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There are modifications, of course, for there are times when some of us think of others before ourselves, motivated by love, and greater love has no man than this, that he should lay down his life for his friend, but it is the rarity of this selflessness which makes it remarkable.
In human religions, self is given a great place, not excluding nominal Christianity, which so often preaches that we must "yield ourselves" or "surrender ourselves," otherwise presumably God is powerless on our behalf. In effect this means that He is helpless until Almighty Self makes it possible for Him to act. This theology is a human method of salvation, a human remedy for sin, and like all human remedies the dose has to be repeated, and even then the patient does not recover. The result of occupation with self and sin leads to the cry in Romans 7-- "0, wretched man that I am, what shall deliver me from this body of death."
The real remedy, of course, lies in the utter rejection of self in all its ten thousand subtle forms and the pre occupation of heart and mind wholly with God and His Christ-- "They looked unto Him and were lightened."
Fortunately, in respect of salvation, He does not see us as ourselves, He sees us in Christ, and accepts us in all Christs merit.
Our personality, however, is not a thing to be despised, for each of us has been created an original" self," and no one else can take our place to fulfil Gods purposes for us. Gods purposes will always be fulfilled, and if we fail him, He uses other means, leaving us accountable for our failure. All ultimate authority resides in God, and, as John the Baptist expresses it, He is the Word of which we can be a Voice, and He is the Light for which we can be a Lamp.
It is instructive to pay attention to the way in which Paul speaks about "ourselves," for in so doing we shall get a true estimate of the proper values to be attached to self. If we take up his second epistle to the Corinthians there are to be found several illuminating passages where he uses the term. Probably more than anything else that he wrote this epistle reveals the personal attitudes and inward emotions of Paul during one of the most fruitful periods of his ministry. Incidentally, instead of the smiling, complacent, comfortable existence which is generally supposed to be the ideal of Christianity, at this time we find him full of fears within, distracted with fightings without, restless, sick and despondent! The consolation and comfort he received in his afflictions fitted him to comfort and console others, and this epistle reveals God in the light of His love, every word being charged with profound meaning.
Firstly, in the 9th verse of Chapter I, he says :-- "But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God that raiseth the dead."
We have never been told exactly what was the nature of Pauls splinter in the flesh, but it seems possible that at this time, while he was in Asia, not only was he in peril at the hands of men such as the Ephesian mob, but was also in the grip of a dangerous illness, so that the impression became acute that he was condemned to die, under sentence of death with no hope of acquittal. He could not know how much further Gods purpose would take him, and probably contemplated the hour of death as being imminent. And since he was in so great a danger and had so certain a prospect of death, he could put no trust in himself. The effect of this (as he certifies) was to cause him to put all his trust in God, Who certainly had the power to save him, and such a deliverance from the very jaws of death would be like raising the dead. So far as his own power was concerned, Paul was as good as dead--the power in which he trusted for deliverance is the same power that raises the dead.
But, apart from the historic record, there is significance here which illuminates the evangel which Paul preached, and in which we stand. All men are sinners, their very humanity dragging them down to death. Whether we would or not, we all sinned, and sins desert is death. In ourselves we received sentence of death. Supposing we still trust in ourselves, will that save us? Will it benefit us if we endeavour by good works to commend ourselves to God?
We know very well that it will not. But if we do not rely on ourselves but on God Who raises the dead, then in spirit we are raised also, and Christs death becomes our death and His resurrection becomes our resurrection. This is acquittal from the death sentence.
In the first verse of Chapter 3 we find the word again, where Paul writes
"Do we begin again to commend ourselves?" He has been recounting the success of his labours, how God had always caused him to triumph, and he has contrasted himself with those who, like so many today, made the Word a matter of commerce and a means of gain. All this might have appeared to some readers to be self-commendation, but he makes it clear he did not seek their praise, and there is the impression that it hurt him to think that such a thought might be in their minds. His beloved Corinthians were the best possible recommendation he could have, the best credentials he possessed :-- "You are our letter, engraven on our hearts, known and read by all men."
Certainly, he implies, we have no need at all to commend ourselves.
And in the same chapter, four verses further on, he uses the word once more :-- "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to think any-- thing as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God."
Paul would not have them imagine that this success of which they were the recommendation was in any way due to himself, or that his own strength had accomplished anything in his ministry. He well knew he had no such strength, but he knew also that "I can do all things through Christ Who strengthens
me." He knew also that his own capabilities would never have led him into a knowledge of the evangel which he preached; all his success was to be traced to God, his sufficiency was of God. This should be our own attitude.
Relying on Him, His sufficiency supplies our in-sufficient, bankrupt selves. In every consideration of spiritual importance our own strength is worse than useless, and our own efforts a hindrance. But in God there is complete sufficiency for every need; inexhaustible, unsearchable riches on which to draw, and a sufficiency of grace, so that our weakness reveals the perfection of His strength.
And there is yet one more occurrence of this word, in verse 5 of Chapter 4, a most important one
"For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus sake."
Although there may be many questions as to what "the gospel" is about, to which there are many and varied answers from men, here is the true answer. It is concerned not with sin, or sinners or self, but the glory of Christ. If evangelism reached to this height it would be accorded more success. People are so anxious to ply men into "the kingdom" that they invent various crowbars to get them in, but the gospel is Gods power for salvation. All sorts of topics are preached on, from sanctification to sanitation (ever tinkering with man) while the gospel is concerning His Son. Efforts are made to bring men to Christ, but God would have us bring Christ to men. This is the way in which we can make ourselves the servants of others.
If we fall back upon God Himself, He will see to the "self" part of the business. He chooses and justifies and sanctifies in spite of all the hindrances we put in His way.
The preaching is "Christ crucified" to those who do not know Him, and "Christ glorified" to those who do. Christ should be first, and Christ should be last, and Christ should fill all between. It is not "I repented, I prayed, I was saved . . ." it should be a shout of triumph, "No longer I but Christ!"
If I had a hand in my salvation it must contain a flaw, but if Christ alone deserves the crown, like Him, it is perfect and immutable.
If we could come to forget ourselves, our sin, our failure, and everything concerned with ourselves and rest on Christ, He would see to it that everything else is attended to. He is the sufficiency for all our need, the Lord of our life and God of our salvation.
In one word can be offered all of that which is worth having--CHRIST.
This is the salutary lesson for us all to learn, from the newest convert to the most mature and experienced believer, and having learnt it, we should seek to constantly remind ourselves of it, for "self" is the most insidious underminer of all true spiritual values. There are some simple and familiar lines which well express this :--
Oh, the bitter shame and
That a time could ever be
When I let the Saviours pity plead in vain,
And proudly answered,
"All of self, and none of Thee."
Yet He found me--I beheld Him
Bleeding on the accursed Tree.
Heard Him pray 'Forgive them, Father,'
And my wistful heart said faintly
'Some of self, and some of Thee."
Day by day His tender mercy, healing, helping,
Full and free.
Sweet and strong, and ah! so patient, brought me lower,
While I whispered"
Less of self, and more of Thee."
Higher than the highest heaven,
Deeper than the deepest sea,
Lord, at last Thy love has conquered,
Grant me now my souls desire,
"None of self, and all of Thee."
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From Christoph Ransmayr, whose brilliant rise to preeminence among the younger generation of writers in the German language was recently crowned when he shared with Salman Rushdie Europe's most prestigious new literary award, the Aristeion Prize--a novel in which fiction and history are forged into a universe of mythic intensity.
World War II has ended, but only in the West. Central Europe is slipping back into its agricultural past.
The bomb has not yet been dropped--nor will it be for twenty years. The Allies have punished Germany for its war crimes by forcing it to revert to a preindustrial age: power stations, railways, factories, and all the machinery of technology have been destroyed or abandoned and left to decay. Moor is a small quarry town (Mauthausen in the all-too-recent past of real history). The occupying American army has installed a camp survivor, Ambras, to govern the local population. Brave, lonely, hated and feared by his former persecutors, Ambras has returned to Moor only because his Jewish wife died there. Setting up house in a derelict villa surrounded by wild hounds that earn him the nickname the Dog King, he chooses another loner, the village boy Bering, as his bodyguard. Moving away from his family and into the compound, the boy enters a new universe of power, of half-glimpsed ideas, of contact with the forbidden world outside. And he meets the only other person Ambras welcomes, a strange and beautiful orphan girl named Lily who lives and hunts in the hills, who knows where the weapons are hidden and forages in the "free world for the goods the villagers crave. But Bering's new life begins to unravel as he succumbs to a strange eye disease knownas Morbus Kitahara, in which the vision gradually darkens and which tends to afflict marksmen and sharpshooters. Only Lily can find help, can offer them all a possible future.
The three make a courageous bid to escape, and the account of their flight brings the novel to its extraordinarily gripping and suspenseful climax.
Searingly powerful, with a poetic intensity that stays with the reader long after the last page, The Dog King is a modern masterpiece.
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Christoph Ransmayr has contributed to The Dog King as an author.
Ransmayr lives in a village outside of Dublin, Ireland
Jr John Woods has contributed to The Dog King as a translator. Woods is the president of a telecommunications firm. He has a wonderful collection of art in numerous mediums, that he has created in his spare time.
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Researchers at Kaspersky Lab say code is shared in the two threats and that there was an exploit in Stuxnet that was previously unknown.
A chunk of code used in both Stuxnet and Flame shows that the developers of the two pieces of malware shared their work, researchers at Kaspersky Lab said today.
There were two independent developer teams, with Flame development preceding Stuxnet and each team developing its own code platform since 2007-2008 at the latest, the researchers said. Both projects were state-sponsored, experts believe.
In addition, a previously undiscovered elevation-of-privilege exploit is in Stuxnet.A, an early variant of the malware that experts believe was developed to sabotage Iran's nuclear program, Roel Schouwenberg, senior researcher at Kaspersky Lab, said in a Web conference with reporters.
"We have a new old Zero-Day," he said, referring to an attack that exploits a previously unknown and unpatched vulnerability. "It was a Zero-Day at the time of creation and most likely at the time of deployment." That brings to five the number of Zero-Day exploits Stuxnet used.
Initially, Kaspersky said Flame, which allows an attacker to conduct cyberespionage, and Stuxnet were possibly parallel projects. Now the connection is believed to be much tighter and Flame is thought to have been in development before Stuxnet.
"We firmly believe the Flame platform predates the Stuxnet platform. It looks like the Flame platform was a kick-starter of sorts to get the Stuxnet project going," Schouwenberg said. "The operations went separate ways, maybe because Stuxnet code was mature enough to be deployed in the wild. Now we are 100 percent sure that the Stuxnet and Flame groups worked together."
Here is a summary from Kaspersky Lab of its latest findings:
- By the time Stuxnet was created (in January-June 2009), the Flame platform was already in existence (we currently date its creation to no later than summer 2008) and already had modular structure.
- The Stuxnet code of 2009 used a module built on the Flame platform, probably created specifically to operate as part of Stuxnet.
- The module was removed from Stuxnet in 2010 due to the addition of a new method of propagation (vulnerability MS10-046) instead of the "old" autorun.inf.
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The Chinese Bamboo Partridge
) is a small partridge
Partridges are birds in the pheasant family, Phasianidae. They are a non-migratory Old World group.These are medium-sized birds, intermediate between the larger pheasants and the smaller quails. Partridges are native to Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East...
native to eastern mainland China
Mainland China, the Chinese mainland or simply the mainland, is a geopolitical term that refers to the area under the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China . According to the Taipei-based Mainland Affairs Council, the term excludes the PRC Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and...
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
, and introduced successfully to Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. It is one of two species in the genus Bambusicola
, along with the Mountain Bamboo Partridge of the Himalayas
The Himalaya Range or Himalaya Mountains Sanskrit: Devanagari: हिमालय, literally "abode of snow"), usually called the Himalayas or Himalaya for short, is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau...
The Chinese Bamboo Partridge is smaller than most partridges, reaching a size of cm, with males being larger than the females. The breast and back are mottled in black, chestnut, and cream colors, with black spots on the flanks and above. The partridge's face and throat are rufous, with a gray above the eye and down to the neck.
This species is found in warm forested areas and grasslands, but is not entirely dependent on bamboo
Bamboo is a group of perennial evergreens in the true grass family Poaceae, subfamily Bambusoideae, tribe Bambuseae. Giant bamboos are the largest members of the grass family....
, despite its name. Like other partridges, it prefers hiding to flight, but will readily flush if approached, startling pursuers with loud wingbeats. Its loud call, often rendered as ki-ko-kuai
(the latter rendition being adopted as its Japanese name) is repeated several times before slowing to a stop. This call is heard far more than the bird is actually seen, and though this species is common throughout its limited range, it is considered somewhat elusive and secretive.
Despite this, it has been kept in captivity in China for centuries, and has been intentionally introduced first to Japan in 1919 1
, then with varying success to Hawaii, where it is listed as an introduced bird not protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act 2
. An introduced population also exists on remote Iwo Jima
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. Despite its success elsewhere, Chinese Bamboo Partridge has been extirpated from Hong Kong
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, and a reintroduction program in 1961 failed to produce a viable breeding population 4
There are two subspecies, B. t. thoracicus
in mainland China and B. t. sonorivox
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Clarence “Code” Gomberg wound slowly through rows of tombstones at Adath Jeshurun Cemetery in Hampton, a bundle of American flags under one arm and a troubling thought on his mind.
“Say two years from now I can’t do this,” said Gomberg, 85, a World War II veteran from Stanton Heights. “Who’s going to pick up for me?”
For 60 years, Gomberg has visited cemeteries throughout Allegheny County to plant flags at veterans’ graves for Memorial Day. On a cloudy and unseasonably cool day last week, he paused at a tombstone, whittled the base of a flagpole with a pocketknife and slid it into a brass WWII veteran marker. Then he moved on to the next grave.
“It’s a hell of a thing to say that it’s not going to happen no more,” Gomberg said. “But I don’t know how it’s going to keep on going. It’s something that’s going to fall by the wayside, and I hate to say that. But what can you do?”
As veterans grow older, many wonder whether younger generations who have no direct connection to them or the wars they fought will allow the Memorial Day tradition of planting flags at graves to die out.
Many decades after finishing his own service, Clarence “Code” Gomberg continues to faithfully fulfill the duty to remember. He reminds us that we owe a debt that we can never begin to repay to the hundreds of thousands of American heroes who have made the ultimate sacrifice — sacrifices made for the sake of each and every one of us, and for generations yet to be born. The very least we can do is to remember and honor them. Thank you, Mr. Gomberg, for remembering — and for reminding us of our duty on this Memorial Day.
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From The Desk of The Chief Editor
Higher Education in India has evolved in distinct and divergent streams with each stream monitored
by an apex body, indirectly controlled by the Ministry of Human Resource Development. The 415
universities/institutions are mostly funded by the state governments. However, there are 25 important
universities called Central universities, which are maintained by the Union Government and because of relatively large funding, they have an edge over the others. . The higher education system in India has grown in an incredible way, particularly in the post-independence period, to become one of the largestsystems of its kind in the world. However, the system has many issues of concern at present, like financing and management, including access, equity and relevance, reorientation of programmes by laying emphasis on health consciousness, values and ethics and quality of higher Education together with the assessment of institutions and their accreditation. These Issues are important for the country, as it is now engaged in the use of higher education as a powerful tool to build a knowledge-based information society of the 21st Century. Recognizing the above and the basic fact, that the Universities have to perform multiple roles, like creating new knowledge, acquiring new capabilities and producing an intelligent human resource pool, through challenging teaching, research and extension activities so as to balance both the need and the demand, the University Grants commission (UGC) has been assigned the responsibility of maintaining the quality of higher education in the country. The exceptional growth of population has increased manifold the demand for education at all levels. With demand out-matching the means and resources, the quality of education and individual attention to the pupil has suffered a serious set-back. The scope for individualized teacher-student interaction is radically cut. Therefore, there is a dire need of trained teachers who are well-informed, creative, inspiring, research oriented, IT savvy, as well as effective managers, and role models. For making higher education institutions active hubs of academic activity, the UGC Academic Staff Colleges have to envisage their new role, which, of necessity, has to be multidimensional and integrative. Hence, professional development Programmes for teachers will have to be reengineered and reinvigorated.
National Policy of Education (1986) has emphasized the importance of motivation in improving the teaching-learning process. In pursuance to this policy, UGC has established 66 Academic Staff Colleges all over the country. The Academic Staff College of Himachal Pradesh University came into existence in 1989 and since then if has organized 377 programmes for improving the quality of teaching and research in different branches of knowledge by imparting training to 12653 teachers all over the country. It has attempted to enhance the training and development process by bringing out an annual journal (with ISSN), ‘academe’ that contains articles pertaining to varied issues in higher education.
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WALL STREET JOURNAL CALLS HUGO CHAVEZ A THREAT TO WORLD PEACE
The Wall Street Journal Calls Hugo Chavez A Threat to World Peace - by Stephen Lendman
You won't find commentary and language any more hostile to Hugo Chavez than on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. Their June 23 piece by Mary Anastasia O'Grady in the Americas column is a clear, jaw-dropping example. It's practically blood-curdling in its vitriol which calls Hugo Chavez a threat to world peace. The sad part of it is Journal readers believe this stuff and are likely to support any US government efforts to remove the "threat."
The O'Grady article is about the elections scheduled to take place in the fall for five non-permanent UN Security Council seats to be held in 2007. One of them will be for the Latin American seat now held by Argentina. The two countries vying to fill the opening are Guatemala and Venezuela, and the other countries in the region will vote on which one will get it. You won't have to think long to guess the one the US supports - its Guatemalan ally, of course. And why not. For over 50 years its succession of military and civilian governments have all followed the dictates of their dominant northern neighbor. In so doing, they all managed to achieve one of the world's worst human rights records that hasn't abated even after the 1996 Peace Accords were signed ending a brutal 36 year conflict. Although the country today is nominally a democratic republic, it continues to abuse its people according to documented reports by Amnesty International.
Amnesty is aware of sexual violence and extreme brutality against women including 665 murders in 2005 gotten from police records; 224 reported attacks on human rights activists and organizations in the same year with little or no progress made investigating them; forced evictions and destruction of homes of indigenous people in rural areas (echoes of Palestine); and no progress by the government and Constitutional Court in seeking justice for decades of genocidal crimes and crimes against humanity committed by paramilitary death squads and the Guatamalan military. The sum of these and other unending abuses led Amnesty to call Guatamala a "land of injustice."
That record of abuse hardly matters to the Bush administration nor did it bother any past ones either since the CIA fomented a coup in 1954 ousting the country's democratically elected leader Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. That coup began a half century reign of terror against the country's indigenous Mayan majority. It was fully supported by a succession of US presidents who were quite willing to overlook it as long as Guatamalan governments maintained a policy of compliance with the US agenda. They all did, and in return received the support and blessing of the US and its corporate giants that continue to suck the life out of that oppressed country.
Guatamala fills the bill nicely for the Bush administration and would be expected to be a close ally in support of US positions that come up for votes in the UN Security Council. Venezuela, on the other hand, is a different story. Since he was first democratically elected in 1998, Hugo Chavez has done what few other leaders ever do. He's kept his promises to his people to serve their interests ahead of those of other nations, especially the US that's dominated and exploited Venezuela for decades. He's served them well, and in so doing engendered the wrath of his dominant northern neighbor that already has tried and failed three times to oust him and is now planning a fourth attempt to do it.
The idea of a Chavez-led government holding a seat on the Security Council does not go down well in Washington, and the Bush administration is leading a campaign to prevent it with aid and support of the kind of attack-dog journalism found in the Wall Street Journal. Honest observers know this newspaper of record for corporate America has a hard time dealing with facts it dislikes so it invents the ones it does to use in their place.
The June 23 editorial is a good example. It extolls the record of the Guatamalan government with its long-standing record of extreme abuse against its own people falsely claiming it's been "accumulating an impressive record of international cooperation on a variety of UN efforts." It claims one of its main qualifications is its "active role in international peacekeeping" and that the country is now home to a Central American regional peacekeeping school and training center. Oddly, it mentions that Guatamalan peacekeepers are now serving in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and Haiti. What it fails to mention is that those so-called "peacekeepers," along with those from other countries serving with them, have in large part functioned as paramilitary enforcers, and in that capacity have committed gross human rights abuses against the local people rather than trying to protect them. The WSJ writer surely knows this but didn't choose to share that information with her readers. Instead she extolls the country's "democratic credentials." But readers with any knowledge of recent Guatamalan history surely know that country's true record is one of extreme violence and abuse against its own people and one no one would think of as a nation representing them democratically.
The WSJ's June 23 editorial is titled "A Vote for Venezuela Is a Vote for Iran." The commentary in it is one of the paper's most extreme diatribes against the Venezuelan leader which would seem to indicate the Bush administration and corporate America are stepping up their attack on Hugo Chavez in advance of when they plan to make their move to oust him. The Journal writer calls him a "strongman" in an "oil dictatorship" leading a government that values "tyranny and aggression" who'll use his seat and Council presidency when his nation assumes it to support "hostile states" like Iran, Cuba, Sudan and North Korea. Observers knowledgeable about Venezuela under Chavez would have a hard time containing themselves as the true Chavez record is totally opposite the one the Journal portrays. The Journal writer, of course, knows this, but would never report it in her column. Her employer and the interests it serves wouldn't be pleased if she did.
While claiming that a Guatamala seat on the Council is a "voice for the region, not its own national interests," it says Venezuela's "rests largely on oil 'diplomacy' and the capacity to push anti-American buttons around the UN." It goes on to state "It may seem strange Venezuela has any support in the region. Over the past seven years, its meddling in its neighbors' politics 'have' (even the grammar is wrong) earned it a reputation as a bully. Mr. Chavez is persona non grata in more than a few Latin nations. Many countries are worried about Venezuela's 'big spending' to acquire fighter jets and 100,000 kalisnikovs from Russia." Readers may need to pause to catch their breath.
What the Journal writer doesn't explain is far more important than what she does - but she's doing her job as a servant of the US empire. Chavez's so-called "oil diplomacy," in fact, is based on his Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas or ALBA. It's based on the principles of complementarity (not competition), solidarity (not domination), cooperation (not exploitation) and respect for other nations' sovereignty free from the control of dominant powers like the US and its large transnational corporations. It's the mirror opposite of US-style predatory capitalism and the one-sided trade agreements it uses to exploit other countries for its own gain.
The nations participating in ALBA-style agreements are able to operate outside the usual international banking and corporate trading system in their exchange of goods and services so that each country benefits and none loses - just the opposite of the one-sided way the US operates. Because Venezuela is rich in oil, it's been able to trade that vital commodity with its neighbors who need it, even sell it to them at below-market prices, and get back in return the products and services its trading partners can supply on an equally favorable basis. It's a true "win-win" arrangement for participating countries but one that angers the US because it cuts its corporations and big banks out of the process. The Chavez plan is to help his people, not serve the interests of the corporate giants or dominant US neighbor. The WSJ calls this "meddling" and Chavez a "bully." What glorious meddling it is, in the true spirit of the country's Bolivarian Revolution, and "bully" to Hugo Chavez for doing it.
As for Chavez's so-called "big spending" for weapons that has "many countries worried," one must wonder which countries the Journal writer means. She mentions none, which she surely would have and quoted their officials if, in fact, there were any. The truth, of course, is Hugo Chavez is acting no differently than most all other countries in the region or elsewhere, has expressed no hostility toward any of them, has never invaded a neighbor or threatened to, and is a model of a peace-promoting leader who's only taking sensible steps to upgrade his small military and protect his nation against a hostile US he has every reason to believe will attack him. But you'll never find that commentary on the pages of the Wall Street Journal.
The Journal editorial ends in grand style. It demeans the poor countries of the region benefitting from below-market priced Venezuelan oil as likely supporting that country for the Latin American Council seat. It also attacks Argentina for being a "Venezuelan pawn," calling it "once a haven for Nazis" (the US was and still is), and stating "the country has been so incompetent about managing its 'resources' that it too needs charity from Mr. Chavez." Indeed, Argentina had big financial trouble at the end of the 1990s, but the Journal writer doesn't explain why. It was because the country became the "poster child" model for US-style neoliberal free market capitalism in the 1990s. It wrecked the economy causing it to collapse into bankruptcy it's still struggling to recover from.
The Journal writer also attacks Bolivia and Cuba for supporting Chavez but is particularly hostile to the Lula government in Brazil for its siding with the Venezuelan leader. She calls that support "surprising" and accused the Brazilian government of being "Bolivia's unofficial energy advisor (that) orchestrated the confiscation of Brazilian assets (in Bolivia) recently." Bolivian president Evo Morales nationalized his nation's energy resources which Bolivian law clearly states the nation owns. He confiscated nothing, which the Journal writer surely knows but failed to tell her readers. She also mentioned a so-called "eternal Brazilian struggle to prove that it can challenge US 'hegemony' in the region (that) trumps the need to regain dignity and protect its investments abroad." Left out of the commentary is any mention that Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba and Brazil are sovereign states with the right to support whatever policies and other countries they wish without needing US approval to do it.
About the only final comment the Journal writer can make is to claim Guatamala has the "solid backing of the 'more serious democracies' in the region - such as Colombia and Mexico." It's likely what the writer means by "serious" is those countries' elections are about as free and fair as ours - meaning, they only are for the power-elites controlling them who arrange the outcomes they want.
The June 23 Wall Street Journal editorial was a typical example of what this newspaper calls journalism and editorial commentary. This writer follows it to learn what the US empire likely is up to. In the case of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, it's no doubt up to no good. The continued hostile rhetoric is clearly to signal another attempt to oust the Venezuelan leader at whatever time and by whatever means the Bush administration has in mind. Stay tuned.
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What is truly fascinating is how Judaism – both biblical and post-biblical – dealt with the idea of the zealot. First, let us recall the two contexts. First is that of Pinchas. Having failed to curse the Israelites, Bilaam eventually devised a strategy that succeeded. He persuaded the Moabite women to seduce Israelite men and then lure them into idolatry. This evoked intense Divine anger, and a plague broke out among the Israelites. To make matters worse Zimri, a leader of the tribe of Shimon, brought a Midianite woman into the camp where they flagrantly engaged in intimacy. Perhaps sensing that Moses felt powerless – he had himself married a Midianite woman – Pinchas seized the initiative and stabbed and killed both of them, ending the misbehaviour and the plague by which 24,000 Israelites had already died. That is the story of Pinchas.
Elijah’s story begins with the accession of Ahab to the throne of the northern kingdom, Israel. The king had married Jezebel, daughter of the king of Sidon, and under her influence introduced Baal worship into the kingdom, building a pagan temple and erecting a pole in Samaria honouring the Ugaritic mother goddess Asherah. Jezebel, meanwhile, was organising a programme of killing the “prophets of the Lord.” The Bible (I King 16) says of Ahab that “he did more evil in the eyes of the Lord than any of those before him.”
Elijah announces that there will be a drought to punish the king and the Baal-worshipping nation. Confronted by Ahab, Elijah challenges him to gather the 450 prophets of Baal to a test at Mount Carmel. When all are present, Elijah issues the challenge. They and he will prepare sacrifices and call on God. The one who sends fire from heaven will be the true God. The Baal prophets do so and call on their god, but nothing happens. In a rare show of scornful humour, Elijah tells them to cry louder. Maybe, he says, Baal is busy or travelling or having a sleep. The false prophets work themselves into a frenzy, gashing themselves until their blood flows, but still nothing happens. Elijah then prepares his sacrifice and has the people douse it three times with water to make it harder to burn. He then calls on God. Fire descends from heaven, consuming the sacrifice. The people, awestruck, cry out, ““The Lord – he is God! The Lord – he is God!” words we say nowadays at the climax of Neilah at the end of Yom Kippur. The people then kill the prophets of Baal. God has been vindicated.
There can be no doubt that Pinchas and Elijah were religious heroes. They stepped into the breach at a time when the nation was facing religious and moral crisis and palpable Divine anger. They acted while everyone else, at best, watched. They risked their lives by so doing. There can be little doubt that the mob might have turned against them and attacked them. Indeed after the trial at Mount Carmel, Jezebel lets it be known that she intends to have Elijah killed. Both men acted for the sake of God and the religious welfare of the nation. And God himself is called “zealous” many times in the Torah.
Yet their treatment in both the written and oral Torah is deeply ambivalent. God gives Pinchas “my covenant of peace,” meaning that he will never again have to act the part of a zealot. Indeed, in Judaism, the shedding of human blood is incompatible with service at the Sanctuary (King David was forbidden to build the Temple for this reason: see I Chronicles 22: 8, 28: 3). As for Elijah, he was implicitly rebuked by God in one of the great scenes of the Bible. Standing at Horeb, God shows him a whirlwind, an earthquake and a fire, but God is not in any of these. Then He comes to Elijah in a “still, small voice” (1 Kings 19). He then asks Elijah, for the second time, “What are you doing here?” and Elijah replies in exactly the same words as he had used before: “I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty.” He has not understood that God has been trying to tell him that He is not to be found in violent confrontation, but in gentleness and the word softly spoken. God then tells him to appoint Elisha as his successor.
Pinchas and Elijah are, in other words, both gently rebuked by God.
Halakhically, the precedent of Pinchas is severely limited. Although his act was lawful, the sages none the less said that had Zimri turned around and killed Pinchas instead, he would be deemed innocent since he would have acted in self-defence. Had Pinchas killed Zimri even a moment after the act of immorality he would have been guilty of murder. And had Pinchas asked a court of law whether he was permitted to do what he was about to do, the answer would have been no. This is a rare instance of the rule, halakhah ve-ein morin kein, “It is a law that is not taught” (Sanhedrin 82a).
Why this moral ambivalence? The simplest answer is that the zealot is not acting within the normal parameters of the law. Zimri may have committed a sin that carried the death sentence, but Pinchas executed punishment without a trial. Elijah may have been acting under the imperative of removing idolatry from Israel, but he did an act – offering a sacrifice outside the Temple – normally forbidden in Jewish law. There are extenuating circumstances in Jewish law in which either the king or the court may execute non-judicial punishment to secure social order (see Maimonides, Hilkhot Sanhedrin 24: 4; Hilkhot Melakhim 3: 10). But Pinchas was neither a king nor acting as a representative of the court. He was acting on his own initiative, taking the law into his own hands (avid dina lenafshei). There are instances where this is justified and where the consequences of inaction would be catastrophic. But in general, we are not empowered to do so, since the result would be lawlessness and violence on a grand scale.
More profoundly, the zealot is in effect taking the place of God. As Rashi says, commenting on the phrase, “Pinchas ... has turned My anger away from the Israelites by being zealous with My zeal ,” Pinchas “executed My vengeance and showed the anger I should have shown” (Rashi to Num. 25: 11). In general we are commanded to “walk in God’s ways” and imitate His attributes. “Just as He is merciful and compassionate, so you be merciful and compassionate.” That is not, however, the case when it comes to executing punishment or vengeance. God who knows all may execute sentence without a trial, but we, being human, may not. There are forms of justice that are God’s domain, not ours.
The zealot who takes the law into his own hands is embarking on a course of action fraught with moral danger. Only the most holy may do so, only once in a lifetime, and only in the most dire circumstance when the nation is at risk, when there is nothing else to be done, and no one else to do it. Even then, were the zealot to ask permission from a court, he would be denied it.
Pinchas gave his name to the parsha in which Moses asks God to appoint a successor. R. Menahem Mendel, the Rebbe of Kotzk, asked why Pinchas, hero of the hour, was not appointed instead of Joshua. His answer was that a zealot cannot be a leader. That requires patience, forbearance and respect for due process. The zealots within besieged Jerusalem in the last days of the Second Temple played a significant part in the city’s destruction. They were more intent on fighting one another than the Romans outside the city walls.
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Please join us at 7:00 PM on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 for a presentation entitled “Affecting Public Policy and Protecting Our Secular Democracy: How it Works and How You Can Influence the Process” by Toni Van Pelt. She is the Public Policy Director for the Institute for Science and Human Values.
Scientific thinking is being challenged in the United States culture today as never before.
One of the major strengths of any lobbying effort lies in its grassroots participation. There are a variety of tactics that are useful, and each is employed at strategic times. How does our government work? Why is it important for you to participate? Please attend for an interactive discussion that is sure to be both enlightening and galvanizing.
Toni Van Pelt is the Public Policy Director of the Institute for Science and Human Values, founded by Paul Kurtz. As former vice president of the Center for Inquiry and as a congressional lobbyist, she organized and directed one of the first public policy offices of the secular humanist movement in Washington, DC focusing on the importance of science, separation of church and state, women’s and LGBT rights. She also serves on the board of the National Organization for Women as the Southeast Regional Director.
The ISHV mission statement, from their website, includes these statements: ”We are committed to the enhancement of human values and scientific inquiry. This combines both compassion and reason in realizing ethical wisdom. It focuses on the principles of personal integrity: individual freedom and responsibility. It includes a commitment to social justice, planetary ethics, and developing shared values for the human family.
It is apparent that everyone in the US. and other countries of the world face a moral crisis. In a rapidly changing global community there are conflicting religious, ideological and nationalist value systems. Neo-humanists affirm we need to discover values and principles, which can be shared by all sectors of humankind. These need to transcend the ancient dogmas and ideologies of the past.
We submit these principles as a basis for finding some common ground in the planetary civilization that is emerging. We offer these recommendations in the hope that they will inspire individuals to find meaning and integrity in their own lives. We aim to be inclusive of all, regardless of gender, ethnicity or background to work together to achieve a better life for themselves and all of humankind.”
You can read the full mission statement, and learn more about ISHV here: http://instituteforscienceandhumanvalues.com/articles/mission%20statement.htm
The presentation will take place at the Ludington Library in the large meeting room located on the main level. The library address is 5 South Bryn Mawr Avenue, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. A SEPTA stop is located across the street from the library.
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The Freethought Society (FS) is pleased to announce Gary Berton as the speaker for their Tuesday, April 23rd free and open-to-the-public gathering. Berton will be delivering his unique presentation on Thomas Paine, America’s “Independence Instigator,” whose book Common Sense essentially started the American Revolution.
The presentation will take place at 7:00 PM at the Ludington Library (5 South Bryn Mawr Ave., Bryn Mawr, PA). Berton will highlight Thomas Paine’s great wisdom and ideas that were ahead of his time.
An independent scholar on Thomas Paine for 45 years, Berton is the Coordinator of the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies and the Secretary of the Thomas Paine National Historical Association. As a lecturer at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York, he teaches the first college course ever offered in the United States on the political philosophy of Thomas Paine.
“Thomas Paine, we regard, as many historians do now, as the father of the American Revolution,” Berton said. “He is the man, through Common Sense, the Crisis Papers and letters to newspapers, actually established the principles upon which the country was founded. In one sentence, Paine stated that ‘You cannot have liberty without linking it to equality.’ The democratic system of government that Thomas Paine outlined in Common Sense became the basis of our government. It inspired the people of the United States to fight the long war against Britain.”
Thomas Paine is one of the most important political philosophers in human history. His radical ideas changed how people look at government, human rights, equality and justice by empowering the people to free themselves and form their own political goals. Most of his achievements in political philosophy are accepted conventional wisdom today. The rest are still too radical.
Berton’s presentation “How Thomas Paine Changed the World” will entertain, enlighten and inspire.
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- Roy Zimmerman
The Freethought Society and the Ethical Humanist Society of Philadelphia are pleased to announce the return of Roy Zimmerman to the Philadelphia area. Roy’s “Wake Up Call” performance of original and funny songs about ignorance, war, greed, hope, struggle, change and more greed takes place on Monday, April 1, 2013. The charge is $18 (pay at the door) with discount available to students and seniors. Anyone would be a “fool” to miss this April 1st concert!
Roy’s one-of-a-kind performance begins at 7:30 PM at the Ethical Society’s Building located at 1906 South Rittenhouse Square, Pennsylvania. Zimmerman sings satirical songs – all original songs about class warfare, creationism, same-sex marriage, guns, marijuana, abstinence, Republicans (a lot of songs about Republicans), ignorance, war and greed. There’s a decidedly “Lefty” slant to his lyrics.
In 2012, Roy and his co-writer wife Melanie Harby traveled 47,000 miles
to complete a 50-state tour of all 49 states. Hawaii was “Omission
Accomplished,” he says.
“Wake Up Call” is a funny, tuneful and unabashedly progressive look at what they saw and heard across America in the
Obama Era. The show is ninety minutes of original, rhyme-intensive songs, with funny titles such as Abstain With Me and I Want a Marriage Like They Had In the Bible. Roy also sings heartfelt songs like Hope, Struggle and Change and I Approve This Message. The audience always enjoys Roy’s impassioned comic commentary.
With thirteen albums over twenty years, Roy has brought the sting of satire to the struggle for peace and social justice. His songs have been heard on HBO and Showtime. Roy has recorded for Warner/Reprise Records, and he has been profiled on NPR’s All Things Considered. Roy’s YouTube videos have amassed over seven million views, and he is a featured blogger for the Huffington Post.
Sing Out! Magazine writes, “Zimmerman is a guy on the left skewering folks on the right with rapier-sharp lyrics … underneath the caustic satire is a man who is surprisingly optimistic.” See for yourself: Creation Science 101, To Be a Liberal, and Defenders of Marriage.
Don’t miss Roy Zimmerman’s Monday, April 1, 2013 one-man show on April Fools Day!
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Dr. Robert Porter
Please join us at 7:00 PM at the Ludington Library on Tuesday, February 26, 2013. Dr. Robert Porter’s presentation,“Invisible Minds and the Magical Universe” will take place in the large meeting room located on the main level of the Ludington Library. The library address is 5 South Bryn Mawr Avenue, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. A SEPTA stop is located across the street from the library.
Dr. Porter, is the author of The Answer is Never Magic, a Socratic dialog on faith and religion between a skeptic and a believer. A discussion about belief in God, angels, the Devil, worship, prayer, sin and redemption will be presented and Dr. Porter will examine why there seem to be so many believers.
Dr. Porter is a physician, earned his MD from Hahnemann University in Philadelphia, PA and completed an Emergency Medicine residency at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Cleveland, OH. Rob is board certified in Emergency Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Since 1983, he has held a variety of clinical and teaching appointments in the Philadelphia area, most recently at Albert Einstein Medical Center and Thomas Jefferson University.He currently works for Merck, where he is editor-in-chief of The Merck Manuals.
He lives in the Philadelphia area with his wife, elder son and four cats. In addition to indulging his inner philosopher with the publication of The Answer is Never Magic, Dr. Porter is active in progressive politics in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
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In 2010, the African Union launched a decade-long initiative to promote women's empowerment and put female rights at the heart of development in the billion-strong continent.
Dubbed African Women's Decade (AWD 2010-2020), the ambitious scheme aims to create the conditions for the active participation of women in the socio-economic development of the continent.
Now, more than two years after the Nairobi launch, African Voices caught up with three diaspora-based, prominent African activists to discuss the current state of women's rights in the continent.
CNN spoke to Rainatou Sow, Marie-Claire Faray and CNN Hero Betty Makoni -- an edited version of the interviews follows.
Rainatou Sow is the founder and executive director of "Make Every Woman Count," an organization that monitors female rights in every African country. The Guinean activist was named "Inspirational Woman of 2012" by the UK group "Women 4 Africa."
CNN: "Make Every Woman Count" publishes an annual report detailing the treatment of women in each country to remind people that African women are watching.
Rainatou Sow: Yes, that's the message. Basically, when they launched African Women's Decade it was in Nairobi -- you had people from all over coming, delegates, African governments, it was a big feast. But then after a few months you hardly heard about it -- because of the credit crunch basically we didn't hear about financing going into women's projects there and it was really calm.
So we thought what can we do? Are we going to sit down and let this decade pass away, or are we going to do something, mainly us as the younger generation.
I see this as an opportunity to really push the agenda of women's rights in Africa because most of the time African voices are lost in the field. So every year we do the overview annual report where we do all the 54 countries. We evaluate all of them, regarding what they have been doing this year on women's rights, in education, reproductive health.
See also: U.N. director: 'Women will change world'
CNN: Why do you think African voices aren't being heard?
RS: I think that's really missing. Whatever we do, we should make sure that we invite those women to come to tell their own stories because that is how you could best help her. Not you talking for her.
By using the power of social media, of the internet, really reaching women around Africa and in the diaspora here and that is what we are really trying to do -- to really give African women the voices they deserve that we haven't seen so far.
CNN: Do you think it's hard to get donors to move beyond the mindset of the emergency aid to more sustainable approaches?
RS: Yes, that is what we are trying to do. A lot of women are really raising their voices about that because there is no sustainability and that's the big problem. After so many years of aid we haven't seen an impact on the ground. So for me it is about time to maybe sit back and look at what we have done wrong and how we can improve things to try and ask the local communities and then go ask people, "so what have you already done here?"
Marie-Claire Faray is an activist from the Democratic Republic of Congo who campaigns to end violence against women, especially in her home country. As a member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, she is advocating for change and pushing for action during the AWD 2010-2010.
CNN: What are you hoping to achieve with the AWD?
Marie-Claire Faray: We really hope to bring a lot of women on board to first of all commit to changing at the individual level, local level, national level and international level. We hope to bring women from all backgrounds -- not only the lawyers, the politicians, but also the grassroots women, particularly them, to come and hold their government to account.
CNN: Because in many African countries the legal framework is there, what's been missing is the accountability.
MCF: Definitely, not only the accountability but the action plan to set changes. This decade is actually just a time frame for us to evaluate every year during this decade what achievement has been done and what challenges lie ahead of us.
But ultimately, in 2020, we want to look back and say "we have at least achieved this in this country" -- for example "in the Democratic Republic of Congo, we have achieved more women in parliament, the end of violence against women, the end of sexual violence."
We want to look at places like Mali, where there is conflict right now, and see what women have achieved to end this conflict.
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This video is an important anthropological document, because it encapsulates the Five Pillars of Portland Society, which are as follows:
--Making things pretty
--Being so profoundly self-satisfied it's disgusting
Yes, apparently in Portland people like to get together and paint intersections, though the Smugness Union requires that they stop every 15 minutes in order to snuggle:
You also have to hand it to Portland for being so resourceful, since they've managed to portray themselves as an inclusive culture despite the fact that it's one of the most ethnically and ideologically homogeneous societies on Earth. That's not to say there isn't some diversity though, and some people there actually spell their names slightly differently:
(In Portland, Annes and Annies somehow manage to live together in perfect harmony.)
Though it's tough to disagree over anything when you're constantly stultified by communal art projects and overly earnest folk music:
("After this I'm playing at a same-sex dog wedding.")
Nevertheless, even Portland is not immune to discordance, and I'm sure it's only a matter of time before some bike dorks start complaining that the pretty pictures are distracting attention from their precious bike sharrows.
Speaking of Portland, awhile back I mentioned that some Portlanders were making a leather bike handle. As far as I'm concerned, a bike needs a handle like an aquarium needs a toilet. Nevertheless, Stevil Kinevil informs me that the handlesmiths have since managed to raise $20,000:
Now, I've spent some time in Portland, and I know from experience that they will look at you askance if you so much as ask for a shopping bag in the grocery store. Yet for some reason it's perfectly fine to for a cow to die so that you can have a handle for something that is already basically a giant handle. I mean, what vehicle is more intrinsically portable than a bicycle?
This is not to say I have a problem with using cow parts for stuff, it's just that I don't understand how they managed to raise $20,000 in a city where only like 46 people actually have jobs. (The Portland economy is sustained almost entirely by people who work for bike companies and then buy stuff from their employers with their employee discounts.) But I suppose that's the power of Kickstarter, and still more proof that entrepreneurship now works on the "What About Bob?" model. Indeed, every time I watch a Kickstarter video all I hear is "Gimme, gimme, gimme, I need, I need:"
In fact, I recently heard from another would-be bicycle accessory maker who will be launching his own Kickstarter on Thursday. It is for something called the "Barbasket," and here is the video:
Barbasket from Chris Luomanen on Vimeo.
Like most Kickstarter projects, this combines elements from other accessories that already exist while simultaneously solving no problems whatsoever and creating some new ones. See, if you want a removable bag for your handlebars, you can already get these things called "handlebar bags." Or, if you want a basket you can take inside with you (or just leave at home), you can opt for these things called "removable baskets." Meanwhile the Barbasket manages to require cumbersome proprietary handlebars while at the same time being really small:
Tellingly, the design concern behind the Barbasket is called "NRML:"
And it's clear that their though process was a bit clouded when they came up with it:
None of this would be a problem if people would just suck it up and ask for a bag at the store.
Sure, some people might think having an exquisitely-crafted leather handle for everything on a bicycle makes it beautiful, but I think it makes it look like it belongs to a metrosexual bike cowboy. Still, it's better than this "flaming turd bike," as forwarded by another reader:
(Feces in motion)
At this rate I'm pretty sure it's only a matter of time before we start seeing leather bike locks, which will of course result in a dramatic uptick in bike theft, as well as a concomitant rise in polite vigilantism:
As I've mentioned, I belong to the "Your Bike Is Your Problem" school, and that extends to stopping bike thieves. Firstly, I don't care enough about someone else's bike to interrupt a criminal with heavy cutting tools. Secondly, even if I did care about it, chances are the owner doesn't care about it in the first place:
Res waited for the owner, but they never showed. She then went to the police, who told her that they couldn't help her. So she plastered these flyers up near the Starbucks. Res writes via email that she's reached out to Trek and is giving her the serial number on the bike, which may help them reunite the black bike with its owner.
As far as I'm concerned, Res should just keep that bike. She earned it. I probably wouldn't have even looked up from my Venti Soy Mocha Doucheaccino.
Lastly, in do-it-yourself research news, some Australians have proved that riding with headphones isn't actually that dangerous:
Based on these relatively simple tests, it is fair to conclude that:
1. A bike rider with ear-bud earphones playing music at a reasonable volume hears much more outside noise than a car driver, even when that driver has no music playing.
2. A bike rider with in-ear earphones playing music at a reasonable volume hears about the same outside noise as a car driver with no music playing, but more than a car driver playing music.
3. A bike rider with in-ear earphones playing music at a reasonable volume hears about the same outside noise as a car driver with no music playing, but more than a car driver playing music.
Ear-bud earphones set at a reasonable volume still allow riders to clearly here the warning sounds of other riders.
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evacuation: executive order 9066
By December 1941 over 126,000 individuals of Japanese ancestry resided on the United States mainland. Many lived along the West Coast. Approximately seventy percent were Nisei, the first American-born generation. Their parents, Issei or immigrating generation, left Japan for a better life but encountered many obstacles in the United States. Intense discrimination from nativists limited employment opportunities and successfully prevented the Issei from becoming U.S. citizens. In 1922, the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Ozawa v. United States upheld legislation that declared the Issei "aliens ineligible to citizenship." Emigration from Japan ended with the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act that established quotas for every national group and barred the entrance of aliens ineligible to citizenship.
On 19 February 1942, in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, enabling the U.S. Army to forcibly remove any and all persons from areas of strategic importance. Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt, head of the Western Defense Command, ordered Japanese Americans to be evacuated from coastal areas in Washington, Oregon, California, and Arizona. | <urn:uuid:a5bb4de6-14ac-43a5-85f6-74b28a031122> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www2.hsp.org/exhibits/Balch%20resources/internment/html/body_a_japanese_.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934863 | 246 | 3.59375 | 4 |
Creation of a virtual environment as a facilitator of dialogue about sexuality among adolescents: a resource of health education for formal and non formal teaching.
This study presents the creation process and analyses the production and evaluation of the multimedia ?Love and Sex: myths, truths and fantasies?, developed by the Museum of Life (Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz) as a resource for information en pondering over the theme sexuality in regards to the adolescents. This research starts from two central issues of the study: the communication in digital media and theinformation on sexuality, centered in a concept of health education that takes into account the personal development of the adolescents. In the first topic, we study the situation of digital inclusion in Brazil, the use of technological resourcesin education and the proposals originated from the Information and Communications Technologies. In the second topic, we analyze the proposals of the Brazilian Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health, of the Portuguese Ministry of Education and the European Community?s orientation, as expressed in the project SAFE, towards a comparative analysis of public policies about education and sexuality nowadays. In the theoretical background, we develop a revision on the forms of spreadingeducative information on sexuality for teens, reflecting about the demands of health attention from youths and their sexual and reproductive rights. The product?s evaluations had been done by means of an inquire with a group of 36 adolescents,students of public schools located around Manguinhos, north zone of Rio de Janeiro, and with 14 professionals of State Secretariats and of the Ministry of Health. The analysis revealed the potential application of the multimedia as educative resource in response to the results obtained with the public inquired. Suggestions for necessary adjustments had been raised leading to the creation of a new improved version.The ?Notebook of Questions?, a tool of the multimedia that allows the register of the users? thought, attained the expectation of its proposal and can become an alternative for professors and health professionals to analyze the thought of adolescent groups. Since it prevents the public exposition, thisprivate form of register of the youth?s speech can diminish inhibitions or embarrassment and favor the debate on the educative activities by allowing the previous knowledge of the thoughts, doubts and necessities of the group about the subject. Moreover, it can make possible studies on therepresentations involved in the processes of choices of adolescents in face of risk situations. The possibility of use of the multimedia as a research instrument was verified using the method of Discourse of the Collective Subject, proposed by Lèfevre amp; Lèfevre (2005). The representations obtained by Notebook were compared with the speech registered by hand. These analysis where also compared with drawings done by the same group of adolescents. The results suggests that the multimedia is a resource that favors the construction of an intersubjectivity historically and socially contextualized and can help the elaboration of new projects in scope of the formal and informal learning in regards to the health promotion practice.
Advisor:Virgínia Torres Schall
School:Faculdades Oswaldo Cruz
Source Type:Master's Thesis
Keywords:Multimedia/utilization Educational Technology Health Education Promotion Sexuality Pregnancy in Adolescence
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Russell D. Feingold, United States Senator for Wisconsin (1993-2011), Awarded Honorary Doctorate from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Rabbi David Ellenson, President of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) awarded U.S. Senator Russell D. Feingold the Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, in recognition of his devotion to the values of Judaism, concern for all humankind, and extraordinary contributions to strengthening the United States. The presentation was made on June 3 at HUC-JIR’s Graduation Ceremonies on the Cincinnati campus; Senator Feingold presented the Graduation Address.
Rabbi Ellenson stated, “Throughout his political career, Senator Feingold has demonstrated his faith in the values and processes of democracy and has never wavered in his determination to search for common ground in all Americans of good will. His strongest legislative passions have been reserved for fiscal ethics in government, elimination of deficit spending, education, civil rights, protecting jobs, and affordable health care.”
Senator Feingold represented the state of Wisconsin from 1993 through 2011 in the U.S. Senate. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1975, attended Magdalen College, Oxford, England, as a Rhodes Scholar and received a graduate degree in 1977; and graduated from Harvard University Law School in 1979. He was admitted to the Wisconsin bar in 1979 and practiced law in Madison, WI in 1979-1985. While serving as a visiting professor at Beloit College 1985, he was elected a member of the Wisconsin State Senate 1983-1993. He was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1992; reelected in 1998, and again in 2004, and served from January 3, 1993, to January 3, 2011. He was defeated in his 2010 reelection bid by a Tea Party Republican candidate.
Senator Feingold is best known for his work with Senator John McCain to clean—up election campaign finance abuses, via the Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002. An independent progressive thinker, he was the first senator to call for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq (2005) and was the lone Senator who voted against the USA Patriot Ace (2001).
Click here for the text of Senator Feingold’s Graduation Address.
Founded in 1875, Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion is the nation’s oldest institution of higher Jewish education and the academic, spiritual, and professional leadership development center of Reform Judaism. HUC-JIR educates men and women for service to American and world Jewry as rabbis, cantors, educators, and nonprofit management professionals, and offers graduate programs to scholars and clergy of all faiths. With centers of learning in Cincinnati, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, and New York, HUC-JIR’s scholarly resources comprise the renowned Klau Library, The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, research institutes and centers, and academic publications. In partnership with the Union for Reform Judaism and the Central Conference of American Rabbis, HUC-JIR sustains the Reform Movement’s congregations and professional and lay leaders. HUC-JIR’s campuses invite the community to cultural and educational programs illuminating Jewish history, identity, art, and archaeology, and fostering interfaith and multiethnic understanding. | <urn:uuid:56a9fe39-3f44-4044-b670-d389811e1208> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://huc.edu/news/article/2012/russell-d-feingold-united-states-senator-for-wisconsin-1993-2011-awarded-honorary-doctorate-from-hebrew-union-college-jewish-institute-of-religion | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960953 | 697 | 1.554688 | 2 |
(Note: This is a news release from Utah's DWR.\}
High Elevation Waters Offer Great Summer Fishing
You can beat the heat, have fun and enjoy breathtaking scenery by grabbing your fishing pole and heading to Utah’s mountains.
Paul Birdsey, cold water sport fisheries coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources, says some of the best summer fishing in Utah is found at high-elevation waters in the state. Those waters include lakes in the Uinta Mountains in northern Utah and the Boulder Mountains down south.
Birdsey says trout feed actively when the water temperature is between
55 and 65 degrees. “Fifty five to 65 degrees is the ideal water temperature for trout,” he says. “It’s also the water temperature the high-elevation lakes remain at throughout the summer. That’s the main reason they’re such great places to fish.”
Uinta Mountains, Boulder Mountains
While high-elevation waters throughout Utah provide quality fishing in the summer, the Uinta Mountains and the Boulder Mountains are among the best places to try.
If you visit the Uinta Mountains in northern and northeastern Utah, you’ll find a wide variety of opportunities. Those opportunities range from lakes next to state Route 150 (the Mirror Lake Highway) that are stocked with fish weekly to backcountry lakes that you have to hike or ride a horse to reach.
“The lakes next to Route 150 are great places to take your family fishing,” Birdsey says.
The lakes on the Boulder Mountains in southern Utah are usually harder to reach. But the lakes on the Boulders are more productive and usually produce bigger fish. “Some of the lakes on the Boulder Mountains provide really, really nice fish,” Birdsey says.
Birdsey provides the following tips to help you catch fish and have a great experience:
Fish early in the morning or later in the day
Birdsey says trout rely mostly on their eyes to find their prey. That fact directly affects when you should fish for them.
“Trout feed most actively when they can see their prey clearly,”
Birdsey says, “but too much sunlight exposes them to predators.”
For that reason, Birdsey says early morning and before the sun goes down at night are the perfect times to fish. “There’s enough light for the trout to see their prey but not enough light to make the trout highly visible to predators,” he says.
Flies, lures and baits
Birdsey says fly fishing with a pattern that imitates a leech is one of the best ways to catch trout on the Uintas and the Boulders. He says leech patterns in brown, black or olive drab usually work best.
Another effective fly fishing technique is paying attention to the type of insects that are hatching and then “matching the hatch” by using a fly that imitates the insects.
If you’d rather fish with spinning gear, spinners are great lures to try. Birdsey recommends a Mepps, Panther Martin or Blue Fox spinner in sizes #0 or #1.
Buy spinners that are gold, black or silver in color.
Birdsey says brook, cutthroat and tiger trout are the trout you’ll find the most on the Uintas and the Boulders. “All of these species are more aggressive than the rainbow trout most anglers are used to fishing for,” he says. “A lure that flashes quickly through the water -- like a spinner -- is something brooks, cutthroats and tigers will go after.”
If you’d like to fish with bait, Birdsey says night crawlers are usually the best bait to try. You can cast the night crawler, and then let it sink to the bottom of the water you’re fishing. Or, you can cast it and a bobber, and let the night crawler dangle two or three feet under the bobber. “Whichever way you fish it,” he says, “don’t let the night crawler just sit there. Cast it out, and then slowly reel it in.”
No matter which tactic you use, if you haven’t gotten a bite within 20 minutes, change what you’re doing. Try a different fly, lure or bait, switch how quick or slow you’re reeling your bait or lure in, or move to a different location.
Birdsey says you should bring the following with you:
- An emergency kit that includes water, extra food and a survival
- Bug spray.
- Sunscreen and a good hat.
Also, remember that bears live in these areas. Free bear safety
information is available at www.wildlife.utah.gov/dwr/learn-more/bear-safety.html.
“In August,” he says, “it almost always rains in the Uintas for an hour or two. The rain usually starts between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. It usually doesn’t rain for long, but the rain can come down quick.”
Pack it in, pack it out
Some of the high-elevation waters, especially those close to Route 150, attract a lot of people. Unfortunately, they also attract a lot of trash. Birdsey encourages you to leave the area better than you found it.
“In addition to picking up your own trash, including fishing line and fishing tackle you’ve discarded,” he says, “bring along an extra garbage bag, and pick up the trash others have left behind.”
Free “Lakes of the High Uintas” booklets
A series of DWR booklets titled “Lakes of the High Uintas” is an excellent source of information about fishing the Uintas. You can get the booklets for free by:
- Visiting the Department of Natural Resources online library at www.dnrlibrary.utah.gov.
- Once you arrive at www.dnrlibrary.utah.gov, click on the
- “Search catalog” icon.
- Enter “Lakes of the High Uintas” in the Quick Search option.
- Each booklet choice has a links icon. Click on the icon to read the booklet you want to read.
Six of the booklets are also available at the DNR Map & Bookstore. The booklets cost $2 each.
You can order the booklets online at www.mapstore.utah.gov or get them at the bookstore. The store is at 1594 W. North Temple in Salt Lake
Other good sources of information include maps of both the Uintas and the Boulders. Maps are available at the DNR Map & Bookstore and U.S.
Forest Service offices. The best topographical maps to buy are 7.5 minute quad maps.
You can also learn more about fishing the Uintas and the Boulders, and stay current on fishing conditions and success, by reading the DWR’s weekly fishing reports at www.wildlife.utah.gov/hotspots.
Online fishing forums, such as utahwildlife.net and bigfishtackle.com, are also good sources of information. Sporting goods stores are also good places to contact.
You can also contact the DWR office in Ogden at (801) 476-2740, the DWR office in Vernal at (435) 781-9453 or the DWR office in Cedar City at
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The passage from childhood to adulthood happens when the child begins to realise that life is hard, death is certain and the chances are pretty good that he or she is going to be struggling for the rest of their life. These harsh realities wash away the idealism, naiveté and illusions of youth. Also this maturation process causes the youth to have a new understanding of what responsibility and stewardship means as well as the desire to make an impact on reality and leave the world a better place. This process occurs as a result of both experience and information. As a youth gathers more information through the experience of life he or she reaches certain inevitable conclusions.
The initial inquiry into life involves the consumption of vast amounts of information. Some of it is fascinating and life-altering but sad to say, much of it useless within the confines of daily life. As one matures, one begins to learn the art of discernment and to weave their way through information, discarding that which is not useful and keeping that which is. This is how information becomes knowledge. Once information has gone beyond facts and has woven itself into a coherent stream of knowledge, a certain kind of confidence is engendered in the individual.
As we grasp and understand the world around us through the process of turning information into knowledge, we begin to gain experience in a multiplicity of different facets of reality. As a thinking person matures, he or she gains greater knowledge and experience of the multitude of seemingly disparate aspects of reality until they reach a clear cohesion of thought and heightened level of awareness. This new level of awareness occurs when the individual begins to not only look outward to perceive the facts and forces that shape our reality, but focuses inward to digest and distil all that they have learned and experienced. This maturation process, which happens in later adulthood, is called Gnosis or wisdom.
A key to this process is the discovery and understanding of the deceptive power inherent in the massive amounts of manipulation and psychological imprinting that has taken place over the course of life. As this occurs, one gains the ability to perceive reality from a higher perspective and detach from the storm of emotional cravings and psychological addictions, which have veiled his or her innate awareness and cohesion as a human being. Through this process, one learns to discern and clearly decide which of these varieties of knowledge is important and meaningful to his or her life and which is not.
The gathering of information and experience is the first level of this process. The activity of turning information into knowledge is the second part. Turning knowledge into wisdom is its final aspect. Our youth is a relatively short, confusing and often chaotic processing of information. Schools, religious institutions, and the media fill our heads with gigabytes of information. By the time most of us reach puberty the glut of information that has been poured into our heads makes most of us dizzy. It is at this stage in life where the separation of those who will have an effect on the future of the world and those who won’t occurs. The sudden realisation that old age is imminent, death is certain, and working for a living is a necessity causes a large number of people to recede from the act of information gathering. They stop reading. They stop questioning. They are no longer interested in the ebb and flow of the mechanisms of the larger reality. They become numb, jaded, cynical, defeated and desensitised to the power and beauty of the extraordinary gift of human life. The second group embraces the dizzying array of information being offered to them and by puberty they are turning information into knowledge. At this time in their lives, through devotion, focus and discipline, people begin to excel in their chosen areas of exploration be it math, science, sports, the arts and many other fields of endeavour.
Long after college, the birthing of children, and anxiety about employment, if they are lucky, a wonderful new mental process begins. It starts in the late 30s and 40s. Synaptic pathways in the brain that were disconnected from each other previously have now woven themselves into a situation where the countless pods of knowledge begin to interconnect. Revelations, visions and comprehension of their own gifts and unique place in the nature of human experience begin to occur. This interlinking of thought distils experience into wisdom. This next level of discernment, not only engenders the creation of books, movies, philosophical treatises, inventions, and innovation, but also it brings with it a certain inner peace and sense of fulfilment that the immature self lacked.
Fully immersed in life and creative expression, the fear of death begins to recede. From this heightened spiritual perspective, the ones who attain wisdom begin to look at the world around them and bear witness to the evidence arrayed before them. Yes, the vision of connectivity, beauty and wonder that inspired their pursuit still lives within their hearts. However, at the same time, the undeniable evidence of a pathetic and immature reality filled with destruction, divisiveness, nihilism, egotism, greed and sexual depravity is ever present. There is a reason why students are not allowed to study the Kabbalah until they are 35 years old. The human intellect cannot possibly be mature enough until that age to fully comprehend the inner dynamics of the Kabbalah or any of the other deep spiritual and esoteric traditions that have been left for us.
Until around 1992, the human race lived and operated in an extremely isolated fashion. Until the invention of the telephone, telegraph, automobile and train in the early 1900’s people were even more isolated. It is really only in the last 50 years that the human race has become fully aware of the vast and varied cultures, languages and peoples that exist on the Earth.
But in 1992, something happened. Whereas much of the human race before were like isolated babes in the woods surrounded by wolves, confused and simplistic, in 1992, the first coherent stream of information was released all across the planet at the same time. It was appropriately called the World Wide Web. For the first time in human history, any human being who had a laptop or computer could increasingly access all of the information concerning the vast wealth of human history, experience and expression.
This shift was disorienting and confusing just like school was when we first started. A startling and mind expanding compilation of the best and worst aspects of human endeavour, the Internet overwhelmed us with facts, distractions, disinformation, lies, distortions, hopes and fears, everything. It became a mirror of who we are as a species and reflection of our collective psyche. Critics arose decrying that the Internet was a jumble of false ideas, a free for all, a place where a housewife in San Antonio has the same power and voice as a columnist for the New York Times. It can be safely said that the Internet was and is a land of incredible opportunity, massive confusion and one of the most important tools that has ever been invented by the human race.
2012 represents the 20-year anniversary of this great event. Through the course of this time, through the consumption, digestion and integration of massive amounts of information, many people have begun to notice that there is a spiritual awakening occurring. It’s just a rumbling underneath the surface but we all can feel it. More and more we sense there has to be something more to human life than slavery to the manipulations and whims of what many call The Controllers. Rising like a powerful tide, the collective yearning for clarity, intimacy, community and harmony is the result of 20 years of endless information being spewed out by the Internet. | <urn:uuid:6dfdfd6d-140a-47b4-b1ff-8c034c3797f6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.setyoufreenews.com/2012/09/11/childhoods-end-the-agony-of-our-collective-puberty/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963284 | 1,548 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Scripts for Big Spirit Plays
At Big Spirit we write many short plays that are used in workshops and our monthly QMT showcases.
Here are some samples - you are welcome to use these for your own drama group but please let us know using our contact form.
The setting is a minor public school in the North of England, Denbigh Hall. It is the first day of the new school year. Period: 1975.
The set consists of two beds, which belong to Proctor and Conway. Other settings are played in front of the beds. There are small trunks by each bed.
Script - New Term - Rory Reynolds - PDF Format
A sofa in Rosanna’s front room. On a coffee table – a map. Rosanna and Robby are arguing.
Cols is off in the kitchen, getting the cokes.
Script - Pilgrimage - Rory Reynolds - PDF Format
Three girls lost on the moors and its getting dark, when they investigate some strange voices things take a turn for the worst.
Script - Orienteering Badge - Rory Reynolds - PDF Format
The action takes place during the filming of the musical, Oliver! in 1967. The film was released to great acclaim in 1968 and garnered awards and Oscars for its director Carol Reed (a man), Ron Moody as Fagin and Jack Wild as the Artful Dodger.
It was a massive shoot and Carol Reed took over all the sounds stages at Shepperton Studios and built parts of the set in each one of them. Bloomsbury Square was created almost full size (for the number ‘Who will Buy’) in the studio lot.
Script - On Set - Rory Reynolds - PDF Format
The action takes place in one room, but with two time settings – today and 1948.
Both sets are on stage and it will take the audience time to realise it is one room.
Script - The Room - Rory Reynolds - PDF Format
Puma has come to a derelict house on a mission - to hunt and destroy ghosts. Tommy, his friend, wants to help him. When two girls turn up though it all suddenly becomes much more dangerous...
Hunting Ghosts - Script PDF
Destiny & Jane Higginson
Fifteen year old Jane has spotted her Mr Right - George. The trouble is he's three years older than her, already has a beautiful girlfriend and doesn't know she exists. This isn't how it's meant to be! Luckily Jane has a plan...
http://bigspirittheatre.co.uk/sites/default/files/Destiny and Jane Higginson.pdf">Destiny & Jane Higginson - Script PDF
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A new program in the Netherlands helps you eliminate wasteful spending on clothes. Instead of owning a pair of jeans for life, you can now just keep them for a year before you send them back to be recycled so you can try something new.
Provita, a company staffed entirely by kids under 18, is working on a project to use mosquitoes to help carry important vaccines.
Mixed up in the current spat between China and Japan is an accusation that Chinese pollution is damaging Japan.
StartupBus puts a lot of smart people in a very small space, going very fast down a highway, and asks them to come up with new companies.
Instead of a peer-reviewed publication, the endpoint of this measurement is demand creation: a product that people will want to use.
GoPure is an app that lets you know if the restaurant you’re eating in uses local food, genetically modified ingredients, and even compostable take-out containers. And knowing is half the battle. | <urn:uuid:a50d7287-6cb9-4fb0-895a-888639dbc8d8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fastcoexist.com/02152013-fri | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953226 | 200 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Elephants are the largest land animals.
They can weigh over 6,000
kg, or more than the weight of four cars! The one feature that makes an
elephant unmistakable is its long trunk. A trunk is an elephant's best tool
for sucking up water, digging, grabbing, lifting, sniffing, and breathing.
The trunk even has a fingerlike tip that can flick dirt from an elephant’s
eye or pick up a single blade of grass. There are three species of
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Kinematic and electromyographic analysis of the push movement in tai chi
- Correspondence to: Ms Chan, Department of Sports Science and Physical Education, Kwok Sports Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong;
- Accepted 16 September 2002
Background: Tai chi is a form of exercise derived from the martial art folk traditions of China. The force used in tai chi includes different principles of mechanical advantage. No studies on the kinematic features of tai chi exercise have been published.
Objective: To analyse the kinematics and electromyographic characteristics of tai chi.
Methods: An experienced tai chi master was asked to perform a sequence of basic movements: ward off, roll back, press, and push. The movements were videotaped and digitised using a motion analysis system. Electromyographic activities of the lumbar erector spinae, rectus femoris, medial hamstrings, and medial head of gastrocnemius were recorded by surface electrodes. The push movement data were analysed.
Results: The medial hamstrings and medial head of gastrocnemius muscle groups maintained low activity, with higher electromyographic values in the lumbar erector spinae and substantially higher ones in the rectus femoris during the push movement. Both concentric and eccentric contractions occurred in muscles of the lower limbs, with eccentric contraction occurring mainly in the anti-gravity muscles such as the rectus femoris and the medial head of gastrocnemius. The forward and backward shifts in centre of gravity (CG) were mainly accomplished by increasing and decreasing respectively the joint angles of the bilateral lower limbs rather than by adopting a forward or backward postural lean. The path of the CG in the anteroposterior and mediolateral component was unique, and the sway or deviation from the path was small. The master maintained an upright posture and maintained a low CG (hips, knees, and ankles bent) while travelling slowly and steadily from one position to another.
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Summary: Amyloid inhibitors, a type of Alzheimer’s drug under development, may not be as promising as once thought. A cheap and easy test early in the drug development process should help researchers focus on the most promising compounds. This finding does not apply to the vaccines being developed to clear amyloid.
If you’re one of the millions waiting for Alzheimer’s drugs now under development, you’ll want to know that researchers at the University of California, San Franciso (UCSF) have come to some interesting conclusions about one type of potential treatment. Which do you want first - the good news or the bad?
UCSF researchers Brian Shoichet, Ph. D. (left) and Robert Fletterick, Ph.D
Let’s start with the bad news. It looks like “amyloid inhibitors” may not be as promising as once thought. Some Alzheimer’s researchers are focused on developing these compounds to prevent beta amyloid proteins from clumping together to form the fibrils and plaques thought to be harmful to your brain. But as with other diseases, the trick is to find compounds that will affect only the beta amyloid “target,” without affecting other proteins your body and brain might need.
Research conducted in the lab of Brian Shoichet, a professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at UCSF, suggests that amyloid inhibitors often affect too many other proteins to be safe and effective Alzheimer’s treatments. The results of his work on this topic were published in late January in Nature Chemical Biology online. | <urn:uuid:f048ceb6-7397-49c2-aef7-bacbc7da6427> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.tangledneuron.info/the_tangled_neuron/2008/03/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954054 | 335 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Improving technological efficiency
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Green means go fast — speed-of-light fast — and improving efficiency is as green as it gets. IK Electric is grate to have played a role in moving Arkansas forward for the past 94 years. In the early 1900s, as electricity proliferated in the state, IK dug a lot of holes, set a lot of poles and connected people. Today the disruptive force of the Internet on organizational efficiency means staying connected all of the time. Unique because of its difference, IK Electric is not your average electrical contractor, IT or phone system reseller. IK Electric is a leading provider of end-to-end, turn-key Internet Protocol-based (IP) solutions and the systems that power them.
One of these systems is IP Telephony (IPT) — Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) — and it's coming to a phone near you. The Advanced IP network and electrical power that enable the system can streamline and secure a customer's operations. IPT will super-charge organizations' mobility and communications efficiency and, therefore, speed.
"Power Over Ethernet" (POE) says it all, and IK provides POE systems to the largest law firm, engineering form and investment bank in Arkansas.
Green is built into the solutions that IK provides. VIrtualization technologies, based user-access control, unified threat management, enterprise class routing and switching designs all provide the launch pad for going green. | <urn:uuid:24652c16-3cc8-40cd-9675-d2de0fdad3a0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2012/apr/21/improving-technological-efficiency/?news-green-nwa | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943392 | 308 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Watching: TAKE ONE STEP: Caring for Depression, with Jane Pauley
Chapter 3: Drugs, Therapy, and Giving Support [7:21]
What are the risks of going off drugs? Does talk therapy alone work? Helping others can help lighten the load of depression.
Transcript: Chapter 3 - Drugs, Therapy, and Giving Support
JANE PAULEY: What about the efficacy of talk therapy alone? And it does, you can see that it's having an effect in this young man's life. But talk therapy alone, without medication, is there any way to differentiate between the success rates?
DR. DENNIS CHARNEY: There is evidence for sure that certain forms of talk therapy, like cognitive behavioral therapy and interpersonal psychotherapy, and a couple of others, definitely work, without medicine. So there are lots of patients who are gonna respond very well to talk therapy and will not need medicine.
JANE PAULEY: When you say 'work' we're not just talking about, you know, subjective, "Oh look - he looks like he's-- he's doing great now. It must be working." But you can-- Science now can see that at the brain level, change was accomplished in the course of this cognitive [simultaneous conversation]--
DR. DENNIS CHARNEY: That's true. Because we can now image the brain. There have been studies that have shown that if you compare the brain before talk therapy and after talk therapy, there have been changes in the areas of the brain that seem to involve depression. What's also interesting, though, is that medicine affects the brain too, but in certain other areas. So it may be that for patients with a particularly difficult form of depression, that the combination of talk therapy and medicine is gonna work particularly well. And, you know, that's a common treatment that those of us who see a lot of depressed patients recommend.
JANE PAULEY: Someone told me once that it's the person who is in flaming crisis, you know, whose life is such a mess that it's an emergency, clear to one and all, this person is gonna get help. This is the lucky one because he will get help. In contrast, the person who is suffering a low grade depression, dysthymia, which is what Terrie Williams suffered. Which is just lasts so long, it becomes--- you think it's just you.
DR. ANNELLE PRIMM: Yes. It has many of the same symptoms as depression, but perhaps on a lower level. But it lasts for a long period of time. And you don't see the same sort of episodes that you might see in depression. But still, very much debilitating, having a huge impact on the person's life and their motivation. And I think Terrie really illustrates the fact that getting a diagnosis really relieved her, that, you know, this wasn't something wrong with her, but really an illness that could help explain all that she was going through.
JANE PAULEY: And she has a relationship with Jiwe-- It's a two-way thing that deserves to be isolated and examined. The young man reached out. He reached out for help to a woman he had heard about.
DR. ANNELLE PRIMM: Correct.
JANE PAULEY: He recognized that a stranger could give him important support. And she reached back and helped him. Altruism, which is helping others, is referred to over and over in this documentary. But just on that example, her helping him makes her better. Is that possible?
DR. ANNELLE PRIMM: Yes, that's possible. And we find that very commonly that it really helps to sort of feed and nurture resilience. When you're able to help others, it makes you feel better. And there were other instances in the documentary. I think Philip described the same sort of thing. He started helping others. But that's really akin... I think really all of the people in this documentary, by speaking out publicly about this, are helping others, too, in reaching millions.
JANE PAULEY: But a point I think is worth making is that, you don't need to come out, you know? You don't need to walk into your office one day and say, "I'm in treatment for depression." That's not necessary. But telling one person is more than just kind of liberating. It gets your brain in a new place that says, "I know I have something and I'm working on it." And that is therapeutic?
DR. DENNIS CHARNEY: Well, sure. And also, when you're in, say, a support group, which I find very important for my patients, you're gonna learn things from the other people in the support group. You're gonna not necessarily do everything one individual does, but you'll pick up a clue from one person, then another clue from another individual. They'll tell you how they got out of a particular episode by doing something. So that information is going to help you in the long-run as you face challenges down the road. | <urn:uuid:baa3ce31-317a-40d9-95e3-ef4f44bafd31> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/takeonestep/depression/video-pauley_03_vid.html?bandwidth=_hi&filetype=wmv | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00051-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978081 | 1,068 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Firearm offenses can be either misdemeanors or felonies. The law distinguishes between firearms offenses in which the gun is an essential element in the crime and offenses whereby the firearm is an addition to the crime. Carrying a concealed firearm is an example of a crime in which the gun is an essential part of the crime. If you carry a concealed firearm in any of the 19 states where this is not permitted, you may be found guilty of a misdemeanor offense. A crime committed using a firearm, when the firearm is an addition to the crime, is always treated as a more serious offense than if no firearm was used. Assault, for example, is usually charged as a misdemeanor offense, while assault with a firearm is a felony. Many states require a mandatory three-year prison sentence for any felony committed with the aid of a firearm. In such cases, the prisoner has no opportunity for parole until the minimum three-year sentence has been completed. Because of the increase in gun-related crimes in recent years, many states have now imposed even stricter laws and tougher punishments for any felony in which the use of a firearm is involved. If you're accused of a gun-related offense, contact an attorney. | <urn:uuid:63e57ccf-e4cf-47d6-8b2c-91f46cc24041> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wtvq.com/guides/legal/criminal/story/Firearm-offenses/Y9DqlEH0DU6ekECckNl-Jw.cspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963565 | 242 | 2.296875 | 2 |
The shooting at Perry Hall High School and the gun at Stemmers Run Middle have gotten the attention of parents all across Baltimore County.
Tuesday night they turned out to hear what the new superintendent had to say about keeping their kids safe at school.
“It was frightening. It was frightening,” said Patricia White, whose son attends Woodlawn High. “Academics is of utmost importance, but safety - they go hand in hand.”
Some parents came to hear about disciplinary policies that are aimed at doling out fewer suspensions; they're concerned that could lead to more bullying.
“I think it's going to make a lot of parents unhappy if these things are happening to their kids, and instead of a suspension the kid's going into time-out,” said Larry Sonnenreich, whose daughter attends Arbutus Middle School.
But after the incident at Stemmers Run Middle -- weapons became a primary concern.
County police now say the number of school resource officers will be increased, and those officers will be issued hand-held metal detectors.
“Students being safe at school, arriving at school safe arriving home from school safely, that's the first thing that needs to be met before any learning can take place in our classrooms,” said the school superintendent, Dr. Dallas Dance.
Some parents want to know whether permanent metal detectors should be installed at school entrances.
“I’m not ready to rule it out,” Dr. Dance said. “I'm not ready to say we'll really jump in it. What I will say though is that we need to take a deliberate approach to it. And there have been school systems and schools around the country that have installed metal detectors and have still had incidents to occur.”
The superintendent says he is also developing an office of safety and security for County schools.
Copyright 2012 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Woman whose child care license was revoked sheds light on state's discipline process.
Flip open the dictionary to the word new and you'll see Webster says it means, “Having existed or having been made but a short time."
At first it seemed to be just a house fire in the 5700 block of Highgate Drive in Northwest Baltimore.
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Flood causes hybrid car fires
The destroyed Fiskers. Source: Jalopnik
Luxury hybrid cars worth more than $1.5 million burst into flames after they were submerged in saltwater by Hurricane Sandy.
Jalopnik, a US-based automotive blog, has reported that about 16 Fisker Karma hybrid sedans were submerged in a storm surge before they caught fire and burnt to the ground in Port Newark, New Jersey. The blog speculates that saltwater could have caused a short in the car’s sophisticated electrical systems.
The niche brand has been putting out fires since the car was unveiled in 2008, with the Karma the subject of recalls and controversy.
New Jersey fire caused by Hurricane Sandy destroy 16 luxury hybrid Fiskers. Source: Jalopnik
A Karma erupted into flames in California on August 10 this year when a low-speed cooling fan failed, leading to a recall of the luxury sedans.
It was the second Fisker fire of the year, and occurred after a Karma was involved in a garage fire in Texas on May 3.
The manufacturer recalled 239 cars to realign hose clamps on battery clamps in December 2011, and more than 600 vehicles needed replacement battery packs during a recall in March.
The incident will further damage the reputation of electric-powered vehicles. Last year, General Motors’ Volt electric car was embroiled in controversy after a crash test vehicle caught fire. http://smh.drive.com.au/drive-life/battery-fire-sparks-electric-car-investigation-20111126-1o08h.html
Fisker's premium plug-in hybrid sedans combine luxury with green performance for about $US100,000 but the manufacturer does not plan to sell the Karma in Australia. Drive's Sally Dominguez tested the Karma last year and said it was an enjoyable drive despite sounding something like a 1970s office airconditioner.
The Karma has two 150kw electric motors which can be charged by a 2.0-litre, four-cylinder petrol engine in a similar fashion to Holden's Volt.
Fisker has plans to bring a smaller electric sedan, code-named Project Nina, to the Australian market.
The film-star Leonardo Di Caprio is not only a Fisker driver but has also invested in the company. | <urn:uuid:6271e1a3-ec39-468f-9678-c05570c929b4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://brisbanetimes.drive.com.au/motor-news/flood-causes-hybrid-car-fires-20121031-28jb2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956602 | 490 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Cite as "AILA InfoNet Doc. No. 13021151 (posted Feb. 11, 2013)"
Past immigration reform bills have required "operational control" of the southern border, typically defined as preventing or apprehending all unauthorized entries. Both the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have questioned whether "operational control" is a realistic or meaningful goal. Even the Berlin Wall proved insufficient to prevent hundreds of people from crossing from one side to another.
How will the President and Congress ensure that any enforcement goals are clear and reasonable and that people are not kept waiting an indefinite period of years in limbo status?
The Senate's bi-partisan framework to create a common sense immigration American policy requires that specific conditions "triggers" be met before the 11 million aspiring Americans without papers can obtain green cards and ultimately citizenship. These include:
"Create a tough but fair path to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants currently living in the United States that is contingent upon securing our borders and tracking whether legal immigrants have left the country when required"
"To fulfill the basic governmental function of securing our borders, we will continue the increased efforts of the Border Patrol by providing them with the latest technology, infrastructure, and personnel needed to prevent, detect, and apprehend every unauthorized entrant."
In order for triggers to be effective they must have clear, reachable and objective criteria for determining when they are met. As Senator Rubio commented, the real issues at hand for Senators are 1) how do you define border security, and 2) who's going to certify when that has happened. Moving forward, there needs to be agreement on clear and reasonable enforcement goals.
Even so, the United States has already exceeded many of the enforcement benchmarks and resource allocation levels laid out in previous immigration overhaul efforts, as stated in the AILA report, Border Security: Moving Beyond Past Benchmarks. As immigration reform moves forward in 2013 our nation's leaders must reach agreement on clear and reasonable enforcement goals-American needs a better option than simply increasing spending and resources on enforcement. Any triggers included in a final package must be attainable in a reasonable period of time to ensure people are not kept waiting an indefinite period of years in limbo status. | <urn:uuid:e0cfbc0c-ad48-4cca-9449-12dccfabdd42> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.aila.org/content/default.aspx?textsize=small&bc=25667%7C43223 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922766 | 454 | 1.898438 | 2 |
The high priest's breastpiece (Exod. 28: 17–20) had twelve jewels, or precious stones, three in each row. The foundations of the New Jerusalem are also said to be adorned with twelve jewels (Rev. 21: 19–20). Other types of jewellery were bracelets and ear-rings (Gen. 24: 22) and necklaces (Gen. 41: 42). Some gold and copper pendant items discovered in excavations suggest that before the Exile jewellery which had polytheistic significance was worn. This would explain the denunciations of the prophets (Isa. 3: 18–22; Ezek. 16: 17). | <urn:uuid:47f7c449-e681-4e99-a4f3-41ae70d00b54> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.oxfordbiblicalstudies.com/print/opr/t94/e1004 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957372 | 135 | 2.34375 | 2 |
In His Presence: John 17:17
Satan convinced Eve that he was harmless, not a creature to fear or be wary of. Today, he wants us to believe that we don’t need to fear him and to think that he may not even exist. Second, Satan convinced Eve that God was holding out on her. Satan wants us to focus on our misfortunes.
“The woman said to the serpent, ‘From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, “You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.” ’ The serpent said to the woman, ‘You surely will not die!’ ’’(Genesis 3:2-3). He was saying that God’s word could not be trusted.
Satan discovered that Eve had lost sight of what God actually said. First, she minimized God’s goodness by leaving out the word “freely” in God’s command to Adam. He had said: “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely” (Genesis 2:16). Second, she made God look stricter than He was by saying they could not touch the fruit of the restricted tree. God had not said anything about touching it. Third, she lessened God’s judgment by saying “lest you die.” She was implying an uncertainty. Instead, God had said: “From the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die” (Genesis 2:17).
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When Eve distorted God’s word, she was receptive to Satan’s lie that God’s word could not be trusted. | <urn:uuid:36deb03d-96b4-42d1-98e8-3b420a870972> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.oneplace.com/devotionals/alternative-view-with-dr-tony-evans/alternative-view-may-17-11650449.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979121 | 396 | 2.34375 | 2 |
This was a bit of bad news we found a few weeks ago. It seems there are tidbits of information coming out of The Central Bank. This article seems to be from Feb '04. It discusses the use of an exchange rate of 1500 in their budget for 2004. Please read and comment ...
Price-Waterhouse-Coopers Digest June 2004
"Iraq's Botched Currency Reform," Central Banking 14 (3): 39-45 (February 2004) Steve Hanke and Matt Sekerke (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
"...The 2004 budget prepared by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Planning does not rely on debt issuance or the CBI (Central Bank of Iraq]'s printing presses. But the budget is highly sensitive to the dinar exchange rate. The 2004 budget is prepared on the assumption that the dinar exchange rate will be 1500 to the dollar. . . . This is an extremely important assumption, because most of the government's revenues are in dollars, and most expenditures are in dinars...." | <urn:uuid:e8948479-d68e-4268-b2ce-f11967f9a111> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.investorsiraq.com/showthread.php?69-Central-Bank-Tracking&p=714 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933527 | 212 | 1.796875 | 2 |
One industry group is hoping to educate youngsters on how the technology and devices nearly all of them use actually work, in hopes of inspiring the next generation of IT professionals.
Todd Thibodeaux, CEO of CompTIA, said last week that the trade association is launching a new effort in hopes of filling the gaps that STEM programs in grades 9 through 12 are lacking: a better understanding of how IT works — from smartphones to Facebook.
“We’ve come into a period when use of the product and adoption of the product is the new geek, instead of understanding how the product and components of it work,” Thibodeaux said. “We have this generation of kids who aren’t quite as geeky as the ones who came before them.”
A recent CompTIA survey of 1,002 teens and young adults found that nearly all respondents (97 percent) said they either love or like technology. Many teens also are more than just technology consumers, with 58 percent reporting that they help family members or friends with questions or troubleshooting computers, software and mobile devices.
Still, while most teens have a love affair with technology, most aren’t interested in translating that love into a career, the study found. Only 18 percent of teens and young adults reported a definitive interest in an IT career, while 43 percent identified their interest in an IT career as a “maybe.” Many respondents (47 percent) said they did not know enough about IT occupations, according to the report.
As a result, Thibodeaux said CompTIA will be going to kids in grades 9 through 12 to educate them on the processes that underlie technology, such as how much infrastructure underpins Facebook, how a text message works and how online gaming is developed.
“Teens think they have to be massive science geniuses to work in IT and that there’s no real upward career path mobility,” Thibodeaux said. “All of those things are completely false.” | <urn:uuid:d289ab8f-4730-4f4c-8546-064385f693e4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.onqpi.com/tag/facebook/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956099 | 415 | 2.875 | 3 |
Bloomberg's Big-Town Blues
Rebuilding lower Manhattan so it can robustly resume its role as the financial capital of the world is essential not only to New York but to the entire United States.Skip to next paragraph
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That's why the city's next mayor, Michael Bloomberg, needs more money from Congress - and soon - to recover from the Sept. 11 calamity that was really an attack on the whole country.
Mr. Bloomberg, a billionaire who paid out more than $40 million for his campaign, can use his entrepreneurial skills and knowledge of the financial industry to help the 16-acre World Trade Center site remain an active business site. (See story, page 1.)
But he has more to do. He must act quickly to restore a sense of security in the city while also reviving its economy, which some analysts say may shrink by $100 billion by 2003. The final public costs of recovering from the tragedy may reach $40 billion.
Unlike 1975, when the city went bankrupt and then-President Ford snubbed it, the city now has the compassion of most Americans. And it also has the pride of New Yorkers, who may put civic duty above profit. Bloomberg can tap into that goodwill.
He and New York Gov. George Pataki, both Republicans, can work with President Bush to keep politics out of the funding decisions.
And after the debris is removed from ground zero, top officials must carefully guide the process of choosing an appropriate memorial, one that both honors the victims and inspires the conscience of every visitor to stand vigilant for the freedom and other values that the attack tried to destroy. | <urn:uuid:840e10ac-caf0-4091-a6b3-a7e443057e92> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1108/p10s2-comv.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948053 | 335 | 1.609375 | 2 |
During the winter of 2009-2010 the average temperature for the UK was 1.6 degrees centigrade (°C), making it the coldest recorded winter in the last 30 years. Using winter data from 2005 to 2010, new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental Health demonstrates an inverse relationship between temperature and the number of falls on snow and ice, which result in emergency admission to hospital, and looks at the cost of these falls.
Researchers from the North West Public Health Observatory, based at the Centre of Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, compared data from the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), which record the number of emergency hospital admissions, with weekly average temperature readings from UK's Meteorological Office across England. The results showed that hospital admissions due to falls on snow and ice increased with age, and that men age 85 and over were especially vulnerable, with more than one in 1000 likely to be admitted to hospital due to falls. Of the five winters studied 2009-2010 had the highest number of emergency admissions due to falls on snow and ice, 18 times more than the lowest (2007-2008). In 2009-2010 these admissions cost the health service 42 million GBP.
Comparing the HES regional data to geographically corresponding temperature data it became apparent that as temperature fell there was an exponential increase in the weekly rate of admissions. It also became apparent that when temperatures fell below 1°C the model underestimated the number of falls. Consequently the cost of colder winters could be much higher than predicted.
Dr Caryl Beynon said, "The total cost of these accidents to the health services is like to be much higher than reported here. This is because the calculation does not include patients who went to hospital but were not admitted, nor patients who went to their GP or pharmacist, or visited a 'walk-in' centre. It also does not address the long-term costs of rehabilitation or recuperation in a nursing home. With responsibility for health improvement moving to local councils, they will have to balance the cost of winter public health measures, like gritting, with the healthcare costs associated with falls."
Notes to Editors
1. The cost of emergency hospital admissions for falls on snow and ice in England during winter 2009/10: a cross sectional analysis
Caryl Beynon, Sacha Wyke, Ian Jarman, Mark Robinson, Jenny Mason, Karen Murphy, Mark A Bellis and Clare Perkins
Environmental Health (in press)
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4. The North West Public Health Observatory (NWPHO) (www.nwpho.org.uk) provides information and intelligence on the health of the population of the North West region and is based at the Centre for Public Health (www.cph.org.uk), Liverpool John Moores University. The NWPHO also leads nationally on alcohol, drug misuse, violence prevention and dental health intelligence.
5. The Centre for Public Health based at Liverpool John Moores University, is a vibrant research and intelligence unit working with a range of partners and stakeholders at a local, national and international level, providing innovative, integrated and dynamic approaches to public health information to help improve wellbeing and reducing health inequalities. To find out more visit www.cph.org.uk
6. For further information please contact: Caroline Hilliard, Communications Officer, Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University 0151 231 4535 firstname.lastname@example.org
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Workshops and Events
For the newest organic workshops and fresh vegan and raw/living food classes, click the green tab.
You'll find other speaking and presenting appearances you can come along to behind the red tab.
My range of workshops and events for adults and children will help you to...
learn how to grow a gorgeous organic garden, brimming with fresh vegetables, fruit and herbs
solve tricky garden issues like pests and diseases using sustainable organic methods
have help to work out what to plant when
teach your children to garden
save money and grow your own subtropical fruit trees
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eat the best vegetarian and raw food straight from your garden
You’ll have fun getting your hands into the soil and become more confident in growing your edible garden.
Learn from a passionate horticultural professional with 3 decades of practical expertise and the qualifications. I’ve had thousands of gardeners, young and old, new and experienced join my workshops over the years. I know you won’t be disappointed.
These workshops may bring about positive feelings of satisfaction and vitality that come from creating a healthy edible garden, connecting with nature and sharing your healthy produce with family and friends.
Book in for my next workshops or garden event and experience the joy of growing your own.
To book in call Linda on 07 3349 2962 or click here to email
Angela here. My daughter, Margot, and I attended your wonderful workshop at the Ipswich Art Gallery over the last school holidays. We had such a great time, I've told so many people about it. We just noticed our seeds (lemon myrtle and cinnamon basil) have sprouted the last few days.
This is our first newsletter from you - it's perfect timing - just this afternoon we laid out another vege garden with plans to go to the markets tomorrow to get many of the things you've listed as ideal to grow now.
I also have to tell you Margot loves to pick lavender out of our garden and use it - mostly in salad dressings. This week I copied the Lavender and Almond meal cookies off your web site and we made them - YUM!! I'm SO glad to have another use for the lavender besides salad dressing!! Many thanks, Angela"
"I attended the summer vegies workshops. I thoroughly enjoyed all aspects of the course but thought the hands on experience was of greatest benefit. The home made morning tea provided by Linda was also sensational! Since finishing the course I have planted a range of new seeds in my patch and for the first time ever the seeds are actually developing into beautiful little veggie plants. Can't wait for the produce to follow! I highly recommend Linda's veggie courses- do one- you won't regret it ! David L"
"Linda made me feel I could achieve anything and gave me the confidence to do it! " Anthony.
"I am so pleased I did that course ... everything fell into place. Thank-you so much for a wonderful & fun course. I have learnt so much that I can use for myself & share with my friends & family too. It's such a comprehensive course over 3 weeks & I couldn't wait to see what we were going to learn each week.... I'd come home & try it in my own garden !
The seed gathering was fascinating & so practical we can all do it....... not to mention the "home grown" & home cooked morning teas by Linda herself. It's great to have such a passionate & knowledgeable person as you are Linda so we can 'talk to the worms' & make them happy in our garden too!! Thanks again! Love Kim xxxx" | <urn:uuid:9ff4b625-f2d4-4d86-add8-66c52cf60976> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ecobotanica.com.au/Workshops-pg11057.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960513 | 783 | 1.992188 | 2 |
2011 has been a big year for solar projects at the Albuquerque Sunport. Two projects have been completed this year and a third is currently underway.
First, a 2nd Photovoltaic (PV) project, located on the Sunport Parking Structure 4th level canopies and largely funded by a federal Voluntary Airport Low Emissions (VALE) grant, was completed May 2011. This latest PV system has added an additional 440 kW and 2,016 panels to the existing 146 kW 480 panel system now covering the eight western-most canopies of the parking structure. The PV system provides electric power to the structure during the daylight hours significantly reducing electric consumption and billing costs. The excess power is used in the terminal building.
Also completed in January of this year, is a 24 panel 10kW ground-mounted Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV) Tracking system. Located at the east end of the Long-term parking lot are 2 12 panel 5kW tracking modules that follow the sun throughout the day maximizing solar collection. CPVs work by concentrating light with lenses, similar to a magnifying glass, onto a solar cell receiver to maximize its efficiency. The CPV system’s primary function is to provide power for recharging the Parking Division’s electric vehicle. However, it also supplies the Landside Operations (Parking) office with electricity helping reduce energy costs and consumption.
Maintenance technicians have also completed the Photovoltaic Academy offered by CNM Workforce Training Center. Electricians will now be able to obtain a NABCEP licensee (North American Board of Certified Energy Practioners) a nationally recognized standard. This training complements our solar array & solar chiller installations.
Currently, the Sunport has been awarded another VALE grant and has a third PV project underway to add an additional 411 kW PV system on the 5 remaining canopies of the Parking Structure. Completion of this project is expected in late 2011. Also, there are 2 solar collectors installed on a canopy at the Rental Car Facility for use in the chiller and boiler system. These high power mirrors track the sun and heat water in the piping system in front of the mirrors. The heated water is fed into a newly installed chiller for cooling in the summer and supplements the existing boiler for heating in the winter.
Here is a link provided by Consolidated Solar Tech., LLC to the monitoring interface for the Sunport system. | <urn:uuid:e9a60b16-3c1c-4cfd-9df3-4ce1104ab183> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cabq.gov/airport/about-the-sunport/sustainability-at-sunport/photo-voltaic-panels-at-sunport | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943014 | 500 | 1.609375 | 2 |
(RAHEB HOMAVANDI, REUTERS)
LONDON (Reuters) - Iran's state finances have come under unprecedented pressure and the resilience of ordinary people is being tested by soaring inflation as oil income plummets due to tightening Western sanctions and sharply falling oil prices.
Tough financial measures imposed by Washington and Brussels have made it ever more difficult to pay for and ship oil from Iran. Its oil output has sunk to the lowest in 20 years, cutting revenue that is vital to fund a sprawling state apparatus.
Already down by more than a quarter, or about 600,000 barrels per day, from rates of 2.2 million bpd last year, shipments of crude oil from Iran are expected to drop further when a European Union oil embargo takes effect on July 1.
Tehran is already estimated to have lost more than $10 billion in oil revenues this year.
Causing even more pain, oil prices fell below $100 a barrel last week to a 16-month low amid a darkening outlook for economies in Europe, the United States and China.
"This is an act of economic warfare. The sanctions are having a big effect in cumulative terms: Iran is being locked out of the global financial system," said Mehdi Varzi, a former official at the National Iranian Oil Co.
"It does appear that Iran is more amenable to negotiations now than it was a year ago. The West should take advantage of this momentary situation to offer more meaningful concessions - a road map to where this will all end," said Varzi, now running an energy consultancy in Britain, Varzi Energy.
Diplomats and analysts say Iran may offer the IAEA, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, increased cooperation as a bargaining chip in its negotiations with world powers, which resumed in April after a 15-month hiatus and are to continue in Moscow on June 18-19.
Basic mathematics dictate that the lower Iran's oil exports, the higher the oil price it will need to stay in the black.
According to the International Monetary Fund, Iran needs oil at $117 a barrel to balance its budget, set at $462 billion. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said the budget was designed to decrease Iran's dependence on oil revenues.
Senior Iranian oil officials have acknowledged that sanctions have reduced exports but say the country has long experience of finding ways around them and a drop in oil revenue is not the end of the world.
"Personally, I will be very happy if the dependence of the economy on oil revenue is decreased," said an Iranian oil official, who requested anonymity. "We can use the sanctions as an opportunity".
STRUCK BY SOARING PRICES
International sanctions have been a fact of life in Iran for decades and Tehran is adept at working round them.
But there are growing signs that ordinary people are feeling much more pain from them than in the past as inflation has soared in the last six months.
"I was struck by the high prices when I went to the grocery store yesterday," said Ahmad, 54, who owns a small fabric shop in Tehran's bazaar.
He said the price of apples had more than doubled in the past month and strawberries had almost tripled to 110,000 rials per kilo, or more than $6 at market rates.
"Little by little, even fruit is becoming a luxury."
Inflation is now officially running at about 20 percent, although economists say prices of the goods most Iranians worry about are rising much faster.
The country is undergoing what the government has called major economic surgery, in the form of cuts to the multi-billion dollar subsidies which for years have held down the price of essential goods such as fuel and food.
The value of the rial began to slip in January and traded at around 20,000 rials per dollar in February, up from 10,500 rials in December. It now stands at around 17,800 rials at market rates while the official rate is 12,260 rials to dollar.
The price of petrol on the domestic market remains stable but taxi and public transport fares have gone up.
Sanctions are also painfully reshaping flows of goods for small enterprises, with one owner of an import company in Tehran saying he was forced to fire some workers recently after being forced to source his purchases from China instead of Europe.
"The shift caused a great deal of financial loss for us. I am not sure how much longer we can go on like this. We certainly will not be able to cope if financial sanctions on Iran intensify," the entrepreneur, who asked not be named, said.
On the export front, several big European companies have halted purchases of Iranian oil and others are winding down.
Iran had hoped that energy-hungry China and India, both major customers, would mop up much of the oil left homeless by European clients. That may not be the case.
"Our impression is that China and India have not been as helpful as the Iranians expected," said a senior Western oil executive, who declined to be identified.
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David Bowles of Writing the Westward Sagas tagged me and four others to participate in a Life Balance Meme. The instructions are:
Answer any or all of the following questions or simply share your thoughts about life balance.
How do you achieve balance in your life?
What is your biggest challenge in balancing your life?
What are your priorities?
How have your priorities changed over time and why?
What advice can you share to help all of us balance our own lives?
I've had to put some extra time in thought before writing this post. My first reaction was that I was the last person that ought to be writing about life balance. After all, I am a genealogist by avocation, and spend far too much time thinking, reading, blogging, and researching each day about genealogy (ask my family!). I tend to have a lot of irons in the fire (I think in my case I have many fires, each with too many irons), and life more than occasionally overwhelms me with its demands on me as a wife, mother, homemaker, employee, volunteer, and genealogist.
The more I've thought about it, however, the more I've realized that my sometimes harried life really does have its own sense of balance. I have chosen to follow my passion, that of telling my ancestors' stories and helping others to do the same. So my priorities have fallen into place.
In my primary job, I work with mentally and physically disabled students. One of the things they're being taught in Health and Fitness (P.E.) is juggling. In this activity, we juggle first with scarves, then with juggle balls (actually small, cube-shaped beanbags). Some of our students are learning how to throw with one hand and catch with the other. Some have moved to throwing two balls simultaneously, criss-crossing them mid-air, and catching them with the opposite hand that threw them. The more advanced students have begun to juggle with three balls. I'm learning along with them, and right now, I can juggle three balls for about five tosses before I lose track and they either all fall down, or I catch them in desperation and out of sequence. I've started to realize that juggling requires more than quick reflexes and visual tracking. It's more of an intuitive process. If I try to keep track of each ball with my eyes so that my hands can follow through, I end up fumbling. However, if I find a rhythm and simply "go with the flow,' I increase the length of my juggling act a little longer.
In the same way, if I focus too much on the details in my daily life, it gets overwhelming (especially since I'm a perfectionist!). I have had to learn, time and time again, to simply find my rhythm and go with the flow; not "sweat the small stuff," but look at the big picture. It isn't easy; I have to remind myself every day; sometimes several times a day. I'm not a patient person, least of all with myself. But I have found that life balances out well when I simply pick up and try again, and leave the perfectionism and detail-obsession for when I'm doing my genealogy, where it really matters!
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I have two programs that I want to start. One followed by the other. Each program that is started will have it's own extensions to it. The first program is a 3D voice client. The second is a game executable. For the voice client (Mumble), I would like to add the following to the .exe so that it connects it to a specific server upon running. The game (Project Reality, a mod for BF2)executable will run and will log in the player with their username and password that is inputted (is that a word?) by the user.
We figured it out in batch, but it is different for each operating system and not every person have their mumble and game installed onto drive C.
!WARNING! THIS IS BATCH.
@echo off start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\PR Mumble\pr_mumble.exe" mumble://YOURNICK@mumble.realitymod.com:64739/?version=1.2.0 -m "E:\Games\BF2\mods\pr\pr.exe" +restart +playerName YOURLOGIN +playerPassword YOURPASS taskkill /IM pr_mumble.exe /F exit
The code isn't mine. Someone else who is working with my wrote it, so that's why it's in batch.
So, here is the timeline I am trying to create:
1. Run Project_Reality+Mumble.exe
2. Ask user for username and password
3. Pass username and password into the Project Reality as YOURLOGIN and YOURPASS
4. Since the Mumble extension is fine as stated above, nothing needs to happen before it runs
5. Run Project_Reality.exe
But there are some catches. Since not everyone is using Windows 7 64 bit and has Project Reality and Mumble installed in their Program Files (x86) folder, the code has to be flexible. Either it has to
1. Detect where Mumble and Project Reality are installed..normal program files, x86, on Z drive, or ? drive
2. Ask the user to point the Project_Reality+Mumble.exe to both the Project Reality and Mumble .exe's
I'm not sure how it could detect where both programs are installed, but I believe that asking the user where they are would be the easiest, as you could just pass the values of the directories above the executables into the PR+Mumble.exe.
The only reason why I care at all about doing this is to save our gaming community. Most of the hardcore Project Reality players use this Mumble program which makes the gaming experience absolutely amazing and immerse by providing a 3D voice client on the battlefield. I can hear people on my left on my left side of my headphones and people farther away get quieter. It makes communication extremely easy and liquid. But if we get the people that don't use mumble to basically be forced to use it in our next release, we figure that we'll have a lot more people stick with the mod.
Give me some advice. If it isn't possible in C++, is there another language I could use?
But if you guys are interested in the mod, please feel free to visit www.realitymod.com and sign up for an account. BF2 is only $10 in the United States and your computer needn't be that good! Personally, this is the best gaming experience I have ever had, as the mod focuses entirely on teamwork and enforces reality. Some of our servers run with over 180 players on one map. Map sizes can be anywhere from 1 km x 1 km to 4 km x 4 km. The mod has been in development since 2005.
I'll link you guys some awesome gameplay videos also.
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DR. RENEE RICHARDS
It turns out the sports world’s first ever transgender professional athlete is a giant hypocrite.
Tennis player Richard Raskin stunned the sports world in the 1970′s when he underwent a sex change operation and decided to compete on the WOMENS professional tennis tour. The newly christened Renee Richards went to court in New York and sued for the right to play tennis as a woman. She won.
Now, some 32 years later, Richards has done an interview with Gregg Doyel of CBSsports.com where she says female track star Caster Semenya should be barred from international competition because she “is too mannish.”
That’s some serious hypocrisy. Worse, Richards is actually a doctor. Her contention is if Semenya was ”fueled by” abnormally high levels of testosterone (even if she was born with them) this gives her an unfair advantage over other female runners:
“You’re going to develop a skeleton and a muscle mass and a type of muscle that is different from that of a normal woman.”
Geeze, kind of like if she was BORN A MAN.
Nevertheless, Richards concludes that Semenya should be banned.
Renee Richards may not have been much of a tennis player, but this puts her in the Hall of Fame of hypocrisy. | <urn:uuid:7278872d-c7fe-453b-b357-9dccb8296b72> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://graneyandthepig.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/renee-richards-is-a-transgender-douchebag/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948732 | 291 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Performing a Google-based search on your touchscreen mobile device could soon get a lot easier. Like "draw a G and circle the text in question" sort of easy.
According to patents posted online today, Google has developed, and been granted patent protection for, a search function similar to the scribblings performed on an old Palm handheld. Users will simply draw a lowercase G on their touchscreen that tails into a circle encompassing the search term—essentially you're writing "go" with the O surrounding what you want found.
And if you don't want to use Google search but rather query Wikipedia or another site directly, a user can substitute the G for an S to pop a contextual menu with available search engines.
Given the fact that I just recently—like two days ago—mastered cutting and pasting on my mobile, the prospect for searching without leaving the current page or even interacting with the text itself is a very promising one. I can't wait for this to get integrated into an upcoming version of Chrome for Android. [Patently Apple] | <urn:uuid:18e80106-55ea-4429-8f1a-448f6efa62f5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gizmodo.com/5888201/google-patents-swipe-searching | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926221 | 217 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Either from the name of the shrub, which is from Old English word holen, or could have developed from the word holy.
Holly is a flowering plant traditionally used at Christmas to decorate the house.
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Hackers hit 112 Indian gov sites in three months
Pakistan suspected of cross-border cyber mischief
There was embarrassing news for the Indian government this week as one of its ministers was forced to admit that over 100 of its web sites had been hacked in just three months at the beginning of the year, including that of a state-owned telecoms company.
Minister for communications and IT, Sachin Pilot, revealed in a written reply in parliament that a total of 112 sites had been compromised from December 2011 to February 2012, Indian news service IANS reported .
Many of the sites hacked appeared to be those of government agencies in various regions of the sprawling country including Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Kerala, the report continued.
Also singled out was state-run telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), which was hacked and defaced in December allegedly by hackers belonging to the ‘H4tr!ck’ group.
BSNL in particular came under attack from Pakistani hackers several times last year, most notably from a group calling themselves the Pakistan Cyber Army, and many of the hacks of government sites mentioned by Pilot could be blamed on mischief makers from India’s fierce rival across the border.
According to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team , there were 834 defacements of .in web sites in India during January this year, with the figure rising to 1,425 for all sites.
The authorities certainly don’t seem to be getting any better at deflecting such attacks given that around the same number of government sites – 117 – were attacked in the entire first half of 2011, according to an official release .
This would seem to indicate that basic security measures are still not been taken at the back end to bolster defences against common attack methods including cross-site scripting and SQL injection.
It’s not just the public sector that has been found wanting though, with Microsoft India’s online store still offline after being targeted by alleged Chinese hackers.
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To ensure that HIV prevention community planning is accomplished in a participatory manner, CDC requires that all CPGs address the principles of HIV prevention community planning as stated in its supplemental Guidance for HIV Prevention Community Planning. The first of the fifteen principles recommended by CDC states the following:
HIV prevention community planning reflects an open, candid, and participatory process in which differences in cultural and ethnic background, perspectives, and experiences are essential and valued.
Participatory planning for HIV prevention is designed to secure a broad range of perspectives, build consensus, and mobilize resources to make decisions about HIV prevention programs. The participation of Latinos in HIV Prevention Community Planning is crucial to identifying effective prevention interventions for Latinos. Given this reality, Latino communities must take three crucial steps in becoming part of territorial, local, state, and federal responses to HIV transmission.
The first step is to provide more local expertise to support prevention programs that consider the special characteristics, needs and preferences of the communities these programs are designed to reach. The second step is to assist in the development sign of Comprehensive HIV Prevention Plans, which require multifaceted input from communities affected by HIV, including those experiencing disproportionate rates of infection and those at disproportionate risk. The third step is to change behavioral norms. The strategy of changing risk-taking behaviors is more likely to be successful if people are involved in the initiation and promotion of safer behaviors.
How Latino communities can participate in
HIV prevention planning:
- Provide local expertise to support
prevention programs that consider the
special characteristics, needs, and
preferences of the communities these
programs are designed to reach.
- Assist in the development of
Comprehensive HIV Prevention Plans,
which require multifaceted input from
communities affected by HIV;
including those experiencing
disproportionate rates of infection, as
well as those at disproportionate risk.
- Change behavioral norms.
Participatory planning for HIV prevention requires both balance and integration of perspectives such as epidemiologic information, programmatic experience, and perspectives from affected communities, including Latinos. HIV prevention programs developed without this collaboration are unlikely to be successful in preventing the transmission of HIV infection or in garnering the necessary public support for effective implementation. Latinos at risk for HIV infection and living with HIV/AIDS should play a key role in identifying prevention needs not adequately being met by existing programs and planning for needed services that are culturally appropriate (CDC, 1998).
A CPG can be carefully constituted in terms of membership, but if Latinos at risk for HIV infection and Latinos living with HIV/AIDS do not have parity, inclusion, and representation (PIR) and participate actively and fully – attend, speak, listen, and are heard – then being “balanced on paper” will have little impact in the HIV Prevention Community Planning process (NCLR, 1994). Some CPGs have found it difficult to recruit such individuals – or to retain them once selected – because they may not find the planning group a comfortable environment.
It is imperative that CPGs demonstrate to Latinos that their involvement will make a difference. If, for example, a Latino member is encouraged to provide the unique perspective of his/her population, and shown that others will listen to what is said, then participation will appear important. If, on the other hand, it appears that membership will be largely passive or reactive, then participation will not seem worthwhile. Current CPG members can be important in dispelling these concerns for potential Latino members. Latinos are likely to consider CPG participation worthwhile if they believe it will lead to a better understanding of their community’s needs, and, ultimately, to an equitable response to Latino needs within the HIV prevention system. However, when Latino members believe that priorities have already been set, or that the overall CPG will not be sensitive to the needs of their communities, they may conclude that participation is not worthwhile.
The community planning process can provide opportunities for personal and professional growth, including: training and practical experience through testifying, chairing a committee, facilitating a meeting, public speaking, conducting media relations, performing research and analysis, and developing materials. It can also provide an environment in which prevention can be discussed openly. Community planning facilitates access to information and facts, which in turn may be widely disseminated to local Latino communities. The inclusion of Latino members may increase the likelihood that the HIV/AIDS-related information will be provided in a culturally- and linguistically-appropriate manner.
|Often those who most need
to be heard [in the
process] are those least
likely to participate.
Often those who most need to be heard are those least likely to participate. Examples of such unheard voices may include persons with limited experience of working in large forums, persons already infected with HIV, and persons from culturally different backgrounds. The first of many challenges for the CPG is to understand these differences. The second challenge is to integrate Latinos into the group. Despite the best of intentions, diversity can create stumbling blocks for a CPG in three key areas:
- Process – Latinos may think about and act upon projects and tasks differently. There may be marked differences in decision-making styles, timeframes, and methods for planning and acting.
- Language – in addition to the potential of Spanish being a first or second language, various Latino subgroups communicate with each other in different, unique ways, using particular words and figures of speech to express themselves.
- Etiquette – Latinos have certain norms for acceptable and unacceptable behavior, particularly when conflicts arise. These may differ from the norms of other members of a CPG.
Latino members, like members of other ethnic/racial minority communities, may lack prior experience and therefore, may not initially have the capacity to participate fully in the planning process. As such, the planning effort, to fully benefit from the community’s involvement, should undertake efforts such as group training members in decision-making and should make provisions to allow for active participation. Attention to parity and an orientation to community planning will result in Latino members having the capacity to participate fully, thus providing a balanced and accurate reflection of community HIV prevention needs.
Membership in the CPG can provide other benefits. Certainly, one of the most valuable benefits of planning group involvement is the opportunity to learn more about the local community and networks with dedicated colleagues. While the process can be difficult, the information and understanding gained should prove useful for everyone involved. Keeping this in mind can help make the challenges worth overcoming.
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Document Type Master's Dissertation Author Van Heerden, Esti URN etd-03082006-141754 Document Title The caring relationship: a qualitative study of the interaction between childless married couples and their dogs Degree M (Research Psychology) Department Psychology Supervisor
Advisor Name Title Prof J B Schoeman Keywords
- human-animal interaction
- social constructionism
- need fulfilment
Date 2005-05-08 Availability unrestricted AbstractThis qualitative study explores the relationship between a childless married couple and their dog by looking at this phenomenon through a social constructionistic viewpoint. Human animal interaction has been studied in various different research scenarios, where this interaction was seen as enhancing health or well being in both the human and animal.
This study focused on a more “human” role that an animal could play in the lives of people by becoming a family member and how this role affects the family as a whole. The research was conducted to determine whether a childless married couple could experience a fulfilling caring relationship with a dog within this formed family unit.
Four elements that are commonly found in a caring relationship were identified and looked at as to whether they can also be found in the relationship that develops between a childless married couple and their dog. The four elements, love, attachment, need fulfilment and ritualisation also formed the broad predetermined themes investigated in this study. The participants were requested to complete an open-ended questionnaire in which the questions explored the relationship between the married couple and their dog. The data received from these questionnaires was then analysed through content analysis by using the predetermined themes as a framework but also allowing further themes and sub themes to develop from the research data.
The participants indicated that they experienced the fulfilment of various needs in the relationship they have with their dog. This need fulfilment included the need for a family, the need for companionship, the need to be needed and the need for gratitude. Ritualisation occurred in the form of disciplinary methods and various set activities like fixed eating, sleeping and grooming times.
The participants viewed their relationship with their dog as one that is formed out of mutual love and attachment. The feeling of love was expressed through companionship, trust and physical contact as well as the use of nicknames for their dog and by showing pride in their dog.
A strong attachment also existed between the participants and their dogs. This attachment could be seen in the participants’ holiday arrangements that were usually made to accommodate the dog as well as the fact that they missed their dogs and believed their dogs to have also missed them when they were separated. They could become so attached to each other that they might experience separation anxiety and grief at the loss or the thought of losing their dogs.
The four elements of caring were thus found in the relationship between a childless married couple and their dog. The existence of these elements suggests that a caring relationship can be formed between a childless married couple and their dog. This caring relationship can have positive emotional and physical influences on both the people and their dogs.
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NO CHILD'S BEHIND LEFT
The State of the Union's New Educational Eugenics
by Greg Palast
Go ahead, George, and lie to me. Lie to my dog. Lie to my sister. But don't you ever lie to my kids.
Deep into your State of the Siege lecture tonight, long after sensible adults had turned off the tube or kicked in the screen, you came after our children. "By passing the No Child Left Behind Act," you said, "We are regularly testing every child ... and making sure they have better options when schools are not performing."
You said it ... and then that little tongue came out; that weird way you stick your tongue out between your lips like the little kid who knows he's fibbing. Like a snake licking a rat. I saw that snakey tongue dart out and I thought, "He knows."
And what you know, Mr. Bush, is this: you've ordered this testing to hunt down, identify and target for destruction the hopes of millions of children you find too expensive, too heavy a burden, to educate.
Here's how No Child Left Behind and your tests work in the classrooms of Houston and Chicago. Millions of 8 year olds are given lists of words and phrases. They are graded, like USDA beef: some prime, some OK, many failed.
Once the kids are stamped and sorted, the parents of the marked children ask for you to fill your tantalizing promise, to "make sure they have better options when schools are not performing."
But there is no "better option," is there, Mr. Bush? Where's the money for the better schools to take in the kids getting crushed in cash-poor districts? Where's the open door to the suburban campuses with the big green lawns for the dark kids with the test-score mark of Cain.
And if I bring up the race of the kids with the low score, don't get all snippy with me, telling me your program is color blind. We know the color of the kids left behind; and it's not the color of the kids you went to school with at Philips Andover Academy.
You know and I know that the testing is a con. There is no "better option" at the other end. The cash went to the end the inheritance tax, that special program to give every millionaire's son another million.
But you'll tell me, you took tests as a youth. I know you did. And you scored on the Air Guard flight test 25 out of 100, one point above too dumb to fly. But you zoomed past the other would-be flyboys. They were stamped, "Ready for 'Nam." And you took a test to get into Yale. And though your pet rock scored a wee bit higher than you, your grandpa on the Yale board provided the "better option" which got you in.
Here in New York City, your educational Taliban, led by Republican Mayor Bloomberg, had issued an edict to test the third-graders. Winnow out the chaff and throw them back, exactly where they started, to repeat the same failed program another year. In other words, the core edict of No Child
Left Behind is that failing children will be left behind another year. And another year and another year.
You know and I know that this is not an educational opportunity program - because you offer no opportunities, no hope, no plan, no funding. Rather, it is the new Republican social Darwinism, educational eugenics:
Identify the nation's loser-class early on. Trap them, then train them cheap. The system will provide the new worker drones that will clean the toilets at the Yale alumni club, to punch the McDonald's cash registers color-coded for illiterates, to pamper the winner-class on the higher floors of the new service economy order.
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While it is more or less clear with graphics cards, many users want to know what power supply they need in order to build a RAID array. To answer this question I took the same configuration as in the previous section and added three Western Digital Raptor WD740GD hard disk drives. These are not very new and not very economical of HDDs. They were connected to the chipset’s controller and united into a RAID0.
- Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ (2.60GHz)
- CPU cooler: TITAN DC-K8M925B/R
- GlacialTech SilentBlade II GT9225-HDLA1
- ASUS M3A78 (AMD 770 chipset)
- System memory: 2x1GB Samsung (PC6400, 800MHz, CL6)
- Hard disk drive: 250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250410AS
- Graphics card: 512MB Sapphire Radeon HD 4650
- Optical drive: DVD±RW Optiarc AD-7201S
- System case: IN-WIN EAR-003 (400W)
- Hard driives: 3 x 74GB Western Digital Raptor WD740GD
I installed Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 (32-bit) and necessary drivers on the PC.
The disk subsystem was loaded by means of a special program of our own writing. We had written it a few months previously for quite different purposes.
FC-Verify can create and read a specific file set in two independent threads. Thus, at any given moment, there is one read thread and one write thread, which is quite a serious load on the disk subsystem. The files are accessed using Windows API; file caching is disabled; the data block size is 64KB. Besides, the program verifies if the files are read and written correctly, but that’s irrelevant for my purpose. There is a 10-second pause between writing and reading in each thread. The files are deleted after each write-read cycle, and the cycle is repeated from the beginning.
I made the program process a thousand 256KB files in one thread and a hundred 10MB files in the other thread as you can see in the screenshot. The computer’s power consumption was being measured continuously through a few write-read cycles.
But first goes the system boot-up stage with one disk only: the system disk is working while the Raptors are as yet turned off. The diagram does not show anything exceptional besides the longer time it took to enable the CPU’s power-saving technologies. This was because the chipset’s RAID controller took a long thought over the identified system disk and the turned-off array.
This is the same load but the RAID0 array out of three Raptor WD740GD disks is turned on. The most interesting thing is the tall peak at the beginning of the graph that corresponds to the HDDs’ spinning up their platters. The total consumption from the +12V rail (CPU, mainboard and drives) is over 11A then.
It is the +5V rail that is loaded the most here. Clearly, this is due to the HDDs’ electronics as well as to the chipset’s South Bridge the integrated RAID controller resides in.
It is also interesting that the +5V rail is under the biggest load with the RAID array, too. This can be explained, though. A movement of a disk’s head provokes a short spike of current on the +12V rail, but these spikes do not affect the resulting graph much because the array’s three HDDs do not move their heads in sync. Anyway, the diagram shows this in a clearer way.
Somewhat surprisingly, the hardest moment for a file server is when the spindles of all the HDDs are spinning up simultaneously. In the process of normal operation the HDDs’ electronics load the +5V rail considerably while the +12V consumption is rather low.
Thus, a typical 300W power supply is quite enough for powering a 3-disk RAID array with rather voracious HDDs. Such a PSU will easily start the system up and will ensure a threefold reserve of power at work.
I can also note that each fast HDD requires an additional 3.5A on the +12V rail at startup. For large disk arrays based on Raptor-like HDDs it would be good to have a smart RAID controller that can turn HDDs on one by one when the system is started up. | <urn:uuid:031dbd4f-7e3f-4345-8f7b-3d01d1fa26cd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cases/display/system-wattage_5.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943916 | 942 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Dina Manfredini, who became the world's oldest woman two weeks ago and lived in parts of three centuries, has died. She was 115 and lived at Bishop Drumm Care Center in Johnston.
Manfredini became the oldest known person on the planet after Monroe, GA Patch reported the family of the world's oldest woman, Besse Cooper of Monroe, confirmed she died Dec. 4.
Manfredini was a working woman much of her life, surviving World War I in Europe before moving to the United States and helping with the effort to win World War II.
Jiroemon Kimura of Japan is now the oldest person in the world. He is 115 years and 239 days old.
KCCI News Channel 8 reported that Manfredini died early Monday morning.
This spring, Manfredini's family threw a birthday party in her honor at the Bishop Drumm Retirement Center in Johnston.
Manfredini, who was born on April 4, 1897, in Italy, was health and strong well into her 100s, according to an August 2011 article by the Diocese of Des Moines.
She saw a lot.
After living through World War I in Europe, she moved to the United States in 1920.
She went to work in the 1940s at a plant in Ankeny to support her family throughout World War II and the Great Depression.
She moved to Des Moines to be with her husband, Riccardo Manfredini, who died in 1965, according to the Diocese's article.
The couple raised four children.
From the Diocese article:
Dina’s husband worked in the city’s coal mines until hurting his back. Then she went to work to make ends meet. As the nation prepared for World War II, Dina worked at the Des Moines Ordnance Plant in Ankeny, where 2 million rounds of ammunition were produced a day. She also worked at Swift cracking eggs that would be turned into powdered eggs for U.S. soldiers. She also cleaned houses until she was 90, lying about her age so people wouldn’t think she was too old to work.
In 1939, Dina and her husband bought a little bungalow on 1st Street in Valley Junction. Riccardo died in 1965 and Dina continued to live there until moving into the Martina Place Assisted Living Residence at the Bishop Drumm Retirement Center in Johnston about four years ago when she was 110. These days, she spends much of her day sleeping.
According to the 2010 U.S. Census, Iowa had 793 residents over the age of 100, including Manfredini.
In the 2010 Census there were 53,365 centenarians, people 100 and older, living in the United States.
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Loy Krathong Festival
While not an official public holiday, the Loy Krathong Festival is well known as one of the most popular and romantic festivals in the Phuket calendar.
The romantic festival always occurs on the night of the years 12th full moon, which this year will occur on the 21st of November.
The festival is held to pay homage to Mae Nam, popularly known as the goddess of waterways and rivers, and has been celebrated for no less than 700 years in Phuket. During the festival, elaborately decorated (usually with candles, flowers and incense) kratongs are sent floating down the rivers and waterways in the whole of Thailand. The word kratong means a vessel, usually made out of banana leaf, which can hold items such as food, flowers and other offerings to the goddess, while loy literally translates as to float hence the practice outlined above.
While the event is celebrated across the whole of Thailand, it is traditional in Phuket to hold a special evening to allow tourists to take part in what has become a renowned magical and romantic evening, encouraging them to set their own little kratongs floating off onto the sea, taking, as the legend would have it, their own bad luck with it.
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HOBOKEN – Among the buzz about Patrick Ricciardi, the suspended City Hall information technology director who was recently arrested by the FBI, observers have noted that he was one of only five city workers in 2009 to get a low-cost affordable unit in a luxury condo building. So how did that happen?
Ricciardi, who earned at least $72,000 last year, received "workforce housing" in the luxurious Metrostop condo building.
Workforce housing is a program to help city employees with modest salaries find affordable living in the city in which they work, so they don't have to move out due to rising home prices. A workforce housing program is often initiated as part of a community giveback by a developer.
While Ricciardi's $72,000 salary does not exceed the maximum amount allowed for workforce housing, blog reports have stated that Ricciardi pulled in over $150,000 annually stemming from overtime duties. The eligibility for the workforce housing program depends on how many people are in a family, and a net worth of combined assets, according to the developer's workforce housing manual. Ricciardi filmed council meetings that sometimes stretched past midnight. However, it is difficult to tell which of Ricciardi's income and assets were included, as certain expenses might have counted against his income as well.
Ricciardi was arrested in early November by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents on charges that he allegedly intercepted emails meant for Mayor Dawn Zimmer since early 2010, according to the criminal complaint.
City Spokesman Juan Melli said that the workforce housing process, including who was selected to purchase the housing, was handled externally by ExecuTech, an outside firm. The City Council voted to award a contract to the company some time after the Metrostop developers agreed to save five of their units for workforce housing.
Melli said that in 2008, 51 people applied for a chance to grab one of the luxury condos at a reduced rate.
A housing unit through the program would cost a city employee approximately $253,500, according to a workforce housing manual. The market rate of an apartment is near $500,000, according to the manual.
The eligibility based on a candidate’s combined assets is capped at $178,808 for a six-person family.
The manual outlines strict requirements for vetting applicants. Multiple items can be considered “income."
The contractor entered the qualified applicants into a lottery system, Melli said. They were then randomly ranked, and the affordable housing was offered first to the top five randomly generated people. Melli said that ultimately all of the people on the list were offered housing, because not everyone decided to buy. Only three units were purchased in 2008.
An Open Public Records Act filed by The Reporter requesting salaries of municipal employees shows that Ricciardi’s base salary was $72,121.92 this year. Ricciardi was suspended from his job without pay in May. Another OPRA response shows that despite being suspended since May, Ricciardi was given $3,170.31 between June 1 and Oct. 24. Of his total pay during that June to October period, approximately 56 percent of his salary was marked as overtime pay.
However, the list of annual salaries provided through the OPRA response did not list overtime pay totals.
A FBI criminal complaint states that Ricciardi confessed on May 25 to allegedly setting up an “archive file” that would intercept Zimmer’s emails. On May 26, FBI agents raided City Hall. Ricciardi appeared in federal court in Newark on Nov. 9 to be read his charges. He has not yet entered a plea.
Ricciardi was charged with accessing a computer without authorization, interception of wire and electronic communication, and disclosure of intercepted wire and electronic communications. He faces a potential maximum jail sentence of five years for each count if convicted. - Ray Smith | <urn:uuid:e947631d-fdfd-4443-bd3a-9d0ec0837845> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_stories_home/16605067/matchbin | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984734 | 798 | 1.53125 | 2 |
We at Furniture by Design are committed to reducing our carbon foot print with simple but very affective methods listed as follows.
1. 75% of our work force cycle in to work when possible.
2. Our wood is carefully sourced from FSC certified companies, to ensure it comes from managed forests where every 1 tree chopped down another 2 are planted.
3. We burn our off cuts of wood in our own wood burners which ensures 75% of our waste is not just dumped on landfill, and wood is recycled back into the atmosphere.
4. Because we make our own furniture and it comes direct to you we eliminate any cardboard boxes having to be used.
What is FSC?
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is a non-profit organization devoted to encouraging the responsible management of the world’s forests. FSC sets high standards that ensure forestry is practiced in an environmentally responsible, socially beneficial, and economically viable way.
Landowners and companies that sell timber or forest products seek certification as a way to verify to consumers that they have practiced forestry consistent with FSC standards. Independent, certification organizations are accredited by FSC to carry out assessments of forest management to determine if standards have been met. These certifiers also verify that companies claiming to sell FSC certified products have tracked their supply back to FSC certified sources. This chain of custody certification assures that consumers can trust the FSC label.
Trusted environmental organizations including Greenpeace, National Wildlife Federation, The Nature Conservancy, Sierra Club, and World Wildlife Fund all support and encourage FSC certification. Consumers wishing to support healthy forests and communities should look and ask for the FSC label when purchasing wood or paper products.
FSC-US, based in Washington, DC, is the U.S. “chapter” of FSC International, based in Bonn Germany. For more information about FSC at the International level, please visit www.fsc.org. | <urn:uuid:102f00a4-83e0-4943-b731-6e83cd0fa67c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.furniturebydesignuk.com/ourservices.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949998 | 401 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Fight Hunger: Educate Women
Did you know that women's education directly affects hunger? Giving women access to an education and resources is one of the most effective long-term solutions to poverty and malnutrition in children around the world.
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America's schools are failing our kids. On international comparisons, U.S. kids are in the middle of the pack or worse. Fixing the problem requires an education system that puts students' needs ahead of special interests or wasteful bureaucracies. | <urn:uuid:1a959aff-1da0-4182-a724-000c3487f78c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/lit/home | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934558 | 108 | 2.359375 | 2 |
EconLog | Arnold Kling | The Predatory Lending FallacyI learned this lesson about dual error types in loans on literally the 2nd day of my undergrad Data Mining/Machine Learning class offered by the Computer Science department. This isn't advanced finance. It's simple enough to make a good 5 minute lecture example for people who know nothing about banking.
Consider the following problems:
1. Qualified borrowers getting bad deals.
2. Unqualified borrowers getting good deals.
(1) is predatory lending. (2) is what caused the housing bubble and crash. Getting that story straight would be a major accomplishment for the media.
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CAIRO (AP) — It seems no one can pin down the spelling of Moammar Gadhafi’s last name using the English alphabet.
It’s not just media organizations: Even official Libyan government documents vary widely in rendering his name in Latin letters.
Qaddafi, Qazzafi, Qadhdhafi, Qaththafi, Gadhdhafi, Khadafy?
The Associated Press (and The Avalanche-Journal) goes with Gadhafi. It has to do with pronunciation — along with a series of letters the Libyan leader sent to American schoolchildren more than 25 years ago.
The spelling is complicated by a perfect storm of issues: Arabic letters or sounds that don’t exist in English, differences in pronunciation between formal Arabic and dialects, and differences between transliteration systems.
His name’s first letter is the Qaf, representing a sound that does not exist in English. It’s sort of like a K but sounded from the back of the palate. (And no, it’s NOT the rough “kh” or German “ch” sound — that’s yet a different letter.)
Usually the Qaf is transliterated with a Q, as in Quran and Qatar and Iraq. An outdated but still seen transliteration is K, as in Koran.
But its pronunciation varies in different Arabic dialects. In Libya, it’s often pronounced as a G, so that’s the letter the AP and some others use.
The next letter is the Dhal. Its sound does exist in English, but not as one letter: In formal Arabic, the Dhal is pronounced like the soft “th” in “then” or “those.” It’s often transliterated as “dh,” to distinguish it from a separate letter that’s pronounced like the “th” in “thick” or “thorn.”
In dialect, the Dhal is often pronounced by Libyans and other Arabs as either a D or a Z — much like in English dialects where you might say “doze guys.” Thus some spell Gadhafi’s name with a D or Z in the middle.
Just to complicate matters, the middle dhal in Gadhafi’s name is doubled — in other words, you draw it out some in pronunciation. That’s why you see Qazzafi, or Qaddafi, or the more bizarre looking Qadhdhafi or Qaththafi.
The third letter is a Fa, which is simply an F. In some spellings of Gadhafi’s name, you see it doubled “ff” but there’s no reason to do that. It may just be a snarky way to slip “daffy” into the eccentric Libyan leader’s name.
The last letter is a Yaa, which is simply an “ee” sound, as in “tree.” That’s why you see either a Y or an I.
How did Gadhafi himself pronounce it? He referred to himself in third person quite often and tended to say “Gath-thafi” with the middle letter pronounced like the soft “th” in “either.”
But writing it like that reads as if that middle letter is pronounced like the “th” in “ether” or “Matthew.” So we use “dh.” And if people read that as a D, that’s fine because it’s closer to correct than the wrong type of “th.” Many Libyans pronounce it as a D.
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(stage) Private Lives - played Louise in original West End production, Phoenix Theatre, September 1930.
Did You Know?
Thin-lipped, dark-haired British character actress who usually played strong-willed women. She was active primarily on the English stage, with roles in "Grand Hotel" (1931) and "The Importance of Being Earnest" (1946), among many others. On Broadway in "Point Valaine" (1935), two years prior making her screen debut as Katherine Parr in
The Private Life of Henry VIII. | <urn:uuid:b6a10a8e-9ace-486e-8ae8-0a764a18eab4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0339573/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00048-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.901576 | 117 | 1.546875 | 2 |
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) -- A lot of questions were raised with the passing of Amendment 64. Now, questions are coming from our international neighbors.
Just days after Colorado and Washington passed amendments legalizing recreational use of marijuana come concerns from our Mexican neighbors, a country that is the primary supplier of marijuana into the U.S.
First, the closest adviser to Mexico's next president, who will take office in just under a month, questioned how the United States will enforce a ban on growing and smuggling a drug across the border that is now legal in two states.
"Obviously we can't handle a product that is illegal in Mexico, trying to stop its transfer to the United States, when in the United States, at least in part of the United States, it now has a different status,” Luis Videgaray, adviser to incoming Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, said. “I believe this obliges us to think of the relationship in regards to security. This is an unforeseen element."
Then Monday, current Mexican president Felipe Calderon, along with the presidents of Belize, Costa Rica and Honduras called for a review of international drug policy.
Monday’s comments calling for the United States to review our policy are being called the most significant Latin American reaction to the passing of Amendment 64 so far.
Officials said the comments are likely to increase pressure on President Obama to strictly enforce the federal law that still says recreational pot use is illegal.
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“We want to show that we’re organized, and that we’re growing,” said Samir Junejo, who came to Olympia with a group from the Council on Islamic-American Relations Washington (CAIR-WA). A group from the Islamic Circle of North America also took to the Capitol on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Besides wanting to take a “proactive” approach to ensuring that Washington residents’ religious freedom is protected, Junejo said part of the coalition’s goal is to show legislators and other Washington citizens that Muslims are ordinary people.
“People are paranoid when they see a women who is covered,” said Sameira Muhammed, a Bellevue College student who also came with CAIR-WA. “It happens sometimes on the bus or at the mall, someone will yell, ‘terrorist.’ We’re telling people that Muslims are just like everyone else.”
Muhammed said that while things have improved for American Muslims since attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, many Americans still have difficulty separating their anger over the actions of select Islamic terrorists from their feelings toward the Muslim community as a whole.
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Franklin county. Population, 1830, 1,897. Georgia lies 40 miles N.W. from Montpelier and 8 S. from St. Albans. First settled, 1784. The soil of Georgia is various but generally fertile. It feeds about 11,000 sheep. The Lamoille passes through the S.E. corner of the town, which with other streams, give it an ample water power. This is a place of considerable trade and some manufactures. Over Stone Bridge brook is a stone bridge,—a curious piece of nature's mechanism. Georgia is washed on the W. by Lake Champlain: the village is pleasantly located, and commands some very pretty lake and mountain scenery. | <urn:uuid:401fba24-c811-4c93-b848-cec3b1c95654> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://newenglandtowns.org/vermont/georgia.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954458 | 144 | 2.640625 | 3 |
The same quality flaws that have come to light in Massachusetts’ crackdown on sterile compounding pharmacies also may exist in many hospital pharmacies that formulate sterile preparations, according to a recent survey by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP).
Three out of four (74%) of 412 survey respondents—most of them pharmacists—reported that contamination could be a risk for their facilities, and 13% said that contamination actually had occurred during the past year.
Those findings came as no surprise to Darryl S. Rich, PharmD, MBA, FASHP, a medication safety specialist at ISMP. Based on hospital visits he has made, Dr. Rich told Pharmacy Practice News, hospital pharmacies are “not quite there yet” in complying with U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) Chapter <797> standards.
For hospital pharmacies trying to upgrade their facilities to comply with USP standards, it is “mostly the facility-based issues that are the toughest” to contend with, said Dr. Rich, noting that cramped pharmacy space was often the biggest obstacle. “When hospitals do it successfully,” he added, “it’s either because the pharmacy has moved or they were able to get space next door. In some cases, it is just not a priority to improve the pharmacy’s IV room.”
As a result, he continued, “a lot of pharmacies have gone to outsource vendors because they figured they couldn’t do it themselves, particularly with regard to higher-risk compounded products.” The problem, he said, was their “level of trust” that there were “regulatory bodies out there” that were evaluating the outsourcers and making sure they remained compliant. “That obviously turned out not to be true,” he said.
More Stringent Inspections
In the wake of the fungal meningitis outbreak, the inspections carried out during the resultant crackdown in Massachusetts were extremely rigorous. Of the 40 sterile compounding pharmacies that received unannounced visits by teams of internal investigators and outside consultant experts hired by the Department of Public Health (DPH), 11 were ordered to halt all or part of their compounding activities, and 21 were cited for minor infractions that since have been corrected. The serious violations included noncompliance with required USP standards for preparation, storage and dispensing of sterile products, including some hazardous medications. Several pharmacies were cited for faulty facility design and controls.
The thoroughness of the inspections contrasted sharply with the regulatory laxity that existed prior to the multistate meningitis outbreak, attributed to contaminated methylprednisolone shipped by the now-shuttered New England Compounding Center (NECC), of Framingham, Mass.
“When you’re under the microscope, you don’t just get the walk-through, you get the fine-toothed comb,” said Michael Cotugno, RPh, the director of pharmacy patient services at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in Boston. Mr. Cotugno was a member of the pharmacy compounding oversight commission appointed by Gov. Deval Patrick to recommend actions to strengthen the state’s regulatory surveillance in the wake of the NECC-linked public health disaster.
The oversight commission’s chairman, Christian Hartman, PharmD, MBA, the director of clinical quality and patient safety at Wolters Kluwer, said that before the meningitis outbreak, the annual budget for the volunteer state Board of Registration in Pharmacy and inspection staff was insufficient to provide comprehensive inspections. The new FY 2014 budget submitted by Gov. Patrick is for $1.3 million. “The new funding is intended to support increased inspections of compounding pharmacies and increased training of inspectors,” according to the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center. Under the current, FY2013 budget the board received $182,600.
Additionally, the DPH hired the pharmacy consulting firm Comprehensive Pharmacy Services (CPS) to help carry out the inspections. “We were able to provide the resources needed to establish a comprehensive checklist for the pharmacy inspections,” said Edward Choy, PharmD, a divisional vice president for CPS.
“They’re using pharmacists” for inspections now, Dr. Hartman said, “and that’s a good thing. The unfortunate piece,” he added, is that there are “a lot more pharmacies that are doing medium- to high-risk compounding.” He said that it was time that all compounding pharmacies, including those operating within the state’s hospital systems, receive the same level of scrutiny as the smaller outsource pharmacies targeted in the initial inspection wave. “Raising the bar for providing high-quality and safe compounding services is something pharmacists welcome,” said Dr. Hartman.
Hospital compounding practices may be among the next in line to undergo DPH scrutiny. “We expect that to be the case,” Mr. Cotugno said. “Obviously they started with where the problem came from. But when this broke in Massachusetts, the DPH contacted all the hospitals and said we want to make sure you’re doing all you can to be compliant with USP <797>.”
Constant Monitoring Required
That requires constant vigilance, Mr. Cotugno noted. “Just because you look good today, doesn’t mean that you’re going to look good tomorrow. That’s why you have to keep monitoring because you never know when someone is going to cut a corner. All it takes is one day for a break in technique” to occur, he said.
So far eight of the 11 Massachusetts pharmacies whose compounding activities were halted have submitted corrective plans. But the DPH said that cease-and-desist orders would remain in place until pharmacies come into compliance with USP <795> and <797>.
“That is all for the greater good of patients,” Mr. Cotugno said. “We will get a better quality compounding pharmacy, and maybe we’ll have fewer of them. Some of them are behind the times and won’t want to invest the resources” needed to upgrade to the new standards. “If that’s the case, they need to get out,” he said.
In the ISMP survey, most respondents (74%) said that accrediting agencies, such as the Joint Commission, should be responsible for monitoring external compounding pharmacies’ compliance with USP <797>.
“I think that’s great,” Dr. Rich said, “but it’s just that it’s not what the accrediting agencies are doing.” He added that most accrediting agencies’ surveys cover only their own standards, and in the case of the Joint Commission, although compliance with state law and regulation is required, USP <797> compliance is neither part of its standards nor surveyed.
One answer, he said, might be for regulatory bodies to mandate accreditation for external compounding pharmacies, just as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requires Joint Commission accreditation for hospitals. The regulatory bodies then could mandate compliance with <797> and the accrediting agencies would have to survey for that. Also, if CMS mandated that the agencies that accredit hospitals comply with USP <797>, then those agencies would have to survey for it.
However, he said, “right now if it is just going to be left up to the accrediting agencies and the states, it doesn’t become mandatory unless it becomes law.”
In a policy reversal that could strain some hospitals’ ability to meet demand for compounded sterile preparations, the FDA has informed PharMEDium that it will no longer be willing to exercise an earlier “enforcement discretion” that allowed PharMEDium to ship the preparations without a valid patient-specific prescription. Under the earlier arrangement, the compounder was allowed to use bar-coding and other tools to link patients to its batch-prepared products after they had been shipped and dispensed.
The agency’s tougher new enforcement approach, which comes in the wake of the fungal meningitis disaster, overturns the more flexible attitude toward the patient-specific requirement, which has existed since Jan. 2005. It was detailed in a Feb. 5 letter from Janet Woodcock, MD, director of the agency’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER).
“We have determined that, going forward, we are no longer willing to accept” PharMEDium’s post-shipment linking of patients to compounded drugs, Dr. Woodcock wrote.
Hospital pharmacies’ ability to prepare batches of sterile compounded products in anticipation of patient need—or obtain them from outsourcers—is key to providing safe and effective patient care, particularly for hospitals unable to meet USP 797’s exacting standards. Outsourced compounded products can also be crucial as alternatives when critical medications are in short supply.
Dr. Woodcock appeared to acknowledge that fact in her letter to PharMEDium. “In 2012 Congressional testimony,” she wrote, “the agency recognized that the industry has involved to include firms such yours that engage in large-volume compounding of sterile drug products for distribution to health care facilities without patient-specific prescriptions.” She added that “new legislation is needed” to “facilitate effective oversight of such firms.”
New federal legislation could allow nontraditional compounders such as PharMEDium to operate at a new point in the medication-production continuum between traditional compounding for specific patients and large-scale manufacturing for specific diseases.
At press-time, PharMEDium was preparing a response to Dr. Woodcock’s letter, but the company’s chairman, David Jonas, told Pharmacy Practice News in an email message that “we believe that the FDA is seeking to establish a new category more fitting with the FDA oversight.”
In the meantime, at least one pharmacy director said he is concerned about the impact that the FDA’s decision will have on compounded drug supplies. “I understand the need to increase regulation of compounders that manufacture and bulk-ship products without enough regulatory oversight,” said the director, who asked to remain anonymous due to the sensitive nature of hospital-vendor relations. “But until we figure out a new category for these companies, effectively shuttering a supplier as large as PharMEDium could really put a strain on our access to sterile compounded medications. And I can tell you right now, you don’t want hospitals suddenly picking up the slack and trying to compound these meds themselves. Complying with [USP] 797 is hard—that’s why so many hospitals outsource in the first place.” | <urn:uuid:67d17932-3c9a-4fef-b171-2ddbd8aa0f64> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pharmacypracticenews.com/PrintArticle.aspx?A_Id=22727&D_Id=51&D=Policy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964309 | 2,286 | 1.515625 | 2 |
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Australian Story this week revisits two Australians it featured ten years ago after they who adopted a child from Ethiopia.
Last month, the Australian government ended its sometimes controversial intercountry adoption program with Ethiopia, dashing the hopes for over 100 childless couples.
More than 600 children – mostly orphans – from that impoverished nation have found homes and a new life with couples in Australia.
Eleven years ago, with only an inkling of what lay ahead, Ian and Sandy Johnson set off for Ethiopia to adopt a 19-month-old orphan, Sophie. Not long after, the surprise discovery of Sophie’s five-year-old brother, Frazer, came to double their brood and complete their family.
In 2002, Australian Story featured the Johnson’s anxious and sometimes painful adventures into parenthood – of getting acquainted with a screaming baby then a terrified preschooler, of helping their children adjust to a new and strange life, and of the startling realities of a lifelong responsibility they had so eagerly signed up for.
Ten years later we see what’s happened to the Johnson’s – would their children forever carry the loss of their birth family and separation from their culture or would they come to thrive with the promise of more opportunities in their adopted home?
Looking back, 12-year-old Sophie (now Tigi) and 15-year-old Frazer Johnson tell it like it is. They discuss whether they see themselves as Ethiopians or Australians, tell of their hopes and ambitions, and of the family they left behind.
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A small collection of materials from the Watson Land Company, including articles of incorporation, financial statements, correspondence,
newsletters, and reports.
The Watson Estate Company was incorporated in 1912 to help protect the interests of Dolores Simona Dominguez de Watson. While
the Watson Estate Company made a steady, albeit relatively small, income from leasing land, it broke with other Rancho-based
companies in regularly selling off small pieces of property. The company was reincorporated as the Watson Land Company in
1927, largely as a way to have lands assessed according to richer 1920s valuations, rather than the 1913 valuation that had
been used. Under reincorporation, land sales and leases gave the Watson Land Company a sounder financial foundation. As
with other Rancho-based concerns, the Watson Land Company realized profits from sales and leases to oil companies; throughout
its history, though, the directors of the Watson Land Company focused on the agricultural and industrial development of the
land. The success of this practice grew throughout the century, and the Watson Land Company remains one of the most successful
in Southern California. (From the Rancho San Pedro Collection Finding Aid)
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Later today the Obama Administration will reportedly announce major changes in the U. S. space program that may amount to the effective end of manned space flight after this decade. As a guy who has been trying to mount his own mission to the Moon I’m not yet sure how I feel about this. Maybe it is a great opportunity, but probably not.
The FY2011 federal proposed budget will be published with the following changes:
– NASA’s Constellation program to replace the Space Shuttle will be cancelled and all hardware development will be stopped including Ares 1, Ares 5 and Orion.
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Desperate homeowners counting on a “V” shaped recovery in residential real estate prices to bail them out better first take a close look at global demographic data, which tells us there will be no recovery at least another 15 years.
I have been using the US Census Bureau’s population pyramids as long leading indicator of housing, economic, and financial market trends for the last four decades. They are easy to read, free, and available online at http://www.census.gov/ . It turns out that population pyramids are something you can trade, buying the good ones and shorting the bad ones. For example, these graphical tools told me in 1980 that I had to sell any real estate I owned in the US by 2005, or face disaster. No doubt hedge fund master John Paulson was looking at the same data when he took out a massive short in subprime loans, earning himself a handy $4 billion bonus in 2007.
To see what I am talking about, look at the population pyramid for Vietnam. This shows a high birth rate producing ever rising numbers of consumers to buy more products, generating a rising tide of corporate earnings, leading to outsized economic growth without the social service burden of an aged population. This is where you want to own the stocks and currencies.
I’m Avoiding Japan Like the Plague. Now look at the world’s worst population pyramid, that for Japan (EWJ). These three graphs show that a nearly perfect pyramid drove a miracle stock market during the fifties and sixties, which I remember well, when Japan had your textbook high growth emerging market economy. That changed dramatically when the population started to age rapidly during the nineties. The 2007 graph is shouting at you not to go near the Land of the Rising Sun, and the 2050 projection tells you why.
By then, a small young population of consumers with a very low birth rate will be supporting the backbreaking burden of a huge population of old age pensioners. Every wage earner will be supporting one retiree. Think low GDP growth, huge government borrowing, deflation, collapsing bond markets, a depreciating yen, and terrible stock and housing markets. If you are wondering why I believe that a short position in the yen should be a core position in any portfolio for the next decade, this is a big reason. Dodge the bullet. Enjoy their food and hot tubs, but not their stocks.
Brace yourself. The US is turning into Japan. (SPX) As a silver tsunami of 80 million baby boomers retires, they will be followed by only 65 million from generation “X”. The intractable problems that unhappy Japan is facing will soon arrive at our shores. Boomers, therefore, better not count on the next generation to buy them out of their homes at nice premiums, especially if they are still living in the basement rent free. They are looking at best at an “L” shaped recovery, which is a polite way of saying no recovery at all.
What are the investment implications of all of this? Get your money out of America, Europe, and Japan, and pour it into Vietnam, China, India, Brazil, Mongolia, Indonesia, Mexico, Malaysia and other emerging markets with healthy population pyramids. You want the wind behind your investment sails, not in your face with hurricane category five violence. Use any serious dip to load the boat with the emerging market ETF (EEM) and individual emerging market ETF’s.
The “Graying” of America Bodes Ill for Investors
Vietnam is a Paradise for Demographic Investors. Now that we have figured out that Vietnam is a great place to invest, take a look at the Van Eck Groups Vietnam Index Fund (VNM). The venture invests in companies that get 50% or more of their earnings from that country, with an anticipated 37% exposure in finance, and 19% in energy. This will get you easily tradable exposure in the country where China does its offshoring, as wages there are now one third of those in the Middle Kingdom.
Vietnam was one of the top performing stock markets in 2009. It was a real basket case in 2008, when zero growth and a 25% inflation rate took it down 78% from 1,160 to 250. This is definitely your E-ticket ride. Vietnam is a classic emerging market play with a turbocharger. It offers lower labor costs than China, a growing middle class, and has been the target of large scale foreign direct investment. General Electric (GE) recently built a wind turbine factory there. You always want to follow the big, smart money. Its new membership in the World Trade Organization is definitely going to be a help. If they can only get their inflation under control then they could be a real winner.
I still set off metal detectors and my scars itch at night when the weather is turning, thanks to my last encounter with the Vietnamese, so it is with some trepidation that I revisit this enigmatic country. Throw this one into the hopper of ten year long plays you only buy on big dips, and go there on a long vacation. If you are looking for a laggard emerging market that has not participated in this year’s meteoric move up, this one fits the bill nicely. Their green shoots are real. But watch out for the old land mines.
There is a Happy Ending for the US. Unlike Japan, the US is not plunging into a multigenerational black hole. After the 80 million baby boomers are long gone, and 65 million Gen Xer’s have picked up homes at rocked bottom prices, they will be followed by 85 millennials, those who are now in the early twenties. When this generation reaches its speaking spending years, starting around 2025, they will have to chase the limited housing stock offered for sale by the Gen Xer’s.
As there will be a shortfall of 20 million homes, this should spark one of the greatest bull markets in residential real estate of all time. Furthermore, there will also be a severe labor shortage in America, leading to soaring wages and a reversal of a then 40 year long decline in American standards of living. We could see the return of a golden age similar to what we last saw in the 1950’s. So use the next leg down in residential real estate triggered by the next recession and the crash of 2012-2013 to pick up a home at a knocked down, distressed price. It could mark a century low in real house prices. | <urn:uuid:f1aaffc7-f34c-4e38-aa66-c966f43f3b40> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.madhedgefundtrader.com/if-demographics-is-destiny-then-america%E2%80%99s-future-sucks/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948543 | 1,344 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Families of the British victims of the 9-11 disaster will finally get a chance to seek compensation when the UK hearing kicks off on Thursday, in what is believed to be the first UK civil case presided over by a US judge.
Special Master Kenneth Feinberg is flying into the UK to rule on the hearing of the September 11 Victims Compensation Fund and decide damages for the relatives of the six UK nationals who were killed in the World Trade Center.
The fund was set up in November 2001 under US federal law. The scheme puts no limit on the amount of compensation paid, and the payout is expected to reach into the millions.
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From May 30th through June 1st, the National Indian Health Board (NIHB) hosted over 200 Tribal public health leaders, researchers, professionals, and other stakeholders at its National Tribal Public Health Summit at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This year’s conference, “Our Health, Our Way: Achieving Healthy Native Communities,” provided a chance for attendees to discuss successes, challenges, opportunities, and the future of health care for American Indian and Alaska Native people. Conference workshops were divided into four different tracks including: Accreditation/Law & Policy, Health Promotion/Disease Prevention, Research, and Environmental Health. The workshops offered a wealth of information and the track structure allowed attendees to select the workshops that best fit their focus or learning objectives for the conference.
Click here for more info, presentations and pictures from the 2012 summit.
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The National Indian Health Board hosted its 27th Annual Consumer Conference in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The theme of the conference was “Tribal-State Relations and American Indian and Alaska Native Health Care.” Over 400 people from throughout Indian Country attended the year’s largest conference on American Indian/Alaska Native health care.
Plenary sessions included updates from the Indian Health Service, overviews of health care reform included the first national presentation by the Office of Personnel Management of the Federal Employee Health Benefits Plan for Tribes; a “CMS Day” which provided information on Medicare and Medicaid and updates on programs such as the Special Diabetes Program for Indians.
The National Indian Health Board also held an awards luncheon to honor individuals who have significantly contributed to the field of American Indian/Alaska Native Health Care. The Jake White Crow award this year was presented to the late Robert Moore, and received by the family of Robert Moore, who passed away earlier this year. Mr. Moore was honored for his tireless commitment to improving health care for American Indians and Alaska Natives.
The National Indian Health Board (NIHB) is proud to announce the success of the 2nd Annual NIHB Public Health Summit “2010: A New Decade in Indigenous Public Health” held on May 18-20, 2010 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Over 200 participants attended the event and received expert public health information from over 20 speakers and purchased one-of-a kind Native arts and crafts from 18 vendors and exhibitors. This Summit brought together Tribal leaders, federal representatives, and public health professionals from across Indian Country. Attendees were able to hear from a wide variety of programs going on in Indian Country that provide the resources and tools to promote prevention in various areas of public health, support tribal community-based research, and build public health capacity, all of which help reduce the disease burden of American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Thanks to all the speakers, exhibitors, vendors and participants for attending the 2nd Annual NIHB Public Health Summit! Click Here for a full Summit OverviewPublic Health Summit Agenda Book
Quality Improvement (QI) Basics: Methods and Tools for Tribal Public Health Systems
May 18, 2010
Providing quality healthcare in our Tribal communities has become increasingly complex and involves many stakeholders. Tribal health organizations are increasing engaged in quality improvement activities to improve service delivery, build Tribal infrastructure and improve performance to better serve their communities.
In the 2010 NIHB Tribal Public Health Profile, Tribal health departments were asked to identify training needs that would be of greatest benefit to their organization. The top three areas most identified for technical assistance and training were community health assessments, data use and interpretation, and quality improvement methods.
In response to this need for technical assistance and training, the NIHB is currently offering Quality Improvement (QI) Basics: Methods and Tools for Tribal Public Health Systems, a pre-conference training, at the 2010 NIHB Public Health Summit.
The registration fee for this pre-conference training is $100.00. This pre-conference training is limited to 45 participants, so REGISTER TODAY! Please note that registering for the pre-conference session does not register you for the full Public Health Summit and additional registration fess must be paid in order to attend the full summit.
This pre-conference training is supported in part with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Click here for the agenda and additional information.
Sept. 14-18, 2009
Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill
Sept. 22-25, 2008
Pechanga Casino and Resort
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You’ve seen the ritual, I’m sure. The infant baptism parallel happens after the parents are quizzed on the child’s name and what they ask of the Church. RCIA 54 has the rubric:
54. Next the cross is traced on the forehead of the candidates (or, at the discretion of ther diocesan bishop, in front of the forehead for candidates in whose culture the act of touching may not seem proper (see RCIA no. 33.3)); at the discretion of the celebrant the signing of one, several, or all of the senses may follow. The celebrant alone says the formularies accompanying each signing.
More often you will see the signing of several senses. We’ll get to that in the next post.
Ever practical, Roman sensibility gives options for few candidates in RCIA 55:
With their sponsors, the candidates come one by one to the celebrant; with his thumb he traces a cross on the forehead; then, if there is to be no signing of the senses, the sponsor does the same.
… and an option when there are “a great many candidates.”
Then the celebrant makes the sign of the cross over all together, as a cross is traced by a sponsor or catechist on the forehead of each candidate.
Common to both situations is the formula that accompanies this signing:
Receive the cross on your forehead.
It is Christ who now strengthens you
with this sign of his love.
Learn to know and follow him.
All sing or say the following or other suitable acclamation:
Glory and praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ!
This ritual involves the main thing the candidates “get” at the rite of acceptance. It should be done with solemnity.
The given acclamation keeps the focus on Christ and his grace. The most commonly used acclamation is David Haas’ “Christ will be your strength; learn to know and follow him.” I’ve used it, too. I’m not completely convinced it’s the best text, even if it derives directly from the rite. I like having an acclamation sung to Christ in this situation. I’m less enthusiastic about what is essentially a mini-catechesis on what is happening.
Singing the acclamation, no matter what the text may be, is really essential in the rite. The rubric gives a second option for “saying” the acclamation, but I can’t imagine that even the simplest chant isn’t a better option for communities with a poverty of music ministry. | <urn:uuid:02fe94f6-3752-4548-88c0-65db545fcb53> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://catholicsensibility.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/rcia-54-55-signing-of-the-candidates-with-the-cross/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=20ee2ea151 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94382 | 559 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Hi, my name is Jennifer Auchtung.
I'm a post-doc in Alan Grossman's lab.
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Horizontal gene transfer plays an important role in bacterial evolution. Acquisition of foreign DNA can be beneficial to a cell, such as when the DNA encodes proteins that allow the cell to adapt to a new niche. However, acquisition of foreign DNA can also be detrimental, such as when the DNA encodes a toxic product. Therefore, mechanisms that regulate horizontal gene transfer can balance the potential risks of acquiring foreign DNA with the potential rewards. My work has focused on mechanisms that regulate two types of horizontal gene transfer, competence for genetic transformation and transfer of the mobile genetic element ICEBs1, in the Gram-positive soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis.
Regulation of competence development
Competence for genetic transformation is the ability of cells to take up naked DNA from the environment and incorporate this DNA into the chromosome through homologous recombination. Here is a simplified diagram of competence in B. subtilis:
Chen, I. and Dubnau, D. 2004. DNA uptake during bacterial transformation. 2:241-9.
In addition to expressing the proteins required for DNA uptake and processing, B. subtilis competent cells are in a transiently differentiated state - cell division arrests and the cells’ metabolism likely changes. Because these changes may be disadvantageous for the cells under certain conditions, competence development is highly regulated.
One mechanism that regulates competence development in B. subtilis is quorum sensing. Quorum sensing is a mechanism by which cells use small, intercellular signaling molecules to monitor the concentration of other related cells. B. subtilis cells become competent when they sense they are surrounded by a threshold concentration of related B. subtilis cells. This regulation is likely beneficial to the cells because it limits competence development to conditions when DNA from closely related B. subtilis cells is more likely to be present. B. subtilis cells evaluate the concentration of related cells present by producing and responding to small signaling peptides. Previous work had shown that two signaling peptides regulate competence development. My work identified two additional signaling peptides that regulate competence. All four signaling peptides interact with different cellular targets and the expression of the signaling peptides as well as their target proteins are regulated by a variety of different transcription factors which respond to different cellular signals. The involvement of multiple signaling peptides allows for the integration of many regulatory signals in the decision to become competent.
If you interested in reading more about horizontal gene transfer in bacteria, Nature Reviews Microbiology had several good reviews on the subject in the September 2005 issue. http://www.nature.com/nrmicro/journal/v3/n9/index.html .)
CO-INSTRUCTOR, MIT FIELD TRIP FOR HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE CLASSES (Annual, 2005 – 2007)
As an outreach to the community, the MIT biology department invites students and teachers from biology classes at local area high schools to spend the day at MIT and experience biological research. Here's a link to the website describing the Bio department's high school outreach: http://mit.edu/biology/www/outreach/precollege.shtml . In March of 2005, Melanie Berkmen (User:Melanie berkmen) and I designed a short lesson that allowed the students to investigate how the bacterium Bacillus subtilis responds to starvation by forming dormant spores. The students had the chance to use light microscopy to distinguish sporulating cells from non-sporulating cells. They also learned that spore formation in Bacillus subtilis is an interesting process to study because it is an example of bacterial development and because of the similarities to spore formation in pathogenic bacteria, such as the anthrax-causing bacterium, Bacillus anthracis. I enjoyed this first experience so much, that I volunteered to teach the same lesson again in 2006 with Melanie and in 2007 with Kasia Gora, a rotation student in Alan's lab.
TEACHING ASSISTANT, MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, MIT (Spring 2004)
This senior-level undergraduate/graduate course was taught by Tania Baker and Steve Bell. During the course of the semester we covered a wide range of topics, including DNA replication and recombination, transposition, transcription, translation, and gene regulation. Here's a link to the course website from Spring 2005, which is available through MIT's OpenCourseWare: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biology/7-28Spring-2005/CourseHome/index.htm . My responsibilities for this course involved preparing and leading weekly discussion sections with students, preparing problem sets for students in collaboration with another teaching assistant, and grading students’ exams. It was a great opportunity to watch intelligent students learn to engage challenging concepts that I find very interesting.
TEACHING ASSISTANT, EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY LAB, MIT (Fall 2001)
This introductory biology was taught by Angelika Amon, Alex Rich, Mary Lou Pardue, and Andrew Chess. During the course of the semester, the students had the opportunity to try a wide variety of experimental techniques to investigate questions in microbial genetics, protein biochemistry, recombinant DNA methods, and zebrafish development. Here's a link to the course website from Spring 2005, which is available through MIT's OpenCourseWare: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biology/7-02Spring-2005/CourseHome/index.htm . My responsibilities for this course involved preparing biweekly discussion sections with students during the microbial genetics section of the course, preparing section notes for online publishing, supervising students' lab activities, and grading students’ exams and lab reports. This lab course was unlike any I had ever experienced as an undergrad because the students had the opportunity to use so many techniques. It was also interesting to watch some students learning how to do lab work for the first time and to meet others who were already quite experienced due to previous independent research experiences.
When I'm not hard at work, I enjoy reading, running, playing tennis, and spending time with my son, Julian.
My husband, Tommy Auchtung, is also a microbiologist and a graduate student in Colleen Cavanaugh's lab at Harvard University. He's passionate about Korarchaeota, a division of Archaea that is thought to be deeply rooted on the evolutionary tree. One perk about studying Korarchaeota is the interesting places he goes to collect samples (Yellowstone National Park, Kamchatka, Russia, the bottom of the ocean.) Unfortunately, I don't get to go along. | <urn:uuid:9c559f54-6e1b-411c-84e5-f6b6bd7b7f2f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.openwetware.org/index.php?title=User:Jen17&oldid=109220 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926146 | 1,419 | 1.632813 | 2 |
A heavy bag or punching bag is a bulky bag designed to be repeatedly punched. It’s used for physical exercises. It’s used to improve our aerobic fitness, physical strength, or punching skills.
Working out with a heavy bag can relieve tension, increase self-esteem and reduce stress. Whether you want to be a boxer or want to get in shape for your pole dancing classes, using a heaving bag can be extremely helpful. Using heavy bags are not expensive and they do not require a lot of upkeep. Most of the name brand heavy bags are made up of some kind of leather material which makes them good investments.
When you are buying a heavy bag you must consider some important factors like:
Always check the weight and size of the heavy bag. There are different sizes and weights available; most punchers believer that the bag should be half the weight of the person using it.
Second, of all things make sure you buy the right material. The outside can be made up of canvas, plastic, leather or vinyl. The inside should be either filled with water, poly-plastic material or dense fabric. The straps that hold up the bag must also be strong and sturdy.
Lastly, you should have an idea of where you want to place the bag. Hanging it from a work out room’s ceiling is ideal. There are number of mounting kits available in the market to help you place the heavy bag in the appropriate place if needed.
When you use a heavy bag don’t worry about trying to kill it. Heavy bags should not be punched hard but there should be technique behind the punch. Think of the heavy bag as if it was your opponent in the ring. Keep the punches straight, snapping and short. Throw hooks in there as if you were actually in a fight.
Heavy bags can be a helpful part of an exercise routine or essential in training for a fight. However if you use a heavy bag it is important to know what to look for when you buy one.
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Jackson staff build 'wall of strength'
Before school started, Jackson Middle School staff built a wall symbolizing strengths in why they became educators. Teachers discussed the items they listed on the positive and negative side of their bags showing that there are obstacles to being a teacher, but Jackson staff felt that all of the positive reasons outweighed the negative ones.
"Staff was reminded that we are here to build rapport with students, teach at high levels, and engage students through interesting curricula," said Lenae Diskin, academic dean.
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Originally used as a derogatory nickname for Ypsilanti, Michigan. During World War II large numbers of people moved from Kentucky to Ypsilanti to work in the bomber factories. The town still has many residents who trace their roots to the Appalatian Mountain states. Also spelled Ypsitucky. This once pejorative nickname has been proudly embraced by some residents, similarly to the way the once derogatory moniker 'queer' has been embraced of late by homasucktuals.
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MSF in Burundi, 2002
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Pushing for effective malaria treatment
Despite entering a transition period in November 2001, Burundi continues to be a country in conflict. Civilians are the losers in the wake of regular rebel attacks and subsequent government retaliation, as well as incursions of armed groups from neighboring countries. In many areas, MSF medical care is focused on meeting needs directly or indirectly created by the fighting. Other needs are also gallingly apparent: the need for effective malaria treatment and the need for access to basic health care.
Malaria is not being treated correctly
Malaria, which kills 1-2 million people a year, most of them children in Africa, is endemic in Burundi. In an epidemic lasting from late 2000 through summer 2001 over 3 million cases occurred among a total population of 6.5 million. The magnitude of the epidemic was due in part to the ineffectiveness of the first-line drugs (chloroquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, or SP), which became evident in various resistance studies.
MSF treated around a million cases during the epidemic. Realizing that many patients were resistant to the drugs with which it was treating them, an ethically untenable position, MSF pushed for Burundi's national protocol to adopt combination therapy including artemisinin derivatives (ACT), an effective treatment recommended by most experts. When MSF started using ACT (illegally, though publicly) in certain projects, the government suspended MSF malaria-related work in these sites. After much pressure and negotiation, in July 2002, the government finally agreed to introduce a new protocol using ACT by July 2003. While continuing to lobby for ACT to be introduced earlier, MSF is encouraging the use of quinine, effective but far from ideal, as the treatment of choice until its adoption. For further information on the need to introduce more effective malaria drugs in Africa, and the Burundi case in particular, click here.
Medical and nutritional assistance
MSF continues to provide medical aid through several hospitals and numerous health centers in the provinces of Bujumbura (Mairie and Rural), Cankuzo, Karuzi, Ruyigi, Makamba and Kayanza. When MSF malaria activities were suspended, work in the health centers in Kayanza ceased, but MSF continued to perform surgery in the hospital there until withdrawing in July 2002. Mobile clinics in Makamba serve some of that area's 100,000 people displaced by fighting.
After a major nutritional crisis in 2001, MSF is continuing to run supplementary and therapeutic feeding centers in Cankuso and Karuzi provinces, and in Bujumbura Mairie. In Cankuso, the therapeutic feeding center has been integrated into the local hospital, and MSF is looking for a local partner to take over the supplementary feeding centers. MSF teams perform emergency surgery at hospitals in Kayanza (until July 2002), Makamba, Kinyinya and Ruyigi, and in a center for war-wounded in the Bujumbura neighborhood of Kamenge. The latter also has a mental health component.
MSF is increasingly worried about the limited access to health care for most of the population, particularly the poorest groups. With a US$3-4 million health budget, the government's failure to sustain the public health system has prompted a move to decentralize health services and require higher fees structure for consultations and medicines at public health facilities. In some provinces, this has already resulted in a 60-80% drop in the number of consultations. MSF is keeping a close eye on this evolution and its effects on the most vulnerable people.
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Miller Family History
Miller Surname History
The Miller family name is an old heredity that has migrated all across the world over time, and as the name Miller has spread, it has evolved making its etymology a challenge to uncover. This page is a hub for a detailed history of the Miller family name, Miller origins, and history of Miller ancestors. Miller family history has a rich and complex origin of which the particulars are beginning to be understood by Miller family researchers.
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The evolution of Miller begins at it's earliest origins. Even in the earliest days of a name there have been different spellings of that name simply because last names were infrequently written down back when few people could write.
Miller families have migrated around the world all throughout history. It was not unusual for a family name to change as it enters a new country or language. As families, tribes, and clans emigrated between countries and languages, the Miller name may have changed with them.
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The meaning of Miller come may come from a profession, such as the name "Baker" which refers to the craft of baker. Some of these trade-based last names can be a profession in some other language. For this reason it is essential to understand the nationality of a name, and the languages used by its family members. Many modern names like Miller originate from religious texts like the Bible, the Bhagavadgītā, the Quran, and so on. In many cases these surnames relate to a religious sentiment such as "Favored of God".
- Mary Jane (Miller) Kroetsch 1902 - ?
- Ruth Ann Hunt Miller 1814 - 1903
- Ella Mary Potter Miller
- Arnold MILLER
- Charles Dickens Miller
- Florence Belle (Miller) Warman
- Peter Miller
- John Miller 1817 - 1886
- I.H. Miller
- David Eric Miller 1855 - ?
- Forrest E. Miller
- Franklin Miller, Jr.
- Maude Barnes Miller
- Nancy Caroline Miller 1849 - ?
- Arthur Raymond Miller aka Ray Miller 1913 - ?
- Mark Edward Miller
- Franklin Miller, Sr.
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- Pauline Miller
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The origins of the Conference of Editors of Learned Journals are in the informal gatherings of editors at the MLA starting in 1957, when they first gathered and discussed the same issues that are still of concern: funding, peer reviewing, plagiarism, property rights, copy editing, and so on. In the early 1970’s, Arthur Kinney, Mark Spilka, R. G. Collins, Marilyn Gaull, Caroline Eckhardt, Anne Paolucci, Ralph Cohen, William Schreick, and William Schaeffer, formalized as an allied organization at the MLA with popular annual meetings, workshops, displays, and informal gatherings at regional meetings as well. Concerned with the responsibilities, skills, and values required for editing scholarly journals, CELJ provided mentoring for new editors, assisted authors in writing for publication, and established a strong public presence for journals in the humanities including a quarterly newletter, Editors' Notes, founded by Gaull. Addressing the challenges of the new technology in copying and disseminating scholarship, officers took part in the National Enquiry into Scholarly Publication as well as congressional testimony on copyright.
In 1980, CELJ drafted a new constitution under the leadership of Cohen and Kinney, and Edna Steeves (University of Rhode Island) accepted the editorship of Editors' Notes. The constitution provides for the usual offices of President, Vice-President, and Secretary-Treasurer; it also gives the past President an active role in the ongoing business of the organization, and it establishes Regional Directors in areas corresponding with regional MLA organizations. In 1989 the organization changed its name to the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, which more accurately reflects the association of member editors. In 1991 CELJ achieved not-for-profit status. (For more detail on the council's early history, read Arthur Kinney's 1999 MLA keynote address, "Historicizing CELJ," available for download in our online "Newsletter Archive" [see the "Fall 1999/Spring 2000" newsletter]).
The succession of Presidents from the early 1970s to the present illustrates, among other things, the wide range of disciplines from which CELJ has been able to draw: Arthur Kinney of English Literary Renaissance (1971–74), Mark Spilka of Novel (1974–76), R. G. Collins of Thalia (1976–78), Marilyn Gaull of the Wordsworth Circle (1978–80), Ralph Cohen of New Literary History (1980–82), Arthur Kinney (1982–84), George Simson of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly (1984–86), John Stasny of Victorian Poetry (1986–88), Evelyn Hinz of Mosaic (1988–90), Michael Marcuse of Literary Research (1990–92), John Coldewey of Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History (1992–94), R. A. Shoaf of Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies (1994–95), Holly Laird of Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature (1996–97), Craig Howes of Biography (1998–99), Roy Flannagan of Milton Quarterly (2000–2001), Michael Cornett of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002–2003), David Hanson of Nineteenth-Century Studies (2004-2005), Jana Argersinger of ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance and Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism (2006-2007), Bonnie Wheeler of Arthuriana (2008-2009), and Joycelyn Moody, African American Quarterly (2010-11).
Every year CELJ sponsors two sessions at the MLA Convention. The first is devoted to the presentation of CELJ's annual journal awards and to a keynote address that speaks to a topic of particular relevance to journal editors. The awards ceremony recognizes distinguished achievement in two divisions: one for scholarly journals and the other for creative-writing journals. In the "Scholarly Achievement" division, a winner and runner-up receive plaques or certificates for each of five, usually hotly contested, competitions: Best New Journal, Best Journal Design, Best Special Issue, the Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement, and Distinguished Editor. In the creative "Literary Achievement" division, three categories rotate on a three-year cycle: the Parnassus Award for Significant Editorial Achievement, Best New Literary Journal, and Distinguished Literary Editor. Over the last decade, keynote addresses have featured Robert Spoo and Harold Orlans on current copyright issues, Ian Lancashire on the computer's influence on scholarship and publishing, Peter Vandenberg on editorial transition, Beth Luey on the professionalization of journal editing, and James J. O’Donnell and Ann Okerson on digitized humanites. CELJ's second session takes up a topic of special interest to journal authors and editors alike, often in the form of a roundtable discussion. Past topics have included, for example, the advent of electronic journals and their implications for writers, readers, and sponsoring agencies; and journal refereeing and/as gatekeeping. Recent lively panels have focused on forms of support for academic journals; issues of electronic publication, storage, and retrieval; the vetting process; matters of interdisciplinarity; the nuts-and-bolts of journal editing, and the impact of ERIH ratings on scholarly editing. A separate meeting covers the council's business, including reports from the officers. In 2009, President Bonnie Wheeler spoke to the Conference of Historical Journals, AHA about matters of common interest in hopes of sparking more participation in CELJ by editors whose journals are outside literature.
In some years CELJ has sponsored sessions at regional MLA meetings (as in 1985 at the PAPC meeting in Santa Barbara), and sometimes it has jointly sponsored extra sessions with another allied organization (as in 1990, when it joined with the Council of National Literatures to arrange a symposium titled "The Future of Scholarly Journals in the Humanities: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives"). This is an initiative that requires serious commitment from member editors.
Another regular service CELJ provides for its members is an annual booth in the MLA convention exhibition. Editors can send several copies of their journal for display at the booth, and it has proven to be a very popular means of promotion. Members attending the MLA convention volunteer to help a local graduate student oversee the exhibit, and many use it to meet with past and present contributors. At the 2000 convention, CELJ drew a great deal of attention by turning the booth into a space for journal editors and authors to meet and discuss authors' individual concerns about journal publishing. The "Chat with an Editor" program served over a hundred authors in succession throughout the conference. The event was written up by the Chronicle of Higher Education (see the 12 Jan. 2001 issue, in the "Hot Type" column, available online to subscribers). In 2007, CELJ added a successful version of "Chat" for creative writers. In 2009, the MLA accepted Bonnie Wheeler’s appeal to provide dedicated space for the "Chat with an Editor" program in a room set aside for various ‘chats’—along with such groups as ACLS and NEH.
In 1985 CELJ reached an agreement with the Times Literary Supplement: members are invited to advertise, at special rates, in a section of TLS devoted entirely to journals each November. TLS sends hundreds of copies of that issue to distribute free to MLA members at the annual exhibit.
In 1992 CELJ struck up an arrangement with the Society for Scholarly Publishing at the University of Toronto so that CELJ membership included a free subscription to the Journal of Scholarly Publishing, perhaps the best-known and most widely distributed journal of its kind in the world. Rising costs have prohibited that relationship from enduring past 2009, but from 2002, JSP has published the council's MLA keynote addresses and roundtables as a regular yearly feature and it plans to continue that tradition.
Between 1991 and 1997, during the presidencies of Coldewey, Shoaf, and Laird, CELJ began converting as many of its operations as possible to digital format. In fact, Coldewey had recruited Shoaf because he knew that Shoaf was already involved in preparing his journal, Exemplaria, for an Internet appearance. Under Shoaf, e-mail communications became much more standard amongst the membership as well as the officers; and the journal Editors' Notes was converted to a newsletter which first appeared online in 1995. Shoaf, in turn, recruited Holly Laird, knowing that she was also interested in the fate of academic journals in the digital revolution as well as the impact this revolution was bound to have more generally on women's studies in academia. Under her leadership, a number of initiatives were conceived, which brought the Council to the attention of others who were interested in similar issues and problems. All subsequent Presidents of CELJ have been not only computer-literate but also dedicated to understanding and examining the many questions and issues with which the digital has confronted academic publishing.
One service CELJ offers extends beyond its member editors: an adjudication process to help mediate disputes between journals and authors, no matter which party is aggrieved. The adjudication process has been used only a few times in any given year, but it clearly has met a strong need within the profession. Future plans for the organization include new advocacy initiatives for the recognition of editors, workshops for aspiring editors, the development of guidelines for evaluating publication in online journals, the updating and enhancement of this web site, and outreach programs to editors from all humanities disciplines. | <urn:uuid:743d65df-754b-4245-b703-f0fb3a99a99c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.celj.org/history | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937936 | 1,972 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Since the end of World War II, Latin music - salsa, mambo, rumba, cha-cha-cha - has profoundly influenced American popular music. Latino musicians helped shape many traditional genres of music in the United States, including jazz, R&B, rock 'n' roll, and hip hop. Featuring bilingual text panels, graphics and photographs, listening stations, films, and musical instruments, this exhibition reveals the true flavor, or "sabor," of Latin music in the United States. It focuses on five cities that represent the remarkable diversity of Latino popular music - New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, San Antonio, and San Francisco - to explore the broader histories and cultures that created the music emerging from those areas. The exhibition is on display until October 9, 2011.
Latino musicians have had a profound influence on traditional genres of music in the United States, including jazz, R&B, rock n roll, and hip-hop. At the same time, their experiences living in the United States triggered the creation of new musical traditions, such as mambo and salsa. American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music, a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian
, presents the musical contributions of U.S. Latinos from the 1940s to the present, exploring the social history and individual creativity that produced stars like Tito Puente, Ritchie Valens, Celia Cruz, Carlos Santana and Selena.
Divided into 5 sections, American Sabor
explores the influence of Latino musicians in post-World War II America through the lens of major centers of Latino music productionNew York, San Antonio, San Francisco, Miami and Los Angeles.
Based on the 5,000 square foot exhibition of the same name created by EMP in partnership with the University of Washington, American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music is a 2,500 square foot experience designed for smaller museums and cultural centers
Two films made specifically for the exhibition bring Latino music and dance to life. Each short film features performance footage and filmed interviews with artists and experts, and the narratives examine key events in the history of post-World War II Latino music. The Palladium Ballroom tells the story of New Yorks mythic 1950s dance hall, and the worldwide mambo craze created by the clubs performing stars, like Tito Puente and Tito Rodriguez. A second film, also called American Sabor, features exclusive, highly illuminating interviews with stars of the Latin music scene, including salsa legends Johnny Pacheco and Willie Colón, virtuoso guitarist Carlos Santana, pop icon Herb Alpert, and the musicians who created San Antonios famed Westside Sound.
Guided listening stations allow visitors to listen closely to key artists and genresfrom salsa and Santana to San Antonio rhythm and blues. Expert commentary identifies elements such as ethnic roots, rhythmic patterns, form, texture, instruments, vocal style, and lyrics.
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Students should start preparing for finals now
The fall semester is finally coming to an end. Midterms are finally over and done with, and all that is standing in the way of winter break is final projects, papers and exams. The end of the semester may always feel like a drag to some students, but it is important not to get too relaxed until the examination period is over.
A lot of us put off assignments, even when we have time to get them done right away. There can be a number of reasons why we put them off, whether we’re distracted by social media or we have a fear of doing the assignment wrong. While all of this inevitably happens, one thing you should not do is cram before an exam.
While we have a little under a month before the examination period begins, the best thing students can do is start preparing for exams now. Having that leeway can bring down stress and help you feel like you aren’t under a tremendous amount of pressure.
Cramming may work for some people because they might go with their first instinct and end up being right. However, it’s not usually advised because of the negative effects it has on grades. It’s better to study the material well beforehand and then revisit it either the day before or the day of in order to retain the information.
Of course, cramming is better than not looking at the material at all, but it’s certainly not the best option. In the long run, you will lose out on sleep, which may result in students using stimulants to keep them awake. As a result, during the test, you will not only have a lack of concentration, but also a bad test performance.
It all comes down to making a balanced schedule, as well as how committed you are to your schoolwork. You will find that you have more time for leisure if you prioritize and complete tasks in order of importance rather than just waiting until it piles up. There will always be distractors, but you can’t let that get to you. It will be more rewarding to do what you want when you know you’re caught up with what you have to do.
If you break small tasks up over a course of time, it can end up being more manageable. It’s also best to look into long term goals. Instead of being caught up with the immediate gratification of friends, you need to think about where you want to be five years from now. Students need to ask themselves what exactly is it that is preventing them from doing what they need to do. Once they determine what that is, all they need to do is figure out when enough is enough. | <urn:uuid:ee895984-3748-4ae7-b0c4-d8bdd64ed223> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://archive.uwmpost.com/2012/11/dont-get-caught-cramming/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970604 | 552 | 2.3125 | 2 |
The $50,000 Special
TOM: I know the answer to part A, and the answer to part A is the Zamboni machine.
RAY: That's right. That's exactly right.
TOM: And I've got to take a wild guess at number two that it's got to be Sonja Henie, but she was dead in 1949.
RAY: No, she was not dead at that time.
TOM: You mean she was the perpetrator of this?
RAY: No, she didn't invent it. It was invented by...Frank Zamboni.
TOM: I remember. I used to buy sandwiches from him.
RAY: Yeah, give me two large Zambonis and hold the hot pepper.
TOM: The Zamboni, of course, is the big thing that cleans off the ice on a skating rink. Right?
RAY: Exactly right. You know, it's good at removing the blood from the ice, too.
TOM: And teeth...
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UNIVERSITY STUDENTS VISIT THE BIENNIAL WITH THE SUPPORT OF KOÇ HOLDİNG
Undergraduate students enjoy free admission to the biennial upon showing their student ID cards at the "University Students Visit the Biennial with the Support of Koç Holding" desks at the biennial venues.
YOUNG PEOPLE EXPERIENCE THE BIENNIAL WITH THE SUPPORT OF KOÇ HOLDİNG
Young visitors to the biennial will gain an enhanced understanding of contemporary art and exhibitions, thanks to a project realized with the cooperation of Pace Children's Arts Center. The biennial is happy to offer special programming for the duration of the exhibition that is intended to help them get acquainted with basic artistic terms and concepts. While strolling through the venues, they will talk about and put into practice what they have learned.
Venue: Antrepo 3 & 5 Age groups: 6-7 / 8-11 / 12-14
This special youth educational programming will be held from September 20 until the end of the biennial, four days a week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday). There will be two sessions each day.
Weekdays: 10:00-12:00 and 12:30-14:30 Weekends: 12:30-14:30 and 15:00-17:00
The sessions can accommodate a maximum of 20 children, so advance reservations are advised. The sessions are free of charge for children. Their guardians may attend with the purchase of a biennial ticket.
Melike Kuru T: (0212) 334 08 18 (on weekdays 10:00-18:00)
TRAINING PROGRAM FOR ART TEACHERS SPONSORED BY VEHBİ KOÇ FOUNDATION A special training program for art teachers working in public and private primary and high schools in Istanbul will be realized during the 12th Istanbul Biennial. Mine Küçük, an expert trainer, will guide the sessions with the aim of increasing the teachers' interest in contemporary art, contibuting to the widening of their vision, and bringing a new perspective to their approach toward students. The teachers will then bring their students to the biennial and guide them through it, sharing their new knowledge. This program expects to reach a total of 200 art teachers and 15,000 students.
Name of the teacher, name of the school, branch, phone number, e-mail, dates of participation to the training
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While the world suffers, Wall Street pays itself record bonuses, larger even than the peak year of 2007, by taxing the productive economy to maintain an extravagant lifestyle. These bonuses are being paid with your money, and your children’s money, if you hold US dollars.
And while this happens, the US credit card banks are raising interest rates to 20+% even on customers with excellent payment records and jobs which is certainly usury, and with an arrogant impunity. The insider trading scandals and tales of government graft yet to be told are so blatant and shocking that only a captive mainstream press keeps them from being investigated.
The rest of the world looks on in shock and amazement. What has gone wrong with America? What are they thinking? America has not only lost the high ground, it is sliding into a ditch.
While Americans are pacified by bread and circuses, the rest of the world looks at a painful reality show in the States, a country in a death spiral of corrupt leadership and public apathy. If it was Zimbabwe or Iceland there would still be sympathy for the people, but far less concern.
A deflationist friend was railing about the US slide into bankruptcy, and I could not help but ask, "What happens to the paper of a bankrupt company, or country?"
Where indeed will the dollar gain its long anticipated strength, its renaissance of value?
Or yes, from "less dollars" through debt destruction. Mutant monetarism gone mad, an argument worthy of Herr Goebbels. The dollar will rise in value by immersing itself in a pool of corruption, and by destroying its shareholders, those who hold their savings in it, while oligarchs loot the financial system. Unless the US can turn its trade balance positive overnight, while raising interest rates, and maintaining a growing domestic economy based on consumption, it is not going to happen. The US is running out of degrees of freedom.
Wall Street holds the US public and government hostage by threatening financial armageddon if they do not get what they wish. We would anticipate a similar threat to the global economy based on dollar debt at some point, asking for a global monetary regime controlled out of New York and | <urn:uuid:22dbddac-df48-479a-9994-2229fe15e3c1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.philstockworld.com/tag/us-banks/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953676 | 448 | 1.53125 | 2 |
As you've no doubt heard, yesterday a federal judge struck down California's Proposition 8, which outlawed marriages between same-sex couples. This is the first step in a process that will ultimately lead to Anthony Kennedy deciding whether gay people can get married. This decision wasn't a surprise to anyone who followed the trial -- the side defending Prop. 8 put on a pathetic case, calling only two (not particularly compelling) witnesses and making arguments they seemed to have no idea how to defend when those arguments were cross-examined.
Their biggest problem was that in order to justify constraining the rights of gay people, they had to explain the harm done to straight people's marriages when gay people are allowed to marry. And they just couldn't do it. This ended up being the factual basis on which the decision rested. And all their talk about how important and wonderful marriage is only reinforced the fact that denying it to gay people was a serious harm done to them, one that needed a very strong state interest to justify it. And they couldn't come up with that either.
Yet for all the skill of the lawyers who argued against Prop. 8, it will probably come down to how far Justice Kennedy has moved on this issue. We can say for sure that there will be four solid No votes on the Supreme Court against marriage equality -- Roberts, Alito, Thomas, and Scalia. We're less certain about the Yes votes, but let's assume that the Court's four liberals -- Breyer, Ginsberg, Sotomayor, and Kagan -- come around. That leaves Kennedy, something trial judge Vaughan Walker seemed to be well aware of. As Dalia Lithwick noted, Walker's decision included "seven citations to Justice Kennedy's 1996 opinion in Romer v. Evans (striking down an anti-gay Colorado ballot initiative) and eight citations to his 2003 decision in Lawrence v. Texas (striking down Texas' gay-sodomy law)."
Given Kennedy's prior findings, Walker's extensive findings of fact, and the fact that the attorneys carefully crafted their case just to appeal to Kennedy, you might think the justice would find himself inevitably led to uphold Walker's ruling and strike down laws banning same-sex marriage. But as we know, all lofty talk about the the Constitution and precedent notwithstanding, the Court is going to do whatever it wants. When it's even a marginally close call, they can find a legal basis for whichever outcome they prefer. What we don't know is what Kennedy prefers.
-- Paul Waldman
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Results of Long-Term, Open-Label Extension Study Evaluating ONFI® (clobazam) CIV Presented at American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting
Data from a long-term, open-label extension study (OLE) evaluating ONFI (clobazam) Tablets CIV for the adjunctive treatment of drop seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) were presented as a late-breaking poster at the annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society (AES).1 A 1,5-benzodiazepine, ONFI was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2011 for the adjunctive treatment of seizures associated with LGS in adults and children as young as two.2
This study enrolled patients with a current or previous diagnosis of LGS aged 2 to 60 years old. Patients had previously completed one of two double-blind clinical trials evaluating ONFI as adjunctive therapy for drop seizures associated with LGS, and qualifying patients were given the option of tapering off ONFI or continuing in the OLE. Of 306 patients previously enrolled in these two earlier studies, 267 entered the OLE during the enrollment period of Dec. 28, 2005 through Dec. 15, 2009. Approximately 70 percent (188 of 267) of these patients remained in the study until its conclusion on March 23, 2012.1
The primary efficacy endpoint of the study was median percentage decrease in average weekly rate of drop seizures measured at eight separate time points from month 3 through three years, compared with last assessment before first dose of ONFI. Results from this endpoint include 113 patients who received ONFI for three years.1 Further results for those patients who received ONFI for greater than three years are expected to be published during 2013.
“While LGS represents a small percentage of patients an epilepsy specialist typically treats, the diagnosis often requires a significant amount of time, resources and attention because of the frequency and severity of seizures,” said Yu-tze Ng, director of epilepsy at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and lead investigator of the study. “It's important to collect long-term data because these challenging seizures associated with LGS typically continue throughout the patient's life.”
LGS is a rare and severe form of epilepsy that is typically diagnosed in childhood and often persists into adulthood.4,5,6 LGS is associated with multiple types of seizures with periods of frequent seizures, and daily seizures are common.7 Some of these seizures, including atonic, tonic and myoclonic seizures, may cause falls and are called “drop seizures” (also referred to as “drop attacks”), which may result in injury.8
“There is no quick fix for LGS. The diagnosis takes patients, their families and health care teams on a long-term journey from childhood diagnosis into the adult years, from one seizure type to the next, while multiple AEDs are used to manage the condition,” said Juliann Paolicchi, MD, director of the pediatric comprehensive epilepsy program at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, as well as co-investigator of the study. “We are pleased that Lundbeck was able to partner with a group of clinical researchers to investigate the use of ONFI for this difficult to treat disorder.”
The most common adverse events experienced in this OLE (≥15%) included upper respiratory infection, pyrexia, somnolence, pneumonia, fall and otitis media. A total of 79 (29.6%) patients discontinued the study for the following reasons: patient/parent/caregiver request (33 patients), lack of efficacy (15), adverse events (10), death (9) and “other reasons” (12).1
About the Presentation
This study was presented at AES on Saturday, Dec. 1, 11:45 a.m. – 1:45 p.m., during Poster Session 1 at the San Diego Convention Center in Hall B, Ground Level.
About the Study
This multicenter, open-label extension study of ONFI (clobazam) was designed to assess the long-term safety and efficacy of open-label ONFI as adjunctive therapy for patients with seizures associated with LGS. The study included 267 qualifying patients who had completed one of two randomized controlled trials – a Phase II dose-ranging study (N=68) or a pivotal Phase III study (N=238; CONTAIN Trial).1
Patients were eligible to continue on to the open-label study if no more than 14 days elapsed since their last dose in the dose-ranging study (Phase II) or the CONTAIN Trial.1 For patients from the CONTAIN Trial, ONFI was started at a target dosage of 0.5 mg/kg/day (maximum 40 mg/day). This dosage was maintained for 48 hours, and thereafter adjusted per clinical need. For patients from the dose-ranging study who chose to continue in the open-label study, the unblinded physician adjusted or maintained the dosage the patient was previously receiving. 1
About ONFI® (clobazam) Tablets CIV
ONFI is an oral antiepileptic drug developed in the United States by Lundbeck, and is available in 5-mg, 10-mg, and 20-mg tablets. ONFI is a 1,5-benzodiazepine.2 The exact mechanism of action for ONFI is not fully understood, but is thought to involve potentiation of GABAergic neurotransmission resulting from binding at the benzodiazepine site of the GABAA receptor.9
ONFI is indicated for the adjunctive treatment of seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) in patients 2 years of age or older.
Important Safety Information
- ONFI causes somnolence and sedation. In clinical trials, somnolence or sedation were reported at all effective doses and were dose-related. In general, somnolence and sedation begin within the first month of treatment and may diminish with continued treatment. Prescribers should monitor patients for somnolence and sedation, particularly with concomitant use of other central nervous system (CNS) depressants. Prescribers should caution patients against engaging in hazardous activities requiring mental alertness, such as operating dangerous machinery or motor vehicles, until the effect of ONFI is known.
- ONFI has a CNS depressant effect. Patients should be cautioned against the simultaneous use with other CNS depressant drugs or alcohol, and cautioned that the effects of other CNS depressant drugs or alcohol may be potentiated.
- As with all Antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), ONFI should be gradually withdrawn to minimize the risk of precipitating seizures, seizure exacerbation or status epilepticus. Withdrawal symptoms have been reported following abrupt discontinuation of ONFI; the risk of withdrawal symptoms is greater with higher doses.
- Patients with a history of substance abuse should be under careful surveillance when receiving ONFI or other psychotropic agents because of the predisposition of such patients to habituation and dependence. In clinical trials, cases of dependency were reported following abrupt discontinuation of ONFI. The risk of dependence increases with increasing dose and duration of treatment.
- AEDs including ONFI increase the risk of suicidal thoughts or behavior in patients. Patients, their caregivers, and families should be informed of the risk and advised to monitor and report any emergence or worsening of depression, suicidal thoughts or behavior, or any unusual changes in mood or behavior, or thoughts of self-harm. If these symptoms occur, consider if it may be related to the AED or illness because epilepsy itself can increase these risks.
- The most commonly observed adverse reactions reported in an LGS randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled, parallel group clinical trial who received clobazam as adjunctive therapy (≥10% in any treatment group; low, medium or high dose and at least 5% greater than placebo respectively) were somnolence or sedation (32% vs. 15%), somnolence (25% vs. 12%), pyrexia (17% vs. 3%), lethargy (15% vs. 5%), drooling (14% vs. 3%), aggression (14% vs. 5%), irritability (11% vs. 5%), ataxia (10% vs. 3%) and constipation (10% vs. 0%).
About Lundbeck in the U.S.
A wholly-owned subsidiary of H. Lundbeck A/S, Lundbeck in the U.S. is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois, and is committed to accelerating our work in central nervous system (CNS) disorders, including challenging seizure disorders. Additionally, Lundbeck employees actively support and participate in hundreds of epilepsy awareness events each year as part of their ongoing commitment to make a difference for those impacted by epilepsy. For more information, please visit lundbeckus.com.
H. Lundbeck A/S (LUN.CO, LUN DC, HLUYY) is an international pharmaceutical company highly committed to improving the quality of life for people suffering from psychiatric and neurological disorders. For this purpose, Lundbeck is engaged in the research, development, production, marketing and sale of pharmaceuticals across the world. The company's products are targeted at disorders such as depression and anxiety, psychotic disorders, epilepsy and Huntington's, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
Lundbeck was founded in 1915 by Hans Lundbeck in Copenhagen, Denmark. Today Lundbeck employs approximately 6,000 people worldwide. Lundbeck is one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies working with psychiatric and neurological disorders. In 2011, the company's revenue was DKK 16.0 billion (approximately EUR 2.2 billion or USD 3.0 billion). For more information, please visit www.lundbeck.com.
ONFI is a registered trademark of Lundbeck.
1. AES Late-Breaker 2012.
2. ONFI Full Prescribing Information. Deerfield,IL: Lundbeck Inc. October 2011.
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Old Holland has been making artist colors since 1664, as one of the oldest continuously operating companies in the art supply industry. The company is known for uncompromising adherance to its techniques and standards. All color making is done by hand
Color Swatch created using heavy application/medium application/50% tint and was applied on acrylic primed canvas (7 oz) material.
Bone Black is a carbon black pigment produced from charring animal bones, usually done at high temperature in a kiln, similar to Ivory Black.
Bone Black is absolutely permanent.
Bone Black is non-toxic, provided that it does not contain harmful impurities.
Bone Black has been used as a source of pigment since prehistoric times. It has been detected in paintings back to the Middle Ages.
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“A medical research team led by University of Miami doctors injected stem cells into the hearts of pigs that had been damaged by heart attacks. Within two months, the doctors said, the stem cells made the pigs’ hearts good as new.”
Stem-cell experiment on pigs seen as step forward in repairing heart damage
August 2, 2010 By Fred Tasker
A medical research team led by University of Miami doctors injected stem cells into the hearts of pigs that had been damaged by heart attacks. Within two months, the doctors said, the stem cells made the pigs’ hearts good as new.
The treatment resulted in rapid healing in the pigs, said Dr. Joshua Hare, a cardiologist at UM Medical School and director of its Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute, where research was done.
“In two weeks, their heart function was almost back to normal. In two months, they were absolutely back to normal,” he said. “If we can achieve even 50 percent of that in humans, it will have a major impact.”
Hare said he hopes that within a decade, the procedure might be routine in humans, and that similar therapy might be available for the liver, kidney, pancreas, brain, even for strokes and limbs badly injured in battle.
The new study, published in the July 29 issue of Circulation Research, a journal of the American Heart Association, builds on another UM study published in December. In that study, immature “mesenchymnal” human stem cells extracted from bone marrow and infused into the hearts of human heart-attack victims made their hearts less prone to dangerous arrhythmias and better able to pump blood.
That study prompted widespread debate among scientists over how the stem cells were able to promote healing in the heart. The greatest significance of the new research that it explains the healing process, Hare says.
“Scientists always want to know why,” he said. “You can’t really go forward with research unless you understand what’s going on.”
Dr. Robert Simari, vice chairman of cardiology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., who had read the study but did not take part in it, supported its significance.
“This is a unique insight,” he said. “The field has been hindered by a lack of understanding of this mechanism. This shines new light on how these things work.”
The new UM study found that the stem cells helped the heart in two ways. First, some of the stem cells — injected into the heart via catheter into the groin and up the femoral artery — actually turned into new, cells themselves. They replaced heart tissue killed by the heart attack, and became part of the heart muscle that contracts and beats to circulate the blood.
Another part of the injected stem cells didn’t turn into new heart cells but instead induced stem cells already existing in the heart to greatly multiply, building more heart muscle.
Doctors had known the human heart contained some of its own stem cells, whose function is to repair and regenerate the heart. The heart’s stem cells work like the stem cells in hair follicles, which induce the hair to grow back after a haircut, Hare said. But the heart was thought to have too few of them to fully repair itself.
In the new experiment, the injected stem cells caused an explosion of growth in the heart’s own stem cells, which turned into heart muscle cells.
“They helped create 20 times the number of the body’s own heart stem cells,” Hare said.
The study demonstrates another way to use immature human stem cells that avoids the use of embryonic stem cells, which are controversial because creating them destroys human embryos.
Another advantage is that the experiment worked with stem cells from the bone marrow of unrelated donors, which — for reasons not entirely clear yet — do not seem to carry the same risk of rejection by the recipient’s body, which is a serious problem with heart and kidney transplants.
Stem cells extracted from the patient’s own bone marrow also can be used, but they need three weeks of purification and proliferation to be ready, delaying treatment for the ailing heart.
New studies are under way to see which method — using cells from a donor or the patient — works better, Hare said.
(c) 2010, The Miami Herald.
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Federal Reserve May Pause Quantitative Easing?
An obscure report that the Federal Reserve may suspend the monetization of purchasing Treasury Bonds has the smell of disinformation. The perennial efforts to lift economic spirits with the beginning of a New Year often are packed with wishful thinking. Quantitative Easing is being treated as a useful tool for turning on and off the spigot of liquidity infusion. In reality, the results of the massive origination of debt created monies fundamental purpose is to save the commercial banks from insolvency.
The trial balloon report, Federal Reserve could pause QE this year if US economy improves, avoids the risks that come from another expansive round of deficit spending.
“St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, a voting member of the Fed’s monetary policy panel this year, said a drop in the unemployment rate to 7.1 per cent would probably constitute the “substantial improvement” in the labor market that the central bank seeks.
“If the economy performs well in 2013, the Committee will be in a position to think about going on pause” with the asset buys.
Minutes from their December policy meeting showed that “several” top officials expected to slow or stop the so-called quantitative easing program, dubbed QE3, “well before” the end of the year – news that surprised some on Wall Street and prompted a drop in stocks and bonds, and a rise in the dollar.”
The recent spike of equity prices after the sharp increase in taxes on high-end incomes just does not translate into improving the prospects of the beleaguered middle class. Temporary uncertainty relief does not make a healthy stock market alone. When the financiers of employment expansion must face the added costs of Obamacare and a drop in consumer disposable income, it simply does not follow that unemployment levels will drop in the near future.
Yet, segments of the Federal Reserve offers optimism, as the labor market may show “substantial improvement” in the coming months. Could this forecast imply some newfangled governmental make work new spending programs?
The ballyhoo over paying back the loans steers clear of the real reason why AIG was “Too Important” to fail; namely, to salvage the incalculable derivative obligations. Rescuing the money center banks has always been the intent of the “Too Big to Fail” taxpayer salvage schemes.
But when will the limit of such gifts be reached? When the banks are satisfied or when the Treasury is emptied and looted, as the cost of extending the usury based financial system. Future generations do not have a chance for economic prosperity as long as the Federal Reserve continues the bond-buying thievery.
In order to confuse the public even more, The Big Banks Expect Quantitative Easing Into Early 2014.
“The New York Fed’s primary dealers, the 21 banks with which it carries out transactions, expect quantitative easing to continue until 1Q 2014. This is according to a Dow Jones Business News report.
The recently released minutes of the December FOMC meeting revealed that several Fed governors were taking a more hawkish stance in regards to the bond-buying program.”
Remember that the Fed is forecasting a slow modest recovery. What will the change in attitude become with a serious double-dip recession?
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Graduate Program in Chemistry
The graduate program in chemistry offers students an especially stimulating educational and research environment within a community of nationally and internationally respected researchers and scholars. Our program is highly personalized, giving all students the opportunity to work closely with faculty mentors and to engage fully in important research projects while developing their individual research interests and capabilities. Currently, there are approximately 150 graduate students and 110 postdoctoral students in the department.
This is an exciting time for the chemistry department as we settle into our beautiful state-of-the-art building, the Frick Chemistry Laboratory. The public gathering areas are designed to enhance the already active communication between faculty and students of varying disciplines, and the world-class laboratories provide an exceptional research environment. The building is located in the new natural sciences neighborhood of the University that includes, among others, the departments of molecular biology, physics and geosciences, all of which are within a short distance of the chemistry department.
There are many opportunities for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research building from ongoing collaborations between chemistry faculty and faculty across the University. Bolstering this interdisciplinary research at the forefront of science are partnerships between faculty in chemistry with faculty involved in programs such as the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM), the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), the Program in Neuroscience, the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics and the Program in Plasma Science and Technology.
The chemistry department has an extraordinarily active seminar program that features eminent researchers from major universities and institutions. Graduate students also are encouraged to arrange and host a series of seminar talks by top researchers.
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Biographical notes about Ira and Mabel Moomaw compiled by Ferne Baldwin, former College Archivist, Rita Schroll, Development Secretary, and others. Included is a scan of the Emperor of India Gold Medal awarded to I W Moomaw.
See Also: Mabel Moomaw's memorial service as part of MC2004/358.
J. Raymond Schutz - a man of many capabilities. He was a professor at Manchester College, husband, father and farmer, public speaker, pastor and minister of the First Brethren Church in North Manchester, Indiana, candidate for Congress in 1932 (Indiana) and a contendor in the 1936 race for Governor. The researcher can get a feel for Pre WWII Indiana and Indiana during war. Letters to soldiers are included as well as the names of men from North Manchester who were killed in the war. Topics include: Prohibition, economic recovery from the Great Depression, and the impact of Hitler 's Germany on Europe. Schutz was a contemporary with Andrew Cordier who participated in some of Schutz's political involvements.
These items in the Church of the Brethren collection may also be helpful:
Click on the record's record number to see the full record information.
What makes this album interesting in the amount of history it records. There are articles about Church of the Brethren missionaries, the Highland Avenue Church of the Brethren in Elgin, Illinois, Church of the Brethren ministers and leaders, as well as personal stories about the compiler and folks this individual knows. It is a shame that the source remains unknown.
Wedding photo of Lottie and Ernest Hoff and the way their dining table looked at their wedding.
Christmas postcard wtih E. G. Hoff holding grandson, Gregory Lee, circa 1946. On card verso is a family lineage:
Ernest Hoff b.
Lottie Neher Hoff b.
Grandson, Gregory b
Minister Emrick, Leland B.S. 39 [Manchester College Alumnus]
Ernestine (Hoff) Emrick B.S. 40 [Manchester College Alumna]
Dr. WIlbur McFadden and Family, Vernard Eller, Glenn Rohrer, Dan West, Ora Huston, Edward K. Ziegler (1960), Jesse Ziegler, Burton Metzler, Lorell Weiss, Ira Moomaw (1962), Chalmer Faw, James B. Bowman (missionary), Mary Schaeffer, Ernest and Olivia Ikenberry, Merlin Shull, Martha Cocanower, Martha Rupel, Wilma Stern, Anna Warstler, etc.
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Ideas For Preparing Students for Participation
in a Computer Chronicles Learning Circle
Newspapers and Newswires
Show the front page of a local newspaper and ask students to identify
its key features (i.e., headlines, table of contents, pictures, mastheads,
etc.). Then, focus on a story written about a current event in a foreign
country very far away from your own country. Ask students where they think
the reporter was when he or she heard or saw the news and how the information
was transformed into a written story and printed in the newspaper so quickly.
Help your students think about how news and information travels from the
source to the newsroom, to the printing presses, and finally to the public.
Discuss the role of computer technology and telecommunications in transmitting
written texts around the world. If you are unsure of the process, invite
a guest speaker who can extend your ideas.
Field Trip Idea
Call the editor of your local community newspaper to see
if you arrange for a field trip to the newspaper office. Have your students
carefully examine the newspaper and think about how the editors decide
what types of stories to print. Ask the newspaper editor to explain to
your students how reporters are assigned to tasks and how editors make
decisions about articles. Ask the editor to list the criteria he or she
uses in evaluating articles.
Invite a reporter from a local newspaper to come to your
classroom and talk to your students about their work. You might want to
have students ask the reporter how he or she is assigned to a story. When
can a reporter write about whatever they want and when must a reporter
cover the story that was assigned. As you might want to ask if every story
they write is published. Again they will want to understand the process.
It often helps students to know that now everything that is written, ever
by talented adults is published. This discussion may help prepare students
for assignments that they will receive and the possibility that they work
will not be chosen for publication by distant editors.
to Computer Chronicles
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RaceTech is the leading technical facilities company providing innovative solutions to the horse racing industry since 1946.
RaceTech first developed photofinish technology in the 1940s and is still dedicated to providing leading edge technology for raceday solutions including the operation and maintenance of audio visual systems, closed circuit television, public address and radio communications.
Its Outside Broadcast Units supply pictures for terrestrial and satellite broadcast, and provide coverage for every horse race run in Britain for the sport’s integrity service. In addition, the company pioneered the introduction of starting stalls to Flat racing in the United Kingdom and continues to provide and operate stalls in the UK and overseas.
Recent innovations include a multimillion pound investment in HD technology and sponsorship of pony racing to encourage young people in the sport.
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The company now trading under the name RaceTech began life as the Race Finish Recording Company in 1946, following an investigation by the Jockey Club into how photography could be used as a means for judging the results of horse races. First used for the 1947 Flat season, the photofinish soon became an established part of the racing scene, and further significant technological advances soon followed as racing technology developed rapidly through the 1950s and into the 1960s: electronic race timing was introduced in 1950, the first racecourse commentary at Goodwood in 1952, the camera patrol in 1960, and starting stalls in 1965.
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We begin with the biggest economic news today, for the american family budget. The price of gasoline is plunging. An announcement so dramatic, the experts are calling it the gas crash. Late this... See More
We begin with the biggest economic news today, for the american family budget. The price of gasoline is plunging. An announcement so dramatic, the experts are calling it the gas crash. Late this afternoon, this is what the department of energy said. The average price of a gallon of gasoline has dropped 50 cents, in just two months. Today, the average is $3.35 and it could drop even more before new year's. Abc's sharyn alfonsi is here to tell us how much and why. Reporter: It is the type of crash motorists love. Gas prices plummeting. At pumps in boston, $3.59, atlanta $3.79, salt lake $3.40 and l.A.3.68. The trip home for the holidays just got a lot cheaper. I'm thrilled! I mean, I have to buy gas no matter what, the fact that it costs a little bit less with christmas coming up. Reporter: Prices began rebounding after the refinery problems were fixed. Add to that, demand for gasoline down for winter. Analyst now think gas prices could fall even further before new years eve. We should have prices between $3.20 cents per gallon and $3.40 per gallon. Reporter: The good news comes on the heels of a game-changing headline from the internal energy agency. They predict the u.S. Will be energy independent by 2030. And become the world's largest exporter of oil, surpassing, counties like saudi arabia, venezuela, nigeria and even iran. Solar, wind and a backyard oil boom has changed the global landscape, and the landscape on our own backyards. We saw it first hand in kansas. New technologies unearthing previously untapped oil reserves there and across the u.S. The effects already being felt well beyond the gas pump. This unconvention revolution in oil and natural gas is already having a big impact on the united states. It has created something like 1.7 million jobs in the last few years. Reporter: And consider this. The economists at moodies tell us if gas prices drop another 50 cents this year, it will create another 350,000 jobs by this time next year. And in the next few months, pending no major disruptions, we could seal our grocery bills and the cost of medicine, many of them made out of petroleum, come down, too. Sharyn alfonsi, thank you so much.
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Toni Contino knows many women who’ve had breast cancer but recently she has heard from men who have had the disease, including Anthony Galasso, a waiter at her new restaurant Mitch & Toni’s in Albertson who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005.
“I’ve read that men are the last to be diagnosed,” Contino said, “so we want to bring it more forward to the men.”
When Anthony felt a lump in his breast in 2005, he and his wife thought maybe it was just a calcium deposit. There was no breast cancer in the family. A doctor did a biopsy, which revealed he had stage 3 breast cancer. After a second opinion he had a radical mastectomy.
“Men should be more aware,” Galasso said. “It felt like a tiny peanut; there was no pain, nothing.”
One percent of breast cancer cases are men. According to Susan G. Komen for the Cure, in the United States, 2,140 men are expected to be diagnosed, and 450 to die from the disease in 2011.
So Contino and her partner, chef Mitchell SuDoc, decided to help raise awareness and funds during October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month. After reading about Adelphi and what they do,” says Toni, “I thought it would be great to connect with them.”
The : Strawberry Shortcake
How’s it taste: This is what strawberry shortcake used to taste like and always should. The cake is light and fresh, the cream is real and the strawberries are sweet and a bit tart.
Sides: The strawberry shortcake is $8, Two specialty drinks, at $10 each, are the “Prickly Pear Margarita” made with tequila, Cointreau, lime juice, and prickly pear cactus syrup and “The Vegan Pink Lady,” a concoction of gin, pomegranate liqueur, fresh lemon juice and simple syrup.
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prescribing ADHD drugs to young people like never before. But one
psychiatrist is dedicated to weaning children off the drugs which
he describes as "highly addictive". Sami Timimi explains
to Adam James why
he believes ADHD is a "cultural construct" and the result
of speculative "biobabble".
hard-to-parent children are popping psychiatric pills like never
year UK psychiatrists and pediatricians wrote out 329,000 prescriptions
for Ritalin and Concerta, the psycho-stimulant drugs to treat diagnoses
such as attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder (ADHD). This is
a massive 57 times more than they wrote out in 1994.
one child psychiatrist is bucking the trend. In fact Dr Sami Timimi
is dedicated to weaning children off the drugs. For him, the medication
is "highly addictive" and has chemical properties which
are "virtually indistinguishable" from amphetamines like
cocaine and speed.
who works for Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Trust, is arguably the
leading UK psychiatrist critical of the ADHD diagnosis.
book, 'Naughty Boys; Anti-Social Behaviour, ADHD and the role of
culture' is the first authoritative critique of the ADHD diagnosis
- and related prescribing - by a UK psychiatrist.
co-written chapter in a new book, Making and Breaking Children's
Lives, is exclusively published today at psychminded
simply Timimi does not believe ADHD is a valid medical diagnosis.
Instead ADHD is a "cultural construct"; the result of
year he wrote in a academic paper: "ADHD is a 'dumping ground'
allowing all of us to avoid the messy business of understanding
human relationships and institutions and their difficulties, and
our common responsibility for nurturing and raising well behaved
can society therefore justify prescribing potentially dangerous
drugs to treat a pseudo diagnosis, asks Timimi? Moreover, Timimi
says he has children referred to him who have been made worse by
fanatics have been overplaying the evidence of the effectiveness
of Ritalin," he states. "The most recent metanalysis concluded
that evidence that Ritalin was useful for more than four weeks has
yet to be demonstrated."
children do not want to be on medication. They get called names
like 'druggie'. And they do not like the effects of the drug. They
feel light-headed, dizzy or complain of being 'not me'
can use [the ADHD diagnosis] as an excuse to get away with things
they do not want to do. They might say 'I am sorry I can not do
it, I have got ADHD'."
certainly puts his money where his mouth is. Over the last two years
he has weaned dozens of ADHD youngsters off stimulant medication.
chooses, instead, to work with families - and schools - to discover
what dynamics within the child's environment is resulting in their
try to enter into a dialogue and talk to parents about the fact
that ADHD is a controversial diagnosis," he says. "It's
about trying to understand their child from a parent's objective
and not the doctor's."
examines what lies behind a child's problematic behaviour. It could
be learning difficulties, a high sugar diet, domestic violence,
extreme lack of exercise or poor discipline.
don't say people are bad parents, because for me bad parents are
those who go out to intentionally damage their children," Timimi
England and Wales health bodies do not seem overly concerned by
the escalation of ADHD drugs on children, the Scottish Executive
January it launched an inquiry into ADHD and Ritalin following its
own tenfold increase in Ritalin prescribing over eight years.
in clinics all over the UK there's no end to the fierce upwards
prescribing curve of ADHD drugs. Timimi is - at the moment - demonstratively
The Rise and Rise of ADHD, by Sami Timimi and Nick Radcliffe, in
Making and Breaking Children's Lives, published by PCCS books (pdf)
Making and Breaking Children's Lives, published by PCCS books
Naughty Boys: Antisocial Behaviour, ADHD and the role of culture
is published by Palgrave MacMillan.
5, 2005: Watch out for suicidal behaviour for children on ADHD drug,
regulator warns - new clinical trial data shows increased risk
of suicidal tendencies in children on Strattera
10, 2005: Inquiry into ADHD treatment in Scotland - following
huge rise in Ritalin prescriptions
4, 2004: Clinical psychology publishes landmark critique of ADHD
and use of psychiatric medication for children - "overzealous"
mental health professionals prescribe "addictive and brain-disabling"
drugs, argue clinicians
If ADHD drugs
are so addictive why do teenagers refuse them?
Fowlie, community paediatrician, South West Kent Primary Care Trust
October 20, 2006
If methylphenidate was so addictive, why do we commonly find oppositional
teenagers refuse to take it, often with drastic effects.
I have worked as a psychiatrist, but I never managed to improve
the quality of my patients' lives in any way close to prescribing
methylphenidate for ADHD.
agree we didn't need to recognise ADHD in the past, since most kids
were half starved, half ill, and over-worked. If they had an impulsive
accident down some mine or up some chimney, there was no health
and safety to care all that much. Impulsive crime could easily be
dealt with by hanging or deportation. No bother, no ADHD, no methylphenidate.
Is that really what you want?
methylphenidate is addictive...
Turner lecturer in forensic and biomedical sciences, University
August 27, 2007
answer Trish Fowlie's question, methylphenidate is addictive because
of its pharmacodynamics. All psychostimulants if taken habitually
cause an adapative change in the dopamine and noradrenaline function.
This is because this drug causes an increase in the release of these
neurotransmitters. Incidentally. before anyone thinks this is evidence
for a pre-existing dopamine or noradrenaline imbalance. this happens
in everyone that takes these drugs, not just those labelled with
As for why do oppositional teenagers refusal to take it. Well that
is their right and it is a fundamental breach of ethics to force
treatment onto a non-consenting patient. Why do we find heroin addicts
who want to kick the habit refusing heroin? It is the norm for addicts
to want to quit because they don't like the side effects or ever-present
danger to health and well being that drug addiction causes.
Trish Fowlie uses dramatic language in suggesting drastic effect.
It is strange that these are not illustrated by examples. She says:
" I have worked as a psychiatrist, but I never managed to improve
the quality of my patients' lives in any way close to prescribing
methylphenidate for ADHD." This is difficult to follow as there
is no actual measure quoted for quality of life. What needs to be
understood is that children do not voluntarily present with ADHD.
They are taken to the doctors usually because someone else is complaining
of their own 'quality of life'. It might be an idea before inflicting
methylphenidate onto children, some of whom are incapable of metabolising
it, that THEY are asked to comment on their 'quality of life'
Fowlie says: "I agree we didn't need to recognise ADHD in the
past, since most kids were half starved, half ill, and over-worked.
If they had an impulsive accident down some mine or up some chimney,
there was no health and safety to care all that much. Impulsive
crime could easily be dealt with by hanging or deportation. No bother,
no ADHD, no methylphenidate. Is that really what you want?"
I was at school there were no half-starved children in my class
and I did not see many sweeps' boys or child miners plodding their
way to work. I am not aware of any of my generation being hanged
for sheep stealing or transported for life. Neither were we aware
of any such thing as ADHD. We had disruptive children, even delinquent
ones, but we and our parents and teachers thought that was humanity
in all its shapes and forms. I am immeasurably grateful to have
been brought up in an era when there was still reason in medicine
and before it was totally highjacked by big pharma.
releases 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT, serotonin) and dopamine which
eventually causes degeneration in neurones containing serotonin.
This is real brain damage, damage to the actual brain tissue. This
damage is irreversible and 'chemical balancers' will not repair
the destroyed brain tissue or make it function normally again.
the pro-drug lobby actually believe in chemical imbalances they
should understand that serotonin function deficiency is associated
with depression. Great marketing idea though, if the children treated
with methylphenidate do go on to be depressives then they can still
provide a market for even more psych drugs.
it is likley that this iatrogenically-induced clinical depression
will not respond to the current ragbag of SSRI snakeoil therapies.
We should be finding out real soon as the first generation of methylphenidate
victims are just about maturing into the next generation of depressives.
What we should expect to see is that these people presenting with
depression will go straight onto the atypicals and anti-psychotics
to subdue them rather than even purport to treat.
think the moral of the story is that 'chemical imbalances' pose
a real risk of serious mental illness especially where they are
induced iatrogenically by faulty medical treatment.
can be lesser of two evils
Tracy Pankhurst, parent of ADHD child, UK
January 16, 2009
have read many articles criticising the use of stimulant medication
in ADHD; most were over-simplifications of the problem and, I believe,
show a lack of understanding.
is not just about naughty boys acting out. ADHD also occurs without
hyperactivity, in adults and in girl children. How many predominantly
inattentive ADHD children quietly day dream at the back of our classrooms
and under achieve?
I agree that, in an ideal world, we wouldn't have to consider medicating
our children. Given enough support in school, and a learning environment
which makes the best use of the childs attention, minimises peer
bullying and teacher frustration and protects the child's self esteem
Unfortunately this kind of schooling would be prohibitively expensive
to provide. Medication is often considered the lesser evil by worried
parents...it’s never an easy decision to take. However 30-50%
of those with ADHD (adults and children) do not respond to stimulant
medication [Prim Care Companion J Clin Psychiatry. 2006; 8(4): 224–233.]
I had to relearn my parenting
From: Sally Roberts,
Date: November 29, 2010
I agree with Sami Timimi and let me
explain why. My son is nearly 20 and was diagnosed with ADHD when
he was 5. He was placed on Ritalin and later Concerta and was on
meds until he was 17.
I was like any other parent trying to find what was wrong, but at
the age of 10 and high amounts of Concerta, the complaints were
still coming in, my son's behaviour was worsening, he was about
to be excluded from his special school, he did not sleep and I was
I had to find something else and this began a slow road to truly
understanding ADHD. I began with diet, removing foods that exasperated
his behaviour, I had to relearn my parenting skills, what had worked
with my other child was not going to work with my son and especially
now his self esteem was low. I had to get inside the head of my
ADHD son. I researched and studied until I believe I found what
i needed to help him and give him a good quality of life, without
drugs. It was not easy but I believe I did it. I am now a teacher
of kids with challenging behaviour and have a good success rate
in my opinion. I learn more every day and one thing i am sure is
that the diagnosis for ADHD is incorrect and needs to be reassessed.
I came in contact with Dr Tamimi when I was weaning my son off his
medication as I could not find a doctor to help us. They just wanted
to give us more.
Dr Tamimi could not help us as we were out of his area but I have
followed his work and still agree with what I am reading.
I am not saying that a child with a different diet, different lifestyle,
upbringing, etc would not have challenging behaviours, or learning
and social difficulties but I do know for sure that they would not
be as exasperated as they are, and the severe behaviours we see
in today's society would not be around. We are trying to find an
easy way out, when most of the problem lies in today's lifestyles
21st century lifestyle is the major contributor to the ADHD. I had
to learn, this information was not available to me but then who
is listening when you try to explain?
should look at emotional responsibility
Christine P, CAMHS worker, parent
Date: February 8, 2012
have read with interest the previous posts, which are so very relevant
to my own and my son's story.
He was diagnosed
with ADD when he was 6 and started on Ritilin when he was 8.
He really found
it difficult to concentrate and focus, he was not really naughty
as such but got into a lot of trouble as he was so disorganised.
I was constantly
trying to find answers which led me to different treatments for
example neuro feedback and trying out different diets, none of these
seemed to work that well, although we only managed half of the neuro
feedback course, so the verdict was still out on that one.
led me on a journey into studying psychology, social sciences and
then on to social work ending up with a Masters degree and working
Every day I
struggle with the questions around diagnoses of ADHD and ASD and
in my heart of hearts agree with what Dr. Sami says, which is difficult
as most of my work team particularly those from a medical background
think the opposite and when I have expressed my views there is a
look of disbelief.
to my son, he has taken medication for some time but tended not
to take it at weekends or holidays and now he is at university probably
dosent take it at all and seems to be getting on ok.
This may be
because he is studying marketing which really suits his personality
and creativity. The medication did help him focus which in turn
built up his self esteem, he was better liked and had more friends
because his impulsiveness was reduced.
So in one way
it helped but having read the above comments regarding potential
depression - it-s worrying.
My son was 6/7
weeks premature and had a difficult birth, I was stressed it was
an IVF pregnancy and his whole early infanthood was difficult, my
parenting skills were probably dubious, as my own parenting from
my mother was somewhat lacking emotionally.
I've had therapy
for over 4 years now and am coming to terms with my past, I have
been on a spiritual path and used meditation and Buddhist principles
to guide my life and feel a lot better for it.
I deal with
a lot of parents that just see their children as a problem and want
a diagnosis, however I really feel that they need to look at their
parenting and how they were parented and try to increase their capacity
for emotional responsibility for themselves and their children,
this sounds judgemental but its not supposed to be, as you can imagine
not many parents like this approach.
I am not trying
to blame parents but just really trying to help them recognise that
the emotional wellbeing of their family and their child is the responsibility
of parents/family/school/community and nation.
It is difficult
to come to terms with this approach because we do tend to live in
emotionally illiterate and narcissistic times. Thanks for reading
- hope it makes some sense
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When appropriate to the piece or series, introducing specialty processes into a job is one way to differentiate one’s work, and remind the audience that they’re worth the trouble. When I say specialty processes I refer to lesser-used production methods in print, such as media that makes use of die cutting, foil stamping, thermography, engraving, specialized inks, stochastic rasterization, embossing, debossing, spot finishes, as well as the use of any number of uncommon substrates, such as hand-made paper, plastic, wood, foil, parchment, leather, etc. or superstrates, such as lenticular media. Below, Manchester-based Creative Lynx uses a few of these to create the identity for a local restaurant, Australasia.
The menu is heavily debossed with a generously letterspaced Bulmer and Monospace 821, or Helvetica Monospace. The texture is further enriched with adhesive labels reminiscent of a luggage tag (Update: It’s UNDA.) and custom hand stamps, the kind used to cancel postage, with type not unlike FF Confidential. Notice how the various colors of carton and craft paper are allowed to each contribute to the color palette, rather than specifying a single standard media.
Likewise, Underware’s promotional Read naked, promotes Sauna making use of heat-sensitive ink. One must participate in order to enjoy the only barely visible text above. Sample photo taken at roughly 23° C. More info is in Font Magazine 004. And that’s it. I see a rising trend toward more specialty processes as a means of creating a more inviting, personable experience for one’s audience. Enough from me. What have you seen like this? Would you agree that it’s a growing trend? | <urn:uuid:686709b0-a0ba-450b-8c9e-8cf8d7de9049> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.fontshop.com/tag/spot-finishes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913563 | 378 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Our tour of The New York Times Co.’s research and development lab, which concludes with today’s video, represents the first time many of their projects have been seen in the wild. But before we got in there, similar tours had been given to more than 150 advertisers. The company, of course, has a huge stake in the next generation of marketing, which appears as uncertain as the future of news.
Some of the R&D group’s advertising innovations include: RFID chips that connect print ads to more dynamic content on the web, ads that can shift from one screen to another, ads that are linked to what friends are chatting about online, and targeted advertising of all sorts. They also developed the new, more-prominent, advertising units that have been adopted by members of the Online Publishers Association. Those ads are scheduled to roll out in June on major sites like the Times, ESPN, and CBS.
If the news industry’s paradox is declining revenues amid unprecedented popularity of its content, advertisers face the opposite problem: in the midst of record spending, there’s increasing evidence that their work is largely ignored. And while the fate of advertising is not necessarily tied up with the fate of news, the opposite is certainly true, so it’s no surprise that much of the R&D group’s work is focused on this area.
Loyal viewers of our first four videos from the R&D lab will notice that I’ve repurposed some footage for today’s installment, but most of it is new. And as always, a full transcript of the video is after the jump.
Nick Bilton: This is just a tikitag RFID chip, and so here is an ad for Chanel. So if I could put this on my computer, it will go off and get the appropriate ad that goes along with that. So it automatically knows because it’s RFID, it’s connected, that it’s Chanel ad that goes along with this experience. [...]
Alexis Lloyd: It used to be that you had a newspaper, and that was your sole conduit to the general public, and advertisers were buying a piece of that ability to talk to the mass audience, and that’s no longer really the case. And you see advertisers trying to create content — and sometimes successful, usually not very successful — and we’re looking at, are there new kinds of partnerships that can be formed that are beneficial for the advertiser, beneficial for the end user, hopefully, and that don’t compromise our journalistic ethics and mission. So as, so we’re exploring some of those models, whether it’s ways of helping advertisers to create content because that’s our expertise and that’s not really their expertise. Whether it’s ways of integrating advertising into some of these experiences that we’re showing you. We’ve also helped to develop some of the new online ad units that all the OPA sites are going to be launching with in June. So those are some of the areas we’re looking at in terms of advertising innovation. [...]
Michael Young: Right here I have one of our new ad units for the website that are actually going to go live this summer. It’s just one of the new OPA units. It’s just an expandable ad. So we wanted to look at this to say, what parts of advertising, you know, could we send to a TV if we wanted to, for example? So in this case, it’s a Ralph Lauren ad that we mocked up. Any component of the ad I can actually take to look on the TV on a larger screen. So if it was, in this case it’s shots from the runway. So if I saw this and wanted to have a better look at some of these clothes, again I could just take this and drag it up to the TV and see the high-res image of this on the television. [...]
Bilton: I think the question is not, it’s not finding the place [to put advertising], it’s culling it, right? It’s finding where not to put it. Because you could put it anywhere in these interfaces. You could, you know, there could be ads on the side and bluh bluh bluh, all over the place, but I think that the real challenge is, as we look to aggregate content better based on the device and look at the challenges between content and context, advertising becomes equally as important as far as where it goes. So it’s not necessarily, you know, it’s more about limiting it and figuring out the best possible solution for where you see it. And the CustomTimes experience, you know, if I watch Mark Bittman, you know what I’m watching, you know what device I’m on. You can give me a really, really great advertising experience that actually makes sense. It’s not just a random, you know, car ad or whatever, you know?
Lloyd: And I think that one of the things that we’re seeing is that advertising doesn’t always have to be a bad experience. I never thought I’d hear myself say that. But it doesn’t always have to be a bad experience for the user. [...]
Ted Roden: Nick just tweeted. He’s a big clotheshorse, and the new Ralph Lauren line is out, he says. It looks awesome. Now we can just look at that and say, this is the new line from Ralph Lauren, and we can parse that out and figure out what’s going on and figure out if we have an ad based on that. So we fling that over and see what he’s talking about there, and the ad comes up. [..]
Lloyd: And in that case, advertising can be a value-added proposition for both the advertiser and the user, in that it’s more particularly targeted to what you’re doing, what you’re talking about. And therefore you’re more likely to actually respond to an ad and find it useful rather than intrusive.
Josh Benton: As people who look at what’s going on in online advertising, are there any sites or any advertisers who you think are doing a particularly effective job in breaking through the sort of way that the web experience, at least, teaches you to ignore the ads? Have you seen anyone who’s really doing something interesting that you think is effective?
Lloyd: Yeah, I mean, I think that the new Honda ad on Vimeo —
Bilton: Yeah, that’s fantastic.
Lloyd: I thought was a really, really fantastic use of the page.
Benton: Made me watch it.
Lloyd: It did. It made me watch it. I would never watch a car ad, I don’t, you know, really drive much. [Laughter] But —
Bilton: I think Gawker’s actually done some really innovative advertising work. They did a piece a while ago where the content looked like it was sitting on like these cartoon bookshelves. And I really like the fact that they take over the whole page, and the whole page becomes this big storytelling mechanism. Who else?
Roden: There was a great Wario Land or Wario Wii game that took over the whole YouTube, which is probably a pricey ad buy. And it was the whole page and it was kind like the Vimeo one: You pressed play, but then the whole page fell apart ’cause it was so violent or whatever. It was really good, though, ’cause it was so subtle for a very long time.
Lloyd: And I think one example of where people are using technology to target people is on Facebook, but I don’t actually think it’s — it’s an example of how targeting isn’t the whole story, that it has to be interesting or useful advertising as well. It’s almost creepy how well targeted the ads are.
Bilton: I saw an ad for a dentist that said, “New York Times employees get 20 percent off with this dentist.” And I was like, “Whoa, cool,” and I clicked on it, and then I realized that it probably just changed it for — it doesn’t matter what network you’re in, and that’s it.
Benton: Just search for your employer.
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Introducing Kahel Linux, another Philippine-based distro, the third one of its kind, behind AMA and Bayanihan. Kahel means orange in the local language as evident in the orange shirt in the distro’s mascot. Kahel is based on Arch Linux which is part of the Debian family of distros. Kahel runs in Gnome and powered by the Linux 2.6.30 kernel. The distro supports NILFS2 and BTRFS by default. It also utilizes the Pacman and Package Kit. Visit Kahel’s website.
If you want rugged laptops, Emperor Linux has several rugged laptops available. The models Scarab, Ant, Wasp and Tarantula are built to vibration, drop and moisture resistant specifications. They also come with shock-mounted hard drives. The laptops are designed to survive drops from a table. The only minor thing is, they are not cheap! Rugged laptops.
An estimated 200 million units of notebooks will be shipped in 2010. Of the 200 million units, an estimated 25% or 50 million units are going to be netbooks. Microsoft may deem netbook sales insignificant, but 25% of the notebook market is a big deal.
Canalys, a leading market research firm details their netbooks report:
The PC industry is undergoing a more dramatic transformation than seen at any time in the last 15 years. The netbook category was invented as recently as 18 months ago by the likes of Asus and Acer and is the only PC segment enjoying growth this year. The impact of netbooks has been profound.
It has forced Microsoft to fend off a threat from Linux by reducing its operating system prices and to continue promoting its aging XP brand. Netbooks have dramatically lowered industry price points, attracting new categories of consumer buyers.
Furthermore, hard-pressed PC vendors have been forced to cut their operating costs to have any chance of turning a profit. The biggest change of all has been the success the telcos have had in selling subsidised 3G netbooks, emulating the mobile phone business model.
The market shares of PC vendors are changing rapidly on the back of their willingness to commit to the netbook category and their agility in chasing these new, substantial telco deals.
Read the rest of Canalys’ report.
Workswithu.com had a recent article about Ubuntu’s USB Thumbnail Diagnostic Software capable of determining if your desktop or laptop is qualified of running Ubuntu 9.10. Canonical and Ubuntu volunteers were at the Atlanta Linux Fest testing systems. Canonical will review the results of the diagnostic tests to fix any potential bugs and user issues. Canonical plans to release the USB Thumbnail Diagnostic Software to everyone. I hope they put it online soon. This is the kind of software that should be included in every ISO.
If you want an imposing clock front and center, well, you need to try a couple of wallpaper clocks on your Ubuntu desktop. It’s for those people who like the time and clock right in front of their eyes. It’s when you absolutely can’t miss looking at the clock. Ubuntumanual.org details how to install wallpaper clocks in 3 easy steps.
I searched high and low for a solution to a problem with my webcam in Linux. I have a Logitech Quickcam Fusion that doesn’t seem to work with Adobe Flash 10. Many programs like Yahoo and Ustream.tv use Adobe Flash to capture a webcam. My webcam works just fine with other apps like Cheese and Ekiga, but not with Flash programs. I tried the Flashcam fix, but something is not quite right. There seems to be no fix at the moment based on what I read on the Ubuntu forums. This is an issue with Adobe Flash in Linux. Hopefully, it will get fixed soon, like the next release! Has anyone got theirs to work? Any tip is appreciated.
Linus Torvalds called Linux bloated and scary. Did he really mean this and this? Kidding aside, it’s only natural that an OS that’s maturing will get fat with age. Hundreds of lines of code are being added each day. Linux now has over 2.7 million lines of code. Does Linux really need to go on a diet? Maybe. Maybe not.
I think the biggest misconception is that most people think Linux is the Gnome Desktop. It’s really not. In fact, you can run Linux using an entirely different graphical desktop environment like KDE, Xfce, Fluxbox, Icewm, Windowmaker and many, many others . So, it’s a bit deceiving, because users only see the graphical desktop environments and not the kernel.
It’s a good bet that Linus Torvalds was talking about the kernel and the kernel only.
If you are running out of things to do in Linux, (is that possible?) take a look at several Linux projects from TuxRadar. You can host a photo album through Soph, build a media server, make music with Rosegarden, write interactive fiction with Gnome Inform, access remote desktops with VNC, record a podcast with Audacity, animate graphics with Gimp. 7 Cool Linux Projects.
Linuxlinks.com gives a list of free Linux browsers:
- Firefox – Highly popular browser delivering safe, easy web browsing
- Chromium – Open-source project behind Google Chrome
- Opera – Popular graphical web browser and Internet suite
- Konqueror – KDE 4′s advanced file manager, web browser and document viewer
- Epiphany – Simple yet powerful GNOME web browser targeted at non-tech users
- Dillo – Small, stable, developer-friendly, usable, very fast, and extensible
- Arora – Simple webkit based web browser using Qt toolkit
- ELinks – Feature-rich program for browsing the web in text mode
- Lynx – Very fast and easy to use
- Flock – Built on Firefox, specializing in social networking and Web 2.0 facilities
My take: the first 5 browsers are definitely worth the look. Firefox is still the default and standard for Linux distributions. Chromium is making inroads. Wait, until Chrome OS comes out. There will be a big spike in Chromium’s use. Lynx is useful for scripting. Finally, Flock is just an interesting browser. | <urn:uuid:f60d3cf8-dbc0-46d9-983e-58eff525fe9d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ulyssesonline.com/2009/09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931261 | 1,320 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Franchise operations manual
This is the ‘bible’ of the franchise business and forms a significant part of the franchise contract. It is the franchisee’s primary source of information and guidance and should contain a detailed description of the franchisor’s system and how to operate it on a daily basis.
Essentially, it will specific to the needs and requirements of the franchise system such as regulating opening hours, product description, stock control stock ordering procedures, handling customer complaints, the payment of fees, and policies in regard to advertising, marketing and promotions.
It will cover set up procedures, including advice on researching the market, business and tax registration, insurance, opening bank accounts, cash security, site set up, and the preparation of a marketing plan.
But it will also refer to building brand awareness, human resources, health and safety matters and basic accounting procedures, such as VAT returns and the observance of other statutory obligations.
In many franchises this information is contained in one volume but it could run to several, each book dealing with the operation of just one aspect of the franchisee’s business.
The manual is “flexible” in that it allows for changes to be incorporated. Given that a franchise is an ongoing commercial enterprise, alterations to procedures may need to be made in the light of experience and circumstances to allow the franchisee to operate the system more efficiently.
In fact, most agreements oblige the franchisor to “develop, improve, and enhance” his/her system for the benefit of everyone in their network. He/she can accommodate such improvements in the manual. It is the franchisee’s responsibility to keep their staff up-to-date with such changes and to make maximum use of the manual in his day-to-day operations.
The manual is usually used as the basis for franchisee training, each section being discussed in detail in a workshop situation.
The franchisor jealously guards the content of his Operations Manual and will not want to part with it prior to the franchisee signing a franchise agreement. He/she can rightfully claim that it holds the “secrets” to his business system. Even when the franchisee is on board the manual is only ever on loan to them and must be returned when the agreement expires.
By Tony Fitzpatrick, Franchise Your Business Ireland
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To contact Tony email firstname.lastname@example.org
Why the Operations Manual is needed
by Michael Finnegan, MFA
The basis of franchising is that an opportunity is identified, a business model is developed and proven in the marketplace, it is developed into an operating system, the legal status is documented in the Franchise agreement and it is condensed into an operations manual as the framework to ensure uniformity and conformity across a Franchise Network.
The relationship between the franchisor and the franchisee is critical to the success of the development of a successful franchisee network. In order to provide the franchisee with the information, terms and conditions and work methods and practices the franchisor must develop an effective and user-friendly Operations manual in order to ensure consistency across the franchisee network. The issue of an Operation manual, on or before Induction training, is an obligation under the terms of the Franchisee Agreement and failure to do so could put the franchisor in breach of the contract.
Numerous references to the Manual are contained in the Franchise Agreement so, to a large extent, the contents of the Manual should replicate the obligations set out in the Franchisee Agreement is a detailed way, e.g. day to day operating requirements, ongoing development of the business, accounting procedures, reporting procedures. By operating requirements is meant explaining exactly how a requirement must be carried out. This could take the form of a detailed flowchart of the process or an SOP (Standard Operating Procedure), which gives the franchisee a systematic outline of the expectations of the Franchisor in terms of the specification to be delivered in terms of preparation, delivery, and quality. This ensures the uniformity of the service across all the franchisees in the network.
The franchisor, when developing the Operations manual, needs to have already defined and documented the requirements for running a successful business based on his/her own business or on an already established pilot franchisee. These processes/ procedures are then written in a format that will give the franchisee the knowledge to set-up and begin trading. Manuals can be as large as two hundred pages or as small as thirty. What is important to accept that the original Operations manual will be amended and changed over the lifetime of the growth on the franchisee network through changes to procedures, instructions and the on going process of continuous improvement that is the lifeline of any business.
Many franchisors ask “Why do I need a manual when I have the franchisee agreement” The answers are varied but I believe the following explains why.
- To fulfil the franchisor contractual obligations
- To reinforce the terms of the franchisee agreement.
- To set and monitor quality standards.
- To impose conformity across the franchisee network.
- To set benchmarks for monitoring and management.
- To act as the vehicle for induction and training of new franchisees and staff.
- To ensure a systematic method for updating new systems or procedures.
- AND to implement a process for continuous improvement.
Operations manuals are very specific to the requirements of the business and to the intended audience. In many instances the audience are the franchisee and their staff who may have little business or management experience but who know how deliver the service or product through practical experience. Therefore they require maximum support and guidance in a user-friendly framework and language. It provides the end user with everything they need to know to operate and develop their business.
The preparation of the Operations manual is generally the least exciting aspect to the launching of a successful franchise network but as experience shows with many of the most successful franchisee operators the manual becomes the engine for the future development of the business. Manuals tend to reflect the life cycle of the business, set up, day-to-day operational and management procedures, business development. Franchisors need to critically examine each stage of the business model, document and share their requirements and aspirations with the team of people who they are dependant upon for their future success.
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April 4, 2011
For Immediate Release
Graduating students prepare for the working world
School boards host seventh annual Mission Employable conference and employment expo
On April 7th, the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board and the Peel District School Board will host Mission Employable 2011, a one-day conference and employment expo aimed specifically at Grade 12 students planning to enter the working world after graduation. This is the seventh year the school boards are holding this conference and they expect to have 900 students from both boards attend.
Mission Employable helps graduating students explore employment opportunities in various sectors, improve and enhance their employability skills, provides them with employment advice and community resources to support them during their job search.
“Mission Employable is another critical link in the student success initiative where the aim is to reach every student,” says David Coules, Principal of Student Success and Secondary Programs for the board. “This conference gives students important information as they start to look for work after they graduate. It provides students with opportunities to converse with employers from a variety of sectors, and will assist them with their transition from school to the workplace.”
Ryan Porter, creator of ‘Make Your Own Lunch,’ will be the keynote speaker. Ryan will speak to the students about making decisions, carving their own paths in life, and the ups and downs of the decision to break free from traditional paths of education and work.
There will also be a variety of seminar presentations for students and an employment expo where students can meet employers, learn tips of the trade, and discuss employment opportunities.
Mission Employable 2011 will take place at the Pearson Convention Centre located at 2638 Steeles Avenue East, in Brampton, on Thursday, April 7 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information and a schedule of events, visit, http://www.dpcdsb.org/MissionEmp.
Media Contact: Julia Seeratan, Communications Officer
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Living in Melbourne
MIT Melbourne campus is located in the heart of the City of Melbourne, capital of the state of Victoria.
The city itself is located amidst parklands along the banks of the Yarra River, just a few kilometres from Port Phillip Bay. With the sea to the south and mountains to the north, the city offers something for everyone.
With a vibrant multicultural population of over 3 million, it’s the second-largest city in Australia and is a busy financial and business centre. It also has the highest number of educational institutions and is rightly referred to as Australia’s education capital.
Its large Asian and European communities have ensured a rich mix of Eastern and Western culture, resulting in Melbourne boasting an international reputation for fabulous food. Any night of the week you can choose from Asian to European to Middle-Eastern styles of cuisine.
Melbourne has, on more than one occasion, been described as world’s most liveable city by The Economist Intelligence Unit.
In addition to The Economist Intelligence Unit, William M. Mercer global consulting group has consistently rated Melbourne as one of the top 20 cities in the world in terms of quality of life, using measures of political stability, security, economic strengths, access to medical facilities, standards of education, recreational and cultural options, standards of housing and environmental considerations.
Melbourne is famous across Australia for its shopping: from quirky second-hand stores to haute couture boutiques, you’ll find them all within easy reach of MIT. Dotted throughout the city are great venues for nightlife, ranging from small, quiet bars and art-house cinemas to grand theatres.
Sport is popular in Victoria and sporting facilities are excellent. It is known as the sporting capital of Australia, hosting international sporting events like the Australian Open Tennis Championship, Formula One Grand Prix, the 500cc. Motorcycle championship, test cricket and Aussie Rules football. In 2006, Melbourne hosted the Commonwealth Games.
In addition to international sporting events and venues, Victoria is also well known for its beautiful snowfields which are excellent for those interested in skiing during the winter season. There are many attractions outside the city, such as the Healesville Wildlife Sanctuary, Phillip Island with its world-famous penguins, the Goldfields and the Great Ocean Road. If tastes are a bit more adventurous, there is rock climbing and bushwalking in the stunning Grampians National Park, or surfing along Victoria’s extensive coastline.
Melbourne has an extensive public transport system of buses, trains and trams, all of which are within easy access of MIT and which makes it easy to travel around.
Melbourne has four distinct seasons; however, it is well known for its unpredictable weather throughout the year. Summer is dry, with warm to hot daytime temperatures, but rarely humid; but Winter can be cold with higher rainfall, so owning a thick, warm overcoat is a good idea.
Cost of living
Victoria is not only a great place to study, live and work, Melbourne is among the developed world’s least expensive cities in terms of cost of living, while at the same time offering an excellent quality of life – making it one of the world’s most liveable cities.
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