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Gadgets that are charged (or help you charge other gadgets) from the energy of the Sun have been around for quite a while, but they often have two drawbacks: they're too large, too clunky or too ugly, or they simply don't provide enough power to charge your device of choice. Design doesn't matter too much when you're in the middle of a desert, but many potential users are inhabiting the urban jungle, and are merely looking for some more juice for their iPhone so they can keep Twittering and Facebooking a little while longer.
Lately, however, we've seen some solar-powered gear that, besides being useful when all other power sources are dry, also looks pretty good. Here's our choice of gadgets that'll help you keep that power hungry mobile phone and laptop operational in all situations.
The name really says it all. If there's one thing I keep forgetting to buy batteries for and/or charge, it's my Bluetooth headset, an essential gadget for those long, lonely drives. This one promises to have infinite standby time under sunlight, and it can also be charged via USB. When it comes to style, we agree: as far as Bluetooth handsets go, it doesn't look too shabby.
We admit it: we're picky about backpacks. You don't want to carry some unsightly chunk of plastic on your back, and Voltaic's solar-powered backpack passes that test with flying colors. Choose between one of four colors for the solar panel (we prefer black), and charge your gadgetry with its 4 watts of power. Another one to look at is the much stronger Voltaic Generator Solar Laptop Charger. It's worth mentioning that Zipcar currently has a promotion that shaves 25% off the price for Voltaic bags.
We've recently written about Surge, the officially recognized solar charger for the iPod Touch and the iPhone. It looks decent (it's available in colors other than green, check it out), it costs $70, and it helps you keep that iPhone juiced even when you're heavy on 3G/WiFi/GPS, which is nearly always in my case.
Some people have so many gadgets that they can't use a specific solar charger for each one of them. This is where SolarGorilla shines, as it comes with a 15 connectors pack that'll make sure you can connect it to nearly every mobile phone or laptop in existence. It outputs 500 mAh at 20V and 500 mAh at 5V, it's water resistant, and it's Macbook compatible, but it's not cheap: $239.85.
Solio is a universal charger with a futuristic look that opens up to reveal three solar panels, and works with a wide range of gadgets including mobile phones, MP3 players, cameras and the like. The manufacturer promises 25 minutes of additional talk time on most cell phones, or enough juice to keep that iPod running for an extra hour from one hour of charging in the sun. It offers a respectable 9 Watts of power, which is good enough for most gadgets, except laptops. Its compact design makes it a winner for travelers: simply throw it into your backpack and forget about it - until you need it, that is.
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I was recently faced with installing windows in a new house, all by myself. Here's how I did it, First I cut a couple of 2x4s about 8 in. longer than my widest window. Then I measured the distance that the windows projected from the house and cut four blocks equal to this distance plus 1/4 in. I screwed one block to the ends of each 2x4.
Working from the outside, I installed one of the vinyl windows and placed the 2x4s over it. I screwed the 2x4s to the wall on both sides of the window, as shown in the drawing. Now I was free to go inside and level the bottom of the window and center it in its opening with shims. The extra 1/4 in. allowed me to move the window without interference from the 2x4 crossbars. When the window was centered and level, I went back outside and nailed it in place, beginning with the bottom flange. Then I pulled out the crossbars and moved on to the next window.
Scott Bruce, Grand Blanc, MI
From Fine Homebuilding 85, pp. 32
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Originally Posted by Hoppy
CRI remains a bit mysterious to me. Recently I read that incandescent light gives a CRI of 100 - perfect. That was because the color rendering index is designed so that perfect color rendering is that of incandescent light. I doubt that anyone reading this wants an aquarium to look like it has incandescent bulbs lighting it.
My first tank, back in the 1950's had an incandescent light, which I quickly replaced with a DIY T12 fluorescent light. I was amazed by how much better it looked with the fluorescent light, even though T12 bulbs, all that were available then, were notorious for making people look like ghouls.
CRI is a complicate subject but worthy of aesthetic consideration. I feel the target light quality should bare a close semblance to *noon equator sunlight
. Most people would probably agree since most people choose a light source of 6500k.
With all the phosphors available for use, I wonder why lighting techs don't design a flourescent light source that has a better semblance to noon sunlight at the equator ? Thereby creating a light source with good PAR/PUR and good CRI. Perhaps it's just too costly for a small market.
Bulbs that have good CRI >90 are:
5500K ColorMaster Digital bulb
5600K video bulb
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In 2011 Casey head office reduced the amount of waste it sends to landfill to zero.
All the waste was split into three types: paper and cardboard, mixed recyclates, and material requiring further treatment. The waste that required further treatment was shredded and compacted and used as feedstock to power energy from waste plants.
This year, four wild peregrine chicks have hatched at our Buck Park site in Denholme, West Yorkshire.
A scheme was set up in 1997 to collect DNA from wild peregrines and, more recently, a tagging scheme has been introduced. Last week, Steve Downing with the Wildlife Crime Unit visited the site to tag the new chicks - three female and one male.
Rydings Road used to be a narrow cobbled lane following a stream to the Casey offices and industrial buildings and farms further up the hill.
Casey built a new access road and landscaped the area, providing a cobbled footpath, lakes and waterfalls. The area is now a beautiful green space for local people and wildlife.
This aspect of our environmental care programme is designed to encourage school children to look after their community.
We visit primary schools located close to our sites to organise litter picking events. This encourages school children to understand at an early age the importance of recycling and keeping the surrounding environment clean.
Encouragement to care for the environment is also demonstrated by our seasonal bulb planting schemes where primary school children are involved in planting daffodil and crocus bulbs in grass verges. This helps to teach them the environmental importance of such activites and gives them pride in their surroundings. | <urn:uuid:575114b6-0e38-4c91-9fb4-417c6d0e5a48> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.casey.co.uk/the-community/environmental-projects4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955368 | 331 | 2.625 | 3 |
In the Project Management domain, this concept is not so common. I've come to the conclusion that we're mission out on a critical success factor for increasing the probability of success from our efforts.
While participating in an Initial Visit between our client and the DCMA, the Six Sigma processes were described by the DCMA staff, which included DCAA for several parts of the 32 Criteria of ANSI-748-B and the 6 Business Systems needed for program success.
Here's an example of who to use the 5 Whys on your Project
We just got an invoice from Bob's House of Power Supplies, that we don't have a purchase order for. Bob claims he had verbal approval to build the power supplies on short notice and ship them Fed-X to the integrator.
- Why didn't we have the PO in place before Bob started work? - I needed then real fast and the PO process took too long
- Why didn't you come to purchasing and get a fast track PO? - I didn't know we had such a thing.
- Why didn't you make the call to find out options? - I didn't really know who to call at the time.
- Why didn't our purchasing process handbook inform you of these options? - I don't have a copy.
- Why are our engineering managers not trained on how to order material? - Where is the training and process surveillance processes needed to provide emergency procurements as well as standard procurements?
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Open enrollment is the period provided by your employer to make changes to your benefits. Most people use this time to review and update their coverage, and make decisions about benefits offered by their employers. Use the open enrollment period to think about your current insurance and investment strategies, and consider whether any changes need to be made. Here are five considerations not to forget.
Are you on the best health plan? Your employer probably offers you a few health plans to choose from. It can be tempting to select the plan that takes the least amount of money out of your paycheck. However, health insurance costs are rising, and you do not want to play catch-up when it is time to meet deductibles and pay for unexpected care. It might be worth it to pay a little more out of your paycheck for the plan that provides the most coverage for you and your family, especially since that money comes out of your salary before taxes.
Are you saving enough for retirement? If your company matches any 401K or 403b contributions that you make, try to save the maximum amount that they match. This is basically free money for you, over and above your salary. This is tax-free money that you are investing for retirement, and if your employer is matching what you contribute, you are already earning a return on that investment.
Are you using flexible spending benefits? Some employers will allow you to save money into a flexible spending account, either for healthcare, dependent care, or both. Take advantage of these programs if you have childcare expenses to pay, or out-of-pocket healthcare costs such as co-pays and medication purchases.
Do you have enough life insurance? Some companies provide life insurance for their employers, and others offer it as something they can elect to purchase. Most employer-sponsored plans will cost you less than other life insurance policies, so consider getting life insurance that will at least provide one year of your salary.
Is your short term disability covered? This is especially important if you are a woman who may be getting pregnant in the next year. Most maternity leave is paid for out of short term disability. Make sure you are covered for those temporary periods that you are unable to work. The cost is usually affordable. | <urn:uuid:75595eb8-9dad-4bbc-b0e5-7983f1be92be> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.financialhelpersnewsletter.com/five-things-to-consider-during-open-enrollment/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966308 | 449 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Naturally, if a student knows that he's going to specialize in some field, he probably ought to take the cases most relevant to that field. Of course the first year classes — usually contracts, property, torts, criminal law, civil procedure, and (generally) constitutional law — are mostly mandatory, for good reason. You'd want to take some skills classes, depending on which ones the school is good at, and which seem likely to be relevant to your future specialization. And in my view the more writing classes you can take, the better.
But what other second-/third-year classes are important in nearly all areas of the law, so that a student should think several times before skipping them? Here's my list:
Remedies (injunctions, damages, restitution, etc., for the non-lawyer readers who are still reading this post).
Business associations (called "corporations" in some schools, though in theory "business associations" also covers partnerships and some other forms of organization).
Evidence (even if you're not going to be a litigator, it's helpful to understand things such as privileges, and various other rules about admissibility).
Any class taught by a professor with a last name of Volokh; doesn't matter what the first name is. Oh, wait, that means we'd have to grade more exams . . . .
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Metro UI CSS: You can have a tiled website too
Microsoft’s new UI, once known by the name of Metro, has caused quite some buzz in the tech world. Meanwhile the name has been dropped, which again caused quite a buzz in the tech world. We don´t know why this was done nor do we know if the next Windows will be a market success. What we know is, that Metro as a design style has its fans. If you are one of them, we have great news for you. Thanks to Metro UI CSS you can give your very own website the same tiled look, the interface of the next generation Windows will have. Go ahead!
Metro UI CSS is actively developed by Sergey Pimenov, who proves generous enough to leave the tool for us to use free of charge under the MIT license. Pimenov not only copied the typical Metro design, but also implemented a variety of effects from the original Microsoft product, for example the fade-in of subtitles on pictures or the switch buttons.
Metro UI CSS: A feature-rich framework
Get your own impression of what Metro UI CSS is capable of by visiting the demo. You’ll find several pages with examples of how pictures, forms, buttons and the typical tiles, bound to substitute the former Windows icons, look and interact.
Ever seen Metro on a tablet? On these devices, Microsoft implemented vertical scrolling as the standard scroll direction. That’s just the way Pimenov implemented it in Metro UI CSS. Using a touch-device you can elegantly scroll through your website. You’re not forced to, though, as mouse scrolling is also supported.
If you like to learn along the guidelines of a thorough documentation, Metro UI CSS is not for you. Because there simply is no documentation. The demo can be downloaded, that’s it. But it contains all elements for which the Metro style is available and thus should be a good starting point for the first steps to your very own tiled website. Several effects are invoked simply by calling the corresponding classes. You can easily find out by sneaking through the source code. Metro UI CSS needs a modern browser. Microsoft’s own Internet Exploder is supported from version 9 onwards.
About the Author
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Sep. 27, 2008 Astronomers may have discovered the relative of a freakishly behaving exploding star once thought to be the only one of its kind. For more than two decades, astronomers have intensively studied supernova 1987A, an exploding star that had behaved like no other. Instead of growing dimmer with time, 1987A has grown brighter at X-ray and radio wavelengths.
The supernova, called SN 1996cr, was first singled out in 2001 by Franz Bauer. Bauer noticed a bright, variable source in the Circinus spiral galaxy, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. Although the source displayed some exceptional properties Bauer and his Penn State colleagues could not identify its nature confidently at the time.
It was not until years later that Bauer and his team were able to confirm that this object was a supernova. Clues from a spectrum obtained by ESO’s Very Large Telescope led the team to start the real detective work of searching through data from 18 different telescopes, both ground- and space-based, nearly all of which existed. Because this object was found in an interesting nearby galaxy, the public archives of these telescopes contained abundant observations.
The data show that SN 1996cr is among the brightest supernovae ever seen in radio and X-rays. It also bears many striking similarities to the famous supernova SN 1987A, which occurred in a neighbouring galaxy only 160 000 light-years from Earth.
“This supernova appears to be a wild cousin of SN 1987A,” says Bauer. “The two look alike in many ways, except this newer supernova is intrinsically a thousand times brighter in radio and X-rays.”
Visible-light images from the archives of the Anglo-Australian Telescope in Australia show that SN 1996cr exploded sometime between 28 February 1995 and 15 March 1996, but it is the only one of the five nearest supernovae of the last 25 years that was not seen shortly after the explosion.
Other major X-ray observatories in orbit like ROSAT and ASCA did not detect SN 1996cr, but since it was first detected by Chandra in 2001 it has become steadily brighter. Previously, SN 1987A was the only known supernova with an X-ray output that increased over time.
“It’s a bit of a coup to find SN 1996cr like this, and we could never have nailed it without the serendipitous data taken by all of these telescopes. We've truly entered a new era of ‘internet astronomy’,” said Bauer.
The combined data, in conjunction with theoretical work, have led the team to develop a model for the explosion. Before the parent star exploded, it cleared out a large cavity in the surrounding gas, either via a strong wind or from an outburst from the star late in its life. So the blast wave from the explosion itself could expand relatively unimpeded into this cavity. Once the blast wave hit the dense material surrounding SN1996cr, the impact caused the system to glow brightly in X-ray and radio emission. The X-ray and radio emission from SN 1987A is probably fainter because the surrounding material is less compact.
Astronomers think that both SN 1987A and SN 1996cr show evidence for these pre-explosion clear-outs by a star doomed to explode. Having two nearby examples suggests that this type of activity could be relatively common during the death of massive stars.
“Not only does our work suggest that SN 1987A isn’t as unusual as previously thought, but it also teaches us more about the tremendous upheavals that massive stars can undergo over their lifetimes,” said co-author Vikram Dwarkadas of the University of Chicago.
About the Circinus galaxy
The Circinus galaxy is indeed a rather interesting object, with rings of gas being ejected from the galaxy. It is 13 million light-years away from the Milky Way.
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- F.E. Bauer et al. Supernova 1996cr: SN 1987A's Wild Cousin? The Astrophysical Journal, (in press) [link]
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Quake sets the Northeast aquiver
Buildings sway, but no injuries or deaths reported
Tremors from a powerful earthquake in Virginia reverberated up the East Coast yesterday, shaking buildings and homes in the Boston area for several seconds and rattling nerves for considerably longer.
The 5.8-magnitude earthquake, centered about 40 miles northwest of Richmond, struck the nation’s capital, forcing evacuations at the Pentagon and the Capitol and temporarily shutting down Reagan National Airport and Union Station. Several buildings in New York City were also evacuated.
The quake was felt from South Carolina to New England, but caused minimal damage. There were no immediate reports of death or serious injury.
In Boston, the quake caused downtown buildings, including the Prudential tower, to sway and sent a shiver of confusion and alarm through the city. Several buildings were evacuated and inspected for damage, and a surge of worried phone calls overwhelmed wireless networks.
For a region unaccustomed to quakes, the rumblings, while brief, left a tangible sense of unease that lingered long after any danger had passed.
Some, like Cassandra Barnum, a law clerk working on the eighth floor of the federal courthouse in South Boston, first suspected that the building had been bombed.
“I was nervous,’’ the 26-year-old said. “The building was swaying, and everything was off balance.’’
Fellow law clerk David Seligman was at his desk when the building started to shake, and his mind raced for a reason.
“I was pretty sure I was having a panic attack,’’ he said.
Damaris Ortiz, an employee at a Target store in Dorchester, was in the break room when the table began to shimmy.
“The guys all started screaming,’’ she said. “People were like, ‘ Why are we all getting dizzy?’ ’’
Fearing the worst, Tina Cassidy, vice president at Solomon McCown & Co., told colleagues to leave the downtown building.
“I thought there might have been an explosion or the building was collapsing,’’ Cassidy said. “Earthquake did not enter my mind.’’
As the initial bewilderment faded, people quickly swapped stories about their shared experience. Many rushed to Facebook and Twitter to share and even to crack jokes.
“Earthquakes, shark sightings, and nice weather . . . when did Boston turn into Cali??’’ wrote Pat Connolly of Medford, 28, a physical trainer.
Massachusetts lies in a moderate earthquake zone and experiences several small tremors each year. Scientists cite the Cape Ann Earthquake of 1755 (with a magnitude of at least 6.0) as the last major earthquake to cause significant damage here.
Yesterday, the tremors seemed to affect the area unevenly. While residents on Savin Hill felt shaking for about 10 seconds, people on Castle Island felt nothing, a pattern repeated across the area.
Firefighters raced to 111 Devonshire St. in downtown Boston to investigate reports that the building was leaning. But Deputy Fire Chief Richard DiBenedetto said the building had always looked that way.
The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency reported no damage or injuries. A spokeswoman for
The temblor delivered “a good shake’’ to Logan Airport and rocked the control tower, said aviation director Edward Freni. But an inspection of roadways and facilities revealed no damage and operations continued.
Nine international flights headed to New York and Philadelphia were diverted to Boston, including a 500-passenger Emirates A380 flying from Dubai to John F. Kennedy airport.
Officials at Pilgrim Nuclear Station in Plymouth, Vermont Yankee Nuclear Station in Vernon, Vt., and the NextEra Energy nuclear power plant in Seabrook, N.H., said their plants continued to operate normally.
At the University of Massachusetts Boston, where several construction projects are underway, summer classes were cut short, and workers were sent home early after the tremors, which were felt around 2 p.m.
Dale Freeman, a digital archivist at the library, was at his desk when he noticed his computer screen shaking. Then he heard sounds from above, as if mice were scurrying through ducts. “I had never known a rodent problem in the archives, ever, and I was like, ‘What is that tapping?’ ’’ said Freeman, 49.
In Newton, the tremors rattled cubicles, leaving California native Linda Battaglia to calm her nervous co-workers.
“It was kind of funny because everyone was like: ‘This is my first experience with an earthquake. Linda, what do we do?!’ ’’ she said. “I was like, ‘Everyone, calm down.’ ’’
In Washington, the quake damaged the National Cathedral, the vast Episcopal church that sits on the city’s highest point. Three fleur-de-lis capstones atop spires on the Gothic cathedral’s central tower were dislodged or broken, cracks appeared on the flying buttresses around the structure’s east end, and other decorations were also marred.
Dozens of visitors were inside when the quake struck, and all were quickly ushered out. Teams that will assess the damage and its cost are being assembled, and offers of support flooded in from across the country.
Newton native Jonathan Gerstenhaber, 25, a Drexel University student visiting Washington with friends, had just left the Lincoln Memorial when the quake hit. As the monument shook, he heard screams from tourists. The crowd surged, cameras tumbled down the steps, and shoes fell as tourists scrambled down the steep stairs.
“Families were holding each other, getting children down,’’ said Gerstenhaber’s friend, Armin Darvish of Tehran. “I couldn’t tell what happened. We were just trying to figure out what was going on.’’
Jane Panariello of Milton and her son, Matthew, were just leaving Union Station in Washington after lunch when everything started to shake. At first, she thought it was just the trains. But when items started flying off the shelves of the shops and people started screaming, she realized it was something worse.
Back in Roxbury, 88-year-old Sylvia Vales said she knew immediately what was going on. A Jamaica native, she had lived through earthquakes. This barely registered as a wobble.
“I just kept walking,’’ she said. “It wasn’t that bad.’’
Erin Ailworth, Casey Ross, Andrew Ryan, David Abel, John R. Ellement, Martin Finucane, John Guilfoil, Megan Woolhouse, Theo Emery, Katie Johnston, and Glen Johnson of the Globe staff contributed to this report. Correspondents Peter DeMarco, Christina Reinwald, Jeremy C. Fox, Amanda Cedrone, and Alexander C. Kaufman also contributed. Schworm can be reached at email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:2fa6ad02-da36-4626-989c-6f4ac3351a1e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/08/24/earthquake_sets_off_alarm_in_boston_down_east_coast/?page=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00072-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974838 | 1,514 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Why did Iblees tell Allah all of this? Because he knew that Allah's promise is the truth. When Allah
told Iblees he was from those given respite he also knew that Allah
doesn't break His promise. How about us when we make du`a' (supplication)? Do we feel that Allah
doesn't break His promise to us? Are we as confident in our du`a' as Iblees, who is the enemy of Allah
? How is it possible that Iblees can be more confident in his du`a' than us?
Iblees told Allah
| "Because You have put me in error, I will surely sit in wait for them on Your straight path. Then I will come to them from before them and from behind them and on their right and on their left, and You will not find most of them grateful [to You]." (Qur'an
When Shaytan blamed Allah by saying, "Because You have put me error," this was a mistake in his belief in the qadr (decree) of Allah
. If done on purpose, a mistake in `aqidah (belief) is kufr (disbelief in Allah). There's a hadith (record of the words of the Prophet
) that mentions this in Sahih Bukhari:
In the time of Bani Israel (the people of
Israel), a man lived with a roommate who didn't pray. When he encouraged his
roommate to pray, the roommate just said he didn't feel like praying. The man
went back later and tried to encourage his roommate again but received the same
response. Finally, the third time the man came to his roommate and said,
"If you don't pray, Allah
will never forgive you."
said that Allah
will resurrect these two people and will bring forward the one who didn't pray and ask him, "Why didn't you pray?" The man will say, "Wallahi (I swear by Allah), I loved You but I was weak. I believed in You but I was weak." Allah
will say, "I forgive you." Then Allah
will bring forward the righteous man who was advising his friend and ask, "Why did you tell him I wouldn't forgive him?" Why does Allah
ask him that? Because in our belief anyone who dies believing in Allah
and the Prophet
as the last Prophet insha'Allah (God willing) will go to Paradise (although some later than others). Allah
can forgive any sin except shirk (associating partners with Him) for whomever He wants (Qur'an
4:116); this is part of our `aqidah (belief). We also know that if someone repents from shirk, Allah
will forgive it. So, saying that Allah
will never forgive someone is a mistake in our belief.
When Iblees said Allah
misguided him, this was a mistake in his belief because he attributed misguidance to Allah
. We don't find misguidance amongst the names or attributes of Allah
doesn't misguide people; human beings choose to be misguided. Like Allah
says in the Qur'an, "...and when they deviated, Allah caused their hearts to deviate," (Qur'an
So, Iblees gives us his plan. Have anyone of you heard of the repo-man? The repo-man is a person who comes and takes your car if you don't make your car payment. Subhan'Allah (glory be to God) when I was in college, I received credit card offers all the time, with very high credit limits. Now that I'm married with children and a job, alhamdullilah (praise be to Allah), I haven't gotten one credit card offer. Why is that? Because they want to catch you when you're young; because they know that most college students can't control their desires. College students tend to spend money that they can't pay the bill for when it comes. People will come to your house and take your iPod, your laptop, and the best of whatever they can find. So the job of the repo-man is to take the most valuable commodity you have. Shaytan works the same way.
Iblees is coming for us, and when he comes to us, he's coming to take the most valuable commodity we have. We might be worried that Iblees is coming to take our Lexus, or our PS3, or our concert ticket. But Shaytan is not interested in taking all that. He will come to take our Islam. How many of us feel that we're lucky to be Muslim? When we hear this, we should think, subhan'Allah, my treasure is my deen (faith). If you want to know how valuable Islam is, go to Surah Al 'Araf (Qur'an 7). Even when the people enter Paradise, they realize their greatest blessing is Islam and they say:
| "Praise to Allah, who has guided us to this; and we would never have been guided if Allah had not guided us," (Qur'an
How many of us have felt this value for our deen, knowing that Iblees, the "repo-man", wants this most valuable of things from us? That's why when you're sitting in a philosophy class and you start having doubts remember that Iblees's primary target is your faith.
How do people treat the most valuable commodity that they have, like the Mona Lisa? How many of you have been to the Louvre before? If you visit museums, you see the "priceless antiquities" have lasers and other security devices. If you cross the wrong line, helicopters and police come after you. Do we protect our Islam the way these priceless commodities have been protected? Do we protect our Islam knowing that this enemy is constantly trying to take it from us? This is a very important point, because in the ayah (verse) Shaytan uses two forms of emphasis (laam at-tawkeed and nun at-tawkeed) to say, "Wallahi I will definitely take them off the straight path!"
What is the remedy for this in Surah Al Fatiha?
| "Ihdina as-siraat al-mustaqeem (guide us to the straight path)," (Qur'an
That's why Allah
made it an obligation to read Surah Al Fatiha at least seventeen times a day, because we have an enemy coming after us at all times, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. That's why we need this du`a'. Now when we say it, we should feel as if we need to say this to protect ourselves.
Then Shaytan continued. He said:
| "Then I will come to them from before them and from behind them and on their right and on their left, and You will not find most of them grateful [to You]." (Qur'an
Now, maybe after hearing this, some of us will still think, "Hey, I've got Norton Anti-Virus, I'm good. Shaytan can't get me." As I said earlier, this is the person who Shaytan got. Abdullah ibn Masood radi Allahu `anhu (may Allah be pleased with him) related a hadith related by Imam Ahmed with a strong isnad (chain of narration). He said, "One day we were sitting with the Prophet
and he drew a straight line. He said, "This is the way of Allah ." Then the Prophet
drew lines perpendicular to this straight line and he said, "On every one of these lines is a Shaytan calling you to his path." So there's a Shaytan calling Muslims to get high, calling Muslims to hang out with the opposite gender, calling Muslims to commit acts of homosexuality. On every one of these ways there's a Shaytan telling you that communism or secularism or nationalism is better than Islam. These are the things that you will hear in your universities. Shaytan will work on you in every way that you can think of, especially in concepts (i.e. how you think about life). Suhban'Allah, the Prophet
pointed at the first straight line that he drew and he read this verse from Surah Al An`am,
| "And this is My path, which is straight, so follow it; and do not follow [other] ways, for you will be separated from His way. This has He instructed you that you may become righteous." (Qur'an
When we go to the Qur'an we notice something interesting. Whenever Allah
uses the word "darkness", or words that symbolize misguidance, He uses those words in the plural form. But, whenever He uses words to symbolize guidance, like "light", He uses those words only in the singular form. For example, Allah
| "Allah is the protector of those who believe. He brings them out from darknesses into the light. And those who disbelieve - their allies are Taghut. They take them out of the light into the darknesses. Those are the companions of the Fire; they will abide eternally therein," (Qur'an
Another example is in the sixth chapter of the Qur'an where Allah
| "And is one who was dead and We gave him life and made for him light by which to walk among the people like one who is steeped in darknesses, never to emerge
there from? Thus it has been made pleasing to the disbelievers that which they were doing," (Qur'an
This verse was sent when `Umar
accepted Islam. Why does Allah
use light in the singular and darkness in the plural? Because Allah
wants to show us that guidance can only be obtained by traversing siratul mustaqeem (the straight path) and there's only one straight path:
| "Say, 'Indeed, the guidance of Allah is the [only] guidance; and we have been commanded to submit to the Lord of the worlds,'" (Qur'an
However, the ways to be misguided are innumerable.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION
In the Matter of
Regulations on Statements Made for Dietary Supplements
Concerning the Effect of the Product on the Structure or
Function of the Body; Proposed Rule
[Docket No. 98N-0044]
Comments of the Staff of the
Bureau of Consumer Protection
of the Federal Trade Commission*
August 27, 1998
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is soliciting comment on a proposed rule that defines when a label statement about a dietary supplement would be considered a claim about the product's effect on a normal structure or function of the body (structure/function claim), and thus be permitted in labeling. The proposed rule also establishes criteria for determining when a label statement would be considered a claim about a supplement's ability to diagnose, cure, mitigate, treat, or prevent disease (disease claim), and thus be prohibited in labeling. Because the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has jurisdiction over claims made in supplement advertising, the staff of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection is submitting this comment on an issue that is central to both agencies' treatment of dietary supplements: the requirement that claims for dietary supplements be substantiated.
The FTC and FDA have complementary jurisdiction to address the marketing of dietary supplements. Under the terms of a liaison agreement governing the division of responsibilities between the two agencies, the FTC has primary responsibility for advertising and FDA has primary responsibility for labeling.(1) Their shared jurisdiction means that the two agencies coordinate closely to ensure that their actions are consistent to the fullest extent feasible given the statutory authority of each.
The regulation of supplement labeling claims by FDA is governed by the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA).(2) Under Section 6 of DSHEA, codified as Section 403(r)(6) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA), structure/function claims are permitted in dietary supplement labeling without prior authorization by FDA, provided the manufacturer has substantiation for the claims and complies with certain notification and disclaimer requirements.(3)
Claims made in supplement advertising are addressed primarily under the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTC Act). Section 5 of the FTC Act broadly prohibits deceptive and unfair acts or practices in or affecting commerce,(4) including deceptive advertising. In addition, supplement advertising falls under Sections 12 and 15 of the FTC Act. These two sections prohibit false advertisements of foods, drugs, devices, services and cosmetics, which are defined as advertisements that are misleading in a material respect.(5) The FTC has developed a legal framework for assessing advertising claims pursuant to these provisions. This framework, set out in the FTC's Deception Policy Statement and its Substantiation Policy Statement,(6) can be distilled into two fundamental legal principles: 1) advertising must be truthful and not misleading; and 2) advertisers must have substantiation for all objective claims before the claims are disseminated.(7)
III. SUBSTANTIATION OF STRUCTURE/FUNCTION CLAIMS
Under Section 403(r)(6) of the FDCA, as amended by DSHEA, structure/function claims in supplement labeling must be substantiated.(8) The substantiation requirement is set out in the existing rule implementing the notification procedures for such claims.(9) The newly proposed amendment to this rule defining permitted structure/function claims does not, however, explicitly restate that such claims be substantiated.(10)
FTC staff recommends that any final rule reiterate explicitly the requirement that structure/function claims be adequately substantiated.(11) Although the focus of FDA's proposed revision is on the distinction between permissible structure/function claims and impermissible disease claims, the need for substantiation should also be emphasized. Otherwise, this basic statutory requirement may be missed amid the details of how to classify claims. Adequate substantiation is critical to ensuring that consumers receive truthful and accurate information about the benefits of dietary supplements. Unless the information being presented is supported by sound evidence, consumers cannot make informed decisions about whether and how to use these products.
Staff also recommends that FDA include guidance in the final rule as to what constitutes adequate substantiation of a structure/function claim. This would help address uncertainty within the dietary supplement industry about how FDA applies the DSHEA substantiation requirement. It would also clarify how FDA's approach to substantiation relates to FTC's substantiation standard.
The November 1997 Report of the Commission on Dietary Supplement Labels (Supplement Commission Report) provides important guidance on the issue of substantiation of supplement labeling claims.(12) It states that claims should be supported by "scientifically valid evidence;"(13) suggests some general principles that should govern the amount and type of evidence necessary to meet the DSHEA substantiation requirement;(14) and notes that the evidence needed will vary depending on the nature of the statement being made. The Supplement Commission Report acknowledges that claims can be supported by various types of evidence, including human studies, animal studies, in vitro studies, epidemiologic data, and historical use. It also singles out well-designed and controlled clinical studies, particularly those published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, as important and credible evidence. Finally, the Supplement Commission Report stresses the importance of considering all relevant evidence, including contrary findings, and suggests that the "weight of evidence" should substantiate the claim.(15)
The FTC's approach to substantiation of advertising claims corresponds in many ways to the principles for substantiating labeling claims outlined in the Supplement Commission Report.(16) Both approaches apply a flexible standard governed in large part by the way the claim is presented. Under FTC law, identifying the claim conveyed by an ad is the first step in any determination of what level of support is required to substantiate that claim.(17) The FTC will look at the overall impression of the ad and consider statements in the context of all elements of the ad.(18) For claims about the efficacy and safety of dietary supplement products, the FTC typically holds advertisers to a substantiation standard referred to in numerous FTC orders as "competent and reliable scientific evidence" and defined as:
Tests, analyses, research, studies, or other evidence based on the expertise of professionals in the relevant area, that have been conducted and evaluated in an objective manner by persons qualified to do so, using procedures generally accepted in the profession to yield accurate and reliable results.(19)
The FTC's application of this standard shares many similarities with the Supplement Commission Report's proposal for "scientifically valid evidence." Consistent with the Supplement Commission's guidance, the FTC considers all forms of research when evaluating substantiation. As a general matter, the FTC considers well-controlled human clinical studies to be the most reliable form of evidence, but also takes into account other forms of research, including epidemiologic evidence, animal and in vitro studies in appropriate circumstances.(20) Like the Supplement Commission approach, the FTC looks at studies in the context of the entire body of scientific literature, considers all relevant evidence, including contrary evidence, and has indicated that the weight of evidence should support the claim.(21)
FDA has indicated, in its comments on the Supplement Commission Report, that the agency concurs with the Supplement Commission's guidance on substantiation of structure/function claims.(22) FDA's agreement with that guidance is important, because it clarifies how the agency interprets and applies the DSHEA substantiation standard. FTC staff believes that it would be helpful for FDA to reference that guidance directly in the proposed rule. By highlighting the requirement that structure/function claims in labeling must be substantiated, and by giving guidance on how the agency will apply that substantiation requirement, FDA will help ensure that industry members will understand what is required to have adequate support for their claims.
Joan Z. Bernstein, Director
Michelle K. Rusk, Attorney
Division of Advertising Practices
Bureau of Consumer Protection
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20580
August 27, 1998
* These comments are the views of the staff of the Bureau of Consumer Protection. They do not necessarily represent the views of the Commission or any individual Commissioner. Inquiries regarding this comment should be directed to Michelle Rusk (202-326-3148) or Anne Maher (202-326-2987).
1. FTC-FDA Liaison Agreement, 4 Trade Reg., Rep. (CCH) ¶ 9851 (1971). Although the Liaison Agreement does not refer explicitly to dietary supplements, the two agencies follow the same division of roles for dietary supplements as currently used for food products. Under FDA law, dietary supplements are deemed to be foods. 21 U.S.C. § 201(ff).
2. Pub. L. No. 103-417, 108 Stat. 4325 (1994).
3. 21 U.S.C. § 343(r)(6).
4. 15 U.S.C. § 45.
5. 15 U.S.C. §§ 52, 55. Section 12 of the FTC Act, 21 U.S.C. § 52.
6. Deception Policy Statement, Letter Dated Oct. 14, 1983 from Commission to Chairman John D. Dingell, appended to Cliffdale Associates, Inc., 103 F.T.C. 110, 174 (1984); Substantiation Policy Statement, appended to Thompson Medical Co., 104 F.T.C. 648, 839 (1984).
7. While the majority of advertising cases are brought pursuant to the FTC's deception authority, the agency can also challenge advertising under its unfairness jurisdiction. An unfair practice is one that causes, or is likely to cause, substantial injury to consumers, which is not reasonably avoidable by consumers themselves and not outweighed by countervailing benefits to consumers or competition. 15 U.S.C. § 45 (n).
8. 21 U.S.C. § 343(r)(6)(B).
9. The current rule implementing the notification procedures for structure/function claims, includes the provision that the notifying firm must certify that it has "substantiation that the statement is truthful and not misleading." 21 C.F.R. § 101.93 (a)(3).
10. 21 C.F.R. § 101.93 (f) (proposed). The new provision on structure/function claims merely states that dietary supplement labels may bear such claims "subject to the requirements of this section."
11. Staff suggests including an explicit reference to the substantiation requirement in proposed Section 101.93(f).
12. Report of the Commission on Dietary Supplement Labels (Nov. 1997). The Report frequently refers to supplement labeling claims as "statements of nutritional support." Structure/ function claims are one category of such statements.
13. Id. at 38.
14. Id. at 42-43.
15. Id. at 43.
16. The FTC's approach to substantiation of advertising claims is detailed in its Substantiation Policy Statement contained in Thompson Medical Co., 104 F.T.C. at 839 (1984).
17. The various factors that the FTC will consider in determining the level of substantiation required are: 1) the type of product advertised; 2) the type of claim; 3) the benefits of a truthful claim; 4) the ease of developing substantiation for the claim; 5) the consequences of a false claim; and 6) the amount of substantiation experts in the field believe is necessary. See Pfizer Inc., 81 F.T.C. 23, 64 (1972). See also Substantiation Policy Statement, Thompson Medical Co., 104 F.T.C. at 840.
18. See, e.g., Thompson Medical Co., 104 F.T.C. 648, 790 (1984). FDA's proposed rule similarly recognizes the importance of looking at all elements of a label in context to determine what claims are conveyed either expressly or implicitly by the ad. 101 C.F.R. § 101.93(g)(2) (proposed rule). FDA acknowledges, in its discussion of the proposed rule, that a statement that by itself would be considered an acceptable structure/function claim could become a disease claim if, "in context, an effect on disease were express or implied." 63 Fed. Reg. at 23626. Staff believes that the context of a claim is critical to identifying what message is actually conveyed to consumers, not only in labeling but also in advertising.
19. See, e.g., Venegas, Inc., C-3781 (Jan. 23, 1998)(consent); Global World Media Corp., C-3772 (Oct. 9, 1997)(consent); Nutrition 21, C-3758 (July 11, 1997)(consent); Schering Corp., 118 F.T.C. 1030 (1994)(consent).
20. There may be instances, for example, where animal research is widely considered to be an acceptable substitute for human research in a particular field of study, or where human research is prohibitively expensive or infeasible for other reasons.
21. In its Food Policy Statement, for example, the FTC provided that, when a claim is based on science that is inconsistent with the larger body of evidence, it is likely to be misleading, even if qualified. Enforcement Policy Statement on Food Advertising, 59 Fed. Reg. 28388, 28393-94 (June 1, 1994).
22. FDA's notice states, "The Commission Report includes guidance on what quantity and quality of evidence should be used to substantiate claims made under section 403(r)(6) of the act.... The agency agrees with the guidance." Dietary Supplements; Comments on Report of the Commission on Dietary Supplement Labels, 63 Fed. Reg. 23633, 23635 (April 29, 1998). | <urn:uuid:6f495701-84c4-433e-b15d-2628cd182ba7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ftc.gov/be/v980023.shtm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913359 | 2,862 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Not many tourists prefer to spend their vacation in Greenland. However, if you decide to visit Greenland, you will be amazed how wrong that notion is. This would be a cruise to the Arctic. The Arctic is one of the most desolated places on the planet, but landmarks such as the Ilulissat is a must-see. The site is a place where a picturesque village sits 200 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle. This area is inhabited by just over 4,000 people.
Ilulissat is a place in the middle of nowhere, but this is where you can find the museum of a native: Knud Rasmussen. Knud Ramussen is a Danish polar anthropologist and explorer. The Ilulissat Icefjord has been declared a World Heritage Site in 2004. Some visitors say that they have not seen anything quite like it.
The Ilulissat Icefjord is more than 40 kilometers long and 40 kilometers wide. This is where you can see clear tons of icebergs and ice chips every day, emerging to the open sea. | <urn:uuid:f28f4560-81f5-4463-bf23-d61b64a34232> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sharewonders.com/tag/ilulissat-icefjord/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955792 | 219 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Over 3.5 lakh BPL and poor families will get free LPG cylinders and gas stoves under an ambitious scheme launched by the Delhi Government today to end use of kerosene, which often does not reach the intended beneficiaries.
Launching the scheme announced by her in the 2012-2013 Budget, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said all BPL, AAY and JRC beneficiaries will be covered under the scheme at a cost of over Rs 100 crore which will make Delhi the first kerosene-free city in the country.
“We want Delhi to be eco-friendly. We want Delhiites to make their food in an environment-friendly environment. So, we have decided to give LPG cylinders and gas stoves free of cost. One set costs the Government Rs 3,049 and the kit comes with all accessories like regulator and pipe,” she said.
As a token gesture, Dikshit handed over the kits to 20 beneficiaries among the 200 in the first phase.
In the coming months, all the 3.56 lakh beneficiaries will be provided with fully-filled LPG cylinders and gas stove.
“The scheme can be extended to other poorer sections of society as well. If a poor person wants to avail this scheme, he can contact officers concerned and he will be given the connection,” she said.
Ms. Dikshit said the 3.56 lakh beneficiaries of this scheme were getting kerosene from PDS shops in the capital.
She also said her government was in talks with the Centre over the issue of getting cash transfers for people who don’t want to get items from the fair shops.
She said the scheme was intended at removing corruption as the gas stoves will be procured from the gas companies and there will be complete transparency in the process.
The initial scheme announced by Dikshit in her budget speech entailed providing the people with Rs 2000 for procuring a gas connection and cylinder.
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"You Light Up My Life." Well, okay - maybe not our entire lives. It would be pretty cool if we had back-lighting on every trip to the grocery store, but that’s not really the way it works. Rather, a lighting designer draws up and implements schemes to artistically or aesthetically light a variety of performance venues and fancy shmancy homes. The guy who lit up that concert hall? Lighting designer. The gal who made that dark, shadowy scene in that movie look so foreboding? Lighting designer. The fella who shone a light in your eyes and asked to see your driver’s license? Police officer. Not that we want to take sides, but you really shouldn’t have been driving that fast.
This job is not just figuring out where to point a bunch of lights and then physically pointing them there. Just as being a photographer isn’t just pointing and clicking a camera (it isn’t). The ability to create a specific mood or atmosphere is a learned skill, and there are always a hundred different variables that come into play when you’re trying to determine the best way to produce a desired effect. What color gel should you use, how can you best mimic natural light, how should you light a particular scene so that it is consistent with the look of the rest of the project? It’s just as much about “design” as it is about “light.”
You may be a lone wolf, or you may be a permanent employee of a lighting design or production company. In the former case, you’re relying on good word of mouth and past experience to continue to get you work; in the latter, you are salaried and you just go where the boss sends you. | <urn:uuid:4ca5518c-7dec-4ed8-b8f3-63681684b1b4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.shmoop.com/careers/lighting-designer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958888 | 369 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Tuning an anchor rode
Quiet sunset in Anse de Leoube (French Riviera)
Most cruising yachts spend at least 80% of the time at anchor. The safety of the boat and its crew depends on a few pieces of metal and rope which hopefully will prevent the boat from running aground. When choosing a place to anchor, as well as sizing the anchoring gear, a wise skipper should not rely on luck to make sure that the anchor will hold if the weather conditions deteriorate: some physical sense and knowledge are invaluable.
Admittedly, although anchoring is based on longstanding physical laws, it cannot be completely mastered unless an in-depth (;-) analysis of the soil around the anchor is made, as oil platform engineers do.
Therefore, we will only skim the anchor problem, just stressing on the parameters that condition the performances of an anchor. We will focus on the rode behavior, with special emphasis on a generally underestimated problem: the dynamic behavior of various types of rode under wind gusts.
Finally, we will attempt the impossible: a synthetic spreadsheet to approximately size the anchor and the rode, given the anchorage conditions.
Note 1: Several downloadable spreadsheets are attached to the following pages, in order to allow yachtspeople to simulate their own rode configurations in various anchoring conditions. Those spreadsheets and their functionalities are summarized in the Synthesis page.
Note 2: If you feel allergic to formulae, tables, curves etc., you may skip them and directly go to the conclusions of each section!
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Gannett (NYSE:GCI) is a media company that publishes USA Today, the nation's largest newspaper by circulation, along with 85 other daily newspapers in the U.S. Additionally, GCI publishes 17 daily newspapers internationally as well as more than 200 weekly newspapers in the United Kingdom, which together account for 84% of GCI's revenue. Apart from publishing, Gannett also earns revenue through its digital and broadcasting segments.
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Newsprint prices are a significant cost for any newspaper, and consolidation among suppliers has increased prices for newsprint. Gannett has been more aggressive than its competitors to minimize these costs, however. In the past, the company reduced the width of all but one of it presses and newspapers.
Gannett's competition is twofold: other newspapers chains, and increasingly, Internet websites. Gannett's national print competitors include New York Times Company (NYT)-publisher of the iconic namesake newspaper--and News Corporation (NWS)-publisher of the Wall Street Journal. It also competes with countless local newspapers such as the The Washington Post, and Hearst-Argyle Television (HTV)'s San Francisco Chronicle. | <urn:uuid:9631c9d4-5344-4d9f-98f7-8d213979a3a4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Gannett_(GCI)?diff=1360624&oldid=1142692 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965731 | 1,103 | 1.523438 | 2 |
In zone coverage in football, defenders are responsible for areas of the field, rather than following a specific receiver wherever he goes. Offenses frequently attack these defenses by flooding a zone -- sending three receivers into an area covered by two defenders, for example, leaving one receiver undefended. Any football team that employs zone coverage must be prepared to counter the offense’s attempt to overload one part of the field with multiple receivers.
The first defense against flooded zones is to make sure the offense doesn’t know what type of defense you’re running until the play begins. Defenses may employ different coverages for the same down-and-distance situation throughout the game. Defensive players will also try to avoid tipping their hands before the snap, lining up in a way that doesn’t reveal whether they’re playing zone or man-to-man coverage.
If the offense shows its colors before the snap -- sending three wide receivers to one side of the field, for example -- the defense must read the formation and adjust its coverage accordingly. For example, if a Cover 2 defense was called in the huddle -- with two deep safeties in the middle of the field -- the defense might switch to Cover 3, spreading three defenders across the field in deep zones. One player, typically a safety, should be responsible for reading the offensive formation and calling an audible, if necessary, before the snap.
Sometimes the offense will disguise its intention to flood a zone. In these cases, defenses must adjust on the fly. It’s important to have a prearranged signal so the designated player can verbalize the call with one or two words. For example, if an offense lines up two receivers to its right, then sends two backs to the right at the snap, a linebacker toward the left side of the field may rotate to the right to beef up the pass coverage. He’ll yell the appropriate signal to a linebacker playing a middle zone, telling him to push forward to cover a wider zone. The initial linebacker then shifts to cover the vacated middle zone.
Defending Both Sides
Just because an offense floods a zone to one side of the field doesn’t mean it’ll always throw the ball to the flooded side. If the defense leaves just one player covering a single receiver on the opposite side of the field, for example, the offense may be able to create a mismatch on that side. When a running back sets up toward the one-receiver side of the field, a linebacker will typically drift to that side to cover the back, should he run a pass route.
Rather than adjust its pass coverage, the defense may counter with an overload of its own. If the offense spreads five receivers, for example, only five blockers remain to protect the quarterback. The defense can then adjust its zone or switch to man-to-man coverage and rush six players on a blitz, meaning one rusher will be unblocked. | <urn:uuid:f77d2e42-5687-47b2-9595-9617313d3ff7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://healthyliving.azcentral.com/defend-flooded-zone-football-1931.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944309 | 604 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Ah, fall. The colors. The crisp air. The smell of decaying vegetative matter--composed mostly of billions upon billions of fallen leaves--accumulating, compacting and moldering in our yards.
Ah, fall. Welcome to the raking season. Raking, probably the most onerous activity known to homeownerkind. With all the tasks we have learned to make more efficient, no one has figured out how to rake up leaves any better or any more effortlessly than our great-great-grandparents did.
Unless, of course, you consider it progress to lug a reverse vacuum cleaner around the yard vainly trying to herd leaves, and then rake them up.
Or perhaps you're the type who once had the brilliant idea to simply mow up the leaves. That notion lost its charm when the mower bag filled completely after moving exactly two feet across the lawn.
The truth is that there is no way to rid your homestead of fallen leaves and other natural debris other than to get out there and rake.
Oh, we like to deny reality. . This time of the year, we all like to fool ourselves that raking leaves is enjoyable. We put on our favorite fuzzy sweater and our soft little gardening gloves, grab a mug of hot apple cider, maybe light up a pipe of our favorite tobacco, and go out to rake.
About one pile into the endeavor we realize what a futile effort this all is and we'd rather be watching monkeys play with their food.
That's amplified as soon we try to wrestle a pile of scattering leaves into a lawn refuse bag. Oh, by the way, remember you'll be doing this on a windy day!
Maybe what makes it all feel so ineffective is the enormity of the project. Two or so bags into collecting leaves, we realize we've made a minuscule dent in our natural debris pile. If our calculations hold true, we'll need about 6,400 more bags to contain the rest of the mess.
In fact, it's unbelievable that the word "rake" has ever been associated with a positive thing, such as "raking in the cash." No thanks. Write me a check.
Over the years, I've tried various schemes to avoid leaf-raking. This was motivated by living under a huge cottonwood tree that dropped so many leaves and twigs that the debris was knee deep by the end of November.
You would literally have to wade through this stuff to get to the car. Heaven forbid if your car keys fell out of your hands.
I came up with a few schemes to get away from raking that I'll share them with you.
Tell neighborhood kids, at least the very young and gullible ones, that 500 leaves will get them a free video rental at the neighborhood video stores. Limited time only.
I've also told neighbors that in an effort to help the environment, I was going to recycle the fallen leaves in the spring by pasting them back on the branches of the trees.
Here is something else I've considered saying to the neighbors as to why I'm letting a pile of leaves decay and transform into a big oozing brown puddle of liquid mulch over the next half year or so.
It would be cheaper than buying one of those slip-n-slides for the kids come next summer.
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Medical Tourism or Treatment Abroad in Vietnam
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Medical Tourism or Treatment abroad, the practice of comfortably traveling abroad to have your medical procedure performed by highly qualified surgeons at some of the most advanced medical centers in the world at a small fraction of the cost of care in the Europe, USA, Australia or Japan. More and more people are traveling abroad as an affordable, enjoyable, and safe alternative to having medical, dental, and cosmetic surgical procedures done in their home countries. Medical Tourism Vietnam, Medical Tourism Facilitator equates MEDICAL TOURISM QUALITY.
Can you imagine how great it would feel to actually experience a combination of smart health care and exotic travel? Welcome to Vietnam – the land of Culture, art and exotic beaches, Now Medical Tourism Vietnam has now added Traditional Acupuncture, Mud bath therapy and Herbal Bath Therapies as away to rejuvenating care vacation filled with fun and excitement.
Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam. It is one of the two entry points to the country. The first impression you will have, is that this is a chaotic city. But the longer you stay, the more you will appreciate Hanoi. To visit Hanoi, you will need around seven days. Most tourists do not stay for so long here. They stay a couple of days, visit the Old District, and go to Ha Long Bay or Sapa. If you can, stay longer and explore the city and its lakes.
Sapa is the name of a town in the Northwest of Vietnam, from where you go on many trekking and excursions, and visit the traditional ethnic peoples who inhabit this mountainous region. How long you stay in Sapa’s region depends on the excursions you want to do. Most trekking last from two to five days. Go on a weekend and you will enjoy its markets. You get to Sapa by an overnight train from Hanoi. Winters can be quite cold. | <urn:uuid:e6b90376-c3fd-4ce9-94da-6f8830d65d7c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://medicaltourismvietnam.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944361 | 471 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Java PaaS Provider Expands Partner Ecosystem
Java Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider CloudBees is expanding its partner ecosystem with a new Services Partner Program, which offers new support for system integrators (SIs), Web designers and software development consultants. According to the company, the new program aims to give these service providers the tech and marketing know-how to provide application development, deployment and consulting using the CloudBees Platform.
CloudBees is probably best known as one of the few providers of a Java-based PaaS. But CloudBees is also a big supporter of the open-source, Java-based Jenkins CI tool. Kohsuke Kawaguchi, who created the Hudson CI server and instigated the Jenkins fork, is an elite developer and architect at CloudBees. And the company contributed five plugins to the Jenkins community earlier this year. A growing list of its free and open source Jenkins plugins is available on the company's Web site.
The Boston-based CloudBees launched its partner ecosystem in mid-2011 in an effort to extend its platform to support other cloud services. The ecosystem was created to bring cloud-based services from partner companies directly to Java developers within the CloudBees platform.
"You have more and more development taking place in the cloud these days," company founder Sacha Labourey, a former JBoss CTO, told ADTmag at the time. "The partners coming into our ecosystem represent that trend pretty well, but also a lot of other things are going on in the cloud -- information tracking, data storage and integration, mobile backend services, log management. These new partners provide developers with access to even more platform-based services that help them build, test, and deploy Java applications in the cloud."
The company's platform comprises two products: DEV@cloud, a service designed to allow developers to take their build and test environments to the cloud, and RUN@cloud, a traditional deployment PaaS designed to allow dev teams to deploy their applications to production on the cloud. DEV@cloud comes with the open source continuous integration server, Jenkins, which recently forked from Hudson. The two products are available together and separately.
The new program will provide developer services on DEV@cloud; the deployment piece will be available via RUN@cloud. The program also offers a PaaS integrator partnership, which allows service providers to use the company's cloud resources for an initial Proof of Concept, and a "Jenkins Enterprise by CloudBees" reseller partnership, which supports reselling of the Jenkins plugin.
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Students make the cut
Students at Madison Park and Brookline high schools recently got a chance to view surgery up close and personal.
The classes taught by Julie Joyal Mowschenson, RN, combines classroom lessons with putting the theory into action by running simulated medical cases on a robotic patient at Harvard Medical School.
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Emmitt Watson has been the caretaker of the Neptune Society’s San Francisco Columbarium for over 25 years, and has gathered the stories to match the years. He has seen this unique and historic landmark through a dramatic renovation, from a crumbling relic of a bygone era into the famed destination, cultural icon and center of life in the city’s Noe Hill neighborhood that it is today.
Antal: First off, could you tell us a little about the history of this place? What is a columbarium?
Emmitt: Sure thing. This particular columbarium comes from the Greek and Roman times. They used to be domestic kitchens, places where work was done, where communities gathered. The San Francisco Columbarium was founded in 1898 by a fraternal group from England called the Oddfellows. They commissioned the architect Bernard J. Cahill to build the place. This was before cremations were even very common. Originally this area was a 175-acre cemetery, past Divisadero Street, which used to mark the city limits. In 1901 the city started making the first laws regulating the death industry in San Francisco. In 1910 they outlawed cremations, and the crematorium was demolished. In 1919 they outlawed any burials within the city limits, so people started taking their loved ones to the town of Colma, to the South. They started pulling the cemetery up in the early ‘30s, and intended to tear the Columbarium down as well, but in 1934 the Homestead Act came into effect and protected it. The place was abandoned at that point, and left to the ravages of time for almost 45 years.
Antal: How was the building rediscovered?
Emmitt: In the late ‘70’s the Neptune Society, which was only just getting to be a force, headed by R. J. Garden, purchased it. They started the renovation process. Now it’s a landmark, an important part of the city. Carlos Santana’s mother, Harvey Milk, and a lot of the people who built up San Francisco, the Haights, the Folgers, the old pioneers, all of them have their ashes here.
Antal: What was it like before the improvements?
Emmitt: They started the renovation in 1979. I came on in 1987. I saw most of the process. You know, they had mildew, cobwebs. The stained glass windows were cracked, dirty. There was water in the walls and it smelled damp. Homeless people used to camp here before the Neptune Society purchased it, and you could still tell. There’s still water in the walls today, there’s still a lot of work to be done, all the time, and I’m the only one that does it. People think that there’s a whole crew of people working on this, but no, it’s just me.
Antal: To give our readers an idea of what this place is, could you describe what they would see when they walk through the front doors?
Emmitt: Well, this place is circular, and the main floor rotunda is supported by eight columns which climb the length to the ceiling, basically steel beams encased in cement. There are five niches, places for storing urns and cremation remains, in each section of these columns, but most of the niches are in the rooms between the columns. You walk through the front doors and immediately you just see the colors, see how alive the place feels. Each niche has its own personality. There are stained glass windows. People are usually so busy looking at the colors they forget the urns, they don’t see them, they see everyday items from people’s lives. One man liked to drink martinis, so his family brought his favorite martini shaker to put his ashes in. One man was a baseball fan his whole life, and his ashes are in a ceramic baseball, and the niche is decorated to look like a baseball stadium. See, that’s part of a person’s life, and his death. It’s a sort of living monument, as opposed to a tombstone, which is just about death, nothing about life. A lot of people come in here and they don’t even see the death. They don’t even realize that there are people’s ashes buried here. This place disguises death with all this life. That’s not what most people think when they think about cremation, but that’s what this columbarium is.
Antal: What kind of ceremonies do people perform?
Emmitt: Well, for example just this morning I asked a family who was having a service if they wanted to put their loved ones’ urns in themselves. They chose to do that, and I just left them to have their privacy. Sometimes they have services with family, with friends. Sometimes the family doesn’t even want to be here, and they get us to set up the niche ourselves. They can come and visit later. Then there’s also those who have full on memorial services, with glass tables and a minister to bless the urn, a celebration with drinks and catered food. Really people do whatever they want. That’s up to them. Everyone has to take this event in their own way, and we have to respect that.
Antal: How many services are performed here?
Emmitt: Sometimes we do three to four a week, sometimes we won’t have one for a month. Today there’s a celebration service, but no ashes. The family chose to have the service here but may not have ashes interred today. Otherwise, this building is used for all kinds of things. We have weddings here, parties, events. The place is so well known now. And me too, a lot of people come to this columbarium just to hear my stories. ‘Cause I got a lot of them.
Antal: Do you have any advice for readers preparing for a death?
Emmitt: Well, most people are scared of death. My advice is to learn about it, to see it as something that’s not to be scared of. To handle it, you need to know about it earlier, before it happens, so when it finally comes you’re prepared.
Antal: Thanks so much for speaking with us.
Emmitt: Absolutely, my pleasure.
While the San Francisco Columbarium has no official website, you can read more about it on Noe Hill’s landmarks page, and choose from a wealth of newspaper and online posts devoted to the history of this wondrous building, and the people who have kept it alive. Over the years it has become a unique and beautiful destination in its own right.
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By Amy E. Feldman
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - If you have a food allergy, what does your college have to do for you? Maybe more than you think.
John Belushi’s character on Animal House started a food fight by stuffing as much food into his mouth and then – pretending to be a zit – spit it out. That wasn’t how the food fight started at Lesley University in 2009; quite the opposite. It was started in court, not the lunch room, because students couldn’t stuff their faces. The school didn’t have a meal plan that provided food for those with peanut, gluten, or other food allergies.
The Americans with Disabilities Act requires that people with a serious health condition that limits one or more life functions be granted access to public accommodations. But the students argued that because the university didn’t offer food they could safely eat, it was effectively limiting their access to participate in the university community.
They just won their food fight when the school agreed to pay them $50,000 and to create meal plans for those with food allergies. Talk about being on a roll. | <urn:uuid:2b3834af-4276-4ac9-b20d-b60c2ced49e7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/02/28/colleges-obligated-to-offer-equitable-meal-plan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979656 | 240 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Jeff Weise and the Clinique Cops
The price of intensive therapy? Astronomical. Of banning eyeliner? Why, nearly free!
The PiPress's homepage today carries a contradictory pair of disjointed messages about teens and violence. The top tale, complete with a full-color photo of a sneering young goth, announces that White Bear Lake has "drawn the line" on eyeliner.
A White Bear teenager's heavy use of eyeliner at school this week pitted him against school administrators who argue that the look is a distraction to learning and could be interpreted as violent.
A little further down the page, we hear--finally--about the precarious state of Red Lake High School shooter Weise's mental health and the absolute lack of help he got for his extensive problems.
One area that federal authorities will not be investigating, though, is the adequacy of the mental health care that Weise received, Heffelfinger said. Family members and psychiatrists have said Weise's life was one risk factor piled atop another, and that he should have had intensive therapy.
Online, he had written about being physically and verbally abused as a child, and family members have said they knew of some of it. As a youth, he had been moved from the reservation to the Twin Cities and back again. In the short span of 19 months, he lost his father to suicide and saw his mother placed in a long-term care facility after suffering brain damage in a car crash.
He attempted suicide last summer, and after being diagnosed with depression, he was prescribed Prozac, an antidepressant. Cook said Weise's daily dosage was doubled to 60 milligrams a day ? considered a heavy dose for an adolescent ? two weeks before the shootings.
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England is part of the United Kingdom (UK), an island nation in north-western Europe, composed of the countries of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (also known as Ulster). London (population: 6,770,400) is the capital of the UK and of England, is only 35 km from France now linked by tunnel under the English Channel.
England is a nation of 50 million people. The major ethnic groups are Anglo-Saxons, Scots, Welsh, and Irish, but Indians, Pakistanis and many others make England one of the most diverse nations in the world. You will be surprised at how abruptly the urban scene gives way to beautiful landscapes; how the architecture of medieval times blends with modern buildings; and how people of varied ethnic backgrounds coexist in this diverse land.
There are two types of student permits for studying in the UK. A summary of these options are listed below.
One Semester Exchange
New Zealand citizens who are going to the UK on exchange for under 6 months do not have to obtain a visa before arriving in the UK. Citizens of some other countries may need to apply for a Student Visitor Visa. Students will be listed as a Student Visitor by their host university. A Student Visitor is not able to work while in the country and is not able to extend their stay after completing their course of study. On arrival at the airport, students need to show the Entry Clearance Official at the border the visa letter provided to them from their host university, to be permitted entry into the UK.
Two Semester Exchange
Students planning to study in the UK for longer than 6 months must apply for a Tier 4 Adult Student Visa before departing from New Zealand. Applicants will need to provide the following documents when applying for a student visa:
Note: Immigration officials may also ask for evidence to show that the student intends to leave after the course. This can be supplied through a return ticket receipt or the letter from the host university stating course dates.
For more information and to apply for an Adult Student Visa, refer to the Home Office UK Border Agency.
The Education UK website has lots of useful information to help you prepare for studying in the UK, including estimated costs, UK visas, things to see and do, and more.
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"For 15 years I have studied the effectiveness and safety of treatments such as acupuncture and homeopathy. Often, the results were not what the proponents ofthese treatments had hoped for. One would have thought that this might lead to debate, further research, or even health policy changes. Sometimes it has, but recently we have witnessed a new phenomenon.
People or organisations promoting highly questionable treatments are treating the evidence with contempt and flex their legal muscle to have it their way. The New Zealand Journal of Medicine recently published an article showing that most chiropractors use the title "doctor." The argument was that this might mislead patients and cause harm. As a consequence, the chiropractors sought to silence the journal by threatening legal action. (1) Fortunately the attempt failed.
The Guardian was sued for libel by Matthias Rath. The paper had exposed Rath’s strategyof convincing South Africa’s government that his vitamin pills were more effective than antiretroviral drugs for treating AIDS. The Guardian put up a fight, and eventually Rath dropped the libel action and was ordered to pay costs. (2) An editorial in the Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/13/matthiasrath.aids noted that Rath’s activity in South Africa "provides a terrible illustration of thepotential consequences of treating the evidence with contempt."
Science journalist Simon Singh recently condemned the British Chiropractic Association for advocating chiropractic care as a treatment for childhood asthma and a rangeof other paediatric conditions. Instead of arguing their corner publicly, the association filed a libel action against Singh (www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/2570744/Doctors-take-Simon-Singh-to-court.html). The case is likely to come before the courts soon.
When I critically commented on a report that Prince Charles had commissioned on the cost effectiveness of alternative medicine, (3) my university received a letter from the prince’s first private secretary, Sir Michael Peat, to "draw attention"to what he perceived as a "breach of confidence" on my behalf. It took a gruelling 13 months of an internal inquiry at Exeter University to clear my name.
Since I published a book with Simon Singh that evaluated the evidence for or against homoeopathy and other alternative treatments, (4) UK homoeopaths have been engaging in an elaborate campaign of multiple letter writing, repeatedly invoking the Freedom of Information Act to harass and silence me. This letter shows that they have failed. All of this "is not just unpleasant, it is also unhealthy," commented Ben Goldacre. (5)
I would add that the frequency of these events in recent months is downright scary. People who use legal muscle and power, rather than reason and debate, are a danger to reason and progress. What is at stake here is our right, I would argue our duty, to speak out against misleading claims and dangerous concepts. We should find ways of protecting ourselves against such enemies of reason. "
Cite this as: BMJ 2008;337:a2063 Edzard Ernst, Laing chair of complementary medicine"
Gilbey A. Use of inappropriate titles by New Zealand practitioners of acupuncture,chiropractic, and osteopathy.
N Z Med J 2008;121(1278):15-20Boseley S. Matthias Rath drops libel action against Guardian.
BMJ 2008;337:a1710(18 September.)Henderson M. Prince plots alternative treatments for the NHS.
Times 2005 Aug 24:1.Singh S, Ernst E. Trick or treatment? Alternative medicine on trial. London: BantamPress, 2008. Goldacre B. With their money, myopia and abuses, these pill makers match big pharma.Guardian 2008 Sep 13:34. | <urn:uuid:b1dc9782-8bcf-466a-9088-7efc432b56d0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wanderingprimate.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944848 | 809 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Despite not being a father I figured I would use the day as an excuse to talk about my friends, use some quotes and discuss movies.
“Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad” – unknown
I am really lucky to have the friends I have. The guys are great dads (and the moms great moms). I am pleased to have the opportunity to be a dad vicariously through them. And I am fascinated by how each, in their own unique way, shows their love for their kids.
In the end how they do it is irrelevant. It’s that they actually do it that matters.
And research supports what our gut tells us that it matters.
Research has shown that a father’s love is just as important as—or sometimes even more important than—a mother’s love.
It is obvious that fathers who enjoy a loving, nurturing relationship with their children have important opportunities to influence the direction children take in life. Studies have demonstrated that young people whose fathers are actively involved in their lives have greater self-confidence, perform better in school, and are better able to avoid risky behaviors.
All that said … I have truly come to respect great fathers because being a loving father is not easy. It requires a dedication, a commitment and making the time. Whether they feel comfortable doing so or not … fathers must learn about the different stages of child development and become familiar with the strengths, weaknesses, personalities, and specific needs of their children as individuals. Dads also must build their listening and communication skills (not a particularly strong characteristic in the male world) and ultimately not just be a great father but also a great partner’ (if married) to insure alignment. Being a great father takes some strength of character, giving and earning respect and a shitload of resiliency <because all kids constantly test your patience>.
This first portion was written to say to all fathers who have stepped up to the plate and figured out how to show love to their kids (regardless of its end expression) that they are doing a damn good job. No matter how difficult it may seem.
Before I get to the really fun part here are my three favorite father quotes:
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. – Marilyn French
“Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad” – unknown
“My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass”; “We’re not raising grass,” Dad would reply. “We’re raising boys”
- Harmon Killebrew
I like ‘em because they seem to capture the essence of what I believe is a good father. And, happily so, it reflects my best friend’s who are dads and their attitudes.
OK. And now to the fun part. Movies.
In honor of Father’s Day I tried to pick my best father movies. It was tricky but here is my basic criteria.
I thought about it from the perspective of the fact anyone can bring a child into this world, but it takes a true man to be a father. At the same time … fathers aren’t superheroes (although it takes superhuman effort) and they aren’t always perfect. And it is ultimately their imperfections that often make them a special father. Despite personal flaws … they try to overcome those flaws for the sake of their children. I tried to find the flawed fathers, who were human, but also depicted some super-human “heart.”
Here you go. My top father movies.
(note: some of the movie writeups are other people’s words which I used because they can summarize what I wanted to say about the movie much better than i)
Well. May as well begin with an animated dad. And a fish. Oh. A clownfish too. This father is a widower clownfish who becomes a neurotically over protective dad. His smothering attitude so infuriates his little son, Nemo, that the little fish swims defiantly away and is captured by divers. The father must then go on an epic journey to rescue his son.
Voiced by Albert Brooks, a loving but over-protective little clownfish must search the entire ocean to find his lost son. Nemo has a disability, which his father has taught him to call his “lucky fin.” This shows us that at some level, even before he is aware of it himself, he wants to teach his son to be strong, confident, and independent.
This is an AWESOME movie that shouldn’t get lost. It is timeless. Antonio Ricci is a poor young father struggling to make a living in post-war Rome. He finds a job putting up posters around town only to have his bicycle stolen by a brash thief. The rest of the film follows Antonio and his young son as they attempt to track down the bicycle.
You would have to not have a heart not to be moved by this story of a poor man and his young son, as they search the streets of Rome to find his stolen bicycle, which he needs for his job. As their search continues we become aware that the poor man’s real treasure is not the bike, but his son. An incredibly touching father/son movie.
To Kill a Mockingbird
The father of a daughter <Dill>, Atticus Finch <Gregory Peck> gives a fatherly performance of granite decency and integrity. He is a widower and Alabama lawyer who defends a black man against a wrongful charge of rape. This is one of the most highly charged depictions of fatherhood in Hollywood history. This father, this man, is one who takes the moral high ground even when it leaves him largely outnumbered. Atticus is the ultimate role model of equality, courage, and empathy to his children. And yet, throughout, he is able to do all this while still encouraging Dill and Scout’s individuality and giving them the freedom to make up their own minds. He is everything you want from a father.
This may seem out of place because it is certainly no cinematic classic. It isn’t odd because it is a vivid demonstration of the extremes a father will take for a child. In Taken, Liam Neeson plays an estranged divorced father of a 17 year old girl. He’s a retired government agent who has missed much of his daughter’s childhood due to his job, and it’s also cost him his marriage. Having retired, he chooses to live in the same city as his daughter in an effort to make up for lost time. His ex-wife wants to let their daughter go to Paris and he grudgingly gives in against his better judgment. Once in Paris his daughter & her friend are kidnapped to be sold into white slavery. From here on out this is all about a father relentlessly tracking down her kidnappers and finding her before she disappears forever. Rarely has there been such a single-minded fatherly demonstration on screen of a father going to any extreme to save the life of his daughter.
Sleepless in Seattle
Almost impossible to leave this sappy one off the list. You gotta love the reversed relationship moments throughout the movie where the young son plays the role of the adult. It is an amazingly clever way to show how well a father is bringing up a son without being heavy handed. The love story is simply an addendum to the power of a great father-son relationship. We all know the story. Despite being devastated by the loss of his wife the father is committed to being a positive and caring father for his son Jonah. Hanks is particularly good at showing us how Sam’s love for Jonah both sustains him and makes him miss his wife even more because every moment reminds him of how much he wishes she could share his pride or supply some guidance. The true “father moment”?
Look for Hanks’s expression as he arrives at the top of the Empire State Building in search of Jonah, who has flown to New York from Seattle in search of a woman he thinks might be right for his father. The combined relief and desperation as he asks himself, more than Jonah, whether “haven’t we been doing all right” … is something every father can understand.
Father of the Bride
George (Steve Martin) is the father of Annie whose journey from girlhood to womanhood has seemed oh so short. She’s just about ready to get married which has George shaking in his sneakers.
Steve Martin shines as the bumbling, nervous father who’ll do anything for his little girl … including letting her go. The defining Father moment? The scene of Steve Martin playing basketball with his daughter in the driveway is priceless. It captures the essence of what is at the true core of love and sharing and the inseparable bond that can be created beyond a father and a child way beyond words.
And I have to end with what I believe is the penultimate father movie.
Life is Beautiful
Whew. This one is amazing.
Guido Orefice is one of the rare movie fathers that is genuinely good from start to finish. Even through the atrocities of the Holocaust, he found a way to keep a smile on his young boy’s face. In an effort to preserve the innocence of his son, while also protecting him, Guido turned the Holocaust into a game. As impossible as it sounds, he turned every trash can into a hiding place and the Nazis into nothing more than fake villains. As far as his son knew, the entire concentration camp was created just for him. There is so much devastation throughout the film, yet Guido’s persistence and dedication to family surpassed his own selfish desire to survive. Even when a pair of Nazis hauls him out of the living quarters to beat him mercilessly, he convinces his child it is all part of the game. No matter the cost, he was committed to psychologically and physically protecting his son during one of the most horrifying events in human history.
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Study finds the bulk of shoes’ carbon footprint comes from manufacturing processes.
A major unsolved problem in medicine is the inability to regenerate nerve cells damaged by injury or disease. Efforts to understand the complex interactions that promote nerve cell growth and survival-focusing primarily on isolated nerve cells in culture-have produced limited and often conflicting results.
In the March 10 issue of Nature, scientists from the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and MIT report a new approach to the problem.
Using new gene transfer technologies, they have created the first animal model completely lacking one of the four known neurotrophin molecules (a family of substances that promote survival and differentiation of various nerve cell populations). This model will greatly advance understanding of nerve cell development and also should be useful in evaluating potential treatments for human neurological diseases.
Dr. Patrik Ernfors, Dr. Kuo-Fen Lee, and Dr. Rudolf Jaenisch of the Whitehead Institute have developed a mouse strain with a specific mutation in the gene encoding brain-derived neurotrophic factor, or BDNF.
Previous studies by other researchers have shown that BDNF can prevent the deaths of certain populations of neurons in culture and rescue motor neurons in newborn laboratory animals. Based on this information, some scientists have proposed using recombinant human BDNF to treat motor neuron diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease).
"The new animal model will provide a system for assessing the potential success of such therapies," says Dr. Jaenisch, a member of the Whitehead Institute and professor of biology at MIT. "Already, it has shown us that some early assumptions about BDNF function may be incorrect."
For example, studies showing that BDNF could rescue motor neurons in newborn animals led to speculation that BDNF might influence motor neuron survival during development. However, the new BDNF mutant mice do not have any obvious defects in motor neuron development.
Dr. Ernfors and his colleagues suggest two possible explanations for these results. Either the earlier studies did not give an accurate reflection of the role of BDNF during development-new gene knock-out strategies offer a much more precise way of assessing gene function in the intact animal than traditional methods-or other neurotrophins in the mutant mice are compensating for the loss of BDNF.
Future studies of the new mouse strain will help scientists unravel this important puzzle. The ultimate goal is to understand how different neurotrophins interact during neural development to produce an intact embryo, and then learn to recreate those interactions to heal or rescue damaged nerve cells later in life.
The BDNF mutant mice do show specific defects in sensory neurons, the cells that transmit information from sensory organs such as the skin and tongue back to the brain. Perhaps the most dramatic example of this problem is the failure of the organ in the inner ear that controls balance. The mutant mice have severe balance problems because they do not have nerve cells capable of providing information to the brain about the position or state of motion of the head.
The Whitehead researchers developed this important new model for studying neurological disease using advanced transgenic technologies. Dr. Ernfors and his associates inserted a mutant BDNF gene into mouse cells in culture (embryonic stem cells) and then injected the altered cells into very early mouse embryos. Some of the resulting animals had the capacity to pass the mutant BDNF gene to their offspring; within two generations, the researchers had animals carrying two copies of the mutant gene in every cell.
This research was supported by the National Institutes of Health. In addition, Dr. Ernfors is supported by a fellowship from the Swedish Medical Research Council and Dr. Lee by a fellowship from Amgen, Inc. Dr. Ernfors is a postdoctoral fellow at the Whitehead Institute and Dr. Lee is a postdoctoral associate.
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Legal battles are not so precious.
Warner Bros. filed a lawsuit against author J.R.R. Tolkien's estate Monday, claiming breach of contract over The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings licensing opportunities.
In November, it was Tolkien's estate and the his publisher, HarperCollins, that filed an $80 million suit against the studio, alleging they lost out on royalties from ancillary sources of income—including The Hobbit online slot machines and games—since selling the film rights in 1969.
Then in January, per The Hollywood Reporter, the films' rights holder, Saul Zaentz Co., made a counterclaim that Tolkien's estate has breached an implied contract of good faith and fair dealing.
Now, Warner Bros. is alleging that Tolkien's estate's contempt has cost them millions in licensing opportunities and is demanding damages for the alleged breach of contract.
In a lawsuit obtained by THR, the studio claims to be the successors-in-interest in merchandising and other rights because of its 1969 purchase of film rights. Warner Bros. also claims that 16 years ago, Tolkien's estate confirmed the studio had rights to online video games. But in 2010, when a "regrant agreement" was put into place, there was confusion over these rights, which resulted, the studio's suit alleges, in halted plans for Hobbit-themed casino slot machines. "This alone cost Warner millions of dollars in license fees," the lawsuit states.
Bonnie Eskenazi, the Tolkien estate's attorney, told THR that the counterclaims "are nothing more than an effort to sue the Tolkiens and HarperCollins for suing them. They are entirely without merit and are a classic example of studio 'bullying tactics.'"
The Tolkien estate lawyer also claims that the November lawsuit was their way "to force WB and Zaentz to live without the boundaries of the contract to which they agreed" and that the studio's counterclaims "are simply an attempt to punish the Tolkiens and HarperCollins for having the nerve to stand up to the studios and tell them that they can't take more rights than were granted to them by contract." | <urn:uuid:c12d67cd-cf43-4fdd-b72c-4b6ebe8eea39> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.eonline.com/news/397531/hobbit-lawsuit-warner-bros-countersues-tolkien-estate-alleges-breach-of-contract-over-gaming-rights | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96655 | 436 | 1.679688 | 2 |
How Much Money Would Taxing the Rich Raise?
CNBC Reporter & Editor
House Speaker John Boehner's latest tax proposal may mark a big step for Republicans. But it's a very small step in terms of actual tax revenues.
Boehner on Friday floated a plan to raise income-tax rates on tax filers making $1 million or more. The offer was a major concession to President Barack Obama's demand to raise tax rates on the wealthy – and signaled what might be a breakthrough in the talks to avoid the "fiscal cliff."
But for all its symbolic value, the Boehner plan would raise only modest revenues, especially compared to Obama's plan. The main reason: the "Boehner Rich" (those making $1 million or more) are a much smaller population than the "Obama Rich" (those making $250,000 or more).
First, let's look at the Obama Rich. The non-partisan Tax Policy Center figures that there are about 2.8 million Americans making $250,000 or more. They account for a little more than two percent of American tax filers. (Read more: Super Rich: 'Tax Us When We're Dead')
Raising taxes to 39.6 percent on the Obama Rich would yield around $40 billion to $45 billion in added tax revenue in the first year of the president's plan.
The Boehner Rich make up a much more elite club. There are only about 368,000 tax filers making $1 million – that's about 0.2 percent of American tax filers. Granted, their average income is more than $3.6 million, and they do account for a disproportionately large share of income and taxes. But hiking taxes on the Boehner Rich would yield about $20 billion in their first year, or less than half of the revenues from the Obama rich.
If the tax rate goes from 35 percent to 37 percent (another potential compromise) the revenues would be less than half those amounts.
Of course, $20 billion is a good chunk of change. And just because a tax doesn't raise much revenue or solve the entire budget problem doesn't mean it should be rejected. (Read more:Estate Tax Also on a 'Cliff')
The Boehner proposal is also a starting point, so maybe the final solution lies in the middle.
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So, was it hot or not?
Published: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at 5:44 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at 5:44 p.m.
Even without the scorching heat of a Mayan apocalypse to skew the data, 2012 will be written into the record books as the hottest year in history for the continental United States.
The heat was on in 2012
Average 2012 temperature nationwide (contiguous United States): 55.3
Departure from normal: + 3.2 degrees
Where it ranks among hottest years: 1st
Average 2012 temperature for Wilmington: 65.2
Departure from normal: + 1.1 degrees
Where it ranks among hottest years: 11th
Hottest temperature in Wilmington last year: 103 degrees
Hottest temperature in Wilmington, ever: 104 degrees
Average 2012 temperature for North Carolina: 60.8 degrees
Departure from normal: + 1.7 degrees warmer
Where it ranks among hottest years: 6th
Hottest temperature in North Carolina, ever: 110 degrees
Sources: National Climatic Data Center, National Weather Service
But despite an exceptionally mild winter and an extra long summer stuffed with stifling humidity, 2012 didn't even crack the top 10 warmest years in Wilmington. For North Carolina as a whole, last year ranks as the sixth warmest in history, discrepancies that experts said are fairly common when comparing local and regional climate numbers with national data sets.
“Some years, we're warmer than the continental average, some years we're cooler,” said Ryan Boyles, the state climatologist. “We don't tend to track one way or the other. When you get down to very local levels, a lot of other factors come into play.”
According to the National Climatic Data Center, the average temperature nationwide last year was 55.3 degrees – 3.2 degrees warmer than the 20th-century average and full degree hotter than 1998, the previous warmest year on record.
Though Wilmington's average temperature was much steamier – 65.2 degrees, 1.1 degrees above average – 2012 ranks just 11th on the city's list of warmest years, according to data from the National Weather Service. The explanation for the gap, Boyles said, is a mix of Wilmington's coastal characteristics and the crippling heat and dry conditions that plagued much of the nation for large swaths of last year.
“A lot of the reason that 2012 ranks so highly nationwide is the very hot, very dry conditions in the Midwest, coupled with the tremendous drought conditions this past summer,” he said. “Across North Carolina, the year was very warm, but not quite so extreme. Proximity to the ocean really moderates it, so things don't vary as greatly when you drill down locally.”
The warmest year for both the Port City and the Tar Heel State was 1990, when the average temperature was 2.4 degrees above normal. Though a temperature shift of that magnitude may seem insignificant, the country's warmest and coldest years on record are separated by just 4.2 degrees. Even a single degree one way or the other is a sizable change, according to Josh Weiss, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Wilmington.
“We've got 138 years of records here, so if over the course of 365 days you have an average temperature that is a full degree warmer, statistically, that's a significant departure,” he said. “Normally, it's a tenth of a degree, a couple hundredths, something like that. Anything that's a full degree over such a large data set is a very meaningful increase.”
So far, 2013 is off to a similarly steamy start, though that data is skewed heavily by Wilmington's recent bout of sustained high temperatures in the mid-to-upper 70s.
“We've been 5.5 degrees above normal, on average, thus far,” Weiss said. “The average temperature is 51.5 degrees, and normal for this time of year is 46 degrees.”
But that doesn't necessarily translate into a hotter-than-average year overall. According to the three-month forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the eastern half of North Carolina has an equal chance of above average, normal, and below average temperatures through March.
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Francysk Skaryna (pronounced [franˈt͡sɨsk skaˈrɨna]; or Skoryna; Belarusian: Францыск (Францішак) Скарына) was a Belarusian famous as one of the first publishers in Eastern Europe, laying groundwork for the development of the Belarusian language. Francysk Skaryna - Famous figure of Belarusian Culture in the 16th century. One of the founders of Belarusian and Eastern European publishing. He was the first publisher and columnist of Scripture and liturgical texts, social activists, medical scientists, philosophers and humanists plus he was a translator and artist.
The exact date of his birth and death are unknown. However it is known that he lived in 1480s; the two most probable estimates are 1485–1540 and 1490–1551. He was born in the historical Belarusian city of Polatsk into the family of a wealthy merchant. Polatsk was a major trade and manufacturing center of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. His father was a merchant. Francysk Skaryna had a brother. His name was Ivan. He also was engaged in trade. The brothers had a property in Polatsk, perhaps it was an ancestral property.
Francysk Skaryna studied in a church school at St. Sophia Cathedral under the guidance of his spiritual father, the head of the school, a priest of St. Sophia Cathedral, Joseph. Possibly Joseph had another name, which also appeared in official documents as the name of Archpriest of St. Sophia Cathedral. This man was married, had children, and after his wife's death, he was tonsured a monk with the name of Joseph. Then he was elected as Archbishop of Polatsk, and later became Metropolitan of Kiev with residence in Vilnius and his name was known as Joseph III. When Francysk Skaryna completed his primary education in Polatsk he was influenced by Bernadine. In the end of the 15th century the Bernadine were popular in Polatsk and became influential in Lithuania. He studied in monk school of Bernadine and learned the Latin there.
Skaryna was a student of Krakow university. The education was in Latin. Skaryna graduated from the arts faculty at the University of Kraków in 1504 with a Bachelor of Arts. In 1512 he received doctorate in medicine at the University of Padua in Italy. In 1512 he was in Padua “a Longigquissimis partibus forsan per quattuor milia miliaria et ultra ab hac praeclara civitate, pro augmentando famam et honorem ad illam(Universitatem) se contulit” and after passing all required tests he got a PHD in medicine. Later Francysk Skaryna got a “atrium doctor” and “atrium bonarum doctor” degree . But the exact date and place is unknown.
In 1517 Francusk Skaryna came to Prague.(There is an assumption that Francysk Skaryna was a student of Charles University in Prague, however there is no documentation which could prove it) the same year he established a printing house in Prague. Skaryna published his scriptures not by the normal order as it was in the full Bible but by individual issue. The order was deeply thought out. The certain system was adapted to the priority needs of the people in that time.
On the 6th of August in 1517 his first edition was released in the Old Belarusian language “The Psalter”. “The Psalter” nearly comprises all, what was in other biblical books of Holy Scripture. “It contains everything people needed for the welfare of human life on earth.” Then he released a new book every two month ( 10th of September, 6th of October, 5th of December, 2nd of January. 1518 , 9th January, 19th of January) Then, on 10th of august he published 4 books at the same time.The culmination of his life's work was printing a translation of the Bible in 22 books during 1517 to 1519.
In 1520, in Prague, Bohemia, there was an epidemic of a dreaded lethal disease. As it was mentioned before, Skaryna was a doctor thus he became involved into efforts against this disease. The same year the epidemic subsided. In the autumn 1520 civil unrests took place in Bohemia and Francysk Skaryna left the country. He moved to the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius.
In 1522 Francysk Skaryna opened the first printing house in Vilnius. Initially he published “The Little Travel Book”. Then in 1525 “Apostle” was published. "Apostol" was released in the same order as it is used in Orthodox worship now.
Skaryna married Margarita, the widow of a Vilnius city councilor. In 1529 he went to Poznan because of his brother’s death. There in Poznan he got his share of the goods due to the division of Ivan’s property.
The fire in Vilnius in 1530 destroyed three-quarters of the city, probably including Skaryna's publishing house.
In 1532 he was a doctor and secretary of the bishop in Vilnius. After two years the Lenders of his brother Ivan, considered Skaryna as the main brother’s heir and put him into Pazan jail. He was there for several months. It is a fact that Roman, Skaryna’s nephew, helped him in this situation. Roman had a meeting with the king. When Skaryna was released he sent a complaint letter with a counterclaim against the creditors to the King Sigismund I. Later in the response to the complaint letter, he was awarded two royal privilege certificates (from 21/XI and 25/XI 1532). In fact those certificates exempted him from the jurisdiction of all authorities except the King.
The last information about Francysk Skaryna is mentioned only in the archives of 1534. He moved from Vilnius to Prague. Probably he served in the royal garden in Prague until his death. According to some assumptions, Skaryna taught as a professor at the Charles University in Prague. It is possible however it is not a fact. Presumably he died in 1551 or 1552.
In 1552, his son Simeon Rus Skarina got a royal certificate according to which he, as the sole heir he was given all the property of the father. The property was such as manuscripts, letters and books.
Nowadays there is no answer to, who was Francysk Skaryna , Catholic or Orthodox. He never used words such as "Catholic" or "Orthodox" in his writings. He always just spoke about Christianity. In words of famous Michael Ulyahin : “to be able to study at the University of Kracow, Skarina had to hide his Orthodox, nee, name, Gregory, and be called a Roman Catholic, named Francis” However there is no evidence or official documents which confirms this information. More than that in the 16th century it was forbidden to mention the name of the first Belarusian publisher, and use his publications in Moscow Rus. The presumed cause is that Orthodox hierarchs suspected Protestant influence on his writings. Also the Orthodox theologians unanimously declared the influence of ideas of Luther on Skaryna.
It is known that there were two wars in the years 1492-1494 and 1500-1503. The wars were between Lithuania and Moscow Rus, especially between Alexander Cazimirovich and Ivan III. “Characteristic feature of high warring parties was that the first one was a devout Catholic, and the second - a consistent Orthodox” Therefore there was active attack of Catholicism on Orthodoxy governors in Polatsk.
The Bible was a common book in the Middle Ages. It was not just a religious and holy book. With the help of the Bible people learned how to write and read. Also they learned some parts of geography and history. Francysk Skaryna devoted his life to the publication of the biblical texts. He sought to make the Bible more available to the common people and write it an easy language. He was not only publishing books, also he wrote some preferences to them,as an example, in his prefaces Skaryna emphasizes that the purpose of his publishing activities is to help ordinary people " become acquainted with wisdom and science ". He always wrote some comments adding more information about the times that he described. All his comments, forewords and afterwords characterize him as a patriot, as active supporter of the spiritual and social unity of the people. He has a contribution to the development of Belarusian literary language. Skaryna’s Belarusian Bible is far ahead of similar publications from other nations. This Bible becoming the second, after the Czech, printed Bible in the Slavic world. He influenced in the development of Belarus, Eastern Slavic and Western science and culture in the 15th and 16th centuries.
In 1517 Skarina started his publishing career in Prague. He printed his Psalter, and then 22 books of the Old Testament under the common name Biblia Ruska. His books were not very characteristic for the West-European printed Bibles of that time. The reason is that all of them are published in the format of a fourth part of a leaf. Texts of the Bible are printed in the Church Slavonic Language with a big amount of Belarusian words. More than that Belarusian linguists can identify the influence of Polish and Czech languages.
Skarynas Bible breaks the existing rules of that time. It contains text from the publisher, his comments, forewords and afterwords. In addition it contains prints with his image. It is the first such case and the last in the history of the publication of Bibles in Eastern Europe.
All Skaryna’s editions are very rare, especially those published in Vilnius. Rare items are stored in libraries of Minsk, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Vilnius, Lviv, London, Prague, Copenhagen, Krakow.
Skaryna was one of the first to publish in the Cyrillic script, but not the first, as the Oktoikh was published by Schweipolt Fiol in 1491. While it was an Eastern Slavic language, it is difficult to determine precisely what language he used as there was no conventional Belarusian language as we know it today. Some researchers maintain that Skaryna's books were in Church Slavonic heavily saturated with Belarusian. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that Skaryna laid the foundations of the Belarusian literary language.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Minsk the capital of Belarus, had Skaryna Avenue (praspiekt Franciška Skaryny). However, in 2005, under the rule of Alexander Lukashenko, it was renamed into Independence Avenue (praspekt Nezalezhnastsi). Old Barysau Path (Starabarysauski trakt) was renamed into Skaryna Street (vulica Skaryny).
- Streets are named by the name after Francysk Skaryna in Minsk, Polatsk, Vitebsk, Nesvizh, Orsha, Slutsk and many other cities of Belarus.
- Gomel State University is named after Francysk Skaryna.
- There are monuments to Francysk Skaryna in Polatsk, Minsk, Lida, Vilnius and Prague.
- There are special awards in Belarus: Skarina Medal (1989) and the Order of Skaryna (1995)
- In 1969 Boris Stepanov filmed a movie “Я, Францыск Скарына ” (I’m Francysk Skoryna).
- In 1991 Francysk Skaryna was depicted on the Soviet Union 1 rubble coin.
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- "Доверительная грамота короля ФЕРДИНАНДА I,выданная сыну Ф. СКОРИНЫ СИМЕОНУ от 29 января 1552г., г.Прага". Strannik.tv. Retrieved 2013-03-19.
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- FRANCISK SKORINA: A JOURNEY TO THE FATHERLAND
- Treasures of the National Library - Moscow, retrieved on November 3, 2007.
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On June 26, 2000, Port Jefferson, New York, enacted an ordinance barring formula fast food restaurants from the village’s historic commercial and waterfront districts. The measure was proposed by the Port Jefferson Civic Association, which has fought to prevent McDonald’s from locating in the village center and to protect the community’s unique character and ambiance.
Ata meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson, held at the Village Hall at 121 West Broadway, Port Jefferson, New York on the 26th day of June, 2000;
WHEREAS,due public hearing on proposed amendments to Chapter 250 of the Ordinance of the Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson was held on the 26th day of June, 2000; and
WHEREAS, all citizens and parties at interest had the opportunity to be heard; and
WHEREAS,the Board of Trustees desires to approve the amendments to Chapter 250 of the Ordinance of the Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson as hereinafter set forth.
WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees has determined that the proposed amendment is an unlisted action, has adopted the annexed Short Environmental Assessment Form, and has concluded that the proposed amendment will have no significant adverse impact on the environment.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that Chapter 250 of the Ordinance of the Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson be amended as follows:
Amend Section 250-9 by adding the following definition:
FORMULAFAST FOOD ESTABLISHMENT – An establishment required by contractual or other arrangements to offer some or all of the following:
(a) standardized menus, ingredients, food preparation, decor, external facade and/or uniforms;
(b) pre-prepared food in a ready-to-consume state;
(c) sold over the counter in disposable containers and wrappers;
(d) selected from a limited menu;
(e)for immediate consumption on or off the premises;
(f) where the customer pays before eating.
This definition does not include eating and drinking or retail food establishments.
AmendSection 250-18(B) (9) (e) by deleting the same in its entirety and substituting in lieu thereof a new Section 250-18(B) (9) (e) reading as follows:
Section 250-18(B) (9) (e). Seating shall be based on existent fire and health codes.
Amend Section 250-18(B) (9) by adding subparagraph (h) reading as follows:
Section250-18(B)(9) (h). No retail food establishment may sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises or permit consumption of alcoholic beverages on premises.
Amend Section 250-18 by adding subparagraph H reading as follows:
H. Formula Fast Food Establishments are prohibited in the Central Commercial C-1 District.
Amend Section 250-19B by adding subparagraph (2) reading as follows:
(2) Formula Fast Food Establishments are prohibited in the General Commercial C-2 District.
Amend Section 250-22 by adding subparagraph H reading as follows:
H. Formula Fast Food Establishments are prohibited in the Marina Waterfront MW District.
Dated: June 26, 2000.
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Electromagnetic tooth clutches offer the greatest torque in the smallest package size. Because the clutches can be made for zero backlash, they are very good for printing applications where a number of stations need to be timed together, but occasionally are required to disengage. The units can be made with a single position option to allow precise timing. Tooth clutches are also ideal for applications that are engaging at very low rpm. Gear box and machine tool applications are also ideal for tooth clutches.
High torque/compact design: Tooth clutches provide the highest torque per size of any electromagnetic clutch style.
Single position style available: Optional tooth clutches can offer single position for precise registration applications.
No slip: Torque is driven via tooth, so slippage is non-existent when clutch is engaged.
Zero backlash: As an option, tooth profile can be made to produce zero backlash when clutch is engaged.
Zero drag torque: There is no drag torque in the disengaged position because there is no tooth contact.
Wet/dry applications: Tooth clutches can be used in either wet (oil/gear box) or dry applications.
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Engagement: Electromechanical tooth clutches operate via an electric actuation, but transmit torque mechanically. When voltage/current is applied to the clutch coil, the coil becomes an electromagnet and produces magnetic lines of flux. This flux is then transferred through the small air gap between the field and the rotor. The rotor portion of the clutch becomes magnetized and sets up a magnetic loop, which attracts the armature teeth to the rotor teeth. In most instances, the rotor is constantly rotating with the input (drive). As soon as the clutch armature and rotor are engaged, lock up is 100%. (Because of this instantaneous engagement, tooth clutches cannot be engaged above 50 rpm.)
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We are the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada, professional musicians united through our Locals so that:
- We can live and work in dignity;
- Our work will be fulfilling and compensated fairly;
- We will have a meaningful voice in decisions that affect us;
- We will have the opportunity to develop our talents and skills;
- Our collective voice and power will be realized in a democratic and progressive union;
- We can oppose the forces of exploitation through our union solidarity.
To achieve these objectives, we must commit to:
- Treating each other with respect and dignity without regard to ethnicity, creed, sex, age, disability, citizenship, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, or national origin;
- Honoring the standards and expectations we collectively set for ourselves in pursuit of that vision, supporting and following the Bylaws that we adopt for ourselves;
- Actively participating in the democratic institutions of our union.
With that unity and resolve, we must engage in direct action that demonstrates our power and determination to:
- Organize unorganized musicians, extending to them the gains of unionism while securing control over our industry sectors and labor markets;
- Bargain contracts and otherwise exercise collective power to improve wages and working conditions, expand the role of musicians in work place decision-making, and build a stronger union;
- Build political power to ensure that musicians' voices are heard at every level of government to create economic opportunity and foster social justice;
- Provide meaningful paths for member involvement and participation in strong, democratic unions;
- Develop highly trained and motivated leaders at every level of the union who reflect the membership in all its diversity;
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When my two adult sons were young boys, we had a rule in our house - sugar-coated cereal only on Saturdays. As I tried to instill healthful eating habits into their lives, it was one small way I could protect them from a sugar-laden world of food. Yes, they did eat cereal other mornings during the week. But I'd also have them stir fresh fruit into homemade yogurt, stir eggs with a fork to get them ready for scrambling or dip bread into milk and eggs to make French toast.
I've always been a believer of starting the day with a good breakfast. Although I have skipped plenty of morning meals in my life, I made it my mission to be sure there was a healthful breakfast for my family to begin their day.
There are so many good reasons to begin each day with foods that provide the nutrients we need to function at our best. Research continues to suggest that children who start the day with a nutritionally balanced breakfast that helps their proper growth and well being are more alert, more creative and more energetic. With childhood obesity at an all-time high, it's important to note that children who get into the breakfast habit are also less likely to be overweight.
The newest addition to my cookbook collection, "Junior Leagues in the Kitchen with Kids: Everyday Recipes and Activities for Healthy Living," takes all of this to heart. Healthful and kid-friendly recipes from Association of Junior League International chapters have been compiled into a book complete with colorful photos of prepared dishes, step-by-step instructions for young cooks to follow and pictures of children preparing the recipes.
Give children the opportunity to participate in food preparation and they're more likely to eat it. Breakfast Pizza may be a good place to start. After all, who wouldn't love a slice of pizza to start the day?
Children can pat refrigerated dough onto a pan, add some toppings, mix some eggs and milk to pour over the crust and into the oven it goes.
The recipe suggests adding onions and peppers, but why not chop leftover vegetables from dinner and sprinkle them over the pizza? Even those green beans or broccoli the kids ignored may be more appealing in small bits on top of a cheesy breakfast pizza.
It's easy to create a deep-dish pizza by preparing it in a 10-inch cast-iron skillet. Any oven-safe skillet will work. Leftovers can be refrigerated and heated up for another meal.
Maybe I could have completely eliminated sugar-coated cereal from my family's vocabulary if I had thought to have Kids in the Kitchen Saturdays, all of us working together to prepare breakfast that's fun to eat.
It's never too late. They're still my kids, right? What do you say guys? Can you give up your bowl of sugar-coated cereal for family breakfast-making this Saturday at my house?
1 tube reduced-fat refrigerator crescent rolls
1 cup crumbled cooked breakfast sausage
1 cup frozen hash browns, thawed
1 cup (4-ounces) shredded cheddar cheese
Chopped onions and/or bell peppers (optional)
Hot sauce (optional)
1/4 cup milk
Salt and pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Open the tube of crescent roll dough and arrange it on a work surface. Separate the dough into triangles along the perforated lines. Arrange the triangles on a round pizza pan with the points toward the center. Press the edges together lightly to form the pizza crust.
Sprinkle the sausage, hash browns and cheese evenly over the crust. Top with onions, bell peppers and hot sauce.
Place the eggs and milk in a mixing bowl and beat with a whisk until smooth. Pour the mixture evenly over the pizza. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Use an oven mitt to place the pizza in the oven. Bake for 30 minutes or until the eggs are set and crust is golden brown. Check the pizza occasionally to be sure it doesn't get too brown.
Remove the pizza from the oven with an oven mitt and cut it into wedges with a pizza cutter. Serves 8.
Recipe from "Junior Leagues in the Kitchen with Kids: Everyday Recipes and Activities for Healthy Living." 2009.
Tip from the cook
--Brown a whole pound of bulk breakfast sausage the night before preparing the pizza. Drain the sausage on a double thickness of paper towels. Once cool, refrigerate 1 cup of the sausage that will be needed for the pizza. Store remaining meat in 1-cup portions in the freezer. You'll be all set for the next Breakfast Pizza. | <urn:uuid:aebe6e78-3200-474f-8b5d-7fd63399022d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wctrib.com/content/want-get-kids-eat-breakfast-how-about-pizza | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954325 | 950 | 2.265625 | 2 |
A patriot and soldier, born at St. Leonhard in Passeyrthale, Tyrol, 22 Nov., 1767; executed at Mantua, 20 Feb., 1810. His father was known as the "Sandwirth" (i.e., landlord of the inn on the sandy spit of land formed by the Passeyr. The inn had been in the family for over one hundred years). Hofer's education was very limited. As a youth, he was engaged in the wine and horse trade, but he went farther afield, learned to know men of every class, and even acquired a knowledge of Italian that stood him in good stead later. After his marriage with Anna Ladurner, he took over his father's business, which, however, did not flourish in his hands. Gifted, though not a genius, a dashing but upright young man, loyal to his God and his sovereign, he made many friends by his straightforward character; his stately figure and flowing beard contributing in no small degree to his attractiveness. When the Tyrol was handed over to Bavaria at the Peace of Presburg, the "Sandwirth" was among the delegates who escorted the departing Archduke John. Thenceforth he attended quietly to his own affairs until, in 1806, he was called to Vienna with others, and was informed of the proposed uprising in the Tyrol. At the outset of the rebellion he was by no means its chief, but acquired fame as a leader mainly by his capture of a Bavarian detachment in the marsh of Sterzing. Hofer was not engaged in the first capture of Innsbruck, being then an officer on the southern frontier with the title of "Imperial Royal Commandant". When the French broke victoriously into the Tyrol and occupied Innsbruck, he issued a general summons to the people, which roused many patriots and drew them to his standard. The fact that the enemy, underestimating the strength of the popular party, left only a small garrison of troops, favoured their cause. After various skirmishes Hofer's men broke into Innsbruck on 30 May. The real battle came off at Berg Isel. The "Sandwirth" took no part in the conflict; nevertheless he directed it with skill and success.
The Tyrol was now free from invasion for two months; indeed, a few bands of insurgents ventured into Bavarian and Italian territory. Under these conditions Hofer thought he could return to his home and leave the government in the hands of the Intendant Hormayr, who had been sent from Vienna. But when, in spite of positive assurances from the emperor, the Tyrol was abandoned at the armistice of Znaim, and Marshal Lefebvre advanced to subdue the country, the people determined to risk their lives for faith and freedom. Again the written order of the "Sandwirth" flew round the valleys. Haspinger and Speckbacher organized the people, and on 13 and 14 August occurred the second battle of Berg Isel. Haspinger decided the result of the day; but Hofer stood for some time in the very heat of the battle, and by bis energetic efforts induced the already weakening ranks to renew their efforts. Henceforth, the Intendant having fled, Hofer took the government into his own hands, moved into the Hofburg, and ruled his admiring countrymen in a patriarchal manner. Francis II bestowed on him a golden medal, but this proved fatal to Hofer, who was thereby strengthened in his delusion that the emperor would never abandon his faithful Tyrolese. Thus it happened that he even disregarded a letter from the Archduke John, as though it were a Bavarian or French proclamation, and on 1 November lost the third battle of Berg Isel against a superior force of the enemy.
The renewed success of the French general and the Bavarian crown prince (afterwards Ludwig I) now determined Hofer to surrender; trusting however, to his friends and to false rumours, he changed his mind and decided to fight to the last. The mighty columns of the allies soon crushed all resistance, and the leaders of the peasant army saw that nothing remained but flight; Hofer alone remained and went into hiding. A covetous countryman, greedy for the reward offered for his capture, betrayed him. He was surprised in his hiding place, dragged to Mantua amid insults and outrages, and haled before a court. Without awaiting its sentence a peremptory order from Napoleon ordered him to be shot forthwith. He took his death-sentence with Christian calmness, and died with the courage of a hero. The prophecy he uttered in the presence of his confessor shortly before he died: "The Tyrol will be Austrian again" was fulfilled three years later. His remains were disinterred in 1823 and laid to rest in the court chapel at Innsbruck, where his life-size statue now stands. The emperor ennobled the Hofer family. The youth of Germany has been inspired by his heroic figure, and German poets like Mosen, Schenkendorf, Immermann, etc. have sung of his deeds and sufferings. Even the French pay a wondering homage to his sincere piety, bis self-sacrificing patriotism, and his noble sense of honour (Denis in "Hist. gén."; Corréard in "Précis d'histoire moderne": a text-book for the pupils of the military school of St. Cyr).
Andreas Hofer und die Tiroler Insurrektion (Munich, 1810); HORMAYR, Das Land Tirol und der Tirolerkrieg, 1809 (Leipzig, 1845); RAPP, Tirol im Jahre 1809 (Innsbruck, 1852); EGGER, Geschichte Tirols (3 vols., Innsbruck, 1880); HEIGEL, in Allg. d. Biogr., s.v.; FRANKE, Hofer im Liede (Innsbruck, 1884); HIRN, Tirols Erhebung im Jahre 1809 (Innsbruck, 1909).
APA citation. (1910). Andreas Hofer. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07381b.htm
MLA citation. "Andreas Hofer." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07381b.htm>.
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Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. June 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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tional distribution. For each year, these are based on the same set of occupational earnings from the 1980 census, so changes in the average value over time occur only through shifts in the distribution of immigrants across occupations. Thus, a decrease in the fraction of new immigrants in the relatively highly paid managerial and professional specialty occupations will lead to a fall in average occupational earnings.
Among male immigrants, average occupational earnings fell 7.6 percent between 1977 and 1994. Using the same methodology, incomes of native-born men rose 1.5 percent. Therefore, the same general trend of declining relative quality of immigrant cohorts is found using legal immigrants only. Similarly, among immigrant women, occupational income declined 0.6 percent between 1977 and 1994, and that of native women rose 4.1 percent. These trends are broadly consistent with the earlier evidence on trends among recent immigrants in conventional household surveys. The occupational earnings of immigrant men declined 9.1 percent relative to those of natives, and immigrant women experienced about a 5 percent relative decrease.
This analysis can be taken a step further by examining how average occupational earnings vary depending on the visa class of admission to permanent residence (see Table 5.10). New immigrants admitted under employment-preference visas have substantially greater earnings than those in other categories. Male employment principals had the highest occupational earnings, followed by their wives, women admitted as employment principals, and the spouses of those women. At the other end of the spectrum, refugees or asylees and their spouses have the lowest occupational earnings, and the various family-preference immigrants fall between these extremes.
The other columns in the table list changes in average occupational earnings relative to their 1977 level, first for 1982 and then for 1994. For both men and women, the most substantial changes are declines in earnings among employment principals and their spouses. These decreases occurred between 1977 and 1982, with some recovery (particularly among women) by 1994. A closer look at the change in occupational distributions reveals that the change in occupational earnings was driven largely by a dramatic fall in the number of physicians being admitted. This decline was driven by changes in U.S. immigration policy that made it much more difficult for physicians to enter as employment principals. The other substantial decline in occupational earnings was among male refugees and asylees, suggesting that the composition of refugees was shifting toward those whose occupational prospects were not so good.
Occupational earnings also differ substantially across country of origin, a pattern illustrated in Table 5.11. Immigrants from Mexico have the lowest average incomes, and those from Vietnam and the Dominican Republic have only modestly higher averages. In contrast, immigrants from India have the highest average incomes. There were very large declines in the occupational earnings of immigrants from some areas over this period—namely Vietnam, India, and Af- | <urn:uuid:056aa05d-b994-45d5-aa40-73096f99ca88> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=5779&page=194 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959619 | 602 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Fitness freaks can be fickle, flitting easily from pumping to boxing, and between Zumba and Pilates.
But now there's a push to rejuvenate one of the most low-maintenance sports on the block: skipping. It's slipped off the radar for many - but jumping rope is back as a fitness regime that packs a punch.
Many of us will remember skipping as a kid and probably took part in the Jump Rope for Heart at school, a campaign that celebrates its 30th anniversary next week.
Since Jump Rope for Heart started in 1983, more than 8 million Australians have taken part, raising $60 million to help the Heart Foundation.
''I love it when people say they remember doing Jump Rope for Heart at school,'' Lyn Roberts, the national chief executive of the Heart Foundation, said. "Whether it was in the '80s or last month; whether you could double-dutch or stuck to the single hop, we're incredibly grateful to all of our amazing skippers and everyone who sponsored them."
Skipping is still relevant now, Dr Roberts said. ''One in four Australian children are overweight and 80 per cent are not active enough. Jump rope is something that's fun and kids can do it on their own or as a class,'' she said.
Adults could also learn a thing or two from the schoolyard game. Shannon Bell, a personal trainer at Balmain Fitness, said skipping was great for increasing children's
co-ordination and ideal for increasing the fitness of adults.
''It really gets your heart rate up,'' he said. ''Increasing your cardiovascular fitness is great for your heart. It's also good for toning your calves, legs and shoulders.
''And because you're jumping up and down on the spot, you're putting load through your bones, which is good for bone density and that is especially important for women.''
It's also convenient, he said. ''You can do it anywhere, it's really cheap, it's quiet, it's weather-proof and you can do it on the spot.
''New mums who want to exercise while their baby sleeps can't leave the house for a walk but they can skip. People who travel for work can have a skipping rope in their suitcase which doesn't take up much room.''
It can help to shift unwanted kilos, he said. ''Skipping is really efficient for calorie burning,'' Bell said.
''If you're a good smooth skipper, it's burning the same amount of calories as running 10 kilometres an hour.''
But there is a downside. ''The main negative is the pounding on your joints. But that's only relevant for people with knee, hip and ankle problems in the first place. This can be lessened with a good technique.''
And good technique means:
- Using just the balls of your feet (so your heels never touch the ground);
- Keeping your arms glued to your sides;
- Moving from the wrists and elbows rather than the shoulders;
- Looking straight ahead with your chest up;
- Taking one jump every revolution - no double jumps.
And wear a good pair of running shoes. ''It helps with cushioning the impact but also if you hit yourself on the toes with the skipping rope it can really hurt,'' Bell said.
Singer and actor Erika Heynatz is starring in Legally Blonde: The Musical, as fitness queen Brooke Wyndham. She performs a number called Whipped into Shape, a high-intensity skipping routine. She estimates she is skipping 30 minutes every day.
''I've seen a real transformation in my body,'' she said.
''Forget slogging it at the gym, short bursts of high-intensity training is where it's at.
''Skipping for a minute at high intensity elevates your heart rate very quickly and strips the fat off you. It's the best fat blaster on the planet. And it's dirt cheap.
''It does hark back to childhood days. I did Jump Rope for Heart when I was in primary school.
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There are currently 16 active Specialist Groups; 14 covering waterbird taxa, one on freshwater fish, and a thematic group on wetland restoration issues. Overall our Specialist Group network involves over 2,000 people. The network of Specialist Groups is a vital part of Wetlands International, essential for the delivery of wetland and wetland species expertise in support of wetland conservation globally.
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The Waterbird Specialist Groups are operated as a 'Waterbird Network' jointly with IUCN - Species Survival Commission and are referred to as "Wetlands International - IUCN SSC Specialist Groups". In addition, the Freshwater Fish Specialist Group is jointly coordinated with the IUCN SSC. IUCN Species Survival Commission co-ordinates a wide range of other Specialist Groups apart from the ones shared with Wetlands International, covering different animal and plant taxa and themes. More information on their website.
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I've seen it before. Some Web sites will list multiple fonts that CAN be used for that text if the machine has it on the computer. So for example, If I say that my headers can be rendered with Arial, Helvetica, and Verdana, the browser will render it with Helvetic first IF Arial is not on the system. If the list is backwards (Helvetica, Arial, Verdana) and you have some sort of Helvetica font on your machine (which it looks like you do), even if it's an obscure one in the font family, It'll render it.
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We started writing last week about Pagosa Springs’s last stage coach holdup, which took place in September of 1892.
It should be noted that in the early days of Colorado history, stage coach holdups were not unusual, especially in mining districts where stage coaches carried mine payrolls and gold.
The holdup we are reporting took place near today’s intersection of Mill Creek Road and U.S. 84. We pick up today where we left off last week.
Three men set out to find the bandit as soon as the holdup was reported to local law enforcement.
The stage driver, a teenager named Alfred Black, was so frightened he gave up driving stage coaches. The three men from Pagosa who were searching for the bandit looked generally in an easterly direction, riding toward Summitville and Antonito. They found nothing.
A week later, the Creede-Spar City stage was held up.
Spar City was a mining camp located a few miles southwest of Creede. It remains to this day as a privately-owned ghost town. A man by the name of Alexander McKenzie was soon arrested for the Creede-Spar City holdup. He was also charged with robbing the Pagosa Springs stage.
When it was learned that McKenzie was a Canadian citizen, the whole affair took on an international hue.
McKenzie was destitute. In seeking funds for his defense, the court turned to the British consulate in Denver. In the end, McKenzie was found guilty of both holdups by the Denver court.
When I first attended local historical society meetings during the late 1970s, the holdup was discussed several times. Some of the oldtimers attending those meetings thought the Pagosa Springs holdup was conducted by a local man, Jule Macht. They didn’t know anything about the arrest and conviction of McKenzie. I don’t know if they were being tongue in cheek or not. One of four brothers, Jule was a prominent local citizen who contributed much to the welfare of Pagosa Springs and Archuleta County. Macht had a ranch off of the Blanco Basin Road in the Little Blanco drainage where he raised cattle. Among other things, Jule built the brick home at the corner of Third and Pagosa streets in town. He was also prominent in the founding of the Methodist Church.
Correction: Last week when I was describing the stage route from Amargo to Pagosa Springs, I said, paraphrased, “the route left Halfway Canyon and crossed the Navajo River.’” I should have said, “the route left Halfway Canyon and crossed the Blanco River.” The Navajo River is a considerable distance south and crosses U.S. 84 at Chromo. | <urn:uuid:c7d90ae1-a967-4985-953c-903f4bcdf33a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://pagosasun.com/archives/2011/12December/121511/pagosapast.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985224 | 575 | 1.835938 | 2 |
All about Emporia and Emporia State!
Emporia State University was established in 1863 as the state’s first school for training teachers. Although founded in 1863, the first term did not begin until February 15, 1865.
The president of Kansas Normal School and its only teacher, Lyman Kellogg, taught 18 students on the second floor of the district school house. At the first commencement on June 28, 1867, Kellogg presented diplomas to Mary Jane Watson, a Civil War heroine, and to Ellen Plumb; the first, Judge Watson’s daughter and the second from Senator Plumb’s family. Kellogg saw to it that the Normal got off to an auspicious start before becoming a successful lawyer, honored judge, and Attorney General of Kansas.
For 19 years after its inception, KSN struggled not only with drought, renegade buffalo hunters and revengeful Indians, but with depression, doubt, jealousy of location, and extreme lack of appropriations. By the time ESU’s fifth president, Albert R. Taylor, took charge, the school was in good condition with an enrollment of about 400, representing 43 Kansas counties and nine countries. Dr. Taylor took aggressive measures to increase enrollment such as refunding transportation mileage to students who lived in excess of 100 miles away. By 1889, KSN had become the largest school in the state and the largest normal school in the country. The school was first accredited in 1898, the same year it graduated its first black students. That same year, the Spanish American War interrupted the course of the school year. Over 35 percent of the first three Kansas regiments were school teachers, many of them from Normal.
President Joseph H. Hill (1906-13) was the first president to have graduated from KSN. He believed that standards of education must always rise and worked unceasingly to increase the proportion of students with full degrees instead of teachers’ certificates. With such a goal, the scholarship of faculty members also increased.
During Thomas Butcher’s tenure as president (the longest of any ESU president at 30 years), the university was granted authority to confer master’s degrees. It also became one of the first normal schools recognized and accredited by the North Central Association.
Following the unexpected death in office of president David L. McFarlane, John Jacobs served as acting president before the hiring of John E. King as the school’s 11th president. During King’s 13 years as president, the institution’s enrollment increased six-fold. The number of scholarships expanded and the emphasis on science escalated due to the increase in scientific competition with the Soviets.
President John Visser saw the school’s largest enrollment ever in 1969 with 7,150 students. Visser placed a strong emphasis on open communication between students and administration and organized the institution into separate academic schools with departments and divisions with each.
In 1984, Robert E. Glennen began his 13 years as president at a time when the university bore the marks of years of declining enrollment and state support. By 1996, the university was financially sound and enjoying a national reputation as a leader in teacher education and student retention and as an innovative marketer through its regional distance program in the School of Library and Information Management. Glennen was instrumental in founding the National Teachers Hall of Fame and the Kansas Business Hall of Fame.
The name of the university has changed four times in response to the university’s growth and the increased advantages it provides to students and the citizens of Kansas. The school was founded as Kansas Normal School and later became Kansas State Teachers College (1923), Emporia Kansas State College (1974), and finally Emporia State University (1977).
Since its founding, ESU has improved the lives of students from Kansas, throughout the U.S., and around the world. This semester, the student body comes from 100 Kansas counties, 45 States, and 55 countries. ESU’s alumni base of more than 38,000 individuals lives in all 50 states and more than 70 countries.
Below are some links to websites that focus on the community of Emporia.
- Emporia Area Chamber of Commerce and Convention & Visitors Bureau
- Emporia Online
- Emporia Main Street
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I am seriously thinking of trying out the new curriculum next year or maybe just part of it. Eliminating quantum and adding a couple of things.
I was too - especially colligative properties and quantum numbers. We will have to keep solubility rules and reactions. Not sure about the Nernst equation. I like to use the Nernst equation to justify with a voltage will increase or decrease with non-standard conditions so will likely keep it in for qualitative purposes.
I will eliminate quantum, have already unfortunately stopped colligative properties, I will keep Nernst and Arrhenius because I like them and the students really get a good understanding of Activation Energy. I need to add more detail PES for mass spec I will still refer to exceptions to Aufbau. Still mention hybridization as help for VSEPR. I will still definitely teach Henderson-Hasselbach as it works and makes thing so much simpler to understand! Do not like all the biology implications.
I really am not sure what is meant by this statement? Can you help me out???
The student can justify the selection of a particular type of spectroscopy to measure properties associated with vibrational or electronic motions of molecules’
I have heard however, on the AP Chem listserv, that AP Bio people did that and there was a FR question on one of the topics that is being eliminated next year. It burned some bio teachers. How much quantum is being eliminated? I have not examined the documents in detail.
I am going to keep Nernst and Arrhenius as well. The curriculum is big on models and I think it is important to teach exceptions that illustrate that our models sometimes break down. Not enthusiastic about incorporating PES - I would prefer they had focussed IR (vibrational energy), NMR, Mass Spec, and UV/VIS (electronic motions). I think your last statement indicates they need to at least know the names of these techniques - I had not picked up on that yet. | <urn:uuid:c4a45817-a156-43f9-9ad3-02443170fcff> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://flippedclassroom.org/group/ap-ib-chemistry/forum/topics/implementing-ap-chemistry-new-curriculum-one-year-early?commentId=4973855%3AComment%3A69821&xg_source=activity&groupId=4973855%3AGroup%3A68485 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972086 | 415 | 1.945313 | 2 |
No, not another perky and patronising article about how great slave labour is for your CV (!). Instead, Graduate Fog shows you lots of clever way to make sure your placement works for you – not just them.
You spent thousands getting your degree – and now you have to work for free? We agree that the situation sucks – which is why this isn’t yet another perky and patronising article about how “Work experience can be a great way in to your dream industry!” (offending publications, you know who you are).
Instead, Graduate Fog answers the questions you’re totally justified in asking – and shows you how to make the experience a lot less painful. We’ve split these into ‘Why internships happen’ and ‘Make internships work for you’.
WHY INTERNSHIPS HAPPEN
‘I have a good degree yet I have to work for free – how can this be right?’
It isn’t right – it’s a scandalous situation that’s been caused by a (still unresolved) squabble between universities and employers over whose responsibility it is to make graduates ‘work-ready’- and the failure of officials to enforce your right to the National Minimum Wage (£6.31 for over-21s). The work-for-free-first culture is the result of an ongoing battle between universities and employers over who should pay for the extra bit of care that’s needed to turn a bright young graduate into a bright young first-jobber. Under our National Minimum Wage laws, most interns are entitled to the NMW (unless they’re working for a charity or non-profit organisation – which many of us think is still ethically dubious). Unfortunately, the officials are failing to enforce this law – leaving young workers to be exploited by companies all too willing to take advantage of your desperation to gain experience, which you hope will lead to paid work eventually.
It’s like this. Universities think their role is to teach students academic subjects – and it is not their responsibility to train you for the workplace. Employers say they’re getting fed up with paying ‘graduate’ salaries for candidates who have impressive academic results – but whom they spend months teaching how to behave in a professional environment. They’re also nervous about hiring graduates who have little or no experience of their industry. A graduate with experience is less of a risk than one with none.
Graduate Fog would have thought the solution was blatantly obvious – stop squabbling and work together to fix the problem. Disappointingly, it seems these people aren’t the brightest bulbs in the box. And so, in the meantime, it’s the graduates who are left to pick up the bill for this ‘in-between’ stage – at a time when you’ve never been poorer because tuition fees have never been higher.
Unpaid (or badly paid) internships are fast becoming a divisive issue between graduates and employers, especially when you (rightly) point out that not only do these placements not earn you any money, they cost you money. If your parents don’t live locally, how are you meant to pay for your accommodation and/or travel costs?
While Graduate Fog accepts this is a complicated problem, we feel one thing is clear. It should NOT be the graduates who are left plugging this gap by working for nothing for months on end. After all, we pride ourselves on living in a civilised society where nobody is expected to work for free. That’s why we have the minimum wage (£6.31 an hour if you’re over 21). Expecting graduates to be the only group in society who are expected to work for nothing is disgusting.
The current system also hugely favours graduates from more comfortable backgrounds, whose parents can afford to help them out financially. Giving them such an enormous advantage over those with less moneyed parents is similarly disgusting. The whole point of opening up university to young people from all backgrounds was to level the playing field so that everybody could have a fair chance. What went wrong? | <urn:uuid:97540b86-e2ed-4e6c-8665-40eeb2f668c3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://graduatefog.co.uk/advice/survive-work-experience/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961204 | 865 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Anyone who lives with a house rabbit knows that they are only silent on first glance. Rabbits actually have a wide range of expressions and methods of communicating. It’s easy and rewarding to learn the language of lagomorphs. Just sit back and let them teach you!
Today we look at that most wonderful of bunny states: pure joy. How do you know when you’re rabbit is happy?
A happy, relaxed rabbit will often lay on its stomach with the forepaws and hind legs stretched out. From above they look like they are flying like Superman, or they are flat as can be. Sometimes rabbits lay with their legs extended out but more to the side, as opposed to the loaf position where all limbs are tucked under the body. These extended feet indicate a happy rabbit. For a prey animal that must be constantly on guard against danger, happy feet are a great indication that the rabbit feels comfortable and safe in their environment.
Witnessing a binky is one of the greatest joys of living with a rabbit. It looks like dancing or leaping in the air, often with body gyrations and kicks and flips. Sometimes rabbits get a running start before a binky; some just leap into the air from a sitting position (the latter, I believe, is called a ‘boink’). Other rabbits begin and end a binky with an impressive run of zig-zags and switchbacks, or repeated laps, called the Bunny 500. The binky indicates pure happiness and joy, and it’s contagious. Other bunnies may join in, and you’ll surely be moved to smile or laugh.
The flop is another way of expressing contentment and happiness. The rabbit goes quickly from a sitting or standing position to lying on its side, like a tree falling in the forest. The eyes roll back and the rabbit looks lifeless. This is different from a rabbit gradually lying down to nap. The motion is quick. New bunny people are often alarmed when they see this because the rabbit indeed looks ill or dead. As long as they continue to breathe, never fear. This is actually a sign of bunny bliss. It usually doesn’t last long, so Do Not Disturb!
In addition to the binky and the flop, rabbits enjoy a variety of ways to play. They push or toss objects around, bunch up towels, or shred and tear cardboard or paper. Some play hide and seek or chase games. They may race madly around the house or jump on and off of the couch. All this is very important to the wellness of the bunny psyche. It provides exercise, mental stimulation, and fun. Get down on the floor and get in the game! Get happy!
These are just some of the signs of happiness that we have observed. How does your rabbit show their joy? Have you captured a binky in a photograph? Send in your evidence, please! | <urn:uuid:cbbefa82-2f5f-485e-b1e4-71dd06651860> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thebnn.org/tag/flop/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00076-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955082 | 601 | 2.234375 | 2 |
UNITED NATIONS -- Video-sharing website YouTube and Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am launched an initiative called "In My Name" on Thursday aimed at raising awareness about efforts to fight global poverty.
In what it described as a "video petition," YouTube set up a new channel where contributors can post their own videos urging world leaders to step up their efforts to end poverty.
"This is your chance to join the video petition to end world hunger," YouTube said in an announcement on the site's blog (youtube.com/blog).
The initiative was timed to coincide with a summit being held at the United Nations, where world leaders are meeting this week to discuss the UN Millennium Development Goals aimed at ending global poverty by 2015.
The YouTube drive is led by Will.i.am and non-profit organizations Oxfam, Global Call to Action Against Poverty, Save the Children and Comic Relief.
Singers John Legend, Annie Lennox and Fergie, actresses Scarlett Johansson and Mischa Barton and Jordan's Queen Rania were among the celebrities lending their names to the project.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - If as Mark Twain says, "doing what you love means you'll never work another day in your life" then there are a lot of people just "working" across the United States today. A recent Conference Board study finds that overall job satisfaction is on the decline among workers of all ages and across all income brackets. In fact the largest decline in overall job satisfaction-from 60.9% in 1995 to 47.4% today- occurs among people age 35-44. According to the report people in this age bracket were once the happiest group in the American workforce. In addition, older workers, age 55-64 also expressed a low level of satisfaction with only 48% reporting being satisfied. The New York-based Conference Board, a non-profit organization that focuses on human resources/management research and trends, says that workers reported being least satisfied with bonus plans, promotion policies and educational training programs. With employee retention a priority at credit unions many are focusing their efforts and dollars on keeping employees happy and feeling valued. At Pasadena, California-based Wescom Credit Union education is the key to employee satisfaction. "To us the success of an organization is measured through its people and the achievement of business goals," said Wescom CU Employee Relations Director Pat Bailey. "In order for us to achieve our business targets we need the right people and talent to stay with us so employee recognition is a high priority here." To that end, employees complete a Climate Survey to measure how the senior staff is doing and then employees and senior staff work together to come up with solutions. That is how Wescom University and the employee relations team came about. "When we first started doing the Climate Survey six years ago employees felt they were being `tossed' into positions and basically had to `sink or swim'," said Bailey. "So we created Wescom University to enhance the training and development process. We teach more than just teller and loan programs but also added courses to reach a broader slice of the organization from management and career development training to time management. And now we have gotten such good reviews for our university that it is one of the main benefits that attract people to Wescom and keeps them here." According to Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union Marketing Vice President Nan Greenwood, in addition to employee recognition programs the best employee morale boost at the Kingston, New York-based credit union comes from the teamwork and commitment in organizing community events or fundraisers. "We have a very strong community relations program that is completely run by the employees," said Greenwood. "They spearhead all the fundraisers from `soup to nuts' and everyone just loves the camaraderie and they all have fun with it." MHVFCU has also launched a new "Tops in Service" program where employees and members nominate staff for service that exceeds expectations. Once nominated employees are entered into a weekly drawing, monthly drawing and a grand prize drawing. The program will run until December 7, 2002. "While money is important, what really motivates employees is thoughtful and sincere recognition," said Greenwood. "And that has to come from the top of the organization and leading by example." Over in Tampa, Florida, MacDill Federal Credit Union Vice President of Marketing Lisa Moerchen couldn't agree more. "Yes we have a great benefits program including tuition reimbursement, retirement programs and the like but the biggest thing is just the communication that occurs from the top down and back up to management," said Moerchen. "We have a lot of weekly and monthly meetings and our President/CEO Robert Fisher takes the time to meet with all the employees and let us in on what we've accomplished and how it is all possible thanks to our team efforts." It was Fisher who came up with a program that transformed the credit union's sponsorship of the local NFL Tampa Bay Buccaneers Radio Show into an employee recognition opportunity. With all eyes on Buccaneers Head Coach John Gruden, MFCU sponsors his Monday night radio show and with the sponsorship the credit union receives two tickets to every home game, as well as a free trip to North Carolina for the Carolina game. Enter the Total Member Experience and Total Employee Experience, which is based on the idea that by making every experience with MFCU a great one not only will employees feel great about their workplace but members will maintain and grow their relationship while telling others who will also join. Employees recognized by their peers for going above and beyond their normal course of duties are eligible to win the Buccaneers tickets. Out of 55 entries 11 were selected as winners, with the grand prize all expenses paid trip to Carolina being awarded to Nancy Kehler. When a member called from Korea wanting to know how he could order flowers for his girlfriend on Valentines' Day since all he had was an ATM card, Kehler went after work, bought the roses, and delivered them to the girlfriend at the hospital at MacDill Air Force Base before she came to work. Last month the credit union was notified that when the boyfriend got back into town he proposed and they are now married. "I just love coming into work everyday because Bob goes out of his way to make us all feel like we make a difference so we always go that extra mile," said Moerchen. "And I bet about 99% of the employees here feel the same way." -email@example.com
Credit unions doing their best to keep employee morale up; not an easy job these days
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University of Nottingham experts have joined forces with Canadian biotech company GangaGen Life Sciences Inc to develop new weapons in the fight against food poisoning.
They are engaging in a major research project to develop methods for the control of Campylobacter the commonest cause of infectious bacterial intestinal disease in England and Wales, according to the Health Protection Agency. Campylobacters are found in poultry and other animals and cause millions of cases of food poisoning worldwide.
The researchers intend to develop bacteriophage-based treatments for the control of Campylobacter. Bacteriophages the term literally means bacterium-eater are naturally occurring agents that target and destroy bacteria with a high degree of efficiency, and do so selectively and specifically, without affecting beneficial bacteria or gut cells. The term is commonly used in its shortened form, phage.
Both GangaGen and The University of Nottingham are leaders in bacteriophage research and view the technology as a vital breakthrough in the control of bacterial contamination and associated health risks. The research agreement, announced today [May 22], will mean they pool their resources for at least three years to develop new treatments.
Ian Connerton, Northern Foods Professor of Food Safety at The University of Nottingham, said: "We are excited to be working with a company like GangaGen that is at the forefront of phage technology development.
"Our teams research has demonstrated that certain phages specific for Campylobacter can significantly reduce the load of the bacteria carried by poultry. By implication, this should also reduce the risk to consumers by decreasing bacterial contamination of meat that is prevalent in poultry processing and is transferred to chicken meat on grocery shelves."
GangaGen and The University of Nottingham are building a business relationship to commercialise phage technology
Contact: Ian Connerton
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Prof. Mark A. Drumbl
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Mark Drumbl delivered the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society Lecture at Oxford University. He presented a lecture titled "Justice after Atrocity: A Cosmopolitan Pluralist Approach."
Scheduled for January 28 at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, Drumbl's lecture explores the potential and limits of criminal law as a method of accountability in the aftermath of atrocity. Drawing from a variety of case-studies in Rwanda, Timor-Leste, and Bosnia, Drumbl argues that the lexicon of justice should transcend the courtroom and the jailhouse. His lecture is followed by an experts conference on the topic of international criminal justice.
"Oxford has a deep history as a center of reflection about law at all levels," said Drumbl. "It is a great honor to be able to contribute to this dialogue and, in this regard, think critically of what law can or cannot do in the face of great evil."
The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society is an independent institution affiliated with the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford. Founded in 2005, the mission of the Foundation is to study the role that law plays in society and to inform policy by making the work of researchers and scholars more accessible to practitioners, whether in government, business, or the law.
"It is a wonderful honor for Mark to be invited to present this lecture at one of the world's great universities, on a topic of such profound international importance," said W&L Law Dean Rodney Smolla. "This is a fitting testament to the growing international recognition Mark's work is gathering."
Mark A. Drumbl is the Class of 1975 Alumni Professor at Washington and Lee University, School of Law, where he also serves as Director of the University's Transnational Law Institute. Drumbl has lectured and published extensively on the war on terror, detainee rights, war crimes trials, and genocide prevention. He is the author of Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law (2007), which has been widely acclaimed and won the Book of the Year Award from the International Association of Criminal Law. He has taught international law in Uganda, Brazil, Italy, and the Netherlands and held visiting appointments on the law faculties of Oxford University, the University of Paris, Trinity College-Dublin, and the University of Western Ontario, among others. | <urn:uuid:83b819b9-7079-471d-b206-43333e7ad618> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.law.wlu.edu/news/storydetailpr.asp?id=495 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948801 | 502 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Today I felt the urge to dig out one of my old projects and add something that was on my list since quite a long time - a wormhole brick and ball warp effect.
Brickdoh is one of my more finished game projects. It is fully playable, but lacks a winning condition and highscore list. That's why I post in WIP and not in showcase. It's a breakout clone, with 6 levels and few surprising effects. The most important is that you can give the ball a real spin and send it into curved, erm, curves. Or loops and spirals if you overdo it
The scoring depends on how calm and steady you can play. The more hectic you move the mouse, the lower the score will be which you get for each brick. But you get a bigger paddle, so the game becomes easier if it detects hectic moves, but as said, at a score penalty. The panel at the left let's you know what the game thinks about your score and playstyle - easygo and steady are good, hectic is bad for your score.
There are normal bricks, except that they look like flowers and bubbles, spring bricks which send the ball back at double speed, metal gears which need sveral hits to be crushed, diamonds which grant an extra ball and last but not least, wormhole bricks which warp the ball to a random spot.
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More Evidence Against Drug-Eluting Stents
Recent downplay of the media’s attention to DES-related thrombosis during both the TCT and AHA conferences this fall may have been premature in light of a new study coming out of the Cleveland Clinic.
A meta-analysis published in the December issue of the American Journal of Medicine indicates that patients with drug-eluting stents have a four to five-fold increased relative risk for developing late thrombosis compared to those with bare-metal stents. It is the first published analysis of its kind, PRNewswire reports.
"Our analysis found there is a small, but real, hazard of late stent thrombosis with drug-eluting stents more so than with bare-metal stents, likely in the setting of discontinuation of anti-clotting drugs," said Deepak L. Bhatt, M.D., associate director of the Cleveland Clinic Cardiovascular Coordinating Center and one of the study's authors. "This does not, however, mean that drug-eluting stents should not be used, as other studies have shown that they do significantly reduce the need for repeat procedures compared with bare-metal stents."
Fourteen studies with 6,675 total patients were included in the analysis comprising nine sirolimus stent trials and five paclitaxel stent trials. Eight of the trials reported more than a year of clinical follow-up. The sirolimus trials mandated anti-clotting medication for at least two to three months and the paclitaxel trials required six months.
"The key to the controversy is likely careful patient selection," Dr. Bhatt said. "Further research is needed to determine how best to utilize drug- eluting stents and anti-clotting medications." | <urn:uuid:cca0c242-cca8-4335-8a18-37b8edca6a7c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dicardiology.com/article/more-evidence-against-drug-eluting-stents | 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 | 0.946714 | 377 | 1.507813 | 2 |
I first heard about Green Cooking Pots on a blog that I stumbled upon. I kind of feel in love at first sight, which can happen very often with me when it comes to pans, knives and kitchen utensils/appliances. Then it hit me, these are probably right up there (cost wise, etc.) with Le Creuset and even the Martha Stewart Cast Iron Enamel pans, so I went to their website to do a bit more research before my little heart got crushed again. I love both of those companies and their products, but sadly I just can’t afford them. We are two college students living on an extremely tight budget but we make due with what we have.
After going to Green Cooking Pots website, my excitement grew the more that I read especially went I looked at their prices! Here is a bit of information from their website about the creators, Cafe and Mica, and the pots themselves:
Hello! Our names are Cafe and Mica. We are twins who love food and cooking. We grew up in a household where fresh organic food was always in the fridge and on the table. As children we would regularly visit the local farmers market with our mother, who instilled a deep value of preparing and cooking healthy food. We learned that food preparation is a holistic endeavor, every step as important as the food itself, from the pots used, to the oil that we cook with. We believe food should be prepared with love, the intention to nourish people and is an expression of gratitude. Greencookingpots was envisioned as an extension of our love of cooking and creating meals for and with our amazing family and friends.
Greencookingpots are made of enameled cast iron and are free of any chemicals, making them a great alternative to potentially toxic cookware. Our pots and skillets make healthy cooking affordable and simple. Enameled cast iron absorbs heat and distributes it evenly, creating an efficient cooking experience, whether it is the slow roasting of vegetables or the simmering of soups. They can be used on any heat source including the oven for casseroles or baking bread.
Greencookingpots provides eco friendly “green” pots and skillets. Our products are a great alternative to potentially toxic cookware. Teflon and Aluminum cookware have raised various health concerns in this country and others. Cooking with greencookingpots is an easy choice and simple way to live healthier.
Proper care of your Greencookingpots will ensure a lifetime of use.
-It is best to use low to medium heat with your pot.
- Clean up is easy when using a non-abrasive sponge and warm soapy water. You can remove any stubborn bits by bringing a little soap with water to simmer for a few minutes. Also a little lemon juice will lighten any stains.
-Over time some enamel chipping may occur, but this will not affect the quality or performance of your pots. If this occurs you can rub a little oil on the chips to prevent them from rusting. But know that these show the use and love of your cookware and speak of all the wonderful meals you’ve shared with your family and friends.
Greencookingpots are made in China. We use the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Test Procedure Leach ability of lead and cadmium for glazed ceramic surfaces. Greencookingpots also uses third party test (Mervyn’s Hardline Test) to ensure that products with the our name comply the standards set forth by the United States Food & Drug Administration.
Cafe and Mica were generous enough to send me a grass green 10″ skillet to try out and I use it all the time! It has quickly become one of my favorite pans. You get the quality of Le Creuset and Martha Stewart but with out the heafty price tag. Green Cooking Pots offers square grill pans, skillets, specialty pots, dutch ovens, roasting pans, sauce pans, and they even offer several different sets. The colors are also beautiful. As I mentioned, Cafe and Mica sent me a grass-green skillet and it matches my green and blue kitchen perfectly. These pans also do not let off any toxins like Teflon and Aluminum do when cooking, making these pans “green” – hence the name
I’ve used this pan to make a bunch of different things, but this morning I used it to make bacon in and I have to say this is now my go-to-pan for bacon. The bacon crisps up perfectly and cleaning the pan is beyond easy. Just a little bit of warm water and soap and everything comes right up.
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Two weeks ago, Julian Bond was one of 49 people arrested in front of the White House as they sought to push President Barack Obama to take greater action against climate change.
Bond is not content to rest on his laurels after a lifetime of activism and told an audience at Gallaudet University on Feb. 21 that those seeking social change have to continue to fight against the status quo.
"We have to hope that our fellow Americans feel the sense of outrage," he said. "Someone needs to make some noise, make some things happen."
Bond, 73, has been making things happen since he was a student at Morehouse University in Atlanta, Ga. In 1968, Bond was a founding member of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), became the first African American put forward as a major party candidate for vice president and he was the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Bond served on the board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1998-2008. He is the recipient of 25 honorary degrees.
While the changes in society since the 1960s have been impressive, Bond continues to actively engage in issues of economic justice, civil rights and peace and remains an unabashed voice for the disenfranchised.
In each constituency, he said, African Americans and members of the deaf community share common experiences which are a part of their collective identities.
"There are differences in means but your goals are group-based and your futures linked," Bond said. "In the civil rights movement, we always thought that we were engaged in a larger and even more important struggle, engaged in a struggle for human rights which envelops every human being everywhere on the planet."
Almost 50 years ago, said Bond, Bayard Rustin – an advisor to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and organizer of the March on Washington – wrote that the movement was evolving from a protest movement into a full-fledged social movement.
"It was an evolution calling its very name into question. It is now concerned not merely with removing the barriers to full opportunity but achieving the fact of equality," Rustin wrote. "From sit-ins and freedom rides, we've moved into rent strikes, boycotts, community organizing and political action. And as King began to call for a more equitable distribution and railed against the Vietnam War, the movement continued to move beyond its original intent."
During the lecture, Bond laid out the context that led to the development of the modern civil rights movement and tied the movement to Gallaudet's Deaf President Now (DPN) movement.
Gallaudet is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the DPN movement this March. The protests on campus led to the appointment of a deaf president, I. King Jordan, for the first time at that point in Gallaudet's history. Bond, Angela Davis and other civil and human rights icons have lectured at the university to mark the milestone.
Bond discussed the impact of DPN on the lives of deaf people in the United States and the world, compared it to the arc of the civil rights movement and spotlighted a number of the transformative changes each has brought the United States. And while he describes himself as an eternal optimist, Bond acknowledged that a good deal of work remains.
"Movements forced elites to inaugurate reforms that would otherwise have been ignored," he said. "... Movements usually begin with a concrete precipitating event. For the civil rights movement, it was the arrest of Rosa Parks. The resignation of [former Gallaudet president] Jerry Lee could be seen as an important element."
All good movements, Bond explained, must continue to agitate, sustain morale, foster fellowship and develop tactics. Movements must also have catalytic leadership "who join the adventure without a foreseeable end," and also must have a strategy, plan and tactics to confront its oppressors.
"You have to hope and expect the movement to succeed and for it to effect change and provide relief from the injustices a group faces," he said.
The civil rights movement had within it all these elements and more, said Bond, as he and others on the frontlines battled a tripartite system of oppression – economic, political, and personal.
"It was state supported private terror and ritual human sacrifice carried out by the state and citizens," Bond said of the lynchings, beatings and brutality visited daily on African Americans and those who challenged segregation, racism and discrimination. "... No other ethnic group – except Native Americans – has experienced a comparable mix of xenophobic attitudinal and structural limitations and dictatorial constraints on their development. It is absolutely without parallel in the American experience."
Bond said people tend to look at racism in terms of individual behavior and actions but it's actually a complex set of societal attitudes and actions. He explained that there are two kinds of racist behavior, active and passive, and whether white people do it consciously or unconsciously, they all benefit materially and psychologically.
"For all their years in the United States, black people have struggled to find answers to a series of questions: how do we explain the position of blacks in society; who or what is the enemy and who are our friends; with whom can we join in coalition? What is the nature of whites? Are they naturally hostile to blacks? And is it impossible for them to abandon the benefits they receive from racism?" he asked.
"Unlike Polish Americans or Germans, Italian and Irish Americans – all of whom became colorful ethnic variations on the central All-American theme – African Americans remain the indigestible alternative. Unlike all the others, they refused to agree to white supremacy. And unlike all the others, black ethnic mobilization has been often characterized and demeaned as identity politics, somehow democratically illegitimate; while white variants like puritanism, the confederacy, the Ku Klux Klan, the Moral Majority, the Tea Party and others are simply ordinary expressions of democratic activism."
Gallaudet's president, T. Alan Hurwitz said he was surprise at the many parallels Bond made with the civil rights movement and the deaf and hard-of-hearing community.
"I have to say I'm amazed at how many similarities he spoke of," Hurwitz said through an interpreter. "There are so many issues and challenges that we face. He talked about all people coming together. People came together 25 years ago and got what we sought to achieve."
Liletha Davison agreed.
"One of the challenges we face at Gallaudet is getting together and getting the staff to recognize and respect each other," said Davison, a staff program coordinator. "I'm trying to find some tools to make this happen. Did I hear what I wanted to hear? Yeah. He said push, push, push. I wanted an easy answer though." | <urn:uuid:635d42bc-f258-4d2f-aee8-6898475dffa0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://washingtoninformer.com/index.php/us/item/13144-bond-exhorts-gallaudet-crowd-to-push-for-change/us | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968775 | 1,396 | 2.171875 | 2 |
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The Collections Australia Network (CAN) takes two approaches to putting collections online. Exporting the entire database into an Excel spreadsheet with images or selecting a minimum of five items to be uploaded. Here are two case studies demonstrating both strategies.
RACHAEL ROSE University of Tasmania Art Collection online
University of Tasmania Fine Art Collection registrar and keeper Rachael Rose has successfully uploaded the entire art collection to CAN. Even though she only has general computer skills, she was able to export the whole collection into an Excel spreadsheet without any difficulty. Rachael approached CAN for a little Outreach support. Now researchers and curators can search the whole university art collection online. Email Rachael Rose if you would like to know more about her experience of preparing the university art collection for CAN.
DAVID HARDHAM Glen Eira Historical Society collection online
David Hardham is an IT professional who volunteers for several historical societies in country Victoria. He has been working with the Glen Eira Historical Society in Victoria to raise the profile of the organisation. His first step was to put the collection online in phases so that the society could assess the impact of going online. One of its greatest concerns was the impact on photo sales but the society was reassured that there would be more likely to be a positive impact on this revenue stream. Email David Hardham if you would like to know more about his experience of preparing the Glen Eira collection for CAN.
How did the organisation upload its collection to CAN?
DH: We selected a sample collection to upload rather than our entire database. We did this to see what the impact would be and the effort required to do this as we have approximately 2000 items that is increasing every week.
RR: Exported 1270 records in the database onto an Excel spreadsheet, then matched images, copied them and sent through on a separate disc.
Does CAN’s metadata suit the organisation’s catalogue fields?
DH: Generally yes.
What was the impact on resources in preparing the collection to be uploaded?
DH: The time taken in extracting the information from our existing database and re-formatting to the required metadata structure. Now that we know how to do that, we can tailor our database extract to the same order and fields as the metadata and that will make further extracts a lot easier.
RR: Time- although most of the information was in the database, I discovered that over the years and with different people entering data there were discrepancies, typos, and missing details which all needed to be corrected and then checked. It was a fantastic opportunity to get the database into shape, but took a lot longer than I first anticipated. Also matching up images which could be copied across took some time, as many had to be rescanned or photographed. Until this point the database has only been viewed by the curator managing the collection, and so many of the images were only snapshots for identification purposes. To get better quality images for online use meant a little more time and work, but it was well worth the effort.
What was the biggest challenge in preparing the collection spreadsheet?
DH: CAN can only hold one record per item, we have a number of single entry items that have one or more photographs, so we have to replicate the spreadsheet line so that there is only one photograph per line. An example is that we have a single entry that has over 200 photographs associated with it.
RR: Checking all the information was correct against other records – with so many entries it was fairly time-consuming but it also meant I learnt a lot more about each individual artwork in the collection.
What will be your approach moving forward?
DH: Using the answers from the two questions above as a guide, we will probably upload our data in stages rather then an entire database at once.
RR: Learning how to use social media.
What will be the potential benefits in having the collection on CAN?
DH: Provide access of our collection to a wider audience, especially the photographs we have.
RR: People often enquire about what works we have in the Collection, so it will be helpful having an online presence to refer them to. I hope it will bring the Collection to a wider audience for general appreciation and also to aid researchers and other artists.
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DH: It is an evolving story that will expand as more data is catalogued and recorded and made available. We see it as a key item in making the general public aware of what we have and what we do.
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Debate:What is the Sabbath day?
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This is a topic that interests me. I identify as a Seventh-Day Adventist, although I only hold loosely to some of the teachings of the church. I personally believe the Sabbath day to be Saturday, the 7th day of the week in the traditional calendar, and the day of the Jewish Sabbath. I was a bit surprised to find that Conservapedia's article on the Sabbath asserted that the "date given by Moses has been lost". (I'd correct that, but I'm a bit wary about introducing my own biases, which may not be quite what the project wants.) In either case, I figured this was a good topic for debate. What day is the Sabbath day, or does it even matter in the life of the Christian? --Blu Aardvark 09:20, 25 March 2007 (EDT)
- Genesis 2:2 "By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done." In the biblical sense, Sabbath has much more meaning than just a day of the week. There were also 7 year sabbaths and 50 year sabbaths. I'm no expert at this, but I believe these were also referred to as the Year of Jubilee. Christians meet on Sunday (first day of the week) because that is the day they believe that Christ rose from the grave. --Ymmotrojam 15:45, 31 March 2007 (EDT)
- The sabbath day is from Friday at sundown until Saturday at sundown, local time. The Jews are quite meticulous about ensuring their law is transmitted from one generation to the next without error, and one law commands the sabbath to be remembered. As far as Christians are concerned, Paul said, (Col.2:16) "Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days" Teresita 17:12, 2 April 2007 (EDT)
The Sabbath Day depends on what calander you're using--solar or lunar. Our comprehension of what day is which is thrown off by the fact that we have an extra day every 4 years to keep the calender sensical, which might also affect the Sabbath. It seems to be more important to observe rest and the power of God every seven days than to quibble about which of the seven it is. I seriously doubt God is going to scold you for not being a historical mathmatician and damning you for observing on the wrong day.
Really the Sabbath Day is any day that the Lord has deemed as Holy. The original holy day was the day that God rested. Jews believe this to be Saturday while Christians like to think of it as Sunday. It could be either it's more likely to be Saturday since the Christian calender has been altered so many times over the centries.Dfairlyxed13
We should note that none of the calendar changes over the centuries has ever altered the weekly cycle.djconklin 8:04, 11 May 2007(CST)
I agree with the above--that the Sabbath was initially instituted as the seventh day of the week as recorded in the Old Testament, and that it was Saturday. Now whether it remains to be Saturday or has been changed to Sunday is up for debate. It is also up for debate whether the Sabbath should still be kept. First of all, I think that it is more important to keep the spirit of the law over the letter; in other words, I think that it is more important to demonstrate love to all people than to keep all the laws. If one keeps all the laws, they keep them for themselves in a sense--either demonstrating, or attesting thier righteousness. Unless ofcourse it is the laws that pertain to the gracious treatment of others such as loving thy neighbor, not commiting adultery, not stealing, nor lying, nor falsely testifying. In other words, "treating others the way that you would like them to treat you" These are all good commands to keep. However, I believe that it is impossible to attain a righteousness without love which would properly prepare one for heaven. This is attested in 1 Corinthians when the Apostle Paul basically says that one could perform all kinds of various acts of love and kindness to others that would be basically useless or worthless if not done in the spirit of love. Now concerning the fourth commandment--the Sabbath. It began as historical day of rest and as a commandment from God or Yahweh to Moses--the Leader of the Israelites around 1500 BC, to be observed by everybody. I believe that "This day was affirmed in the New Testament while Jesus was in the Earth after his crucifixion, "[the disciples] rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment" (Luke 23.56). The fact that the Sabbath is mentioned in the New Testament in the context of Jesus' death and resurrection not only affirms the Sabbath as still being efficacious for believers, but it also affirms the day as the Seventh since it says "according to the commandment", namely the fourth commandment-- "For [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them [is], and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it" (Exod. 20.11. Now concerning my own thoughts, I think that it is good to keep the Sabbath for several reasons. First of all, it is good to keep it because of the commandment, so it must be good. Secondly, I think that our bodies, minds, and spirits need to have a break every week from the stresses and strains that we go through. We need time to heal and to rebuild. More later. Feel free to respond. [Petrarcah]--Petrarcah 13:48, 27 April 2007 (EDT)
My view is that Christians have leeway to do whatever they want on the Sabbath. Colossians 2:16-17 says: Do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. DanH 13:50, 27 April 2007 (EDT)
Paul isn't talking about the seventh-day Sabbath in Col. 2:16-17. The passage refers to outsiders (i.e., non-Christians) judging the believers for their eating and drinking on (en merei) the feast days, new moons and ceremonial sabbaths. For more details see http://www.666man.net/Colossians_2_16-17_By_David_Conklin/colintro.html. djconklin 8:04, 11 May 2007 (CST)
As djconklin states the reference in Col 2:16 is to ceremonial sabbaths that were celebrated according to the handwritten law of Moses as told to him by God as a symbol of future events. I'm amazed so many misquote this, having apparently not read the verse in it's context to the rest of the chapter. All through the Bible we are exhorted to keep the 7th day holy since creation. Calendar changes are another red herring; there has always been 7 days in a week since creation. I would assume that God would see that something so important would remain intact. Jesus kept the Sabnbath on the seventh day of the week. If His dying had any effect on the Moral Law wouldn't He have mentioned it? Celebrating Sunday as the day of rest because of His resurrection doesn't fit either. Baptism was given to us as a symbol of his death, burial, and resurrection. The Roman Catholic church claims the authority to change times and laws by sanctifying Sunday. It has no Biblical authority, nor from God either, to change a command spoken by God, written with His own finger and shouted from the mountaintop at Sinai.The Bible warns what will happen to those who teach as doctrine the traditions of men as well. It behooves us to obey the Word and keep the seventh day Sabbath.--InHIsImage
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How important is the scientific aspect of your work? David Rosenboom
Whenever in history there has emerged an era of enriched inquiry into the nature of things and the natural phenomena of human beings, intense interactivity among the arts and the dominant systems of inquiry at the time has fueled the essential creative impulses of both. Since the development of what we now refer to as scientific inquiry, this interdisciplinary interactivity has been particularly vigorous. It has helped us glimpse possible unity in the multiplicity of ways we view the universe and to begin comprehending what a tiny portion of the brain’s immense activity is actually comprised of what we call the conscious mind.
In this fascinating interaction of science and music, it is of paramount importance that we maintain keen awareness of the great breath of human experiences that may be called music, and that also remain aware of the differences and similarities in the two methods of inquiry. Both are full of creative investigation, hypothetical models, experimental methods, hypotheses, precise expressions, and aesthetic musings. The most serious difference lies in the scientists’ focus on experimental verification of purported facts, which can be shared reliability within a community, and the musicians’ license to invent whole worlds of potential reality and then create and explore them as if they were indeed naturally and substantially manifest.
These processes of discovery, however they emerge, are always operative in my musical practice. Each piece may be imbued with different mixtures of what we may call musical, scientific, cultural, poetic, systematic, or intuitive impulses. If they are there, they have been studied and considered as deeply as I can muster. That’s my responsibility in creating the musical gift I try to offer to listeners. Listeners are then invited to be creative explorers in the result. For I regard listening as composition, the creative assembly of often shared sound experiences, sometimes within the environment of a work provided by a composer. There are no requirements. If listeners choose to inform their practice by investigating the underlying content of these works, then that is also their creative choice. | <urn:uuid:42e3e442-07ac-4d18-bca9-86b1af08e023> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/How-important-is-the-scientific-aspect-of-your-work-David-Rosenboom/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957059 | 413 | 2.375 | 2 |
NEW YORK — Archbishop Torkom Manoogian, the longtime leader of the Armenian orthodox church in the United States and a savvy communicator who used his pulpit in New York to broaden public awareness of the Armenian genocide, died Oct. 12 in Jerusalem. He was 93. He had been hospitalized since January with cardiac problems, church officials said in announcing his death.
From 1966 to 1990, Archbishop Manoogian was primate of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church in America, the larger of two dioceses in this country, where most of about 700,000 church members live. (The Western Diocese comprises Arizona and California.)
A skilled fund-raiser, the archbishop led the final phases of construction of St. Vartan’s Cathedral, the first Armenian cathedral in North America. A work in progress on the East Side of Manhattan since the 1950s, the cathedral, with a gilded 120-foot-high dome, was consecrated in 1968 in a ceremony attended by the city’s civic and religious leaders, including Mayor John V. Lindsay.
In April 1975, to mark the 60th anniversary of the start of the Armenian bloodbath, Archbishop Manoogian sponsored a series of public events, including one at Madison Square Garden, that brought new attention to the mass deaths and the Turkish government’s continued refusal to accept responsibility for them as acts of genocide.
Like many ethnic Armenians in the United States, Archbishop Manoogian was a descendant of the large Christian population that was expelled from what is now Turkey in a campaign of ethnic cleansing undertaken by the Ottoman military between 1915 and 1923.
An estimated 1 million Armenians were killed or starved to death. The archbishop was born in an Armenian refugee camp near Baghdad after his parents fled their Turkish town during the killings.
The Turkish government maintains that many died on both sides of an ethnic conflict between Armenians and Turks during World War I, but that Turkish authorities never adopted a program of genocide. Armenians have long demanded Turkish atonement for what most historians consider the first organized genocide of the century.
Archbishop Manoogian enlisted the American Catholic Conference, the American Jewish Committee, and the Islamic Center of Washington to join in demanding that Turkey acknowledge the atrocities. Governor Hugh L. Carey of New York signed a proclamation demanding the same.
The historian Barbara W. Tuchman, whose grandfather Henry Morgenthau Sr. was the US ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in 1915, related her eyewitness account of the massacres before a standing-room-only crowd at the Felt Forum in Madison Square Garden.
Peter Balakian, author of ‘‘The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response,’’ said the scale of the 1975 commemoration was groundbreaking and well timed.
‘‘Holocaust studies and a new American human rights culture had emerged in the ’60s and ’70s,’’ he said, and ‘‘the archbishop was astute in seizing that moment’’ to place the Armenian genocide ‘‘within the new arc of Americans’ commemorative memory.’’
Several days of 60th-anniversary observances culminated in a march from St. Vartan’s Cathedral past the United Nations and into St. Patrick’s Cathedral. There, in his sermon, Archbishop Manoogian addressed an audience of survivors, their descendants, and other supporters.
‘‘We are here,’’ he said. ‘‘And we were not supposed to be.’’
Many were involved in organizing the events, but Archbishop Manoogian was the survivors’ spokesman, said Christopher Zakian, a diocese spokesman and editor of ‘‘The Torch Was Passed: The Centennial History of the Armenian Church of America.’’
‘‘He was a witness to the genocide,’’ Zakian said. ‘‘And — not saying this to diminish his dignity and stature in any way — he was also a PR genius.’’
Torkom Manoogian was born Feb. 16, 1919, one of six children of Nargiz and Vahan Manoogian. His parents owned a photography studio in a Turkish town near the Iraq border. He was sent to school in Jerusalem at 12 and ordained as a priest in 1939.
He arrived in the United States for the first of several church assignments in 1946, serving in California and Pennsylvania. He was primate of the Western Diocese in 1962 and named bishop the same year. He became an archbishop in 1966, soon after he arrived in New York. | <urn:uuid:1f73db21-fdbe-4d27-a77a-37e6568cfc56> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2012/10/20/archbishop-torkom-manoogian-led-armenian-orthodox-church/bIwxAhgAqySHqxHkV6rZXM/story.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976529 | 987 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Greenland's glaciers losing ice faster this year than last year, which was record-setting itself
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Researchers watching the loss of ice flowing out from the giant island of Greenland say that the amount of ice lost this summer is nearly three times what was lost one year ago.
The loss of floating ice in 2008 pouring from Greenland's glaciers would cover an area twice the size of Manhattan Island in the U.S., they said.
Jason Box, an associate professor of geography at Ohio State, said that the loss of ice since the year 2000 is 355.4 square miles (920.5 square kilometers), or more than 10 times the size of Manhattan.
"We now know that the climate doesn't have to warm any more for Greenland to continue losing ice," Box said. "It has probably passed the point where it could maintain the mass of ice that we remember.
"But that doesn't mean that Greenland's ice will all disappear. It's likely that it will probably adjust to a new 'equilibrium' but before it reaches the equilibrium, it will shed a lot more ice.
"Greenland is deglaciating and actually has been doing so for most of the past half-century."
Box, a researcher with Ohio State's Byrd Polar Research Center, along with graduate students Russell Benson and David Decker, presented their findings at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
The research team has been monitoring satellite images of Greenland to gauge just how much ice flows from landlocked glaciers towards the ocean to form floating ice shelves. Eventually, large pieces of these ice shelves will break off into the sea, speeding up the flow of more glacial ice to add to the shelves.
Warming of the climate around Greenland is believed to have added to the increased flow of ice outward from the mainland via these huge glaciers.
Using daily images from instruments called MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) aboard two of NASA's satellites, Box and his team are able to monitor changes in 32 of the largest glaciers along Greenland's coast.
They determined that during the summer of 2006-2007, the floating ice shelves at the seaward end of those glaciers had diminished by 24.29 square miles (62.9 square kilometers. But one year later -- the summer of 2007-2008 — the ice loss had nearly tripled to nearly 71 square miles (183.8 square kilometers). Much of this additional loss is from a single large floating ice tongue called the Petermann glacier
Late this summer, the Ohio State researchers were able to watch as a massive 11-square-mile (29-square kilometer) chunk broke off from the tongue of the massive Petermann Glacier in Northern Greenland. At the time, they also noted that a massive crack further up the ice shelf suggested an even larger piece of ice would soon crack off.
Box said that some findings may have confused the public's views of what is happening around Greenland. "For example, we know that snowfall rates have increased recently in this region," he said, "but that hasn't been enough to compensate for the increased melt rate of the ice that we're seeing now."
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III. EXPLORING POSITIONS
Definition: A person who is employed by an individual family to care for their children in the family's home.
Knowledge, Skills and Dispositions: The in-home provider has knowledge of child development, health, safety and nutrition. The provider uses good speaking and listening skills to communicate with children and their families. The provider plans routines and activities that contribute to each child's physical, intellectual, emotional, and social well-being. Critical thinking, problem solving and techniques of child behavior management are important skills for the in-home provider. This position requires a talent for working with young children, cooperation with the family's schedules and requirements, and flexibility.
Employment Settings: The setting is the family home or in travel locations. These positions are organized according to the needs of the family and may be a daytime work schedule or it may provide living quarters for the caregiver. An in-home provider receives weekly wages and may be requested to do light housekeeping related to the children's care. This position may require live-in arrangements for twenty-four hour care needs.
Required Qualifications: The in-home provider may be required by the employer to have education or training in child development, or early childhood education. They will require references.
An au pair (pronounced "oh pear") is a young adult, non-American, recruited to provide child care in exchange for a one-year cultural experience in the United States. The meaning of the French term is "on even terms" or "equal" indicates this position is more of an equal family member, assisting with family duties of caring for the children. The host family also provides for post-secondary education of the au pair. There are several agencies authorized to bring au pair students to the United States, which are regulated by the U. S. Information Agency. Au pairs usually do not have any specific training although some may have received training/education prior to entering the program.
Governess is also a term for an in-home provider, very similar to a nanny. The term is often used for a person caring or supervising older children and may also provide educational experiences such as home schooling to the children in her care. Families hiring an individual for this position usually require a higher level of education than a nanny and these positions are more frequently include a live-in arrangement, often accompanied by extensive travel with the family. Wages and benefits are negotiated between the governess and the family.
Job Outlook: Job opportunities for people wishing to become private household workers are expected to be excellent through 2008, as the demand for these services continues to far outpace the supply of workers. Those with formal training or excellent recommendations from previous employers are particularly sought after.
Earnings: Earnings of in-home child care providers depend on the number of hours worked, required responsibilities, training and prior experience, and geographic location. Earnings vary from about $10 or more in a big city to less than the Federal minimum wage (since minimum wage laws may not cover private household workers depending on number of hours worked.) Some employment opportunities exist in major metropolitan areas that may yield $800 - $1,200 per week.
Opportunity for Advancement: Usually, in-home providers are independent workers with no opportunities for advancement. In a change of settings, the experience gained may be useful along with further education to advance in the field of early care and education.
Serving Children Directly – Family Child Care, Center Based Child Care.
Serving Families Directly – Referral placement services for other in home providers, temporary employment service referral agency.
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What JCPenney Can Teach You About Brand, Audience and CommunityPosted by Heidi Strom Moon under Branding & Print Design
Why change now? Why change at all? As its new CEO, Ron Johnson—the mastermind behind the successful launch of the Apple stores—pointed out at the Jan. 25 launch event, there was no choice if the company wanted to evolve and exist in the 21st century.
Profit was good but sales were stagnant and competition was increasing from online and niche retailers. And the brand had come to represent your mother’s department store—or worse, your grandmother’s.
JCPenney had to change what the company and its brand meant to its audience of current and potential customers.
Changing a logo wasn’t enough. The company had to change the way it does business.
For JCPenney, that means its Fair and Square policy: three basic levels of pricing and returns accepted for any reason (a la Nordstrom).
Said Johnson in the press release accompanying the launch event, “Every initiative we pursue will be guided by our core value to treat customers as we would like to be treated - fair and square.”
Little did JCPenney know that it would be called on to put this into very public practice within days when its newly announced partnership with Ellen DeGeneres was attacked as being against “traditional values” by a group calling itself One Million Moms.
JCPenney consciously aligned itself with DeGeneres knowing it would help them reach her millions of viewers and followers on social media.
And Ellen isn’t just popular; lots of celebrities are popular. She and her show have gained such a large following by representing a new mainstream, one that appeals equally to grandmas and teens, red states and blue. JCPenney’s audience is—or they want it to be—Ellen’s audience.
When JCPenney immediately reaffirmed the choice of DeGeneres as a brand partner after the One Million Moms story broke, the company gained not just her potential audience but a now-outraged community of supporters who began leaving comments on Facebook, Ellen’s site and elsewhere proclaiming that they were going out of their way to shop at JCPenney in response to the criticism.
By treating Ellen “fair and square,” JCPenney was given the opportunity to live up to its new brand promise and thereby connect to its audience not just as consumers, but as part of a community.
What this means for you
- A brand is more than a logo. It represents who your company and organization is and what it stands for. Go beyond the identity markings and think about your core values. Are you living them? Does your audience think you are?
- Audiences are people. Don’t just treat your members or customers as one-time transactors. If they feel connected to who you are and what you stand for, they’ll come back.
- You are part of your community. Your organization or business doesn’t stand alone. How are you connected to your community? How can you do so in a way that is in harmony with your brand’s values?
What you should do next
- Revisit your mission statement. Is it accurate? Do all stakeholders agree? Is it aligned with the way you’re doing business?
- Examine your brand. Does it make sense for who you are? What do your customers say? Have you asked them?
- Prepare in advance. If you make significant changes, be prepared for the potential reactions from customers and the public; plan your response messages in advance. Be willing to own the changes you’ve made, especially if they’re sufficiently different, new or uncomfortable.
- Live up to your brand’s new promise. Make sure your company’s choices and actions align with what you say your brand means now, from customer policies to the face you present to the world, whether it’s a logo, a spokesperson or both.
- Get help. At CDG Interactive, we work with companies large and small, for profit and non-profit, to define their brands, create new identities, and develop a strategy for successfully implementing their brand and business. Contact us to get started with your brand.
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glutSwapBuffers swaps the buffers of the current window if double buffered.
Performs a buffer swap on the layer in use for the current window. Specifically, glutSwapBuffers promotes the contents of the back buffer of the layer in use of the current window to become the contents of the front buffer. The contents of the back buffer then become undefined. The update typically takes place during the vertical retrace of the monitor, rather than immediately after glutSwapBuffers is called.
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• Natural Tips: Total Hand Care
Hand Care Recipes:
• Gardeners' Hand Cream
• Horsetail Nail Strengthener
Green thumbs and rough, dry hands no longer need to be the result of a day spent working in the garden. In fact, the term “green thumb” has nothing to do with the condition of your hands, but rather it refers to a person’s ability to grow and care for healthy plants. It is possible to have both healthy, well-cared-for hands and beautiful plants.
Eating a proper diet is essential, as too little protein can make your nails brittle and your skin dull. Keeping your hands well-moisturized is also important; the nails are extremely porous and expel moisture 100 times faster than the skin. Massaging a rich cream or natural oil (such as sunflower oil) into your hands and nails will keep them soft and full of moisture. This is especially critical to lock in moisture and prevent your hands from chapping after washing your hands. Garden soil and constant washings rob your hands of precious moisture. The cream or oil will form a protective barrier, locking moisture into your skin. Massage your cuticles as you apply the cream—this will increase your circulation and encourage new nail growth. Here are a few more essential tips for healthy hands.
• Never use your nails as a tool. They are not knives, screwdrivers, or pruning shears.
• Push back your cuticles every time you wash your hands or apply hand cream.
• Soothe cuts and scrapes by making a strong tea from fresh calendula petals or lavender flowers. Use the fragrant water to wash and soothe your hands. To help your skin heal quickly, apply a bit of vitamin E oil or honey to the affected area.
• To keep your nails clean while gardening, scratch a bar of soap before going outdoors. Let the soap get under your nails so dirt won’t.
• Keep all of your nails the same length and shape them into squared-off ovals. This not only looks best; it is also the strongest shape for active hands.
• Use sun protection on your hands when working outdoors.
• Wear the right gloves for the job to protect your hands.
Once a week, treat your hands to a manicure. This is important for men and women to keep hands looking and feeling their best. Rough, cracked hands are not only unsightly but can also be painful and hard to work with. Follow the steps outlined on page 51 for “Total hand care.” Healthy, well-cared-for hands will be the result.
It is very easy to make your own natural hand-care products at home using basic household ingredients such as oil, honey, herbs, and flowers. Use the recipes included to create your own rich hand cream and strengthening nail bath.
Removing Garden Stains
Follow these simple tips to remove garden stains from your hands. They work well to clean and refresh your hands. Remember to moisturize well afterward, as the treatments can be drying to your skin.
Lemons. Lemons are natural astringents and disinfectants that will leave your hands clean and fragrant. Cut a lemon in half and rub the fresh juice all over your hands. Leave the juice on your hands for 5 minutes; then rinse well with warm water.
Green tomatoes. Working around tomato plants can give the skin on your hands a yellow-green tint. Use a green tomato to remove these stains. Cut the fruit in half and rub the fresh juice all over your hands. Leave the juice on your hands for 5 minutes; then rinse well with warm water.
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POTSDAM - Wind, solar and other forms of renewable energy are volatile and uncertain, a problem Clarkson University Assistant Professor Lei Wu is looking to solve.
The National Science Foundation has given Wu a $400,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award for Smart Grid research. Wu is embarking on a five-year project that will provide a blueprint as the United States updates its electrical grid in the 21st century.
He will develop mathematical models and algorithms in order to find favorable sites for renewable energy facilities that will enhance the United States Smart Grid. The CAREER grant project will launch this Sept. 1 and continue through August 2018.
The research will give power system operators and power companies more information to make better decisions, Wu said. The research will also hopefully reduce the unpredictability and variability sometimes associated with renewable energy projects, thus making them more feasible and widespread.
We need some more rigorous research, Wu said. Were trying to respond to some of the targets set by the government.
The grant will fund two Ph.D students who will work with Wu on the project. Those students may travel to local high schools over the course of the grant to teach power systems concepts to students.
Wu, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has more than 10 years of experience in energy and power systems research. He has served as a consultant with the New York Independent System Operators organization to review their business management system and Energy Management System for power market operation in New York State. He will collaborate with NYISO and the New York Smart Grid Consortium on the research.
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|May 2006 · Vol. 18, No. 5
Estrogen treatment: Safe and effective in early menopause
But many unanswered questions persist
How many years would you be willing to continue estrogen treatment for this patient?
Robert L. Barbieri, MD
CASE “Doctor, for how long is it safe to continue my estrogen?”
A 50-year-old G3P3 presents with menorrhagia and a 16-week size pelvic mass consistent with a myomatous uterus, by both physical examination and pelvic sonogram. Her endometrial biopsy demonstrated secretory endometrium. She tried a course of progestin treatment, but this did not adequately relieve her bleeding. Her physician recommended either uterine artery embolization or hysterectomy.
The patient chose hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy because of a family history of ovarian cancer. Immediately postoperatively she was started on conjugated equine estrogen 0.625 mg daily to treat vasomotor symptoms. Four weeks later she reports that she feels very well. She is sleeping well and has no vasomotor symptoms.
She would like to continue to take her estrogen treatment, and asks: “For how many years would it be safe to take the estrogen treatment?”
When contemplating any treatment recommendation, physicians and patients must balance potential benefits and risks. In many situations few data are available to fully inform the decision; clinical experience and judgment play a major role. In other situations, overwhelming data from high-quality trials endow the decision with strong evidence for or against a particular strategy.
For women who have just become menopausal, estrogen treatment is clearly both safe and effective. Estrogen treatment is highly effective in the treatment of vasomotor symptoms experienced by hypoestrogenic women. In newly menopausal women, estrogen also appears to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and bone loss, and does not increase the risk of breast cancer during the first 8 years of use. Given the benefits and risks, estrogen is a good option for treatment of vasomotor symptoms in early menopause.
The latest data support the idea that among recently menopausal women, estrogen treatment does not increase, and may decrease, the risk of cardiovascular disease. In the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), 3,310 menopausal women 50 to 59 years old who had a hysterectomy were randomly assigned to treatment with conjugated equine estrogen (0.625 mg daily) or a placebo. Over 6.8 years of follow-up, estrogen treatment demonstrated:
a trend for reduced myocardial infarction and death from coronary disease (hazard ratio 0.63, nominal 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.36–1.08).
a statistically significant decrease in coronary artery bypass surgery or percutaneous coronary artery intervention rates (hazard ratio 0.55, nominal 95% CI, 0.35–0.86).
This protective effect of estrogen was not observed among the menopausal hysterectomized women in the WHI who were 60 to 79 years of age.
These findings suggest that the cardioprotective effect of estrogen is most easily observed in women who are immediately menopausal, such as women who recently had a bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. Estrogen initiated in women 60 to 79 years of age does not appear to have a cardioprotective effect.1
Recent epidemiologic studies also support the idea that the cardioprotective effect of estrogen is probably limited to women who are recently menopausal.2 The recent WHI findings are consistent with the observation in monkeys that estrogen therapy initiated immediately after oophorectomy reduced the extent of coronary artery plaque, but initiation of estrogen 2 years after oophorectomy did not.3
Other effects of estrogen
Breast cancer. Previous reports from the WHI found that conjugated equine estrogen 0.625 mg daily did not increase the risk of breast cancer4—a sharp contrast from the finding that the combination of conjugated equine estrogen plus medroxyprogesterone was associated with a small increase in the risk of breast cancer after about 5 years of use.5
Bone fracture. The WHI clearly indicated that estrogen treatment reduced the risk of bone fracture to a greater degree than either placebo or vitamin D and calcium treatment.6
Stroke. Among hysterectomized women in the WHI, the main risk of estrogen treatment was a small increase in the risk of stroke.4
Hot flashes. Estrogen treatment is clearly effective in reducing vasomotor symptoms.
Given the relative safety of estrogen with regards to breast cancer risk, and the positive effect of estrogen on cardiovascular risk (when started soon after menopause) and bone health, it is clear that estrogen treatment is both effective and safe in women who are recently menopausal. This interim conclusion should be balanced with the knowledge that many unanswered questions remain, including:
How long should estrogen be continued before tapering?
What is the lowest effective dose of estrogen that will provide maximal benefits and minimal risks?
Is non-oral estrogen superior to oral?
Does a mixture of estrogen agonists and estrogen antagonists have a superior risk-benefit profile than an estrogen agonist alone?
Are there interventions that will reduce the risk of deep venous thrombosis or stroke associated with estrogen treatment?
We value your opinion. How many years would you be willing to continue estrogen treatment for this patient?
1. Hsia J, Langer RD, Manson JE, et al. Conjugated equine estrogens and coronary heart disease: the Women’s Health Initiative. Arch Intern Med. 2006;166:357–365.
2. Grodstein F, Manson JE, Stampfer MJ. Hormone therapy and coronary heart disease: the role of time since menopause and age at hormone initiation. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2006;15(1):35–44.
3. Mikkola TS, Clarkson TB. Estrogen replacement therapy, atherosclerosis, and vascular function. Cardiovasc Res. 2002;53:605–619.
4. Anderson GL, Limacher M, Assaf AR, et al, for the Women’s Health Initiative Steering Committee. Effects of conjugated equine estrogen in postmenopausal women with hysterectomy: the Women’s Health Initiative randomized control trial. JAMA. 2004;291:1701–1712.
5. Chlebowski RT, Hendrix SL, Langer RD, et al, for the WHI Investigators. Influence of estrogen plus progestin on breast cancer and mammography in healthy postmenopausal women: the Women’s Health Initiative Randomized Trial. JAMA. 2003;289:3243–3253.
6. Jackson RD, LaCroix AZ, Gass M, et al, for the Women’s Health Initiative Investigators. Calcium plus vitamin D supplementation and the risk of fractures [published corrections appears in N Engl J Med. 2006;354:1102]. N Engl J Med. 2006;354:669–683.
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Groups write governor to protest killing wolves
Letter alleges inconclusive evidence of livestock damage
Seven pro-wolf groups have asked Gov. Chris Gregoire and other state officials to end efforts to kill some of the wolves involved with cattle attacks in northern Stevens County.
In a letter dated Friday, the groups said Washington Fish and Wildlife Department officers did not find conclusive evidence that wolves were responsible for killing and injuring Diamond M Ranch cattle, so no more wolves should be killed.
Teams of biologists and Fish and Wildlife police say wolves were involved in attacks on at least eight of the ranch’s cattle from mid-July through mid-August, including two calves killed.
Officers responded to the July attacks in the area between the Kettle and Columbia rivers by killing one nonbreeding female wolf from the Wedge Pack on Aug. 7. The kill was the first by the agency under its 2011 wolf management plan.
On Aug. 17, days after confirming more wolf attacks that left one calf injured and one dead, wildlife officials authorized field staff to kill up to four more of the Wedge Pack wolves to curb the attacks.
Gray wolves in Eastern Washington are protected by state endangered species laws, but officials can kill wolves to protect people or property.
The pro-wolf groups, in the letter sent by the Western Environmental Law Center, say the state is jumping to the lethal option too quickly.
Two of the three nonagency experts who peer-reviewed the field investigations were not convinced the cattle attacks were the work of wolves, said Suzanne Stone of the Defenders of Wildlife.
“The reports and especially the photos indicate injuries uncharacteristic of wolves,” she said.
Stone said she’s dealt with Idaho wolf depredation claims totaling $1 million under a livestock-loss compensation program Defenders of Wildlife formerly financed. She said 98 percent of those claims were legitimate once wildlife agencies became adept at investigating wolf kills.
Washington officials probably are not as experienced, she said.
Decisions to kill wolves have more serious impacts on wolf recovery in Washington than in Idaho, which has about 10 times more wolves, she said.
Steve Pozzanghera, Fish and Wildlife’s regional wildlife manger, said the state stands by its investigations.
“We’ve been told repeatedly from the start that you can have several individuals looking at the same thing on the ground and they’ll reach different conclusions,” he said.
Three to six agency staffers have been attempting to trap Wedge Pack wolves this week, but none has been caught, he said. The decomposed carcass of a wolf was discovered, but the cause of death could not be determined.
Although they intend to kill more wolves, biologists also want to put a radio collar on at least one more Wedge wolf to help monitor the pack’s movements.
A wolf thought to be the pack’s alpha male was trapped, collared and released earlier this summer. Six weeks of radio telemetry monitoring shows the wolf pack has ranged widely into Canada and back to the Colville National Forest area where the cattle attacks occurred.
Livestock producers applaud the state’s effort to kill some of the Wedge Pack wolves.
“From day one of the wolf management plan process, the department told stakeholders they were prepared to deal with difficult situations and would eliminate wolves in cases of chronic livestock depredation – that’s what they’re doing,” said Jack Field, spokesman for the Washington Cattlemen’s Association.
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Arundhati Roy, the Conscience of Indian Democracy
Thursday 26 November 2009
Arundhati Roy in New York City, 2003. (Photo: base!)
People in France are undoubtedly discussing Albert Camus' Pantheonization in order to celebrate a character that has disappeared from this country: that of the writer-activist. A thousand leagues from here, in New Delhi, Arundhati Roy doesn't even ask: the author of the global best-seller, "The God of Small Things," takes the visiting journalist along to a meeting of support for victims of the military repression in Manipur, a small state in eastern India. The author quietly takes a seat on a stone bench at Delhi University among a hundred other participants and waits for her turn to speak. To the side, a banner proclaims, "A different world cannot be built by indifferent people."
If they read Arundhati Roy, her fellow citizens cannot remain indifferent: in "Listening to Grasshoppers" (Penguin Books, New Delhi, 2009), the best-known author in India delivers a detailed and convincing critique of "the world's biggest democracy," the fascist tendencies of which she denounces.
Manipur, in particular, could be the prototype for those aberrations: in 1958, in order to fight against an independence movement, the government designated the little state a "disturbed area," within which the army would be endowed with special powers. That has led to numerous excesses, condemned, for example, by Human Rights Watch in 2008. But violent military action continues in the Northeastern states such as Kashmir and in the eastern states of the Indian Federation where the powerful Naxalite rebellion is growing.
"During the last decade," Roy states, "people killed by the security forces have numbered in the thousands." However, she maintains, the virus of military violence is not confined to troubled regions only: the whole country is prey to rampant fascism: "After the fall of the Berlin wall," she explains later at her kitchen table, where she sits by a stack of books and newspapers, "India realigned itself with the United States. At the same time, that country passed almost instantaneously from support for Islam - against the Soviet Union - to demonization of Muslim movements, presented as terrorist groups. That allowed the BJP (the nationalist Hindu party) to expand rapidly on the basis of a theme of 'Hindu pride.'" The opening up of the economy did not counteract that tendency - on the contrary: "As in Nazi Germany, fascism is associated with economic regeneration. The big companies support the BJP leaders because they privatize and give those companies the land taken from peasants."
Very aggressive security controls for domestic flights as well as the presence of armed soldiers behind sacks of sand in the Delhi subway bear witness that serenity does not reign within this country. And, almost daily, the newspapers talk about a skirmish in the regions of the Naxalite rebellion over which the government no longer maintains control.
A Day in Prison
But the degeneration of democracy begins within the very heart of political institutions: "The majority of deputies are millionaires," Arundhati Roy explains. "You cannot win a seat unless you are supported by the big companies. Do you know that the electoral campaign in India costs more than the presidential campaign in the United States?"
As for counterweights, such as the Supreme Court or the media, they have, in essence, all passed into the hands of Americanized elites. The author spent a day in prison in 2002 for having criticized the Supreme Court. "All the institutions of democracy have been emptied of their meaning and work together for the benefit of the elites," she asserts. When I point out that she is free to express herself, to write and to speak, she answers: "That's not democracy. Democracy is government by and for the people."
Does the author exaggerate? Kalpana Sharma, a left-leaning activist Mumbai journalist, deems Roy's analysis and work useful, but tempers her pessimism: "There has been great progress at the village level," she says, "with greater power accorded to local councils, the Panchayat, with the law in favor of rural employment, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NEGRA). The battle is not lost." To which Roy retorts: "I don't see my work as having to maintain a subtle balance of positions. Fascism is the slow infiltration of all the State's instruments of power, a slow erosion of public freedoms, daily - but not particularly spectacular - injustices."
Under these circumstances, does any hope remain? "There's a very positive thing in India: people are exceptionally aware of what is happening. The elites and the media, no; but on the ground, people know." The author would like to move away from the news, to make progress on the fictional book she is mulling over. But she confesses to the "excitement" of this life. The following day, she was to leave for Kashmir. To investigate and, no doubt, to condemn.
Translation: Truthout French Language Editor Leslie Thatcher.
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For many years, the Missouri General Assembly has been trying to find new and improved ways to address educational ills in their state. In past sessions, legislators have proposed eliminating boundaries so that children may attend schools outside their traditional school boarders, expanding the Charter School initiative, and have flirted with vouchers. The latest hot button issue affecting education, in Missouri, is how the adoption of Common Core State Standards have tied the hands of local school districts as well as burdening the budgets in those districts.
Common Core State Standards are federally standardized curriculums. In Missouri, Common Core State Standards were adopted, by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, in 2010 by accepting funding from the federal government. The legislature had no input in this action, and that has caused citizens of Missouri to question the efficacy of its adoption and question where the state will come up with additional tax dollars to pay for ongoing implementation of the unfunded mandates.
Missouri Education Watchdog also exposes another issue with funding these standards as it relates to paying for the on line assessments required as part of the CCSS implementation.
“The assessments are an even larger portion of these costs as they are supposed to be done on line, which not only requires input devices like computers or tablets, but also sufficient broadband to accommodate all the students taking them at once. Once you add technology, you must also add a host of support staff to maintain and troubleshoot that technology, adding further cost to a district. In Missouri, we have no room in our state budget for these extra costs. That means local districts will have to find the money because the foundation formula is not going to give it to them.”
CCSS may be more about assessments that equalizing education achievement. While the perception is that CCSS only applies to pubic education, the reality is that it may reach beyond those borders into private and home education, as well.
As most public education systems, across the country, have adopted the CCSS and in doing so they also must comply with mandated assessments, it also may follow that assessments for college entrance will change. In fact, the architect for the development of CCSS has taken the position of president of the College Board, the organization that develops and administers College Board exams. Some question that CCSS will eliminate the need for the College Board, but others believe the College Board will adapt to follow suit and in doing so, private and home educated students will need to comply with CCSS if they desire to enter into post secondary education.
Homeschool Legal Defense, an organization that advocates for the homeschooling community, has been watching this issue for quite some time and has officially opposed the implementation of CCSS. It is their belief that CCSS calls for the “seamless intervention into the lives of children and families.”
Dr. Brian Ray, of the National Home Education Research Institute, addresses this subject and other facts and obstacles of home based and private education as he speaks to parents and others interested in the state of education reform, at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 31, 2013, at the Family Vision Library.
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Okay I have a SOHO 831 series cisco router. it does have ipv6 unicast-routing enabled on it.
can you explain in english what it exactly happening with the commands on my cisco. I have seen tunneling setup configs and such but what about NAT inside and NAT outside commands and what
if my ISP give me a dynamic public IP address and on the ip nat outside i have DHCP configured.
how do I configure my tunnel with DHCP on the ip nat outside?? and with nat? do you have the configs for a cisco router? thanks | <urn:uuid:43b65364-6e8d-4919-a9b5-091dc452d0bb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.tunnelbroker.net/forums/index.php?topic=183.msg1135 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939482 | 122 | 1.671875 | 2 |
The Department of Information and Logistics Technology (ILT) provides educational opportunities designed to prepare technical and management oriented professionals for careers in business, industry, government, and education. The programs are closely linked to workforce quality and productivity for the region, the state, and the nation. Graduates are workforce leaders who bring high levels of technology expertise to the workplace and are prepared to guide technological change. In addition, many are teachers or trainers across a myriad of settings from public schools to industry and government settings, who are highly prepared to use technology in transmitting necessary skills to the present and future workforce.
Students completing the program earn a Bachelor of Science. The majors in Computer Information Systems, Logistics Technology, and Organizational Leadership and Supervision have been designed so that graduates will:
To qualify for a Bachelor of Science in Technology degree, students must complete the university requirements for a baccalaureate degree, including university core curriculum requirements and departmental requirements for a specific degree program as stated in the catalog.
The Bachelor's degree requires the student to complete the university core, the general college requirements, the ILT Department Core and a series of specialization courses. The total hours required in all majors range from 120-129 hours. Of these at least 36 semester hours must be from upper division courses. Information Systems Technology and Organizational Leadership and Supervision majors must earn a grade of "C" or better in all major courses. No grade lower than "C" will be accepted on any courses applicable to the major transferred to the University of Houston . A grade point average of 2.00 or better is required for graduation.
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WorkSafeBC to check burned mill's inspection records 0
WorkSafeBC is determining whether inspections were completed at a Lower Mainland wood mill that caught fire this weekend, after safety reviews were ordered in reaction to two fatal sawmill explosions this year.
Two phases of WorkSafeBC checks were to be implemented after of tiny particles of dried sawdust were found to have fed the flames that killed four people in the Burns Lake and Prince George fires in January and April, respectively.
In the first phase, all sawmills were inspected. The second phase, which extended to other "wood-processing operations," was ongoing.
It's unclear whether Waldun Forest Products, whose shake and shingle mill caught fire Sunday morning, was part of either phase.
Firefighters are still trying to track down the starting point of the flames.
"Origin of the fire is still under investigation and we are looking at all circumstances as to what could cause the fire," said Mark Smitton, Maple Ridge assistant fire chief, in an email to 24 hours.
"Wood sawdust will be looked at to see if it contributed to fire spread."
No employees were at the mill during the fire, apart from a lone watchman, he said. No one was injured.
WorkSafeBC sent an investigator to the scene Sunday morning at 9393 287th Street. The safety organization is expected Monday to seek any "inspection history" for the mill.
"If there's an inspection history that (will be) public information," spokeswoman Donna Freeman said.
"At this point it's a fire and the primary jurisdiction is the fire investigators."
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Activae: towards a free and community-based platform for digital asset management
Every day, more businesses, organizations, and institutions of all kinds generate media assets that become part of their value chains, their know-how and production processes. We understand a multimedia digital asset not only as a media file (audio, video, or image) but as the combination of the file itself and its associated metadata; this allows, from an organizational perspective, exploiting, analysis, and documentation.
About Activae project
From this perspective, it is essential that organizations have platforms that allow the management of multimedia assets. There are several platforms of this kind on the market : Canto Cumulus, Artesia DAM, Fuzion Media Asset Management, Nuexeo DAM, and others. However, the number of simple and scalable platforms based on open source software is not remarkable and that is why CENATIC (Spanish National Competence Center for the Application of Open Source Technologies) has developed Activae ; a platform for digital and multimedia asset management that is highly scalable, open source, vendor-independent, fully developed in Python, and designed for the Ubuntu Server.
If we were to list the features of activae according to their importance, these would be :
- Scalability: Activae consists of four modules: transcoding, data access, web frontend, and an API exported via XML/RPC. Each one of them allows load balancing and high availability, so the scalability possibilities are broad. It can all run on one machine or additional machines can be arranged as required. If the use of the platform requires more storage, you can easily hot-plug it. If you use a lot of transcoding of multimedia formats, machines can be dedicated specifically to this work and even more can be added as you see the need.
- Load balancing: is provided by the internal engine of the platform, the Cherokee web server . Access to the application can be configured in this way to provide service in those cases where visitors to the platform are abundant.
- Transcoding: Activae allows advanced format transcoding in the platform itself. If, for example, a video asset having DivX AVI format is added, it can be transformed seamlessly into a video MPEG H.264, or FLV to web. You can even convert a video to an MP3; Activae is responsible for automatically eliminating the video layer and extracting the audio. It supports transcoding between 200 different formats/containers, and most importantly, the transcoding is done asynchronously - decoupled and detached (in the background) while you can continue working with Activae. It is a non-blocking process.
- 100% AJAX GUI: provided by the CTK library (Cherokee Tool Kit), a jQuery wrapper written in Python that allows the development of advanced, light and professional user interfaces.
- The platform is fully developed in Python 2.5, familiar to many readers: the API that is exported via XML/RPC, the AJAX user interface, the control and business logic, the database access, etc...
- It is open source. Activae is licensed under the New BSD License terms. This allows modification, use, distribution, sale, or relicensing, which is an advantage to any individual, company, or organization that wishes to use their properties for personal use or to provide services to third parties, expanding its portfolio of products and services and ultimately expanding their business opportunities.
As for the technical soundness of the platform, it is ensured by being based on renowned open source components: Xapian, Cherokee, Python, ImageMagick, FFMpeg, etc. The following figure shows more specifically the modules that are used by Activae, how they are interconnected, and how it used each one of them.
Model of community and government
The project is currently housed in the Forge of CENATIC . For now, the CENATIC staff is managing its evolution, although we are completely open to incorporate more participants: the more players, the better. Workers from companies such as Octality and ATOS Origin are involved in the process; various developers and beta testers of other entities are conducting pilot projects to deploy the platform (museums, universities, television networks, associations, media companies, ...)
The development model used is the "rolling release". That is, there is no single development branch constantly being evolved. Stable packages that contain highly tested features are released on a frequent basis. To the extent that the merits of the developers dictate, they go on to have enough permissions to manage their own community around the platform. No one is excluded on grounds of origin, sex, race, age, or ideology. The community is a meritocracy: open, flexible, and dynamic, with the main goal of changing the product for the benefit of all.
Call for participation
The project has been released very recently. This implies that the user and developer community around the platform is still small, although the growth rate is quite high. Therefore, CENATIC calls for the participation in the project to all Python developers of the open source community that want to be part of an innovative and forward-looking project. The way to get started is to sign up in the Forge of CENATIC and request to join the project. But you can also work anonymously downloading the sources via Subversion platform.
svn checkout https://svn.forge.morfeo-project.org/activae/dam
All necessary information for participation can be found in the project Wiki . Any input is welcome: developers, translators, graphic designers, beta testers, distributors... or just providing ideas for improvements or future features. Although the website is currently available only in Spanish, we are working hard to get the English version up as soon as possible. In any case, the internal documentation of the source code as well as the comments for each commit are completely written in English.
CENATIC is the Spanish National Competence Center for the Application of Open source Technologies. It is a public foundation, promoted by the Ministry of Industry, Tourism, and Commerce of the Spanish Government (through the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Information Society and the public entity red.es) and the Extremadura Regional Government. Members of the Board are also the Regional Governments of Andalusia, Asturias, Aragon, Cantabria, Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, and the Basque Country, as well as the Atos Origin, Telefonica and GPEX companies.
CENATIC's mission is to promote knowledge and use of open source software in all areas of society, with special attention to government, businesses, the ICT sector - providers or users of open source technologies - and development communities. In addition, the established Spanish regulatory framework corresponds to CENATIC general advice on legal issues, technology, and methodology most appropriate for the release of software and knowledge.
Related links and references
- http://www.opensourcedigitalassetmanagement.org/reviews/available-open-source-dam/
- http://www.cenatic.es
- http://activae.cenatic.es
- Activae, el gestor de activos digitales y multimedia. M. Dominguez-Dorado, Isabel San Jose Pelaez. Todo Linux 121. Pages. 10-14. Iberprensa press (Madrid). DL M-39535-2000. December, 2010.
- http://www.cherokee-project.com
- http://svn.cherokee-project.com/browser/CTK
- http://forja.cenatic.es/projects/activae
- http://www.octality.com
- http://www.es.atosorigin.com/es-es/
- http://activae.cenatic.es/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Manuel Domínguez-Dorado was born in Zafra, Extremadura (SPAIN) and he completed his studies at the Polytechnic School of Cáceres (University of Extremadura) where he received the Computer Engineering and Diploma in Computer Science in 2004 and 2006, respectively. He worked for several companies in the ICT sector before returning back to the University of Extremadura as a researcher. In 2007, he obtained a Certificate of Research Proficiency. Nowadays he works for CENATIC (Spanish National Competence Center for the Application of open source technologies) as Project Management Office (PMO) lead while complete his doctoral thesis. His areas of interest include multiprotocol technologies, interdomain routing and interdomain Path Computation Element (PCE) enviroments, as well as the work of planning, coordination, measurement and management in large-scale software projects. | <urn:uuid:e6c6f9f9-6a9f-4303-8dad-1affb9d37c63> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LGNET/185/dorado.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915108 | 1,847 | 1.65625 | 2 |
The term Charabanc (not Charabang as I thought) comes from the French char-a-bancs, for a “carriage with wooden benches.” The simple design included rows of seats in the body of a horse drawn carriage or open toped bus which all faced forward. A driver perched on a seat in the front, or rode in a separate carriage which was often pulled by a team of four. Typically, no covering at all was installed over the riders.
This new form of mass transport started in the 1840′s but reached its heydays in the 1920-30′s. It brought locations to the reaches of the masses not universally popular (a bit like today I guess). In ‘Sleeping Murder‘ Agatha Christie wrote …’ There used always to be a lot of summer visitors as long as I can remember. But nice quiet people who came here every year, not these trippers and charabancs we have nowadays. A Miss Marpleish comment if ever there was one.
I had this great picture from the National Railway Museum at York and wanted to write about Charabancs. The first information I found was about Doncaster St Georges ‘Charabang’ tour of Retford a couple of years ago but as you could see on their web site it was done in style.
‘Joining RC Doncaster St Georges
Everyone will have their own reasons for considering joining Rotary and RC Doncaster St Georges. A few that may apply to you are listed below.
You want to meet and get to know a diverse group of professionals and business men / women, to give something back to the Community, to be part of an International movement or to join our Social activities.
Some people may remember the old Charabang song from coach trips to the seaside and rugby matches:-
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TREES, TRUFFLES, AND BEASTS
How Forests Function
Chris Maser, Andrew W. Claridge, and James M. Trappe
We have joined to address the ever-unfolding story of forest development on two disparate continents—North America and Australia. Chris, an American, has research experience in North America, Europe, Asia, and North Africa. Although Andrew, an Australian, has carried out most of his investigations in his native Australia, he also has experience in the United States. Jim, an American, has conducted much research in the United States, Europe, and collaborated for more than a decade in Australia with Andrew. The century of experience accumulated among the three of us has led to the ideas explored here.
As you read this book, please remember that we are telling it as we understand it. We cannot do any other way, because we interpret what we see through the filters of our own experiences and perceptions, which is all any of us can do.
A forest in the Cascade Mountains of Western Oregon, USA
The forest is at once a microcosm of the continuum between the infinitesimal, as seen through an electron microscope, and the infinite beyond our grasp. This dimension of scale is important, because it adds greatly not only to our perception of diversity in the landscape, but also bolsters our perception of the way one part of the landscape relates to another in terms of the biophysical principles that govern life.
An Australian forest in the southeastern part of the continent.
Among the three of us, we have experienced the boreal forest near the Arctic tree line, as well as the coniferous, deciduous, and mixed forests of the Northern Hemisphere; the tropical forests bordering the equator; and the forests of southern Chile and Australia in the Southern Hemisphere. While these forests appear radically different above ground, they are amazingly similar in how they function below ground. To convey the true nature of these seemingly disparate forests required that we become knowledgeable enough about two widely dissimilar geographical areas in order to demonstrate how the global forest ecosystem functions. For this purpose, we have chosen the Pacific northwestern United States (Figure 1) and the southeastern part of mainland Australia (Figure 2).
The continents of the Northern Hemisphere and those of the Southern Hemisphere, once joined in the supercontinent of Pangaea, were separated by movement of the Earth’s tectonic plates some 180 million years ago. Fragmentation of Pangaea occurred long before many of the present organisms were archived in the fossil record.
Australia has been isolated from the other continents for approximately 85 million years. Consequently, its indigenous plants and animals are totally distinct from those of North America. Nevertheless, the ecosystems of both continents function in much the same way: evolution—the ultimate open-ended experiment—independently arrived at the same biophysical “solutions” to each forest’s infrastructural processes on both continents.
Generally speaking, infrastructure is the part of a forest that simultaneously allows the components to interact with one another and facilitates their ensuing interrelationships in a systemic manner. Infrastructure serves as a means of transferring energy from one part of a forest to another. In essence, the forest infrastructure is composed of subsets of microsystems and megasystems of energy interchange, with every gradation in between, and with fractal-like complexity, seemingly ad infinitum.
The active complexity of a forest defies a neat definition and thereby renders the very term, “forest,” all but useless. Nevertheless, it’s a word we must work with, and by incorporating infrastructure, design, complexity, evolution, and interdependency into our working definition, we can begin to approach the true concept. And it’s by connecting the linkages among these components of the biophysical system that, in the last analysis, makes a forest, a forest.
“Accurate and authentic, Trees, Truffles, and Beasts: How Forests Function makes a major contribution to the field of natural resource management. This is a clear and compelling argument that there’s much more to forests than meets the eye.”—Jim Furnish Deputy Chief for National Forest System (ret.) USDA Forest Service.
“Lucidly written and accessible to professionals and the general public alike, the authors adeptly tease out the intimate details and fascinating ecological interactions of a world hidden within the soil. I highly recommend this book for a fascinating glimpse into the wondrous web of life and complex ecological relationships that sustain our natural forests.”—Alan Watson Featherstone Executive Director Trees for Life Findhorn Bay, Forres, Scotland.
“Sustainable ecosystem policy requires understanding the complexity and interconnectedness of species and habitats. The central theme of Trees, Truffles, and Beasts is the explanation of the complicated webs of interactions, both physical and biological in these systems. Drawing upon personal experience and research on two continents, Maser (zoologist and environmental consultant), Claridge (Dept. of Environment and Conservation, New South Wales, Australia), and Trappe (Oregon State [University]) give a broad overview of forest ecosystems and their workings. It is lively reading. Here one learns about how ecologists look at the various components and activities in a forest ecosystem. Readers are introduced to topics such as the formation of soil, the biological processes that take place in the soil, and the organisms that live there. The book provides excellent coverage of the symbiosis between trees, fungi, and animals, an overarching theme. The role of fire is forest ecosystems forms another thrust. The changes in forests over time and the implications of change in the managed landscapes are both elucidated and placed in the context of human uses of the land. Few works take these personal views into account to give such a holistic view of the forested landscape. Summing up: Highly recommended. All public, general, and undergraduate libraries.”—D.H. Pfister Harvard University Choice (2009).
Photo of Cascade forest © by Chris Maser, 2009. All rights reserved.
Trees, Truffles, and Beasts: How Forests Function. 2008. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ. 288 pp. (Senior author with Andrew W. Claridge and James M. Trappe.)
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CNET News: Warning Toned Down on Perl App Flaws
Dec 16, 2005, 14:30 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Joris Evers)
[ Thanks to Jan Faber for this link.
"The Perl Foundation has toned down a warning on a type of
vulnerability commonly found in applications written in the Perl
"Two weeks after experts sounded an alarm on so-called 'format
string flaws' in Perl applications, changes have been made to Perl.
These updates ensure that such flaws can't be used as a conduit to
run malicious code on target systems, Andy Lester, a spokesman for
the Perl Foundation and co-author of the book 'Pro Perl Debugging,'
said on Thursday..."
- Advisories, December 15, 2005(Dec 16, 2005)
- Advisories, December 14, 2005(Dec 15, 2005)
- Advisories, December 12, 2005(Dec 13, 2005)
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Local Dirt helps you buy locally grown food
I really like the whole Slow Food movement. I think buying locally grown food can really have an impact, both on your health and on the planet. It's not always easy to find a farmers' market nearby, though.
Local Dirt is a website that tries to help with that. You feed it your address, and it shows you (on a Google map) what local food markets are close by.
Technologically, the site still has a way to go. For example, when I clicked the entry for Park Slope Community Markets, the page I received was very light on information. In fact, it had just an address -- it couldn't even tell me what days/times the market is open.
The site seems to have a rudimentary system for ordering online, but it's not implemented for many of the markets. There is also no clear label showing which markets support online ordering and which don't, so it's really a hit-or-miss experience.
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lots of fancy spreads on large properties. Properties in Watertown are also on the older side, mostly built between 1860 and 1950, but are much smaller—which, again, fits with that city’s working-class history as the home of a major nineteenth-century armory. In Waltham, most of the houses are between 1,000 and 2,500 square feet, and were built between 1945 and 1970—reflecting that city’s history as one of the many suburbs where lots of ranch-type housing sprang up right after World War II. Finally, there’s Brookline, which has lots of very small but very new and very expensive housing—a legacy of the wave of high-end condominiums built in that town from 1980 onward.
If you examine the left side of the screen shot, you’ll see a few of the tools DecisionIris provides to users who want to try out different views of a dataset. As Shen-Hsieh and Crawley showed me in two separate demos, the software makes it possible to filter data along any dimension, or all of them at once. So, for example, if you were house-shopping and you were only interested in properties with at least two bedrooms built after 1960 and costing no more than $1 million, you could move a few sliders and check or uncheck a few boxes and watch while the graph instantly responds, showing which cities offer the most choices fitting your criteria. (Looks like you’re headed to Waltham, in this case.) By mousing over an individual dot, you can get a pop-up window giving you the address and price of that particular house—yet more data packed into a single view.
In the real estate example, it’s obvious how DecisionIris can, in a single view, convey insights that would take hours to arrive at if you were limited to the narrow, fussy, and largely-text based search interfaces available at most online property-search databases. But the housing data is only one illustration of what Visual I|O’s software can do. Most of the company’s actual clients are in healthcare and pharmaceutical companies like Merck and Johnson & Johnson, who use the timeline-based views available in DecisionIris to get a handle on things like product development life cycles. (See the chart at left.)
I don’t have time or space to describe the examples that Shen-Hsieh and Crawley showed me; suffice it to say that if you’re a drug company and you have 17 potential products in the works, DecisionIris can help you determine things like whether they’ll be hitting the market in a reasonably distributed manner, or whether you’ll have long drought years between rollouts. Based on that, you can examine how many people and how much money you’re putting toward each product, and re-prioritize if necessary. Problems and issues jump out at you, just the way the real estate trends do in the previous example. But equally important, you can derive such insights by playing with the data in real-time, rather than relying on staff analysts to create big, ponderous, static PowerPoint presentations, which inherently limit the kinds of questions that executives bother to ask.
Ultimately, it’s all about visual experimentation—a combination of play and serious thought. “Architecture involves the left and right brain merging,” as Shen-Hsieh puts it. “First you have to understand how people are going to experience a space or an object, then translate that into how it’s going to be built. That is the same approach we take to visualization.”
Visual I|O collected its one and only round of venture financing from Switzerland-based Logispring in 2006, and has 20 employees. Shen-Hsieh says that awareness of DecisionIris is spreading fast in the life sciences industry—revenues should double this year—and that company engineers are thinking about how to apply the visualization tools to other industries.
After Shen-Hsieh’s visit, I requested a more detailed demo of DecisionIris, which was graciously provided via Web meeting by John Crawley, a senior solutions engineer at the company. Before we finished, I asked Crawley—a Brit who has been with Visual I|O for about a year—what had attracted him to the company.
“I come from the world of databases and systems, but I have somewhat of a natural flair for artistic things,” Crawley says. “When I first talked to Mark and Angela about the way they use things like color schemes to communicate hidden information, it was the first time I’d ever come across a business intelligence company that actually pays attention to the aesthetics. Most companies I’ve worked for are very focused on ‘whacking and stacking’ the data. But Mark and Angela think in ways that, I dare say, most business intelligence companies are simply unable to think.”
Which goes straight back to the founders’ training as architects. Despite years spent working with software developers and database engineers, Shen-Hsieh says she’s still an a conceptual artist at heart. “But my medium is commerce, not paint or plaster,” she says. “It’s all about, how can you find new ways to utilize visual and experiential media to communicate ideas, concepts, information, and data.” | <urn:uuid:d2f1c8bc-029d-4b6a-9fb4-822e104f6472> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2008/07/25/visual-io-brings-your-data-to-life-through-visual-experimentation/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956451 | 1,167 | 1.554688 | 2 |
A NATO delegation arrived Tuesday in southeastern Turkey to survey the Turkish-Syrian border for the possible deployment of Patriot anti-aircraft missile batteries, the semi-official Anadolu news agency reported.
Turkey has turned against its former ally, asking fellow NATO members last week for the missiles to bolster its air defenses because of several Turkish deaths blamed on Syrian forces.
A delegation of Turkish and NATO officials was scheduled to do a site survey to determine where to deploy the batteries, the Turkish military said.
"The deployment of the Air and Missile Defense System is a precaution for defensive purposes for possible air and missile threats from Syria, and is not for the establishment of a 'no-fly' zone or for offensive maneuvers," according to a Turkish military statement.
"The area of deployment for the Air and Missile Defense System, the quantity of the system, the number of foreign personnel that will come into our country and the time of the deployment will be determined after the site survey."
The fact that Syrian warplanes and helicopters have bombed targets within a few hundred meters of Turkey at least three times in the past month raises the question of whether the NATO military alliance could be sucked into the grinding Syrian civil war.
Tensions exploded between Syria and Turkey last summer, when Syrian anti-aircraft fire brought down a Turkish military reconnaissance jet, killing its two crew members.
Turkey announced it was changing its rules of engagement with Syria. In October, the Turkish government won authorization in parliament for possible cross-border military incursions into Syria after Syrian mortar fire killed five civilians in the Turkish border town of Akcakale.
Turkish and Syrian military forces have also engaged in cross-border artillery duels since the Akcakale incident.
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Is this a golden age for investors?
Trading fees have fallen nearly 90% in recent decades, and the market is actually less volatile than it has been in the past.
Tadas Viskanta at Abnormal Returns kicked a hornet's nest with a recent post arguing, "There has never been a better time to be an individual investor."
When I tweeted it, @aDaveNewWorld asked incredulously, "Do you really agree?"
You bet I do.
First of all, as Viskanta also pointed out, there was never a golden age when the financial markets were safe or when investors were always represented by people who behaved liked angels.
As I wrote in my 2005 introduction to Fred Schwed's classic book, "Where Are the Customers' Yachts?," the individual investor has always been "situated at the very bottom of the food chain, a speck of plankton afloat in a sea of predators."
That was true in Exchange Alley in London in 1720. It was true when A.L. Bleecker and John Pintard started auctioning stocks in their Wall Street coffee house in 1791. It was true after President Franklin Roosevelt, Ferdinand Pecora and the newborn Securities and Exchange Commission flushed out Wall Street in the 1930s. It was true in the long bull markets of Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan. And it is still true.
The era we invest in today, however, is as good as any that ever has been.
To see why, contrast it with the Wall Street of the 1970s.
I bought my first stock in 1976, when I was in 11th grade in rural upstate New York.
I had read a book called "How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market" by a ballet dancer named Nicolas Darvas. His argument -- that surges in volume predict rises in price -- made sense to me when I was 16 or 17 and didn't know any better. (I also didn't know that Darvas' returns had been disputed.)
Following Darvas' methods as best I could, I spread out the stock tables of the Albany Times-Union on our living-room floor, closed my eyes and dropped a felt-tip marker randomly onto the pages 20 times. Then, for a month or so, I tracked the volume and the daily open, high, low and close of each of the 20 stocks on a separate sheet of graph paper.
After a few weeks, one of the stocks popped: "MacAF." After trading somewhere around $8 a share, it had suddenly gone on a tear, breaking $9 on much higher volume.
I wanted to buy 100 shares in the worst way.
My dad had an almost entirely idle brokerage account at Shearson Hammill in Hartford, Conn. A few times a decade, he bought or sold a stock. He had also wangled a monthly copy of Standard & Poor's stock guide -- just about the only objective source of information readily available to an individual investor at the time.
But the information was minimal.
The S&P Stock Guide gave me the company's full name -- MacAndrews & Forbes -- and rudimentary data about earnings, debt, assets and dividends.
The Stock Guide also showed that the conglomerate manufactured licorice, which sealed the deal as far as I was concerned.
In those days, if you wanted to learn anything else about a company, you had to spend hours in the public library -- in our case, a half-hour drive from home -- or write away for the annual report and wait weeks for it to arrive by mail.
By then, I was sure, MacAF would have quadrupled in price. I couldn't run the risk of waiting.
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The article's thesis is very true. The overhead costs of investing have gone WAY down and made it accessible to a lot more people. That's good and bad.
Near real-time quotes and historical data from most any reputable online broker has levelled the playing field somewhat. In the old days the deck was really stacked against the small retail investor as the author has pointed out.
This should not be confused with the second point, which is attempting to time the markets. Should I get in @ at the DOW = 13,000 ? Good question. I look at it with trepidation. Think about it. We are only 10% off from our all time high in 2008, so if you think we have solved 90% of our economic problems, then go for it. If you think interest rates will remain at 0% for the foreseeable future, keep buying equities.
Someone answered my question very simply. The Obama administration has printed about 34% more money, and that is why the stock market is up by a similar percentage since he took office. With 0% interest rates, where do you think the money has to go?
If there was a level playing field, the average investor would have a chance to make some decent money. The cost are lower but the danger level is still very high. There are just too many issues involved.
It had to happen eventually. I finally read an article that I disagree with every single argument the author is making. Ironically, that makes it a keeper.
You're right, it does make it a keeper because I'm guessing you know little to nothing about investing.
Stock markets are full of risk as we all know , the last ten years were Flat and loss decade . However, the market is getting positive news this year . So, the overall market will head up
gradually in the next 2 years . Bonds maybe seeing a small gain
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This week's tumultuous events on Wall Street have immediately commanded center stage in the presidential race. But the debate is being framed too narrowly.
It's understandable that the first reactions from Barack Obama and John McCain centered on whether Washington is effectively regulating the financial markets. That's a natural focus for Obama, who delivered a detailed speech at Cooper Union in March urging a comprehensive modernizing of financial regulation. Coming from McCain, a demand for tougher oversight is more jarring. Although he has occasionally banged heads with individual industries over specific policies, he has generally presented himself as a "small government ... less regulation" conservative.
Yet neither presidential nominee has yet connected the gales on Wall Street to the generation-long changes in the American social contract that have exposed average families much more directly to the effects of such upheavals. Over the past quarter-century, America has engaged in a fundamental transfer of the responsibility for managing everyday financial risk from employers and government to individuals and families. In his 2006 book, University of California (Berkeley) political scientist Jacob Hacker memorably terms this The Great Risk Shift.
Since the 1970s, the share of employers providing defined-benefit pension plans that guarantee workers a set income upon retirement has shriveled. Instead, most workers now rely on defined-contribution plans--primarily 401(k) accounts--in which employers commit only to providing funds that workers can invest, and the amount of money available upon retirement depends entirely on the workers' skill (and luck) in navigating the financial markets. Defined-contribution plans undeniably provide workers with more control over their retirement investments, but they also expose employees to far more risk, as those hoping to retire soon were painfully reminded when their 401(k) plans plummeted this week. A similar transfer of risk is evident in health care, because fewer employers offer insurance to their workers, and even those that do shift more of the cost onto employees.
Although neither McCain nor Obama has framed the situation this way, their reactions to this transfer of risk and responsibility represent a fundamental dividing line between them. Like President Bush, who touted an "ownership society," McCain has welcomed these shifts of responsibility as giving individuals more control over their financial future. On several fronts, McCain in fact wants to accelerate these trends.
Today, most Americans still receive their health insurance through group coverage (either from government or employers) that shares risk and cost between the healthy and the sick. Relatively few obtain insurance in the individual market, which exposes consumers to much wider variations in cost and coverage depending on their health. McCain's proposal would push more people toward the individual market (perhaps 20 million more, according to an independent study released this week) by replacing the tax break that promotes employer-based coverage with an individual tax credit.
Likewise, McCain wants to allow workers to divert part of their Social Security payroll taxes into private investment accounts, as Bush unsuccessfully proposed in 2005. Any system of private accounts would require future reductions in guaranteed Social Security benefits (because it would consume payroll taxes that are otherwise used to pay the benefits for retirees) and would make workers even more dependent on financial markets for retirement. "I think your money is probably better invested in America's economy than ... by a federal bureaucrat," McCain said last year. That might not seem so obvious after this week's eruptions.
Obama, by contrast, wants to strengthen the institutions that promote the sharing of risk. His health care plan aims to buttress group-based coverage, either through employers or new government-sponsored purchasing networks. He adamantly opposes private accounts under Social Security and would instead offer tax incentives for workers to invest for retirement in accounts intended to supplement Social Security's guaranteed benefits.
In all these respects, the McCain-Obama contest represents a fork in the road that will likely determine whether the nation continues to shift more financial responsibility to individuals, or seeks opportunities to restore more sharing of risk. This week's chaos on Wall Street, which rattled millions of workers relying on the markets to fund a decent retirement, shows how much average Americans have at stake in that choice. "This is a critical watershed moment," Hacker correctly notes, "because it really captures in sharp relief both the stakes and what the core of this debate is."
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Music Composers Unite!
Written for Solo Piano, performed by Kathleen Supové.
This work was written in honor of the great American Civil Rights leader James Farmer.
Among other things, the piece makes subtle use of the civil rights song "Eyes on the Prize", a favorite of Farmer's. Lot's more to tell, but I'll leave it at that. Enjoy!!
I enjoyed listening to this piece, like the others.
Nice build up in the beginning. Sometimes with your score, I thought that markings which conveyed emotional intent rather than just tempo might make your intentions clearer - such as furioso, nostalgico, dramatico etc. That's just a little observation.
Also, I thought there might be a need for some phrase marks to make the irregular phrases clearer. And your performer puts lots of accents in right from the start which are not notated - maybe you wanted that freedom of interpretation?
I liked the blues-influenced section; I wondered why that wasn't notated in a key signature rather than all accidentals as it seemed in a definite key and continued for a while.
After the primitivism ,I liked the return of the plaintive section again.
So on the whole, very effective piece with a variety of moods.
You seem to be closer to the academic music world than me, and maybe it's the fashion to have less cluttered scores, but reading this as a piano player, I'd have really liked more phrase marks and other marks of intent.
Now I will Google James Farmer.
Thanks for the critique Adrian. I usually don't like to add too much in terms of accents and dynamics for a solo piece except for a crucial spot here and there. I feel that the music has it's own innate qualities in which a pianist could naturally react to accordingly. Kathleen does this better than anybody.
And your right, the piece is generally in B flat minor. But it occasionally has harmonic interruptions that stab the atmosphere. So for me, a key signature could be a little restrictive. I don't like key signatures so much. But this is one of the more "traditional" tonal pieces I've written, so I might consider it.
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The proposed changes to the AAA Code of Ethics were approved by a vote of the membership, with 1460 votes (87%) in favor and 218 votes (13%) against.
The approved changes add the view that “Anthropologists should not withhold research results from research participants when those results are shared with others.” The approved revision adds that “There are circumstances where disclosure restrictions are appropriate and ethical, particularly where those restrictions serve to protect the safety, dignity or privacy of participants, protect cultural heritage or tangible and intangible cultural or intellectual property.” A second element of the approved revisions states: "Anthropologists should not work clandestinely or misrepresent the nature, purpose, intended outcome, distribution or sponsorship of their research."
The changes were a result of a year-long process, involving considerable work by the AAA’s Committee on Ethics and extensive discussion in the AAA’s diffuse public spheres.
The process of reviewing the AAA Code of Ethics is not, however, finished. The Executive Board has established a Task Force to review the entire Code of Ethics over a two year period, to be completed by November 2010. During this two year period, the Task Force will be seeking as much input and participation as possible from AAA members.
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molecules (MHC Class I and MHC Class II) with different tis
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Tue Oct 4 20:39:03 EST 1994
In article <4OCT94.08384871 at msdisk.wustl.edu>, w95_cook at msdisk.wustl.edu
>The inducible expression of class II on other cell types is somewhat
>more confusing. It's not clear that the expression of class II in the
>absence of costimulators accomplishes much of anything.
This statement is based on the assumption that only class I restricted T
cells (CD8+) are capable of cytolytic activity. If cytolytic activity can
be directed against antigen presented by class II molecules, then the
induction of class II in the absence of costimulators would indeed serve a
similar purpose as inducible class I molecules, which in the context of
this discussion would be the targeting of mature CTLs.
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Let’s look at the facts: Regnerus didn’t study “gay parents.” He amassed a sample of children who answered in the affirmative to the question of whether a parent had any “same-sex relationship” while the child was growing up. This is hardly the same population as LGBT people who deliberately parent, either alone or together with their partners. What he seemed to capture, instead, was a hodgepodge group of families, many of whom had some sort of relationship transition, which could include divorce, separation, affairs or anything else we can imagine. Most of them, it seems, never even cohabitated with their same-sex partner.
This is an apples-to-oranges comparison: On one side we have always-married, heterosexual co-parents, and on the other we have a group of families that include some form of same-sex “relationship.” Since sociologists already know that family instability of any kind is predictive of various childhood struggles, this study was destined, even designed, to find worse outcomes among that second group. How can we square these findings with all the many studies showing no differences in the quality of life of children raised by gay and lesbian parents? Or those that might even demonstrate that the sort of deliberative parenting processes undertaken by gay men and lesbians may, in some cases, even produce better outcomes for children, since it’s rare for same-sex couples to accidentally procreate? Finally, what of the studies that show it’s actually the discrimination and disregard LGBT families face from others that most threatens the self-esteem and emotional security of young people?
None of this is terrifically surprising when we examine the funding streams that enabled this work to be done. Samuel is a postdoctoral fellow at the Witherspoon Institute — one of the study’s major funders and an organization that shares its leaders with some of the most trenchant, powerful, anti-gay political groups in the country. She neglected to tell you her employers make it their business to engage in public political campaigns against LGBT people and their families. This sounds less like the “descriptive social science” Samuel prescribes than it does political and moral posturing.
I’ll avoid making that same mistake. I’ll tell you openly that I’m a sociologist and a gay parent. After spending solidly 15 percent of my annual income on lawyer’s fees this summer, I subjected myself to the humiliating process of having my biometrics collected by the U.S. government, sustaining a full background check and appearing in court to testify under oath about my career, family life and — yes, it’s true — sexual history. Today I will stand before a judge in family court in Trenton, N.J., to legally adopt the child I wanted, planned, conceived and presently wake up multiple times each night to hold, feed and console.
The lack of legal and social protections for LGBT families — and, indeed, all families that fall outside the conventional heterosexual, dyadic, always-married standard Samuel is touting — is a social problem about which we should all be concerned. If what we want is better child outcomes and more solid and enduring connections between parents and children, our energies would be better spent studying different questions. Questions like: How do we ensure that students succeed in school when their parents must work double shifts simply to support them? How can we ensure children receive the medical care, nutrition and social supports they need to thrive? How can we, as a society, nurture people through difficult life transitions — like divorce — so they can keep their relationships with their children intact? These are the inquiries that promise some hope of improving the lives of children.
I’m going to ignore Samuel’s strange, irrelevant and utterly revealing conjectures about the sexual habits of gay men. Much like her close reading of the TV sitcom “The New Normal,” such depictions have more to do with entertainment than they do with the realities of LGBT people’s families and parenting practices. I’m also not going to fall for her baiting call to argue that LGBT people are “just like” heterosexuals, that we arrange our romantic lives, households and parenting practices in precisely the same ways straight people do. I’m sure some of us do and others of us don’t. That’s hardly the point. The bottom line is that I’d prefer Samuel and her colleagues keep their “normative judgments” out of my personal life altogether.
Tey Meadow is the Cotsen-LGBT Postdoctoral Fellow at the Society of Fellows at Princeton University and a lecturer in the sociology department and the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
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ATLANTIC CITY — The pavilion along the Boardwalk between New York and Kentucky avenues appears at first to be just another spot to seek shelter during a rainstorm.
But when years of planning come to fruition, the site will become the location of the Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial. And during Thursday’s second annual Yom Hashoah remembrance ceremony, memorial chairman Rabbi Gordon Geller said a major announcement about the site will come at the end of the month.
“You will find out shortly that we have passed with flying colors our first test — the worldwide design competition,” said Geller, of Margate’s Temple Emeth Shalom, adding that he expected to announce the results in a couple of weeks. “It will be an affirmation of the scope and significance of our common enterprise, a universal message of ‘never again.’”
As Northfield resident Nancy Kahane sang the Yiddish song of loss, “A Malach Veint,” survivors of the Holocaust and children of survivors came together with religious leaders from the Jewish, Islamic and Christian faiths, from Kaleem Shabazz of Masjid Muhammad in Atlantic City to the Rev. Paul Wise of St. Monica’s Church in Atlantic City.
The message: The memorial must be built.
The Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial Committee has announced plans for the design contest to be judged by a panel that includes two internationally known architects: Daniel Liebeskind, the chief planner in the rebuilding of New York's World Trade Center site, and the designer of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, Richard Meier. The city gave the committee the pavilion, and the group is raising funds for the project, which it hopes to open by 2012.
“I think this project speaks to all of us,” said Leah Wolinetz, execuitive director of the World Society of Czestochowa Jews and Their Descendants. “This is an amazing, amazing project, and it needs to be known — not only in Atlantic City, not only in New York, but everywhere. The Boardwalk is the expression of life. Everyone who walks here should know what happened. ... We have to put our positive energy in one place because (the memorial) is definitely going to happen.”
Holocaust survivor Solange Lebovitz happened to be walking by the pavilion during the ceremony.
“My daughter brought me last night,” said Lebovitz, visiting from Pittsburgh. “We were walking on the Boardwalk, and all of a sudden I found out about the Holocaust memorial.”
During World War II, Lebovitz was a “hidden child” — a Jewish youth living in secret with a Christian family. She stayed with a Catholic family in Normandy in occupied France. Her late husband, Larry Lebovitz, was liberated from the Dachau concentration camp in Germany by U.S. troops.
“It may take two or three years,” she said of the memorial, “but this is the place.”
Some survivors, meanwhile, traveled shorter distances to Atlantic City.
“My experience is in Auschwitz-Birkenau,” said Rella Roth, of Margate, who was put to work at an ammunition factory. “I don’t have to tell you about Auschwitz. It’s a long story.”
As to the planned memorial, “I think it’s wonderful,” she said. “It makes you feel good to try to express ourselves about the past. There should not be any more of what happened (throughout) the whole world. God forbid.”
Also present was Ernest Paul, of Atlantic City, a member of the underground resistance movement in Budapest during World War II. Paul, who has written a book about his wife’s Holocaust experiences and is writing a book about his own, would often have to don a Nazi uniform to penetrate the military occupation and supply underground Jewish bunkers.
“Doing so saved thousands of people, but unfortunately, it was not enough,” Paul said of his comrades behind the lines.
“For us as survivors, it has very important and deep meaning because we still live every day with the atrocities. We still dream and have nightmares,” he said. “I’m very glad to see this memorial to remind young people and future generations of the atrocities that happened. ... We hope this memorial can shed some light on these atrocities and that they will never, never happen again.”
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November 5, 2012
The Maryland Dream Act is not only good for those relatively few who will benefit directly from it (perhaps fewer than 300 college students in any given year) but for everyone who lives in the state. That's because making tuition more affordable for illegal immigrants is a kind of economic stimulus -- reducing social service costs and raising tax revenue.
A dozen states have passed similar measures to provide in-state college tuition rates for illegal immigrants, and Maryland's version may be the strictest in the nation. It requires parents to be taxpayers and students to first attend community college. Yet the payoff is still substantial, as those better-educated young adults take on higher-paying jobs in the workforce.
The Dream Act doesn't set immigration policy. That's the job of Congress and the White House. But whether comprehensive immigration reform happens or not, the Dream Act gives the state the tools to better deal with the reality of today. | <urn:uuid:c7d35bb9-4983-4db1-980d-31597a073f39> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/editorial/bal-sun-endorsements-20121105-004,0,2715644.photo | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956895 | 188 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Surprising as it may seem, a particle of 5 microns or less can cause a precision bearing to fail. To put this particle size in context, a human hair is around 60 partial microns; a fingerprint 13 microns; a dust mote 25 microns; and tobacco smoke 6 microns. These particles may be minute, but with their potential for damage, the message has to be that it is vital to maintain a high degree of cleanliness inside precision bearings. It is also vital because even when small particles of foreign matter are not actually causing failure, they can ruin the bearing’s smooth running qualities and low torque values.
In general terms, dirt and contaminants that can impede a bearing’s performance are divided into three main categories: airborne contaminants, transferred contaminants and introduced dirt. Included in the first category are such items as lint, metal flakes, abrasive flakes, industrial smoke and dust. In contrast, transferred contaminants are dirt that is picked up from one source and passed along to the bearing from hands, work surfaces, packaging, tools and fixtures. Finally, the introduced dirt category deals with impurities that enter the bearings from dirty solvents or lubricants.
In addition to the main categories, other contaminants that are often overlooked are humidity and moisture, fingerprints (transferred through handling), dirty greases and cigarette smoke. These, in common with all the above sources of contamination, should be considered abrasive, corrosive or leading causes of degradation of bearing performance.
The problems of maintaining bearing cleanliness begin the moment that bearings are removed from their protective packages. Because of this, it is best not to remove them until they are ready for use, and then only after the work area has been effectively cleaned and prepared. Once unpacked, the bearings should only be handled with clean, dry, talc-free and lint-free gloves.
Here, care should be exercised as material incompatibility between the gloves and any cleaning solvents could result in contaminant films being transferred to the bearings during subsequent handling. Where the bearings are instrument types, even handling with gloves should be avoided in favor of surgical tweezers.
Of course, cleanliness extends not only to the bearings themselves, but also to work and storage areas, benches, tools, fixtures and housings. A clutter-free work area, with good lighting, organized tool storage, handy parts bins and appropriate work fixtures, constitutes an ideal working environment. Under no circumstances should food or drink be consumed on or near work surfaces. Smoking should not be allowed in the area where bearings are being replaced; and bearing installation operations should be located away from other machining operations, such as grinding and drilling (etc.) to help minimize contamination problems.
A further stricture regards static electricity, and other operations that may cause the steel rings and balls of the bearings to become magnetized. These could result in dust of fine metallic particles being introduced into the bearing. If there are any signs that the bearings have become magnetically induced, then they should be passed through a suitable demagnetizer while still in their original sealed packaging.
Also key to maintaining cleanliness is a good workbench surface material, such as metal or plastic. Generally, painted metal is not desirable as a work surface because it can chip, flake or rust. Plastic laminates may be acceptable and are easy to keep clean. In addition to a good surface, every workbench should have a well-stocked complement of clean, burr-free tools that are designed for the job. The tools should not be painted or chrome-plated as these can provide a source of particulate contamination, which might ingress and damage the bearing.
The requirement for burr-free components also extends to all other parts of the bearing assembly, especially housing interiors and shaft seats. These two areas should also be thoroughly cleaned before fitting. | <urn:uuid:68a461c0-4831-496c-b44d-d8bc4017fa2b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.reliableplant.com/Read/16832/bearing-cleanliness-reliability | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947451 | 792 | 2.875 | 3 |
Q. How did Ruth view her role, rare for the time, as a working mother?
A. She found it very hard. She felt that few women were suited to the stress involved in being a homemaker and business leader, but she didn’t feel she had any choice. She said she would have been a very unhappy and mixed-up woman if she hadn’t worked. She didn’t like cooking and wasn’t good at it, and she had a rocky relationship with her only daughter, Barbara. She was, of course, wealthy enough to afford help with the children and housework, and her family helped out as well.
Q. You say Elliot and Ruth were a great love story. How so?
A. They met when they were 16 years old, and it was truly love at first sight. They couldn’t be apart, and they created a life where they worked together and capitalized on each other’s strengths. For most of the Mattel’s history, Ruth had the title of vice president. But, as she said, she founded Mattel, and she was the one in charge of the company other than research and design, which was Elliot’s territory. Elliot held the title of president, but this had more to do with gender than reality. They did collaborate closely on decisions throughout their time at Mattel. They were together for more than 65 years, building a company, raising two children, surviving the legal case and loss of their company, Ruth’s breast cancer, and the death of their son. When I interviewed Elliot, it was clear that he was as in love with Ruth on the day she died as on the day he married her.
Q. Ruth was convicted of corporate fraud in 1978. Based on your research, do you think she was guilty?
A. She had a big ethical blind spot. In 1970 she had a bad quarter and didn’t want Wall Street to know, so she cooked the books and falsified the corporate earnings in order to keep the stock price up. Eventually she was caught. She always denied it, and I don’t think she instigated the fraud. But she certainly knew the amount of earnings was overstated. There’s no way a woman who knew where every company penny was going could miss the fact that millions of dollars of claimed sales didn’t really exist. I think she believed that she could get away with it because Mattel would recover and no one would ever know. After 25 years of success, it’s easy to see why she believed that, but that doesn’t make it right.
Q. How did Ruth put her tragedies behind her and find redemption?
A. She never did put her resentments completely behind her. Late in her life, Ruth had her own revelation that the truest form of fulfillment comes when you have suffered. She said only people like her who had really suffered could understand what true happiness meant. She started helping other women with breast cancer by fitting them with these prostheses so they didn’t feel ashamed of their bodies. She got great satisfaction from that. Up till then, she had thought that running a company was the only thing that could save her.
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By Wendy Klein, M.D., and Staness Jonekos
Q: I am perimenopausal and feeling extremely depressed. I feel blue for no reason at all and I can’t snap out of it. Is depression a symptom of menopause?
A: Most perimenopausal women do not experience major depression, but many have symptoms of feeling depressed, stressed, and anxious. If you are experiencing menopausal symptoms such as severe hot flashes and lack of sleep from night sweats, they may be causing you to feel depressed.
The most common signs of depression are feeling sad, feeling worthless, and losing interest in whatever normally engages you. Other symptoms include the loss of libido, changes in appetite – too much or too little – feeling very sleepy and fatigued, or having insomnia and not being able to sleep. A common sign of depression is a change in your normal habits.
A more serious symptom of depression is a sustained loss of interest in activities that you normally enjoy. This is called dysthymia. Life seems really bleak. If the condition lingers or if you have thoughts that are scary, such as wanting to give up or wanting to hurt yourself or even suicidal thoughts, you must talk to your clinician because there are treatments and strategies that can help you.
There are many factors that can cause an increased risk for depression. If you have depression in your family, a prior history of depression, or you're taking certain medications, you may be prone to depression. Some endocrine disorders such as hypothyroidism, or other illnesses such as chronic fatigue syndrome are also associated with depression.
Depression is an illness that can be triggered by the chemicals in your brain. Serotonin regulates your moods. It is the “feel good” hormone. When serotonin levels drop, you can experience extreme episodes of depression.
You also want to look at lifestyle stressors – a change in relationship, finances, loss of a loved one, caring for parents – and consider the many modalities of treatment that are available to help you.
Your approach to depression in menopause is the same as it would be at any other time. First you want to rule out medical causes or medications that might be contributing to your low moon.
A number of options are available including psychotherapy and antidepressants to assist you if you are suffering from depression. There are degrees of depression. Mild depression, feeling blue or sad, can be dealt with through cognitive therapy, psychotherapy, meditation, yoga, healthy eating, and exercise. An active lifestyle boosts your endorphins and lifts your mood. Also, engaging in new activities may help. Try making yourself take classes and getting out and doing interesting activities. Also, enlist the support of your family and friends.
If you have continuing or worsening symptoms, you may need medication because we know that depression can be a malfunction of your neurotransmitters, particularly serotonin, which is the feel good neurotransmitter. Medicines can be enormously helpful although you will want to incorporate lifestyle changes as well. If you need medication, in the broader context of menopausal symptoms, there is some evidence that hormone therapy can augment treatment and help people who are on anti-depressants feel even better. That is a decision for you and your clinician.
Wendy Klein, M.D., is co-author of the book "The Menopause Makeover" and a national leader in women’s health. She is Associate Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. Dr. Klein cofounded the VCU Institute for Women’s Health and created their Women’s Health Residency Program which is lauded as one of the best such programs in the United States.
Staness Jonekos is an advocate for women's health, wellness and empowerment. An award-winning television writer, producer, and director, she was one of the original executive producers who launched the television network Oxygen Media, cofounded by Oprah Winfrey. She is also the co-author of "The Menopause Makeover." For more information, visit www.MenopauseMakeover.com. You can also follow her on www.twitter.com/staness. | <urn:uuid:c608ef02-af07-499f-b11c-2542cdc51774> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thirdage.com/depression/perimenopausal-depression-a-doctors-advice | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96117 | 872 | 2.25 | 2 |
With the unveiling of Obama's 2012 budget today, some newspapers around the country framed the $3.7 trillion proposal as a serious attempt to slash the federal deficit.
The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Daily Herald, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and the DC Express, couched the administration's massive budget as a fiscally responsible plan that makes "deep" and "big" cuts to "rein in deficits."
"Obama budget makes deep cuts, cautious trades," trumpeted the Post's A-1 headline, even though the federal government is expected to run a $1.1 trillion deficit for fiscal year 2012.
The Globe echoed the Post with an above-the-fold headline that could have been ripped out of a White House press release: "Deep cuts, chance of gains for state in Obama budget."
A hyperbolized Express headline read, "BURNED BY THE BUDGET." Express, a local DC paper owned by The Washington Post, attacked Obama's plan from the Left, lamenting that the proposed cuts would "spread the pain to just about every American."
In Obama's home state of Illinois, the Herald's sub-headline intoned, "Obama's big budget has some big cuts within it."
While the Herald at least admitted that its former state senator's proposed budget is "big," the Star-Telegram made the fatuous assertion that "Obama plan aims to rein in deficits" with only $90 billion in cuts to federal spending.
During the presidential press conference this afternoon, April Ryan, White House correspondent for American Urban Radio, cited the Congressional Black Caucus to rail against spending cuts, which she claims were tantamount to "rebuilding our economy on the backs of the most vulnerable Americans."
"It’s not good to make these types of cuts at a time of recession," lectured Ryan, who prefaced her critique by reminding Obama that he started his career as a "community organizer."
By the administration's own estimates, the country would have to borrow an additional $7.2 trillion through 2021. With such a bleak bottom line, it strains credulity to claim that Obama's budget blueprint calls for "deep," and "big" cuts that will "rein in" spending and "spread the pain to just about every American." | <urn:uuid:521cdb7a-6bf3-44f6-8b91-fe531cf8e5a9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.politikditto.com/2011/02/wapo-boston-globe-others-laughably.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954124 | 476 | 1.5 | 2 |
THE KUSKOV HOUSE
The old house for the commandant, two stories, built of beams, 8 toises [sazhens ] long by 6 wide, covered with double planking. There are 6 rooms and a kitchen. Inventory for Mr. Sutter, 1841.
This building served as headquarters for the first manager, Ivan Kuskov, and as a storeroom for arms and other valuables. It must have been one of the first of the Russian buildings to be lost; there are no pictures or reports of it from the following ranching years. Archaeological investigations found a line of postholes to aid its reconstruction. The substantial building was carefully designed based on the 1817 stockade layout, visitors’ descriptions, and on other Russian American buildings of similar use. It stands in its original location, built by 20th century craftsmen using old joinery techniques.
“In one corner of the commandant’s living room there was on a canvas two feet high a painting of St. Peter and St. Paul and another very small one below it of St. Nicholas. Writings of Mariano Payeras, 1822.
The first room we entered was the armory, containing many muskets, ranged in neat order; hence we passed into the chief room of the house, which is used as a dining room & in which all business is transacted. It was comfortably, though not elegantly furnished, and the walls were adorned with engravings of Nicholas I, Duke Constantine, &c... An (anonymous) Bostonian’s description, 1832.
The replica Kuskov House was completed in 1983. It has a furnished armory and storerooms on the ground floor, and a trade room and attached living quarters upstairs. From the second floor “dining room,” one can see the sea, and any approaching ships through the old-style hand-made glass. It is now the most spacious room in the fort, and worth a climb up the stairs, over which heavy doors were installed in the reconstruction.
Also upstairs is a small room on the northeast corner designed as a scientific study. The Russian naturalist Ilya G. Voznesenskii spent part of 1841 at the fort, collecting and sketching; the lab is arranged as he might have used it. Several local plants and animals are named for Voznesenskii, and his watercolor of Fort Ross is one of the most accurate and valuable visual representations of the settlement.
A sazhen (Russian) is seven feet or 2 1/3 yards. In the French version of the Inventory for Mr. Sutter the term is toise, in the Spanish, braza, each meaning fathom. The correct translation is the seven foot Russian fathom, called a sazhen.(Glenn J. Farris) | <urn:uuid:06144f39-9837-421a-8d1e-4f6cd7c8f032> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=895 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967019 | 592 | 2.484375 | 2 |
My favorite chocolate is actually good for you:
Investigators from the University of L'Aquila in Italy found that after eating only 100 grams, or 3.5 ounces, of dark chocolate every day for 15 days, 15 healthy people had lower blood pressures and were more sensitive to insulin, an important factor in metabolizing sugar.
UPDATE: If I'd known Kevin Drum was going to link to this post, I'd have put some more thought into it and maybe even a few actual insights. So it goes. Welcome, all you visitors from Political Animal! | <urn:uuid:e412f244-1117-40f1-86d2-be945687cd90> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.rluxemburg.com/archives/000473.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978868 | 113 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Why We Bang
|The film, “Why We Bang,” produced and directed by Orlando Myrics and Clifford Jordan for Ghetto Logik Entertainment is an independent film that documents the historical background of LA’s Bloods and Crips gangs, then transitions into several interviews of current and former members of the Bloods and Crips of Los Angeles.
Ghetto Logik, a Film Company based in South Los Angeles offers their first urban documentary as a result of being disappointed in seeing outsiders far too often portray the stories of ghetto residents. “We just got tired of seeing people, not from our community making so called “Hood movies” that did not really depict what our community was all about, our goal is to bring real images and real stories about real people to the big screen.”
Their first effort, “Why We Bang” is an in-depth look into Gang Culture in Los Angeles that shows up-close, the life in South Los Angeles, talking and walking with real gang members first hand. Their approach was to show the gangs, their motivations and deadliness and to capture the voices of the mothers who have lost children to the violence that gangs bring. Their story, through several narratives will inform you Why We Bang.
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"Inflammatory rhetoric" about an influx of eastern European immigrants is putting them at risk of racist attacks, the Romanian ambassador in London warned today.
Dr Ion Jinga said he "highly doubts" there will be any significant increase in the number of Romanians coming to Britain when EU restrictions expire at the end of this year.
In fact, lifting the restrictions will prevent exploitation of Romanian workers and ensure more efficient tax collection, he added.
Temporary curbs were imposed on Romanians and Bulgarians from entering Britain ahead of the states joining the EU in 2007 and under EU laws restrictions cannot be extended beyond 2013.
This has prompted Prime Minister David Cameron to seek limits on the number of immigrants from EU countries claiming that they would abuse Britain's benefit system.
A number of alarmist stories have also appeared all over the media, which have cited estimations from right-wing organisation Migration Watch UK that 50,000 Romanians and Bulgarians will come into Britain every year, and be eight times better off.
But Dr Jinga dismissed the projected figures as a massive over-reaction and said the scare stories had left Romanians feeling like second-class EU citizens.
"Emotional approaches to this issue are counterproductive. They do not benefit the British public and they do not benefit the Romanian community in the UK either," he said.
"In extreme cases, inflammatory rhetoric could even lead to acts of racially aggravated assaults against them, as we have witnessed recently a case in Brighton."
He added that there is little reason to believe "alarmist figures" will be reliable following blunders over estimates of immigration from Poland.
He indicated that most Romanians who wanted to work in other member states have already done so because there is no visa requirement and the possibility to work self-employed would not have been covered by the temporary restrictions.
The government has refused to provide an estimate on the number of Romanians or Bulgarians it expects to arrive in Britain.
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