passenger train to the west entrance of Yellowstone Park.
There were many special attraction with everything from authentic "out-west" chuck wagon dinners to well-known speakers, who spoke on many different historical subjects. In addition, there was a wonderful stage coach display that was put on by the National Stagecoach and Freight Wagon Association. The event was very well attended even though the area suffered through the last snow storm of the season.
The stage coach display consisted of 15 different styles of coaches that were on loan from a wide variety of organizations and individuals, from across the western part of the United States.
Obviously the Yellowstone coaches were well represented, including coaches with seating capacities of 3, 8, 11, 17, and 25 passengers. The "work horse" coaches, the mud wagons or mail coaches were also handsomely interpreted. A little different angle of the west was a coach that was not historic, but was made especially for movies as a prop. The stagecoach display was a huge success based upon the large amount of time people spent studying the different coaches and asking questions.
The stagecoach display was sanctioned and interpreted by the National Stagecoach and Freight Wagon Association.
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It’s not surprising that investors gave a lukewarm reaction to the proposals made by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy Tuesday–with great fanfare–in the Élysée Palace in Paris.
JP Morgan Chase Bank’s Malcolm Barr said the measures consist of lots of rhetoric with questionable substance.
“Tough questions about sanctions for fiscal misbehavior and the degree of sovereignty nations are prepared to pool remain unanswered,” Mr. Barr said.
Safe-haven German bunds were higher Wednesday. At 0955 GMT, 10-year bunds were yielding 2.27%, from 2.31% Tuesday, according to Tradeweb. Italian and Spanish 10-year yields were unchanged at just below 5%. They have been at or close to this level since the European Central Bank began buying Italian and Spanish sovereign bonds last week.
European stocks were falling early Wednesday as investors digested the proposals.
Mrs. Merkel acknowledged she doesn’t believe the troubles of the euro zone can be fixed with a “big bang.” But what the leaders of Europe’s top two economies recommended nevertheless disappointed as it looked rather like a series of recycled ideas.
Take the proposal that all members of the currency area enshrine balanced budget amendments in their constitutions by next summer. Trying to appease a population and parliament at home that is increasingly unwilling to pay for their neighbors’ fiscal sins, Mrs. Merkel has been trying to export Berlin’s “debt brake,” as the balanced budget clause in Germany’s constitution is called.
But during a March EU summit, she wasn’t able to convince her peers to adopt the idea. Mrs. Merkel may figure that as the escalation of the debt crisis now threatens EU core countries Italy and France, now is the time she may succeed in whipping her euro zone peers into line on the debt brake.
Mr. Sarkozy Tuesday lobbied for the “golden rule,” as the measure is dubbed in France, knowing that he faces headwinds from the opposition Socialists in a Congress of all French lawmakers that needs to approve the constitutional change.
Mrs. Merkel and Mr. Sarkozy also proposed to set up an economic council, or economic government, for the euro zone. It would consist of the currency area’s heads of state and government and meet at least twice a year. In practice, euro zone leaders already hold irregular meetings. But those gatherings have never been formalized.
Non-euro zone countries like the U.K. had complained the summits could take important decisions affecting financial policy that affects it, while having no say in the outcome. Reviving the idea again could lead to new resistance. On the other hand it’s not clear why those summits would bring the necessary breakthrough the informal meetings or the summits of all 27 EU leaders don’t achieve.
The renewed commitment by Mrs. Merkel and Mr. Sarkozy to a Europe-wide tax on financial transactions further soured the mood in financial markets. The U.K.’s well-known objection to the measure should render it impracticable, though, as London is the continent’s main financial hub.
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Tuesday, 24 April 2012
By Nic Don at Theopolitical
Peter Kreeft is the professor of philosophy at Boston University. He is Catholic, and therefore often associated with the pro-life movement. (He has written a Socratic assessment of the pro-life/pro-choice debate, which may contribute to the association as well.) Recently he wrote a book based on a journal he kept, recording his general life advice for his children to read after he dies.
In this book, called Before I Go, he describes what it means to be pro-life. Here is what he says:“Life” means much more than just biological survival. It means all the levels of human life, from the biological to the psychological to the interpersonal to the religious.
Therefore, to be “pro-life” means:
- loving and caring for your bodily health and the health of the planet that nourishes it
- loving and caring for play, that up-rush of life that we share with the higher animals but not with the lower (that’s why we play with dogs, not with worms)
- loving and caring for other human biological lives, not killing them by abortion, euthanasia, suicide, or starting wars
- loving and caring for other human psychological and spiritual lives as you care for your own, loving others as you love yourself
- loving the moral law that tells you how to do that
- knowing and loving nature and the nature of everything: man, woman, animals, God, and even sister death; not acting against their natures but “painting with the grain”
- loving the source and inventor of all life wherever He comes to you: in nature, in conscience, in the Bible, in the Mass, in children, everywhere, even in death.
He summarizes by saying, “See? Being ‘pro-life’ is bigger than #3 alone.’”
What do you think of this account of what it means to be “pro-life”? Is this an account of the “pro-life” perspective that makes sense to those who call themselves “pro-choice”? | <urn:uuid:6ceefc4a-2721-48c0-ac3f-4700bc345b1c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.revelife.com/761988295/aspects-of-being-%E2%80%9Cpro-life%E2%80%9D/?page=2&jump=1525367399 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00048-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964844 | 456 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Bidding good-bye to our creepy escort, we spent a few days with a biologist who was studying the Pantanal's capybaras. These are the largest rodents on earth; mastiff-sized, with box-shaped muzzles, they look like creatures conjured by Lewis Carroll. It was this Pantanal, with its strange animal life and uncharted territories, that attracted me. It had also attracted the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, who did fieldwork here in the 1930's. He called it a "dream landscape." He was fascinated by the herds of zebus that took "refuge on the tops of hillocks which look like floating arks," and by the flocks of large birds that formed "dense white-and-pink islands, less feathery however than the fan-like foliage of the carandá palm, the leaves of which secrete a precious wax, and whose scattered clumps offer the only interruption in the deceptively smiling vistas of this aquatic desert." In spite of the ex-Nazis, the hunters, and the Brazilian government, the landscape he described was still here. I had the sense, as I've rarely had since, of being somewhere quite unlike anywhere else on earth.
Returning to the Pantanal, this time to the south, I was afraid that the ecotourism boom would have eroded and packaged much of the region's wild character. It hadn't. In the course of just four days, we found the prints of a jaguar and a tapir (the largest mammal in South America: related to the rhino, it looks like a pygmy hippo) and saw, not more than 50 yards ahead of us, the furtive figure of an agouti, a high-rumped, white-spotted rodent the size of a rabbit, carrying its young in its mouth. We spooked a herd of white-lipped peccaries that had been stomping and snorting and tearing up the forest floor and watched them stampede into the underbrush. We saw a tayra, a relative of the otter, climbing a tree that was having the life squeezed out of it by a strangler fig, the vegetable equivalent of an anaconda and as thick as the snake's spiraling coils. We saw black howler monkeys and capuchins, one with a baby on its back, cavorting in the trees, the young capuchins curious enough to come within 20 feet of us.
Our days began at dawn. After breakfast we would head out on foot or on mountain bikes, on horseback or in a jeep. Victor do Nascimento, the 37-year-old son of a local campeiro, who works as a guide at the lodge, went with us. One morning we wandered through a strip of acuri palms. Victor told us that cattle eat the fruits of the acuri and defecate the pits, which are the main source of food for the hyacinth macaw, so the palms are actually essential to the area's ecosystem. Another day, we took a trip on the Aquidauana River, which delineates the northern boundary of the fazenda and is home to a dazzling diversity of toucans, parakeets, and kingfishers. Of the kingfishers alone there are five subspecies, each with its own ecological niche, distinctive markings, and behaviors.
In the evenings we ate local fish such as pacu (it has large molars for cracking open the nuts that fall into the water) and drank caipirinhas, the Brazilian version of a margarita, made from cachaça (incompletely refined rum), sugar, and lime. After dinner, we were joined by the six other guests for movies and slides and lectures. From these we learned that though detailed satellite maps exist of the entire swamp, so much of it is densely matted with lianas and bushes and vines that it remains largely unexplored. This might explain, more than government policy or ranchers' good intentions, why much of the Pantanal is still pristine. | <urn:uuid:47c47c31-5c4e-401b-995d-9a38715418ba> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/inside-brazils-wild-wetland/3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97659 | 857 | 2.078125 | 2 |
By Susan Kushnir, for Yahoo! HotJobs
In "Field of Dreams" Kevin Costner's character heard a mysterious voice saying, "If you build it, they will come." Soon a team of deceased yet remarkably preserved ballplayers show up to play on Costner's newly renovated ball field. That mythical strategy may work in Hollywood, but not in the land of job seekers, especially those over 50.
There are, in fact, many myths about job seekers over 50, and many aren't relevant to today's job market.
Myth: If You Wait for the Perfect Job, It Will Come
No way. Leigh Branham, author of Keeping the People Who Keep You in Business: 24 Ways to Hang On to Your Most Valuable Talent, recommends spending at least 10 hours a week researching desirable companies. Then, circulate that list to your network of former colleagues, relatives, friends, etc.
Next, use the AIR strategy, which stands for advice, information, referrals. When you speak with someone in your network, emphasize that you are looking for advice, information on the most progressive companies and suggestions for next steps including possible referrals.
Myth: 'I'm Too Overqualified'
Yes, you've produced a lot of results, and some midlevel positions are no longer suitable for you. That's a good thing. You've morphed into a trusted adviser that others seek out for your know-how and can-do spirit. Companies are also interested in people with more gravitas and experience to help mentor Gen X colleagues.
Myth: Hold Fast to the Techniques That Have Worked for You in the Past
Limiting yourself to the paradigms you've always had will be just that -- limiting. Harry Newman was an over-50 employee with Chase Bank for over 24 years before it downsized. "Approach the job as if you're self-employed, so that if tomorrow you need another job, you'll be prepared," Newman says. "It is a beginning, not an ending. Be open to possibilities."
For example, focusing on finding a job in a large company may have worked 20 years ago, but today half of new jobs created are in companies with fewer than 50 employees.
Myth: 'Companies Aren't Interested in Me Because I'm Too Old'
By 2012, 20 percent of the US workforce will be older than 55, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Age becomes irrelevant when the focus is on results.
Greg Waldron, talent management officer for Porter Novelli, says, "I've never had so much job activity and been so sought after since I hit 50."
Maryanne Rainone, senior vice president and managing director of Heyman Associates, an executive recruiting firm, says that 33 percent of placements in 2007 were for candidates older than 50. "Many companies want someone that has not just seen good times in the industry but also knows how to weather bad times," she says. Bad times may include stock market plunges, company scandals or buyouts.
Finally, stay energized, current and enthusiastic about your field. Focus on your significant capabilities, rather than your lengthy experience -- it's all about your value, not your age. | <urn:uuid:90254a37-5bb1-4cc8-bdf2-279fdeb3b8b9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://career-advice.monster.com/job-search/getting-started/dispelling-myths-about-job-seekers-over-50-hot-jobs/article.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963358 | 655 | 1.671875 | 2 |
By the time Lois was 30, she had the experience behind her of hundreds of breeds as she trained, groomed, handled and bred animals for others. In her mind she was constantly evaluating and gathering information as an image of a new breed of dog formed deep within her. She prepared a standard of what this new breed would look like and how it should behave. She knew the character it needed to have to become the best breed she had ever known. The brains and heart of the dog had to come first. She was concerned about the looks just yet. She imagined that could be done in a couple of generations, but the heart and intelligence would take some time. She had figured at least 6 years. This would be an expensive undertaking and would take a lot longer than she had imagined.
[Several AKC American Show Shepherds, other working German Shepherd Dogs coming directly from Germany, Holland, and Canada, as well as two purebred Alaskan Malamutes formed the basis of the foundation stock used to start shaping the temperament and character so prices in this relatively new large breed of dog. After ten years of breeding within these mixed lines, a new and consistent temperament was formed, although the look was still too similar to the German Shepherd Dog. It was at this time that a few hand selected American Alsatians with mellow, even temperaments were then crossbred with a fawn colored English Mastiff, Brite Stars Willow of Cold Springs, who was out of Ch. Brite Starts Sir Winston Churchill who gained his championship at the young age of 18 months. The English Mastiff breed was chosen to add the full round bone and large head of the purebred American Alsatian one sees today.
After several years of breeding these American Alsatian/mastiff mixed dogs and choosing
only the quietest, boldest dogs in the litter (and disregarding the look in order to concentrate on the most important feature of this new breed, its companion dog personality, each litter began to reproduce themselves consistently, thus continuing the formation of a new rare breed of dog. In 2002, all the lines were set and each litter produced a similar personality and look. These purebred dogs were bred unto themselves to beget 18th and 20th generations who were again crossed with unrelated dogs in 2006. This time the crossbred dogs were an Anatolian/Great Pyrenees mix out of purebred lines and a shepherd/malamute mix. She chose these two dogs in order to keep the largeness and enhance the temperament. We are now in the fifth generation from these last crossbreedings and all lines are once again purebred dogs, meaning they beget themselves consistently in personality, health and looks.
At present, each dog when bred begets itself in conformation, the Dire Wolf look is not complete. Because Lois concentrated on the health and the mellow, calm, non-barking temperament before looks, the breed's conformation is still under development. Now the National American Alsatian Breeder's Association will be working to improve the look of the Dire Wolf, including the two coat colors theories that have emerged. At some point, we will once again crossbreed, this time in order to concentrate on the Dire Wolf look of the breed without compromising the health and temperament that have proved to be the most difficult of the three to achieve.
The name of the American Alsatian has changed several times as this breed progressed from a mixed breed of dog to a separate breed conforming to its own unique standards in temperament and looks. In 1988, the name of the breed was the North American Shepalute. Lois, our founder, chose to take the words shepherd and malamute and blend them together to reflect the blending of the two founding breeds. In 2004, the breed name was change to Alsatian Shepalute in order to start the transition from the portmanteau word, Shepalute, to a name that harkened back to the past when the German Shepherd Dog was called the Alsatian Wolfdog. The term Alsatian came to remind one of a dog that looked, in some general characteristics, similar to a wolf. Since this breed was meant to resemble the Dire Wolf in bone and body structure, this term was adopted. On February 21, 2010, the name of the breed was again changed, dropping Shepalute all together. Our club decided this change in order to completely eliminate the tie this breed once had to the mix breeding of the shepherd and the malamute. In order to reflect this breed's purebred conformity, the name was changed to American Alsatian. The descriptive term American was added in order to reflect this breed's origins and create a distinctiveness from the colloquial usage of Alsatian in Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand.
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I live with an autistic teenager. Our household has gradually transitioned to paleo over the past 5 years (starting with her being put on a GFCF diet). She started out on the typical autistic diet, limited to a few carb/dairy heavy foods, and we were concerned at the start about her starving herself if not given what she was willing to eat.
She now quite happily eats ANYTHING. Salads, curries, soups, chili, slabs of meat, eggs in different forms, raw and cooked fruits and vegetables of many types... She likes these things. She requests them. She has not rejected a meal I have made in the past several years. Even disregarding sensitivity issues, it's been an undeniably positive step nutritionally. She's so much physically healthier now than she was when she started!
(It has not, however, been a magical autism cure. We definitely notice behavioral improvement. She's much happier, more cooperative, and aware of other people when eating properly - we can tell when she's been sneaking stuff by her behavior. But she's still autistic, regardless.)
I don't really have any earth-shattering advice. Start with the assumption that he won't starve himself, especially if he's already willing to eat some food that is acceptable. If there are paleo foods he likes, have them available to the greatest extent possible. You may have to make a lot of chili for a while :) Introduce new things gradually, and gradually stop catering to his food preferences (ie. stop having chili available as an option if the dinner you've made is something else). As the addictions are broken, he'll probably be more willing to accept new foods, especially if he learns that he has to eat what he's given.
I won't say that no autistic (or non-autistic) kid will starve themselves rather than eat non-preferred food, but that's a bridge to cross if you come to it, not something to stop the journey before it starts. If you are really worried, focus on GFCF first, and include GFCF processed food, non-gluten grains, and so forth while you work on expanding his diet.
School is definitely the biggest challenge, with all the well-meaning people who give her graham crackers "because they have graham, not wheat", or who don't supervise her well, then call CPS when they see her sneaking a sandwich or yogurt out of a trash can because they don't realize she's autistic and/or assume she must really be hungry because it's not typical "treat" food, or when the art teacher decides they need to do still lives of boston cream pies or that the (high school age) kids can't survive a 20 minute bus ride without a daily snack. (Yes, those are all real-life examples that have happened to us!)
But you can only do what you can. None of that is really caused by the dietary restrictions - it's just that the dietary restrictions make us really aware of how much school can undermine parental nutritional choices! | <urn:uuid:5db368d1-c0dd-4261-8d08-9e7a91b382e3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://paleohacks.com/questions/65095/how-do-i-get-my-autistic-8-yr-old-eating-paleo | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981069 | 634 | 1.867188 | 2 |
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Wendell Berry is a farmer, an activist, and the author of numerous essays, poems, novels, and short stories. He has received the National Humanities Medal, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Award, among other honors. He lives in Kentucky.
“I knew that all the things we’d gathered there so many years would be scattered and gone. All that had held it together would come apart and be gone as if it never was.”
What Jarrat had in his life were sorrow, stubbornness, silence, and work. So when his sons needed him most, their daddy didn’t have much to offer.
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Kimchi jjigae is often cooked in Korean homes using older, more fermented and "ripe" kimchi, creating a much stronger taste and containing higher amounts of "good" bacteria also found in yogurt. The stew is said to be more flavourful if prepared with older kimchi, while fresh kimchi may not bring out a full and rich flavour.
Sliced kimchi is put into a pot with beef, pork or seafood, dubu, sliced spring onions and garlic and are all boiled together with water or myeolchi(멸치) stock. The stew is seasoned with either doenjang(된장) (bean paste) or gochujang (고추장)(red pepper paste).
Like many other Korean dishes kimchi jjigae is usually eaten communally from the center of the table if more than two people are served. It is accompanied by various banchan (side dishes) and rice. It is usually cooked and served boiling hot in a stone pot.
- 1 tablespoon groundnut oil
- 175 g (6 oz) pork belly sliced very thin
- ½ medium onion, peeled and chopped
- 4 Cloves of garlic, peeled and crushed
- 473 ml (0.83 pint) kimchi (including plenty of the juice)
- 473 ml (0.83 pint) water
- 1 tablespoon rice wine
- 2 teaspoons gochujang (Korean Chilli paste) - or to taste
- 2 teaspoon light soy sauce
- 225 g (8 oz) Blue Dragon Tofu, Firm Silken Style, cut into bite-sized cubes
- 2 spring onions, thinly sliced
- Heat the oil in a medium-sized pot and fry the pork belly for a 3 or 4 minutes, turning often.
- Add the garlic, stir-fry for 30 seconds, then add the onion and fry for 3 or 4 minutes until softened.
- Add the remaining ingredients apart from the tofu and sprig onions and bring to the boil.
- Reduce the heat and simmer for 20 to 30 minutes.
- Add the cubed tofu and simmer for a further 5 minutes.
- Finally add the sprig onions, remove from the heat and serve.
Serve with plain boiled rice.
I did plan to make this recipe but the kimchi I made in preparation of this recipe was ok, but not really to my personal taste. As a result, I've not actually tried this recipe. | <urn:uuid:b39fc5a6-c722-4d99-8858-b0c38885a46e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cookipedia.co.uk/recipes_wiki/Kimchi_jjigae | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.904002 | 534 | 1.5625 | 2 |
menomoneefalls.patch.com; video Credit Carl Engelking: An enormous blaze ignited at Shady Lane Greenhouse early Friday afternoon in Menomonee Falls.
At roughly 11:48 a.m. the Menomonee Falls Fire Department received a full box alarm call for a fire that started in one of the greenhouses on the property. Thick black smoke was clearly visible for miles and the plume rose high above the scene throughout the area. Flames were also shooting through the roof when responders arrived. It was a high-alarm fire due to the fact that fertilizers, gas lines, and other chemicals were present in the building.
Firefighters from throughout the Milwaukee area arrived to assist Falls firefighters on the scene. It appeared the fire had been controlled as mutual aid began to arrive. According to a news release from Police Chief Anna Ruzinski, the fire was completely extinguished by 2:19 p.m.
Heidi Hornung, manager and landscaper at the greenhouse, was clearly shaken by the incident as she watched smoke rise from her business. She said everyone made it out safely, but the fire would clearly be devastating. | <urn:uuid:0814fb2f-95f1-44ad-901a-7fff3dfb65c1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://leamingtongrower.com/2012/10/raw-video-large-fire-ignites-at-shady-lane-greenhouse/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983123 | 237 | 1.78125 | 2 |
10:29 a.m., April 12, 2010----A number of registered student organizations at the University of Delaware -- including InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Hillel and Uganda Untold -- came together to present Justice Week: Campaign Against Hunger from April 5-9.
Justice Week featured numerous hunger awareness programs, including an educational event regarding hunger and child poverty, an a cappella benefit concert, a “broken bread poverty meal” at Hillel and the “forking” of The Green.
“Over 1 billion people experience hunger on a daily basis, and every seven seconds a child dies from hunger-related causes,” said UD student Molly Baker of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, who helped plan the week. “Due to this unnerving reality, and the catastrophe in Haiti, we think that it is our responsibility, as students, to respond.”
Motivated by faith and seeing an opportunity “to be a part of reconciling the things that are broken in our world,” Baker said the week was held because community is essential and the various events brought together multiple voices to “create greater unity on our campus.”
An important part of Justice Week was an educational event -- with Uganda Untold, the Student Council for Exceptional Children and Kappa Delta Pi Honors Education Society as partners - to discuss how hunger affects the ability of children to learn. Presenters included Tonya Bartell, assistant professor, and Robert Hampel, professor, both in the School of Education.
The event was designed to “expose hunger that exists in the U.S. and how, as future teachers, we can respond to the needs of our students,” said Baker, who spoke at this event about seeing hunger with her own eyes on two trips to South Africa and through her work in North Philadelphia.
An a capella benefit concert featuring the Deltones, Vision, Vocal Point and Golden Blues was held in the Perkins Student Center to “to send the message that regardless of whether or not we can sing, we all of have voices and we can all use our voices to make a difference in the world,” Baker said.
On Thursday, Hillel and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship held a “broken bread poverty meal” during which those who attended put themselves in the shoes of those who experience hunger, eating only a small bowl of a corn-soy porridge blend which, for children in emergency food situations, often is the only meal of the day.
Attendees read story cards of children around the world who experience hunger, and representatives of both Hillel and InterVarsity shared why people of their faiths feel motivated to respond.
A very visible event was the “Fork the Green” held Thursday, with students donating $1 for 10 forks, with each representing a child suffering from hunger. The forks were “planted” in the grass along The Green to draw attention to the problem of hunger around the world.
More than 1,500 forks were placed on The Green thanks to donations from more than 150 students.
The Green was later “de-forked,” according to Marc Guzman, a senior political science and Honors Program student involved with the project, and the forks were washed and reused in order to conserve.
InterVarsity sponsored a final event Friday, “Jesus and Justice,” which Baker said “examined what the Bible says about the brokenness in the world and the ultimate hope we have in Jesus Christ.”
At all of the Justice Week events, students were asked to sign the Global Food Security Act, designed to make a significant contribution toward reducing hunger by investing in sustainable agriculture and nutrition programs.
In addition, events raised more than $1,000 to benefit World Vision, a nonprofit humanitarian organization that works in more than 100 nations and has an emergency food relief program.
“I think this week was a huge success as we got hundreds of signatures, raised over $1,000 for World Vision, had many different student groups partner together, and exposed the reality of world hunger to thousands of students and faculty,” Baker said.
“There is enough in the world for everyone's needs, but not enough for everyone's greed,” she said. “We were challenged this week to reexamine how we spend our money, how much we waste on a daily basis, and our real ability to speak up for change.”
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The Risc PC (codenamed Medusa) was Acorn Computers's next generation RISC OS/Acorn RISC Machine computer, launched in 1994, which superseded the Acorn Archimedes.
Like the Archimedes, the Risc PC continued the practice of having the RISC OS operating system in a ROM module. Risc PC augmented the ROM-based core OS with a disk-based directory structure containing configuration information, and some applications which had previously been kept in ROM.
Specifications and technical details
- Memory type: SIMM, 2 slots, supporting a maximum memory size of 256 MB.
- Video subsystem: VIDC20 controller, with optional dual-port VRAM up to 2 MB.
- Expansion: Eurocard-sized Podule support in common with Archimedes-series machines. The Risc PC also offers DMA support in the first two podules on the bus.
- Operating System: RISC OS 3.5 (Risc PC 600), RISC OS 3.6 (Risc PC 700), RISC OS 3.7 (StrongARM Risc PC). RISC OS 4 is available as a replacement for the Acorn-implemented versions which came fitted as standard.
- Case: Designed by industrial designer Allen Boothroyd of Cambridge Product Design (designer of the BBC Micro case). Custom plastic-based design with a novel 'slice' feature which allows extra case modules to be added to increase internal expansion space. Each slice adds 2 podule bays at the rear, and two drive bays (one 3.5 inch, one 5.25 inch) at the front, covered by a retractable flap to hide cosmetic inconsistencies in hue. The inside of the case is sprayed with nickel paint to meet electromagnetic and radio emissions regulations.
- Ports: Serial, Parallel, PS/2 keyboard, Acorn mouse, headphone audio out, DE15 VGA, network (optional).
- CPU: Dual-processor slots, accepting the following chips on a special daughterboard: ARM610 at 30 MHz or 33 MHz, ARM700 at 33 MHz (only as prototype), ARM710 at 40 MHz, ARM810 at 55 MHz (only as prototype), StrongARM at 203 MHz, 236 MHz or 300 MHz. 486 and 586-based co-processors at up to 133 MHz, and DSP chips (third party) were also available. A "Hydra (Simtec)" multi-processor development system from Simtec allowed an extra four ARM6 or ARM7 CPU cards, mainly using the Linux OS.
- Dimensions: 117 (182 two centre-sections) x 355 x 384 mm (HxWxD).
1994 - Risc PC 600 launched, featuring a 30 MHz ARM6 CPU.
1995 - ARM7 CPU upgrade and Risc PC 700 model launched.
1996 - StrongARM CPU upgrade released, offering a fivefold increase in raw processing power compared to the ARM7 used in the previous high-end machines.
2000 - In May, Castle Technology
revealed the Kinetic Risc PC range which included a faster processor card with onboard memory.
2001 - Viewfinder Podule, AGP adapter allows the use of IBM P.C. clone AGP graphics cards (e.g. a range of ATI Rage and Radeon).
2003 - The cease of manufacturing RiscPC machines due to the release of the Iyonix
Risc PC 2
Acorn set about designing the Risc PC 2
, later renamed to Phoebe 2100 - a design with a 64 MHz front side bus, PCI
slots, and a yellow-coloured NLX form-factor
case. Slated for release in late 1998
, the project was abandoned just before completion, when Acorn's Workstation Division was closed. Only two prototypes were ever built, and were shown at the RISC OS 2001 show in Berkshire
, England; the remaining cases were sold off as collector's items, without the computer itself.
Risc PC today
Variants of the Risc PC design are still sold today , but Risc PCs have reached the end of their production cycle with the advent of RISC OS computers based around other ARM processors machines such as
Second-hand Risc PCs command very high prices relative to PCs of similar age and specifications . Significantly better performance has been pulled out of the aged Risc PC design by using the newer 203 (and later 236) MHz StrongARM CPU, using third-party video cards, overclocking, and having specially-designed CPU cards with RAM located upon them to sidestep the speed bottleneck of the slow system bus.
The front side bus
is usually recognised as being the most significant fault of the computer; and the arrival of the (five times faster) StrongARM
processor in 1996
meant that the Risc PC had a CPU
vastly faster than that for which the computer had been designed. Acorn had originally expected ARM CPUs to progress from the 30 MHz ARM6 to the 40 MHz ARM7, and then onto the ARM8 cores, which at the time were clocked at around 50-80 MHz. In 2000, Castle released "Kinetic", a new StrongARM processor board with its own onboard memory slots augmenting main memory, reducing the need to negotiate the slow front side bus for memory accesses. | <urn:uuid:d4393b49-71f0-46a7-bfdc-b0a43172342b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.reference.com/browse/Risc+PC | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928671 | 1,105 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Q: Does fish oil help blepharitis?
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A: As we all know, glaucoma is the most common problem when the people are getting old. And glaucoma is caused by damage to the optic nerve because of the high pressure in the eyes. The fish oil can reduce the damage so the fish oil can help us with the glaucoma. Also, some experts say that having a diet high in antioxidants and omega-3 fatty acids can help us to reduce the glaucoma, and the fish oil a a wonderful source of omega-3 fatty acids. All in all, the fish oil is very good for those who have the glaucoma. Of course, here and now, as a friend, I want to tell you something else that are helpful for the glaucoma, such as eating more fish, especially the fish with much omega-3 fatty acids. Really hope you are a lucky dog so that your eyes can get better and better with the help from fish oil. Learn more answers. | <urn:uuid:e2bf143f-0ffd-41e8-a6a3-ad7f7783f83c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.contactlenseshome.com/tag/eye-problems | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953386 | 606 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Halloween is a pretty strange holiday. Forget the candy, costumes and pagan history. October 31st stands out because of its consistent presence, yet changing significance through every stage of our lives.
When we were children, Halloween was a time to go all-out. We trick-or-treated with our neighborhood friends until dark, sometimes taking more than our fair share at each house. Our parents would warn us not to eat the candy corn or other non-wrapped treats, and to watch out for chocolate-covered razor blades. Then we would go home to sort our loot by size, shape and color, and trade with our friends or siblings. Not much later, we would get sick from eating too much sugar, and roll into bed.
At a certain point, many of us became a little too self-conscious to dress up and go trick-or-treating, so we just stayed home and bitterly passed out candy with our parents.
In many respects, college is a return to the glory days. We still dress up, and some of us still overindulge (although maybe not in candy).
Halloween at Carleton is a time for us to be ourselves. We can run around and act like kids, while knowing that we are in a safe and accepting environment. There is no stigma, or reason to be self-conscious about putting yourself out there and celebrating. We should keep these things in mind as we get ready to celebrate one of Carleton’s most fun traditions – the Halloween Concert and Costume Contest.
What Halloween will be like once we leave Carleton, we have yet to find out. In the meantime, if you’re looking for inspiration for this year’s costume contest, see below for a retrospective of the editors’ childhood (and college) costume choices. | <urn:uuid:472f02da-daf2-4bea-9005-44d0516bd41d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://apps.carleton.edu/carletonian/?story_id=788105§ion_id=568791&issue_id=788041 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966024 | 373 | 1.953125 | 2 |
As politicians struggle to patch up the nation's ailing financial system, credit – the grease that keeps the global economic machine running – has been drying up to a dangerous extent.
Over the past two weeks, many banks have ceased lending money to one another – or to corporate clients that need loans to cover their cash flow.
The situation resembles the traffic backup after a massive freeway accident, Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, told reporters yesterday, relaying an analogy he got from Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M.
“And on those cars and trucks,” Gregg said, “were the loans for students, were the payrolls for people working their job, were the ability to buy a house through borrowing money, were the credit-card account lending levels so people could go into a store and buy things, were the ability, basically, to go to the ATM.”
If the situation continues much longer, the outcome could be disastrous, touching off a chain reaction that could strangle businesses, push people out of work and lead to a severe recession, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said.
It was paralysis in the credit market that prompted the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve to propose a $700 billion plan to take over mortgage-backed assets.
Gregg says the bailout plan is akin to sending in a tow truck to buy the wrecked cars, pull them off the road and sell them at a later date, “hopefully for more than we paid for them.”
How did this credit crunch happen? How dire is it? And how could a squeeze in lending between banks on Wall Street evolve into a recession – or worse – in the broader economy?
The heart of the crisis lies in the interbank lending network, which allows banks to borrow from each other to guard against fluctuations in cash flow.
“On any given day, banks are borrowing money,” said John Eggemeyer, president of Castle Creek Capital, a private equity firm in Rancho Santa Fe. “Your inflows and outflows of cash never match up; the money you loan is sometimes in excess of the money that's coming in. So you need to balance that off by borrowing money yourself.”
Similarly, corporations rely on “commercial paper” to help make up for similar fluctuations. They essentially print IOUs and sell them in the interbank market, where the loans between banks also take place.
That system has fallen into a shambles because of the U.S. mortgage crisis.
Hundreds of billions of dollars in the interbank system are instruments tied to mortgage-backed securities, which have plummeted in value. Because of the faulty way in which Wall Street packaged those securities, it is impossible to know how much they are worth.
The recent flood of mortgage defaults and home foreclosures has stripped the securities of much of their value, leading to the downfall of such lending giants as Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual. And that, in turn, has led to worldwide anxiety about the safety of the entire financial system, putting a chokehold on commercial paper and interbank loans.
“That can lead to a real domino effect that starts feeding on itself,” said David Ely, a finance specialist at San Diego State University.
If banks can't borrow from one another, it becomes harder for them to lend money. Companies that can't raise money through loans or commercial paper might have to scale back operations by cutting workers or freezing wages.
The laid-off or threatened workers spend less money buying goods or services, meaning lower sales for businesses. And that, in turn, means some businesses could slim down their operations even further, cutting more jobs.
Some economists warn that a continuing clampdown on credit could have dire effects on the economy. Bernanke said last week that the nation faces its most serious economic and financial crisis since World War II.
Most economists doubt that things will get as bad as the Great Depression, because reforms made then continue to provide a buffer against a full-blown economic collapse. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., for instance, guarantees bank deposits and, as of this month, money-market funds, which blunts the economic impact of bank failures.
Instead of going back to the 1930s, therefore, some economists say the nation is likelier to return to the 1970s: a period of tight credit, deep recession, failing businesses, and high interest rates, inflation and unemployment.
In areas such as San Diego County, which has been hit hard by the bursting of the bubble in home prices, credit is already getting tighter. The days of the no-down-payment, interest-only adjustable-rate mortgages or “zero interest, zero credit history” auto loans are largely gone.
Lenders are increasingly asking would-be collegians to get cosigners for their student loans. And credit card issuers have sharply cut back on telemarketing calls, direct mailings and TV commercials offering cheap and easy credit.
Arguably, the tighter credit reflects a return to rationality in a marketplace that went off the tracks during the early half of this decade. Many healthy banks and credit unions are still making loans to worthy customers.
“Even with all the talk about doom and gloom out there, things are getting done,” said Tom Wornham, Wells Fargo's regional manager of wholesale banking in San Diego.
Wornham, who arranges loans for companies that have revenue of up to $1 billion, said his current lending pipeline is “the most robust I've seen in a decade,” partly because he's picking up business from rivals that have gone out of business or are on the ropes.
Even in the default-plagued housing market, lenders continue to write mortgages.
“If you have good credit, a good job and you're willing to make a 20 percent down payment, you can still get a loan,” said David McDonald, president of the local chapter of the California Association of Mortgage Brokers.
But McDonald stresses that lenders are much more conservative than they used to be. “The credit scores the lenders ask for keep increasing,” he said. “One day they ask for a score of 620; the next it's 680.”
What will happen if the credit system remains clogged?
Interest rates will shoot up as the price of lending gets more expensive. That will push mortgage defaults upward. The rising cost of lending will also push inflation higher. And credit-starved companies may cut back operations.
“If Congress doesn't act, more people lose their jobs, more 401(k)s decline, the crisis keeps moving into the consumer level and all bets are off,” SDSU economist Ely said.
But the proposed bailout will not eliminate all those problems. Even before the credit freeze, real estate analysts projected that the current wave of foreclosures would continue through much of next year as interest payments on adjustable-rate mortgages rise.
A costly bailout could push interest rates and inflation even higher, thanks to the flood of Treasury bills that will be necessary to fund the intervention.
But Bill Watkins, an economist at the University of California Santa Barbara, said that it's in politicians' best interests to make sure that the proposed bailout works.
“Nobody wants to be the guy that goes down in history as the Herbert Hoover of the 21st century,” Watkins said, referring to the president who presided over the beginning of the Great Depression.
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Sled-dog Slaughter Hits Aboriginal Community Hard
The slaughter of 100 sled dogs in British Columbia after last year’s Olympic Games is causing outrage and has sparked an investigation, but for aboriginal groups the deed is especially painful. They have long held close relationships with the dogs that literally pull them through the winter.
“It was just sickening to hear about this,” said Louis De Jaeger, a member of the Chilliwack Métis Association, and a Siberian husky dog owner, to The Progress, a local newspaper. “We run for exercise and for fun.”
In a letter to the Chilliwack Times he wrote, “Dogsledding has been a part of Canadian culture for hundreds of years, a part of my Métis aboriginal heritage. These animals deserve the same respect they show us, and the culling comes post-2010 Olympics that featured all of the aboriginal peoples of Canada. This is an insult to a long-celebrated aboriginal tradition, a Canadian tradition.”
Meanwhile authorities and even the owner of the company, Outdoor Adventures at Whistler, were still trying to determine exactly what had happened. The cull, which took place in April 2010, became public in late January after the employee who executed the dogs sought treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.
“We … have been working to piece together the facts so that I, and the rest of the world, can understand what actually happened surrounding the events of April 2010,” wrote Joey Houssian, president and owner of Outdoor Adventures at Whistler Ltd., the parent company of Howling Dog Tours Whistler Inc., whose employee shot and bludgeoned the dogs.
“Our understanding was that some old and sick dogs needed to be put down. Additionally, a number of healthy dogs were successfully adopted and given new homes throughout Canada,” he wrote in a letter to the Vancouver Sun on February 7. “I want to emphasize that the decision to euthanize dogs was not the result of a slowdown in business after the Olympics.” | <urn:uuid:e1938ea3-77cd-41bc-bf0f-108e2418436e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/article/sled-dog-slaughter-hits-aboriginal-community-hard-16303 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97482 | 433 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Why Is a Baker's Dozen 13?
January 10, 2013 - 4:50pm
The next time you get the gift of an extra doughnut added to your dozen, thank crooked 13th-century bakers for the bonus treat. In the 1260s, British breadmakers were notorious for shorting customers with skimpy loaves. King Henry III was so irked by the problem that he implemented a new law to standardize the weight of a loaf—selling puny loaves could result in beatings or jail time. Since bakers wanted to stay on the right side of the law, one common trick was to give 13 loaves to any customer buying a dozen. Even if the loaves were light, the extra would cover the shortfall. It was an easy fix for bakers, and since low-carb diets were still seven centuries away, customers rejoiced. | <urn:uuid:7786c8be-8674-4d5a-9dc7-1501dd46c874> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mentalfloss.com/article/32259/why-bakers-dozen-13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981138 | 180 | 3.578125 | 4 |
Even professional writers are prone to infrequent accidental plagiarism. But in the world of novels, newspapers, and college exams, there are rules about bootlegging others’ work that are well-established – most everyone agrees on what behaviors are unacceptable and what the consequences are. In bantamweight publishing, however, the rules are not so clear.
In order for the British Army to raise more units during the First World War, it created battalions of otherwise healthy men with lowered minimum height requirements. In this way, short, powerful miners and similarly swarthy individuals were able to contribute to the war effort. These soldiers were called bantams (a term now heard most commonly in boxing, bantamweight). Similarly, in a Web 2.0 environment, the short powerful bursts of searchable, findable, and sharable data emitted from personal electronic devices are a form of bantamweight publishing in which persons outside the regulated publishing industry can contribute to the information sharing effort.
Bantamweight publishing comes in many forms. Twitter is certainly in this category, but there are a steadily increasing number of ways to share small bits of information with the world. From updating your Facebook Wall to Yammering inside your enterprise to updating your LinkedIn status to commenting on people’s BrightKite locations, everyone is doing it. But in an easily plagiarized world, who owns your sentences once you publish them? It’s not really clear. And in a murky environment where someone might get a macropublishing book deal by popularizing someone else’s creative hashtag, bantamweight publishing runs the risk of serious future problems.
Oh, bantamweight publishing has its customs. Self-policing crowds ensure that most people who lift someone else’s excellent quote or funny picture or news link give credit to the originator using the “retweet” (RT) convention followed by a username. But there is little downside to cheating relative to being expelled from college or fired from your newspaper. As is well known in animal behavior circles, it can be temporarily advantageous for cheaters to infiltrate a system like this.
To be sure, quoting someone’s original haiku verbatim and making it appear as if it were your own is an infraction of bantamweight publishing customs. But what if someone tweets an Abraham Lincoln quotation – must the re-tweeter cite the originator? The custom seems less pressing in this case, mainly because of a lack of intent to deceive and arguable “fair use” of a well-known statement by a famous person. One can imagine altruistic plagiarism as well, where people repeat memes to raise money for charity, or virally make people aware of an immediate Amber alert. Further, who could fault someone for copying information about a charity onto their Facebook Wall without citing the originator? In the bantamweight publishing world, information sharing can easily supersede attribution. There are gradations of citations.
Bantamweight publishing is popular among those who feel brevity is a virtue. But when an entire work of art is bounded in 140 characters, even brevity has its limits. Sometimes, squeezing in a proper attribution through editing content can change the original meaning, when the edits unwillingly shift from cosmetic to substantive. And what happens when you run out of space when attempting to retweet someone who retweeted someone who tweeted an important quotation from the Washington Post? To a large degree, a work of bantamweight publishing is like a painting with an upper weight limit, where the novelty is the canvas and the attribution is the frame; most viewers would choose to appreciate the canvas without the frame if given the hard choice.
Another major difference between regular publishing and bantamweight publishing is the lack of research and editing standards. Sometimes people attribute flawed information properly. It is obvious that excellent curators of information like NYU professor Jay Rosen and publisher Tim O’Reilly are exceptions to the rule, based simply on the phenomena of Rick Rolling, #moonfruit, and celebrity death hoaxes. To many, bantamweight publishing is not an micro-investigatory piece to be researched, sourced, edited, and spread, but rather a form of enhanced social chatter and gossip spreading. And according to the rules of gossip, it doesn’t really matter where it comes from; gossip is fun.
Few would argue that the British bantam units were a bad idea, and likewise bantamweight publishing has many virtues. But there are also pitfalls to this in an easily plagiarized world, particularly when money comes into play. Who’s looking out for the intellectual property of a winning hashtag that becomes a book, or a stream of haikus that becomes a blog that companies advertise on? At some point, bantamweight publishing will no longer be a lawless frontier territory; what will it look like next? | <urn:uuid:41856319-9b34-4d73-a4bc-7403a79b82a1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://toc.oreilly.com/2009/07/bantamweight-publishing-in-an.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947813 | 997 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Waterloo Region Record
CAMBRIDGE — A stunning mural of the 158 Canadian soldiers who lost their lives in Afghanistan is gaining attention overseas.
Portraits of Honour and its artist, Dave Sopha of Cambridge, have been invited to the Juno Beach Centre museum in France this spring — but the original artwork is at risk of staying behind.
That’s because Sopha and Kin Canada, a service organization that hosts the 10-foot by 50-foot mural at its offices in Cambridge, have yet to secure enough funds to cover the cost of insuring and shipping the artwork to France.
“I find it hard to ask (for funds) from anybody,” Sopha admitted, but said there may be a few corporate sponsors willing to help.
“Anybody I can get on my side to help will be graciously appreciated.”
Sopha is already planning to keep his trip brief because of finances and personal commitments. Although invited to stay 158 days, he will only stay for about a month through April.
The artist said he has received a great deal of community support by raising funds at a recent dinner gala and silent auction, he said.
But about $30,000 is still needed for the mural to be shipped.
Drawing attention to the artwork, Kin Canada invited Defence Minister Peter MacKay to its headquarters Saturday.
“This portrait really belongs to the whole country and it has seen with Dave so much of the country,” said MacKay who previously met with Sopha and studied the mural while it was on its cross-Canada tour in 2011.
“This is a very living, vibrant tribute to the men and women who wear the uniform today but also I think it’s symbolic of generations of service in Canada,” he said.
While MacKay discussed his support for the idea of touring the mural abroad — and particularly the potential of taking it to Afghanistan — he did not specify if government funding would back such initiatives.
“I think it would be appropriate and very significant to have this portrait go to Afghanistan and I’m going to explore that further with Dave,” he said.
Sopha said he is also planning another cross-country tour in 2014 when the rest of the troops currently in Afghanistan come home.
A travelling museum featuring the accomplishments of Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan would accompany the mural in the tour.
Photos of schools that are accessible to girls, dams that improve communities’ water supplies and new hospitals which were developed with the support of Canadian troops would be included with the museum, Sopha said.
And among these plans, the initial painting that has taken Sopha thousands of hours and countless dollars to create still has more work in store.
Once the remaining troops return in 2014, Sopha intends to add portraits of Calgary Herald reporter Michelle Lang and Canadian diplomat Glyn Berry who were killed while working in Afghanistan.
“I believe they were doing a job in Afghanistan for the Canadian people and they should be honoured,” he said.
The remaining touches of angle wings framing the sides of the mural are also ongoing.
Despite the long-term personal investment the painting has required, Sopha remains dedicated to its completion. More importantly, he hopes it can continue to be a tool to teach the public about the importance of honouring Canadian veterans.
“My biggest goal is to keep the awareness for our military,” he said. “The fact that they’re over there doing a job for Canadians and doing a job right, I think we should be very proud of our military.”
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MUNCY - Mother's Day isn't the only occasion to wear a hat. Once considered a status symbol in a woman's wardrobe, hats have now become less of the norm compared to the 16th century's emergence of haberdashers. This was the term used before millinery, the art of hat making became the official term. A hat is the most notable piece of fashion that anyone can wear.
It wasn't until the 17th century when women's headgear was no longer influenced by men's hat fashions. A maker of women's hats became known as a milliner because many of the embellishments used such as satin ribbons and unusual straws were imported from Milan in northern Italy. 'Millaners' were those who would bring back the popular items used for making hats.
Many of the residents, both men and women, at the Muncy Skilled Nursing Unit were able to enjoy a hat show presented by Barb Schmouder who claims to have over 500 hats in her collection. "This time I brought spring hats for the residents to wear," she said while pulling out several distinguished hat boxes. Many of the ladies could identify with the Brozman's hat box and some of the more delicate hats that were shown. Schmouder pulled out several custom head pieces made from many styles and periods of history. In the 18th Century the ladies would wear these beautiful black small riding hats with emu feathers while riding side saddle on a horse she told the audience.
Agnes Bower and Doris Flogg from the Muncy Valley Skilled Nursing Unit model spring hats from the collection of Barb Schmouder.
Agnes Bower, who is going to be 101 on May 19 said she remembers going to Brozman's in downtown Williamsport where the elevator would take her to the hats on the second floor.
Schmouder also showed some designer hats, particularly one from Lily Dache, a well known French fashion designer who started at the age of 15. She was the most famous milliner in the United States during her time in the 40's according to Schmouder. "By hand she would make one-of-a-kind creations from satin and chiffon using original ribbons and beaded netting." Schmouder held up her most expensive hat from her collection. "This was quite costly," she revealed. Her oldest hat dates back to the 1800's, and it is a true riding hat.
There were raffia straw hats, some made from onion skins, pressed and cut into strips. There were garden hats such as those worn by Scarlet O'Hara, and there were touring hats made with chicken and turkey feathers, adorned with draping organdy and tulle. Many hats were embellished with flowers, using lots of them from rosebuds to lilies of the valley. Summer weddings were popular for these types of hats worn in the 50's. Schmouder held up a hat with crinoline and blue velvet ribbons, and explained that many of the hats had frames on the inside to keep its shape.
She displayed a woven hat adorned with large black and pink flowers that activity aide, Bonnie Snyder from Muncy wore for the residents. By the time she was finished with her show, every member present was wearing a hat, including the men and the volunteers.
Today hats can be considered a form of art. "I want to show you my show stopper hat," Schmouder said while pulling out an exquisite dainty headdress made from real chicken feathers. "I replaced the broken feathers with some I got at the Hughesville fair," she said. "I like to wear this hat just so I can provoke my husband."
Since 1995 Barb Schmouder who resides in the Jersey Shore area has collected hats. She enjoys taking her hats all over the area to assisted living centers and putting on a hat show for the residents. Schmouder was formerly a nurse's aid working in the evenings when she would bring in her hats for patients to admire and wear. "This would always cheer them up, and we would have fun with them," she added.
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Over 3,000 students attended the Libraries’ instructional sessions for freshman students enrolled in English 101 classes over the past several weeks. In total, 160 sessions were held and students were taught fundamental research skills and to effectively use library resources to locate scholarly information.
The sessions provided a brief introduction to the characteristics of databases and database search techniques. This was followed by students working independently to conduct research for their projects as library instructors offered individual guidance.
View the November issue online.
- Partnership between Libraries and Drexel Smart House helps students develop information Literacy Skills.
- Succeeding at Group Work, with help from the Libraries
Libraries Teach Skills for Lifelong Learning to Over 3,000 Undergraduates through English 101 Instructional Sessions
By: Jenny James Lee
In the past month, Libraries staff conducted around 160 sessions for new Drexel students in English 101 classes, reaching well over 3,000 undergraduates, and introducing each to methods and tools of library research.
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There is a brilliant article written by Eric Klinenberg in The New Yorker, Dept of Urban Planning, about „adaptation“; a wonderful example that the climate debate indeed moves forward and is not only deadlocked in the fruitless discussion between alarmists and skeptics or the incestuos climate science / climate politics relationship. Unfortunately, the article is behind a pay wall. I will try to sum up those arguments which really impressed me most; I’ll do so mostly from memory and in form of my own thoughts; I can only hope that you get access to The New Yorker and read this elegant piece of climate expertise on your own!
Climate change and the need to adapt to its effects is a global problem which materializes locally. The article connects the global with the local in taking the Second Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam, 2005, as a center point – with “The Flood” as its topic – and links it in various steps to the events surrounding “Sandy”, the recent storm that devastated parts of the New York coastline.
One level of comparison is national cultures: The main building of the exhibition in Rotterdam floats on water; the electrical infrastructures in Rotterdam are subterranean and thus not affected in case of flooding; they have the fastest and best WLAN and cellphone network which also works in case of catastrophe. You get the idea: in New York during Sandy, cellphones didn’t work anymore, the electric system (open, above ground) broke down, and houses were not flood proof etc. And while the Dutch are prepared to live with flooding, the US American strategy traditionally is about evacuation. But according to the author, the Obama administration did already a lot to strengthen FEMA (after its failure during Katrina) and to change its strategies for more effective adaptation measures.
As a link from technological to social infrastructure, Eric Klinenberg introduces insights from the heat wave of Chicago in the nineties. The Chicago heat wave has been object of several social studies. In two adjacent quarters of the city – both poor – there were totally different outcomes; in one part, there was a high death rate, in the other a low one. The difference was in the existence / non-existence of sidewalks, for example: in the parts with sidewalks, there were shops, cafes, public life – people know each other, have an active neighborhood and take care of each other in cases of emergency; in the other part, people lived isolated, there were many old people no one took care of (or even knew of their existence), and there was no no public sphere.
“When I visited Rockaway Beach in mid-November, residents complained about the slow pace of recovery. The power was out. The gas was off. Phone service was spotty. Trains weren’t running. Sewage water from the flooding covered the streets. Still, there were some bright spots. The Rockaway Beach Surf Club, which opened in March, in a converted auto-repair shop beneath the El on Beach Eighty-seventh Street, transformed itself into a temporary relief agency when two of its founders returned after the storm, posted Facebook updates inviting friends to join them, and watched more than five thousand volunteers come to help. It became the community organization, providing food, cleaning supplies, camaderie, and manual labor for nearby residents. The surf club’s neighbors, including blue-collar families and poor African-Americans who, months before, had worried about how the club would fit into the community, joined in and benefitted from the organization.”
New forms of such “adaptive” neighborhoods do not come into existence by command from above or by order:
“What’s actually happening on the ground is not under an incident command system”, (Michael McDonald from Global Health Initiatives tells the reporter) “It’s the fragile, agile networks that make a difference in situations like these. It’s the horizontal relationships like the ones we’re building on the ground, not the hierarchical institutions. We’re here to unify the effort”.
And the geophysicist Klaus Jacobs, who leads the author through the history of New York’s adaptation measures, makes the necessary link to politics, who are either productive for adaptation or not:
“We were making some progress on climate-change adaptation in the late nineteen-nineties. (…) But September 11th set us back a decade on extreme weather-hazards, because we started focusing on a complete different set of threats.”
And Eric Klinenberg concludes:
“It’s a cause of regret that we’re not responding to the challenges of climate change with the same resources we’ve devoted to the war on terror. As long as the threat from global warming seemed remote and abstract, it was easier to ignore. Now climate change is coming to mean something specific, and scary (…) ‘We just can’t rebuild after every disaster’ (Jacob says). We need to pro-build, with a future of climate change in mind.”
This is what impressed me most in this brilliantly written article: the author acknowledges neighborhood activities and social movements as much as city planning and national activities; this means a necessary shift from the government- and planning- fixation of climate research (be it natural or social sciences) to a more ethnographic and "on the ground" centered approach. Furthermore, the author brings the abstract term of adaptation “into the world” in tracing carefully the connections between a global phenomenon and the adaptive measures necessary on different levels. Something students and scholars of climate change can learn from this excellent piece of journalism, I guess. (And yes, it is possible to write well about climate change!). | <urn:uuid:fe06782f-53f7-49cf-a850-422bb4c1be7b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://klimazwiebel.blogspot.com/2013/01/re-thinking-adaptation-after-sandy.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958028 | 1,203 | 2.234375 | 2 |
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Molluscum contagiosum (mo-LUS-kum kun-tay-jee-OH-sum) is a relatively common viral infection of the skin that results in round, firm, painless bumps ranging in size from a pinhead to a pencil eraser. If the bumps are scratched or injured, the infection can spread to surrounding skin.
Though most common in children, molluscum contagiosum can affect adults as well — particularly those with weakened immune systems. In adults, molluscum contagiosum involving the genitals is considered a sexually transmitted infection (STI).
Molluscum contagiosum spreads through direct person-to-person contact and through contact with contaminated objects. The bumps associated with molluscum contagiosum usually disappear within a year without treatment but doctor-assisted removal is also an option.
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The FDA has drafted new regulatory guidelines that would increase barriers for supplement manufacturers,and re-classifies all supplements used since 1994 (perfect safety records notwithstanding) as “new”and inherently unsafe”–banning them until they receive re-approval.
The FDA needs be convinced to label GE foods,but they are moving hard against natural supplemental medicine. This seems to be a consequence of pharmaceutical and agribusiness lobbies overly involved in our federal regulatory oversight policy.
The Alliance for Natural Health is a consumer-based non-profit,whose mission is to ensure your right to choose the healthcare approaches that are best for you and your family –healthcare that is holistic,natural,integrative,sustainable,and preventive.
Your comment will go to Sens. Murray and Cantwell,Rep Rick Larsen,and the FDA.
Here’s an excerpt from the closing paragraphs of the sample comment,which is worth reading in its entirety for better explanation of the deep concerns raised by the FDA draft guidance:(Use this link to reach the comments page and take a couple of minutes to help protect your supplement access)
“The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 states that “the Federal Government should not take any actions to impose unreasonable regulatory barriers limiting or slowing the flow of safe products and accurate information to consumers.”It says that Congress finds that “dietary supplements are safe within a broad range of intake,and safety problems with the supplements are relatively rare.”And it says that “legislative action that protects the right of access of consumers to safe dietary supplements is necessary in order to promote wellness.”
The guidance may also have far-reaching consequences. For example,if Sen. Durbin’s dangerous Dietary Supplement Labeling Act goes forward,with the list of “safe”supplements and doses which FDA and IOM would draw up under the bill —such as vitamin D in amounts greater than 4000 IU —it would mean that more therapeutic doses or supplement preparations could never meet the new NDI hurdle. This could have a profoundly negative impact on this nation’s health.
The FDA draft guidance does the exact opposite of what Congress intended. It imposes unreasonable barriers that limit and slow the flow of safe products and accurate information to consumers. I call upon Congress to uphold the landmark legislation it passed seventeen years ago. I request that the FDA carefully review the draft guidance,and unless amended to reflect DSHEA (and Congress’s) stated values and goals,I request that Congress hold hearings to review FDA’s behavior at the close of the draft review process. ”
Here’s what I wrote to kick off my comment:
As the Outreach Coordinator for a natural foods grocery store,I am strongly concerned about the direction our federal regulatory policy is going. Please get out of the pockets of pharmaceutical and agribusiness lobbies. You are vested with the responsibility to steer our food and health system responsibly. Please be human beings who care about other human beings.
We have developed a successful business model,based upon meeting a basic consumer need:informed choice,about food and supplements. In the words of one of my co-workers,“please. get more awesome soon. The people want to trust you.”
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The colonial rulers did indeed divide to rule, and they still do. That is why the media likes to project the predicament of Syria in sectarian terms.
America’s allies in the region, Turkey, Jordan, and the Gulf countries, mainly Saudi Arabia and Qatar, were mobilised. They armed and financed a group of militants. They infiltrated Syria from Jordan and Turkey not only to topple Assad’s regime but also to frighten the genuine and peaceful opposition off the streets. Contradicting their stand against Al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Americans has been financing and arming the organisation in Syria, Lebanon, Libya, and Egypt. They have also terrorised the minorities out of these countries so as the fragmentation of the Middle East becomes an accomplished fact.
Pakistan is as much affected by what happens in Syria, as Syria is in Pakistan. Supporting the writ of the Syrian government on its territories is also supporting our own sovereignty.
On the Eve of August 14, Dilip Hiro wrote in Yale Global: The Syrian imbroglio is a sectarian one, produced by a mix of age-old conflict between Sunnis and Shias, and an old imperialist policy of divide-and-rule. The 1947 partitioning of British India into India and Pakistan eased communal violence dramatically…. The Britain conceded a homeland for Indian Muslims….In Syria, a viable solution lies in partition. (http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/partition-solution-syria)
I disagree with Hiro.
I met my Pakistani husband in Syria, and in Pakistan I lost him. Syria linked our destinies. I fleeing the ravages of the Lebanese civil war and he escaping a despotic general that killed his father and oppressed his people. We both come from countries that were suffering the aftermath of partition, a colonial legacy.
There were no British casualties amongst the one-and-a-half million who died when the subcontinent was divided. All those killed and maimed were Indians. It looked more like the Indians had conceded to Britain rather than Britain conceding to the Indians, as Hiro asserts. Since then the two new nations have fought four wars, have two unresolved disputes over water shares and over Kashmir. They have built two nuclear arsenals that they have drawn at each other. I can hardly say this is the evidence of what Hiro whimsically calls eased violence.
One wonders if Hiro thought to ask the Baloch, Sindhis, Punjabis, Kashmiris, Bengalis, the people of Junnagadh and Hyderabad, the Biharis, if they felt independent since Partition. The 14th of August remains the day of Partition and not of Independence. The two words are not interchangeable. Partition is an example not to follow.
On the 14th of August we must observe decades of further subjugation. Only the rulers of the two nations have a reason to celebrate, because on that day the British had bestowed on them their separate fiefdoms. Under them the subcontinent drifted into a state of underdevelopment, injustice and inequality. As a consequence, today the governments of India and Pakistan have lost their writ over vast tracks of their lands.
The colonial rulers did indeed divide to rule, and they still do. That is why the media likes to project the predicament of Syria in sectarian terms. The people came to the streets in Syria like the rest of the Arab world seeking freedom and democracy. But the Arab Spring took the Americans and their allies by surprise. They never imagined that the oppressed, hungry and dispossessed people of Asia would rise against their oppressors. They supported and placed despotic rulers. They armed their police, to crush any local uprising.
Based on Prof Raymond Wheeler’s 1930s study of the effects of the weather cycles on human behaviour, American scientists blamed the uprising in the Middle East to the hot weather. To them Mohammad Bouazizi of Tunisia set himself on fire not because he was hungry but because of solar activities.
Two centuries ago, famines ravaged India during a period of recurring droughts. India’s wheat was dispatched to Manchester to feed the cheap labour of industrial England. Indians were so starved that they ate their dead and their babies. Imperial scientists like Norman Lockyer declared that black spots on the Sun’s surface, and not the free market, caused the Indian starvation. Nothing, it seems, has changed in imperial minds.
When the Egyptians went to the streets, the United States supported undemocratic Hosni Mubarak till the end. They changed tactics when the people’s demonstration persisted.
In October 2011, six months after the start of the Syrian uprising, the American ambassador to Syria, Robert Stephen Ford, was attacked with eggs, tomatoes, and pebbles as he provocatively visited an opposition lawyer in downtown Damascus. People spontaneously gathered around his vehicle and threw at him whatever was at hand. A women interviewed by the Lebanese channel Al-Jadeed said, “We don’t want his democracy because it has become a knife with which they are cutting our throats”.
Such displays of people power are not acceptable for Americans. The Arab revolutions had to be derailed. America’s allies in the region, Turkey, Jordan, and the Gulf countries, mainly Saudi Arabia and Qatar, were mobilised. They armed and financed a group of militants. They infiltrated Syria from Jordan and Turkey not only to topple Assad’s regime but also to frighten the genuine and peaceful opposition off the streets. Contradicting their stand against Al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Americans has been financing and arming the organisation in Syria, Lebanon, Libya, and Egypt. They have also terrorised the minorities out of these countries so as the fragmentation of the Middle East becomes an accomplished fact. Such fragmentation will divide the region into small sectarian and ethnic entities in perpetual strife. It will weaken the resistance of the Arabs against Israel, America’s thorn in the side of the Middle East.
The Americans cannot afford to have democratic regimes in the resource-rich developing countries. If the people are empowered the Americans and their economic institutions won’t be able to bully the rulers into signing on the dotted line of IMF and WTO agreements. Where will they get their cheap outsourcing from, their oil, their raw material, and their food?
I was in Lebanon in 2006 visiting my ailing father when Israel invaded, destroyed, and killed in the southern part of the country. Condoleezza Rice brazenly announced from Israel that the pains of Lebanon are the “birth pangs” of the new Middle East. Rice’s New Middle East is a greater Middle East that will stretch till Asia Minor. It also includes a New Pakistan, a smaller Pakistan. It is a quest to control the diminishing natural resources.
The destruction of Lebanon’s infrastructure incurred a death toll of more than a thousand civilian, 30 percent of which were children, the displacement of one quarter of the Lebanese population, a devastating oil spill that spread over a distance of 170 kilometres, the damage to two world heritages, Tyre and Byblos, and an economic loss of over $1.5 billion dollars. To Rice that was the beginning of a “creative destruction.” This war is known as the Israel-Hezbollah war in which an organic Lebanese organisation, Hezbollah, aborted the birth of the “new Middle East.” With support from their Syrian and Iranian neighbours, the Lebanese people were able to successfully resist the Israeli aggression. My father lived another day to watch his people accomplish what the armies of the Arabs could not in more than six decades of Arab Israeli conflict.
Pakistan is as much affected by what happens in Syria, as Syria is in Pakistan. Supporting the writ of the Syrian government on its territories is also supporting our own sovereignty. Today Pakistan and Syria are suffering aggression because their people have been denied the right to govern themselves since their independence. The popular leaders, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Hafiz al-Assad took the fight against imperial hegemony upon themselves. The people were indeed behind them. But history is loud and clear today that the fight against injustice is neither one man’s fight nor one nation’s, it is the fight of the whole human race. Give people freedom and they will defend it.
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Developing a Personal Style
Sooner or later, most photographers find that they are drawn to a particular subject, such as portraits, landscapes, travel photos, and so forth. As you take more and more photos, you will develop a personal style that will become increasingly apparent in your images. Although it is helpful to notice the styles of other photographers, it is not necessary to imitate them. Your own style will develop naturally. Don't force it. Just enjoy the process and you are bound to find your individual approach to digital photography.
Personal-style photos can be just about anything you want, including a sense of humor.
You can find millions of photos on the Internet. With image search engines, you can locate photographs of your favorite subject matter. For example, a quick search in Google images for football photos yielded more than 700,000 images. If you want to restrict your images to photographs, add the word “photographs” to your search. When viewing photos it helps to have a high-speed Internet connection. When you find an image you really like, bookmark it. Periodically go through this collection of images, study them carefully, and try to pinpoint what you find striking.
As millions or perhaps billions of images are put onto the Internet, search engines have evolved to help find particular subjects.
Google Image Search
Yahoo Image Search
MSN (choose image search)
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The study, “Small Scale Bioenergy Initiatives: Brief Description and Preliminary Lessons on Livelihood Impacts from Case Studies in Latin America, Asia and Africa,” covers 15 different “start-up” bioenergy projects from 12 countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia involving a diverse array of technologies.
“The furious debate around bioenergy has largely concerned liquid fuels used for transport,” said Oliver Dubois, a bioenergy expert in FAO’s Natural Resources Department.
“Yet more than 80 percent of bioenergy usage in the world involves other sources, mainly wood, which are used for basic household cooking and heating in poor areas of the world.”
Concern over the impact these transportation biofuels will have on the environment, water resources and food security has obscured many of the positive benefits for poor rural people.
The study shows quite clearly that there are a number of huge possible benefits of using new technologies for biomass-based rural energy, some very basic, others more sophisticated.
Biofuel benefits for poor
Some of the possible benefits of bioenergy highlighted in the study include:
-an increase in natural resource efficiency as energy can be created from waste that would otherwise be burnt or left to rot is put to use
-the creation of useful by-products such as affordable fertilizer from biogas production
-the possibility of simultaneously producing food and fuel through intercropping
-the creation of new financial capital with growth cycles by making use of marginal land
“In all the cases covered, even those that sold on bioenergy products to a wider market, the local community benefited from improved energy access both for domestic and business use,” said Dubois.
Saving local resources
“Virtuous cycles are shown to develop within communities where people have access to the energy services needed for development without money flowing out of communities for fossil fuels or local natural resources used up”.
The study also shows how the use of bioenergy has often played a role in partially insulating poor rural people from the vagaries of the fossil fuel market used in times of an energy crisis, but then typically abandoned when the oil price drops.
In none of the cases studied did bioenergy production appear to jeopardise food security, either because the bioenergy is produced from crops not used for food or grown on very small plots or stretches of unused land.
Involving local people
“These initiatives have adequately involved local people in decisions on the bioenergy schemes, so if food security did suffer as a result they would have done something about it,” said Dubois.
Although bioenergy initiatives face implementation challenges, these challenges are similar to those of other production activities in rural areas such as technological constraints and lack of investment capital, the study found.
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- A research consortia comprised of top domestic automakers is pushing development of lithium ion battery technology for hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs) with a focus on improving battery power in low temperatures, and it is counting on a prominent Milwaukee company to provide the right chemistry.
The U.S. Advanced Battery Consortium
, a developer of electrochemical energy storage technologies operating under the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership
of the U.S. Council for Automotive Research
, awarded a 24-month contract to a joint venture run by Johnson Controls
The contract, the dollar value of which was undisclosed, represents the culmination of development work begun with twin 2004 USABC contracts to both companies. The Johnson Controls-Saft advanced power solutions venture, formed in January, combines development teams within existing locations to develop state-of-the-art manufacturing sites based on market demand.
Current generation HEVs rely on nickel-metal-hydride batteries. Within the next several years, industry leaders predict, lithium ion batteries are likely to become the preferred choice due to their advantages in size, weight, and power-storage capacity.
"The project reinforces our commitment to creating advanced-chemistry battery systems for tomorrow's HEVs, and delivering sustained market and technology leadership," said Alan Mumby, vice president and general manager of Johnson Controls' hybrid battery business and leader of the joint venture. "Our priorities are to work on cell performance, systems development, and cost reduction for lithium-ion technology."
All batteries are designed to operate at ambient temperature, or the prevailing environmental conditions, and will lose power and capacity as temperature decreases, explained Karen Bauer, strategic planning director for Johnson Controls.
Li-Ion batteries are not unique in this regard, Bauer said.
To improve battery performance, JCS scientists will optimize cell chemistry to accommodate a two-pronged technical challenge: ensuring that power and capacity loss return to normal levels as temperatures increase and reducing the impact of cold temperature operation on battery life.
To be clear, the challenge is really around extreme cold - something like -25 Celsius - not just Wisconsin winter cold, Bauer added.
To achieve battery system cost reduction, JCS will focus on materials optimization, manufacturing efficiencies, and scale. The advanced battery hybrid systems team, located at Johnson Controls' headquarters in Milwaukee, will direct the technology development program. Cell development efforts will be supported by joint facilities in the United States and Europe.
USABC will reimburse JCS for 50 percent of all expenses incurred to execute the contract. While USABC is the contracting agency, the monies to pay USABC's cost share are provided by the U.S. Department of Energy.Interconnected players
USCAR is an umbrella organization formed by DaimlerChrysler
, and General Motors
to strengthen the technology base of the domestic auto industry through cooperative research in partnership with government agencies such as the U.S. Department of Energy
FreedomCAR is an industry-government research initiative focused on collaborative research in freeing the nation's personal transportation system from petroleum dependence.
Johnson Controls is a building efficiency and power solutions company with approximately 136,000 employees in more than 1,000 locations worldwide.
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South River, NJ - Kayakers paddle past a utility truck along Elizabeth Street in South River, N.J., on Oct. 29 in the hours before the landfall of Hurricane Sandy. / Jason Towlen. Home News Tribune
The brutal force and enormous breadth of superstorm Sandy may leave as many as 10 million people in the dark from West Virginia to Maine and even as far west as Chicago.
Sandy knocked out power to at least 3.1 million people, and New York's main utility said large sections of Manhattan were plunged into darkness.
Thousands of residents along the East Coast experienced power outages, but utility workers were rushing to restore electricity to many before expected wind gusts started slamming the region Monday.
More than 10,000 Dominion customers in Virginia and North Carolina were without power by Monday afternoon. About 53,000 had lost power since Saturday, but most got it back, said David Botkins, director of media relations.
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"We're actively responding to outages as they occur," he said. "We have to be very careful about putting people in harm's way, but so far we've been able to work through it."
The worst is yet to come, and utility companies have been preparing for outages of historic magnitude. Thousands of line workers and support crews are on their way from as far as California and Texas, and many already are in staging areas prepared to respond.
The 2003 Northeast blackout spread through eight states and affected more than 50 million people but was not caused by a storm and did not involve downed power lines, broken trees and flooding. It lasted less than 24 hours for most people. Sandy's impact is expected to linger for days.
Using a computer model, a Johns Hopkins University engineer predicts that 3 million will lose power in New Jersey alone.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) reported that some nuclear power reactors in Sandy's projected path had been closed for maintenance and others may be required to close. The agency dispatched inspectors to each facility ahead of the storm to make sure proper preparations and procedures were in place to assure safety.
Federal rules require that nuclear plants be shut down before any projected hurricane-force winds. Because reactors continue to generate potentially damaging heat well after fission has stopped, specially protected backup generators are required to ensure that cooling systems can continue to operate if there is a flood or loss of power.
"All plants (in Sandy's path) have flood protection above the predicted storm surge," the NRC said in a statement, "and key components and systems are housed in watertight buildings capable of withstanding hurricane-force winds and flooding."
Pepco, which serves Washington, D.C., and its Maryland suburbs, earlier had asked utilities in other states to send about 3,000 people to pitch in. The company increased the request to 3,600.
Baltimore Gas and Electric has set up staging areas to accommodate 3,000 out-of-state workers coming from as far as New Mexico, Oklahoma and Louisiana. About 5,000 of its customers were without electricity as of midday Monday.
"It's changing by the quarter-hour," says Keith Voight, spokesman for the Edison Electric Institute, the association of shareholder-owned electric companies that generate 75% of the power in the USA. "Forecasters predicted it could become the worst storm to hit the East Coast in 100 years."
Power outages are expected to be the worst, too, affecting as many as 10 million. About 7 million were in the dark when Hurricane Irene hit last year and 5 million after a "derecho" storm took the Washington area by surprise in June."
Utilities have an all-hands-on-deck approach," Voight says.
Even Chicago - about 800 miles inland from the Atlantic Ocean - may feel Sandy's impact.
"We're actually preparing right now because we're expecting high winds and high waves on Lake Michigan," says John Schoen, spokesman for ComEd, which provides power to Chicago and its suburbs.
ComEd has sent 700 people to help sister utilities PECO Energy in Philadelphia and Baltimore Gas and Electric.
Contributing: Peter Eisler
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