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Wolves go wild in the Southwest
Young, who later became national chief of predator control for the agency, wouldn't succeed without a struggle. The wolf that stepped into his leghold trap in subsequent days pulled the trap loose from the ground and fled through a brushy ravine, fighting off Young's dogs. She would have escaped had Young not caught up to her on horseback, killing her with a shot from his Colt revolver.
According to Young, she was the first Mexican wolf in Arizona killed by federal trappers in a campaign that, by the 1930s, had eliminated breeding populations of the wolf from the Southwest. Wolves continued to cross the border from Mexico into the 1970s, but by 1980 they were thought to have disappeared from the wild.
Aldo Leopold, in his 1949 book A Sand County Almanac, wrote of shooting a wolf in Arizona's Blue Range. Many years later, he came to respect the "fierce green fire" in the eyes of the dying animal and to understand the critical role predators play in the wild.
It has taken half a century, but Leopold's philosophy has led the federal government to turn from extermination to restoration. Last month, the Southwest again resonated with the ululations of the Mexican wolf.
While the wolves' return has the support of many in the region, questions remain. Some wolf advocates say the reintroduction area is too small to allow the animals to thrive. Meanwhile, in rural areas, fear of the wolf still lingers, and some question whether the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service knows what sort of animal it is dealing with.
It almost never happened
Both sides will soon get some answers to their questions. On January 26, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Jamie Rappaport Clark helped carry a wolf kennel to a holding pen in Arizona's Blue Range near the New Mexico border. The kennel was one of three, containing a pair of Mexican wolves and their pup.
"I grew up in this country, and always had the sense that something was missing," Babbitt told reporters. "We've got to make this work. This is just the beginning of the beginning." Later the same week, biologists delivered a second wolf family into holding pens nearby, to be followed by a third in coming weeks.
The wolves will acclimate for six to eight weeks before being released into a 7,000 square-mile "recovery zone" straddling the Arizona-New Mexico border on the Apache and Gila national forests. The area is a world of rocky red bluffs, precipitous canyons, juniper-scented mesas and upland forests of ponderosa pine and Douglas fir - sort of like southern Utah with clothes on. The Fish and Wildlife Service hopes the wolves will increase to 100, at which point they can be taken off the endangered species list.
If the Mexican wolves do survive in the wild, it will be a near miracle. At one point, the U.S. population was down to a few scattered animals in zoos. Then the species got a powerful ally: the 1973 Endangered Species Act.
With this law on the books, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service turned to a veteran Mexican wolf trapper named Roy McBride, with the hope that he could find enough animals still in the wild to start a captive breeding program. McBride, who had started trapping wolves for Mexican ranchers in the late 1950s, was to capture wolves in Mexico and bring them back alive to the United States. From 1978 to 1980, McBride said, "When ranchers would call me with a wolf complaint I'd go ahead and catch it."
These last wolves, wary of traps and poison, were few and far between. He was able to capture only seven, with four surviving to enter the captive breeding program.
Fish and Wildlife mixed zoo wolves with wild ones to deepen the species' shallow gene pool. The program succeeded in producing pups, but in 1987, the agency suspended breeding because of opposition from state officials. Biologists separated males and females, and it looked as if the species was to go extinct behind bars.
Then, in 1990, a lawsuit from the ad hoc Wolf Action Group forced federal officials to reunite the genders. And over the years, with prodding and threats of more litigation, the Fish and Wildlife Service once again began moving toward reintroduction.
Bobbie Holaday, 75, is one of the environmentalists who pushed for the wolf's return. After retiring from a corporate career, Holaday founded the all-volunteer group Preserve Arizona Wolves (PAWS) in 1988 to educate the public. "There was no organized support for Mexican wolves in Arizona," she says. "It seemed totally overwhelming."
With the wolf's return looming, activists are excited but also apprehensive. "Fish and Wildlife always wants the ability to over-manage a population, especially in the first years," says long-time New Mexico wolf supporter Martin Heinrich, who would prefer greater freedom for the animals.
Heinrich argues that the boundaries of the 7,000 square-mile recovery zone have more to do with politics than ecology. If the species is to survive, he says, "We're going to have to allow wolves to disperse outside of the recovery zone south into the Peloncillos and into the mountains of northern Mexico."
But according to David Parsons, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Mexican wolf recovery leader, the boundaries will be strictly enforced. Each wolf will wear a radio collar so that it can be tracked by plane or truck, and animals that stray outside the recovery zone will be captured and returned, or held in captivity.
"There is significant concern that if wolves were returned, they'd occupy all suitable habitat in the Southwest," says Parsons, "so we made a decision to put some limits on the recovery."
Advocates also worry that ranching interests will dominate wolf management. Although the Fish and Wildlife Service has the final say over the wolves' fate, it is delegating much of the on-the-ground responsibility to Arizona and New Mexico. Assisting in day-to-day management will be a committee that includes county, state and tribal officials - groups that opposed reintroduction or preferred that it take place away from their bailiwick - as well as the Forest Service and Wildlife Services (Animal Damage Control's latest handle).
Bill Van Pelt of the Arizona Department of Game and Fish expects U.S. Fish and Wildlife to heed local interests. If the federal agency doesn't, he says, "politically they'd be slaughtered."
Another concern is the wolves' "experimental nonessential" status, which allows ranchers to shoot wolves that kill livestock on private land. Once there are at least six breeding pairs in the region, ranchers will also be able to acquire permits to kill wolves that prey on livestock on public-land grazing allotments.
The same experimental nonessential designation caused a federal judge to rule the reintroduction of wolves in Yellowstone and Idaho illegal last December because of the mixing of reintroduced wolves with naturally occuring wolves (HCN, 12/22/97). That should not be an issue in the Southwest, where there have been no confirmed wolf sightings in over 20 years.
While many activists prefer more stringent Endangered Species Act protection, others, like Holaday of PAWS, see the experimental nonessential designation as a reasonable compromise. "There's no way in the world that we would be able to reintroduce wolves without experimental nonessential classification," she says. "We have such fierce opposition."
Hugh B. McKeen is the face of that opposition. McKeen was a Catron County, N.M., commissioner during that county's attempt to assert its supremacy over federal land management. He runs cows on the Gila National Forest near the wolf release site.
McKeen says fire suppression and abundant predators have driven down deer populations on the national forests. Deer living on private ranches will draw the wolves into close quarters with livestock and people, he says. Although biologists insist there is no record of a wild, non-rabid wolf attacking a human in North America, McKeen is convinced that people have been killed by wolves. He predicts a child will be killed by Mexican wolves within a few years.
"Environmentalists say, "We want to hear them howl. They have a right to be here." But are those good enough reasons to disrupt people's lives?" he asks. "Why don't I go to Albuquerque and tell people, "I go to town for the experience. I want to see those homeless people on the streets; I want to hear the sirens, so keep the thugs on the street corners." "
Also skeptical is the man who helped make reintroduction possible: trapper Roy McBride. Today, thanks in part to McBride's skill, there are 176 Mexican wolves in captivity. But McBride insists they aren't what Fish and Wildlife says they are. Many of the zoo wolves in the captive breeding program were wolf-dog hybrids, he says, and as a result, the agency is about to introduce hybrid animals into the wild.
While the agency's David Parsons acknowledges there were questions about whether some of the captive wolves were dog hybrids, he says the questions have been answered. "We asked a panel of nationally recognized genetic experts to look at these animals (the supposed hybrids) and they matched those (wild animals) Roy caught in Mexico," says Parsons.
A monument to Leopold
When the pens are opened this spring, 11 Mexican gray wolves will venture into a world much different from the one their ancestors lived in. Over the years, grazing and fire suppression have changed the look of the two national forests.
The most important change, however, is that the single greatest reason for their extirpation - a federal program dedicated to their demise - will no longer be aimed against them.
But these wolves will have to be selective. They will have to learn quickly to pull down elk, deer and javelina, but not cows, and to stay within the bounds of their legal recovery zone.
If all goes well, and some of those wolves lope from their holding pens in Arizona into the eastern part of their new home in New Mexico, they will have to cross a double lane black-top before reaching the Gila Wilderness. Next to the highway stands a monument to Aldo Leopold.
* Michael J. Robinson
Michael Robinson writes from Pinos Altos, New Mexico. He works for the Southwest Center for Biological Diversity and is writing a book about the wolf extermination campaign in Colorado.
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* Bobbie Holaday with PAWS at XXX/XXX-XXXX;
UPDATE: PAWS has disbanded and its contact information is no longer valid. -Eds. November 29, 2004
* David Parsons with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at 505/248-6920;
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Those with a nose for dead trees might recall a scandal from the summer of 2009 that sullied the reputation of the Washington Post. Back then, the Post Company sent out fliers touting exclusive dinners at the home of Post publisher Katharine Weymouth that “offered corporate underwriters access to Post journalists, Obama administration officials and members of Congress in exchange for payments as high as $250,000.” When word got out, the Post cancelled the dinners, initially blaming the company’s marketing department (though later reporting showed Weymouth and WaPo’s executive editor Marcus Brauchli knew more about the confabs than they initially let on). The White House also claimed that it had not authorized any officials to participate in these “salons.”
Remember? If you were a critic of the “leftwing media,” this was proof positive of the cozy relationship between the new Democratic administration and the Beltway’s company newsletter; if you were suspicious of the establishment media for its close corporate ties and naked attempts to curry favor with political elites, these planned dinner parties had it all, from aperitifs to the final bill. It really was a fetid swamp, even for swampland.
Flash forward a few years, grab a Metroliner north, and behold this:
U.S. Secretary of Energy, energy economist Daniel Yergin and former Petrobras CEO Jose Sergio Gabrielli de Azevedo are among the speakers at tomorrow’s (Wednesday’s) The New York Times Energy for Tomorrow conference. The conference has been created in collaboration with Richard Attias and Associates.
More than 400 corporate and political leaders, as well as NGOs, academics and energy experts will debate the most pressing issues and opportunities facing the energy sector today. GE is the founding sponsor of The New York Times Energy for Tomorrow, with BMW and Louisiana Economic Development as supporting sponsors.
Gerald Marzorati, editor for The New York Times who is responsible for creating The Times’s conferences, said: “With rising prices, energy is at the top of the agenda – both economically and politically – around the world. The supply picture is changing in the United States, with new sources of oil and natural gas.
“There is also the debate over the environmental impact of energy extraction and production, and the role of efficiency in making sure there will be enough energy to meet growing global needs.”
(That was last Wednesday, April 11, by the way.)
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I’ve seen here and there an effort to translate the experience of the Nativity of the Lord into a devotion akin to the Way of the Cross. As I make it out, Advent and/or Christmas deserve some particular spiritual pilgrimage. People have written books on this. My former parish’s effort was featured in the archdiocesan newspaper before Christmas.
My current parish explored the following stations with its children five years ago. It employed twelve: the Annunciation, the Visitation, the Magnificat, the Birth of John the Baptist, and the canticle of Zechariah from Luke, followed by the Annunciation to Joseph and then Joseph taking Mary into his home. Four more from Luke: the journey to Bethlehem, the Birth of Jesus, the Annunciation to shepherds, then the shepherds spreading the news. Last station: Magi.
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Mark Twain said, “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.” As if to illustrate the point, consider the misleading commentary that continues to emerge, attributing anti-Israeli sentiment to Gen. David Petraeus. I already knocked down one fallacious Web item written by terrorist groupie Mark Perry on Foreign Policy’s web site. The meme has also been refuted by other Foreign Policy contributors.
But Media Matters, the far-Left activist group founded by David Brock, continues to peddle this twaddle. Its website proclaims: “On The Middle East: It’s Palin vs. Petraeus & New Poll.” They quote statements made by Sarah Palin supportive of Israel and critical of the Obama administration’s attempts to pressure Israel on West Bank settlements and then gleefully proclaim: “But that isn’t how Petraeus sees it.” The item goes on:
Speaking about the Israeli-Palestinian issue before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, Petraeus said:
“The enduring hostilities between Israel and some of its neighbors present distinct challenges to our ability to advance our interests… Israeli-Palestinian tensions often flare into violence and large-scale armed confrontations. The conflict foments anti-American sentiment, due to a perception of U.S. favoritism for Israel. Arab anger over the Palestinian question limits the strength and depth of U.S. partnerships with governments and peoples in the [region] and weakens the legitimacy of moderate regimes in the Arab world. Meanwhile, al-Qaeda and other militant groups exploit that anger to mobilize support. The conflict also gives Iran influence in the Arab world through its clients, Lebanese Hizballah and Hamas….”
Actually, that’s not what Petraeus said. Rather, it’s pulled from the 56-page Central Command “Posture Statement” filed by his staff with the Senate Armed Services Committee. A better indication of what is on the general’s mind is what he actually said. If you check the transcript of the hearing (available on Federal News Service) you will find that he doesn’t mention Israel or its settlements in his opening statement, which provides an overview of the most pressing issues that he sees affecting his Area of Responsibility. He talks about Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Iran, information operations, and cyberspace — but not Israel. The only time Israel came up was when Senator McCain asked Petraeus for his views. Here is what Petraeus said, in its entirety:
We keep a very close eye on what goes on there [in Israel and the West Bank and Gaza Strip], because of the impact that it has, obviously, on that part of CENTCOM that is the Arab world, if you will. And in fact, we’ve urged at various times that this is a critical component. It’s one reason, again, we invite Senator Mitchell to brief all of the different conferences that we host, and seek to support him in any way that we can when he’s in the Central Command part of the region, just as we support Lieutenant General Dayton, who is supporting the training of the Palestinian security forces from a location that is in the CENTCOM AOR as well.
And in fact, although some staff members have, various times, and I have discussed and — you know, asking for the Palestinian territories or something like that to be added to — we have never — I have never made that a formal recommendation for the Unified Command Plan, and that was not in what I submitted this year. Nor have I sent a memo to the White House on any of this — which some of this was in the press, so I welcome the opportunity to point that out.
Again, clearly, the tensions, the issues and so forth have an enormous effect. They set the strategic context within which we operate in the Central Command area of responsibility. My thrust has generally been, literally, just to say — to encourage that process that can indeed get that recognition that you talked about, and indeed get a sense of progress moving forward in the overall peace process, because of the effect that it has on particularly what I think you would term the moderate governments in our area. And that really is about the extent of our involvement in that, Senator.
So there you have it. General Petraeus obviously doesn’t see the Israeli-Arab “peace process” as a top issue for his command, because he didn’t even raise it in his opening statement. When he was pressed on it, he made a fairly anodyne statement about the need to encourage negotiations to help moderate Arab regimes. That’s it. He didn’t say that all settlements had to be stopped or that Israel is to blame for the lack of progress in negotiations. And he definitely didn’t say that the administration should engineer a crisis in Israeli-U.S. relations in order to end the construction of new housing for Jews in East Jerusalem. In fact, his view, as I mentioned in my earlier post, is that settlements are only “one of many issues, among which also is the unwillingness to recognize Israel and the unwillingness to confront the extremists who threaten Israelis.”
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WebMD Medical News
Laura J. Martin, MD
Nov. 29, 2010 -- Pediatricians play a key role in preventing and treating food-related allergic reactions among school-aged children, and can help implement plans concerning the way food allergies are managed in the school setting, according to a clinical report published by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Food allergies are estimated to affect about one in 25 school-aged children. Research suggests that as many as 18% of children with food allergies experience a reaction while in school, indicating that the school environment is an important place to help prevent and treat allergic responses. Food allergy is also a common trigger of anaphylaxis, a possibly life-threatening reaction to a particular food.
Published in the December issue of Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the report includes:
“Partnerships with students, families, school nurses, school physicians, and school staff are important for individualizing effective and practical care plans,” the authors write.
The report did not include infants, toddlers, and preschool age children, since these children are cared for in a variety of settings and would require their own set of prevention and treatment guidelines.
According to the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network, an advocacy group, an estimated 3 million children have food allergies. Eight foods account for 90% of all food allergies in the U.S.: milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts (such as almonds and walnuts), wheat, soy, fish, and shellfish. Food allergies account for more than 300,000 ambulatory care visits per year among children.
SOURCES:Sicherer, S. Pediatrics, December 2010; vol 126: pp 1232-1239.Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network.
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In September, President Lindsay spoke to the Gordon student body during chapel and offered a challenge to the students to “be a blessing” to the world around them. He distributed small amounts of money and asked the students to prayerfully and strategically invest those funds in the good of another person. He concluded by saying, "you can't take it with you, but you can send it on ahead!"
Gordon first-year students Christina Halsted and Moriah Gross were inspired by President Lindsay’s message and together decided to use the $2 they had received to bless children on the North Shore. After talking with some of their trusted Gordon faculty members and staff in the OCE, Christina and Moriah decided to invest in the College Bound program, an after-school tutoring and mentoring program in Lynn that connects Gordon students with children in elementary and middle school. Thirty-seven Gordon students tutor children every week through the program.
While Christina and Moriah were thinking through how to use the blessing they had been given by President Lindsay, the College Bound interns were considering how best to support the kid’s reading skills. Reading books together with the kids is a great way to make reading fun, but the program’s library was quite small and the kids were bored with many of the choices. The interns also wanted to send home books with the kids from the library, but feared further depleting the small library by letting the books go home with children. Unfortunately buying new books is an expensive endeavor!
After understanding College Bound’s need for good children’s books, Moriah and Christina came up with the idea to provide books to grow College Bound’s small library. They used their $2 from President Lindsay, along with additional funds from their friends, families, and their own wallets to purchase a lovely new set of books for the elementary-aged kids. Several other Gordon students also contributed their gifts from President Lindsay and joined the College Bound interns in a time of prayer for the program, knowing that financial gifts must join with the work of the Spirit to be effective.
From there, the idea grew into the “Just One Book” Initiative, which challenged Gordon students to bring a book from home after Thanksgiving Break that they enjoyed reading as a child to share with the College Bound kids. The idea was so successful that Christina and Moriah decided to try it again over Christmas Break!
During this past semester, God also stirred a community member’s heart to make a large donation of books to the College Bound program. Between this donation and the generosity of the Gordon community, hundreds of beautiful books have been added to the College Bound library. Tutors are now able to read new books with their students regularly and can send those books home with students to read in the evenings.
In his chapel address, President Lindsay said, "I want to prompt all of us to 'enter into the joy of our master.’” Seeing God provide so abundantly for the College Bound program through the generosity of His people has truly been a joy for Christina and Moriah, for the OCE, and for the College Bound interns, tutors, and students. | <urn:uuid:7ef92e7f-f261-4328-8f2a-40fd5fb09434> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gordon.edu/article.cfm?iArticleID=1416&iReferrerPageID=3113&iPrevCatID=151&bLive=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976019 | 647 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Saturday, 1 February 1997
Why don't penguins' feet freeze?
Why do Antarctic penguins' feet not freeze in winter when they are in constant contact with the ice and snow? Years ago I heard on the radio that scientists had discovered that penguins had colateral circulation in their feet that prevented them from freezing but I have seen no further information or explanation of this. Despite asking scientists studying penguins about this, none could give an answer.
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Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
Friends and family say "it must be nice to be getting back to normal," but I don't really feel "normal" after surviving cancer and treatment. Do others experience these feelings?
Rodney N. Warner, JD, Staff Attorney at The Legal Clinic for the Disabled, responds:
As they say in Wisconsin, you betcha. You’re not normal, you’re better than normal. You’re alive after dealing with a disease that kills 560,000 Americans every year. It’s OK not to be "normal", whatever that means. Who is "normal", anyways? You can say, I’m not sure I feel normal, but I do feel better. Our lives are based on our experiences, and we base our perception of the present and future on what’s gone before. Your frame of reference has changed, given your cancer experience. You are who you are, "normal" or not. If you’ve gotten through cancer, you can get through not having cancer.
Gloria DiLullo, MSN, CRNP, OncoLink Medical Oncology Educational Content Specialist, responds:
You will see that life after cancer treatment will become a different kind of "normal" and you will need to settle in to your "new normal". Any cancer survivor will tell you, things have changed, and so has the definition of "normal". Many survivors say they look at life differently, they don't take things for granted and don't sweat the small stuff. A cancer diagnosis changes you as a person, something people around you may not fully understand. It may be helpful to join a group of survivors, either formally (in a support group) or informally (gather a few folks you have met along the way). Email and the Internet have created a wonderful support for all sorts of concerns, and survivorship is no different. Visit the Association of Cancer Online Resources to find an email group that fits your needs or search the Internet for cancer survivor support. Many cancer centers and advocacy organizations offer support groups for survivors to address their specific concerns after therapy. No one understands this time better than someone who has been there, and this support can be very valuable.
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Carolina Manufacturing has a long and proud history in the textile and retail industry. Founded in 1947, Carolina provided an assortment of products to dime stores, pharmacies, and various retail outlets. They quickly, however, focused on textiles, and became a leading manufacturer of men’s handkerchiefs under the Hav-A-Hank™ cmc logonational brand. Through the years, Carolina was one of many successful textile manufacturers in the United States. Today, they are the largest bandanna company in the U.S., offering a mix of domestic and import items. With the loss of the U.S-based textile market to overseas locations, Carolina Manufacturing remains one of the few textile companies with production facilities in the U.S. As the country’s largest bandanna manufacturer, Carolina is constantly introducing new ways to use bandannas along with innovative and attractive designs. | <urn:uuid:bd8b1419-c6c6-489d-b58b-4435531c2275> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.summithut.com/brands/the-bandanna-company/gift-ideas/backpacking/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960346 | 182 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Nvidia (NVDA;in|VID|ee-É) is an American global technology company based in Santa Clara, California. Nvidia is best known for its graphics processors (GPUs). Nvidia and chief rival AMD Graphics Technologies (formerly ATI Technologies) have dominated the high performance GPU market, pushing other manufacturers to smaller, niche roles. Nvidia's best known GPU product line labeled "GeForce" is in direct competition with AMD's "Radeon" products.
In addition to GPU manufacturing, Nvidia provides parallel processing capabilities, to researchers and scientists, that allow them to efficiently run high-performance applications. They are deployed in supercomputing sites around the world. More recently, Nvidia has moved into the mobile computing market, where its processors power phones and tablets, as well as auto infotainment systems. In addition to AMD, its other competitors include Intel and Qualcomm. | <urn:uuid:aee1d970-759d-450c-a5dc-3086e4cb5e9a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.drivermax.com/driver/update/SYSTEM/NVIDIA/NVIDIA-nForce2-AGP-Host-to-PCI-Bridge/1207918 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955871 | 176 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Lewis Carroll’s connection to Sussex Square intrigued me so I Googled him. There is an academic debate that exists around whether he was a paedophile. He took photographs of little girls, some of them nude. He apparently asked the parents if it was okay. Some academics are stating it was the norm in Victorian times to photograph naked little girls and that makes it okay. However, my mother states the same thing regarding hitting children. Just because “everyone” was doing it, it doesn’t make it okay. Also, the girls in the photographs are posed provocatively; here’s an example:
It is obvious Carroll arranged the child in the pose. This is a photograph he took of himself and Alice Liddell, the inspiration for his book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. She is kissing him with her mouth open. To me this suggests she has been groomed to respond to him in this way.
I find this photo disturbing. It also relates to my film: the main character, Alice, was sexually abused in childhood but has suppressed the memories of the abuse and, instead, hero worships her abuser. It is synchronous that Lewis Carroll has a connection with the place I want to make a film about. I spent some time making notes about books I could borrow about Lewis Carroll to try to get a better handle on it. I could also research paedophilia in Victorian times.
Carroll’s connection with Sussex Square is this: his sister lived at 11 Sussex Square for four years and he was a frequent visitor. It is said he thought of the idea for the downward journey into Wonderland because of the tunnel that leads from Sussex Square gardens to the undercliff walk:
You can just make out doors in the tunnel walls which relates to the corridor in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. I thought about how I might incorporate Carroll into my film. I know someone who lives at Sussex Square. Perhaps I can gain access to the gardens. In the group crit yesterday my tutor stated the Freudian idea of a downward journey as a trip into the unconscious or uncanny. | <urn:uuid:f2bf85c4-a46c-42d0-9e97-23777c789d08> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ooliatr.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/place-research/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00072-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976942 | 434 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Poor social skills
The ability to develop friendships in life is extremely important, especially while growing-up. When you have difficulty expressing yourself, or you struggle getting on with people in general you may become socially isolated and others may unjustly label you negatively.
Maybe you get frustrated easily because you have trouble understanding body language or fitting in with other people. Perhaps this is why you prefer your own company and you’re more comfortable with the same routines.
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U.S. Heart Patients Receive More Transfusions
American clinicians may be too liberal in their use of blood transfusions, suggests a study by Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) cardiologists. In an analysis of some 24,000 patient records, the scientists found that Americans rushed to the hospital with heart attack symptoms have significantly higher rates of bleeding and transfusions after treatment than similar patients throughout the world.
The scientists counsel clinicians to be cautious against initiating transfusing, given their risks, and to take into account patients' capability for increasing blood counts without transfusions.
These findings add to the growing list of studies indicating such a disparity, said the Duke scientists. For example, they found that American heart patients receive blood transfusions 84 percent more often than Europeans and 38 percent more often than Asians after receiving the same treatments.
These findings are important, the scientists said, because research conducted over the past several years at Duke and elsewhere has found that the use of blood transfusions may not be as beneficial nor as non-malignant as once thought, the Duke scientists said.
"There is substantial international variation in bleeding and transfusion rates among the heart patients we studied," said Duke cardiologist Sunil Rao, M.D., who presented the results of the analysis Nov. 15, 2005, at the annual scientific session of the American Heart Association in Dallas.
"These risks of bleeding remained substantially higher even after we made adjustments for patient characteristics and the use of invasive procedures," Rao continued. "Whether this variation is due to biological differences in response to anti-coagulation medications or other practice patterns deserve further study."
U.S. transfusion rates were 72 percent higher than Canada, 70 percent higher in both Australia/New Zealand and Latin American. Interestingly, the only country with higher rates was South Africa, which transfused patients 10 percent more often than the U.S.
The scientists pooled date from four international randomized clinical trials of patients who arrive at the hospital with symptoms of a possible heart attack, such as chest pain (unstable angina), irregular readings on an electrocardiograph or elevated chemical markers of cell death. Typically, these patients are either given strong medications to clear blockages in arteries, or they receive angioplasty to open up arteries or coronary artery bypass surgery.
The analysis involved 24,112 patients at 200 sites in 16 countries in the U.S., Europe, Latin American, Canada, Australia/New Zealand, Asia and South Africa.
The analysis revealed that clinicians in the U.S. are much more aggressive than their international counterparts, employing invasive procedures at almost twice the rate. About 30 percent of American patients in the study received angioplasty, compared to 15.5 percent outside the U.S.; 17.2 percent of American received bypass surgery, compared to 8.8 percent for patients outside the U.S.
"Even when controlled for the fact that in general, American clinicians are much more aggressive in their treatment of these patients, we still found these wide differences remained," Rao said.
To Rao, the reasons for the seemingly excessive use of blood transfusions include decades-long clinician training and habits. Also, Rao said, when compared to other countries, blood is a relatively abundant resource in the U.S.
"The old dogma in medicine has been to treat aggressively, since you can always transfuse more blood but you can't replace heart muscle," Rao said. "In a setting like the U.S., where blood is a virtually unlimited resource, clinicians are more apt to reflexively transfuse their patients."
As per a research findings published in October, 2004, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Rao found that heart patients were more than twice as likely to die during their first 30 days of hospitalization if they receive a blood transfusion to treat blood loss or anemia. Additionally, such patients are more than three times as likely to suffer a heart attack within 30 days, when compared to those who did not receive a transfusion.
"Blood transfusions are not like giving a patient an aspirin or Tylenol; they can be risky," Rao said. "Our message to clinicians is to look at the whole patient and not just the blood count number, when considering whether or not to transfuse.
"If patients appear to be fine, except for an abnormal blood number, it is probably best to hold off on transfusion," he continued. "The body is constantly replenishing its blood supply, so in these patients it may be best to follow them to see if they can raise their blood counts on their own. If they don't, then the clinician should investigate potential underlying causes why the patient's body isn't responding."
Eventhough the purpose of the current study was not to determine why there are differences in bleeding and transfusion rates, Rao does think that different groups of people could react differently to the powerful drugs used in the trials. "It would be naïve to think everyone everywhere would all respond the same way to the same drug."
The reasons transfusions may cause harm are unclear. Previous studies have shown that transfused blood increases oxygen delivery only in the most severely anemic patients. Also, nitric oxide is essential for delivery of oxygen from the hemoglobin in red blood cells to tissues. However, according to Rao, nitric oxide has a short half-life, so by the time stored blood has been transfused, the essential nitric oxide may have been depleted. It is also possible, he continued, that transfused blood may stimulate an immune response that can exacerbate already existing coronary artery disease.
Rao's analysis was funded by the DCRI. The three trials from which data was collected were GUSTO (Global Use of Strategies to Open Occluded Coronary Arteries) IIb, PURSUIT (Platelet Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa in Unstable Angina: Receptor Suppression Using Integrilin Therapy) and PARAGON (Platelet IIb/IIIa Antagonism for the Reduction of Acute Coronary Syndrome Events in a Global Organization Network) A and B.
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Fall of Man: Consequence
1. What were the sin(s) that God judged for?
a. Woman was judged for listening to the serpent and eating the fruit.
b. Adam was judged for listening to the voice of his wife and eating the fruit.
c. Adam and Woman were judged for not listening to God.
d. All of the above.
To learn more, see Observing the Fall of Man
2. What was the consequence of the Fall?
a. Human beings lost the beauty of innocence.
b. Human beings became irresponsible.
c. Adam and Woman feared God.
d. Sin corrupted the original design for a relationship between a husband and wife.
e. a and c.
f. All of the above.
3. Who changed Woman’s name to Eve?
Fall of Man: Sin
Death of Man
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From the Super Mario Wiki
“Are the fell beasts gone? So it is safe for me to come out thither?”
When Mario first encountered Yebbi, he actually had not seen him in person. Yebbi was afraid of the monsters invading The Overthere and decided to hide in a restroom. When Mario knocked, Yebbi asked who he was. The responses available to the player were: "Mario!", "Grambi!", and, comically, "A monster!"
If the player chooses to respond, "Mario!", Yebbi declares, "Mario? What a strange name! Thou must be a monster!" If the player responds "Grambi!", Yebbi insists "Grambi? Thou liest! Thou must be a monster!" Then, ironically, when the player responds "A monster!", he shouts, "Thou LIEST! No monster would admit to being a monster! Which means... thou art not a monster?" Then, he comes out of the restroom.
Even when he first came out, he was unwilling to give the party the orb, but he reluctantly agreed when Luvbi threatened to tell everyone he had been hiding in the bathroom. He came out and relinquished the Yellow Orb, which was required to build a bridge to Grambi's castle.
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Today is World Asthma Day—an annual event organized by the Global Initiative for Asthma to improve asthma awareness and care around the world. Over the next few weeks, we’re excited to share blog posts that will explain more about the work our providers are doing across the country to help underserved kids and families learn how to control asthma.
by Dr. John Carlson, pediatrician and asthma/immunology specialist, New Orleans Children’s Health Project and Plaquemines Parish
I see many patients who are living with asthma and allergies while working on the mobile clinics in the 9th ward of New Orleans and in southern Plaquemines Parish. When I see a patient with asthma, I work with the family to select the right controller medications so that they have no limitations in the activities they can take part in. If they have difficulty running, sleeping or going to school because of their asthma, I know that we can find a better medication. I also look to see if they have problems with food allergies, eczema, snoring and nasal allergies because controlling these other problems are an important part of controlling asthma.
For Plaquemines Parish resident, Marie*, helping to keep her son Sam’s* asthma under control was difficult. Although Marie was employed, she was not able to afford health insurance for her children. Subsequently, Sam’s asthma was not properly managed, causing frightening outbreaks that made breathing extremely difficult. A few months ago, Marie discovered our clinic outside of the school where she works and learned that her child could receive care, regardless of her ability to pay. After bringing Sam to the clinic, I was able to get Sam on an “Asthma Action Plan,” give him proper medication, and help Sam and Marie understand what was triggering Sam’s asthma outbreaks. As it turned out, we also discovered Sam had severe allergies after providing him allergy testing and treatment.
Allergies and asthma run in families, so I often see kids in groups, and help parents find the resources to control their own asthma. This is helpful especially when it is time to do allergy testing. I perform skin testing using drops of oil that contain various common substances that children are allergic to. Children are often apprehensive about skin tests, but are more comfortable when they see older members of the family go first. After applying the allergy extracts (using a plastic device that "pricks" the oil into the skin) we wait 15 minutes to see which extracts cause a reaction. Depending on what the child is allergic to, we can sometimes help them to avoid or at least predict when they will have more problems. Simply knowing that the patient does have allergies at all helps predict how effective some of the medications will be.
Once asthma is effectively controlled, the children are able to do everything that normal children are supposed to do without limitations from their asthma. It’s great to be a part of this solution and help kids, like Sam, learn about triggers, get the proper medication, and take control of their asthma.
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It has been said that travel literature is dead, made obsolete by the likes of Google Earth and the internet more generally and the plethora of travel books that do seemingly cover every square inch of the globe. But the great travel writer Paul Theroux, in a recent piece in the Financial Times (“The places in between” May 28/29 2011) reminds us that there are still plenty of places, and plenty of experiences, that are well worth description. It helps to have had a miserable experience, a close call with death, or some other disaster or mishap, or so he argues. Perhaps so. Just to prove the point, go to the National Geographic’s “Extreme Classics: the 100 greatest adventure books of all time.” Number one on the list? The Worst Journey in the World, by Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1922). But I am no Richard Burton traveling in disguise to Mecca, or Apsley Cherry-Garrard describing Scott’s expedition to the Antarctic.
And I am afraid that my experiences in the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Crater traced a well worn path, and were far too pleasant. So I will not remotely come close to the standards that Theroux suggested should characterize good, literary travel narrative. On the other hand, I have more modest aims. What I hope, following Theroux’s broader view, is that my descriptions of Kilimanjaro, the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Crater, evoke a sense of place. That’s what really counts.
Mountain climbing, and travel generally, changes you. The two are in some ways opposed, climbing, or trekking, focuses the mind, in my case, fairly fully, on the task at hand. Bad weather on Kili meant that the week was literally spent thinking about putting one foot in front of the other most of the time, whether your socks really stank as bad as you thought they did (in my case….they did), would you have to get out of the tent at 3 AM for a nature call (and where the hell was your headlamp!), and so on. The week’s safari, on the other hand, offered the possibility of a more expansive frame of mind, set on seeing vistas far and near, and simply experiencing a new, and vast, landscape. I have come back from Tanzania much the richer for the experiences and for the memories. I learned a lot about myself, and about Tanzania.
The safari drive for three days surprised me at just about every turn. From the Serengeti, we headed eastward, and spent an hour visiting Olduvai Gorge and the small museum there along the way.
Next we drove up to and into the Ngorongoro Crater. Here was an even more surprising day than the Serengeti was and it turned out to be a real joy. I thought that it might simply be an interesting place geologically. We had a long drive up to the crater rim and then we drove down into the crater. From a hawk’s perspective, we reached the crater’s floor from the animal’s perspective.
The Crater floor was teeming. The crater itself is something like 120 square miles. A big place.
We spent an entire day cross-crossing the crater, encountering another wide assortment of animals, from the ubiquitous zebra and wildebeest to the rare black rhino.
At the end of the day we drove up out of the crater and arrived at a spectacular hotel on the crater rim at about 8,ooo feet. We hit the veranda just in time for a sunset.
I cannot think of a better way to end the two weeks of travel in northern Tanzania than our sitting quietly, almost in wonder, looking out over the crater. Watching the sunset below the crater rim, having a nice chat with Alan about Kili and future climbs, put a lot of things in perspective for me. It was nice to encounter, on the long drive back to Arusha, a cycling team climbing up the steep mountain road that we were descending to get back to the plateau. I have no idea what they were doing there but it was a perfect mix for me of mountains and cycling. I did not make it to Lake Victoria on this trip (and had no plans to do so). That was a bit of a shame since the sources of the Nile River were so close. So I am hoping to get back to Tanzania. More mountains are certainly on the horizon for me, first in New Hampshire, then Colorado and Mt Rainier next Summer. I do hope, I confess, to encounter not too much trouble, so I am afraid Paul Theorux will not be reading me. What I am hoping for instead is more challenges in the mountains, as always more cycling, and many more memories of wonderful places. | <urn:uuid:05dcfe10-f156-46ee-a136-27ef1b43eaa7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://theancienthistorian.wordpress.com/category/kilimanjaro/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960871 | 1,015 | 1.71875 | 2 |
I just read an interesting article that stated Suleiman the Magnificent (Ruler of the Ottoman Empire from 1520-1566) made an order to rebuild Jerusalem, including the walls. Notice how similar the name is to Soloman. If we take 69 weeks (483 years) and go backwards from 2015 we get 1532 which is during Suleiman's reign. Lets take a look at Daniel 9:25
25Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
No where in that statement did it say 70 weeks. Its 69 weeks from a given point to the return of Christ. Could this be the time the Messiah returns for His bride and then is cut off (meaning the Holy Spirit is now gone)?
26And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
He destroys the city and the sanctuary, this is the time those who listen to God know to get out of the city.
27And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Does the final week start after the rapture, when the covenant is made? And then in the midst of the week the temple is taken over? And then the wrath begins?
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Billings, Mont. -- In a letter sent Friday that contains trade data compiled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), 17 R-CALF USA officers, directors and committee chairs informed Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk that unless Canada and Mexico can demonstrate that the U.S. country-of-origin labeling (COOL) law has reduced the value of their combined exports of live cattle and beef to the U.S. by more than $1.3 billion, those countries cannot even claim that COOL has caused them any economic harm. Both Canada and Mexico have challenged the U.S. COOL law in a complaint filed with the World Trade Organization, with Canada's most recent complaint filed Oct. 7, 2009, and Mexico's filed Oct. 9, 2009.
R-CALF USA's letter contends that economic harm must be measured from a balanced trade relationship and explains that the reason Canada and Mexico cannot begin to measure an economic harm "is because these combined countries continue to enjoy the unmitigated, windfall spoils emanating from an imbalanced trade relationship with the United States, to the tune of $1.3 billion annually."
The charts and data in R-CALF USA's letter demonstrate: 1) during the past five years, the U.S. accumulated a $6.6 billion deficit in the trade of live cattle, beef, beef variety meats and processed beef in its trade relationships with Canada and Mexico, representing an annual average loss in domestic cattle sales of $1.3 billion; 2) the U.S. imported nearly $1 billion in slaughter cows, bulls, steers and heifers from Canada and Mexico in each of the past two years, which represents a direct one-for-one replacement for nearly $1 billion per year in domestic cattle sales and serves to reduce the demand and price of domestic cattle.
"U.S. cattle producers are now suffering the severe consequences of a long-term trade imbalance in which we import each year from Canada and Mexico more than $1 billion more than we export to those countries," wrote R-CALFUSA CEO Bill Bullard. "To make matters worse, our global trade deficit is even greater, amounting to $1.6 billion in 2008. This is unsustainable and it is causing tens of thousands of U.S. cattle farmers and ranchers to exit the industry. COOL is the only available tool the U.S. cattle industry has to even begin to rebalance the lopsided trade relationships with Canada and Mexico because neither USDA nor the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) have taken any affirmative steps to mitigate the untenable and prolonged trade imbalance with these two countries.
"For the first nine months of this new Administration, we have witnessed: 1) record financial losses for independent U.S. cattle feeders; 2) rapidly falling cattle prices for hundreds of thousands of U.S. cattle backgrounders, stockers and cow/calf producers; 3) near-record beef prices paid by U.S. beef consumers; and, 4) no action on the part of USDA or USTR to take any effective steps to mitigate the horrific losses sustained in Rural America due to untenable trade policies that include the failure to protect our U.S. cattle herd from disease," the letter points out.
In closing, the letter makes a strong appeal to Vilsack and Kirk: "It is not enough that you have jointly stated that you intend to defend COOL against Canada's WTO complaint. We need both of you to begin defending the interests of this nation's cattle farmers and ranchers by restoring their opportunity to be profitable in the U.S. cattle industry. U.S. cattle farmers and ranchers do not have deep enough pockets to withstand the persistent economic drain caused by failed trade policies, and time is fast running out."
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Flu epidemic causes drug shortage
Tamiflu back-ordered due to demand
Although there has been decrease in the number of reported flu cases in Nebraska, pharmacies are experiencing shortages for drugs used to treat the illness.
Despite the decline, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has placed the state in the highest category, "widespread."
Area pharmacies are reporting shortages for the popular drug Tamiflu, which parents use to treat their children’s symptoms.
Due to the increased demand, Tamiflu is back-ordered and pharmacies like Kubat Pharmacy have resorted to making it by hand by grinding capsules and putting them into children’s dosages.
Pharmacist Jim Quinley said that he has been making the drug for the past 10 days, and expects to be doing so for a while.
“It’s more intense, the severity the toughest we’ve ever seen it and instead of lasting two to three days, it’s lasting five to seven,” he said.
The Douglas County Health Department said that the peak of the flu was around the week of Jan. 14, with the numbers decreasing since then.
There were 207 new cases of the flu reported last week, bringing the total number of reported cases for the season to over 1,500.
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How can I restore my soul?
Question: "How can I restore my soul?"
The only biblical passage that contains this phrase is Psalm 23:3: “He restores my soul.” This is in the context of the Shepherd who leads His sheep to “green pastures,” “quiet waters” and “paths of righteousness.” As Christians, we are the sheep of God’s pasture (Psalm 100:3), and only He can restore our souls. To restore means "to repair, renovate, or return to a former condition." The soul is the deepest part of us, our spirit and innermost being. Since God is the one who made us, only He can restore us, because only He knows what we truly need to restore our souls.
God has given us the answers about restoring our souls in the Bible—the Word of God (2 Timothy 3:16-17), and it has the answers and wisdom to deal with everything we will ever face. It can make us wise unto salvation (2 Timothy 3:15), serve to encourage us when we are faint-hearted (2 Corinthians 1:3), and be our guidebook to a life of peace and satisfaction (Psalm 119:97-105). While there are all kinds of books written by men offering worldly wisdom, only God’s Word is truly capable of restoring the soul and offering hope in times of distress.
Of course, restoring the soul is only possible for those whose souls have been redeemed through faith in Christ. Jesus promised rest to all those that would come to Him (Matthew 11:28-30), so it is important that we are sure of our salvation and our relationship with God. Only those who are truly born again in Christ can experience the peace and joy that God has promised in His Word.
Thankfully, God has provided for us when we face discouragement, trials and temptations. He has provided three primary sources of encouragement and strength. First, He has given us His Word to guide us, encourage us and nourish us spiritually. We need to spend time reading it, hearing it preached (Romans 10:17) and most of all obeying it (Psalm 119:2; Proverbs 3:1-2; James 1:25). Second, God has also given us the privilege and power of prayer (Matthew 7:7-11; Mark 11:24-25; John 15:7; Hebrews 4:16; 1 John 5:14). We need to take our problems, our discouragement and our tiredness to God in prayer, knowing that He loves us and cares for us (1 Peter 5:6-7). Third, He has given us other Christians to encourage us and support us (Ecclesiastes 4:9-19; Ephesians 4:29; Hebrews 3:13). It is important to be a part of a healthy, well-balanced church and to regularly worship and fellowship with other believers (Hebrews 10:23-25). Christians who have gone through similar struggles can be a great source of encouragement and help as we go through dark times (2 Corinthians 1:3-4).
Discouragement in times of trouble and tribulation is not unusual. Throughout the Bible we see examples of godly men and women who have faced similar situations. These examples can serve as encouragement to us today, because the same God who was faithful to them then will be faithful to us today. It’s helpful to begin by reading the Psalms because King David wrote many of these during the dark times in his life, and they can serve to encourage us when we are depressed, tired and discouraged. Because David had experienced the joy of a soul restored by God, he could pen the beautiful words of the 23rd Psalm: “He restores my soul.”
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Solar cooking can be a little frustrating for visual people. No watching the roast brown through the oven door or peeking under the lid to see if the soup is simmering.
Most of the time the only thing you have to look at is a speckled black pot sitting on the leveling tray and the only way you know your food is done is when condensation starts forming on the glass door. But a squash, or a pumpkin, can be used as its own pot if you hollow it out and stuff it and you’ll have something to look at while it’s cooking. Depending on what you fill it with, it can be served as a light lunch or a side dish. The mixture below is reminiscent of Swiss fondue but your imagination is the limit when it comes to fillings.
Solar Baked Stuffed Squash
1 kabocha squash or pumpkin, about 3 pounds
Salt and pepper
4 sliced stale bread, (about 4 oz.), cubed
4 ounces Gruyère cheese, cubed
2 t0 4 cloves garlic, chopped
1/4 cup onion, sliced
About 1/3 cup evaporated milk, heavy cream or, dry white wine
1/8 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
Set Global Sun Oven out to preheat.
Cut a cap out of the top of the squash. Clean seeds and strings from the cap and the inside of the squash. Season squash with salt and pepper and put it on a baking pan. Toss the bread, cheese, garlic, and onion in a bowl and pack the mix into the squash. Mix nutmeg with milk and pour enough of it over the filling in the squash until it is nicely moistened. Put the cap in place and bake in Sun Oven until squash is soft and filling is heated through, about 2 hours. To serve spoon filling out, getting some of the squash meat with each scoop.
Serves 2 to 4
Other filling options include cooked rice, cooked spinach or kale, cooked bacon or sausage. Nuts, apples, or pears are good too.
And on a final note, whenever I cook squash in my Sun Oven I always toast the seeds, they take about 40 minutes to cook and make a great mid-morning or mid-afternoon snack. Just coat a baking tray with cooking oil, spread the seeds out on it, spray a little more cooking spray, and sprinkle with salt. | <urn:uuid:505f4691-e57e-4ac4-a53d-ed0230d487cf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sunoven.com/archives/2058 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907634 | 500 | 1.5625 | 2 |
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A dark green fecal material that accumulates in the fetal intestines and is discharged at or near the time of birth.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Poppy-juice.
- n. The feces of a new-born infant.
- n. In entomology, the feces of an adult insect just transformed from the pupa.
- n. medicine A dark green mass, the contents of the fetal intestines during the later stages of mammalian gestation, that forms the first faeces of the newborn
- n. obsolete opium
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete Opium.
- n. The contents of the fetal intestine; hence, first excrement.
- n. thick dark green mucoid material that is the first feces of a newborn child
- From Latin mēcōnium ("opium; excrement of a newborn child"), from Ancient Greek μηκώνιον ("poppy-juice, opium"), from μήκων ("poppy"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin mēcōnium, poppy juice, from Greek mēkōnion, from mēkōn, poppy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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“Fetuses take amniotic fluid into their lungs, and in a minority of MSAF cases, passed meconium enters the airway before birth and afterward leads to respiratory symptoms collectively called meconium aspiration syndrome MAS.”
“This blackish mixture, called meconium, will become her first bowel movement.”
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“Also, babies do NOT have a bowel movement (meconium) in utero unless baby is in distress, known as meconium aspiration syndrome.”
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“Researchers will also take biological samples from mothers -- and from newborns from birth through two years of age -- including blood, saliva, breast milk, urine, umbilical cord and placental material and "meconium," a baby's first stool, in which toxins may have accumulated over time.”
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As always, when we reach this time of the year, we have much for which to be thankful.
Yes, Thanksgiving is a most special holiday and very definitely our own American holiday. We may think more about the food than about the day, but most of us are very aware of how fortunate we are to be able to have such a holiday.
Of course, we tend to recall the Thanksgivings of the past and the large family gatherings we had. Naturally, I remember the ones we had at Ima more fondly than any of the later ones because as a child, I was reasonably carefree.
As many of our relatives as could get to the canyons usually arrived the night before and stayed at Grandmother's house. On the day itself, we all gathered around that place and spent our time laughing, talking, and playing in those canyons. The echoes resounded, both from children's laughter as well as from the adults.
Those seemed to be relaxed times because we were all happy to see each other and to spend as many hours together as possible. We youngsters did our best to stay out of the way and to try to avoid anything that might look like work. We knew we would be summoned when dinner was ready and also knew we would then have a few chores to help with, such as carrying some of the containers, being sure we had plenty of water in the house, and, then, helping to wash the dishes after everyone had eaten.
The adults sat around the table and spent the afternoon visiting — most often telling stories about their childhoods in those canyons. I really liked to listen to those because I could then try some of the tricks they had done when they were my age. Also, I just enjoyed hearing their laughter. Rarely, was a story told in its entirety without the teller laughing so hard he couldn't finish until he caught his breath.
Obviously, those relatives had great fun when they were children and continued to enjoy each other's company when they were adults.
As we celebrate Thanksgiving this year, let's remember those of the past, enjoy the present, and look toward the future. We can still enjoy the day as much as we did so long ago because we have our memories to keep us going and because we have our friends and relatives to visit with.
Let's just be thankful and be proud to be in such a land in which we can celebrate so freely. Have a happy and blessed Thanksgiving.
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Report: By 2030, Calif. coast to see seas rise by six inches
The West Coast will see an ocean several inches higher in coming decades, with most of California expected to get sea levels a half foot higher by 2030, according a report released Friday.
The study by the National Research Council gives planners their best look yet at how melting ice sheets and warming oceans associated with climate change will raise sea levels along the country's Pacific coast. It is generally consistent with earlier global projections, but takes a closer look at California, Oregon and Washington.
Although the six inches expected for California by 2030 seem minor, the report estimated that sea levels there will be three feet higher by 2100. About 72% of the state's coast is covered by sandy cliffs, and the rest include beaches, sand dunes, bays and estuaries.
"Rising seas increase the risk of coastal flooding, storm surge inundation, coastal erosion and shoreline retreat, and wetland loss," the report said. "The cities and infrastructure that line many coasts are already vulnerable to damage from storms, which is likely to increase as sea level continues to rise and inundate areas further inland."
Northern California, Oregon and Washington can expect a less dramatic increase — about four inches by 2030 and two feet by 2100 — because seismic activity is causing land to rise north of the San Andreas Fault, offsetting increasing sea levels, and drop south of it. The fault runs out to sea at Cape Mendocino.
The most immediate threat over the next few decades will come from periodic ocean-warming El Nino events, said Gary Griggs, director of the Institute for Marine Sciences at the University of California at Santa Cruz, who was one of the scientists assembled by the council to produce the report.
"During those events, sea level is elevated as much as a foot above normal and then we've got typically larger waves coming in with the high tides," particularly in the Northwest, he said.
If a major earthquake occurs beneath the Pacific Ocean off Oregon, in what is known as the Cascadia subduction zone, that could cause the land to drop, allowing sea level to rise another three feet, the report said. Such a major temblor occurred 300 years ago.
The report was commissioned by states and federal agencies looking for detailed information so they can plan for an accelerated rate of erosion along beaches, bluffs and sand dunes that are already crumbling into the sea.
"A lot of the data we had before was worldwide data or has the caveat, 'Can't be used for planning purposes,'" said Susan Hansch, chief deputy director of the California Coastal Commission. "It all comes down to the better data you have, the better decisions you can make."
Sea levels rise for two reasons due to global warming.
Then, warmer temperatures cause ice sheets in Greenland and west Antarctica to melt slowly, adding another foot or more to sea levels by 2100, scientists said. But those estimates are for the planet as a whole. Some places will see higher seas and others will get less dramatic increases.
Globally, sea levels have risen about eight inches over the last century, but the rate has been increasing significantly, said Griggs.
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Changes in runoff timing have been studied for impacts to reservoir operations and diversions, but what about aquatic and riparian ecoystems?
By Bob Berwyn
SUMMIT COUNTY — Earlier snowmelt and runoff in Colorado have been well-documented over the past few years and the finding were reinforced once again in a press release from the U.S. Geological Survey last week.
Water managers are already adjusting reservoir and diversion operations to account for the changes, but there’s been little discussion of the potential impacts to fish and other species that have evolved in tandem with historic streamflow regimes.
After another extensive study of snowmelt and peak runoff dates, the federal agency confirmed that peak runoff is coming as much as two to three weeks earlier than it did as recently as the 1970s — an astounding change in a short time, measured on the scale of Earth history.
The researchers also pinned the timing of snowmelt and runoff to changes in global and regional temperatures, as well as reduced snowfall during the study period. The published their findings in the Journal of Climate last week.
Water managers have already been scrambling to understand how the changes will affect operation of reservoirs and diversions for agricultural and municipal use, but the shift in timing could also have huge impacts on aquatic ecosystems in the southern Rockies and desert Southwest.
At issue is the growing gap between spring runoff flows and monsoon rains later in the summer. Fish native to the mountain streams of the region already live in a narrow window of flows and temperatures. If spring streamflows drop earlier in the year, trout and other fish could be exposed to longer dry periods.
Many species may not survive, said Shaula Hedwall, a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the federal agency charged with ensuring survival of endangered species. In many streams in the region, habitat has already been impacted by diversions, Instead of continuous streams, many have been chopped into segments of disconnected pools, severing the connection between populations.
“I expect that it will even further limit the amount of habitat,” she said. Hedwall and her colleagues have had to undertake intensive management efforts to maintain populations of some aquatic species.
The changes could also result in fish spawning earlier. Biologists think that fish may be able to adapt to those changes, but the real issue is year-round habitat. With longer, drier summers, it’s likely that many young fish won’t have enough habitat to survive.
Water stored in reservoirs could provide a buffer against shrinking aquatic habitat if it’s used for environmental purposes. But if the overall water supply shrinks while demand grows, it will mean making some serious choices down the road.
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I have been lucky enough to visit lots of schools in my time working in education ICT. And I have often found that within a few minutes of walking in the door, you can quickly decide whether it is a "good" school or not. The benchmark for me has always been "Would I like my children to go here?"
Yesterday, I went to visit a school in Nottingham (for those reading this outside of our sunny UK shores, that's in the middle of England, and coincidentally my birthplace) called Long Eaton School. The visit was to hear about, and discuss, how they were using technology in the school, and what drives them to prioritise the use of ICT across the school. I already knew that their development plan was to invest something like five times the national secondary school average on ICT, in order to provide widespread provision for all of their pupils. But as I arrived, it was the small things that started to make an immediate impression. And also supporting the environmental agenda by becoming the first school in the East Midlands to get "eco school" status.
When we drove into the car park, there was a parking space (normally you end up on a verge, because there are always more cars than spaces, and the visitor spots have always gone). There was a special parking area for students (and clearly some of the students had shinier cars than staff & visitors!). The bike racks were the biggest and fullest I'd ever seen (turned out that they had the highest % of students cycling to school in the country). And the school reception had two comfortable sofas for visitors. It turns out that the school was newly built, and opened last year, but it was not simply a case of pouring an old school into new buildings. Everybody we met had a positive persona, and a very "can do" attitude.
Technologically, what they have is amazing - over 400 computers, with every single desktop and most laptops running Windows Vista and Office 2007. A SharePoint 2007 server, which they will use to deliver e-learning, provide links pupils to access resources from outside of school, and for parents to be able to see information on their children (like checking the portal to see that they've turned up at school this morning). All made possible by Alan Richards, the network manager, and his team.
Richard Vasey, the head teacher, was passionate about his school, and like most heads was enthusiastic about the future that they were going to make for their students. We talked about achievement, examinations and learning. For a school in a disadvantaged area, their 'value added' achievement is great - ensuring that the improvement in pupils' abilities is in the top 100 secondary schools in the country. And so, all of those reasons made me think that if I lived in the area, this would be the school where my children would go. But what I remembered really clearly was Richard's statement that no matter what the student's ability "if they will come to school, I'll guarantee that they'll get 5 A-G grades at GCSE". I've never heard other heads talking about an education guarantee before, but it made me realise that they have high expectations of all of their students - and therefore of their staff.
I'll write more about their technology in the future, but for now, maybe take a look at their website for a flavour of the school.
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On 4 December 1999, UNESCO included the category Ibiza, Biodiversity and Culture in its World Heritage collection. Thus the Pitiusas Islands became a member of this exclusive international club, of which Spain is the member with the greatest number of assets.
The ancient city was developed from the first Phoenician settlement in El Puig de Vila. According to classical texts, Aiboshim, the city of Bes, was founded in 654 BC. Throughout the Punic period, it was a very lively trading centre that exported products manufactured in numerous points of the Mediterranean.
It enjoyed political and commercial autonomy, which grew during its period as a confederated city of Rome.
In the 10th century, Medina Yabisah was part of the territories of El Al-Andalus. This period of Arab domination left deep marks on the city and the entire island.
On August 8th 1235, the Catalan troops of Jaume I conquered the island, introducing Christianity, western culture and installing a feudal system. In 1299, the king of the Catalan-Aragonese crown, Jaume II, created la Universitat (Town Council), a system of self-governance which was maintained until 1717.
In mediaeval times, new buildings arose, of both a civil and a religious nature, and the 15th century was a golden era which was consolidated with the appearance of new houses and other constructions with renaissance decorative features. The 16th-century attacks on the city and the island by the Turkish armada showed up the weakness of the old mediaeval walls, and they were finally replaced by the renaissance bastioned site, which is still preserved.
The Dalt Vila site that was declared World Heritage currently offers a great number of options for strolling along its historic streets. The explanatory panels enable you to understand what Dalt Vila was like in the past.
The Reinassance city walls
There have always been city walls in the city of Eivissa, in the classic period and in mediaeval texts they are described as strong and powerful, but after the 15th century, they were no longer useful for defending the city in the face of modern weapons and in 1555, Carlos I and Felipe II promoted their renovation and fortification.
The project was designed by the engineer Giovanni Battista Calvi, and initially six bastions were constructed following the perimeter of the existing mediaeval fortification. Calvi left the island and in 1575, the Crown engineer, Jacobo Paleazzo Fratin, took over responsibility for the work. He modified the original project as a district had grown up outside the city walls on El Puig de Santa Llúcia, and he considered it would be wise to protect it. So he redirected the Sant Joan bastion and constructed a new one, that of Santa Llúcia, and opened the main entrance to the fort in the part that joined the two bastions: Porta del Mar or Porta de ses Taules.
This huge main entrance is flanked by two Roman statues and above the entrance arch there is a large commemorative stone plaque with the arms of Felipe II, the city shield and an inscription which gives the date 1585, a year that does not correspond to the completion of the site, as during the last decade of the 16th century, work continued, this time directed by the engineer, Antonio Saura.
The Punic necropolis of El Puig des Molins
It is the largest and best-preserved necropolis in the world, on the Puig des Molins, and it was the cemetery for the city of Eivissa during ancient times.
It is 500 metres to the west of the Puig de Vila, in the same place the city has been since its foundation by the Phoenicians at the end of the 7th century BC. As was usual in Phoenician cities, the place for the living and the place for the dead were close by, though separated by a geographical accident. Its name comes from the windmills that dominated the hill from at least the 15th century, currently in disuse and of which only a few remain.
The poet Rafael Alberti and his wife Mª Teresa León lived in one of these windmills for some days during their stay on the island in July 1936, the time when the Spanish Civil War broke out.
The original cemetery, set up at the end of the 7th century BC by the Phoenicians, occupied a specific area on the bottom of the hillside and underwent enormous growth due to the expansion of the city in the Punic and Roman periods.
Later, the land was used for agricultural purposes. The hillside was divided into terraces on which olive, almond, carob and fig trees were planted, and the windmills were constructed.
Currently, the hillside is part of the Archaeological Museum of Eivissa and Formentera. The mount is covered by a thick layer of bushes, but it is calculated that just counting the tombs from the Punic period, the hypogeal ones, there are some 3,000, of which 340 can be visited. The Museum is currently closed for refurbishing and restoration works, but the exterior tombs can be visited. The Museum displays many works that can be admired, including glass and metal objects, and in particular Hellenistic Greek traditional earthenware representing the feminine bust of the goddess Tanit.
Phoenician site of Sa Caleta
Sa Caleta is the popular name of a port with dry dock huts for small fishing boats, on the south-southwest coast of Eivissa, between the northwesterly point of the large beach of Es Codolar and the Puig des Jondal. On Sa Caleta peninsula, it is likely that Phoenicians from the Iberian peninsula settled progressively from the 8th century BC until converting the entire space available into a large urban centre throughout the 7th century BC.
Today, the Sa Caleta site offers one of the most suggestive schemes with regard to the kind of ancient western Phoenician houses which are known today. It is a system of juxtaposition of elements, as per needs, without a planned layout and with an organisation as if the space had been shared between the settlers.
The communal elements include the large ovens, probably for cooking bread and sandstone mills, possibly for milling grain. Pottery appears in different shapes, such as amphorae, jugs and pitchers, plates, lamps and other bronze utensils for cooking. Other elements have also been found, such as bronze hooks, which show the presence of fishing, and woven pieces, showing that fabric was made.
However, without a doubt, metal work was the activity that occupied the most relevant place in the economic activities of the Phoenicians of Sa Caleta. Remains of the mineral, argentiferous galena, have been found, which was smelted in the settlement to obtain lead, but there are also indications of its transformation for extracting silver. Ironwork has also been found, which was dealt with in specific ovens. The minerals, in particular the galena, were probably obtained by the Phoenicians on the east coast of the peninsula and on the Catalan coasts where they exchanged it for products such as wine, oil and other economic objects. One of the elements of the Phoenician economy was the exploitation of salt; the sttlement is very close to the important natural salt marshes of Eivissa.
In about 600 BC, they definitively abandoned Sa Caleta, and settled in the bay of Eivissa, where they founded the city of Eivissa, a place that was better suited to their expectations of organisation and growth.
The declaration of Sa Caleta as World Heritage reflects the great importance of the settlement as a predecessor to the current city, and it great historic meaning.
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PANAMA HOTEL TEA & COFFEE
607 Main St., 515-4000 8 a.m.-11 p.m. Mon.-Sat. and 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Sun.
IN 1910, Sabro Ozasa, the first Japanese-American architect to build in Seattle, completed his five-story Panama Hotel in the city's thriving Nihonmachi, or "Japan Town" (now part of the International District). Fifty-nine years later, the Panama is again a pioneer, this time with Panama Hotel Tea & Coffee—an elegant teahouse with baristas that doubles as a museum.
The Panama served its initial customers, mostly immigrants, in simple rooms with no closets and shared toilet facilities. In its basement is the Hashidate-Yu public bathhouse, which also served the wider Japanese community. The elegant marble baths— untouched since they closed in the '50s—are today considered a rare national treasure.
Yet the very same cellars accrued sorrowful relics: boxes, trunks, and suitcases, hastily packed and stored during the spring of '42, as their owners were ordered off to internment camps. Teapots, flags, love letters, clothing, cookware, books, and newspapers made their way into the building's capacious basement.
Takashi Hori owned and ran the Panama for 45 years. Interned himself from '42 to '45 in Idaho's Minidoka camp, he has made energetic attempts to reunite goods with their owners. But the majority remains unclaimed—and has now been integrated into the atmosphere of the teahouse, where a square of glass in the floor provides a ghostly view of the basement.
The walls are lined with vintage photos of the neighborhood, and former residents are dropping in with regularity. They are people like Tad Sato, now 79, whose father once ran a shop across the street. Tad, whose pal Eddie Sano's father owned the baths, mesmerizes the whole cafe as he studies the photos.
Their intention may have been meeting for stylish piadini, but the milliner, architects, and visiting mortgage brokers find themselves Tad's captives in a whirlwind tour of the past: There, see that house on the top of the hill? He broke the glass window with his childhood BB gun. Over here, ladies of the night beckoned men from a window. At that diner, for a dime, you could get "rice and gravy."
"My old neighborhood!" he cries happily. "It's amazing!"
ALL THIS is the work of artist Jan Johnson, who bought the hotel 16 years ago. Johnson was a clothing designer who worked in a nearby loft; she knew Mr. and Mrs. Hori as her neighbors. One day, Mr. Hori let it drop that he was going to sell the hotel. Johnson knew nothing of the trunks in his basement, but she regarded the Panama as a landmark. She decided to try to buy the place herself and entered into a year of what she calls "tea and discussions."
Several parties, says Hori, went after his building. "But Jan seemed interested in it as a whole." When they sealed the deal, he offered to have the basement cleared.
By refusing, Johnson now says, she changed her life. For she plunged into exploring—and showing—its contents. "At first, I was just like a crazy circus barker. I'd stop teachers in the street and make them show their students." By the '90s, word of mouth had made the baths especially famous, and Johnson wanted a place to host their visitors.
She decided to craft a teahouse shaped by the building's narrative. In '97, when a double-storefront lease expired, Johnson kept its two spaces and began the project. It turned into an arduous four-year odyssey, stripping away plaster, acoustic tiles, and fake wood paneling. By last November, Johnson felt herself overwhelmed. "I would think, 'I've almost done it.' Then there was always more."
That was when she called the team behind nearby cafe Zeitgeist, sited in South Jackson Street's 1901 Fuller building. The partners who created it—by hand, the way Johnson was doing—were Michael and Mark Klebeck, Joel Radin, and Bryan Yeck, local entrepreneurs in their mid-30s. Yeck, a painter, initiated the first Zeitgeist Art & Coffee—a hub of the old Washington Shoe Building artist enclave. When the art crowd was evicted in 2000, Yeck, the Klebeck brothers, and Radin built a new Zeitgeist only two doors away. It remains a testament to the quartet's partnership—one formed from an affinity for the socially stylish (the Klebecks and Radin created local benchmarks such as Kid Mohair and Cafe Bauhaus).
The same team has remade the Elliott Bay Book Co.'s cafe and, in December, will open a smaller Zeitgeist on Capitol Hill. Distinguished by late hours and a range of gourmet doughnuts, it will be housed in a turn-of-the-century storefront.
The group's work, composed of pieces they salvage, re-create, or build, comprises a fresh and compelling Seattle aesthetic. It is responsive to historic spaces, yet also sculptural and semi-industrial. Unlike most local spots that tout themselves as "Euro-styled," the sites created by this team—while they reflect a worldly perspective—demonstrate a broadly informed design independence.
All four collaborators, says Mark Klebeck, "are attracted to beautiful woods—fir, cedar, birch, mahogany. We also all love natural light, old glass, and found objects." The big communal trick, he says, is "tying it all into a space".
To accomplish that, says Yeck, they use conceptual guidelines (they saw Zeitgeist as "part aviary, part Suzallo Library, part old train station"). For Jan Johnson, he notes, "Every piece had to replicate or actually come from her building." So they custom crafted a period staircase from salvaged pieces and created yards of special wall trim, "staining it until it had that high, dark '20s feeling."
The result? A space far from the usual concept of restoration. As Tad Sato teases barista Yuko in Japanese, a curator from New York joins a programmer peering into the basement. On the wicker chaise, a couple chatters in Italian; around the conference-size table downstairs, pens and papers sprawl—while glass teapots steep a round of Silver Needle tea.
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(On the Fast of Seventh Month, V.)
We proclaim the holy Fast of the Seventh Month, dearly-beloved, for the exercise of common devotions, confidently inciting you with fatherly exhortations to make Christian by your observance that which was formerly Jewish. For it is at all times suitable and in agreement with both the New and Old Testament, that the Divine Mercy should be sought with chastisement both of mind and body, because nothing is more effectual in prevailing with God than that a man should judge himself and never cease from asking pardon, knowing that he is never without fault. For human nature has this flaw in itself, not planted there by the Creator but contracted by the transgressor , and transmitted to his posterity by the law of generation , so that from the corruptible body springs that which may corrupt the soul also. Hence although the inner man be now reborn in Christ and rescued from the bonds of captivity, it has unceasing conflicts with the flesh, and has to endure resistance in seeking to restrain vain desires. And in this strife such perfect victory is not easily obtained that even those habits which must be broken off do not still encumber us, and those vices which must be slain do not wound. However wisely and prudently the mind presides as judge over the outer senses, yet even amid the pains it takes to rule and the limits it imposes on the appetites of the flesh, the temptation is always too close at hand. For who so abstracts himself from pleasure or pain of body that his mind is not affected by that which delights or racks it from without? Joy and sorrow are inseparable from a man: no part of him is free from the kindlings of wrath, the over-powerings of delight, the castings down of affliction. And what turning away from sin can there be, where ruler and ruled alike are liable to the same passions? Rightly does the Lord exclaim that
the spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak.
And lest we should be led by despair into sheer inaction, He promises that the Divine power shall make those things possible which are to man impossible from his own lack of power:
for narrow and strait is the way which leads unto life Matthew 7:14, and no one could set foot on it, no one could advance one step, unless Christ by making Himself the Way unbarred the difficulties of approach: and thus the Ordainer of the journey becomes the Means whereby we are able to accomplish it, because not only does He impose the labour, but also brings us to the haven of rest. In Him therefore we find our Model of patience, in Whom we have our Hope of life eternal; for
if we suffer with Him, we shall also reign with Him 2 Timothy 2:12, since, as the Apostle says,
he that says he abides in Christ ought himself also to walk as He walked 1 John 2:6 . Otherwise we make a vain presence and show, if we follow not His steps, Whose name we glory in, and assuredly they would not be irksome to us, but would free us from all dangers, if we loved nothing but what He commanded us to love.
For there are two loves from which proceed all wishes, as different in quality as they are different in their sources. For the reasonable soul, which cannot exist without love, is the lover either of God or the world. In the love of God there is no excess, but in the love of the world all is hurtful. And therefore we must cling inseparably to eternal treasures, but things temporal we must use like passers-by, that as we are sojourners hastening to return to our own land, all the good things of this world which meet us may be as aids on the way, not snares to detain us. Therefore the blessed Apostle makes this proclamation,
the time is short: it remains that those who have wives be as though they had none; and those who weep, as though they wept not; and those who rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those who buy, as though they possessed not; and those that use this world, as though they used it not. For the fashion of this world passes away 1 Corinthians 7:29-31 . But as the world attracts us with its appearance, and abundance and variety, it is not easy to turn away from it unless in the beauty of things visible the Creator rather than the creature is loved; for, when He says,
you shall love the Lord your God from all your heart, and from all your mind, and from all your strength Matthew 22:37, He wishes us in noticing to loosen ourselves from the bonds of His love. And when He links the love of our neighbour also to this command, He enjoins on us the imitation of His own goodness, that we should love what He loves and do what He does. For although we be
God's husbandry and God's building, and
neither is he that plants anything, nor he that waters, but God that gives the increase , yet in all things He requires our ministry and service, and wishes us to be the stewards of His gifts, that he who bears God's image may do God's will. For this reason, in the Lord's prayer we say most devoutly,
Your Kingdom come, Your will be done as in heaven, so also on earth. For what else do we ask for in these words but that God may subdue those whom He has not yet subdued, and as in heaven He makes the angels ministers of His will, so also on earth He may make men? And in seeking this we love God, we love also our neighbour: and the love within us has but one Object, since we desire the bond-servant to serve and the Lord to have rule.
This state of mind, therefore, beloved, from which earthly love is excluded, is strengthened by the habit of well-doing, because the conscience must needs be delighted at good deeds, and do willingly what it rejoices to have done. Thus it is that fasts are kept, alms freely given, justice maintained, frequent prayer resorted to, and the desires of individuals become the common wish of all. Labour fosters patience, gentleness extinguishes anger, loving-kindness treads down hatred, unclean desires are slain by holy aspirations, avarice is cast out by liberality, and burdensome wealth becomes the means of virtuous acts. But because the snares of the devil are not at rest even in such a state of things, most rightly at certain seasons of the year the renewal of our vigour is provided for: and now in particular, when one who is greedy of present good might boast himself over the clemency of the weather and the fertility of the land, and having stored his crops in great barns, might say to his soul,
you have much goods, eat and drink, let him take heed to the rebuke of the Divine voice, and hear it saying,
You fool, this night they require your soul of you, and the things which you have prepared, whose shall they be Luke 12:19-20? This should be the wise man's most anxious consideration, in order that, as the days of this life are short and its span uncertain, death may never come upon him unawares, and that knowing himself mortal he may meet his end fully prepared. And so, that this may avail both for the sanctification of our bodies and the renewal of our souls, on Wednesday and Friday let us fast, and on Saturday let us keep vigil with the most blessed Apostle Peter, whose prayers will help us to obtain fulfilment of our holy desires through Christ our Lord, Who with the Father and the Holy Ghost lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.
Source. Translated by Charles Lett Feltoe. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 12. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1895.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/360390.htm>.
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Over and over again as an Objectivist you hear people say things like "How can selfishness lead to moral action?" or "How can you be moral if your morals are made up, if they don't come from God or the community, or society?"
I would respond in kind and ask how one can act morally without being selfish, or without coming to moral principles on one's own through thought and introspection.
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IN THE NEWS
Following the blogging breadcrumbs today, I found this interesting proposal for "militarizing" FEMA. The author of the post argues for a military command structure, a la the Coast Guard, while keeping FEMA out of the military's chain of command.
Although I'm bit worried that Americans see the military as omnicapable (it's not), I do see the logic for a "militarized" FEMA. Like police and fire departments, which echo the military model, FEMA needs to mobilize quickly to handle emergencies. Military organizations are usually good at "wargaming" scenarios they'll likely face, identifying flaws, and correcting them. The result, a set of contingency plans that are always sitting on the shelf, ensure a quick response to a crisis.
However, FEMA hs some significant differences from military, police, and fire organizations that might undercut this proposal. First of all, FEMA doesn't have daily operational responsibilities that train their personnel on a daily basis to better handle the bigger emergencies that may arise. Police departments patrol neighborhoods and arrest suspects. Fire departments regularly handle small- to medium-sized fires and accidents involving toxic materials. Military organizations drill their "rank and file" in both general and specialized tasks, provide a highly structured system of training and advancement, and cultivate officers and NCOs through advanced forms of education. FEMA can't reproduce fully these real and simulated experiences that ensure quick and effective responses.
The biggest problem, however, is that FEMA never builds the level of shared experiences that a single regiment, squadron, police department, or fire department does. They can strategize and train to a limited extent with their state, county, and local counterparts, but they'll always be in the same position as the FBI, swooping into a town or city where the locals don't know them.
In other words, FEMA may need to sharpen its collaborative skills, something that a military command structure may not help (and, depending how it's implemented, could definitely hinder). Instead of the kind of master plan FEMA had pre-Katrina, the agency may need to develop smller plns dealing with particular facets of a disaster (flooding, blocked roads, lack of drinking water, alligators, etc.). In that case, FEMA officials will need to be able to assemble the right mosaic of mini-plans, and then move immediately to work with local emergency responders. I'm not sure a "militarization" of FEMA would help achieve that result. | <urn:uuid:94f51a6e-1ff4-40eb-966b-dc0af73b72fd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://armsandinfluence.typepad.com/armsandinfluence/2005/09/militarize_fema.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958205 | 512 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Health Maintenance and Physical Examinations
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If your doctor suggested you come to our site to do a questionnaire, he or she may have suggested a concern for you to enter. Be sure to use that concern as a starting point, although you can enter other concerns in addition.
Be sure that your sex and age are correct. The questionnaires are designed differently depending on your age and sex.
Here are some common concerns and the words you should enter in order to start that questionnaire:
- Headache – type in "headache"
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- Any kind of joint swelling, pain, or difficulty moving joints – type in "joint pain"
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- Diabetes or concern about possible diabetes – type in "diabetes"
- Pediatric well child visits (up to age 10) – type in the child's age followed by "well child". For example "4 month well child" for a 4 month old follow up visit.
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The Five Worst Cookbooks of 2011
A report from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Some popular cookbooks of 2011, including high-profile recipe collections from celebrity chefs, encourage Americans to fill up on high-fat, meat-heavy meals, even as the country struggles with record levels of obesity and diabetes. Dietitians with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine reviewed the year’s new cookbooks and named the five worst offenders.
The Five Worst Cookbooks of 2011 are:
|Jamie Oliver’s Meals in Minutes
||One serving of the Meatball Sandwich contains more fat than a Big Mac and more than double the calories, cholesterol, sodium, and saturated fat.
|Guy Fieri Food
||Jambalaya Sandwich contains bacon, smoked sausage, and Andouille sausage; such processed meats raise colon cancer risk.
|Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible
||One serving of Hot Buffalo Wings (three wings) contains 910 calories and 85 grams of fat; meat-heavy diets raise obesity risk.
|The Cook’s Illustrated Cookbook
||More than 50 pages of recipes featuring grilled meat, which increases cancer risk.
|The Neelys’ Celebration Cookbook
||Bourbon Bread Pudding is saturated with butter, half-and-half, and whole milk; high-fat diets increase heart-disease risk.
Here are the five worst cookbooks of 2011:
Jamie Oliver’s Meals in Minutes: A Revolutionary Approach to Cooking Good Food Fast
By Jamie Oliver
Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution aimed to attack obesity, heart disease, and diabetes in America. But in his new book, Jamie Oliver’s Meals in Minutes, the quick meals are often as high in fat and cholesterol as fast food. The cookbook’s Meatball Sandwich has more fat than a Big Mac and more than double the calories, cholesterol, and sodium found in the signature McDonald’s sandwich. One serving of Oliver’s Meatball Sandwich contains 1,182 calories, 47 grams of fat (including 18.5 grams of saturated fat), 185 milligrams of cholesterol, and 2,352 milligrams of sodium, according to a nutritional analysis based on estimates by PCRM dietitians. Other high-fat, high-cholesterol recipes in the cookbook include the Seared Pork Fillet & Catherine Wheel Sausage with Meaty Mushroom Sauce, which is packed with pork tenderloin, breakfast sausage links, smoked bacon, pork kidney, and heavy cream. And you don’t need an ingredient list to see the problems with recipes for Liver & Bacon and Pork Chops & Crispy Cracklins. A review published in the journal Diabetologia found that people who ate the most meat had the highest risk of type 2 diabetes.
Guy Fieri Food: Cookin’ It, Livin’ It, Lovin’ It
By Guy Fieri and Ann Volkwein
Try the shockingly unhealthy recipes in Guy Fieri Food and your colon may not be lovin’ it. Fieri’s Jambalaya Sandwich recipe is loaded with bacon, pork butt or pork loin, smoked sausage, Andouille sausage, chicken thighs, and Havarti cheese. Each serving of this sandwich contains a substantial amount of processed meat, which poses serious health concerns. The cookbook contains a number of other processed meat-heavy recipes, including Blazy’s Pepperoni-Studded Lasagna—loaded with 2 cups of pepperoni and 2 pounds of Italian sausage. Consuming processed meat increases the risk of colorectal cancer, according to a large number of studies, including the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study.
Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible: The New Classic Guide to Delicious Dishes with More Than 300 Recipes
By Paula Deen
The recipes in Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible could have unholy results on your waistline. One serving of Hot Buffalo Wings (three wings) contains 910 calories, 85 grams of fat (including 34 grams of saturated fat), and 211 milligrams of cholesterol, according to a nutritional analysis based on estimates by PCRM dietitians. Other gut-busting meaty recipes include Glazed Bacon-Wrapped Chicken and Skillet Chicken & Sausage Jambalaya. Eating meat leads to weight gain, according to a recent study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The researchers concluded that reducing meat consumption may help people avoid weight gain. Paula Deen’s Kitchen Classics made PCRM’s “Best and Worst Cookbooks of the Decade” list.
The Cook’s Illustrated Cookbook: 2,000 Recipes from 20 Years of America’s Most Trusted Cooking Magazine
By the editors at Cook's Illustrated Magazine
The Cook’s Illustrated Cookbook says that “Cook’s Illustrated has become an antidote to the excesses of other cooking magazines.” But the book devotes more than 50 pages of recipes to grilled meats, from Well-Done Bacon Cheeseburgers to Grilled Chicken Breast Stuffed with Prosciutto and Fontina. Heterocyclic amines (HCAs), a family of mutagenic and cancer-causing compounds, are produced during the grilling of many animal products, including chicken, beef, pork, and fish.
The Neelys’ Celebration Cookbook: Down-Home Meals for Every Occasion
By Pat Neely, Gina Neely, and Ann Volkwein
This book’s introduction says that “you can’t enjoy the meal without an open heart.” But increased risk of open heart surgery may also be on the menu for those indulging in high-fat foods. High-cholesterol dairy products are found in many of the Celebration Cookbook’s recipes, including Bourbon Bread Pudding, which is saturated with butter, half-and-half, whole milk, and eggs. Pat’s Deep-Fried Cornish Game Hens calls for 3 quarts of buttermilk, and Fried Catfish takes 2 cups of buttermilk. Dairy products are the number-one source of saturated fat in the American diet, and decreasing saturated fat intake will reduce your risk of developing heart disease, according the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. | <urn:uuid:45638bdd-a16e-4b79-90bb-0a49ba03ab14> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pcrm.org/health/reports/the-five-worst-cookbooks-of-2011 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903692 | 1,339 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Hardware, the beginning of the end?
As for graphics card companies, 3dfx may have failed, but without them, where would we be now? NVIDIA and ATI (now AMD) have been dominating the previous years with GPUs. Years ago we had games that pushed our systems, games that (when released) could not run at full detail on our systems. They were built to scale over time.
It represented great value for money. A gamer could buy games such as Quake 3, Half Life 2, Far Cry, etc and run them on a standard PC at the time in low quality graphics. Once upgraded they could replay the game in higher detail and again and again as upgrades were done, the game simply scaled higher and higher.
This was in a world without anti-aliasing and anistrophic filtering. Once you added that on top, VGA memory became in issue. 3dfx cards had 4MB, then we started seeing 16, 32, 64, 128MB and games grew and grew and grew. There seemed to be no stopping the usual 12 month new game engine cycle that PC gamers were used to.
Until the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
As for graphic quality, think of it like a movie. Yes, there are great movies out now and we have a constant flow of great movies from various directors. But again, how many do you remember from the past 10 years compared to 20 - 30 years ago? The classics...
If that doesn't tickle your fancy, how about thinking of it like a picture. Take a picture from your camera phone and look at it on the screen - looks great, doesn't it? Now look at that picture on a full HD screen or better yet, 30-inch 2560x1600 screen. Not so great now, hey?
But, if you used a DSLR camera to take the shot, it would look great on both high resolution displays and low resolution displays, because the original asset is a high-resolution picture. Why can't games be the same?
Why can't multi-platform games be designed and created on PC first with high-end, multi-GPU setups and then scaled down accordingly? Once the assets were created, they could be kept for future games. Games now have $100 million budgets, this cannot be hard. The blame? Consoles. More specifically? - Next page.
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Understanding Song Structures
When creating your own bass line, you have to know where you are going. You must know what the next note and chord will be before you play it, although instinct often makes this more of a subconscious decision. Besides knowing what's next in the short term, you also have to know what's going to happen overall in the song. This structure of a tune is also called the
Song form is often associated with letters. Each new section of a song begins with a different letter in the alphabet. The only exception to this is musical introductions and endings. These are usually not lettered unless they appear in subsequent repetitions of the part. Most songs use repeats. Therefore, you're likely to see the letters reappearing later on and over and over.
The first section is called the A section. Unless a song repeats the same groove, chords, and melody over and over — which can be done effectively — then the next section is labeled the B section, then C, and so on. Some songs only have A and B sections. Having a D section or higher, although not unusual by any means, is less frequent. Unless you are analyzing classical or progressive rock, you are unlikely to venture too far into the alphabet. A typical pattern in any popular form of music is likely to show A and B sections repeated throughout with other letters appearing less frequently.
Every genre of popular music has certain musical forms that are ubiquitous. For instance, jazz often uses the form AABA, while modern pop music often uses the form ABABCBB although some alterations are always to be expected. The Genesis song “ABACAB” borrowed its title from its own song form, serving as an inside joke among the band members.
Another common way to look at musical structure or form, especially in modern commercial pop music, is to use terms such as
After that, the second chorus section is likely to appear, and it's often identical to the first. The second chorus may be repeated twice in a row depending on the chorus's length. Next, usually a brand new section, the bridge, appears. The bridge often completes the song by providing the final emotional, lyrical, melodic, and harmonic content that the song heretofore has not tapped into. For instance, the lyric might offer up some additional, crucial information about the story being sung. Or the emotion of the piece might become more desperate. The bridge might also use an obvious chord that has been held at bay previously or saved just for the bridge. It is not uncommon to even venture into another key altogether — often the relative major or minor — only to find your way back to the original key after the bridge ends.
In most songs, tension and release are exploited for emotional effect. Further, after reaching the summit of the final chorus, you should feel like an interesting emotional tale was narrated through music. Often these final choruses will continue on, repeating over and over until some ending or outro can be devised or until the recording engineer fades the song out gradually.
Through your understanding of the structure of music, you can make better choices all around. First of all, you will know what section comes next. Second, you will be able to create contrasts or specific textures in your bass lines for each section. This is especially important when you are asked to write your own bass lines no matter what the genre. | <urn:uuid:bef21124-a2c1-47e5-a297-c89d3f9dc14a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.netplaces.com/bass-guitar/creating-your-own-bass-lines/understanding-song-structures.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965898 | 692 | 3.484375 | 3 |
- "Humanity can now breathe again. The Covenant has finally been driven back. The cost in lives- our troops and our citizens- has been enormous. But freedom never comes cheaply, and now, we rebuild. I promise this to every man, woman, and child on Earth and in its colonies. While we will continue to strive for a peaceful coexistence with other species, humanity will never again allow itself to be the victim of aggression. This is the moment we start to reclaim our rightful place in the universe."
- — Inaugural speech of Dr. Ruth Charet, new President of the Unified Earth Government; January 2553.
The Unified Earth Government, or UEG, is the central civilian government that administers Earth and its colonies throughout a portion of the Orion Arm of the Milky Way galaxy. It houses the Colonial Administration Authority, the UNSC, as well as the UN.
During the Human-Covenant war, the UNSC has assumed the governing function of the Unified Earth Government in the face of overwhelming Covenant threat. It is not known what its functions are after the war.
The Unified Earth Government traced its origins back to the Interplanetary War of the mid- to late-22nd Century in the Sol System. With numerous Earth governments fighting independent battles against Frieden and Koslovics forces, the UN became involved, eventually using the war to absorb most, if not all, Earth governments into itself to form a global government to combat the terrorists and stabilize the planet and its other world colonies. The UN won the war and the Unified Earth Government was formed, with its primary defense, scientific and exploratory force being the newly formed UNSC. Although the UEG seemed to have complete control over Earth and its colonies, the UN still existed as an organization and a political entity in the 26th century.
Sphere of influenceEdit
Human occupied systems were known to encompass a relatively wide radius of the Orion Arm of the Milky Way galaxy, in various stages of colonization, from the well developed Inner colonies to the relatively recent and struggling Outer colonies. So far, 70 colonies have been referenced. Most of these colonies, under the influence of the UEG, were therefore controlled militarily by the UNSC.
The territory encompassed by the Inner colonies seemed to stretch in at least a 10.5-light year radius around Earth, and the Outer colonies beyond that. By 2468, the outermost colony was Harvest, at twelve light years from Earth - later, colonies were founded well beyond in the Outer colonies. Colonies may have been settled after Harvest, or founded during the Human-Covenant War.
The UEG's influence over these worlds were greatly reduced by the Covenant during the Human-Covenant War, with only Earth and a few scattered colonies left mostly intact by the end of the conflict in 2552. Since the end of the conflict, the UNSC is working to restore its galactic territories and has even recolonized some of its former worlds, including Reach. The UEG's power was also returned after the war from the military.
List of known coloniesEdit
- Epsilon Eridani system
- Sol system
- Ectanus 45 system
- Chi Rho - Unknown status
- Actium - Glassed in May 2545
- New Carthage - Under UEG control
- Skopje - Glassed in 2547
- 23 Librae system
- 26 Draconis system
- Levosia - Unknown status
- Charybdis system
- Charybdis IX - Glassed
- Chi Ceti system
- Eridanus system
- Epsilon Indi system
- Groombridge 1830 system
- Groombridge-1830 - Unsuccessfully attacked by Covenant
- Groombridge 34 system
- Station Delphi - Unknown status
- Procyon system
- Green Hills - Glassed in 2525
- Second Base - Glassed in 2525
- Hat Yai - Glassed in 2528 or 2529
- 111 Tauri system
- Victoria - Unknown status
- Beta Hydri system
- Beta Hydri VI - Unknown status
- Brunel system
- Circinius system
- Cygnus system
- Ectanus 45 system
- Chi Rho - Unknown status
- Hellespont system
- Hydra system - Unknown status
- Lambda Aurigae system
- Roost - Unknown status
- Lambda Serpentis system
- Leonis Minoris system - Three colonies, two glassed in 2537
- Luyten 726-8 system
- Paris system
- Paris IV - Glassed
- Sigma Octanus system
- Sigma Octanus IV - Unsuccessfully attacked by Covenant in 2552.
- Zeta Doradus system
- Algolis - Attacked, unknown status
- Andesia - Unknown status
- Ariel - Unknown status
- Asmara - Attacked, most likely glassed
- Asphodel - Unknown status
- Atlas Moons - Still held
- Ballast - Unsuccessfully attacked by Covenant
- Biko - Glassed in 2525
- Bliss - Glassed in 2526
- Boundary - Unknown status
- Cascade - Still held
- Concord - Still held
- Coral - Attacked in 2552, most likely glassed
- Cote d'Azure - Glassed
- Crystal - Unknown status
- Cyrus VII - Unknown status
- Draco III - Glassed
- Dwarka - Glassed
- Emerald Cove - Abandoned in 2542
- Eirene - Glassed
- Endymion - Glassed
- Erebus VII - Unknown status, possibly abandoned
- Far Isle - Unknown status
- Forseti - Still held
- Fumirole - Attacked, unknown status
- Gilgamesh - Unknown status
- Hellas - Unknown status
- Imber - Attacked, unknown status
- Juneou - Unknown status
- Kholo - Glassed
- Lenapi - Still held
- Lodestone - Unknown status
- Mamore - Still held
- Minister - Still held
- Miridem - Attacked, most likely glassed
- New Constantinople - Glassed
- New Harmony - Unsuccessfully attacked by Covenant
- Oasis VI - Unknown status
- Paradise Falls - Unknown status
- Reynes - Glassed
- Ruthersburg - Unknown status
- Sansar - Glassed
- Sargasso - Attacked, unknown status
- Terceira - Still held
- Venezia - Insurrectionist-controlled as of 2553
- Verent - Unknown status
- Verge - Attacked, strip-mined by Covenant for helium-3
Information suggests that at least some nations on Earth and other planetary bodies still exist and probably maintained their independence at least partially despite the global unification that was performed by the United Nations and Unified Earth Government in the 22nd century during the Interplanetary War. However, these may have just been administrative divisions, or they may have retained some form of self-government while being in the UEG. At one point all of these were annexed into the UEG.
Colonial Administration AuthorityEdit
- Main article: Colonial Administration Authority
The Colonial Administration Authority is the branch that administers the various colonies that belong to the UEG, incorporating the UNSCDF. It keeps extensive files on every colony world and city under the UEG, available to UNSC members for planning missions. The CAA became mostly defunct as the UNSC took control of most of its assets and influence.
United Nations Space CommandEdit
- Main article: United Nations Space Command
The UNSC is the UEG's primary defense force, intended to protect innocent colonists and colony worlds from attack by privateers, Insurrectionists and other unknown threats at the time, such as the Covenant. It includes various special forces, and Militia organizations, but is mainly comprised of the Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force and Army. It is also the UEG's main exploratory and scientific arm.
- Main article: United Nations
Even though it originally formed the UEG, the United Nations has been absorbed into a branch of the Earth government by the 26th century. Its exact function or role is unclear, but it is assumed that it still exists in the same manner as it was originally created.
The UEG uses the United Nations Credit monetary unit to organize its economical stability by selling or buying military equipment, supplies and costs for shipping, etc. The UN Credit was implemented by the United Nations as a universal currency some time before its dissolution and replacement with the Unified Earth Government in 2164. For transporting food and raw materials between colonies, the UEG maintains a merchant navy, run by the Department of Commercial Shipping.
- Both the Unified Earth Government and the United Nations Space Command are references to the human government (United Earth Government) and military (United Earth Space Council), respectively, from Bungie's Marathon series. | <urn:uuid:f92ff5b0-ccbb-4a33-ac39-63c91784b844> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/UEG | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912246 | 1,862 | 2.765625 | 3 |
The operator of the .org domain has formally applied to operate .ngo and .ong for non-governmental organisations.
Not all the proposals to operate new top-level domains are commercially driven. The not-for profit operator of the .org domain has applied to ICANN to run proposed new .ngo and .ong domains for the use of non-governmental organisations.
The .ong variant is proposed as it is the abbreviation of the French, Spanish and Portuguese phrases corresponding to 'non-governmental organisation.'
"The 'NGO' term holds great weight globally and sets these organisations apart from commercial or governmental entities," said Brian Cute, CEO of Public Interest Registry.
"After meeting with hundreds of organisations worldwide to learn more about their missions and to determine how we, as their current registry, could better serve their communities, we found that no matter the location, NGOs desired a definitive online presence to help manage members, strengthen fundraising campaigns and find potential partners and donors."
RECRUITMENT & RETENTION REPORT 2013
HIRE OR FIRE? BUY OR BUILD
2013 is well underway and Australian companies need to know whether they should invest in IT skills training or pay a premium for the people they need.
If you want to know which choices are being made in your sector, what skills are hard to find, which sectors intend to hire or fire and where the IT spend is going, this free report is must have.
Stephen Withers is one of Australia¹s most experienced IT journalists, having begun his career in the days of 8-bit 'microcomputers'. He covers the gamut from gadgets to enterprise systems. In previous lives he has been an academic, a systems programmer, an IT support manager, and an online services manager. Stephen holds an honours degree in Management Sciences, a PhD in Industrial and Business Studies, and is a senior member of the Australian Computer Society. | <urn:uuid:a902046f-8919-4eaf-8439-59f6dc154f61> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.itwire.com/your-it-news/mobility/55127-samsung-galaxy-siii-dual-sim-goodness | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948359 | 392 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Lieutenant Rucinski remembered fondly for her dedication to CPD
Cheektowaga Police Lieutenant Cheryl Rucinski sadly lost her battle to cancer Saturday, Dec. 22. Rucinski joined the police force Dec. 7, 1977 and was promoted to sergeant in 1987, where she was responsible for the supervision of all communications, dispatchers, cellblocks, and security.
In 1989 she was promoted to patrol lieutenant where she supervised the day-to-day events on the road and in 2002 she became the information technology and finance lieutenant. From there she changed the department’s system to completely electronic transactions. Rucinski knew how to locate files from the record system with ease and fellow employees would always come to her for guidance to solve a problem.
Unfortunately in 2009, Rucinski was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer. While fighting the illness, Rucinski remained strong and continued to work in the department. She received numerous awards like the Theodore Roosevelt Association Police Award. This award is given to a police officer that overcomes a handicap and continues to work in the department. Speyer said that very few people knew of her struggles and even if she could not make it to the office, she remained committed by working from home.
She is also the first inductee to the Cheektowaga Central School wall of fame for being a role model to women wishing to enter law enforcement. Rucinski’s hard work and dedication set the bar high for future employees. According to fellow police officers, Rucinski was essential to the work place and will be greatly missed.
“She was an integral part of this department and changed this department in many ways. She leaves a huge void professionally and personally. I don’t know how we will replace her to be honest with you,” said Speyer.
Rucinski is survived by her two devoted children, Brittany and Justin. Services are being held in her honor this weekend. | <urn:uuid:3fd37b89-5a3c-42c8-99ea-41b50b390756> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.metrowny.com/news/814-Lieutenant_Rucinski_remembered_fondly_for_her_dedication_to_CPD.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981523 | 407 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Have you ever stopped to think about all those times you have said “I am to tired to do...”, “Only if … would happen...”, “I am to hot and cant focus...”, “The kids are driving me crazy I will do that later” these are all examples of excuses and how often do later actually come.
Did you know an excuse is just something you tell yourself so that you feel better about something you did not get done. They are also a “reason” so you don't feel bad about it and you don't have to worry about friends and others around you looking at you differently for not getting what ever it was done.
Excuses are explanations, vindications, theories, hypothesis or alibis put forward so as to cover up failure and not look bad .if you settle for excuses and it becomes a habit, you develop the failure. The more you choose to make excuses, the more you become open to failure in life. Successful people have overcome this bad habit. Unsuccessful people are full of excuses and the habits put them permanently in a defensive stand of powerlessness. Successful people make no excuses and accept none. This stand brings about enlightenment, motivation, power and a sense of control over ones destiny. (borrowed from http://hubpages.com/hub/Overcoming---Excuses)
Don't get me wrong I am by no means perfect, in fact quit the reverse. I am the king of excuses and maybe I am hoping by writing this post I will find the strength to change my ways. I have come to realize that my past failures are influencing my chooses today, and my big imagination that drives is also serving to help me make excuses.
Here is something I am trying to stop making excuses and generate more action so that I also generate more results. I am writing down the excuses I use constantly along with what I could have done differently. I am hoping if nothing else the shear size of this list will shock me. Also I need to keep in mind that everything I do and don't do is my choose and where I end up is directly proportional to the chooses I make.
It is time to end the madness and just get things done! | <urn:uuid:a888e8cf-1a49-43da-aff1-85299b2acf6a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://roadceo.com/blog/23/An_Excuses_Is.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978266 | 465 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Artists' increased use of multi-media, digital, and internet media since the 1960s has called into question the conventional strategies by which society preserves, cares for, and redisplays cultural artifacts created with or on ephemera media formats. While the most obvious vulnerability of new media art is rapid technological obsolescence, the study of its other aspects that defy traditional conservation--including hybrid, contextual, or 'live' qualities--has provoked investigation into new strategies for preserving conceptual art, performance, installation art, video art, and even to a limited extent painting and sculpture.
The catchall term sometimes applied to such genres, variable media, suggests that it is possible to recapture the experience of these works independently of the specific physical material and equipment used to display them in a given exhibition or performance. As the nature of multi-media artworks calls for the development of new standards, techniques, and metadata within preservation strategies, the idea that certain artworks incorporating an array of media elements could be variable opens up the possibility for experimental standards of preservation and reinterpretation.
Nevertheless, many new media preservationists work to integrate new preservation strategies with existing documentation techniques and metadata standards. This effort is made in order to remain compatible with previous frameworks and models on how to archive, store and maintain variable media objects in a standardized repository utilizing a systematized vocabulary, such as the Open Archival Information System model.
While some of this research parallels and exploits progress made in the practice of Digital preservation and Web archiving, the preservation of new media art offers special challenges and opportunities. Whereas scientific data and legal records may be easily migrated from one platform to another without losing their essential function, artworks are often sensitive to the look and feel of the media in which they are embedded. On the other hand, artists who are invited to help imagine a long-term plan for their work often respond with creative solutions.
Variations on storage include:
The periodic transfer of an audiovisual or digital file from one cassette or disk to another device of identical format.
The cleaning or repair of an existing artifact or file, especially when the new version supersedes or replaces the original.
The use of computers linked by a persistent data loop to keep critical files in circulation or as multiple copies cloned on multiple hard drives.
Based on the premise that some aspects of an artwork's logic or presentation can be considered independently from the physical context and equipment used to display that artwork, the Questionnaire captures information about the following behaviors or medium-independent aspects:
Covers glazing; coating; support/structure/mounting; frame; acceptable change in surface.
Covers space; boundary; access; lighting; sound; security; base/s; distribution of elements; display equipment for inert elements; architectural placement; equipment visibility.
Covers props; set; costumes; performers; number of performers; format of instructions; instructions apply to…; documentation of new performances; audience location; boundary; synchronization of performance.
Covers user input; interaction mechanism; maintenance.
Covers relationship to artist master; location of master; status of master; acceptable fabricators and vendors; acceptable submasters or exhibition copy; permission to create submaster; fate of exhibition copy; permission to compress/digitize.
Covers inert material; physical attributes of inert material; authorized fabricators and vendors; materials duplicated according to…; electronic equipment and hardware; fate of exhibition copies.
Covers screen resolution; color palette; external data source; fonts; source openness.
Developed by Richard Rinehart, Digital Media Director and Adjunct Curator, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, MANS is described as a ‘formal notation system for media art’ that is in keeping with existing preservation frameworks and vocabularies currently being used to document and preserve other forms of art by museums.
Using the metaphor of the musical score, as a form of declarative and conceptual notation of music, Rinehart likens Media Art to musical compositions that are able to maintain their original integrity while being realized by different instruments or in different arrangements, over evolving time periods; in this sense, scores are considered to be inherently variable. In Rinehart’s view, Media art (in which logical information is considered separate from physical hardware) is able to be ‘scored’ based on the information acquired from a document like the Variable Media Questionnaire to be realized by different media-equipment.
Maintaining the notion of the musical score, the Media Art Notation System is derived as (and has as its underlying structure) an interpretation of computer programming languages, drawing primarily from Digital Item Declaration Language (DIDL), a type of Extensible Markup Language (XML) that allows for greater, more granular descriptions of a multi-component digital object. MANS has three layers; the conceptual model of documentation, the preferred expression format (vocabulary) for the model (the interpretation of DIDL XML) and, its top layer, the score, which serves as a record of the work that is database-processable.
It is hoped that by interweaving the ideas of a declarative language and a more procedural language, MANS is able to act as a backbone to the artwork by being specifically suggestive though not overly prescriptive of how to best delineate and then, later, reinterpret an artwork.
Around this time similar investigations into the preservation of digital/media art were being led on the West Coast by Richard Rinehart, Digital Media Director and Adjunct Curator of Digital Art at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, who published an article on the subject, The Straw that Broke the Museum's Back? Collecting and Preserving Digitial/Media Art for the Next Century, in 2000. Rinehart had also established Conceptual & Intermedia Arts Online (CIAO) with Franklin Furnace, the New York based performance art-grants giving organization and archive/advocate of performance, 'ephemeral' or non-traditional art under the directorship of Martha Wilson.
Members of the Variable Media Network and CIAO subsequently joined forces with other organizations, including Rhizome.org, an affiliate of New York's New Museum of Contemporary Art, for collective preservation endeavors such as Archiving the Avant Garde and Forging the Future
In 2002, Timothy Murray founded The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art Named after the pioneering critic of the commercialization of mass media, the late Professor Rose Goldsen of Cornell University. The Archive hosts international art work produced on CD-Rom, DVD-Rom, video, digital interfaces, and the internet. Its collection of supporting materials includes unpublished manuscripts and designs, catalogues, monographs, and resource guides to new media art. The curatorial vision emphasizes digital interfaces and artistic experimentation by international, independent artists. Designed as an experimental center of research and creativity, the Goldsen Archive includes materials by individual artists and collaborates on conceptual experimentation and archival strategies with international curatorial and fellowship projects.
Other important initiatives include DOCAM, an international research alliance on the documentation and the conservation of the media arts heritage organized by the Daniel Langlois Foundation, and the International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art (INCCA), organized by the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (ICN). | <urn:uuid:23e17124-043d-4549-b0f6-a4af79094a96> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.reference.com/browse/Rhizome+(new+media+art) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907588 | 1,510 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Ag Ed In Missouri
Agriculture and the food, fiber and natural resource system is America’s most creative, productive and basic industry. Much of this country’s success in agriculture can be attributed to a sound program of education. To advance a dynamic and efficient agriculture, food & natural resource system and to assure the continued well-being of our society, first-rate education must continue to be a high priority. A cooperative effort among educational institutions, government agencies and food, fiber and natural resource-related businesses will help Missouri provide leadership for the future through enhanced education. | <urn:uuid:e7ae2b0b-72ee-4c9b-b25c-7b0fbf5206bc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dese.mo.gov/divcareered/ag_ed_in_mo.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919641 | 118 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Lisa Sabin and John Cimino of The Learning Arts perform for Ticonderoga Middle School students.
Photo by Nancy Frasier.
Ticonderoga The Great White Way came to Ticonderoga Middle School recently.
That’s when The Learning Arts, a collaboration of music and education professionals, presented “Broadway and Carnegie Hall” to students.
Performing show tunes from Broadway musicals such as “Oklahoma,” “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” “Wicked” and others the artists entertained and taught.
“They’re phenomenal,” John Donohue, Ti K-8 principal, said of The Learning Arts. “It’s a great opportunity for our kids to enjoy these professional artists. It’s a wonderful learning experience.”
Besides performing, members of The Learning Arts did workshops with students that incorporated science, English, math, history and art.
The Learning Arts team spent three days in Ticonderoga — one at the elementary school presenting “Music for the Imagination,” one at the high school presenting “Freedom and Imagination in the Jazz Age and Beyond” and at the middle school.
“My colleagues and I from The Learning Arts come to you as teaching allies, partners in the enterprise of educating and growing our children,” John Cimino, leader of the troupe, told Ti teachers. “Our contribution is that of a catalyst, a spark from the outside world to add fresh energy to the learning you facilitate and inspire everyday.
“Our medium is the arts, and very particularly, music,” he said. “But our goals and methodology reach well beyond music and the arts to life skills and virtually every discipline in the school curriculum. As catalysts, we accelerate learning’s hidden processes and facilitate connectivity across the disciplines. We nurture imagination, creativity, empathy and curiosity and help students to look inward for self-discovery and reflection.”
Joining Cimino were pianist Tom McCoy, flutist Donna Wissinger, singer Lisa Sabin and percussionist Kyle Ritenauer.
Cimino studied biology and physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute before studying music at the Juilliard School of Music. An operatic singer, he has performed at the White House and the United Nations. He has sung with Luciano Pavarotti. | <urn:uuid:7aaa2a3e-8cad-4438-b12c-b6702b3c658e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.denpubs.com/news/2013/feb/19/broadway-comes-ticonderoga-school/?News | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942227 | 515 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Knoxville Water Co. v. Knoxville - 189 U.S. 434 (1903)
U.S. Supreme Court
Knoxville Water Co. v. Knoxville, 189 U.S. 434 (1903)
Knoxville Water Company v. Knoxville
Argued March 13, 1903
Decided March 23, 1903
189 U.S. 434
The Knoxville Water Company was incorporated to construct waterworks near Knoxville with power to contract with the city and inhabitants for a supply of water and "to charge such price for the same as may be agreed upon between said company and said parties;" the general act under which the company was incorporated provided that it should not interfere with or impair the police or general powers of the municipal authorities, and they should have power by ordinance to regulate the price of water supplied by such company. The company in 1882 contracted for an exclusive privilege for thirty years to construct works, and after fifteen years to convey to the city at a price to be agreed upon or fixed by appraisal, and to "supply private consumers at not exceeding five cents per hundred gallons." Subsequently the city passed an ordinance reducing the price of water to private consumers below that rate. In an action to enforce penalties for overcharging the later rate,
Held that there was no contract on the part of the city to permit the
charge named therein, and that the charter having been accepted subject to the provision of the general act reserving the power in the municipal authorities to regulate the price of water, the subsequent ordinance was not void either as impairing the obligation of a contract, or as depriving the company of its property without due process of law.
The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. | <urn:uuid:3cb0d9c6-f348-49fc-820a-85b3e224c26c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/189/434/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965219 | 361 | 2.125 | 2 |
Seniors Week is an opportunity for Queenslanders of all ages to join together and celebrate the valuable contribution of older people. In 2013, Seniors Week will be celebrated from 17–25 August.
Seniors Week aims to:
- improve community attitudes towards older people and ageing
- facilitate community participation and activity by older people, including those from Indigenous and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds
- enhance community connections and inter-generational relationships.
Organising a Seniors Week event
Community groups and organisations are encouraged to hold events during Seniors Week that raise awareness of issues faced by older people and increase older people's participation in the community.
Contact COTA Queensland to:
For more information about Seniors Week 2013, contact COTA Queensland on 1300 738 348 (toll free within Queensland on a landline) or 07 3316 2999. | <urn:uuid:8c55c746-318f-402e-ac63-9e91dc73f7b3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.qld.gov.au/seniors/recreation-staying-connected/seniors-week/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926954 | 179 | 1.828125 | 2 |
The Millennial generation is beginning to saturate the retail banking customer base, and it shows no signs of slowing.
As these potential credit union members mull their options for long-term financial partners, it will pay to get to know these customers now.
Meet the Millennial
Also known as Generation Y, members of the Millennial generation were born between the late 1970s and early 2000s. They grew up in an age of technology and economic boom in the United States. Naturally, they’re very comfortable with communication technologies and virtual environments.
The Millennial Shift
Currently representing nearly one-third of American adults, according to the U.S. Census. Millennials are also called “Echo Boomers”—a nod to the generation’s comparable size to Baby Boomers.
By 2017, Millennials will have the most spending power of any generation. Today, they account for 9% of total transactions; within five years, it will be 40%. And by 2025, Millennials will make up 75% of the workforce and will surpass all other generations in total earnings.
The Entitlement Issue
Known for high expectations, Millennials demand flexibility, access and advanced technology in all aspects of their lives. In a 2010 study, Gen Y respondents scored 25% higher for levels of narcissism and entitlement than respondents aged 40 to 60, and 50% higher than those aged 61 and older.
The Tech Generation
The most tech-savvy generation yet, members of Gen Y expect technological conveniences. Compared to Boomers, Millennials are:
• 15% more likely to let financial institutions’ websites and online communities impact banking decisions; and
• 29% more likely to try new technology-enabled tools.
The Mobile Generation
Millennials are connected to their mobile devices. Of note, 31 percent of Gen Y reviews account balances more than eight times a month.5 Compared to Boomers, Millennials are:
• 8% more likely to use remote check deposit capture; and
• 33% more likely to use mobile banking functionality.
The Experience Counts
Millennials are driven by experiences, desiring consistency and efficiency in their interactions with financial institutions regardless of what channel they use. Despite their affinity for technology, Millennials aren’t refraining from using traditional channels.
They average 2.5 branch visits per month, and 59% say branch locations are important. Surprisingly, a Gen Y consumer is more likely to visit a branch, drive up to an ATM or use a call center than any other age segment.
However, this could be because Millennials aren’t getting what they need from their preferred digital self-service channels.
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LE TEMPS IRREPARABLE
23 June 1996
THE PARIS CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP FORBIDS ATTACKS AGAINST ISRAELI POLICIES
After many weeks of silence, cardinal Lustiger, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Paris launched an violent attack against the most revered priest of France, the abbe Pierre who gave his support to the revisionist book of Roger Garaudy, "The Foundings Myths of Israeli Politics" . Reviled by an almost unanimous condemnation by the press of his position but strengthened by a recent poll showing he had lost only 2% of the favorable views expressed by the French public opinion, the abbe Pierre delivered a heavy blast, blaming the fictitious unanimity of the press on the "Zionist lobby".
During the controversy, since March, the French Roman Catholic Church handed out only one rather low-key statement, rejecting the revisionist view and providing the Church's own view that one cannot go against "the most solid conclusions of the international scientific community", a rather unexpected source of knowledge for this Church.
The Paris Archbishop, born Jewish, converted to Christianity when he was still a teenager. A, intellectual priest, his career has been very quick. In books and interviews, he maintains that he is at the same time a Jew and a Christian, although this seems difficult to understand to his more simple-minded parishioners. The intellectual establishment and the press love it.
To express his "blame" to the abbe Pierre, although he has no authority over a monk like the abbe, he choose "Tribune juive" , a minor Jewish weekly. "What is at stake, he said, is an attack against Israeli policies and, on par with it, against Zionism and the Jews in general."
Usually in order to shield Israel from criticism, it was said by its supporters that a critique of Zionism was a veiled attack against Jews. But the ordinary use of criticism against Israeli policies was authorized as a proof that the use of criticism was still allowed.
Archbishop Lustiger, who recently introduced a seemingly Jewish rite into a Catholic celebration for the seven monks assassinated in Algeria, now forbids any criticism of Israeli policies or, more probably restricts its use to authorized circles.
It was strange situation, without a precedent, to see a
self-proclaimed Jew as one of the leading personalities of a Roman
Catholic Church. But now the same person acts as an Israeli
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These Are The Most Dangerous Cities In The World
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The attacks were part of coordinated assaults by insurgent elements around the country that killed 32 people and remind us how violent the area remains.
Research consulting firm Mercer has released its 2011 Quality of Living Report, which includes ranking of the cities according to the level of personal safety. Baghdad is the most violent city on the list. Based on Mercer’s list, 24/7 Wall St. has examined the 10 most dangerous cities in the world.
All of these areas suffer from great political instability that has led to politically motivated violence. This climate of instability also has created an ideal breeding ground for crime motivated by profit. Whether the violence is criminal or political in nature, it perpetuates socioeconomic conditions that keep those nations’ economies depressed.
Nearly all the countries of the cities on the list have experienced a violent coup or national war in recent past. In Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, a brief but severe military conflict with Russia in 2008 led to long-term economic problems and the increased availability of firearms.
In many of these cities, the central national violent conflict is ongoing. In Yemen, long-reigning president Saleh has just stepped down, but a large group of citizens are demanding his execution. As a result, firefights between protesters and government troops are ongoing.
For all the cities on the list, the U.S. Department of State has urged Americans to avoid the country altogether and in many cases suggested citizens who remain there leave.
To illustrate the violent conditions in each city, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed travel warnings issued by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs. These reports detail the type of crime or violence in the area, including whether Americans are being targeted. We also included the socioeconomic conditions for each country to reflect how violence and depressed living conditions are almost always interconnected. We referred to adult literacy rates, adult mortality rates and the percentage of the population living on less than $1 per day, based on data from the United Nations. To demonstrate the impact that violence has on the economy, we obtained GDP per capita from the International Monetary Fund.
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[freetds] tds_socketpair on windows
James K. Lowden
jklowden at freetds.org
Sun Apr 1 20:54:54 EDT 2012
On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 22:57:04 +0100
Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't understand why
> > we need a pair of sockets. To support MARS?
> One reason is MARS, another is to support all cancellation cases in a
> signal and thread safe way (I don't remember the exact combination
> that causes problems but I start writing this code before MARS).
Then I doubt it's necessary, strictly speaking. Stevens shows tcp/ip
can (and should) be managed with one thread of control. I would be
happy to help you meet your goals using just one socket, if you can
explain what led you to creating the pair.
Signals and threads don't mix, as you know.
> > WaitForSingleObject() requires threads. event_fd is not portable
> > and not POSIX.
> Windows always support threads.
Yes. Threads might not be the worst thing Windows brought to
programming, but they're close.
The point isn't whether or not threads are supported. The point is:
Do threads make the code easier to understand and reason about?
The answer is almost always No.
As I'm sure you agree, the more we can use portable constructs and a
single thread of source code, the better off we are.
> And perhaps the gain is not as good as other optimizations.
The first rule of optimization is: measure. FreeTDS is pretty
efficient as it is. It would be easy to make it more complex without
making it any faster.
The Big Optimization could come from my automaton. Early
measurements indicate a state machine could manage the TDS layer with
about 10% of the code, no copies, and no mallocs (except for packets).
I've taken some time to read about binary parsers e.g. binpac
It's not clear to me that a parser-generator buys us anything over my
do-it-yourself approach. But I'd like to be convinced before going
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Elbert HubbardArticle Free Pass
Elbert Hubbard, in full Elbert Green Hubbard (born June 19, 1856, Bloomington, Ill., U.S.—died May 7, 1915, at sea off Ireland), American editor, publisher, and author of the moralistic essay “A Message to Garcia.”
A freelance newspaperman and head of sales and advertising for a manufacturing company, Hubbard retired in 1892 and founded his Roycroft Press in 1893 at East Aurora, N.Y., on the model of William Morris’ communal Kelmscott Press, which he had visited in England. Beginning in 1895 he issued monthly the famous “Little Journey” booklets. These were pleasant biographical essays on famous persons, in which fact was interwoven with comment and satire. Hubbard also began publishing The Philistine, an avant-garde magazine, which he ultimately wrote single-handedly. In an 1899 number of The Philistine, “A Message to Garcia” appeared, in which the importance of perseverance was drawn as a moral from a Spanish-American War incident. In 1908 Hubbard began to edit and publish a second monthly, The Fra. His printing establishment in time expanded to include furniture and leather shops, a smithy, and an art school, as had the operations of William Morris. Hubbard died in the sinking of the ocean liner Lusitania.
Hubbard’s writings contain a bizarre mixture of radicalism and conservatism. He apotheosized work and efficiency in a vigorous, epigrammatic style. Valuable collections of his writings are Little Journeys, 14 vol. (1915), and Selected Writings, 14 vol. (1923). His Scrap Book (1923) and Note Book (1927) were published posthumously.
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What they can’t see, but what I know, is how hard college was for me. Having attended 12 schools in two states between the ages of 6 and 14, none of them very good, I was woefully unprepared for science, math and foreign languages. I did fine in English and history, but unfortunately colleges demanded more than that. Had the college I attended required an SAT score, admission officials would have laughed all the way through my rejection letter. It didn’t help that I was essentially a first-generation college student. (My paternal sharecropper grandfather could not read or write until late in life; my father did not complete high school; my mother began college while I was working on my Ph.D.) Furthermore, there were money problems. My mother was a homemaker, my father a salesman.
As much as middle- and upper-class Alabamians may not know it, there are hundreds of thousands of children in Alabama like I was in the mid-1950s: full of dreams, poorly prepared academically, few financial resources. But I had two enormous advantages: I won a debate scholarship (not based on academics, I emphasize, but upon a Baptist ministerial student’s gift for gab, which is legendary), and tuition at Samford University was only $150 per semester (which was within the range of my scholarships, savings from multiple jobs, and my father’s modest salary). There were also plenty of other first-generation college students just as poor and frightened as I was.
Here are some of the reasons that what was possible for me a half-century ago is impossible for many teenagers in this generation.
Alabama doesn’t invest much in the future of its children. Our total tax burden consistently ranks last of the 50 states or close to it. That starves public schools, resulting in students as poorly prepared for college as I was (some 40 percent have to take remedial courses to make up their deficiency). Fellow Alabamians: Rejoice about your low taxes, but worry about the future of your children.
Some colleges and universities engage in a recruiting arms race for the declining pool of traditional students (18-to-25-year-olds from upper-middle and upper classes who attend university full time, mainly in the daytime, and live on campus or adjacent to it). Many of these relatively affluent students and their parents demand fancy condo-like dorms, opulent student centers and other amenities. Furthermore, some universities fund the extras (new student centers, sports facilities, athletic teams) by increased student fees. Sometimes they ask students to vote on such perks. Most students who vote for them seldom understand that every student-fee increase causes a certain percentage of working students to drop out of college.
Universities compete fiercely for a small number of elite students. They discount tuition by awarding merit-based scholarships funded by increased tuition on everyone else. High SAT scores and the number of National Merit finalists have become bragging points for colleges and universities. Meanwhile, federal Pell grants, available to poor and working-class students based on need, cover a smaller and smaller percentage of total expenses.
Administrative bureaucracies increase at a rate faster than student enrollment. Alabama should require every state institution to compare the number of staff and administrators in 1990 with 2010. If the percentage increase is higher than the percentage of increased enrollment, the school should explain why this happened. There may be good reasons, such as increased federal reporting requirements. But poor and working-class kids are often the casualties of this administrative bloating.
We don’t value non-traditional students (older adults returning to college; students who have to work full- or part-time to pay tuition; students with families to support; students who have to attend at night). These students may not dominate deans’ lists, but their lives depend just as surely on a college degree as do those of National Merit finalists. I’m not against more National Merit finalists or NCAA football championships.
But here is my challenge to higher education in Alabama: Evaluate the success of colleges and universities not only by the number of National Merit finalists in the student body or the number of national football championships won, but also by the number of first-generation college students graduated.
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War Veteran’s Fund Losses Explain Glass-Steagall
One of the great debates to emerge from the financial crisis is whether the U.S. Congress should resurrect some form of the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act and bring back the separation of commercial and investment banking. It should, but not for the reasons usually cited.
Put aside the tired arguments about whether the law’s repeal in 1999 caused the crisis. It did help banks deemed too big to fail get larger, but the crisis had no single proximate cause. We would have systemically dangerous financial institutions even if the law had stayed in place.
There’s a better argument for separating securities firms from commercial banks: to protect consumers. The banking industry has a long history of preying on unsophisticated depositors by selling them garbage investments without regard to suitability. This was a big reason Glass-Steagall was originally enacted.
Consider the $61 billion in settlements between large banks and the Securities and Exchange Commission over sales of auction-rate securities, the market for which collapsed in early 2008. Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp. and other banks told customers the securities were safe, highly liquid investments comparable to money-market funds. They weren’t.
At Wachovia Corp., the SEC said bank employees helped recruit retail depositors for the investments. Wachovia, which was bought by Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) in 2008, later agreed to repurchase $7 billion of the securities. Regulators in Washington state made similar findings about Wells Fargo as part of a $1.3 billion settlement in 2009, saying the bank and its investment divisions “engaged in cross-selling in connection with ARS sales.”
Cross-selling junk to mom and pop depositors wasn’t limited to auction-rate securities. Last year the Memphis, Tennessee- based brokerage Morgan Keegan & Co. agreed to a $200 million settlement with state and federal securities regulators over seven mutual funds that lost $1.5 billion in 2007 and 2008. Morgan Keegan brokers sold the proprietary bond funds to more than 30,000 account holders. The SEC said the funds’ managers mismarked their asset values.
Morgan Keegan, then a subsidiary of Regions Financial Corp. (RF), “targeted Regions Bank depository customers with maturing certificates of deposits or other depository assets,” the Alabama Securities Commission and other state regulators said in their complaint. “More money could be made on broker- dealer fees than on the interest spread on interest-bearing deposits.”
One of those customers was Donald G. Smith, 66, who owns an auto-repair business in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Several years ago, he and his wife had a $96,000 Treasury bond. After it matured, he said a Regions financial adviser sent him to see a Morgan Keegan broker in the same branch.
He put the money in the funds the broker recommended, which soon crashed. The funds’ holdings included complex instruments with names like synthetic collateralized debt obligations, first-loss pieces and pooled trust preferred securities. Smith, a Vietnam War veteran and former oilfield worker, said he isn’t a sophisticated investor. His last year of school was eighth grade.
“I told her this was our nest egg, and we couldn’t afford to lose it,” he said, referring to the Morgan Keegan broker. Why did he trust Morgan Keegan? “It was right there inside the bank. One employee that I had trusted recommended me to another one.”
After the Smiths filed claims against Morgan Keegan, a securities-industry arbitration panel in August awarded them about $11,000, after hearings fees, which was a small fraction of their losses.
Their experience is reminiscent of a story about another bank customer: Edgar D. Brown, of Pottsville, Pennsylvania. His testimony at the 1933 Senate Banking Committee hearings on the 1929 stock market crash was recounted in Michael Perino’s acclaimed book, “The Hellhound of Wall Street,” about the committee’s chief counsel, Ferdinand Pecora.
In 1927, Brown responded to an advertisement by City Bank (now Citigroup) offering to help with financial advice. Brown, who had $100,000 in cash and government bonds from selling a theater chain, received a reply from a salesman at National City Co., City Bank’s securities affiliate.
The salesman said Brown should sell the bonds, borrow two or three times the money he had, and invest in securities the company recommended. “Brown took the company’s advice, insisting only that he wanted bonds instead of stock,” Perino wrote. “Other than that Brown trusted the company implicitly.”
Perino wrote: “Over the next year a welter of bonds came in and out of Brown’s portfolio. There were railroad bonds, utility bonds, and industrial bonds. Brown’s foreign bond holdings spanned the globe -- Peruvian and Chilean bonds; bonds from the State of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil; Vienna and Budapest bonds; the bonds of the Belgian National Railroad, Norwegian Hydro, German General Electric, and the Saxon Public Works; Greek, Italian, and Irish bonds. They seemed to have only one thing in common -- they all went down in value.”
When Brown complained the next year, the salesman blamed Brown for insisting upon bonds. So Brown took his advice to buy stocks. “I bought,” Brown testified, “thousands of shares of stock on their suggestion which I did not know whether the companies they represented made cake, candy or automobiles.” Following the company’s advice was, he thought, “the only safe thing to do.” In 1929, at age 40, he lost almost everything.
Brown’s testimony helped persuade Congress to pass Glass- Steagall that same year. It was a good idea at the time to separate securities firms from commercial banks. It still is.
(Jonathan Weil is a Bloomberg View columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.)
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3. The X-Group Period (ca. A.D. 320-550)
Some archaeologists identified the cultural phase following the Meroitic Period in Nubia as the X-Group; they differentiated the X-Group culture from that of the Meroites and believe that the X-Group represented the invasion of a new people. Archaeologists now believe that the X-Group culture is actually a continuation of that of the Meroitic Period, with no large-scale invasion of new peoples, though the nomadic Blemmyes did take over northern Lower Nubia at this time. Some scholars have proposed re naming the X-Group Period, using the term "Ballana culture" for Lower Nubia, while labeling the different but contemporaneous culture in the Meroitic south the "Tanqasi culture". | <urn:uuid:0fd618aa-dba1-4f7e-9734-f7cb4056dd66> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://library.thinkquest.org/22845/kush/x-group.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932681 | 170 | 3.546875 | 4 |
Manuel Llinás (right) examines genetic information from Plasmodium, the single-celled parasite that causes malaria, with Sharon Weeks, a senior molecular biology major. Llinás, an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, is leading Princeton's efforts to understand Plasmodium on the genetic level.
Studying Plasmodium requires Llinás and his team to grow the parasite in the laboratory. Here, infected red blood cells are mixed in a beaker containing a chemical medium that will keep the cells alive outside the body for more than 48 hours while the parasites grow to maturity.
At left: The Llinás research team has decorated its window in the Icahn Laboratory with illustrations representing the life cycle of Plasmodium, culminating in this image of the parasite emerging from a human red blood cell. After this step, the 24 newly created Plasmodia each invade another red blood cell, beginning malaria's infection cycle again.
Below left: Outside the window of his lab, Llinás and Weeks talk surrounded by images representing each stage of Plasmodium's life cycle.
Photos: Denise Applewhite
Llinás brings new approach to age-old mystery of malaria
Posted October 8, 2007; 01:25 p.m.
From the Oct. 8, 2007, Princeton Weekly Bulletin
In what might be one of medicine's oldest puzzles, molecular biologist Manuel Llinás marvels at how little modern researchers know about how the pieces fit together.
"Malaria is one of the oldest diseases known to mankind, but even now, more than 2 million people die of it every year. No vaccine has ever been developed," said Llinás, an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics. "Compared to most other diseases with familiar names, malaria remains a mystery."
Llinás came to Princeton to change that. Since arriving in July 2005, he has spent his time exploring the genetic code of Plasmodium, the single-celled parasite that invades the bloodstream and causes the disease. He hopes his work will lead to a vaccine someday or at least a new way to approach the disease, which often proves fatal in young children, who usually cannot withstand its severe flu-like symptoms.
"Malaria is growing resistant to older drug treatments — the parasites are getting used to what we throw at them," Llinás said. "The most effective treatments we have are 50 years old. That's why in my research I'm trying to focus on what we don't know."
To scientists like Llinás, who specialize in reading a creature's genes, what we don't know is a lot. Although it has long been understood that mosquitoes carry the parasite to the human bloodstream, where the invader saps nutrients from red blood cells, the nitty-gritty details of this interaction with the host are lacking. Part of the trouble is that the genes that control parasite development in red blood cells are proving hard to decipher.
An animal's genome — its entire genetic code, spelled out in spiraling strands of DNA molecules — usually will have long stretches of DNA in common with most other animals. But while an eel's genome and an elephant's have a high degree of similarity, the Plasmodium genome seems alien in comparison. Almost half of its genome has no known counterpart in other creatures.
Strangest of all, scientists cannot identify what operates Plasmodium's genetic switchboard. In most living things, proteins called transcription factors push the buttons, but as yet, no one has isolated a single such protein in Plasmodium.
"It's unusual that transcription factors, one of the most important types of regulatory proteins in biology, have been vastly understudied in Plasmodium," Llinás said. "That's like saying the phone system works, but we have no idea how it routes our calls."
When a cell has a job to do — digesting nutrients, for example, or reproducing — its genes must be activated and deactivated in a particular order. Running the switchboard are the transcription factors, which flip each genetic switch when the time is right.
Given modern lab equipment and 48 hours, Llinás can watch every one of Plasmodium's 5,400 genes turn on and off as the parasite runs through its two-day cycle of infection. Something must be flipping those switches, he figures, and locating the right switchboard operator might allow science to disrupt the cycle, halting the disease in its tracks. Finding it is one of Llinás' goals, but first he has to discover why the transcription factors have eluded detection.
"Maybe Plasmodium has novel transcription factors," Llinás speculated. "But it doesn't mean they don't exist. And we're making progress toward finding them."
Seeking the Achilles' heel
In 2003, while Llinás was a postdoctoral fellow in Joseph DeRisi's lab at the University of California-San Francisco, DeRisi's team determined for the first time the order in which the switches flip in the 48-hour cycle. It netted them an influential paper in the premier journal Public Library of Science, which has led to more findings.
In particular, a group at the National Institutes of Health found two years ago that Plasmodium shares a family of genes with a plant called Arabidopsis. Though Plasmodium is in essence an animal, its ancestors once got together with algae, and their genomes merged.
"Plasmodium still has a few plantlike characteristics as a result of this ancient merger," Llinás said. "Arabidopsis is one of the most commonly studied plants, so we may have an inroad to understanding the parasite."
The link to plants is important for future drug development. A drug that targets an animal gene in Plasmodium might inadvertently flip a few other similar switches in the human genome, bringing a malaria patient unwanted side effects. Because this gene sequence comes from plants, whose genes have little in common with humans', medicine might target it with impunity.
What encourages Llinás is the fact that these gene sequences seem to be almost exactly the same in all strains of Plasmodium. A Plasmodium from central Africa has only a slightly different genetic makeup than one from India. Because this gene sequence varies so little regardless of its host's origin, Llinás suspects it is of vital importance to the parasite.
"When a genetic tool is always the same, it usually means that evolution simply can't find any other way to do that tool's job," he said. "A lot can mutate in a creature without affecting its ability to survive, but evolution has locked this sequence in. That usually means something critical is going on there."
If Llinás can figure out what this stretch of DNA does for the parasite and how to flip its switches, it may prove to be just the Achilles' heel that researchers desperately are seeking.
"We're just getting started, but we've already identified a specific interaction between the DNA and several intriguing proteins," he said. "It's an exciting first step."
In recognition of his approaches to understanding Plasmodium, Llinás earned a New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health this fall. His lab in the Lewis-Sigler Institute will receive $1.5 million over the next five years to explore the relationship between the parasite's metabolism and the human cells from which it draws nutrients.
Understanding this kind of fundamental relationship is sorely needed for the fight against malaria, Llinás said. Part of what attracted him to Princeton is the presence of researchers who can collaborate with him, such as chemist Josh Rabinowitz, also an assistant professor in the Lewis-Sigler Institute.
"We'd like to know more about how Plasmodium interacts with the cells it invades," Llinás said. "To explore that issue, I need the help of a metabolism expert like Josh. His state-of-the-art methods are the reason these studies are currently possible. Fortuitously, our labs are right next to each other and this has developed into a fantastic collaboration combining our respective specialties. I wouldn't even be studying Plasmodium metabolites without knowing him."
Llinás also works with 10 postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and undergraduates in his Icahn Laboratory setting. In addition, he shares his skills with students through teaching the junior year project lab in the Integrated Science Curriculum.
This year, Llinás will teach units on malaria for two new courses on global infection and diseases offered by the Woodrow Wilson School with school faculty member Burton Singer, Thomas Shenk of the Department of Molecular Biology and Adel Mahmoud, who has a joint appointment in the school and the department.
"The advantage of having Manuel here at Princeton is that we can combine different approaches to the disease," said Mahmoud, the former president of Merck Vaccines. "We can reach out to our colleagues in the world and offer a comprehensive approach to malaria. Manuel brings us to the next level with his knowledge of Plasmodium's molecular structure." | <urn:uuid:31d382d7-c9f5-44a0-9f51-86e7c5a5a658> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S19/18/63G62/index.xml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950011 | 1,913 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Today, the BC Government announced another in a series of many energy plans and strategies. The 2012 Natural Gas Strategy actually puts energy front and centre for economic development in the Province. The policy is big on ideas, but short on details.
According to the Government, liquefied natural gas (LNG) is to be the key driver for the provincial economy for decades to come. The global demand for liquefied natural gas is strong and BC's estimated natural gas reserves are substantial. Local First Nations have expressed support for LNG facilities and the pipelines that will bring the natural gas from the North. Nominating LNG as a pillar of the BC economy makes good sense. How the new energy plan is implemented is of course, critical.
For the BC renewable energy industry, growing the demand for electricity in the Province is a good thing. The important decision is how much of the new LNG development will be powered by renewable energy and how much will be from natural gas. The Gas Strategy seems to state that the first two LNG facilities in Kitimat, BC will be required to be fueled by renewable energy. The problem right now is the Province is short on renewable energy generation and even shorter on transmission. Much needs to happen on both fronts before the Government's LNG objectives can be met.
British Columbia is at a cross-road with respect to climate change policy and economic growth. The Province is blessed with an abundance of natural gas and buyers in Asia are willing to pay for it. At the same time, to its credit, the Province has laws which restrict GHG emissions. A clear and obvious hedge against GHG emissions is renewable energy. The challenge for the Province is to balance economic growth with a GHG intensive industry with its climate change laws.
Renewable energy will play an important role in the development of the Provincial economy. New electricity infrastructure, both generation and transmission, is critical to meet the opportunity presented to the Province. Both mining for minerals and turning natural gas into liquefied form (LNG) for export, require massive amounts of energy. Meeting this new demand with renewable electricity with natural gas as a possible backup is smart fiscal and environmental policy. GHG emissions are lower when electricity from renewable resources is used rather than natural gas to power the Province.
In the coming days or months, we expect to see further details on the following issues:
- The Province's definition of "clean". Does this mean renewables only?
- The BC Hydro grid. Is there sufficient electricity on the existing transmission grid for Apache Phase 1, Apache Phase 2 and Douglas Channel LNG facilities?
- Carbon capture and storage. Really? Where?
- Infrastructure Royalty Program Credits. Will this be available for electricity infrastructure (ie, new or upgraded transmission lines) ?
- Self-sufficiency changes. Drought insurance is gone. What now? Increase in imports?
Provided development of the natural gas fields and the mines in the North are in compliance with world class environmental practices, in cooperation and participation with First Nations and local communities, British Columbia is well positioned to be a major player in the new world economy. Some new thinking on old ideas is needed. But let's get it done while the opportunity is there. | <urn:uuid:8749b163-a776-4ed6-b679-ab5341a45ab8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bcenergyblog.com/tags/kitimat-lng/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939904 | 658 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Back To School Lyrics Article
Some Shopping Tips Before Going Back to School
The holidays come to an end and signal the beginning of the school routine once again. But the one thing that most parents dread is the shopping before sending their kids back to school. The list is endless and the queues serpentine because about a thousand other parents have the same idea as you. If you are a seasoned parent then you know the value of planning ahead and you probably have a better idea of what you need but if you are new parents then read on and arm yourself with some useful tips on the how, the what and the where of school shopping to save your sanity and stay within your budget.
One of the most important tips is not to wait till the last minute to do your shopping. Try and get hold of a list and get on with it. Most of your favorite shops will have no stock by the time the first day of school comes around. So get there early and stock up and you’ll save money too. By August there are a lot of sales going on and your dollar stores are perfect for pens, paper and other odds and ends that are so important for school. If you cannot get to the stores early then try office supply stores and stationery shops for your needs. They may not be cheap but they will have everything you need and save you running around from shop to shop.
Another good idea is to get together with your friends who have similar shopping to do and buy in bulk together and save money in the process. There are enough bulk shopping stores around for just this purpose.
Some schools have a pre-packaged purchasing system in place. Ask around if classes have standard packages, split the bulk order between parents and students. This will save you time effort, money and complaints about brands and company and other related issues.
Another important part of school is clothes. Kids just have to grow in the summer months and you are going to need to restock their wardrobe. Summer and sports clothes are very essential especially if kids are involved in activities like gymnastics, swimming and games after school. Your best bet is clothes that can do double duty, useful in fall as well as winter. So think tights under skirts, tank tops under long sleeved shirts, cropped pants and sweaters etc. But be aware of school rules regarding dress code. There are schools that do not allow bare shoulders and short skirts.
Now you have everything that your kids need for school. The last on your list would be a school bag for all those things. You don’t want sore muscles and headaches because of big heavy bags. Choose one that sits at the waist and has padded straps with a waist strap for better support. Backpacks are ideal for heavy books though teens may like the impression created by slouchy purses and hobo bags. Never take a backpack with one shoulder strap as that will cause a backache too. The weight must be distributed evenly to avoid injury. Plan ahead and back to school does not mean tension anymore. | <urn:uuid:15f6e497-ea8e-4567-a525-e8b90f3af0a1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ikusa.net/backschool/back-to-school-lyrics.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969749 | 616 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Last November, the city of Syracuse shelved a plan to install cameras at busy intersections to catch — and fine — motorists who run red lights. Among the concerns cited were privacy of drivers, legal challenges that had arisen in other states and the public’s view of the idea as just another way for government to grab your money.
That last one appears to be validated by Rochester’s experience with red-light cameras.
From July 1 to March 31, the Flower City has collected an eye-popping $1.8 million in ticket revenues — more than double the budgeted amount of $850,000 — according to a story last month in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. The city has 41 cameras at 28 intersections, and is approved by the state for up to 50 cameras.
After paying Redflex Traffic Systems, the Arizona company that owns and maintains the cameras, Rochester has cleared $600,000 — triple the initial estimate. The mayor wants to use the money to buy new turnout gear for the fire department, the paper reported.
Revenues spiked, in part, because twice as many cameras were deployed as expected. Still, there are an awful lot of people running red lights in Rochester. According to Redflex, red-light cameras documented 518 violations in just their first week of operation. From July 1 to March 31, Rochester police issued nearly 46,000 tickets, at $50 a pop, the newspaper reported.
The jury is still out on whether red-light cameras are improving safety. Rochester police expect it will take three years to change people’s behavior.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is squarely behind the idea. IIHS did a study of 14 cities that introduced red-light cameras between 1996 and 2004, and found that fatal crashes at traffic signals were reduced by 24 percent.
Critics of the cameras say they may punish the wrong person, since the ticket goes to the owner of the car, not the driver. They also claim a reduction in “T-bone” crashes at intersections is offset by more rear-end collisions, as drivers slam on the brakes to avoid going through the light.
The cameras certainly perform for Redflex. Last year, parent Redflex Holdings Ltd., a publicly traded company based in Australia, recorded earnings before interest, tax and depreciation of $43.3 million on $139.8 million in revenues. Comparable earnings for its U.S. business grew 61 percent, to $36.3 million, as 17 new municipal contracts for red-light cameras were signed.
Despite Rochester’s “success” in picking the pockets of motorists, Syracuse was wise to be cautious about deploying red-light cameras. Until evidence proves otherwise, they appear to be more of a solution for tight budgets than for traffic safety. | <urn:uuid:f3a11bc7-8cc5-4bf7-b3a2-52a80cb89588> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.syracuse.com/opinion/2012/05/red_light_rochester_reaps_big.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97125 | 573 | 1.523438 | 2 |
As phone bills fall, European telcos aim to make data pay
BRUSSELS/BARCELONA - European telecoms companies who have watched with dismay while phone bills shrink are hoping new price plans that emphasise data will win back revenue from smartphone and tablet users making fewer calls but spending more time online.
Average mobile phone bills in Europe have fallen by 15 percent since 2007, even as they have risen by 25 percent in the United States. European users now spend an average of just 24 euros a month on their mobile phones, according to Sanford Bernstein. Americans spend about two thirds more.
But what is good for consumers' wallets is bad for firms, who grumble that unless they can make Europeans pay higher bills, they won't have the funds to build fast 4G and fibre broadband networks needed in the tablet and smartphone era.
For years, mobile phone operators have made most of their money by charging users for voice call minutes and text messages, perhaps with a mobile data plan thrown in.
But voice calls that made up more than 80 percent of revenue in 2007 now account for just 62.6 percent of cash flow for European firms, according to research firm Informa. Meanwhile, data volume is expected to double each year until 2015, according to industry group GSMA.
While details differ, European companies are all trying focus monthly charges on the part of their business that is growing - mobile data. But in highly competitive markets, few have yet found a formula to prod consumers to spend more.
"We understand better now how to price mobile services and data," said Gervais Pellissier, France Telecom's chief financial officer. "But not everything has been sorted out yet."
Firms like Vodafone and Telenor are responding by bundling unlimited voice and text messages with packages that vary in price based on how much data a customer wants. Others, like France Telecom and Britain's EE, charge a premium for the fastest 4G data speeds.
Eventually, European companies may follow U.S. firms in offering shared data plans, which let individuals and families buy data allowances that they can use on more than one device.
FEWER CALLS, MORE APPS
What's clear is that customers are sending fewer of their messages through the traditional SMS text service, and making fewer of their calls over the voice network.
Many are shifting to apps like Skype, What's App, and Viber - or handset makers' features like Apple's Facetime and Blackberry's BBM - which let them communicate for free using their mobile data allowances.
"Around 18 months ago we started noticing that people were using more Skype, people were using Viber and What's App," Vodafone Chief Executive Vittorio Colao told the Mobile World Congress industry meeting, referring to three apps that let users route phone calls or messages through data plans.
"And our SMS revenues started going down. So we asked them why and it was a very simple answer. It was because it was free," he said. "So we decided to turn the model upside down."
Analysis firm Ovum forecasts that by 2016 global operators will have lost $54 billion in revenues due to the increasing popularity of messaging apps over text messages and phone calls.
While losing the battle to charge for minutes and texts, operators in Europe are trying to segment customers based on their data usage, like airlines separate passengers into business and economy class. Users on higher-priced deals of above 60 euros a month get faster mobile Internet speeds, larger data allotments and extra services like subsidised smartphones.
Swisscom has gone further than many by betting that consumers in a wealthy country will pay a big premium for fast data. Its prices are higher than elsewhere on the continent, but it says it has invested in a network that can handle large amounts of data at high speed.
Since June 2012, all its offers include unlimited calls, texts and mobile data. Users choose between a plan from 47-136 euros a month, depending on the Internet speed they want.
"I see many telecoms operators who no longer believe in their own business and because of that they don't invest anymore. It's a self fulfilling prophecy," Swisscom's Chief Executive Carsten Schloter said in an interview.
"Switzerland is not an island; the willingness to pay for quality also exists in other countries," he said.
To get mobile prices back up, some operators are planning to charge a premium for faster 4G networks. EE, the first to launch 4G in Britain, has chosen to charge higher prices for new service, but has not disclosed how many customers it has won.
EE paid 589 million pounds to buy more spectrum to extend its 4G coverage last week, and has promised to invest 1.5 billion over the next three years improving the network.
"If you're not different, if you don't have network innovation then yes, the only tool that you have is price," CEO Olaf Swantee told Reuters. "Network differentiation and service differentiation is the way to go for us."
But investors are not convinced that charging premiums for 4G will be a panacea. Customers may come to expect fast data, without wanting to pay extra for it.
Hutchison's Three, a challenger in Britain that offers "all you can eat data" plans for 25 pounds ($38.81) a month, has already pledged not to charge a premium for 4G when it launches the faster service this year.
In Norway, Telenor managed to increase its customers' monthly bills by 2 percent in 2012 - compared to a 4 percent decline at rival Teliasonera - with a plan that squeezes more revenue out of data.
The group started a campaign in 2011 to prod users to sign up to the new bundles, which initially decreased the average monthly bill but paid off later.
Telenor Norway users on a typical 249 krones ($45.19) contract are limited to a modest 400 megabytes per month, plus calls and texts. Those who want more data have to pay extra.
But the firm has not been able to repeat the trick in neighbouring countries where competition is more intense. Telenor's similarly-priced packages in Denmark are a much better deal for its customers, offering up to 25 times as much data.
SHARED DATA COMING?
European companies are looking across the Atlantic for pricing ideas. U.S. mobile operators Verizon Wireless and AT&T, which share 70 percent of the market, have both introduced shared data plans. Families or individuals buy one mobile subscription with unlimited calls and texts, and get a data allowance that can be used on up to 10 different devices.
"Shared data plans have proven to be the winning strategy for data monetisation," Verizon Wireless Chief Technology Officer Nicola Palmer told Reuters.
The U.S. firms found that users were willing to pay more per megabyte of data - and buy more megabytes - because of the extra convenience of using their allowances on multiple devices. Europeans are taking note.
"Customers are evolving their usage across multiple screens - smartphones, tablets, cameras, dongles - so we need to be able to enable that kind of behavior," Ronan Dunne, who heads 02 Britain, told Reuters. Although he hinted that shared data plans were in the works at 02, he declined to give details.
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Luxembourg Study Abroad
The University of Luxembourg, the first and only university of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, was founded in 2003.
Luxembourg (a small state between France, Germany and Belgium) is the headquarters of many European institutions, such as the European Court of Justice and the European Investment Bank, and is renowned for its international financial centre.
Naturally, the University of Luxembourg makes use of these connections: about five hundred financial experts, legal experts and other practitioners support the University of Luxembourg professors in their teaching. The university is one of the few in the world to be multilingual, with classes offered in French, German and English.
Courses at the University of Luxembourg
USF Students will be studying at the Faculty of Law, Economic and Finance. The following classes are generally available.
International Economic Law classes
- European and International Economic law
- Principles and Sources of European Criminal Law
European Constitutional and Administrative Law classes
- European Criminal Law: Procedural Aspects
- The Impact of European Law on the National Criminal Justice Systems
- General Principles and Fundamental Rights
- European Administrative Law
European Criminal Law classes
- Basics of German Economic Criminal Law
- Introduction to the Practice of Economic Criminal Law in the UK
- The Jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice in Matters of Criminal Law
- Legal Theory
Private European Law classes
- General course in European Company Law
- General course on European Securities Law Private Equity
- Seminar on the Relations between Luxembourg and the European Institutions
European Banking Law classes
- European Banking Law
- Specialized courses on National and European Monetary system
- Specialized course on European and International Sources in the Banking and Financial Sector
European Litigation Classes
- General principles and Fundamental rights
- More General Aspects of Litigation
- Litigation of General Principles of European Law
- Procedures of Litigation
Students, in consultation with Professor Donovan, must select courses which are the equivalent of a full time semester course load (ranging from 12 to 15 units).
The cost of living and studying in Luxembourg
A student needs between €700 and €800 per month to live in Luxembourg.
- Housing: between €350 and €500 a month
- Transportation: €45/year (Jumbo Card)
- Board: €4/ €5 per meal at the University Canteen; meals in town are more expensive (€ 8/ €10)
To convert euros into dollars, go to http://www.x-rates.com/calculator.html
Arrangements for dormitory housing are possible. The University of Luxembourg has residence halls in different areas of the city. Students will stay in individual furnished rooms (14m2 on average) consisting of a single bed, a closet and a writing desk. Shared facilities include kitchens, bathrooms, meeting and recreation rooms. Internet, housekeeping services for the collective areas and common washing machines are including at no extra cost.
The average monthly rent in 2009 was €350.
USF students will pay full-time tuition to USF for their semester abroad. Living expenses will be calculated according to the cost of living in each location.
Visa (Residence Permit)
Students must obtain a residence permit from the Ministry of Justice in Luxembourg or the Luxembourg Consulate in the San Francisco. The application has to be submitted together with the admission certificate from the University in Luxembourg; along with proof that the applicant is financially in a position to support himself/herself.
For more information, please contact the Consulate General of Luxembourg
1 Sansome Street, Suite 830
San Francisco, CA 94104
Tel: (415) 788-0816
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Today we celebrate the feast of the Annunciation, when the Archangel Gabriel appeared to Mary and announced that she had found favor with God and would conceive and bear a son who would be called the Son of the Most High. This day calls to mind two very specific moments which correspond with the culture of life.
The first is Mary’s response to the Angel’s message. Imagine that you are a young girl – roughly between the ages of 12 and 15 – not yet married and an angel of the Lord informs you that you shall be with child. This surely was not something that she would have ever expected and most likely did not understand at the time. It was also likely to cause her and her family great shame and scandal. But Mary, being “full of grace”, surrendered humbly to God’s will saying, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word,” (Lk 1:38). By accepting this precious gift of life, Mary become not only the Mother of God, but a supreme example to all mothers. Mary’s role as the Mother of God reveals the dignity and sacredness of maternity.
Secondly, Mary’s fiat marks the exact moment of the incarnation, the Word Made Flesh. By the Incarnation Christ, the Son of God, intimately united Himself to the entire human race and revealed, in the words of JP II, the incomparable value of every human person. Not only did Christ elect to take on our human nature, becoming like us in all things but sin, but he chose to begin his life on earth as the weakest and most defenseless among us, an unborn child. Because of this saving event we realize the splendor of all human life – including the unborn child and the unformed embryo. “[O]nly in the mystery of the incarnate Word does the mystery of man take on light” (Gaudium et Spes 22).
Therefore the Lord himself will give you this sign: the virgin shall be with child, and bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel (Is. 7:14)
The Annunciation – Luke 1:26-38
In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth,to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary. And coming to her, he said, “Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with you.” But she was greatly troubled at what was said and pondered what sort of greeting this might be. Then the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus.
He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father, and he will rule over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”
But Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I have no relations with a man?” And the angel said to her in reply, “The holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. And behold, Elizabeth, your relative, has also conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren; for nothing will be impossible for God.”
Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her.
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ITK, a Japanese start-up that makes eclectic products such as walking sticks and gardening tools, is developing a low-cost, flexible robot hand that could be used in hazardous environments.
The Handroid is a remotely-operated hand with five movable fingers. It weighs roughly 1.6 pounds.
As seen in the promo vid below, users can operate it with a master-slave glove system so that their hand movements are reproduced by Handroid.
That could come in handy in places like the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, where workers have struggled to manipulate doors with iRobot PackBots.
ITK, a spinoff of a machining company near Nagoya, wants to develop the Handroid into a prosthetic that can pick up electrical impulses from a user's muscles, just like Touch Bionics' i-Limb Pulse.
But as a robot appendage, it could cost only a fraction of the price of the i-Limb Pulse. Robonable reports ITK wants to market the Handroid in two years and sell it with the glove controller for some $6,500. … Read more | <urn:uuid:cd1f9cff-595c-40f6-b94a-c23f93f771dd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.cnet.com/8300-5_3-0-2.html?keyword=prosthetics | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939139 | 232 | 2.125 | 2 |
Refugees have fled war, torture and persecution. Refugees must always be treated with dignity and respect, and properly supported to rebuild their lives.
To mark the 60th anniversary of the UN Refugee Convention, I call on the UK government to ensure that our asylum system is fair, humane and effective, enabling refugees to find a safe haven and a new home here.
I urge the government to show international leadership on refugee issues and to encourage all countries to meet their obligations toward refugees.
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Aim 600 mirrors at a single point and things heat up very quickly. Pour some water on the hot spot and now you've got enough steam to make 11 MW of electricity—even at night! A new thermal solar power plant in southern Spain, built by the Solucar company, is the first of its kind in all of Europe. While thermal power plants like these have been heating things up in Australia for a few years now, the new Spanish plant will eventually be able to provide electricity to a whopping 600,000 people who live in the nearby town of Seville. This 40-story boiler has some serious sol.
How does it work at night you ask? Well, since the plant produces such an enormous amount of steam when the sun is shining, it can store some of the excess water vapor in tanks to be used later. Once noche rolls around, the containers are uncorked and the turbines spin 'till dawn.
Expect this modernista marvel to get better with time—thousands of additional mirrors are slated to join in chorus with the hundreds already online today. Check out this video from BBC News for a look at the plant inside and out.
Via BBC News
written by David @ Solar Power Backpacks, October 13, 2012
written by haney @ Solar Power Backpacks, October 15, 2012
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THE Isle of Wight Library Service is boosting its range of resources for visually impaired and blind people.
PenFriend devices, have been introduced at Ryde and Freshwater libraries as part of the annual Make a Noise in Libraries campaign, organised by the Royal National Institute for the Blind to improve access to library services.
The devices allow talking books to have audio labels attached to them, which can be used by visually impaired people to help them select the talking books they want to borrow.
When the PenFriend device is run across the spine of a talking book, it reads out details of the book’s title, author and content, just like reading the cover of a book. Volunteers are helping the library service by recording details on the PenFriends.
They are being specially programmed for use with council talking library books, so people with their own devices will need to use the ones provided at Ryde and Freshwater, rather than their own.
A special event took place at Ryde Library for demonstrations of the devices and for people to try them out.
There are plans to extend the PenFriend service to Newport, Cowes, Sandown and Ventnor libraries.
The library service already provides services for partially sighted and blind customers in the form of large-print books and spoken word CDs, as well as talking books that are free to download from the library service website on www.iwight.com/thelibrary
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28th April 2010
Thirteen years ago, the Border Patrol began to build a wall extending 14 miles along the Mexican border south of San Diego. Part of it was made of old landing mats from Vietnam; other parts were erected from steel mesh. Before the wall, it was estimated that over 500,000 illegal immigrants streamed across that stretch of California each year. By 2005, the New York Times reported, that number was down to 138,000. The area’s crime rate also dropped significantly. | <urn:uuid:e8c6d298-0ab9-43a1-8bcc-ba02acc26f29> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dyspepsiageneration.com/?p=39198 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977537 | 102 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Photos purporting to be the front assembly of the iPhone 5 show what appears to be an NFC chip, suggesting contactless payments could be made with the next-generation Apple device.
The images show the chip sitting at the top of the phone next to the camera lens which, interestingly, has been moved from the centre to the right-hand side of the phone.
Previous images said to be that of the iPhone 5 have also shown the camera’s positioning to have been moved. The introduction of an NFC chip could well be the reason why.
It’s not the first time Apple has been linked with integrating NFC technology into the iPhone 5. At its WWDC event in June, Apple spoke about its Passbook app and how it would have the ability to house tickets and store card information within the application.
By introducing an NFC chip to the iPhone 5, these capabilities would be extended to being able to make wireless payments by simply tapping the phone against an NFC reader in a store, for example. It could also make it possible to pass information such as contacts between devices by simply “bumping” them together. | <urn:uuid:b7a21d0b-3d42-4d92-8097-76108e758dda> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/116857-apple-iphone-5-nfc-chip-part-leaked | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968472 | 231 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Ever since the discovery of DNA, bioethics has become an important issue.
Many people fear that this new biotechnology could get out of hand, creating
it actually solves. The completion of the Human Genome Project has given
us a fuller understanding of ourselves, but people question the social,
ethical, and moral implications of integrating this technology with our
world today. There are many fields of biotechnology and each raises questions
about how this will affect society. Here, the most common fields of biotechnology
are discussed, along with the most common concerns. | <urn:uuid:503bad4b-8b5c-4019-ab71-37e9041d8802> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://library.thinkquest.org/04apr/00217/en/bioethics/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00076-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934175 | 116 | 2.265625 | 2 |
We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.
The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
I think you can go to school at any age.- AnnaSophia Robb
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend ...- Benjamin Franklin
The material's out there, a calm lake waiting for us to dive in.- Beverly Lowry
I think I was made to live in New York. I love it.- AnnaSophia Robb
There's no such thing as a free lunch.- Milton Friedman
|Birth:||19th March, 1891|
|Death:||9th July, 1974|
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After the ground-breaking book “Good to Great” made the rounds, folks at the American Society of Association Executives and the Center for Association Leadership decided to apply the book’s principles to the nonprofit world.
After years of research into what makes some nonprofits more successful than others, in 2006 they published “Seven Measures of Success: What Remarkable Associations Do That Others Don’t.”
Whether a nonprofit is a food shelf serving the poor or a business association serving professional members, their concerns mirror that of the for-profit sector. It was because of this that I took so much from “Seven Measures of Success.” It was easy to see how the teachings in “Seven Measures” apply to any business.
Using the methodology of “Good to Great,” the researchers for “Seven Measures” compared what highly successful nonprofit organizations and associations do that their counterparts don’t. For instance, there are hundreds of organizations that serve senior citizens, but AARP is by far the largest and most successful.
What does AARP do that the others don’t? To start, it follows the first Measure of Success: AARP is data driven rather than assumption driven. You’re probably thinking, “Duh. Doesn’t every business do this?” The answer is a resounding, “No!”
Sadly, most companies are governed by assumptions. Decisions are made based on hunches, even when those hunches are either backed by zero evidence or fly directly in the face of opposing facts. Every profession — law, health care, retail, marketing, real estate, education — is primarily managed on the this-is-the-way-we-have-always-done-it principle.
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One of the biggest fears I come across when talking to companies in the financial markets about Social Media is around Reputation Management. Many firms are concerned because everything is so public, there are fears that employees will get trigger happy when the channels are public and not so formal, with no way of deleting messages once they are in the public domain. What most companies don’t realize is that by ignoring Social Media it doesn’t make it go away. Employees are on these channels anyway for both Private and Business purposes and in order for a firm to gain more control over possible risks they need to address the issues by writing a Social Media policy. The rapid growth of these social networking tools in business and by individuals has created substantial difficulties which many companies are finding difficult to address. Employees have begun using Social Media to engage with their employer, confidential information can become public in a matter of seconds and Social Media activity can have a critical effect on brand reputation.
Despite this we still are in a position where many firms are confused about how to tackle online reputation management. One of the main reasons for this is because institutions in the financial markets want their messages to be vetted and go through the processes they are use to so there is a reluctance to change that. Also because many are left scratching their heads wondering what an effective Social Media policy should entail. What many fail to realise is that in reality all they need to do is adapt their existing policies for how the business should be represented for the new Social Media medium. Behaving in a professional manner is no different, whether it’s online or offline. Employee’s know what is expected of them, they need to be aware of their actions and it needs to be made clear that they do not disclose private information online just as they know not to do this offline. Providing employees with a Social Media policy allows companies to provide guidance and a framework around how they need to behave when representing their company.
The easiest way to create an effective Social Media policy is to take information from the companies employment manual, their staff handbook, their IT and news policies, and write a social media policy that fits in around their structure. There needs to be a Social Media policy in place as firms need to have a control structure for employee’s generally around Social Media for the employees own purposes but for business purposes. The policy needs to be created in a way that preempts the possible issues that may come up in social media. Unwarranted discloses outside of the business by employees either though use of social media for private or business uses. | <urn:uuid:16849d68-1859-47e7-a1d1-4a3313518313> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.social-markets.net/reputation-management/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96512 | 520 | 1.5 | 2 |
SOHO Back in Action
16 Jul 2003
(Source: European Space Agency)
European Space Agency
Science News Release No. 9-2003
16 July 2003
SOHO resumes full operation
ESA/NASA's solar watchdog, SOHO, is back to full operation after its predicted 9-day-long high-gain antenna blackout. Engineers and scientists are now confident that they understand the situation and can work around it in the future to minimise the data losses.
Since 19 June 2003, SOHO's high-gain antenna (HGA), which transmits high-speed data to Earth, has been fixed in position following the discovery of a malfunction in its pointing mechanism. This resulted in a loss of signal through SOHO's usual 26-metre ground stations on 27 June 2003. However, 34-metre radio dishes continued to receive high-speed transmissions from the HGA until 1 July 2003.
Since then, astronomers have been relying primarily on a slower transmission rate signal, sent through SOHO's backup antenna. It can be picked up whenever a 34-metre dish is available. However, this signal could not transmit all of SOHO's data. Some data was recorded on board, however, and downloaded using high-speed transmissions through the backup antenna when time on the largest, 70-metre dishes could be spared.
SOHO itself orbits a point in space, 1.5 million kilometres closer to the Sun than the Earth, once every 6 months. To reorient the HGA for the next half of this orbit, engineers rolled the spacecraft through a half-circle on 8 July 2003. On 10 July, the 34-metre radio dish in Madrid re-established contact with SOHO's HGA. Then on the morning of 14 July 2003, normal operations with the spacecraft resumed through its usual 26-metre ground stations, as predicted.
With the HGA now static, the blackouts, lasting between 9 and 16 days, will continue to occur every 3 months. Engineers will rotate SOHO by 180 degrees every time this occurs. This manoeuvre will minimise data losses. Stein Haugan, acting SOHO project scientist, says "It is good to welcome SOHO back to normal operations, as it proves that we have a good understanding of the situation and can confidently work around it."
[http://www.esa.int/export/esaCP/SEMMDOXO4HD_index_1.html] As often occurs in life, there is bad news and good news. High-rate transmissions (used to send its images and data) from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) were initially interrupted on 27 June 2003. The interruption was expected due to a recent malfunction in the pointing mechanism of the spacecraft's high-gain antenna (HGA). For 2-3 week periods every 3 months, its high gain antenna will not be able to transmit any data back to Earth.
However, SOHO engineers found that medium-rate transmissions can be sent through its two omni-directional, low gain antennas when larger NASA Deep Space Network receiving stations are available. On the largest stations, with 70 meter dishes, even high-rate transmissions are possible. Medium-rate transmissions contain real-time science data, but does not have the capacity to dump on-board recordings of earlier gaps in contact.
Given this newfound capability, SOHO expects to experience only moderate data losses every day during the recurring 2-3 week periods. Full transmission is expected to return about 14 July 2003 until the next orbital problem period, expected to start on 22 September 2003. Scientists are quite relieved as SOHO is the only spacecraft that can effectively monitor certain solar storms, which can generate effects felt on Earth.
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As part of the work I am doing for some of my clients, I daily monitor literally hundreds of Twitter accounts that deal with international education. I have the opportunity to see how many organizations are using Twitter. Most, unfortunately, are not using it to their best advantage.
But there are some that are. These are some of the Twitter accounts that are some of my favorites, that I think are doing it best and that international educators can look to as models. What makes them among the best, in my opinion?
- There is obviously a human being running the Twitter account and that human being has a personality.
- They post on a regular basis and share helpful information above and beyond simply marketing their organization/programs or using them for public relations.
- They respond and engage in conversation with their followers on a regular basis. In other words, their Twitterstream isn't only "outbound" social media.
- They pass on TwitterLove by retweeting valuable and fun information.
These are in alphabetical order:
- @APIStudyAbroad and @AspireAbroad (both part of the same organization)
- @DavidComp (although he's recently announced that he's cutting back on Twitter)
- I'd like to be able to list a 10th, but I couldn't find any other international education Twitter accounts that met my criteria! Will yours be the 10th?
- Profiles in International Education: Lisa Niver Rajna (wanderingeducators.com)
- Profiles in International Education: Karen Smith Rotabi (wanderingeducators.com)
- Ten education journos worth following on Twitter (b2bsocialmediaguide.com) | <urn:uuid:95d6698b-71de-41bc-bc04-73ef9a0620dc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.manitouheights.com/10-international-education-tweeps-to-follow-on-twitter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941145 | 349 | 1.554688 | 2 |
The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Barker, John
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Barker, John, sometime Clerk of the Parliaments, Victoria, is the eldest son of the late John Barker and Mary Anne, his wife, and was born at Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. He emigrated to Port Phillip (now Victoria) in 1840, after entering himself for the bar at Lincoln's Inn, and engaged in pastoral pursuits with his brother Edward, afterwards a well-known physician in Melbourne. Revisiting England, he was called to the bar in 1843; and in 1844 married Susanna, daughter of Richard Hodgkinson, of Morton Grange, Nottingham. He returned to Port Phillip in Nov. 1844, accompanied by his brother William (who subsequently practised as a surgeon at Emerald Hill, Melbourne). In the next year he was appointed a magistrate, and in August 1849 was one of the Commissioners under the Disputed Boundaries Act, having the Hamilton district assigned to him. Mr. Barker, who was admitted to the Victorian bar in Nov. 1851, was in October of that year, on the separation of Port Phillip from New South Wales and its formation into the colony of Victoria, appointed Clerk of the Legislative Council then constituted, and successfully performed the difficult task of inaugurating its procedure. When responsible government came into operation in 1856, Mr. Barker was offered the choice of the clerkship of the new Upper or Lower Chamber. He accepted the latter, and remained Clerk of the Assembly until April 1882, when he was appointed Clerk of the Legislative Council and Clerk of Parliaments, a post which he resigned in 1891. He died on Nov. 15th of that year. | <urn:uuid:eddb65dd-ca4e-4415-b7f8-dab24f5b01fd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Dictionary_of_Australasian_Biography/Barker,_John | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979884 | 381 | 2.703125 | 3 |
'The Post Carbon Reader' at one year old
Posted Dec 9, 2011 by Daniel Lerch
Just over a year ago we released our flagship publication, The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century's Sustainability Crises.
In that time, this hefty book from a small publisher (and with an even smaller marketing budget) has sold over 10,000 copies, and its chapters have been downloaded over 20,000 times. It's in classrooms at over 25 different colleges across the United States. It's received praise from academics and professionals alike. It won an independent publishing gold medal. (And it may or may not have been featured on Oprah!).
Most satisfying to us has been the feedback we've gotten from readers:
- The entire book is fantastic and extremely useful! - Stephanie Kennedy, graduate student
- My dog-eared copy is full of notes, underlines and highlights. - George Dondero, Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission
- One of the best readers that I have seen in my 48 years as a university professor. - Al Williams, University of Nebraska
People often ask what the story is behind the book. So here it is:
When Post Carbon Institute was founded in 2003, few outside the field of petroleum geology had any inkling that we might soon be facing a squeeze in global fossil fuel supplies. We set about collecting and disseminating critical thinking by field experts on the coming challenges, and helped individuals and groups start the vital work of relocalizing their communities.
Over the next few years, James Howard Kunstler's book The Long Emergency, Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth campaign, the emergence of the Transition movement, and many other factors contributed to a growing awareness of our complex energy/climate plight. And then came the pivotal year of 2008:
- To the surprise of just about everyone, oil prices crossed the $100 barrier (in real dollars) for the first time since the 70s—and then skyrocketed to nearly $150 by July.
- In September came the further surprise of Lehman Brothers' collapse, and the near-collapse of Wall Street and the U.S. economy.
- And suddenly in November came the surprise of a generation—a black man elected president—and a grand, giddy hope that the country might finally be able to change its course on energy and climate policies.
It was clear that big changes were underfoot, and we at Post Carbon Institute saw an opportunity and a need to push the public conversation on sustainability to a deeper level. It was time to start talking openly about the big, complex challenges the world faces, and the hard truths about the limited responses available to us.
In 2009 we began building the framework for this new approach by recruiting 28 Fellows who are leading experts on a variety of sustainability issues—and who, critically, understood the two realities that had come to define the Post Carbon worldview:
- The world is hitting the limits to growth, and
- the best path forward is to build the resilience of our communities and our society.
The Post Carbon Reader was the first product of this new collaboration. Our hopes for the book were modest. We knew that "readers" generally don't sell well—our main goal was to simply compile, in one place, a comprehensive statement of what we believe as an organization to aid our further efforts. But we also knew that there was a hunger for this kind of information, and that if we put it together in the right way, it could go far.
So we made some rather unusual decisions. We kept the graphs and charts to a minimum. We kept the chapters relatively short. We purposefully mixed graduate-level writing with conversational pieces. We got a rock poster artist to design the cover. We set a low price ($21.95) and starting releasing nearly every chapter in PDF format, for free.
The results, as mentioned, have been remarkable. As The Post Carbon Reader enters its second year we're looking for new ways to promote its message, especially among academic audiences where it has done so well. We have a growing fan base on Facebook, and we've recently launched a LinkedIn site for more in-depth disucssion and networking. If you're a fan of the Reader, THANK YOU for your support, and please both spread the word and tell us how we can make it better for future editions. | <urn:uuid:15ca2dd6-b226-46d2-855f-0814d32ffa4b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.postcarbon.org/blog-post/581509-the-post-carbon-reader-at-one | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958281 | 900 | 1.890625 | 2 |
The good news is that the city's well-water testing program has been a success, in that there has been enthusiastic participation on the part of city residents.
It is also good news that the tests have found a -- relatively -- low rate of contamination among private wells in the city. Of the 689 wells tested in the program since March, about 17 percent have tested positive for pesticides, but only 33, or 4.8 percent, tested at levels at or exceeding state recommended health limits.
Not so good, perhaps, is that it's not clear the program is achieving one of its stated purposes -- to provide patterns that could help health officials map their way to potential sources of contamination.
As the Board of Representatives considers whether to extend the testing program, board members must weigh, with the help of health officials, the potential that these tests, in addition to tests conducted before the program began, will eventually point to sources of contamination that could be spreading through ground water.
This is a very complicated problem. On one hand, it's possible that some or all of the contaminated wells got that way from pesticides used on their individual properties in years past. On the other, harmful chemicals could be coming from ... anywhere.
City Rep. Mitch Kaufman, chair of the board's North Stamford Water Quality Committee, is right that the state should play a role. If the primary problem is contamination flowing underground from a common source, or sources, those origins might not be in Stamford.
But given budgetary problems in Hartford, do not expect the state to get involved anytime soon. In the meantime, this city will have to decide if it will continue to subsidize an aggressive testing program. To the extent possible, it needs to determine if that program is leading anywhere. | <urn:uuid:a73dec06-d1b7-47f6-b90a-fa74de060ac9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/To-continue-testing-or-not-4187480.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958491 | 356 | 2.015625 | 2 |
True, the economic forecast for 2013 calls for heavy fog. But that fog will be punctured by rays of sunlight to nurture growth once the U.S. government solves its debt crisis.
That was the mixed message offered by a panel of four speakers Thursday for the 2013 Economic Forecast at the Ramada Inn, hosted by the Greater Watertown-North Country Chamber of Commerce and sponsored by RBC Wealth Management, Community Bank and Hancock Estabrook.Speakers were Michael A. Arcuri, attorney for Hancock Estabrook of Syracuse and former U.S. congressman; Anthony G. Collins, president of Clarkson University, Potsdam, and co-chairman of the North Country Economic Development Council; Nicholas Verbanic, vice president of Community Bank subsidiary Nottingham Advisors, and Cyril Mouaikel, Watertown branch manager of RBC Wealth Management.
Though plenty of positive things were said by these specialists, words such as uncertainty and instability cropped up frequently in their speeches. Mr. Verbanic, for example, said todays debt debate on Capitol Hill needs to be solved to encourage consumers, investors and business owners to start spending. But partisan squabbling has continued about raising the nations $16.4 trillion debt ceiling. Heavy budget cuts that still loom, related to the so-called fiscal cliff, only add to the uncertainty, he said.
Federal spending now amounts to 24.5 to 25 percent of gross domestic product, Mr. Verbanic said, but revenues amount to only 19.5 to 20 percent of GDP. Over the past five years, the Federal Reserve has quadrupled its purchases of government bonds as a way to lower interest rates artificially so they remained competitive.
As a consequence, the Reserves assets jumped from about $700 billion to $3 trillion during that time; the agency continues to buy bonds to the tune of $85 billion per month.
Theyve done this to buoy the market, but each round of spending has had less effect, Mr. Verbanic said.
Because of what he called the federal governments profligate spending habits, he predicated that 2013 will see a black swan a sudden, catastrophic event that causes the stock market to tumble. But investors who are prepared for that trend, he said, can be ready for it when the market bounces back.
The market always goes up on an escalator, but goes down on an elevator, he said. These events come out of the blue and disrupt markets, and I expect were going to wake up one morning in the next couple of months to see the stock market drop a couple of hundred points. But in that lies an opportunity, maybe by taking a defensive investing stance and being prepared for when that black swan arrives knowing what you will do with your capital.
A financial collapse could be avoided, though, if Congress puts politics on the back burner and makes meaningful cuts in entitlement and health care spending, Mr. Verbanic said. The U.S. has a genuine opportunity in 2013 to do the right thing to make sure spending is under control, and then open up the floodgates of corporate spending.
Mr. Collins said the pot of $90.2 million in state funding received in December by the North Country Economic Development Council indicates the seven-county upstate region is flourishing.
That pool of funding will be used to spur job creation for 82 projects. Major projects awarded funding include the ReEnergy Black River biomass facility planned at Fort Drum, the proposed 105-room Clayton Harbor Hotel and a large 364-unit apartment project proposed in the village of West Carthage to serve Fort Drum.
Mr. Collins attributed the regions success to the high level of cooperation involved to select proposed projects. Everyone on that council has done an amazing job sticking together, he said, and thats been our driver for success.
The north country may be better poised for business than any rural part of the country, he said, because we stay tight as a seven-county region and advocate for projects together.
One major hurdle that prevents New York from being business friendly, Mr. Arcuri said, is its plethora of cities, towns, villages and special districts.
While the state had about 2,000 municipalities in 1940, that number has skyrocketed to 10,5000 today. Texas has a population of 25 million, greater than New Yorks 19 million, yet Texas has only about 4,800 cities, towns and special districts.
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from The Collected Works
The Pauline Vision of the Resurrected — Part 1
§1. The Pauline Theophany
The potential of distortion through metastatic imagination, it should be understood, is inherent to the mystery of meaning. If the mystery were not real, the distortions would have no appeal. This tension inherent to the mystery has received its classic formulation through Paul in Romans 8:18-25. In the wake of the Fall, the whole creation has been submitted to a state of futility or senselessness (mataiotes) of existence (20). The whole creation exists in the earnest expectation (apokaradokia) of the revelation (apokalypsis) that will come to the sons of God (19). "We know that the whole creation is groaning in the one great act of giving birth; and not only creation but we ourselves, who possess the first fruits of the spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for our bodies to be set free (apolytrosis)" (22-23). Together with creation, our bodies will be set free (or: ransomed) from bondage (douleia) to the fate of perishing (phthora) and enter into the freedom (eleutheria) and glory (doxa) of the children of God (21). In Anaximander's language, transfigured reality will have the structure of genesis without phthora. FN
To exist in this tension of the truth revealed, certain virtues are required. Salvation in the sense of transposition into reality without phthora is not a matter of knowledge; it is not seen but rests on hope (elpis); if it were to be seen, hope would not be necessary (24). And if we hope for something that we do not see, we must expect it (or: wait for it) with patience (or: endurance, hypomone) (25). In Romans 5:3 ff., Paul elaborates in more detail a ladder of existential order, rising from the joyful acceptance of affliction (thlipsis) in this world, from the sufferings in time (ta pathemata tou nyn kairou, 8:18), to their endurance (hypomone), further on to the character-forming perseverance (dokime), which in its turn is the foundation of hope (elpis). Existentially this ladder will hold up, so that hope does not give way to disappointment, because it rests on the grace (charis) diffused in our hearts by the holy spirit (pneuma hagion) that has been given us (5:5-6); and even though our prayer be inarticulate, the pneuma in the heart that is divine will carry it up to be articulate before God (8:26-27).
1. Noetic and Pneumatic Theophany
The Pauline analysis of existential order closely parallels the Platonic-Aristotelian. That is to be expected, since both the saint and the philosophers articulate the order constituted by man's response to a theophany. The accent, however, has decisively shifted from the divinely noetic order incarnate in the world to the divinely pneumatic salvation from its disorder, from the paradox of reality to the abolition of the paradox, from the experience of the directional movement to its consummation. The critical difference is the treatment of phthora, perishing. In the noetic theophany of the philosophers, the athanatizein of the psyche is kept in balance with the rhythm of genesis and phthora in the cosmos; in the pneumatic theophany of Paul, the athanasia of man is not to be separated from the abolition of phthora in the cosmos. Flesh and blood, the soma psychikon, cannot enter the kingdom of God; it must be changed into the soma pneumatikon (1 Cor. 15:44, 55); for the perishing (phthora) cannot take possession of the imperishing (aphtharsia) (50).
The change of reality to the state of aphtharsia is the Pauline exegesis of the mysterion (51-52). Plato, it is true, preserves the balance of consciousness, but he plays down the unbalancing reality of the theophanic event; his consciousness of the paradox is weighted toward the Anaximandrian mystery of Apeiron and Time, because he refrains from fully unfolding the implications of the directional movement. As a result, the status of the Third God in his conception of history is surrounded by the uncertainties analyzed.
Paul, on the contrary, is fascinated by the implications of theophany so strongly that he lets his imagery of a genesis without phthora interfere with the primary experience of the cosmos. In I Corinthians 15 he lets his exultation rise to the apocalyptic assurance that "we shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we (who have not yet died) shall be changed." The aphtharsia is an event to be expected in the lifetime of his readers and himself. The metastatic expectation of the Second Coming has begun its long history of disappointment.
While the texts leave no doubt about the point of difference, the point is not thought through. Paul was not a philosopher; he was the missionary for the Christ who appeared to him on the road to Damascus. If the analysis were to stop at this point, we would be settled with an unresolved conflict between noetic and pneumatic theophany, and the import of the difference for the understanding of history would be lost. This import will become clear only if the difference is placed in the context of agreement between Plato and Paul on the fundamental structure of reality.
Plato and Paul agree that meaning in history is inseparable from the directional movement in reality. "History" is the area of reality where the directional movement of the cosmos achieves luminosity of consciousness. They furthermore agree that history is not an empty time-dimension in which things happen at random but rather a process whose meaning is constituted by theophanic events. And finally they agree that the reality of history is metaleptic; it is the In-Between where man responds to the divine presence and divine presence evokes the response of man.
Against this context of agreement the difference narrows to the content of Paul's theophany, to the vision of the God who has become man, of the God who has entered the Anaximandrian Time with its genesis and phthora and, having gone through the pathemata of existence, has risen to the glory of aphtharsia . The vision of the Resurrected convinced Paul that man is destined to rise to immortality, if he opens himself to the divine pneuma as Jesus did. To the vision he responded with the proclamation of Jesus as the Son of God (Acts 9:20); and this conviction he extended to everyman: "For all who are moved by the Spirit of God, are sons of God" (Rom. 8:14). "If the spirit [ pneuma ] of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, then the God who raised Jesus Christ from the dead will also give new life to mortal bodies by means of the spirit indwelling in you" (8:11). Faith in Christ means responsive participation in the same divine pneuma that was active in the Jesus who appeared in the vision as the Resurrected. "Justified through faith, we are at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" (Rom. 5:1).
The problems of theophany are so badly obscured today by theological, metaphysical, and ideological overlayings that a remark to ward off conventional misunderstandings will not be superfluous. Stated flatly therefore: The present concern is not with points of christological dogma but with a vision of Paul and its exegesis by its recipient. Hence, there can arise no question of "accepting" or "rejecting" a theological doctrine.
A vision is not a dogma but an event in metaleptic reality that the philosopher can do no more than try to understand to the best of his ability. As the vision occurs in the Metaxy, it must not be split into "object" and "subject." There is no "object" of the vision other than the vision as received; and there is no "subject" of the vision other than the response in a man's soul to divine presence. The vision emerges as a symbol from the Metaxy, and the symbol is both divine and human. Any attempt to break up the mystery of divine-human participation, as it occurs in a theophanic event, is fatuous. On the subjective side, one cannot "explain" the divine presence in the vision by a psychology of Paul. And on the objective side, "critical doubts" about the vision of the Resurrected would mean that the critic knows how God has a right to let himself be seen. One could imagine a questionnaire:
In a flaming thornbush? Yes; at least the flame did not start a brush fire.
This will make the scurrility of "critical" attempts more obvious than lengthy argument could do. But the questionnaire itself is not a scurrilous exaggeration; rather it is a meiosis compared with the debates actually conducted about Christ as a "historical figure," or about the "historicity" of Incarnation and Resurrection. Again stated flatly: There is no history other than the history constituted in the Metaxy of differentiating consciousness, as the analysis of the noetic field has made clear; and if any event in the Metaxy has constituted meaning in history, it is Paul's vision of the Resurrected.
To invent a "critical history" that will allow us to decide whether Incarnation and Resurrection are "historically real" turns the structure of reality upside down; it flies in the face of all our empirical knowledge about history and its constitution of meaning. The misunderstandings arise from the separation of a "content" from the reality of the experience, and from the treatment of the content as an object of propositional knowledge. In its metaleptic context, Incarnation is the reality of divine presence in Jesus as experienced by the men who were his disciples and expressed their experience by the symbol "Son of God" and its equivalents; while Resurrection refers to the Pauline vision of the Resurrected, as well as to the other visions that Paul, who knew something about visions, classified as of the same type as his own (I Cor. 15:3-8).
FN. All quotations from Paul in this chapter were translated from the original. The text used is Nestle-Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelstiftung, 1969). Whenever possible I have conformed to the language of the King James Version. For specific questions the standard commentaries were used, especially Peake's Commentary on the Bible, ed. Matthew Black and H. H. Rowley (London: T. Nelson, 1962). Guenther Bornkamm, Paulus (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag, 1969), proved to be of considerable help for the understanding of Pauline questions. —EV
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Benfleet Physiotherapy team up with Hamelin Trust to open Rochford facility
A HYDROTHERAPY pool shut down due to lack of cash could be reopened again.
However, in July 2011 it was closed down due to a lack of use and funds.
Now Benfleet Physiotherapy has teamed up with the charity to try and bring it back into use.
The company will handle all the bookings for the pool - freeing up time and cash for the charity.
Nigel Kimpton, clinical director of Benfleet Physiotherapy, said he was hoping to promote it more so more people use it.
He said: “I am hoping to get the whole thing in the public eye. There are one or two facilities in the whole of Essex and they are booked up.
“The benefits of hydrotherapy are enormous, not just from the support that the water supplies but from the sense of achievement and independence it provides. In comparison with land based physiotherapy, exercising in water eliminates anxiety and fear of falling by providing postural support. This often enables improved relaxation and flexibility of limbs. The water can also cause patients to challenge their stability further in later stage rehab by the use of drag and turbulence.”
The Hamelin Trust was formed in 1979 by the parents of two disabled children with learning and multiple disabilities and it became a registered charity in 1982.
It offers a range of care services, ranging from short break respite care to outreach services that offers care in a person’s home or support with attending community facilities and activities.
Hydrotherapy is physiotherapy in warm water and it can help reduce aches and pains, mobilise stiff joints and strengthen weak muscles.
Nicky Evans, spokeswoman for the charity, said: “It is a lovely facility and a lot of people that use our other services do want to use it, working with Benfleet Physio is going to be fantastic. We are hoping promotion will get the word out there that we are reopening.”
It is hoped the pool will be reopened in December.
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New Visions Commentary
The National Leadership Network of Conservative African-Americans
The More We Get the More We Lose
by E. LeMay Lathan
The more we get the more we lose. That statement alone should be enough to rally blacks into a concerted effort to demand our equal rights. Our leaders are always on the stump, preaching about how our rights are being violated and that we are being taken advantage of in every respect. How, then, can they allow the small victories we've already won to be taken and expanded upon by every other group in this country? Where are our leaders?
For example, we asked for and obtained the name African-American, although the name means something different to just about every black person and means something different again to a real African-American person (born in Africa and transplanted to America). We lost that unique status, such as it was, to Asian-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Polish-Americans, Irish-Americans and others.
It is usually the efforts, pleas and demands of the black community regarding unfairness that allows situations to be looked at more closely. But we are usually the ones to receive the least benefits from the results of those efforts. Is this pattern unrecognizable?
Look at the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Blacks have lost most claims to that law. When you thought of civil rights during the late 1960s and early 1970s, pictures of white police officers beating up, hosing down and setting dogs upon blacks were the images that played in your mind. Today, images of civil rights perils feature white women bumping their heads against the proverbial "glass ceiling" or young, gifted Asian women and their earning potentials in relation to their white male counterparts. We are also shown the images of Mexican-Americans slaving away in the fields for very low pay and living in cardboard box houses.
And, still, we don't ask the question, "why?" Our people were the ones who sacrificed their dignity, broke their bones, endured racial slurs, were spat upon and gave their very lives to allow us - the next generation - to be able to vote and walk down the street without the threat of harm from a white person simply because we didn't adhere to something they thought we should. It's just another right fought for by blacks and then expanded to include everyone but blacks.
But let us not fear, the NAACP is there behind the black actors in this country to ensure they receive more and better roles on TV and in the movies.
Take another example: the Million Mom March. Excuse me, but it was the Million Man March. The message of that has now been lost. Although I didn't follow the Moms as closely as I did the Million Man March, I did hear about it quite often. I heard no objection from the black community about the theft of the name. From now on, when thoughts of millions marching come to mind in the future, the focus will most likely be on gun control as opposed to blacks coming together for support and to better themselves.
How about affirmative action and equal employment opportunities? These were also co-opted, with blacks taken out of the equation for the most part. No longer do employers look around their workplaces and see only white employees and feel the need to diversify. Now, they see Asians, Latinos and Russians and compliment themselves on their expression of a diverse workplace.
I hope you are following where I'm headed with this. Example after example shows a history of the black community fighting for and, in most cases, winning the battle for an end to societal wrongs and then have others benefit more from the changes.
It would seem a simple thing to ask our leaders to stand up for us. It takes no more effort than they exert now for things of far less significance. Some may say, "who cares?" But, as little things begin to shift the focus from us to other groups, future generations will suffer. The old saying "two steps forward and one step back" is so very true right now.
As a people having risen from slavery to the social-economic place where we are today, allowing the fruits of our battles and the memories of our ancestors' battles to benefit others more than us shouldn't be tolerated.
I can't understand where our black leaders are on this matter. Do they
not recognize the pattern, or do they not care that it is happening?
(E. LeMay Lathan is a member of Project 21 and author of the book The
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What are the major federal anti-discrimination laws?
Title VII prohibits discrimination in employment based on race, sex, color, national origin or religion. The ADEA prohibits discrimination based on age (if over forty). Title I of the ADA prohibits discrimination based on disability.
Almost every state has anti-discrimination laws that mirror the protections found under federal law. Some states also have more expansive protection than federal law, for example, prohibiting discrimination based on marital status, sexual orientation or weight.
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The City of Irvine Emergency Management Office recommends that citizens be prepared for all emergencies, whether related to terrorism or other man-made or natural disasters. The threat of terrorism may prompt some to take precautionary steps, but the reality is that in Southern California, a large-scale earthquake has the potential to exceed the destruction presented through terrorist acts. Therefore it is prudent to prepare for the disruption of services that may occur during any major emergency or disaster.
It is recommended that food, water, and first aid supplies be stored in a safe place, and that each household prepare an emergency plan for its members. Take a first aid and CPR course. Better yet, take the eight-week Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training now offered by the Irvine Police Department and the Orange County Fire Authority. If you have children, check on your school’s emergency plan. Include them in your emergency preparations. Help them cope with their feelings during this time of uneasiness and tension. Seek professional help for them if necessary. (Irvine residents can contact For Families for assistance in this area, at 949-724-6650.) Create an emergency communications plan utilizing an out-of-area contact, so that you can check on family members if you are separated during a disaster. Practice escape drills at home and at work. Take special precautions when traveling, and cooperate with new, more extensive security procedures. To learn more about emergency preparedness, contact Irvine Emergency Management at 949-724-7148. Brochures and training opportunities are available to all Irvine residents and businesses. Additionally, questions regarding terrorism and preparedness can be emailed to the City’s website.
Be aware of your surroundings wherever you go, and take note of conspicuous or unusual behavior. For assistance with security recommendations for Irvine business, contact Preventive Services at 949-724-7042. To report suspicious conduct or circumstances in Irvine, you are advised to call the Irvine Police Department’s Special Investigative Unit at 949-724-7135. Prevention and intervention are the best methods for dealing with terrorist acts by capturing the perpetrators before they act. Information gathered by residents can be useful in identifying persons or circumstances that appear unusual or suspicious. Being a good witness and observant neighbor can be extremely helpful in this regard. Whatever role you play, it is important that Irvine residents continue to stay committed and involved in the community, celebrating diversity and keeping our City safe.
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Many companies start their sustainability strategy by developing a materiality matrix: a graphical assessment of a company’s most salient sustainability issues that plots potential issues related to business success (x axis) and importance to stakeholders/sustainability (y axis).
Unfortunately, it can be easy for the materiality matrix to become a cage—a lockbox for good intentions that never see the light of day. One company might spend a lot of time developing the matrix, but never do anything with it. Another might rush to put the matrix on paper but fail to use the process to obtain valuable input and commitments. Yet another might fill out the two axes and then discard them because the output does not address other dimensions of concern.
The good news is that companies can unlock the cage and unleash materiality to propel sustainability.
Here are six tips to avoid getting trapped in the cage:
- Don’t stop there! Materiality is not an end unto itself; it’s a tool for finding priority areas where your company can advance sustainability in alignment with its business. Use materiality as the starting point for developing an integrated business strategy and a sustainability report that resonates with stakeholders.
- Share it. If you simply leave the matrix in your report or stick it in a drawer, you guarantee a lockdown. Instead, use it to spark conversations and create connections. For example, work with your sales team so they can use it as a tool to build relationships with sustainability-minded customers.
- Use different outputs for different audiences. Tailor the outputs to address different audiences’ interests. For example, consider giving your environmental safety team a version that includes just the environmental issues.
- Look at it in 3D. The traditional materiality matrix comprises two axes, but prioritizing sustainability issues often requires looking at more variables. That’s why BSR’s materiality tool can graphically incorporate other dimensions that tailor the matrix to individual needs and concerns. For example, issues can be represented as “bubbles” of varying sizes to show additional information such as performance gaps.
- Get value from the process. The process of developing a materiality matrix can help you involve internal and external stakeholders to learn from them, garner support, and lay a foundation for future engagement. If you incorporate valuable input from the head of supply chain, for instance, he or she may become an ally in your future supply chain sustainability efforts.
- Take a balanced view of low-likelihood risks. Companies sometimes get bogged down in concerns over low-likelihood risks that have big headline potential. While it is crucial to be vigilant in considering such issues, companies must also be aware that almost any issue could blow up into a major problem. The key is to have thoughtful discussions about which issues merit monitoring and attention versus those that should be top priorities for flagship sustainability efforts.
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Watercress is perennial plant with hollow stems and small heart-shaped leaves. It has a peppery flavor that's sharp but not bitter. As the name suggests, watercress is a water-loving plant, and it typically is found growing near creeks and ponds. Popular varieties include English Watercress and Broad Leaf Cress.
Watercress grows best in cool but sunny spots. If there is a small creek or stream on your property, grow watercress there. Otherwise, it may be necessary to create a bog. Dig a hole about 2' across and 12" deep (Image 1). Loosely fit black plastic pond liner over the hole, pressing it down with your hands. Trim the excess off the top, leaving a 3" or 4" lip at the top. Use a garden fork to punch a few holes in the sides of the liner for drainage (Image 2).
Combine one part garden soil, one part coarse builder's sand, one part compost, and one part mushroom compost. Add a handful of slow-release fertilizer to the mix. Pour the mixture into the bog, filling it to within 1" or 2" of the top. Cover the remaining exposed liner with soil. Fill the bog thoroughly with water.
Plant watercress seeds in the bog by sowing them 1/4" deep and about 1/2" apart. Cover the seeds with fine garden soil and gently water them in. Keep the bed moist until the seeds germinate.
Thin seedlings to about 5" to 8" apart after germination. Maintain adequate moisture levels in the bog. In hot weather, watercress will be covered with small white flowers. When cool weather returns, cut back the flowers to encourage new tender growth.
To harvest watercress, cut the leaves and stems a few inches above the ground. Watercress is a perennial, meaning it will come back year after year, and new growth will come up from the ground after each cutting. Although it can be harvested any time of year, its flavor is best during the cooler months.
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According to a recent report from Mintel, a consumer products and market research firm, liquid body wash now accounts for the largest segment -- nearly 40% -- of the total soap, bath and shower market.
And sales of liquid body wash are expected to surge 35% from 2009 to 2014, Mintel reports. For many consumers, body wash has replaced soap, the market research firm says, because of its ease of use and convenience: There's none of the goopy mess often associated with a bar of soap.
But what are the price and results difference between body wash and an old-fashioned bar of soap? We dipped into the suds of the matter to find out.
Behind the Foam: Body Wash Vs. Soap
Just how do these dueling cleansers work on your skin? By definition, body washes are made not only to cleanse but to moisturize and improve the condition of your skin, Rolanda Johnson, PH.D, a senior scientist with Proctor & Gamble Beauty, told WalletPop. P&G makes both body wash and soap, including Olay brand body wash and Ivory brand soap.
"The novelty of body wash is that you can place skin-improving ingredients within the formula," Johnson says, including vitamin E, glycerin and soybean, which can be effectively deposited on the skin during a wash.
This will not only provide an immediate improvement in the look and feel of your skin, she says, "but a body wash can improve your overall skin health over time." And contrary to some reports, she adds, "Body washes have been known to clean as effectively as bar soaps."
While body washes might be all the rage, soap still has a loyal following, particularly among women and older people, experts say. That's because when it comes to getting clean, soaps really do the trick. "Many traditional soaps are formulated to cleanse the skin very well," Johnson says, removing both dirt and oils.
And although soap has a reputation for being drying, today's soaps are milder -- some even provide some moisturizing capabilities. But soaps can't moisturize as effectively as body washes, Johnson says, because in its solid form, soap can't hold the same moisturizing properties.
But what are soap's benefits over body wash? For one, it's less bulky to travel with than a bottle of body wash, Johnson says. And there are soaps on the market with nubs that massage -- something a body wash just can't do. What's more, according to the Mintel report, some bar soaps have exfoliating properties that are generally not found in body washes.
If, for some reason, you're interested in something that doesn't provide a high level of moisturization, Johnson says, you might want to opt for soap.
The Price Face-Off
When it comes to price, how do soap and body wash stack up?
Johnson estimates that a 10-ounce bottle of body wash will yield about 29 washes (though results will vary depending on who's washing and how much body wash they use). With a 10-ounce bottle of Olay body wash priced at $4.99 at Drugstore.com, the Olay body wash ends up costing about $0.17 per wash.
Meanwhile, one bar of soap, typically a scant 4.25 ounces, yields about 27 washes, Johnson says. Bar soaps are mostly sold in packs of two to 12 bars; they are less frequently sold individually.
Our research found a WalMart in Indiana selling a three-pack of Ivory soap for 97 cents, or about $0.32 per bar, which works out to be just about $0.012 per wash.
Though body washes and soap prices will vary greatly depending on the brand and the retailer, it's clear that in the price wars, soap is the hands-down, bargain winner.
Skip the Lotion and Save
If you're still a fan of body wash, you can save money by skipping the lotion afterward -- after all, many body washes both cleanse and moisturize.
"The popularity of products that combine [several] functions into one product shows that consumers are willing to pay more than they would for just the basics, but only if they feel an item is truly worth it," according to the Mintel report.
So how much can you save by forgoing the lotion?
A visit to Walmart.com turned up body lotions that ranged from $2.87 for a 16-ounce bottle of Suave's Skin Therapy Lotion with aloe and cucumber to a 16.9 ounce bottle of Eucerin's Dry Skin Therapy lotion for $10.97.
A 16-ounce bottle of lotion will last you roughly between three and four months, so if you cut out the inexpensive lotion, such as Suave's $2.87 item at WalMart, you'll save about $11.50 if you're buying four bottles a year.
And if you're purchasing one of the pricier lotions, such as the Eucerin for $10.97, you'll see savings of roughly $43.90 if you're used to buying four bottles a year.
Use Less and Add a Shower Puff
Still looking for ways to cut cleansing costs? Use a shower puff: It will make your body wash and soap last a lot longer.
"If you use only your hand or a wash cloth to create lather, you'll create a lot less and distribution won't go as far," Johnson says. "You'll save by using a puff."
A single recommended usage of body wash equals about two teaspoons, Johnson says. But many people use twice as much. And the fact of the matter is, most people really only need to use a little less than one teaspoon of soap to get the cleansing job done right.
So cut back on the amount you use and scrub up with a shower puff to extend the life of your cleansing products.
The proof is in the numbers: Old-fashioned soap is just plain cheaper. A 10-ounce bottle of body wash will cost you approximately $0.17 per wash, while a single bar of soap will cost you just $0.012 per wash.
If you're looking for ways to justify your body wash splurge, choose from the wide variety of moisturizing washes and forgo the lotion, which can save you as much as $45 a year, depending on the product cost.
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Doctor Heidegger's Fountain of Youth (1978)Duration: 42 minutes
Chamber opera in one act
Libretto by Sheldon Harnick after the short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne (E)
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This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes for the world.
New York, New York
Jack Eddelman, director
Conductor: Thomas Martin
Company: National Arts Club
|RACHEL LOCKHART, a widow||Lyric Soprano|
|HANNAH MOODY, a spinster||Mezzo-Soprano|
|DR. HEIDEGGER||Bass or Bass-Baritone|
|A Maid||speaking role|
Time and Place
Mid-nineteenth century, Dr. Heidegger's study
Dr. Heidegger invites four friends to his home to test one of his new experiments. The friends - Colonel Killigrew, Reuben Waterford, Rachel Lockhart, and Hannah Moody - are very old. When they inquire as to the nature of the evening's experiment, Dr. Heidegger produces a flask which, he proclaims, contains water from the Fountain of Youth. He pours some of the water onto a dried rose, and it springs back to life. Impressed, the four friends agree to drink from the flask. They are instantly more youthful; however, old feelings are rejuvenated. Rachel becomes the coquette she had been as a young woman and begins to flirt with Killigrew and Waterford, who respond as passionately as they had when they were young men. Hannah Moody, who had been in love with Waterford in her youth, finds that her feelings of unrequited love have been revived. The two men begin to fight, and they accidentally knock over the flask of water. The rose withers and the four friends age. They vow to go in search of the Fountain of Youth. Dr. Heidegger declines to accompany them, saying that he is grateful to have left the delirium of youth behind.
Magic/Mystery, Relationships, Society, Literary
Items on Sale
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This webinar will give an overview of ELSI (Ethical, Legal, & Social Issues) approaches to the responsible development of nanotechnology. Based primarily on work of the Centers for Nanotechnology in Society, the talk will address such questions as: What is meant by “Responsible Development”? Who are the stakeholders in nanotech development, and what are their views on this? What are the main approaches being taken to governance of nanotechnology? Why involve the public? | <urn:uuid:500437d3-adf8-45ef-8444-8be465e9a54f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cns.ucsb.edu/events/societal-dimensions-responsible-innovation-nanotechnology | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928741 | 99 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Bisecting a Line Segment The instructor uses an electronic chalkboard to demonstrate how to bisect a line segment. One example is modeled using astep by step approach to walk the learner through the process of bisecting the line segment by using a compass and ruler.
The instructor uses an electronic chalkboard to demonstrate how to bisect a line segment. One example is modeled using astep by step approach to walk the learner through the process of bisecting the line segment by using a compass and ruler.
Constructing a Line Segment
This video explains how to construct a line segment. When constructing a line segment, we use a compass and straightedge to first draw a ray or line and then a point that will serve as an endpoint of the new segment. Next, we measure the given segment with a compass and make a mark with the pencil end. Without changing the spacing of the compass, place the sharp end of the compass on the point drawn on the new line/ray, and make a mark on the line/ray. This is our line segment.(2:02)
Constructing a Perpendicular Bisector
When looking at a line segment, there is only one line that will pass through the midpoint that will be a constant distance between the two endpoints. This line is called the perpendicular bisector. This video explains how to construct the perpendicular bisector by first finding the midpoint of the line segment and then using a compass and straight edge to draw the perpendicular line. (1:29)
The History of Print
A photo collage history of print, the printing press, and journalism. No narration. This was made for a project for UC Santa Cruz Performative Technologies.
The Five Themes of Geography
In this video, students will learn about geography terms--absolute and relative location (longitude and latitude), cultural and physical place characteristics, environment, and more. Very good visuals and examples are given. This is a great resource to help build background knowledge and to help make real world connections in the classroom. (2:31)
Facts of Congress - Lobbyists
Provides a brief description of the role lobbyists play in informing Congress on specific issues and the will of the people. Appropriate for classroom use, ...
Thinkwell Chemistry: Finding Empirical and Molecular Formulas, Part 1 of 2
This is a clip from a larger segment on how to find empirical and molecular formulas. (06:07)
Marbury v. Madison
This video is accompanied by text. "John Marshall was a lifelong Federalist dedicated to strengthening the power of the Federal government. He was appointed by John Adams during the last days of his presidency. The Judiciary Act of 1801, one of the final laws passed by Adams and the Federalist-controlled Congress, created sixteen new federal judgeships and other judicial offices. The appointment of these “midnight judges” enraged Republicans who claimed the action defied the will of the peop
Pie Chart - Virtual Manipulative
Explore percentages and fractions using pie charts. There are instructions on the right side of the Java applet.
Addition Strategy - Using Doubles and Doubles Plus 1 Facts to Add
This addition strategy shows students how to use the double fact (e.g., 3 + 3 ) or a doubles plus one strategy to add quickly. User clicks through the slides.
Using a Pattern to Solve a Problem
To help solve a word problem, students learn to find a pattern in the problem and make a table to solve the problem. Finding patterns is a key learning for Algebra.
Writing Good Essays. Part 1
This is a video lecture on how to write a good essay. The lecturer provides several steps.
The Body of the Points in Essays
The Body of the Points in Essays. Part of the series: How to Write an Essay. Learn how to write the body of the points in an essay in this free educational video on writing essays.
Colts Neck Community Band - Variations on America
Colts Neck Community Band performs Variations on "America" composed by Charles Ives trans by Wm E Rhoads. Conducted by Richard Grossman. Performed on Februarry 18, 2010. (7:17)
Colts Neck Community Band - Slaughter on Tenth Avenue - Richard Rodgers
Colts Neck Community Band plays Slaughter on Tenth Avenue composed by Richard Rodgers arranged by John Tatgenhorst. Conducted by Joseph Lawlor. (6:40)
From the Farm to Plate
RWU Planet Forward Team Brasso follows local angus beef from Blackbird Farm in Smithfield, RI to Persimmon Restaurant in Bristol, RI. Run time 02:43.
Careers in Agriculture
A short look at some careers at the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food. This video shows various career paths in the field of agriculture, such as seed analysts, veterinarians, dairy compliance officers, and microbiologists etc (Running Time 10:03).
How to Milk a Cow by Hand
This videos enables students to learn how to milk a cow by hand in this easy to follow, step by step instructional video. This video should be reviewed carefully to make sure students will understand its importance. Some may find it humourous and miss the message.
Will Allen: Agriculturalist
Urban farmer Will Allen describes how he established and built up an urban garden. It may be of some value in motivating students to look for opportunities and to expand their horizons.
Farming as a Career
A seven minute video on farmers and what they do. Video shows some of the jobs they perform in the course of the day and gives insights to students on what is required. A good video that provides students with a more realistic picture of farming than they might have if they don't reside in rural areas. | <urn:uuid:7b9d7954-8401-4687-be39-1e091191be98> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/scoreresults.php?keywords=Depiction%20of%20terrorism%20in%20film%20and%20televis&start=2900&end=2920 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907811 | 1,197 | 4.21875 | 4 |
Sean Rigg Memorial
The 4th anniversary of the death of Sean Rigg whilst in police custody was held on Tuesday August 21st in Lambeth town hall. The packed Town Hall included family, friends and well wishers who support the family’s fight to have the individuals responsible for the death to be held to account.
The meeting was organised by the Sean Rigg Justice and Change Campaign in association with Black Mental Health UK. After speeches and a film titled ‘Who Polices the Police’, gatherers marched peacefully with the Rigg family to the Brixton Police Station where a memorial was also held. Sean Rigg’s sister Samantha Rigg placed a picture of him on tree that was decorated with candles.
A few days earlier, Samantha Rigg had also participated in the Kingsley Burrell march in Birmingham. The Burrell family are also campaigning for answers to Kingsley Burrell’s death, after he too died in police custody. No one has been charged, and his body is yet to be released. To date the coroner has not given a final verdict after three post-mortems and a 15 month long wait.
There have been well over 300 police deaths in custody since 1998 (and this figure is understated because anyone who dies following restraint without being formally arrested is excluded from death in custody figures), yet no officers have ever been convicted. With such a zero conviction rate, justice seems elusive not only for the grieving families and friends but also to the general public.
Sean Rigg was a mental health service user at the time of his death, and the 'callous' handling by the police and others charged with his care allowed his condition to deteriorate and eventually led to his death. There have been many similar tragedies involving the police and mental health service users, particularly Afro-Caribbean men dying preventable deaths in the hands of the police. Half of all deaths in police custody last year involved people with mental illness.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) announced that it would commission an independent eternal review into the death of Sean Rigg. This came after a report on the investigation of Sean Rigg’s death was regarded as insubstantial while the jury in contrast was far more critical in its verdict.
Sean Rigg’s family said:
There has never been any doubt in our minds that the IPCC’s inadequate report of February 2010 reflected an extremely poor and ineffective investigation into Sean’s death. For the IPCC to conclude in their findings that ‘the officers adhered to policy and good practice by monitoring Mr Rigg in the back of the van’ is absolutely absurd, flies in the face of the evidence and clearly contradicts the jury's narrative verdict.
Central flaws in the IPCC investigation included the failure to secure comprehensive first accounts from any of the relevant officers for over six months, despite the IPCC being in attendance at Brixton police station just hours after Sean Rigg’s death, and the failure to test officer accounts against photographic and CCTV evidence.
This unusual response by the IPCC is also the result of years of pressure from the Rigg family and other organisations that have pursued justice since the tragic event and may finally get the answers they deserve. However Helen Shaw, co-director of INQUEST said:
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San Franciscans prep monument to US prez
The George W. Bush Sewer Plant
Here in the City by the Bay, twelve history-minded souls are working to establish a fitting monument to the presidency of George W. Bush. They call themselves the Presidental Memorial Commission of San Francisco, and they hope to secure Bush's legacy by putting his name on the local sewer plant.
If the group has its way, the George W. Bush Sewer Plant will make its debut in January when Dubya officially leaves office, and some supporters say the occasion should be marked by a city-wide ""synchronized flush"
San Franciscan Brian McConnell and a friend cooked up the plan this spring while downing beers at a local bar. "We thought of the Iraq War, New Orleans being left to hang out on a vine, and everything else," McConnell tells us. "And when tried to come up with a fitting tribute, this idea popped out."
The group began circulating an official city petition in May, and with help from over 100 active volunteers, they've now collected 8,500 signatures in support of their plan to rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant. That means the issue should be on the ballot when San Francisco voters hit the polls in November. ® | <urn:uuid:e99e5383-be1c-40a4-9753-76d06b9baaf9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/24/presidential_memorial_commission_of_san_francisco/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934996 | 263 | 2.125 | 2 |
Girl Scout Ambassador Programs
Must be a registered member of Girl Scouts to attend. Membership is $12 annually and may be purchased at the time of registration or click here to purchase now.
Get to know the science behind smells. Ever catch a whiff of a smell and your entire mood has changed? That is called aromatherapy! Work with an Aromatherapist to create your own scent! Meet experts in the oldest medical specialty in the United States, otolaryngology – or what you may know as an Ear, Nose, and Throat specialist.
Get ready to protect our community for future generations. The Department of Environmental Protection will engage conversation and hands-on action about our community, the history of the area, and local environment challenges based off our past actions.
Date: Saturday, June 22, 2013
Time: 9 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Cost: $35 per person*
Location: Wet 'n' Wild Waterpark, 7055 S Fort Apache Road
Register by: Monday, June 10
Wet 'n' Wild is back in Las Vegas with more than 25 thrilling slides and attractions! Girl Scout Family Day is a chance to participate in a special activity before it opens for the day and meet some of the staff. Following the tour, adrenaline junkies can enjoy ride experiences like Hoover Half Pipe, which drops you a gut-wrenching 57 feet into a giant half pipe, or the raging Rattler, the only slide of its kind in North America. Those not seeking an adventure can test the waters on the relaxing Colorado Cooler, a 1,000-foot-long winding lazy river; Splash Island, a multi-level interactive children's area with geysers, mini-slides and dumping buckets; and the wave pool, Red Rock Bay.
*See flyer for additional details
Girl Scouts grab you water gun and get ready, aim and squirt! Join us for a COOL morning parade as we participate in the 65th Annual Boulder City Damboree Celebration. The theme is "Be Kind - It Takes All of Us"– so remember that when the famous water battle portion of the parade begins with parade participants and bystanders!
Who doesn't love a movie night with their Girl Scout sisters? It’s the reign of the nice girl via the flick Mean Girls. First catch the movie written by Tina Fey and based in part on the non-fiction book Queen Bees and Wannabes, which describes how female high school social cliques operate and the effect they can have on girls. Following the movie and snacks, girls will break into small groups to work on situations where girls can "disarm" a bully instead of engaging in a fight.
Date: Friday, July 12, 2013
Time: 3 p.m. Friday to 12 a.m. Sunday*
*see second page of flyer for details
Cost: $175 per girl, $150 per adult
Location: , 2941 Harris Avenue ut Leadership Center
Register By: Thursday, June 13
This overnight is an eye-opener! Disney California Adventure® Park is your learning lab! You will make a model rollercoaster and go behind the scenes to conduct experiments that test the relationship between physics and your favorite Disney attractions. Plus, a chance to have some good old fashion fun exploring both parks!
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In December of 1955, the Leesburg Chamber of Commerce started a fund drive that culminated in the formation of the Leesburg Hospital Association, with more than $800,000 contributed by the community. Leesburg General Hospital opened with 76 beds and a 25-member medical staff in August of 1963.
In the 1980s, Leesburg General Hospital changed its name to Leesburg Regional Medical Center and purchased what had been Lake Community Hospital’s facilities just one mile away. A hospital system with 294 beds had been formed and there were more than 100 physicians on staff. The Wellness Center opened in 1989 on the Leesburg Regional north campus.
In 1994, construction began on an office park in Lady Lake, which would be the foundation for The Villages Regional Hospital. Today, this building forms the center of a medical office complex on the east side of Highway 441. Leesburg Regional Medical Center purchased a Certificate of Need to construct a new hospital in The Villages that opened in July 2002 (see The Villages Regional Hospital history).
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THE UNIVERSITY of San Francisco celebrated its Irish heritage in welcoming Ireland President Mary McAleese to campus and awarding her an honorary doctorate of humane letters in a special ceremony Dec. 11.
USF honored McAleese for her leadership and dedication to justice, equality, and social inclusion— characteristics the university endeavors to encourage in its graduates.
“She is a leader who exemplifies a dedication to reasoned discourse and working for the common good—two skills we strive to instill in our students,” said USF President Stephen A. Privett, S.J.
Re-elected in 2004 to a second seven-year term, McAleese has dedicated her presidency to building bridges. Her presidency is noted for its concern and advocacy for reconciliation, justice, anti-sectarianism, equality, and social inclusion.
McAleese told the USF community that Ireland’s current peace and economic prosperity are due, in part, to its extended Irish family the world over, particularly in the United States, who have sought out higher education.
“Our narrative has changed,” said McAleese, whose visit was part of a weeklong trip to strengthen trade, business, and cultural ties to California, Oregon, and Arizona. “Thankfully, and in this place it is important to say it, one of the reasons our narrative has changed is largely thanks to widened access to education. That has made a huge, big difference to us. I can say, without fear of contradiction in this university, that peace really began to be constructed and to emerge with the best educated and most accomplished generation in our history. It came to us as a feature of our education, of being able to critique ourselves and also construct more imaginative outcomes.”
USF’s Irish roots run deep. Since the school’s founding in 1855, Irish immigrants and their descendants have served as Jesuit priests, trustees, faculty, and staff. Among USF alums of Irish heritage, the university counts three California Supreme Court justices, a lieutenant governor, a U.S. senator, and thousands of leaders in the legal, business, political, educational, religious, philanthropic, and professional communities of the city, state, and nation. | <urn:uuid:00a42341-b682-46fb-a7b2-2941c6f00a72> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://usfca.edu/templates/usf_magazine_story_spring_2009.aspx?id=4294972677&tid=2147483673 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968917 | 461 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Carroll Sweet didn’t exactly get a hero’s welcome when he returned from Vietnam.
Sweet, who received a Purple Heart in 1970 after being shot in the leg and hit in the head with grenade fragments, remembers being spit on by civilians and having projectiles dropped on him as he sailed with other veterans under the Golden Gate Bridge.
Then there was his introduction to a high school friend’s newlywed wife.
“She called me a baby killer and told me a real man would have gone to Canada,” Sweet said.
It may look like ordinary postage to some, but the U.S. Postal Service’s new Purple Heart stamp — unveiled Thursday morning aboard the USS Midway Museum — represents much more to Sweet and others.
It represents respect. It represents appreciation.
“It’s an emotional thing,” said Sweet, 60.
The stamp was unveiled in front of about 200 people, including about 40 recipients of the Purple Heart, which is bestowed on service members wounded or killed in action. Many were Vietnam War veterans and were grateful for the gesture.
“It helps ameliorate the Vietnam experience,” said Ulysses Miller, 67, a San Diego resident who took shrapnel in the back of the head and shoulder during his two combat tours.
The release is the Postal Service’s first Purple Heart “forever” stamp. The value of “forever” stamps equals the price of first-class postage at the time of use.
There will be 500 million stamps printed in this run, said Postal Service spokesman Don Smeraldi. When the Postal Service released its original Purple Heart stamps in 2003, there was an initial print run of 120 million, Smeraldi said.
The latest Purple Heart stamp joins several other military-themed stamps over the past decade. Last month, the Postal Service released a stamp commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
Thursday’s ceremony on the carrier’s flight deck featured San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders, Deputy Postmaster General Ronald Stroman and a group of purple-clad veterans. The Camp Pendleton-based 1st Marine Division Band performed patriotic music.
Stroman called the timing and location of the ceremony poignant and appropriate because of San Diego’s connection to the military and its proximity to the Navy SEALs’ training headquarters in Coronado.
“It’s our hope that with the issuance of this stamp, the Postal Service along with the rest of our nation can pay tribute to those whose sacrifices have given all of us a country that is truly the land of the free and the home of the brave,” Stroman said aboard the flight deck.
Listening intently was Sweet, who finished a 26-year military career and is now senior vice commander for the Military Order of the Purple Heart’s Department of California. He sat front and center during Thursday’s presentation.
There, he heard the praise he failed to get four decades ago.
“The American people really do appreciate us,” Sweet said. “They really do care for the military, and I’m really proud to have served.”
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Have you ever passed an abandoned lot on your ‘hood and thought “Man, I wish they would do something about that”? Well artist Eve Mosher and 350.org really wanted to point out (literally) the spots in NYC that are overdue for a change, so they teamed up to paint giant yellow arrows showing what they want the city to take note of. Called Insert ____ Here, the local (and soon global) art initiative will feature bold text saying things like “Insert green roof Here” or “Insert bike lane Here” in a way that’s pretty hard to ignore. Keep your eyes peeled for these poppy pointers in your neighborhood and if you have ideas for what you’d like to insert there, visit the sites below to learn more.
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Between the Beach and the Deep Blue Sea
Student explores the dynamic gateway of the shallow inner shelf
Capt. Ken Houtler laughed when I remarked that I didn’t know the sun rose this early as I boarded his ship last summer. Now climbing aboard again in January, I feel even more justified thinking we all should still be sleeping, because the winter sun doesn’t rise until the middle of our two-hour trip from Woods Hole around Martha’s Vineyard to our field site a few miles south of the island.
Over the ship’s speakers, Houtler blasts an instrumental version of “Hi-ho, hi-ho, it’s off to work we go” to wake us up as we pull away from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution dock on Tioga, WHOI’s 60-foot coastal research ship. A cup of coffee and a sunrise over the Atlantic ease me into my day.
We are here to retrieve several moorings with instruments that we put in the ocean six months ago. My Ph.D. advisor Steve Lentz and I will use the information they recorded to learn how water and sand behave on the inner shelf. That’s the region of the sea that starts just past where the waves break and extends a few miles farther out.
It is often overlooked as a place in between, yet that is why it is so crucial to study: Anything that moves from the beach to the open ocean or vice versa must pass through it.
The larvae of fish and shellfish born in coastal estuaries are carried by currents through the inner shelf into deeper waters. Conversely, nutrients from deeper waters upwell onto the shelf to launch the ocean food chain. Oil spilled into the ocean washes ashore, and pollutants from land enter the ocean, but not without first traversing the inner shelf. Sand moves off beaches onto the inner shelf, sometimes refilling shipping channels that need to be dredged again and again.
The inner shelf links each coastal ecosystem to the ocean that connects them all. As we have begun to take a closer look at what actually happens on the inner shelf, we are finding that the dynamics are complex and crucial to understand.
Measuring the to and fro
Our field project is examining the forces that move around water, and whatever is in it, on the shallow inner shelf. Sometimes, water near the ocean surface and water near the seafloor can even move simultaneously in opposite directions. It turns out that the processes going on there are hardly straightforward, and they change with the seasons.
It’s January and if it weren’t for the hardhat and orange life jacket vest, you might think I’m dressed to go sledding. But the air is still and the water is glassy smooth. On other days, however, when winds blow surface water toward land, the water can’t just pile up on the beach, so water near the bottom has to compensate, moving offshore. If the winds blow away from the beach, the opposite happens, with water moving away from the beach near the surface and toward the beach near the bottom. In both cases, sand or sediment particles can be moved in either direction depending on how close they are to the surface or the seafloor.
To investigate these dynamics, we deploy a variety of instruments. One measures the speed and direction of flowing water by reflecting sound off particles carried by the currents. The instrument also tells us the relative abundance of particles in the water.
Another instrument measures water pressure, which tells us when waves pass by and when the tides go up and down. Finally, several instruments measure the temperature and saltiness of the water, which we combine to determine the water’s density. More salt makes the water denser, while warmer temperatures make it lighter.
Mess and fuss
Our instruments have been collecting and recording information every 20 minutes since we dropped them off six months earlier. They were attached to four moorings, each with a buoy on top, a weight at the bottom and a dozen or so instruments fastened to 20 meters of cable suspended in between.
The coastal ocean is an energetic and destructive place to leave instruments for so long. In the past, storms or trawling fishing ships have made our moorings wander or disappear. Today we are happy to find all four right where we left them.
First Mate Ian Hanley leans off Tioga’s back deck to snag each buoy with a hook attached to a cable. As a winch pulls the cable through a pulley on the A-frame overhead, broken mussel shells rain down on us, and I’m reminded that the coastal ocean has been called the “dirty ring around the bathtub.” Usually the phrase highlights the “ring,” the small area of the whole ocean that the coastal regions account for. But now the “dirty” part comes into play. We are getting pretty grubby, and our instruments are a mess.
On each instrument, a colony of sea life has grown. Some are unrecognizable furry orange mats. Others look ready to be thrown into a clambake. Many are covered with tough, stringy hydroids and icky little shrimpy things that my running buddy, WHOI biologist Stace Beaulieu, later tells me are amphipods when I quiz her with pictures. She’s surprised at the rubbery clusters of fish eggs that remind me of the squishy kids’ toy Floam. Two black and white eyes gaze back at us from within each tiny yellow ball.
Figuring out just how all those mussel and barnacle larvae get moved around so they can settle on our instruments is a fascinating part of the research, but my piece of the puzzle focuses on the real dirt on the sea floor—the sand and mud.
If at first you don’t succeed
To predict where sand and mud will be transported across the inner shelf, you first need to know how high into the ocean they are lifted when waves and currents sweep them up off the seabed.
My original plan was to collect bottles of seawater from various depths before we removed the other instruments from the water. Measuring the sediment particles in the water samples, I would ground-truth these data against data on particles measured acoustically with our instruments. But fieldwork rarely goes exactly as planned.
On my first trip on Tioga, I dutifully collected 80 liters of water, noting they looked remarkably clear, and lugged them back to the lab. A few weeks later, I had a chance to filter the first batch. I started with the bottles I thought would have the most sediment, but it only took me three liters to realize, with dismay, that there wasn’t any sediment in any of them—not a single sand grain and no mud measureable above the background of biological fluff drifting through the water. It turns out that days that are calm enough for safe research aboard Tioga are also too calm to lift sediment far off the seafloor.
An important, overlooked factor
But the research must go on! Samples from the seafloor would have to provide my only clues as to what kinds of sediment might be in the water above it. Using the same winch that hauled up our moorings, we lower a grab sampler, an underwater claw of sorts, to scoop samples of the sand and mud.
The particles’ size affects how high in the water the particles will go. But a critical factor turns out to be density differences of the seawater above the seafloor. Warm water is less dense than cold water and fresher water is less dense than saltier water, and conditions vary from place to place and season to season.
In winter, frigid air cools water on the surface, making it denser. It sinks, mixing all the water below it on the way down. Storm winds also do lots of mixing so that all of the water is the same temperature. In winter, the inner shelf region is one big, thick, cold layer from top to bottom, so sand and mud can mix throughout the whole water depth, all the way to the surface, and can potentially be carried horizontally for longer distances.
In summer, warm air and sunshine heat up the surface water, creating a layer of warmer, less dense water that stays above colder, denser water below. This layering makes it harder for water from the surface and bottom to mix; sand and mud can be trapped in the lower layer of water. This trapping or capping of sediment is a common phenomenon near estuaries and river mouths, which add a surface layer of fresh water that is much less dense than the salty bottom water.
What we’ve learned so far
These subtle density differences ultimately determine the thickness of the bottom layer of water and how hard or easy it is for sand and mud from the bottom to rise higher into the ocean and be transported farther horizontally. This phenomenon has not been well measured on the inner shelf. Our measurements off Martha's Vineyard are some of the first to show that this capping effect has significant ramifications on the inner shelf and should not be discounted when scientists calculate how sediment is transported.
The physics we learn about near Martha’s Vineyard will apply to the inner shelf on many coastlines. The data we bring home today will keep me busy for the next six months. Away from the sea spray, I’ll tease apart the effects of wind and waves and sun on the movement of water and sand and mud.
Part of why I like working in coastal regions is that the processes I study here are very tangible. They happen in meters to kilometers and minutes to days—on human scales. We study the inner shelf to understand the natural forces that ultimately shape the coastline we all know and love from taking walks on the beach, swims out past the breakers, or fishing from a pier or a dinghy.
That a few days of fieldwork each year can support so much research is a testament to both the sheer volume of information our instruments collect and the complexity of coastal processes. We finish around sunset, a much more familiar sight for me, but I barely notice as we hurry to strap down all the gear before steaming home in the darkness.
This research was funded primarily by the National Science Foundation, with additional support from the Coastal Ocean Institute at WHOI.
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We met at school back in first grade. Over the years the four of us became best friends.We are now in 5th grade and still good friends. Our teachers noticed we were doing work at a faster pace so they asked us if we were interested in the Think Quest enrichment program. After we decided on our topic we divided the research into four groups. Then we began our research and used our different strengths (abilities) to make the writing our own.
After the research was finished we each learned how to use different programs such as Dreamweaver, Hot Potatoes etc. to make this site. Dreamweaver was used to make our web pages. McKenzie acted as our Fireworks specialist to make the buttons. Gia acted as our Flash expert, she made the banner on the home page and the brain on the biography page. Kayla did most of the Hot Potatoes work to make the quizzes and she drew the border that we scanned in. Jennie did most of the linking and glossary work. For the photos on the biography pages we all learned to use a digital camera and how to crop the photos. We all designed the site. The rest we typed or scanned. Every week we met during school. Once a week we met after school on Thursday. As the deadline approached we met twice a week after school, Tuesday and Thursday and we gave up some weekends and vacations to come in and work.We met at school in our classroom and in the computer lab.
Our coach, Mrs. Slack, played an important role in the creation of this site. She guided us through the research process, helping us find appropriate resources and suggested possible professionals to interview for additional information. Our second coach, Mrs. Mead, acted as our technology support person. She introduced us to Inspiration 7 where we mapped out the blueprint of our site. From there she guided us through the other programs used to make the site.
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After most of our research was finished we asked our school psychologist to look over our information. After reviewing the information he asked us if we would present our information at an upcoming parent meeting on ADHD. We made a story board displaying our documents. After the two doctors had presented their information we then gave a fifteen minute talk on our information.
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